Dr Alan Dalton
Senior Lecturer
Email: a.dalton@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6787
Room no: 11 BB 03
Further information
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 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Werner Blau at T.C.D. Proceeding this; Alan spent worked at the Dublin Institute of Technology as an Arnold Graves Fellow. In the beginning of 2002, 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.
Link to personal webpage.
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
Highlights
- . (2010) 'Enhanced Thermal Actuation in Thin Polymer Films Through Particle Nano-Squeezing by Carbon Nanotube Belts'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 22 (46), pp. 5310-5314.
- . (2008) 'Stabilized Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying Ternary Alloy Precursors'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (24), pp. 4883-+.
- . (2007) 'Processing - Nanotechnology meets bubbleology'. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP NAT NANOTECHNOL, 2 (6), pp. 339-340.
- . (2007) 'Effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups on peptide/single-walled carbon nanotube interactions'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129 (47), pp. 14724-14732.
- . (2006) 'Waterborne, nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives with high tack energy, optical transparency, and electrical conductivity'. Advanced Materials, 18 (20), pp. 2730-2734.
Journal articles
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(2011) 'Locking carbon nanotubes in confined lattice geometries--a route to low percolation in conducting composites.'. J Phys Chem B, United States: 115 (20), pp. 6395-6400.doi: 10.1021/jp111998p
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(2011) 'Aligned, isotropic and patterned carbon nanotube substrates that control the growth and alignment of Chinese hamster ovary cells.'. Nanotechnology, England: 22 (20)Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7606/
- . (2010) 'Enhanced Thermal Actuation in Thin Polymer Films Through Particle Nano-Squeezing by Carbon Nanotube Belts'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 22 (46), pp. 5310-5314.
- . (2010) 'Colloid-Assisted Self-Assembly of Robust, Three-Dimensional Networks of Carbon Nanotubes over Large Areas'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH MACROMOL RAPID COMM, 31 (7), pp. 609-615.
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(2009) 'Carbon-Nanotube-Based Materials for Protein Crystallization'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ACS APPL MATER INTER, 1 (6), pp. 1203-1210.doi: 10.1021/am9000858
- . (2009) 'Carbon-nanotube-based materials for protein crystallization.'. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 1 (6), pp. 1203-1210.
- . (2009) 'Electrochemically Tuned Properties for Electrolyte-Free Carbon Nanotube Sheets'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV FUNCT MATER, 19 (14), pp. 2266-2272.
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(2008) 'Importance of Molecular Friction in a Soft Polymer-Nanotube Nanocomposite'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC MACROMOLECULES, 41 (20), pp. 7656-7661.doi: 10.1021/ma800868zFull text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7102/
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(2008) 'Spontaneous exfoliation of single-walled carbon nanotubes dispersed using a designed amphiphilic peptide'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC BIOMACROMOLECULES, 9 (2), pp. 598-602.doi: 10.1021/bm701181j
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(2008) 'Ranking the affinity of aromatic residues for carbon nanotubes by using designed surfactant peptides'. JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD J PEPT SCI, 14 (2), pp. 139-151.doi: 10.1002/psc.978
- . (2008) 'Stabilized Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying Ternary Alloy Precursors'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (24), pp. 4883-+.
- . (2008) 'A molecular mechanism for toughening and strengthening waterborne nanocomposites'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (1), pp. 90-+.
- . (2007) 'Multifunctional nanocomposites of soft polymer colloids and carbon nanotubes'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 234
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(2007) 'Direct x-ray detection with conjugated polymer devices'. AMER INST PHYSICS APPL PHYS LETT, 91 (3) Article number 033509 doi: 10.1063/1.2748337Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/297/
- . (2007) 'Processing - Nanotechnology meets bubbleology'. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP NAT NANOTECHNOL, 2 (6), pp. 339-340.
- . (2007) 'Waterborne nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives: Achieving enhanced adhesion combined with electrical conductivity'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 233
- . (2007) 'COLL 306-Waterborne nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives: Achieving enhanced adhesion combined with electrical conductivity'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 233
- . (2007) 'Arbitrarily shaped fiber assemblies from spun carbon nanotube gel fibers'. Advanced Functional Materials, 17 (15), pp. 2918-2924.
- . (2007) 'Amphiphilic helical peptide enhances the uptake of single-walled carbon nanotubes by living cells'. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 232 (9), pp. 1236-1244.
- . (2007) 'Effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups on peptide/single-walled carbon nanotube interactions'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129 (47), pp. 14724-14732.
- . (2006) 'Polyazomethine/carbon nanotube composites'. Materials Science and Engineering C, 26 (5-7), pp. 1198-1201.
- . (2006) 'Waterborne, nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives with high tack energy, optical transparency, and electrical conductivity'. Advanced Materials, 18 (20), pp. 2730-2734.
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(2006) 'The fine dispersion of functionalized carbon nanotubes in acrylic latex coatings'. Progress in Organic Coatings, 57 (2), pp. 91-97.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7518/
Conference papers
- . (2005) 'Ultrafast exciton dynamics in isolated single-walled nanotubes'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA SYNTHETIC METALS, Bangalore, INDIA: 6th International Topical Conference on Optical Probes of Conjugated Polymers and Biosystems 155 (2), pp. 254-257.
