A. Paul Alivisatos

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley

Affiliated withUC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory university of california-berkeley

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JoVE Journal Publications

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Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 11923531	2002
Sorting fluorescent nanocrystals with DNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 12059231	2002
Epitaxial growth and photochemical annealing of graded CdS/ZnS shells on colloidal CdSe nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 12059239	2002
Synthesis of hcp-Co Nanodisks. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 12392435	2002
Shape control and applications of nanocrystals. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences\| PubMed ID: 12639381	2003
Origin and scaling of the permanent dipole moment in CdSe nanorods. Physical review letters\| PubMed ID: 12689254	2003
Controlled growth of tetrapod-branched inorganic nanocrystals. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 12764357	2003
Room-temperature single-nucleotide polymorphism and multiallele DNA detection using fluorescent nanocrystals and microarrays. Analytical chemistry\| PubMed ID: 14674452	2003
Surfactant-assisted elimination of a high energy facet as a means of controlling the shapes of TiO2 nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 14677990	2003
Quantum dot-based cell motility assay. Differentiation; research in biological diversity\| PubMed ID: 14686951	2003
Collective behaviour in two-dimensional cobalt nanoparticle assemblies observed by magnetic force microscopy. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 15048109	2004
Multielectron ionization of CdSe quantum dots in intense femtosecond ultraviolet light. Physical review letters\| PubMed ID: 15089708	2004
Formation of hollow nanocrystals through the nanoscale Kirkendall effect. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 15118156	2004
Employing end-functional polythiophene to control the morphology of nanocrystal-polymer composites in hybrid solar cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 15161272	2004
Colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures with linear and branched topology. Nature\| PubMed ID: 15241410	2004
Isotropic-liquid crystalline phase diagram of a CdSe nanorod solution. The Journal of chemical physics\| PubMed ID: 15268234	2004
Discrete nanostructures of quantum dots/Au with DNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 15339154	2004
Integrated semiconductor nanocrystal and epitaxical nanostructure systems: structural and optical behavior. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 15755098	2005
Gold nanorods as novel nonbleaching plasmon-based orientation sensors for polarized single-particle microscopy. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 15794615	2005
Semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots on single crystal semiconductor substrates: high resolution transmission electron microscopy. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 15884904	2005
A molecular ruler based on plasmon coupling of single gold and silver nanoparticles. Nature biotechnology\| PubMed ID: 15908940	2005
Quantum-dot-based cell motility assay. Science's STKE : signal transduction knowledge environment\| PubMed ID: 15985641	2005
Quantum dots as cellular probes. Annual review of biomedical engineering\| PubMed ID: 16004566	2005
A beamline for high-pressure studies at the Advanced Light Source with a superconducting bending magnet as the source. Journal of synchrotron radiation\| PubMed ID: 16120990	2005
Semiconductor nanocrystals for biological imaging. Current opinion in neurobiology\| PubMed ID: 16150591	2005
Femtosecond spectroscopy of carrier relaxation dynamics in type II CdSe/CdTe tetrapod heteronanostructures. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16159228	2005
Electrical transport through a single nanoscale semiconductor branch point. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16178268	2005
Colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and the organic-inorganic interface. Nature\| PubMed ID: 16193041	2005
High-temperature microfluidic synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals in nanoliter droplets. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 16201806	2005
Air-stable all-inorganic nanocrystal solar cells processed from solution. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 16239470	2005
Controlled synthesis of hyperbranched inorganic nanocrystals with rich three-dimensional structures. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16277446	2005
Calibration of dynamic molecular rulers based on plasmon coupling between gold nanoparticles. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16277462	2005
The concept of delayed nucleation in nanocrystal growth demonstrated for the case of iron oxide nanodisks. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 16448141	2006
Cellular effect of high doses of silica-coated quantum dot profiled with high throughput gene expression analysis and high content cellomics measurements. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16608287	2006
Continuous distribution of emission states from single CdSe/ZnS quantum dots. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16608295	2006
Two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays show the organizational power of robust DNA motifs. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 16834438	2006
First-principles modeling of unpassivated and surfactant-passivated bulk facets of wurtzite CdSe: a model system for studying the anisotropic growth of CdSe nanocrystals. The journal of physical chemistry. B\| PubMed ID: 16851684	2005
Faceting of nanocrystals during chemical transformation: from solid silver spheres to hollow gold octahedra. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 17002360	2006
Second harmonic generation and confined acoustic phonons in highly excited semiconductor nanocrystals. The journal of physical chemistry. B\| PubMed ID: 17020374	2006
Crystal splitting in the growth of Bi2S3. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 17163691	2006
Controlled assembly of hybrid bulk-heterojunction solar cells by sequential deposition. The journal of physical chemistry. B\| PubMed ID: 17166005	2006
Mechanistic study of precursor evolution in colloidal group II-VI semiconductor nanocrystal synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 17212409	2007
Semiconductor quantum rods as single molecule fluorescent biological labels. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 17212460	2007
Measuring cell motility using quantum dot probes. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)\| PubMed ID: 17237535	2007
Hybrid solar cells with prescribed nanoscale morphologies based on hyperbranched semiconductor nanocrystals. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 17298008	2007
