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.

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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 webpage.

Publications

Zakhidov, AA; Suh, DS; Kuznetsov, AA; Barisci, JN; Munoz, E; Dalton, AB; Collins, S; Ebron, VH; Zhang, M; Ferraris, JP; Zakhidov, AA; Baughman, RH (2009) “Electrochemically Tuned Properties for Electrolyte-Free Carbon Nanotube Sheets” ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 19 (14): 2266-2272

Asanithi, P; Saridakis, E; Govada, L; Jurewicz, I; Brunner, EW; Ponnusamy, R; Cleaver, JAS; Dalton, AB; Chayen, NE; Sear, RP (2009) “Carbon-Nanotube-Based Materials for Protein Crystallization” ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 1 (6): 1203-1210

Snyder, J; Asanithi, P; Dalton, AB; Erlebacher, J (2008) “Stabilized Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying Ternary Alloy Precursors” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 20 (24): 4883

Wang, T; Dalton, AB; Keddie, JL (2008) “Importance of Molecular Friction in a Soft Polymer-Nanotube Nanocomposite” MACROMOLECULES, 41 (20): 7656-7661

Xie, H; Becraft, EJ; Baughman, RH; Dalton, AB; Dieckmann, GR (2008) “Ranking the affinity of aromatic residues for carbon nanotubes by using designed surfactant peptides” JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE, 14 (2): 139-151

Nicolosi, V; Cathcart, H; Dalton, AR; Aherne, D; Dieckmann, GR; Coleman, JN (2008) “Spontaneous exfoliation of single-walled carbon nanotubes dispersed using a designed amphiphilic peptide” BIOMACROMOLECULES, 9 (2): 598-602

Wang, T; Lei, CH; Liu, D; Manea, M; Asua, JM; Creton, C; Dalton, AB; Keddie, JL (2008) “A molecular mechanism for toughening and strengthening waterborne nanocomposites” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 20 (1): 90

Poenitzsch, VZ; Winters, DC; Xie, H; Dieckmann, GR; Dalton, AB; Musselman, IH (2007) “Effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups on peptide/single-walled carbon nanotube interactions” JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 129 (47): 14724-14732

Razal, JM; Coleman, JN; Munoz, E; Lund, B; Gogotsi, Y; Ye, H; Collins, S; Dalton, AB; Baughman, RH (2007) “Arbitrarily shaped fiber assemblies from spun carbon nanotube gel fibers” ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 17 (15): 2918-2924

Chin, SF; Baughman, RH; Dalton, AB; Dieckmann, GR; Draper, RK; Mikoryak, C; Musselman, IH; Poenitzsch, VZ; Xie, H; Pantano, P (2007) “Amphiphilic helical peptide enhances the uptake of single-walled carbon nanotubes by living cells” EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 232 (9): 1236-1244

Boroumand, FA; Zhu, M; Dalton, AB; Keddie, JL; Sellin, PJ; Gutierrez, JJ (2007) “Direct x-ray detection with conjugated polymer devices” APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 91 (3): Art. No. 033509Dalton, A; Jurewicz, I (2007) “Processing - Nanotechnology meets bubbleology” NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 2 (6): 339-340

Wang, T; Lei, CH; Dalton, AB; Creton, C; Lin, Y; Fernando, KAS; Sun, YP; Manea, M; Asua, JM; Keddie, JL (2006) “Waterborne, nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives with high tack energy, optical transparency, and electrical conductivity” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 18 (20): 2730-+

Vandervorst, P; Lei, CH; Lin, Y; Dupont, O; Dalton, AB; Sun, YP; Keddie, JL (2006) “The fine dispersion of functionalized carbon nanotubes in acrylic latex coatings” PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS, 57 (2): 91-97

Lafuente, E; Pinol, M; Oriol, L; Munoz, E; Benito, AM; Maser, WK; Dalton, AB; Serrano, JL; Martinez, MT (2006) “Polyazomethine/carbon nanotube composites” MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-BIOMIMETIC AND SUPRAMOLECULAR SYSTEMS, 26 (5-7): 1198-1201

Sheng, CX; Vardeny, ZV; Dalton, AB; Baughman, RH (2005) “Ultrafast exciton dynamics in isolated single-walled nanotubes” SYNTHETIC METALS, 155 (2): 254-257

Zorbas, V; Smith, AL; Xie, H; Ortiz-Acevedo, A; Dalton, AB; Dieckmann, GR; Draper, RK; Baughman, RH; Musselman, IH (2005) “Importance of aromatic content for peptide/single-walled carbon nanotube interactions” JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 127 (35): 12323-12328

Ortiz-Acevedo, A; Xie, H; Zorbas, V; Sampson, WM; Dalton, AB; Baughman, RH; Draper, RK; Musselman, IH; Dieckmann, GR (2005) “Diameter-selective solubilization of single-walled carbon nanotubes by reversible cyclic peptides” JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 127 (26): 9512-9517

Sainz, R; Benito, AM; Martinez, MT; Galindo, JF; Sotres, J; Baro, AM; Corraze, B; Chauvet, O; Dalton, AB; Baughman, RH; Maser, WK (2005) “A soluble and highly functional polyaniline-carbon nanotube composite” NANOTECHNOLOGY, 16 (5): S150-S154

Sheng, CX; Vardeny, ZV; Dalton, AB; Baughman, RH (2005) “Exciton dynamics in single-walled nanotubes: Transient photoinduced dichroism and polarized emission” PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 71 (12): Art. No. 125427

Xie, H; Ortiz-Acevedo, A; Zorbas, V; Baughman, RH; Draper, RK; Musselman, IH; Dalton, AB; Dieckmann, GR (2005) “Peptide cross-linking modulated stability and assembly of peptide-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes” JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 15 (17): 1734-1741

Munoz, E; Suh, DS; Collins, S; Selvidge, M; Dalton, AB; Kim, BG; Razal, JM; Ussery, G; Rinzler, AG; Martinez, MT; Baughman, RH (2005) “ Highly conducting carbon nanotube/polyethyleneimine composite fibers” ADVANCED MATERIALS, 17 (8): 1064-+

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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),

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.