Publications

  1. Retterer, S. T., A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. (2008) “Positional control of catalyst nanoparticles for the synthesis of high density carbon nanofiber arrays.” Carbon 46(11), 1378-1383.

  2. Sorge, K. D., K. L. Klein, A. V. Melechko, C. L. Finkel, O. Malkina, T. Leventouri, J. D. Fowlkes, P. D. Rack, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) "Magnetic properties of Fe-Co catalysts used for carbon nanofiber synthesis." J. Appl. Phy., vol. 104, pp. 033909-7.

  3. Cox, C. D., J. M. McCollum, M. S. Allen, R. D. Dar, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) “Using noise to probe and characterize gene circuits.” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105(31), 10809-10814.

  4. Klein, K. L., S. J. Randolph, J. D. Fowlkes, L. F. Allard, H. M. Meyer III, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. (2008) “Single-crystal nanowires grown via electron-beam-induced deposition.” Nanotechnology 19, 345705-12.

  5. Rack, P. D., Y. F. Guan, J. D. Fowlkes, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) “Pulsed laser dewetting of patterned thin metal films: A means of directed assembly.” Appl. Phys. Letts. 92, 223108.

  6. Guan Y. F., R. C. Pearce, A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. (2008) “Pulsed laser dewetting of nickel catalyst for carbon nanofiber growth.” Nanotechnology 19(23).

  7. Karig, D. K., and M. L. Simpson. (2008) “Tying new knots in synthetic biology.” HSFP Journal, April 2008.

  8. Weinberger, L. S., R. D. Dar, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) “Transient-mediated fate determination in a transcriptional circuit of HIV.” Nature Genetics, 40(4), 466-470.

  9. Klein, K. L., A. V. Melechko, T. E. McKnight, J. D. Fowlkes, S. T. Retterer, P. D. Rack, D. Joy, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) “Surface Characterization and Functionalization of Carbon Nanofibers.” J. Appl. Phy. 103, 061301-1 - 061301-26.

  10. Fletcher, B., S. T. Retterer, T. E. Mcknight, A. V. Melechko, J. D. Fowlkes, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. (2008) "Actuatable Membranes Based on Polypyrrole-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers." ACS Nano 2(2), 247-254.

  11. Mann, D., T. E. Mcknight, J. McPherson, P. Hoyt, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and G. S. Sayler. (2008) "Inducible RNAI-Mediated Gene Silencing Using Nanostructured Gene Delivery Arrays." ACS Nano 2(1), 69-76.

  12. Fuentes-Cabrera, M., M.I. Baskes, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. (2008) "Bridge structure for the graphene/Ni(111) system: a first principles study." Phys. Rev. B. 77, 035405-1 – 035405-5.

  13. Randolph, S. J., J. D. Fowlkes, A. V. Melechko, K. L. Klein, H. M. Meyer III, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. (2007) "Controlling thin film structure for the dewetting of catalyst nanoparticle arrays for subsequent carbon nanofiber growth." Nanotechnology 18, 465304-1-8.

  14. Melechko, A. V., K. L. Klein, J. D. Fowlkes, D. K. Hensley, I. A. Merkulov, T. E. McKnight, P. D. Rack, J. A. Horton, and M. L. Simpson. (2007) "Control of carbon nanostructure: from nanofiber toward nanotube and back." J. Appl. Phys .102(1).

  15. Merkulov, I. A., V. I. Merkulov, A. V. Melechko, K. L. Klein, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. (2007) "Instability of catalytic growth interface in carbon nanofiber synthesis." Phys. Rev. B., 76, 014109-1 – 14109-8.

  16. Yu, Z., T. E. McKnight, M. N. Ericson, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and B. Morrison III. (2007) "Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays record hippocampal slice electrophysiological signals." Nano Letts. 7(8), 2188 – 2195.

  17. Guan, Y. F., A. V. Melechko, A. J. Pedraza, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. (2007) "Non-Lithographic Organization of Nickel Catalyst for Carbon Nanofiber Synthesis on Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures." Nanotechnology 18, 335306-335312.

