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JOURNAL COVERS

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123. Pitfalls of nanoparticle structure examination by transmission electron microscopy and recommendation of best practices

Francis M. Alcorn* and Prashant K. Jain*

2024, submitted.

 

122. Uncovering the thermodynamics of photoelectrochemical separations: viability for low-solar-efficiency materials

Devashish Gokhale, Prashant K. Jain, and Xiao Su*

2024, submitted.

 

121. Plasmon-assisted electrochemical epoxidation using water as an oxidant
Lucas Dias Germano, Chloe A. Litts, Francis M. Alcorn, Susana Inés Córdoba de Torresi*, and Prashant K. Jain*

2024, submitted.

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

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120. Switching of electrochemical selectivity due to plasmonic field-induced dissociation link
Francis M. Alcorn, Sajal Kumar Giri, Maya Chattoraj#, Rachel Nixon, George C. Schatz,
* and Prashant K. Jain*

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121 (41), e2404433121.

Direct Submission by PI Jain
UIUC News Bureau press release: Visible light energy yields two-for-one deal when added to
CO2 recycling process link

Featured in Dutch magazine New Scientist: Licht versnelt de omzetting van CO2 in nieuwe producten link

Featured in Science Daily link, Eureka Alert link​, and other science news media

119. Impact of surface-enhanced Raman scattering in catalysis link
Andrei Stefancu, Javier Aizpurua, Ivano Alessandri, Iko Bald, Jeremy Baumberg, Lucas Besteiro, Phillip Christopher, Miguel Correa-Duarte, Bart de Nijs, Angela Demetriadou, Renee Frontiera, Tomohiro Fukushima, Naomi Halas, Prashant K. Jain, Zee Hwan Kim, Dmitry Kurouski, Holger Lange, Jian-Feng Li, Luis Liz-Marzan, Ivan T. Lucas, Alfred Meixner, Kei Murakoshi, Peter Nordlander, William Peveler, Raul Quesada-Cabrera, Emilie Ringe, George Schatz, Sebastian Schlucker, Zachary Schultz, Emily Tan, Zhong-Qun Tian, Lingzhi Wang, Bert Weckhuysen, Wei Xie, Xing Ling Yi, Jinlong Zhang, Zhao Zhigang Zhao, Ru-Yu Zhou, and Emiliano Cortes*
ACS Nano, 2024, 18 (43), 29337–29379.

Invited Perspective article

118. Caged AIEgens: Multi-color and white emission triggered by mechanical activation link

Yunyan Sun,* Kecheng Wang, Xiao Huang, Shixuan Wei, Enrique Contreras, Prashant K. Jain, Luis M. Campos, Heather J. Kulik,* and Jeffrey S. Moore*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146 (39), 27117–27126.

ACS Editors' Choice

Among most read article of the journal as per Oct 2024 list

117. Hydrogen evolution from a spurious source link
Chloe A. Litts and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9 (6), 2736–2738.

Invited Viewpoint article

116. Hot electrons in catalysis link

Reinhard J. Maurer* and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024, 128 (5), 18631866.

Editorial for Virtual Special Issue on Hot Electrons in Catalysis

Most read article of the journal in Mar 2024

115. Solving the LK-99 puzzle link

Prashant K. Jain*

Matter, 2023, 6 (12), P41184120.
Invited "Matter of Opinion" article

Featured in Editorial (Matter, 2023, 6 (12), P41074110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.11.011)

114. Superionic phase transition of copper(I) sulfide and its implication for purported superconductivity of LK-99 link

Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127 (37), 18253–18255.

Invited viewpoint article

Topmost read article of the journal in Sep and Oct 2023 and among top 20 of the year

Preprint on arXiv: arXiv:2308.05222v3 link

Featured in Nature news article: LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery link

Featured in Ars Technica magazine: The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t link

Featured in Scinexx das wissensmagazin: Raumtemperatur-Supraleiter ist keiner link

Featured on Techspot: Worldwide scientific collaboration finds LK-99 is not a room-temperature superconductor link

Featured in Portuguese national newspaper Publico: Como a Internet ajudou a resolver o mistério do LK-99, o falso supercondutor link

Featured in the Istanbul Chronicle: Understanding superconductivity: Between revolution and scam LK-99 link

Featured by Chemistry at UIUC: Prashant Jain helps unravel LK-99 superconductor mystery link

Featured on tech blogs, magazines, and news sites in US, Korea, China, Germany, France, Slovakia, Brazil, Turkey, Portugal, & others.

113. The physics of plasmon-driven energy conversion link

Prashant K. Jain*, Zee Hwan Kim*, and W. David Wei*

The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, 159, 070401.

Guest editorial for special collection on plasmon-driven energy conversion link

112. Watching plasmon-induced nanoparticle Ostwald ripening link

Francis M. Alcorn, Maya Chattoraj#, Renske M. van der Veen, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127 (33), 16538–16544

Invited article for virtual special issue on hot electrons in catalysis


111. Nanomaterials and sustainability link

Gary P. Wiederrecht*, Renaud Bachelot*, Hui Xiong, Konstantinos Termentzidis, Alexandre Nominé, Jier Huang, Prashant V. Kamat, Elena A. Rozhkova, Anirudha Sumant, Michele Ostraat, Prashant K. Jain, Chris Heckle, Jie Li, and Krzysztof Z. Pupek

ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8 (8), 3443–3449.

Invited Energy Focus article.

110. Electrochemistry with plasmons link

Rachel Nixon (co-first), ​Enrique Contreras (co-first), and Prashant K. Jain*

Trends in Chemistry, 2023, 5 (8), 605–619.

Invited review for Special 4th Anniversary Issue

109. In situ electron microscopy of transformations of Cu nanoparticles under plasmonic excitation link 

Francis M. Alcorn, Renske M. van der Veen*, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2023, 23 (14), 6520–6527.

