List of Publications:1-30
1. Wang, X.; Colavita,
P.; Streifer, J. A.; Butler, J.; Hamers,
R. J.,"Photochemical Grafting of Alkenes onto
Carbon Surfaces: Identifying the Roles of Electrons and Holes", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010, 114 (9), 4067–4074.
2. Colavita,
P. E.; Sun, B.; Wang, X.; Hamers, R. J.,"Influence of surface termination and electronic
structure on the photochemical grafting of alkenes to carbon surfaces", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113 (4), 1526–1535.
3. Kim, H.; Colavita,
P. E.; Paoprasert, P.; Gopalan,
P.; Kuech, T. F.; Hamers,
R. J.,"Grafting of molecular layers to oxidized
gallium nitride surfaces via phosphonic acid
linkages", Surface Science,
2008, 602 (14), 2382-2388.
4. Colavita,
P. E.; Sun, B.; Tse, K.-Y.; Hamers,
R. J.,"Photo-induced Surface Functionalization
of Carbon Surfaces: The Role of Photoelectron Ejection", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A,
2008, 26 (4), 925-931.
5. Colavita,
P. E.; Streifer, J. A.; Sun, B.; Wang, X.; Warf, P.; Hamers, R. J.,"Enhancement
of photochemical grafting of terminal alkenes via molecular mediators: the role
of surface-bound electron acceptors", Journal
of Physical Chemistry C, 2008, 112
(13), 5102-5112.
6. Wang, X.; Colavita, P. E.; Metz, K. M.; Butler, J. E.; Hamers, R. J.,"Direct photopatterning and SEM Imaging of molecular monolayers on diamond surfaces: Mechanistic insights into
UV-Initiated molecular grafting", Langmuir,
2007, 23, 11623-11630.
7. Scrivens,
W. A.; Luo, Y.; Sutton, M. A.; Collette, S. A.;
Myrick, M. L.; Miney, P.; Colavita,
P. E.; Reynolds, A. P.; Li, X.,"Development of
patterns for digital image correlation measurements at reduced length
scales", Experimental Mechanics,
2007, 47, 63-77.
8. Peng,
W. N.; Roberts, M. M.; Nordberg, E. P.; Flack, F. S.; Colavita,
P. E.; Hamers, R. J.; Savage, D. E.; Lagally, M. G.; Eriksson, M. A.,"Single-crystal
silicon/silicon dioxide multilayer heterostructures
based on nanomembrane transfer", Applied Physics Letters, 2007, 90 (18), Art. 183107.
9. Park, B.; Paoprasert, P.; In, I.; Zwickey,
J.; Colavita, P. E.; Hamers,
R. J.; Gopalan, P.; Evans, P. G.,"Functional
self-assembled monolayers for optimized photoinduced charge transfer in organic field effect
transistors", Advanced Materials,
2007, 19, 4353-+.
10. Colavita,
P. E.; Sun, B.; Tse, K. Y.; Hamers,
R. J.,"Photochemical grafting of n-alkenes onto
carbon surfaces: the role of photoelectron ejection", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129 (44), 13554-13565.
11. Sun, B.; Colavita, P. E.; Kim, H.; Lockett, M.; Marcus, M. S.;
Smith, L. M.; Hamers, R. J.,"Covalent
photochemical functionalization of amorphous carbon
thin films for integrated real-time biosensing",
Langmuir, 2006, 22 (23), 9598-9605.
12. Myrick, M. L.; Greer, A.
E.; Nieuwland, A.; Priore,
R. J.; Scaffidi, J.; Andreatta,
D.; Colavita, P.,"Fine-structure
measurements of oxygen a band absorbance for estimating the thermodynamic
average temperature of the earth's atmosphere - An experiment in physical and
environmental chemistry", Journal of
Chemical Education, 2006, 83
(2), 263-264.
13. Kim, H.; Colavita, P. E.; Metz, K. M.; Nichols, B. M.; Sun, B.; Uhlrich, J.; Wang, X. Y.; Kuech,
T. F.; Hamers, R. J.,"Photochemical
functionalization of gallium nitride thin films with
molecular and biomolecular layers", Langmuir, 2006, 22 (19), 8121-8126.
14. Baker, S. E.; Colavita, P. E.; Tse, K. Y.; Hamers, R. J.,"Functionalized
vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as scaffolds for
immobilization and electrochemical detection of redox-active
proteins", Chemistry of Materials,
2006, 18 (18), 4415-4422.
15. Colavita,
P. E.; Miney, P. G.; Taylor, L.; Priore,
R.; Pearson, D. L.; Ratliff, J.; Ma, S. G.; Ozturk,
O.; Chen, D. A.; Myrick, M. L.,"Effects of metal
coating on self-assembled monolayers on gold. 2.