  18. Allen, M. S., J. R. Wilgus, C. S. Chewning, G. S. Sayler, and M. L. Simpson. (2007) Sys. Synth. Bio. V1, 3-9.

  19. Doktycz, M. J., and M. L. Simpson. "Nano-enabled synthetic biology." Mol Syst Biol, vol. 3, 2007.

  20. Yang, X., W. L. Gardner, L. R. Baylor, H. Cui, D. H. Lowndes, D. C. Joy, and M. L. Simpson. "Electron-beam focusing characteristics of double-gated carbon nanofiber based field emission sources." J. Vac. Sci. & Tech. B, vol. 25, pp. 394-399 (2007).

  21. Fletcher, B. L., T. E. McKnight, J. D. Fowlkes, D. P. Allison, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Controlling the Dimensions of Carbon Nanofiber Structures through the Electropolymerization of Pyrrole." Synth. Metals 157, 282-289 (2007).

  22. Mann, D. G. J., T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and G. S. Sayler. "Quantitative Analysis of EDC-Condensed DNA on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Gene Delivery Arrays." Biotechnol. Bioeng. 97(4), 680-688 (2007).

  23. Yan, L., M. S. Allen, M. L. Simpson, G. S. Sayler, and C. D. Cox. "Direct quantification of N-(3-oxo-hexanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone in culture supernatant using a whole-cell bioreporter." J. Microbio. Meth., 68, 40-45 (2007).

  24. Leventouri, T., A. V. Melechko, K. D. Sorge, K. L. Klein, J. D. Fowlkes, P. D. Rack, I. M. Anderson, J. R. Thompson, T. E. McKnight, and M. L. Simpson, "Magnetic alloys in nanoscale biomaterials." Met. and Mat. Trans. a-Phys. Met. and Mat. Sci., 37A, 3423-342 (2006).

  25. Simpson, M. L. "Cell-free synthetic biology: a bottom-up approach to discovery by design." Mol. Syst. Biol., vol. 2, 2006.

  26. Fowlkes, J. D., E. D. Hullander, B. L. Fletcher, S. T. Retterer, A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Molecular transport in a crowded volume created from vertically aligned carbon nanofibres: a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching study." Nanotechnology 17, (2006) 5659-5668.

  27. Dhindsa, M. S., N. R. Smith, J. Heikenfeld, P. D. Rack, J. D. Fowlkes, M. J. Doktycz, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. "Reversible Electrowetting of Vertically Aligned Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanofibers." Langmuir 22, October 10, 2006, 9030-9034.

  28. McKnight, T. E., A. V. Melechko, B. L. Fletcher, S. W. Jones, D. K. Hensley, D. B. Peckys, G. D. Griffin, M. L. Simpson, and M. N. Ericson. "Resident Neuroelectrochemical Interfacing Using Carbon Nanofiber Arrays." J. Phys. Chem. B. 110(31), August 10, 2006, 15317-15327.

  29. Jun, S.-I., P. D. Rack, T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. "Low-temperature solid-phase crystallization of amorphous silicon thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering with substrate bias." Appl. Phys. Letts. 87, 2006, 022104-3.

  30. McKnight, T. E., C. Peeraphatdit, S. W. Jones, J. D. Fowlkes, B. L. Fletcher, K. L. Klein, A. V. Melechko, M. J. Doktycz, and M. L. Simpson. "Site-Specific Biochemical Functionalization along the Height of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays." Chem. Mater. 18, 3203-3211 (2006).

  31. Fletcher, B. L., T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, D. K. Thomas, M. N. Ericson, and M. L. Simpson. "Transfer of Flexible Arrays of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes to Temperature Sensitive Substrates." Adv. Mat. 18(13), July 2006, 1689-1694.

  32. Cox, C. D., J. M. McCollum, D. W. Austin, M. S. Allen, R. D. Dar, and M. L. Simpson. "Frequency Domain Analysis of Noise in Simple Gene Circuits." Chaos 16, June 2006, 026102-1 - 026102-15.

  33. Fletcher, B. L., T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Biochemical Functionalization of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers." Nanotechnology 17(8), April 2006, 2032-2039.

  34. Austin, D. W., M. S. Allen, J. M. McCollum, R. D. Dar, J. R. Wilgus, G. S. Sayler, N. F. Samatova, C. D. Cox, and M. L. Simpson. "Gene Network Shaping of Inherent Noise Spectra." Nature 439, Feb. 2, 2006, 608-611.

