University of Surrey

Department of Physics

Barred Spiral Galaxy

Dr Alan Dalton

Senior Lecturer

Alan Dalton
Alan Dalton

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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

  • Worajittiphon P, Jurewicz I, King AAK, Keddie JL, Dalton AB. (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.
    doi: 10.1002/adma.201003145
  • Snyder J, Asanithi P, Dalton AB, Erlebacher J. (2008) 'Stabilized Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying Ternary Alloy Precursors'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (24), pp. 4883-+.
    doi: 10.1002/adma.200702760
  • Dalton A, Jurewicz I. (2007) 'Processing - Nanotechnology meets bubbleology'. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP NAT NANOTECHNOL, 2 (6), pp. 339-340.
  • 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), pp. 14724-14732.
  • Wang T, Lei C-H, Dalton AB, Creton C, Lin Y, Fernando KAS, Sun Y-P, 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), pp. 2730-2734.

Journal articles

  • Jurewicz I, Worajittiphon P, King AA, Sellin PJ, Keddie JL, Dalton AB. (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
  • Abdullah CA, Asanithi P, Brunner EW, Jurewicz I, Bo C, Azad CL, Ovalle-Robles R, Fang S, Lima MD, Lepro X, Collins S, Baughman RH, Sear RP, Dalton AB. (2011) 'Aligned, isotropic and patterned carbon nanotube substrates that control the growth and alignment of Chinese hamster ovary cells.'. Nanotechnology, England: 22 (20)
    doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/20/205102
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7606/
  • Worajittiphon P, Jurewicz I, King AAK, Keddie JL, Dalton AB. (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.
    doi: 10.1002/adma.201003145
  • Jurewicz I, King AAK, Worajittiphon P, Asanithi P, Brunner EW, Sear RP, Hosea TJC, Keddie JL, Dalton AB. (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.
    doi: 10.1002/marc.200900799
  • 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'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ACS APPL MATER INTER, 1 (6), pp. 1203-1210.
    doi: 10.1021/am9000858
  • Asanithi P, Saridakis E, Govada L, Jurewicz I, Brunner EW, Ponnusamy R, Cleaver JA, Dalton AB, Chayen NE, Sear RP. (2009) 'Carbon-nanotube-based materials for protein crystallization.'. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 1 (6), pp. 1203-1210.
  • 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'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV FUNCT MATER, 19 (14), pp. 2266-2272.
    doi: 10.1002/adfm.200900253
  • Wang T, Dalton AB, Keddie JL. (2008) 'Importance of Molecular Friction in a Soft Polymer-Nanotube Nanocomposite'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC MACROMOLECULES, 41 (20), pp. 7656-7661.
    doi: 10.1021/ma800868z
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7102/
  • 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'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC BIOMACROMOLECULES, 9 (2), pp. 598-602.
    doi: 10.1021/bm701181j
  • 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'. JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD J PEPT SCI, 14 (2), pp. 139-151.
    doi: 10.1002/psc.978
  • Snyder J, Asanithi P, Dalton AB, Erlebacher J. (2008) 'Stabilized Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying Ternary Alloy Precursors'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (24), pp. 4883-+.
    doi: 10.1002/adma.200702760
  • 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'. WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH ADV MATER, 20 (1), pp. 90-+.
    doi: 10.1002/adma.200700821
  • Keddie JL, Wang T, Jurewicz I, Dalton AB, Creton C, Manea M, Asua JM. (2007) 'Multifunctional nanocomposites of soft polymer colloids and carbon nanotubes'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 234
  • Boroumand FA, Zhu M, Dalton AB, Keddie JL, Sellin PJ, Gutierrez JJ. (2007) 'Direct x-ray detection with conjugated polymer devices'. AMER INST PHYSICS APPL PHYS LETT, 91 (3) Article number 033509
    doi: 10.1063/1.2748337
    Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/297/
  • Dalton A, Jurewicz I. (2007) 'Processing - Nanotechnology meets bubbleology'. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP NAT NANOTECHNOL, 2 (6), pp. 339-340.
  • Wang T, Lei CH, Dalton AB, Manea M, Asua JM, Keddie JL. (2007) 'Waterborne nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives: Achieving enhanced adhesion combined with electrical conductivity'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 233
  • Wang T, Lei CH, Dalton AB, Manea M, Asua JM, Keddie JL. (2007) 'COLL 306-Waterborne nanocomposite pressure-sensitive adhesives: Achieving enhanced adhesion combined with electrical conductivity'. AMER CHEMICAL SOC ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S, 233
  • Razal JM, Coleman JN, Muñoz 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), pp. 2918-2924.
  • Chin S-F, 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), pp. 1236-1244.
  • 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), pp. 14724-14732.
  • Lafuente E, Piñol M, Oriol L, Muñoz E, Benito AM, Maser WK, Dalton AB, Serrano JL, Martínez MT. (2006) 'Polyazomethine/carbon nanotube composites'. Materials Science and Engineering C, 26 (5-7), pp. 1198-1201.
  • Wang T, Lei C-H, Dalton AB, Creton C, Lin Y, Fernando KAS, Sun Y-P, 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), pp. 2730-2734.
  • Vandervorst P, Lei C-H, Lin Y, Dupont O, Dalton AB, Sun Y-P, Keddie JL. (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

  • Sheng CX, Vardeny ZV, Dalton AB, Baughman RH. (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.
    doi: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2005.09.036
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