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POLYATOMIC-ION AND CLUSTER DEPOSITION ON SURFACES

1.  “Chemistry and Phase Transitions from Hypervelocity Impacts”, C.T. White, S.B. Sinnott, J. W. Mintmire, D.W. Brenner and D.H. Robertson, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry: Quantum Chemistry Symposium 28, 128-137 (1994).

2.  “Polymerization Via Cluster-Solid Surface Impacts: Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101, 6883-6890 (1997).

3.  “Use of empirical many-body potentials in the simulation of cluster impacts on surfaces”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings 392 (American Institute of Physics Press, Woodbury, NY, 1997), pp. 487-490.

4.  “Thin Film Growth as a Result of Cluster-Surface Collisions: Computational Simulations”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, in Thin Films-Structure and Morphology, Eds. R. C. Commarata, E.H. Chason, T.L. Einstein and E.D. Williams, MRS Symposia Proceedings No. 441 (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997), pp. 515-520.

5.  “Generation of 3D Hydrocarbon Thin Films Via Organic Molecular Cluster Collisions”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Surface Science 398, 195-202 (1998).

6.  “Effect of Cluster Size on the Reactivity of Organic Molecular Clusters: Atomistic Simulations”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 140, 39-46 (1998).

7.  “Atomistic Simulations of Organic Thin Film Deposition Via Hyperthermal Velocity Impacts”, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 16, 1293-1296 (1998).

8.  “Effect of Surface Reactivity on the Nucleation of Hydrocarbon Thin Films Through Molecular-Cluster Beam Deposition”, L. Qi, W.L. Young and S.B. Sinnott, Surface Science 426, 83-91 (1999).

9.  “Polyethylene Thin-Film Growth Via Cluster-Surface Collisions”, T.A. Plaisted, J.D. Zahrt, W.L. Young, L. Qi and S.B. Sinnott, Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings 475 (American Institute of Physics Press, Woodbury, NY, 1999), pp. 387-390.

10. “Modeling Condensed-Phase Chemistry with Analytic Potentials: Application to Hydrocarbon Cluster Dynamics”, S.B. Sinnott, L. Qi, O.A. Shenderova, D.W. Brenner, in Chapter 1 of Volume IV of ADVANCES IN CLASSICAL TRAJECTORY METHODS, Molecular Dynamics of Clusters, Surfaces, Liquids, and Interfaces, Ed. W. Hase (JAI Press, Inc., Stamford, CT, 1999), pp. 1-26.

11. “Effects of Unique Ion Chemistry on Thin-Film Growth by Plasma-Surface Interactions”, M.B.J. Wijesundara, L. Hanley, B. Ni and S.B. Sinnott, Proceedings of the National Academy of  Science, USA 97, 23-27 (2000).

12. “Quantifying the Effect of Polyatomic Ion Structure on Thin-Film Growth: Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, M.B.J. Wijesundara, Y. Ji, B. Ni, S.B. Sinnott, and L. Hanley, Journal of Applied Physics 88, 5004-5016 (2000).

13. “Comparison of Growth of Hydrocarbon Thin Films by Molecular-Beam and Cluster-Beam Deposition: Atomistic Simulations”, T.A. Plaisted, B. Ni, J.D. Zahrt and S.B. Sinnott, Thin Solid Films 381, 73-83 (2001).

14. “Hydrocarbon Thin Films Produced From Adamantine-Diamond Surface Deposition: Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, T.A. Plaisted and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 19, 262-266 (2001).

15. “The Growth and Modification of Materials via Low Energy Ion-Surface Processing”, L. Hanley and S.B. Sinnott, Surface Science 500, 500-522 (2002).

16. “Study of Angular Influence of C3H5+ Ion Deposition on Polystyrene Surfaces Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, I. Jang, B.Ni, and S.B Sinnott, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 20, 564-568 (2002).