  35. McCollum, J. M., G. D. Peterson, C. D. Cox, M. L. Simpson, and N. F. Samatova. "The sorting direct method for stochastic simulation of biochemical systems with varying reaction execution behavior." Comp. Bio. and Chem. 30, Feb. 2006, 39-49.

  36. K. L. Klein, A. V. Melechko, J. D. Fowlkes, P. D. Rack, D. K. Hensley, H. M. Meyer, L. F. Allard, T. E. McKnight, and M. L. Simpson. "Formation of Ultrasharp Vertically Aligned Cu-Si Nanocones by a DC Plasma Process." J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 110, pp. 4766-4771, 2006.

  37. Fowlkes, J. D., A. V. Melechko, K. L. Klein, P. D. Rack, D. A. Smith, D. K. Hensley, M. J. Doktycz, and M. L. Simpson. "Control of catalyst particle crystallographic orientation in vertically aligned carbon nanofiber synthesis." Carbon 44(8,) pp 1503-1510, 2006.

  38. Fowlkes, J. D., B. L. Fletcher, E. D. Hullander, K. L. Klein, D. K. Hensley, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Tailored transport through vertically aligned carbon nanofibre membranes; controlled synthesis, modelling, and passive diffusion experiments." Nanotechnology, 16, Dec. 2005, 3101-3109.

  39. Sanseverino, J., R. K. Gupta, A. C. Layton, S. S. Patterson, S. A. Ripp, L. Saidak, M. L. Simpson, T. W. Schultz, and G. S. Sayler. "Use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae BLYES Expressing Bacterial Bioluminescence for Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Estrogenic Compounds." Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 71, August 2005, 4455-4460.

  40. Jun, S.-I., T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. "Characterisation of reactively sputtered silicon oxide for thin-film transistor fabrication." Electron. Letts. 41 (14), July 7, 2005, 59-60.

  41. Jun, S.-I., T. E. McKnight, M. L. Simpson, and P. D. Rack. "A statistical parameter study of indium tin oxide thin films deposited by radio-frequency sputtering." Thin Solid Films, 476(1), April 1, 2005, 59-64.

  42. Cui, H., X. Yang, H. M. Myer, L. R. Baylor, M. L. Simpson, W. L. Gardner, D. H. Lowndes, L, An, and J. Liu. "Growth and properties of Si-N-C-O nanocones and graphitic nanofibers synthesized using three-nanometer diameter iron/platinum nanoparticle catalysts." J. Mater. Res., 20(4), April 2005, 850-855.

  43. Jun, S.-I., P. D. Rack, T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. "Electrical and microstructural characterization of molybdenum tungsten electrodes using a combinatorial thin film sputtering technique." J. of Appl. Phy, 97(5), Mar. 1, 2005, 054906-01.

  44. Melechko, A. V., V. I. Merkulov, T. E. McKnight, M. A. Guillorn, K. L. Klein, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers and related structures: Controlled synthesis and directed assembly." J. Appl. Phy., 97(4): p. Feb. 15, 2005, 041301-39.

  45. Jun, S.-I., P. D. Rack, T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, and M. L. Simpson. "DC substrate bias effects on amorphous silicon sputter deposited films and integration and characterization of a sputter deposited thin film transistor array." Appl. Phys. Letts. 87, 2005, 132108.

  46. Merkulov, I. A., A. V. Melechko, J. C. Wells, H. Cui, V. I. Merkulov, M. L. Simpson, and D. H. Lowndes. "Two growth modes of graphitic carbon nanofibers with herringbone structure." Phys. Rev. B, vol. 72, 2005, 045409.

  47. Klein, K. L., A. V. Melechko, P. D. Rack, J.D. Fowlkes, H. M. Meyer, and M. L. Simpson. "Cu-Ni composition gradient for the catalytic synthesis of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Carbon vol 43 (9), 2005, 1857-1863.

  48. Yang, X., M. L. Simpson, S. J. Randolph, P. D. Rack, L. R. Baylor, H. Cui, and W. L. Gardner. "Integrated tungsten nanofiber field emission cathodes selectively grown by nanoscale electron beam-induced deposition." Appl. Phys. Letts., vol. 86, 2005, 183101-1.