Use of plasmon coupling to reveal the dynamics of DNA bending and cleavage by single EcoRV restriction enzymes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 17307879	2007
IR spectroscopic observation of molecular transport through Pt@CoO yolk-shell nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 17616132	2007
Spontaneous superlattice formation in nanorods through partial cation exchange. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 17641197	2007
Optical properties of ZnO/ZnS and ZnO/ZnTe heterostructures for photovoltaic applications. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 17645365	2007
Vacancy coalescence during oxidation of iron nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 17676738	2007
SnTe nanocrystals: a new example of narrow-gap semiconductor quantum dots. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 17722931	2007
Seeded growth of highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanoheterostructures with rod and tetrapod morphologies. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 17845068	2007
High-resolution EM of colloidal nanocrystal growth using graphene liquid cells. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 22491849	2012
Millisecond kinetics of nanocrystal cation exchange using microfluidic X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The journal of physical chemistry. A\| PubMed ID: 17887656	2007
Self-assembled binary superlattices of CdSe and Au nanocrystals and their fluorescence properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 18293987	2008
Isolation of discrete nanoparticle-DNA conjugates for plasmonic applications. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 18331002	2008
TiO2 nanoparticles as a soft X-ray molecular probe. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)\| PubMed ID: 18491018	2008
Electrical contacts to individual colloidal semiconductor nanorods. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 18505301	2008
Enzymatic ligation creates discrete multinanoparticle building blocks for self-assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 18588300	2008
Metallic nanoparticles used to estimate the structural integrity of DNA motifs. Biophysical journal\| PubMed ID: 18621817	2008
Synthesis and photovoltaic application of copper(I) sulfide nanocrystals. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 18651779	2008
A nanoplasmonic molecular ruler for measuring nuclease activity and DNA footprinting. Nature nanotechnology\| PubMed ID: 18654141	2006
Protein-nanocrystal conjugates support a single filament polymerization model in R1 plasmid segregation. The Journal of biological chemistry\| PubMed ID: 18658133	2008
Correlation analysis of TEM images of nanocrystal molecules. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids\| PubMed ID: 18702476	2008
Reaction chemistry and ligand exchange at cadmium-selenide nanocrystal surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 18722426	2008
How does solar power work? Scientific American\| PubMed ID: 19186759	2009
Sulfidation of cadmium at the nanoscale. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 19206314	2008
Birth of a nanoscience building block. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 19206353	2008
Formation mechanism and properties of CdS-Ag2S nanorod superlattices. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 19206592	2008
Pyramidal and chiral groupings of gold nanocrystals assembled using DNA scaffolds. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 19331419	2009
Photovoltaic devices employing ternary PbSxSe1-x nanocrystals. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 19351196	2009
Selective facet reactivity during cation exchange in cadmium sulfide nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 19351206	2009
Materials availability expands the opportunity for large-scale photovoltaics deployment. Environmental science & technology\| PubMed ID: 19368216	2009
Nanocrystal diffusion in a liquid thin film observed by in situ transmission electron microscopy. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 19408927	2009
Observation of single colloidal platinum nanocrystal growth trajectories. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 19498166	2009
Reaction regimes on the synthesis of hollow particles by the Kirkendall effect. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 19630408	2009
Strain-dependent photoluminescence behavior of CdSe/CdS nanocrystals with spherical, linear, and branched topologies. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 19678687	2009
Enhanced semiconductor nanocrystal conductance via solution grown contacts. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 19691346	2009
Probing the conformational distributions of subpersistence length DNA. Biophysical journal\| PubMed ID: 19720029	2009
Hetero-epitaxial anion exchange yields single-crystalline hollow nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 19788329	2009
Wurtzite to rocksalt phase transformation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals via laser-induced shock waves: transition from single to multiple nucleation. Physical review letters\| PubMed ID: 19792445	2009
Continuous imaging of plasmon rulers in live cells reveals early-stage caspase-3 activation at the single-molecule level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 19805121	2009
Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 19838181	2009
Synthesis of PbS nanorods and other ionic nanocrystals of complex morphology by sequential cation exchange reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 19863102	2009
Device-scale perpendicular alignment of colloidal nanorods. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 19961233	2010
From artificial atoms to nanocrystal molecules: preparation and properties of more complex nanostructures. Annual review of physical chemistry\| PubMed ID: 20055683	2010
Modular inorganic nanocomposites by conversion of nanocrystal superlattices. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)\| PubMed ID: 20301153	2010
Quantification of thin film crystallographic orientation using X-ray diffraction with an area detector. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids\| PubMed ID: 20361783	2010
Coupling of optical resonances in a compositionally asymmetric plasmonic nanoparticle dimer. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 20536212	2010
Transition from isolated to collective modes in plasmonic oligomers. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 20586409	2010
Nanoheterostructure cation exchange: anionic framework conservation. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 20593896	2010
Luminescent nanocrystal stress gauge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 21098301	2010
Precursor conversion kinetics and the nucleation of cadmium selenide nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 21128655	2010