17. “Thin-Film Nucleation through Molecular Cluster Beam Deposition: Comparison of Tight-Binding and Many-Body Empirical Potential Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Y. Hu, S. Shen, L. Liu, S.-Y. Wu, C. Jayanthi, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Chemical Physics 116, 6738-6744 (2002).

18. “Effect of Surface Structure on the Results of C3H5+ Deposition on Polymers: Predictions from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, I. Jang, R. Phillips and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Applied Physics 92, 3363-3367 (2002).

19. “Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Angle Effects on the Deposition of Molecular Clusters”, Y. Hu and S.B. Sinnott, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 195, 329-338 (2002).

20. “Angle and Bonding Effects on Cluster-Surface Deposition”, Y. Hu and S.B. Sinnott, Surface Science 526, 230-242 (2003).

21. “Modification of Carbon Nanotube Polymer-Matrix Composites through Polyatomic-Ion Beam Deposition: Predictions from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Y. Hu, I. Jang, and S.B. Sinnott, Composites Science and Technology 63, 1663-1669 (2003). (invited article).

22. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polyatomic-Ion Beam Deposition Induced Chemical Modification of Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composites”, Y. Hu and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Materials Chemistry 14, 719-729 (2004)

23. “Dependence of Plasma-Induced Modification of Polymer Surfaces on Polyatomic Ion Chemistry ”, I. Jang, S.B. Sinnott, Applied Physics Letters 84, 5118-5120 (2004).

24. “Nanostructure of Fluorocarbon Films Deposited on Polystyrene from Hyperthermal C3F5+ Ions”, F.A. Akin, I. Jang, M.L. Schlossman, S.B. Sinnott, M.B.J. Wijesundara, G. Zajac, E.R. Fuoco, M. Li, A. Tikhonov, S. V. Pingali, A.T. Wroble, Y. Choi, L. Hanley, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, 9656-9664 (2004).

25. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Chemical Modification of Polystyrene through CxFy+ Beam Deposition”, I. Jang and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, 18993-19001 (2004).

26. "Computational investigation of the chemical modification of polystyrene through fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon ion beam deposition”, W.-D. Hsu, I. Jang and S.B. Sinnott, Chemistry of Materials 18, 914-921 (2006).

27. "Morphology of Polythiophene Films Produced vai Surface Polymerization by Ion-Assisted Deposition: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study", S. Tepavcevic, W.-D. Hsu, S.B. Sinnott, and L. Hanley in Conjugated Organic Materials - Synthesis, Structure, Device and Applications, edited by Z. Bao, A.B. Chwang, L. Loo, and R.A. Segalman (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 937E, Warrendale, PA, 2006), Paper number 0937-M03-19.


28. "Chemical modification of the poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymer surface through fluorocarbon ion beam deposition", W.-D. Hsu, I. Jang, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 25, 1084-1092 (2007).


29. "Mechanistic studies of surface polymerization by ion-assisted deposition", W.-D. Hsu, S. Tepavcevic, L. Hanley and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, 4199-4208 (2007).


30. "Combined Computational and Experimental Study of Ar Beam Induced Defect Formation in Graphite", S. Pregler, T. Hayakawa, H. Yasumatsu, T. Kondow, and S.B. Sinnott, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 262, 240-248 (2007).


31. "Ar beam modification of nanotube-based composites using molecular dynamics simulations, S.K. Pregler, B. Jeong, and S.B. Sinnott, Composite Science and Technology 68, 2049-2055 (2008).


CARBON NANOTUBE SYSTEMS

1.  “Properties of Novel Fullerene Tubule Structures: A Computational Study”, S.B. Sinnott, C.T. White and D.W. Brenner, in Science and Technology of Fullerene Materials, Eds. P. Bernier, D.S. Bethune, L.Y. Chiang, T.W. Ebbesen, R.M. Metzger and J.W. Mintmire, MRS Symposia Proceedings No. 359 (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995), pp. 241-246.

