Current Research

Metal Nanoparticles
Phase Separation in the Ligand Shell of Nanomaterials

Team: Alicia Jackson, Benjamin Wunsch, Jeffrey Kuna, Bruno Liu, Andrea Centrone
Collaborators: David Nelson (Harvard), Giuseppe Zerbi (Politecnico di Milano)
Funding Agency: NSF, ACS-PRF

Novel Materials for Protein Resistance

Team: Jeffrey Kuna, Alicia Jackson
Collaborators: Ralph Weissleder (MGH), Molly Stevens (Royal Imperial College), Anne Mayes (MIT)
Funding Agency: NIH
Metal nanoparticle-based single-electron transistors as DNA Sensors

Team: Robert Barsotti
Funding Agency: MRSEC NSF
Nanoparticles for Photovoltaic Devices

Team: Osman Bakr
Collaborators: Alex K.-Y. Jen (University of Washington)

Chemistry on Topologically Defined Defects

Team: Benjamin Wunsch, Gretchen DeVries, Isabella Franchini, Jeffrey Kuna
Collaborators: Krystyn van Vliet (MIT), David Nelson (Harvard)
Nanoparticle Inks for Ink-Jet Printing

Team: Gretchen DeVries, Bruno Liu, Dave Schut
Collaborators: Vladimir Bulovic (MIT)
Funding Agency: HP


Carbon Nanotubes
Directed Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes

Team: Tan Mau Wu, Brenda Long, Benjamin Wunsch
Collaborators: Rafael Reif (MIT)
Funding Agency: MARCO
Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

Team: Benjamin Wunsch, Tan Mau Wu, Brenda Long
Collaborators: Maurizio Prato (Univ. of Trieste), Nicola Marzari (MIT)
Funding Agency: NSF


Supramolecular Nanolithography
Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Team: Robert Barsotti
Supramolecular Nanostamping (SuNS)

Team: Arum Amy Yu, Suelin Chen
Collaborators: Hank Smith (MIT), Anthony Guiseppe-Elie (Commonwealth Virginia University)
Funding Agency: Deshpande Center, NSF