  49. Randolph, S. J., M. D. Hale, M. A. Guillorn, P. D. Rack, and M. L. Simpson. "A microfabrication process for a vacuum-encapsulated microchamber." Microelectronic Engineering 77, 412-419 (2005).

  50. Baylor, L. R., W. L. Gardner, X. Yang, R. J. Kasica, M. A. Guillorn, B. Blalock, H. Cui, D. K. Hensley, S. Islam, D. H. Lowndes, A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, D. C. Joy, P. D. Rack, M. L. Simpson, and D. K. Thomas. "Initial lithography results from the digital electrostatic e-beam array lithography concept." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 22(6), Nov/Dec 2004, 3021-3024.

  51. Simpson, M. L. "Rewiring the cell: synthetic biology moves towards higher functional complexity." Trends in Biotechnology 22, Nov. 2004, 555-557.

  52. Fletcher, B. L., E. D. Hullander, A. V. Melechko, T. E. McKnight, K. L. Klein, D. K. Hensley, J. L. Morrell, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Microarrays of biomimetic cells formed by the controlled synthesis of carbon nanofiber membranes." Nano Letters 2004,4(10), October 2004, 1809-1814.

  53. Coffman, E. A., A. V. Melechko, D. P. Allison, M. L. Simpson, and M. J. Doktycz. "Surface patterning of silica nanostructures using bio-inspired templates and directed synthesis." Langmuir 20(20); Sept. 28, 2004, 8431-8436.

  54. Simpson, M. L., C. D. Cox, and G. S. Sayler. "Frequency domain chemical Langevin analysis of stochasticity in gene transcriptional regulation." J. Theo. Bio. 229(3), August 2004, 383-394.

  55. McKnight, T. E., A. V. Melechko, G. D. Griffin, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, F. Serna, D. K. Hensley, M. J. Doktycz, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Intracellular integration of synthetic nanostructures with viable cells for controlled biochemical manipulation." Nano Letts. 4(7); July 7, 2004, 1213-1219.

  56. Sayler, G. S., M. L. Simpson, and C. D. Cox. "Emerging Foundations: Nano-Engineering and Bio-Microelectronics for Environmental Biotechnology." Current Opinion in Microbiology 7, June 2004, 267-273.

  57. McKnight, T. E., A. V. Melechko, D. W. Austin, T. Sims, M. A. Guillorn, and M. L. Simpson. "Microarrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofiber electrodes in an open fluidic channel." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108, June 2004, 7115-7125.

  58. Zhang, L., D. W. Austin, V. I. Merkulov, M. A. Guillorn, A. V. Melechko, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Four-probe charge transport measurements on individual vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Appl. Phys. Letts. 84(20), May 17, 2004, 3972-3974.

  59. Cui, H., X. Yang, M. L. Simpson, D. H. Lowndes, and M. Varela. "Initial growth of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Appl. Phys. Letts. 84(20), May 17, 2004, 4077-4079.

  60. McCollum, J. M., C. D. Cox, M. L. Simpson, and G. D. Peterson. "Accelerating Gene Regulatory Network Modeling Using Grid-Based Simulation." Simulation 80 (4-5), May 2004, 231-241.

  61. Simpson, M. L., C. D. Cox, G. D. Peterson, and G. S. Sayler. "Engineering in the Biological Substrate: Information Processing in Genetic Circuits." Proc. IEEE. Vol. 92(5), May 2004, 848-863.

  62. Guillorn, M. A., X. Yang, A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, V. I. Merkulov, M. L. Simpson, L. R. Baylor, W. L. Gardner, and D. H. Lowndes. "Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber-based field emission electron sources with an integrated focusing electrode." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. vol. 22(1), Jan. 2004, 35-39.

  63. Simpson, M. L., G. S. Saylor, J. T. Fleming, J. Sanseverino, and C. D. Cox. "The Biology of Integration of Cells into Microscale and Nanoscale Systems." Cellular Computing, Martyn Amos, Editor, Oxford University Press, 2004.

  64. Simpson, M. L., T. E. McKnight, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, G. S. Sayler, and A. V. Melechko. "Integration of Cells into Microscale and Nanoscale Systems." Cellular Computing, Martyn Amos, Editor, Oxford University Press, 2004.