2.  “Mechanical Properties of Nanotubule Fibers and Composites Determined From Theoretical Calculations and Simulations”, S.B. Sinnott, O.A. Shenderova, C.T. White, D.W. Brenner, Carbon 36, 1-9 (1998).

3.  “Interactions of Carbon-Nanotubule Proximal Probe Tips with Diamond and Graphene”, A. Garg, J. Han and S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review Letters 81, 2260-2264 (1998).

4.  “Effect of chemical functionalization on the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes”, A. Garg and S.B. Sinnott, Chemical Physics Letters 295, 273-278 (1998).

5.  “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Filling and Decorating of Carbon Nanotubules”, Z. Mao, A. Garg and S.B. Sinnott, Nanotechnology 10, 273-277 (1999).

6.  “Molecular Dynamics of Carbon Nanotubule Proximal Probe Tip-Surface Contacts”, A. Garg and S. B. Sinnott, Physical Review B 60, 13786-13791 (1999).

7.  “Model of Carbon Nanotube Growth Through Chemical Vapor Deposition”, S.B. Sinnott, R. Andrews, D. Quan, A.M. Rao, Z. Mao, E.C. Dickey and F. Derbyshire, Chemical Physics Letters 315, 25-39 (1999).

8.  “A Computational Study of Molecular Diffusion and Dynamic Flow Through Carbon Nanotubes”, Z. Mao and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104, 4618-4624 (2000).

9.  “Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes Through Energetic Radical Collisions”, B. Ni and S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review B 61, R16343-R16346 (2000).

10. “Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanotube Bundles Predicted from Atomistic Simulations”, B. Ni and S.B. Sinnott, Surface Science 487, 87-96 (2001).

11. “Separation of Organic Molecular Mixtures in Carbon Nanotubes and Bundles: Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Z. Mao and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 6916-6924 (2001).

12. “Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Investigated with Atomistic Simulations”, B. Ni and S.B. Sinnott, in Nanotubes and Related Materials, MRS Proceedings No. 633 (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001), pp. A17.3.1-A17.3.5.

13. “Sorption of Butane on Carbon Multiwall Nanotubes at Room Temperature”, J. Hilding, E.A. Grulke, S.B. Sinnott, D. Qian, R. Andrews and M. Jagtoyen, Langmuir 17, 7540-7544 (2001).

14. “Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications”, S.B. Sinnott and R. Andrews, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences 26, 145-249 (2001). (invited review article)

15. “Chemical Functionalization and Modification of Carbon Nanotubes through Ion Bombardment”, B. Ni and S.B. Sinnott, Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference, Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings 576 (American Institute of Physics Press, Melville, NY, 2001), pp. 959-962.

16. “A Combined Computational and Experimental Study of Ion Bombardment of Carbon Nanotube Bundles”, B. Ni, R. Andrews, D. Jacques, D. Qian, M.B.J. Wijesundara, Y. Choi, L. Hanley, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 12719-12725 (2001).

17. “Compression of Carbon Nanotubes Filled with C60, CH4 or Ne: Predictions from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, B. Ni, S.B. Sinnott, P.T. Mikulski, and J.A. Harrison, Physical Review Letters 88, 205505 (2002).

18. “Chemical Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes: A Review”, S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2, 113-123 (2002).  (invited review article)

19. “Computational Studies of Carbon Nanotube-Based Membranes and New Materials”, S.B. Sinnott, Z. Mao and K.-H. Lee, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences 3, 575-588 (2002). (invited article)

20. “Predictions of a Spiral Diffusion Path for Nonspherical Organic Molecules in Carbon Nanotubes”, Z. Mao and S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review Letters 89, 278301 (2002).

