Group Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Petkov, V.; Bedford, N.; Knecht, M.R.; Weir, M.G.; Crooks, R.M.; Tang, W.; Henkelman, G.; Frenkel, A.I. Periodicity and Atomic Ordering in Nanosized Particles of Crystals, J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, Accepted.
  2. Knecht, M.R.; Weir, M.G.; Frenkel, A.I.; Crooks, R.M. Structural Rearrangement of Bimetallic Alloy PdAu Nanoparticles within Dendrimer Templates to Yield Core/Shell Configurations, Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 1019-1028.
  3. Knecht, M.R.; Crooks, R.M. Magnetic Properties of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Iron Nanoparticles Containing an Average of 55 and 147 Atoms, New J. Chem. 2007, 31, 1349-1353.
  4. Knecht, M.R.; Garcia-Martinez, J.C.; Crooks, R.M. Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetic Properties of Dendrimer-Encapsulated Nickel Nanoparticles Containing <150 Atoms, Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 5039-5044.
  5. Wilson, O.M.; Knecht, M.R.; Garcia-Martinez, J.C.; Crooks, R.M.  The Effect of Pd Nanoparticle Size on the Catalytic Hydrogenation of Allyl Alcohol, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 4510-4511.  A summary of this paper was featured in Science 2006, 311, 1837.
  6. Knecht, M.R.; Garcia-Martinez, J.C.; Crooks, R.M.  Hydrophobic Dendrimers as Templates for Au Nanoparticles, Langmuir 2005, 21, 11981-11986.
  7. Knecht, M.R.; Sewell, S.L.; Wright, D.W. Size Control of Dendrimer-Templated Silica, Langmuir 2005, 21, 2058-2061.
  8. Knecht, M.R.; Wright, D.W. Dendrimer Mediated Formation of Multicomponent Nanospheres, Chem. Mater. 2004, 16, 4890-4895.
  9. Knecht, M.R.; Wright, D.W. Amine-Terminated Dendrimers as Biomimetic Templates for Silica Nanosphere Formation, Langmuir 2004, 20, 4728-4732.
  10. Knecht, M.R.; Wright, D.W. Functional Analysis of the Biomimetic Silica Precipitating Activity of the R5 Peptide from Cylindrotheca fusiformis, Chem. Commun. 2003, 24, 3038-3039.

Book Chapters

  1. Slocik, J.M.; Knecht, M.R.; Wright, D.W.  Biomimetic Synthesis of Nanoparticles. In Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, R. Bruce King, Ed.; John Wiley and Sons Ltd.: New York NY, 2005;  371-391.
  2. Slocik, J.M.; Knecht, M.R.; Wright, D.W.  Biogenic Nanoparticles. In The Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, H.S. Nalwa, Ed.; American Scientific Publishers: Stevenson Ranch CA, 2004; 293-308.