  65. Nivens, D. E., T. E. McKnight, S. A. Moser, S. J. Osbourn, M. L. Simpson,
    and G. S. Sayler.     "Bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuits:
    potentially small, rugged and inexpensive whole-cell biosensors for
    remote environmental monitoring."     J. Appl. Microbio., vol. 96, pp. 33-46, 2004.

  66. Yang, X., M. A. Guillorn, D. W. Austin, A. V. Melechko, H. M. Meyer III, H. Cui, V. I. Merkulov, J. B. O. Caughman, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Fabrication and characterization of carbon nanofiber-based vertically integrated Schottky-barrier junction diodes." Nanoletters 3(12), December 2003, 1751-1755.

  67. Ripp, S., K. A. Daumer, T. E. McKnight, L. H. Levine, J. L. Garland, M. L. Simpson, and G. S. Sayler. "Bioluminescent bioreporter integrated-circuit sensing of microbial volatile organic compounds." J. Ind. Microbio. & Biotech, vol. 30, pp. 636-642, Nov. 2003.

  68. Melechko, A. V., T. E. McKnight, D. K. Hensley, M. A. Guillorn, A.Y. Borisevich, V. I. Merkulov, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Large-scale synthesis of arrays of high-aspect-ratio rigid vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Nanotechnology, 14 (9) pp. 1029-1035, September 2003.

  69. Chisholm, M. F., Y. H. Wang, A. R. Lupini, G. Eres, A. A. Puretzky, B. Brinson, A. V. Melechko, D. B. Geohegan, H. T. Cui, M. P. Johnson, S. J. Pennycook, D. H. Lowndes, S. Arepalli, C. Kittrell, S. Sivaram, M. Kim, G. Lavin, J. Kono, R. Hauge, and R. E. Smalley. Comment on "Single crystals of single-walled carbon nanotubes formed by self-assembly." Science, 300 (5623), May 23, 2003.

  70. McKnight, T. E., A. V. Melechko, D. K. Hensley, G. D. Griffin, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, F. Serna, M. J. Doktycz, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Functional Intracellular Integration of Synthetic Nanostructures with Viable Cells for Non-Inheritable Genetic Modification." Nanotechnology, May 14, 2003.

  71. Guillorn, M. A., M. D. Hale, V. I. Merkulov, M. L. Simpson, G. Y. Eres, H. Cui, A. A. Puretzky, and D. B. Geohagen. "Integrally gated carbon nanotube field emission cathodes produced by standard microfabrication techniques." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. Vol. 21, May 2003, 957-959.

  72. Simpson, M. L., C. D. Cox, and G. S. Sayler. "Frequency Domain Analysis of Noise in Autoregulated Gene Circuits." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100, April 15, 2003, 4551-4556.

  73. Melechko, A. V., T. E. McKnight, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, B. Ilic, M. J. Doktycz, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as sacrificial templates for nanofluidic structures." Appl. Phys. Letts., 82, Feb. 10, 2003, 976-978.

  74. McKnight, T. E., A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, M. A. Guillorn, M. J. Doktycz, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Effects of Microfabrication Processing on the Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes," J. Phys. Chem. B, 107 (39), 10722 -10728, 2003.

  75. Gupta, R. K., S. S. Patterson, S. Ripp, M. L. Simpson, and G. S. Sayler. "Expression of the Photorhabdus luminescens lux genes (luxA, B, C, D, and E) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae." FEMS Yeast Research, vol. 4, pp. 305-313, 2003.

  76. Cox, C. D., G. D. Peterson, M. S. Allen, J. M. Lancaster, J. M. McCollum, D. W. Austin, L. Yan, G. S. Sayler, and M. L. Simpson. "Analysis of Noise in Quorum Sensing." Omics, 7 (3), 317-334, 2003.

  77. Caughman, J. B. O., L. R. Baylor, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, D. H. Lowndes, and L. F. Allard. "Growth of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers by low-pressure inductively coupled plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition." Appl. Phys. Letts., 83, pp. 1207-1209, 2003.

  78. Guillorn, M. A., A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, D. K. Hensley, M. L. Simpson, and D. H. Lowndes. "Self-aligned gated field emission devices using single carbon nanofiber cathodes." Appl. Phys. Letts., 81, Nov. 4, 2002, 3660-3662.