21. “Computational Methods in Designing Ceramic Materials: Carbon Nanotubes”, S.B. Sinnott, A. Garg, B. Ni and Y. Hu in Proceedings of CIMTEC 2002, 10th International Ceramics Congress and 3rd Forum on New Materials, Part A, Section A-Fundamentals of Structure, Property, Reaction, and Unit Processes of Advanced Ceramic Systems, Ed. P. Vincenzini, (Florence, Italy, July 14-18, 2002), pp. 147-158.

22. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Modification of Carbon Nanotubes by Ion Beam Deposition”, Y. Hu and S.B. Sinnott, in Chapter 14 of the Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Computational Engineering & Sciences (ICES’02), Ed. S.N. Atluri and D.W. Pepper, published on CDROM titled Advances in Computational Engineering & Sciences by Tech Science Press, (Reno, Nevada, July 31-August 2, 2002).

23. “Molecular Dynamics Predictions for Chemical Modification of ‘Nanopeapods’ via Ion Beam Deposition”, Y. Hu, D.L. Irving, and S.B. Sinnott, Published on CDROM titled 2003 Third IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2003 Proceedings, San Francisco, California, August 12-14, 2003.

24. “Computational Study of the Non-Equilibrium Flow of Gases through Carbon Nanotubes”, K.-H. Lee and S.B. Sinnott, Published on CDROM titled 2003 Third IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2003 Proceedings, San Francisco, California, August 12-14, 2003.

25. “Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Carbon Nanotube Welding under Electron Beam Irradiation”, I. Jang, S.B. Sinnott, D. Danailov, and P. Keblinski, Nano Letters 4, 109-114 (2004).

26. “Localization and Quantization in Covalently-Bonded Carbon Nanotube Junctions”, F. Cleri, P. Keblinski, I. Jang, S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review B 69, 121412 (2004).

27. “Interaction of Functionalized Benzene Molecules with Carbon Nanopores”, D.L. Irving, S.B. Sinnott, A. Lindner, Chemical Physics Letters 389, 96-100 (2004). Corrigendum 392, 567 (2004).

28. “Computational Studies of Non-Equilibrium Molecular Diffusion through Carbon Nanotubes”, K.-H. Lee and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, 9861-9870 (2004).

29. “Tribology of Oriented Carbon Nanotube Layers: Large Frictional Anisotropy and Super Adhesive Behavior”, P.L. Dickrell, W.G. Sawyer, D.W. Hahn, S.B. Sinnott, B. Yurdumakan, A. Dhinojwala, N.R. Raravikar, L.S. Schadler, and P.M. Ajayan, Tribology Letters 18, 59-62 (2005).

30. “Deformation of Filled Carbon Nanotubes”, H. Trotter, R. Phillips, Y. Hu, B. Ni, S.B. Sinnott, P. Mikulski, and J.A. Harrison, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 5, 536-541 (2005).

31. “Deflection of Nanotubes in Response to External Atomic Collisions”, K.-H. Lee, P. Keblinski, and S.B. Sinnott, Nano Letters 5, 263-268 (2005).

32. “Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Transport of Oxygen in Carbon Nanotubes”, K.-H. Lee and S.B. Sinnott, Nano Letters 5, 793-798 (2005).

33. “Comparison of CH4 and O2 Transport Through Opened Carbon Nanotubes: Predictions From Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, K.-H. Lee and S.B. Sinnott, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering 3, 379-391 (2005).

34. “Ion Separation using a Y-Junction Carbon Nanotube”, J.H. Park, S.B. Sinnott, and N.R. Aluru, Nanotechnology 17, 895-900 (2006).

35. "Ion Bombardment Induced Modification of Carbon Nanopeapods: A Computational Study", Y. Hu, D.L. Irving, and S.B. Sinnott, Chemical Physics Letters 422, 137-141 (2006).

36. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electron and Ion Beam Irradiation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: The Effects of Failure by Inner Tube Sliding", S. Pregler and S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review B 73, 224106 (2006).

37. "Investigation of the Influence of Thermostat Configurations on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes in Molecular Dynamics Simulations", S.-J. Heo and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 7, 1525-1529 (2007).