Copper on an oligo(phenylene-ethynylene)
monolayer", Langmuir, 2005, 21 (26), 12268-12277.
16. Seminario,
J. M.; Ma, Y. F.; Agapito, L. A.; Yan, L. M.; Araujo, R. A.; Bingi, S.; Vadlamani, N. S.; Chagarlamudi,
K.; Sudarshan, T. S.; Myrick, M. L.; Colavita, P. E.; Franzon, P. D.; Nackashi, D. P.; Cheng, L.; Yao, Y. X.; Tour, J. M.,"Clustering effects on discontinuous gold film NanoCells", Journal
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2004, 4 (7), 907-917.
17. Myrick, M. L.; Colavita, P. E.; Greer, A. E.; Long, B.; Andreatta, D.,"Use of
molecular symmetry to describe Pauli principle effects on the
vibration-rotation spectroscopy of CO2(g)", Journal of Chemical Education, 2004, 81 (3), 379-382.
18. Collette, S. A.; Sutton, M.
A.; Miney, P.; Reynolds, A. P.; Li, X. D.; Colavita, P. E.; Scrivens, W. A.;
Luo, Y.; Sudarshan, T.; Muzykov, P.; Myrick, M. L.,"Development
of patterns for nanoscale strain measurements: I.
Fabrication of imprinted Au webs for polymeric materials", Nanotechnology, 2004, 15 (12), 1812-1817.
19. Miney,
P. G.; Colavita, P. E.; Schiza,
M. V.; Priore, R. J.; Haibach,
F. G.; Myrick, M. L.,"Growth and
characterization of a porous aluminum oxide film formed on an electrically
insulating support", Electrochemical
and Solid State Letters, 2003, 6
(10), B42-B45.
20. Doescher,
M. S.; Evans, U.; Colavita, P. E.; Miney, P. G.; Myrick, M. L.,"Construction
of a nanowell electrode array by electrochemical gold
stripping and ion bombardment", Electrochemical
and Solid State Letters, 2003, 6
(8), C112-C115.
21. Stener,
M.; Fronzoni, G.; Toffoli,
D.; Colavita, P.; Furlan,
S.; Decleva, P.,"Valence
and core photoemission in M@C-60 (M = Be, Mg, Ca)", Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, 2002, 35 (6), 1421-1438.
22. Evans, U.; Colavita, P. E.; Doescher, M. S.;
Schiza, M.; Myrick, M. L.,"Construction
and characterization of a nanowell electrode
array", Nano Letters, 2002, 2 (6), 641-645.
23. Dal
Santo, V.; Dossi, C.; Recchia,
S.; Colavita, P. E.; Vlaic,
G.; Psaro, R.,"Carbon
tetrachloride hydrodechlorination with organometallics-based platinum and palladium catalysts on MgO", Journal of
Molecular Catalysis a-Chemical, 2002, 182
(1), 157-166.
24. Colavita,
P. E.; Doescher, M. S.; Molliet,
A.; Evans, U.; Reddic, J.; Zhou, J.; Chen, D.; Miney, P. G.; Myrick, M. L.,"Effects
of metal coating on self-assembled monolayers on
gold. 1. copper on dodecanethiol
and octadecanethiol", Langmuir, 2002, 18 (22),
8503-8509.
25. Fronzoni,
G.; Colavita, P.; Stener,
M.; De Alti, G.; Decleva, P.,"Theoretical study of photoionization
processes in Fe(C5H5)2",
Journal of Physical Chemistry A,
2001, 105 (42), 9800-9812.
26. Colavita,
P.; De Alti, G.; Fronzoni,
G.; Stener, M.; Decleva, P.,"Theoretical study of the valence and core
photoemission spectra of C-60", Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2001, 3
(20), 4481-4487.
27. Brubach,
J. B.; Mermet, A.; Filabozzi,
A.; Colavita, P.; Gerschel,
A.; Roy, P.,"Infrared investigation of water
encapsulated in non ionic reverse micelles", Journal De Physique Iv, 2000, 10
(P7), 215-218.
28. Vlaic,
G.; Andreatta, D.; Cepparo,
A.; Colavita, P. E.; Fonda, E.; Michalowicz,
A.,"Estimation of the experimental standard
deviations in EXAFS measurements", Journal
of Synchrotron Radiation, 1999, 6,
225-227.
29. Fonda, E.; Andreatta, D.; Colavita, P. E.; Vlaic, G.,"EXAFS analysis of the L-3 edge of Ce in CeO2: effects of multielectron
excitations and final-state mixed valence", Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 1999, 6, 34-42.
30. Vlaic, G.; Andreatta, D.; Colavita, P. E.,"Characterisation
of heterogeneous catalysts by EXAFS", Catalysis
Today, 1998, 41 (1-3), 261-275.