Personal Profiles

Dr. Alan Dalton

Senior Lecturer

Short Biography:

Alan received his B.A. in Materials Science from Trinity College Dublin (T.C.D.) in 1996. His PhD work entitled: Morphological Influences on the Excited State Dynamics of Conjugated Polymers was completed in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Werner Blau at T.C.D. Proceeding this; Alan spent two years at Dublin Institute of Technology as an Arnold Graves Fellow. In the beginning of 2000, he spent a short period as a visiting scientist at Honeywell Technologies in the nanostructures group before joining the Nanotech Institute at University of Texas at Dallas. Alan joined the department in the summer of 2004.

Research Interests:

Research interests primarily focus on the electrical and optical properties of pseudo one-dimensional conjugated systems including carbon nanotubes and electro active conjugated polymers, the structure property relationships in nano-structured organic composites (mechanical, electrical and thermal), the directed and self-assembly of Nanostructures into functional macrostructures and more recently interfacing biological materials with synthetic inorganic and organic materials. Alan has expertise in a range of steady state and transient spectroscopes, Raman spectroscopy and electron microscopy.

Further details can be found on my personal web page.

Selected publications / conference presentations:

1. M. Marin-Almazo, D. Garcia-Gutierrez, X. Gao, J. L. Elechiguerra, V. A. Kusuma, W. M. Sampson, M. Miki-Yoshida, A. B. Dalton, R. Escudero, and M. Jose-Yacaman, Cobalt-Based Superparamagnetic Nanorings. Nano Letters (2004), 4, 8, 1365.
2. V. Zorbas. A. Ortiz-Acevedo, A.B. Dalton et al. Preparation and characterization of individual peptide-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2004) 23, 7222.
3. O.J. Korovyanko, C-X. Sheng, Z. V. Vardeny, A. B. Dalton and R. H. Baughman, Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Excitons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters (2004), 92(1), 017403/1-017403/4.
4. A.B. Dalton, S. Collins, J. Razal, E. Munoz, V. Howard Ebron, B.G. Kim, J.N. Coleman, J.P. Ferraris, R.H. Baughman, Continuous Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers: Properties, Potential Applications, and Problems. Journal of Materials Chemistry (2004), 14(1), 1-3. (HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE)
5. A.B. Dalton, S. Collins, E. Munoz, J. M. Razal, V.H. Ebron, J.P. Ferraris, J.N. Coleman, B.G. Kim, R.H. Baughman, Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres. Nature (London, United Kingdom) (2003), 423(6941), 703. ( ARTICLE RECEIVED WIDE COVERAGE IN THE MEDIA - E.G. NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, CBS TELEVISION NEWS, DISCOVER MAGAZINE, OVER 20 OTHER NEWS ARTICLES WORLD WIDE)
6. G. Chambers, C. Carroll, G.F. Farrell, A.B. Dalton, M. McNamara, M. in het Panhuis, H.J. Byrne, Characterization of the Interaction of Gamma Cyclodextrin with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters (2003), 3(6), 843-846.
7. J.N. Coleman, W.J. Blau, A.B. Dalton, E. Munoz, S. Collins, B.G. Kim, J. Razal, M. Selvidge, G. Vieiro, Guillermo, R.H. Baughman. Improving the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube sheets by intercalation of polymeric adhesives. Applied Physics Letters (2003), 82(11), 1682-1684.
8. G.R. Dieckmann, A.B. Dalton, P.A. Johnson, J. Razal, J. Chen, G.M. Giordano, E. Munoz, I.H. Musselman, R.H. Baughman, R.K. Draper. Controlled Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes by Designed Amphiphilic Peptide Helices. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2003), 125(7), 1770-1777.
9. M. in het Panhuis, A. Maiti, A.B. Dalton, A. van den Noort, J.N. Coleman, B. McCarthy, W.J. Blau. Selective Interaction in a Polymer-Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Composite. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2003), 107(2),
10. A.J. Fleming, J.N. Coleman, A.B. Dalton, A. Fechtenkoetter, M.D. Watson, K. Muellen, H.J. Byrne, W.J. Blau, Optical Spectroscopy of Isolated and Aggregate Hexabenzocoronene Derivatives: A Study of Self-Assembling Molecular Nanowires. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2003), 107(1), 37-43.

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