38. "Tensile Mechanical Behavior of Hollow and Filled Carbon Nanotubes Under Tension or Combined Tension-Torsion", B.-W. Jeong, J.-K. Kim, and S.B. Sinnott, Applied Physics Letters 90, 023102 (2007).

39. "Elastic Torsional Response s of Carbon Nanotube Systems", B.-W. Jeong, J.-K. Kim, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Applied Physics 101, 084309 (2007).


40. "Multiscale-Failure Criteria of Carbon Nanotubes under Biaxial Tension-Torsion Loading", B. Jeong, J.-K. Lim, and S.B. Sinnott, Nanotechnology 18, 485715 (2007).


41. "Torsional stiffening of carbon nanotube systems", B. Jeong, J.-K. Lim and S.B. Sinnott, Applied Physics Letters 91, 093102 (2007).


42. Tuning the Torsional Properties of Carbon Nanotube Systems with Axial Prestress”, B. Jeong, J.-K. Lim, and S.B. Sinnott, Applied Physics Letters (in press).


GENERAL NANOTECHNOLOGY


1.  “Surface Patterning by Atomically-Controlled Chemical Forces: Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, S.B. Sinnott, R.J. Colton, C.T. White, and D.W. Brenner, Surface Science 316, L1055-L1060 (1994).

2.  “Simulated Engineering of Nanostructures”, D.W. Brenner, S.B. Sinnott, J.A. Harrison and O.A. Shenderova, Nanotechnology 7,1-7 (1996).

3.  “Atomistic Simulations of the Nanometer-Scale Indentation of Thin Films”, S.B. Sinnott, R.J. Colton, C.T. White, O.A. Shenderova, D.W. Brenner, and J.A. Harrison, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 15, 936-940 (1997).

4.  “Virtual Design and Analysis of Nanometer-Scale Sensor and Device Components”, D.W. Brenner, J.D. Schall, J.P. Mewkill, O.A. Shenderova, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 51, 137-144 (1998).

5.  “Computational Studies of Nanometer Scale Systems”, D.L. Irving and S.B. Sinnott, Handbook of Computational Nanotechnology, Ed. M. Rieth and Wolfram Schommers (American Scientific Publishers, Stevens Ranch, California) (in press). (invited article).


6.   “Carbon Nanotubes as Nanoelectromechanical Systems Components”, S.B. Sinnott and N. Aluru, Chapter 13 in Carbon Nanotechnology: Recent Developments in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Device Applications, Ed. by L. Dai (Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006), pp. 361-488.

TRIBOLOGY

1.  “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Atomic-Scale Adhesion, Deformation, Friction, and Modification of Diamond Surfaces”, J.A. Harrison, S.B. Sinnott, C.T. White, D.W. Brenner and R.J. Colton, H.-J. Guentherodt et al. (Eds.), Forces in Scanning Probe Methods (Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1995), pp.175-181.

2.  “Theory of Atomic-Scale Friction”, S.B. Sinnott, Chapter 12 in Volume 2 of Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, Ed. H. Nalwa, (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2000), pp. 571-618. (The Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, Volumes 1-5, received the 1999 Award of Excellence in Engineering Handbooks from the Association of American Publishers).

3.  “Computational Modeling of Nanometer-Scale Tribology”, S.-J. Heo, S.B. Sinnott, D.W. Brenner, and J.A. Harrison, Chapter 13 in Nanotribology and Nanomechanics: An Introduction, Ed. by B. Bhushan (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005) pp. 623-691.

4.  “Computer Simulations of Nanometer-Scale Indentation and Friction”, S.B. Sinnott, S.-J. Heo, D.W. Brenner, and J.A. Harrison, included in the Handbook on Nanotechnology, 2nd Edition, Ed. by B. Bhushan (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007), pp. 1051-1106.