  79. Baylor, L. R., D. H. Lowndes, M. L. Simpson, C. E. Thomas, M. A. Guillorn, V. I. Merkulov, J. H. Whealton, E. D. Ellis, D. K. Hensley, and A. V. Melechko. "Digital electrostatic electron-beam array lithography." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. Vol. 20(6), Nov. 2002, 2646-2650.

  80. Melechko, A. V., T. E. McKnight, M. A. Guillorn, D. W. Austin, B. Ilic, V. I. Merkulov, M. J. Doktycz, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Nanopipe fabrication using vertically aligned carbon nanofiber templates." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B. Vol. 20(6), Nov. 2002, 2730-2733.

  81. Guillorn, M. A., M. D. Hale, V. I. Merkulov, M. L. Simpson, G. Y. Eres, H. Cui, A. A. Puretzky, and D. B. Geohegan. "Operation of individual integrally gated carbon nanotube field emitter cells." Appl. Phys. Letts., 81, Oct. 7, 2002, 2860-2862.

  82. Puretzky, A. A., D. B. Geohegan, H. Schittenhelm, X. D. Fan, M. A. Guillorn. "Time-resolved diagnostics of single wall carbon nanotube synthesis by laser vaporization." Applied Surface Science, 197: 552-562 Sep. 30, 2002.

  83. Merkulov, V. I., A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Growth rate of plasma-synthesized vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Chem. Phys. Letts., 361, Aug. 6, 2002, 492-498.

  84. Austin, D. W., A. A. Puretzky, D. B. Geohegan, P. F. Britt, M. A. Guillorn, and M. L. Simpson. "The electrodeposition of metal at metal/carbon nanotube junctions." Chem. Phys. Letts., 361, Aug. 6, 2002, 525-529.

  85. Zhang, L., A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, M. A. Guillorn, M. L. Simpson, D. H. Lowndes, and M. J. Doktycz. "Controlled transport of latex beads through vertically aligned carbon nanofiber membranes." Appl. Phys. Letts., 81(1), July 1, 2002, 135-137.

  86. Merkulov, V. I., A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, M. L. Simpson, J. H. Whealton, and R. J. Raridon. "Controlled alignment of carbon nanofibers in a large-scale synthesis process." Appl. Phys. Letts., 80(25), June 24, 2002, 4816-4818.

  87. Bolton , E. K., G. S. Sayler, D. E. Nivens, J. M. Rochelle, S. Ripp, and M. L. Simpson. "Integrated CMOS Photodetectors and Signal Processing for Very Low-Level Chemical Sensing with the Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuit." Sens. Act. B 85(1-2), June 20, 2002, 179-185.

  88. Melechko, A. V., V. I. Merkulov, D. H. Lowndes, M. A. Guillorn, and M. L. Simpson. "Transition between 'base' and 'tip' carbon nanofiber growth modes." Chem. Phys. Letts., 356, April 26, 2002, 527-533.

  89. Baylor, L. R., V. I. Merkulov, E. D. Ellis, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, J. H. Whealton. "Field-emission from isolated individual vertically aligned carbon nanocones." J. Appl. Phys. 91(7), April 1, 2002, 4602-4606.

  90. Guillorn, M. A., T. E. McKnight, A. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, D. W. Austin, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Individually addressable vertically aligned carbon nanofiber-based electrochemical probes." J. Appl. Phys. 91(6), March 15, 2002, 3824-3828.

  91. Merkulov, V. I., A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes and, M. L. Simpson. "Effects of spatial separation on the growth of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers produced by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition." Appl. Phys. Letts., 80(3), January 21, 2002, 476-478.

  92. Merkulov, V. I., D. K. Hensley, A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Control Mechanisms for the Growth of Isolated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers." J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 2002, 10570-10577.

  93. Merkulov, V. I., A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Sharpening of carbon nanocone tips during plasma-enhanced chemical vapor growth." Chem. Phys. Letts., 350(5-6), December 28, 2001, 381-385.

  94. Sayler, G. S., S. Ripp, D. Nivens, and M. Simpson. "Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuits: Sensing Analytes and Organisms with Living Microorganisms." J. Envir. Biotech, 1(1), Dec. 2001, 33-39.