Self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles in evaporating solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 21158454	2011
Controlled synthesis and size-dependent polarization domain structure of colloidal germanium telluride nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 21280629	2011
Size-dependent polar ordering in colloidal GeTe nanocrystals. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 21338071	2011
Assembled monolayer nanorod heterojunctions. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 21469653	2011
Localized surface plasmon resonances arising from free carriers in doped quantum dots. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 21478881	2011
Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 21572410	2011
Spatially indirect emission in a luminescent nanocrystal molecule. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 21595450	2011
Three-dimensional plasmon rulers. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 21680838	2011
Observation of transient structural-transformation dynamics in a Cu2S nanorod. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 21737738	2011
Graphene veils and sandwiches. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 21770385	2011
Observations of shape-dependent hydrogen uptake trajectories from single nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 21793566	2011
Photovoltaic performance of ultrasmall PbSe quantum dots. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 21939281	2011
Structural and electronic study of an amorphous MoS3 hydrogen-generation catalyst on a quantum-controlled photosensitizer. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)\| PubMed ID: 21956994	2011
Highly luminescent nanocrystals from removal of impurity atoms residual from ion-exchange synthesis. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)\| PubMed ID: 22278816	2012
Tunable localized surface plasmon resonances in tungsten oxide nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 22332881	2012
Probing redox photocatalysis of trapped electrons and holes on single Sb-doped titania nanorod surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 22339157	2012
Direct observation of nanoparticle superlattice formation by using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 22360715	2012
Size-controlled model Co nanoparticle catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation: synthesis, characterization, and catalytic reactions. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 22551216	2012
Near-field manipulation of spectroscopic selection rules on the nanoscale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 22566662	2012
Design of nanostructured solar cells using coupled optical and electrical modeling. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 22574816	2012
Metallic adhesion layer induced plasmon damping and molecular linker as a nondamping alternative. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 22646820	2012
Dielectric core-shell optical antennas for strong solar absorption enhancement. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 22686287	2012
The brain activity map project and the challenge of functional connectomics. Neuron\| PubMed ID: 22726828	2012
Ferroelectric order in individual nanometre-scale crystals. Nature materials\| PubMed ID: 22772655	2012
Metastability in pressure-induced structural transformations of CdSe/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 22800435	2013
Controlled chemical doping of semiconductor nanocrystals using redox buffers. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 22817112	2012
Determination of the quantum dot band gap dependence on particle size from optical absorbance and transmission electron microscopy measurements. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 22984808	2012
Probing the interaction of single nanocrystals with inorganic capping ligands: time-resolved fluorescence from CdSe-CdS quantum dots capped with chalcogenidometalates. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 23072613	2012
Ion exchange synthesis of III-V nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 23190283	2012
Selective Placement of Faceted Metal Tips on Semiconductor Nanorods. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)\| PubMed ID: 23192900	2012
Anisotropic formation and distribution of stacking faults in II-VI semiconductor nanorods. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 23252712	2013
Size-dependent assemblies of nanoparticle mixtures in thin films. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 23327718	2013
Size-dependent dissociation of carbon monoxide on cobalt nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 23339635	2013
Neuroscience. The brain activity map. Science (New York, N.Y.)\| PubMed ID: 23470729	2013
Nanotools for neuroscience and brain activity mapping. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 23514423	2013
Tetrapod nanocrystals as fluorescent stress probes of electrospun nanocomposites. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 23815586	2013
Controlling electron beam-induced structure modifications and cation exchange in cadmium sulfide-copper sulfide heterostructured nanorods. Ultramicroscopy\| PubMed ID: 23830376	2013
Nonmonotonic size dependence in the hole mobility of methoxide-stabilized PbSe quantum dot solids. ACS nano\| PubMed ID: 23859499	2013
Luminescence studies of individual quantum dot photocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society\| PubMed ID: 23895591	2013
Controlling localized surface plasmon resonances in GeTe nanoparticles using an amorphous-to-crystalline phase transition. Physical review letters\| PubMed ID: 23909359	2013
3D motion of DNA-Au nanoconjugates in graphene liquid cell electron microscopy. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 23944844	2013
End-to-end alignment of nanorods in thin films. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 24001327	2013
DNA conformations in mismatch repair probed in solution by X-ray scattering from gold nanocrystals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\| PubMed ID: 24101514	2013
Correction to tetrapod nanocrystals as fluorescent stress probes of electrospun nanocomposites. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 24125476	2013
Revealing bismuth oxide hollow nanoparticle formation by the kirkendall effect. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 24131312	2013
Doped Nanocrystals as Plasmonic Probes of Redox Chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)\| PubMed ID: 24155083	2013
Direct Work Function Measurement by Gas Phase Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Its Application on PbS Nanoparticles. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 24175587	2013
Toward plasmonics-enabled spatiotemporal activity patterns in three-dimensional culture models. Systems biomedicine\| PubMed ID: 24224142	2013
Inorganic Micelles as Efficient and Recyclable Micellar Catalysts. Nano letters\| PubMed ID: 24313732	2013