5. "Effect of Sliding Rate on Friction in Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)", P.R. Barry, I. Jang, S.B. Sinnott, and S.R. Phillpot, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Freiburg, Germany, September 18-22, 2006.


6. "Effect of Molecular Interactions on Carbon Nanotube Friction", S.-J. Heo and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Applied Physics 102, 064307 (2007).


7. "Effect of Simulation Conditions on Friction in Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)", P.R. Berry, B. Jeong, J.-K. Lim, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design 14, 239-246 (2007).


8. "Sliding orientation effects on the tribological properties of polytetrafluoroethylene", I. Jang, D.L. Burris, P.L. Dickrell, P.R. Barry, C. Santos, S.S. Perry, S.R. Phillpot, S.B. Sinnott, and W.G. Sawyer, Journal of Applied Physics 102, 123509 (2007).


9. "First principles study of static potential energy surfaces of MoS2 and MoO3", T. Liang, W.G. Sawyer, S.S. Perry, S.B. Sinnott, and S.R. Phillpot, Physical Review B 77, 104105 (2008).


10. "Effect of sliding orientation on the tribological properties of polyethylene in molecular dynamics simulations", S.-J. Heo, W.G. Sawyer, S.S. Perry, S.R. Phillpot, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Applied Physics 103, 083502 (2008).


11.
"Integrating experimental and simulation length and time scales in mechanistic studies of friction", W.G. Sawyer, S.S. Perry, S.R. Phillpot, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter (in press). (invited review article)


METAL AND CERAMIC INTERFACES, DEFECTS, AND PROPERTIES

1.  “Corrected Effective-Medium Study of Metal-Surface Relaxation”, S.B. Sinnott, M.S. Stave, T.J. Raeker and A.E. DePristo, Physical Review B 44, 8927-8941 (1991).

2.  “Ab-Initio Calculations of Rigid-Body Displacements at the Sigma 5 (210) Tilt Grain Boundary in TiO2”, S.B. Sinnott, R.F. Wood, and S.J. Pennycook, Physical Review B 61, 15645-15648 (2000).


3.  “Quantum Effects in Metallic Overlayer Epitaxy”, S.B. Sinnott, R.F. Wood, J.-H. Cho, and Z. Zhang, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 39, 4302-4306 (2000).

4.  “Preferred crystallographic orientation relationships of nickel films deposited on (100) cubic-zirconia substrates,” E.C. Dickey, Y. Ma, Bagiyono, G.D. Lian, S.B. Sinnott, T. Wagner, Thin Solid Films, 372, 37-44 (2000).

5.  “Atomic Scale Analysis of Cubic Zirconia Grain Boundaries”, E.C. Dickey, X. Fan, M. Yong, S.B. Sinnott and S.J. Pennycook, MRS Symposia Proceedings No. 589, (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001), pp.323-328.

6.  “Ab-initio Calculations of Pristine and Doped Sigma 5 (310)[001] ZrO2 Grain Boundaries”, Z. Mao, S.B. Sinnott, and E.C. Dickey, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 85, 1594-1600 (2002).


7.  “Metal-Ceramic Interfacial Structures and Their Relationship to Atomic- and Meso-Scale Properties”, S.B. Sinnott and E.C. Dickey, Materials Science and Engineering R 43, 1-59 (2003). (invited review article)

8.  “Building a Better Unit Cell: Applications to the Ag(111)/GaAs(110) System”, D.L. Irving, R.F. Wood and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter 16, 4661-4676 (2004).

9. “Defect Formation Energies of Neutral Defects in TiO2”, J. He and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 88, 737-741 (2005).

10. "Relative Stabilities of Multilayers of Ag on GaAs and GaSb Determined from Ab Initio Calculations", D.L. Irving, S.B. Sinnott and R.F. Wood, Physical Review B 74, 195403 (2006).


11. "Charged Defect Formation Energies in TiO2 using the Supercell Approximation", J. He, M.W. Finnis, E.C. Dickey, and S.B. Sinnott, Advances in Science and Technology 45, 1-8 (2006).