  95. Guillorn, M. A., E. D. Ellis, M. L. Simpson, V. I. Merkulov, A. V. Melechko, L. R. Baylor, G. J. Bordonaro, and D. H. Lowndes. "Microfabricated field emission devices using carbon nanofibers as cathode elements." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B., 19(6), November/December 2001, 2598-260.

  96. Guillorn, M. A., E. D. Ellis, C. L. Britton, M. L. Simpson, A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, G. J. Bordonaro, D. Woodie, L. R. Baylor, and D. H. Lowndes. "Operation of a gated field emitter using an individual carbon nanofiber cathode." Appl. Phys. Letts., 79(21), November 19, 2001, 3506-3508.

  97. Merkulov, V. I., A. V. Melechko, M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson. "Alignment mechanism of carbon nanofibers produced by plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition." Appl. Phys. Letts., 79(18), October 29, 2001, 2970-2972.

  98. Merkulov, V. I., M. A. Guillorn, D. H. Lowndes, M. L. Simpson, and E. Voelkl. "Shaping carbon nanostructures by controlling the synthesis process." Appl. Phys. Letts., 79(8), August 20, 2001, 1178-1180.

  99. Simpson, M. L., G. S. Sayler, J. T. Fleming, and B. A. Applegate. "Whole-cell biocomputing: engineering the information processing functionality of cells." Trends in Biotechnology 19(8), August 2001, 317-323.

  100. Geohegan D. B., H. Schittenhelm, X. Fan, S. J. Pennycook, A. A. Puretzky, M. A. Guillorn, D. A. Blom, and D. C. Joy. "Condensed phase growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes from laser annealed nanoparticulates." Appl. Phys. Letts., 78(21), May 2001, 3307-3309.

  101. Wei, Y. Y., G. Eres, V. I. Merkulov, D. H. Lowndes. "Effect of catalyst film thickness on carbon nanotube growth by selective area chemical vapor deposition." Appl. Phys. Letts., 78(10), March 2001, 1394-1396.

  102. Merkulov V. I., D. H. Lowndes, and L. R. Baylor. "Scanned-probe field-emission studies of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." J. Appl. Phys. 89(3), Feb. 2001, 1933-1937.

  103. Simpson, M. L., G. S. Sayler, G. Patterson, D. Nivens, E. K. Bolton, J. M. Rochelle, J. C. Arnott, B. M. Applegate, S. Ripp, and M. A. Guillorn. "An integrated CMOS Microluminometer for low-level luminescence sensing in the bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuit." Sens. and Act. B 72(2), Jan. 2001, 135-141.

  104. Guillorn, M. A., M. L. Simpson, G. J. Bordonaro, V. I. Merkulov, L.R. Baylor, and D. H. Lowndes. "Fabrication of Gated Cathode Structures Using an In-Situ Grown Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber as a Field Emission Element." J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 19, 573 (2001).

  105. Merkulov V. I., D. H. Lowndes, Y. Y. Wei, G. Eres, and E. Voelkl. "Patterned growth of individual and multiple vertically aligned carbon nanofibers." Appl. Phys. Letts., 76(24), June 2000, 3555-3557.

  106. Guillorn, M. A., D. W. Carr, R. C. Tiberio, E. Greenbaum, and M. L. Simpson. "Fabrication of Dissimilar Metal Electrodes with Nanometer Interelectrode Distance for Molecular Device Characterization." J, Vac. Sci. Tech. B, 18(3), May/June 2000, 1177 – 1181.

  107. Merkulov V. I., D. H. Lowndes, and L. R. Baylor. "Field-emission studies of smooth and nanostructured carbon films." Appl. Phys. Letts., 75(9), Aug. 1999, 1228-1230.

  108. Simpson, M. L., G. E. Jellison, M. N. Ericson, W. B. Dress, A. L. Wintenberg, and M. Bobrek. "Application Specific Spectral Response with CMOS Compatible Photodiodes." IEEE Trans. Elect. Dev. 46, No. 5, May 1999, pp. 905-913.

  109. Simpson, M. L., G. S. Sayler, S. Ripp, D. E. Nivens, B. M. Applegate, M. J. Paulus, and G. E. Jellison Jr. "Bioluminescent-Bioreporter Integrated Circuits Form Novel Whole-Cell Biosensors." Trends in Biotechnology, Vol. 16, August 1998, pp. 332-338.
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