12. "Atomic-Level Simulation of Ferroelectricity in Oxides: Current Status and Opportunities", S.R. Phillpot, S.B. Sinnott, and A. Asthagiri, Annual Reviews in Materials Research 37, 239-270 (2007).


13. "Prediction of High-Temperature Point Defect Formation in TiO2 from Combined Ab Initio and Thermodynamic Calculations", J. He, R.K. Behera, M. Finnis, E.C. Dickey, S.R. Phillpot, and S.B. Sinnott, Acta Materialia 55, 4325-4337 (2007).


14. "Thermal transport properties of uranium dioxide by molecular dynamics simulations", T. Watanabe, S.B. Sinnott, J.S. Tulenko, R.W. Grimes, P.K. Schelling, and S.R. Phillpot, Journal of Nuclear Materials 375, 388-396 (2008).


15. "Structure of cubic bismuth oxide from simulation and crystallographic analysis", D.S. Aidhy, J.C. Nino, S.B. Sinnott, E.D. Wachsman, and S.R. Phillpot, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (in press).


CLUSTERS AND MICELLES

1.  “Density Functional Study of the Bonding in Small Silicon Clusters”, R. Fournier, S.B. Sinnott and A.E. DePristo, Journal of Chemical Physics 97, 4149-4161 (1992).

2. "Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Surfactant Aggregates at Water-Silica Interfaces: Molecular Dynamics Simulations", K. Shah, P. Chiu, M. Jain, J. Fortes, B. Moudgil, S.B. Sinnott, Langmuir 21, 5337-5342 (2005).

3. "Comparison of Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Surfactant Aggregates at Water-Silica and Water-Graphite Interfaces from Molecular Dyanmics Simulations", K. Shah, P. Chiu, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 296, 342-349 (2006).

4. "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Methanol Adsorption on Copper Clusters", W.-D. Hsu, M. Ichihashi, T. Kondow, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 111, 441-449 (2007).

 

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

1.  “Near Infrared Display Materials”, P.H. Holloway, M. Davidson, N. Shepherd, A. Kale, W. Glass, B. Harrison, T. Foley, J. Reynolds, K. Schanze, J. Boncella, S. Sinnott and D. Norton, Proceedings of Conference 5080 on Cockpit Displays X, Orlando, Florida, April 21-25, 2003 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003).

2.  "Computational Study of Steric Effects on the Optical Properties of Oligomers", D.L. Irving, B.D. Devine and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Luminescence 126, 278-288 (2007).

METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT


1.  “Exploration of Two-Body Approximations to the Kinetic-Exchange-Correlation Energy”, S. B. Sinnott, C.L. Kelchner and A.E. DePristo, Journal of Chemical Physics 99, 1816-1823 (1993).

2.  “Second Generation Reactive Empirical Bond Order (REBO) Potential Energy Expression for Hydrocarbons”, D.W. Brenner, O.A. Shenderova, J.A. Harrison, Steven J. Stewart, Boris Ni, S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14, 783-802 (2002).

3.  “Constant Temperature Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Energetic Particle-Solid Collisions: Comparison of Different Temperature Control Methods”, Y. Hu and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Computational Physics 200, 251-266 (2004).

4.  “A Reactive Empirical Bond Order Potential for Hydrocarbon-Oxygen Interactions”, B. Ni, K.-H. Lee, and S.B. Sinnott, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16, 7261-7275 (2004).

5. "Charge-Optimized Many Body (COMB) Potential for the Si/SiO2 System", J. Yu, S.B. Sinnott, S.R. Phillpot, Physical Review B 75, 085311 (2007).

6. "High-fidelity Potential for the Simulation of Polymorphs of SiO2", J. Yu, S.R. Phillpot, and S.B. Sinnott, Physical Review B 75, 233203 (2007).

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