Among most read articles of the journal in the month of Aug 2023.

​108. Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics link

Francis M. Alcorn, Prashant K. Jain*, and Renske M. van der Veen*
Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023, 7, 256–272.

107. Primary role of photothermal heating in light-driven reduction of nitroarenes link

Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Nanotechnology, 2023, 18 (6), 326–327.

106. Hot carrier lifetimes and electrochemical water dissociation enhanced by nickel doping of a plasmonic electrocatalyst link

Rendian Wan, Shilong Liu, Yu Wang, Ye Yang, Yong Tian, Prashant K. Jain*, and Xiongwu Kang*

Nano Letters, 2022, 22 (19), 7819–7825.

 

105. Superionic conduction in one-dimensional nanostructures link

Ki-Hyun Cho and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Nano, 2022, 16 (8), 12445–12451.

104. Plasmon-assisted ammonia electrosynthesis link

Enrique Contreras (co-first), Rachel Nixon (co-first), Chloe Litts, Wenxin Zhang, Francis M. Alcorn, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144 (24), 10743–10751.

Author contributions

Featured in Nature Energy article: Illuminating electrocatalysis, Nature Energy, 2022, 7, 568 link

103. Plasmon resonances and structures of chalcogenide alloy nanocrystals link

Ki-Hyun Cho, Francis Alcorn, Jaeyoung Heo, and Prashant K Jain*

Chemistry of Materials, 2022, 34 (11), 4992–4999 

102. Stochastic noise in single-nanoparticle catalysis link

Dinumol Devasia and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, 125 (32), 17734–17741.

 

​101. Photoinduced electron and energy transfer pathways and photocatalytic mechanisms in hybrid plasmonic photocatalysis link

Sundaram Bhardwaj Ramakrishnan, Farshid Mohammadparast, Andishaeh P. Dadgar, Tong Mou, Tien Le, Bin Wang, Prashant K. Jain, and Marimuthu Andiappan*

Advanced Optical Materials, 2021, 9 (22), 2101128.

Featured in Hot Topics: Surfaces and Interfaces

100. Room-temperature catalyst-free methane chlorination link

Varun Mohan, Biswanath Dutta, Roma Ripani#, and Prashant K. Jain*

Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2 (9), 100545.

US patent awarded

99. A rich catalog of C–C bonded species formed in CO2 reduction on a plasmonic photocatalyst link

Dinumol Devasia, Andrew Wilson, Jaeyoung Heo, Varun Mohan, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 2612.

UIUC News Bureau press release: Light-harvesting nanoparticle catalysts show promise in quest for renewable carbon-based fuels link

Editors' highlight on Catalysis link

​​Featured on Eureka Alert and other sciences news media

98. Synergistic photochemistry of alcohols catalyzed by plasmonic nanoparticles and a metal complex link

​​Varun Mohan, Eric Wu#, Jaeyoung Heo, Ankita Das, and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Energy Letters, 2021, 6 (5), 19801989.

97. Motion of defects in ion-conducting nanowires link

Jaeyoung Heo, Ki-Hyun Cho, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2021, 21 (1), 556–561.

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96. Control of chemical reaction pathways by light–matter coupling link

​​Dinumol Devasia, Ankita Das, Varun Mohan, and Prashant K. Jain*
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2021, 72, 423–443.

Invited review article

95. Roadmap on quantum nanotechnologies link

Arne Laucht*, Frank Hohls, Niels Ubbelohde, M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba, David J. Reilly, Søren Stobbe, Tim Schröder, Pasquale Scarlino, Jonne V. Koski, Andrew Dzurak, Henry Yang, Jun Yoneda, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Hendrik Bluhm, Jarryd Pla, Charles Hill, Joe Salfi, Akira Oiwa, Juha Muhonen, Ewold Verhagen, Matt LaHaye, Hyun Ho Kim, Adam W. Tsen, Dimitrie Culcer, Attila Geresdi, Jan A. Mol, Varun Mohan, Prashant K. Jain, and Jonathan Baugh

Nanotechnology, 2021, 32 (16), 162003.

Invited contribution

Posted on arXiv, 2021, arXiv:2101.07882 [cond-mat.mes-hall] link

Top ten most read articles of journal as per Mar 2021 list

Most read article of journal as per Apr 2021 list

94. Ab-initio investigation of cooperativity in ion exchange link

Daniel Dumett Torres and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124 (46), 25615–25620.

93. Isotope effects in plasmonic photosynthesis link

Sungju Yu and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59 (50), 22480–22483.

Featured under Hot Topic: Carbon Dioxide

92. Light-induced voltages in catalysis by plasmonic nanostructures link

Andrew J. Wilson and Prashant K. Jain*

Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020, 53 (9), 1773–1781.

Invited account for Special Issue on Transformative Inorganic Nanocrystals

Most read account of the journal as per Sep 2020 list

91. Ammonia oxidation enhanced by photopotential generated by plasmonic excitation of a bimetallic electrocatalyst link

Jun Wang, Jaeyoung Heo, Changqiang Chen, Andrew J. Wilson, and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59 (42), 18430–18434.

Hot Paper

Evaluated to be a Top 10% manuscript by reviewers

90. Nanoscale optical imaging in chemistry link

Andrew J. Wilson, Dinumol Devasia, and Prashant K. Jain*

Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, 49 (16), 6087–6112.

89. Phenomenological Arrhenius analyses in plasmon-enhanced catalysis: Comment on "Thermal effects – an alternative mechanism for plasmon-assisted photocatalysis" by Y. Dubi, I. W. Un and Y. Sivan, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 5017" link

Prashant K. Jain*

Chemical Science, 2020, 11 (33), 9022–9023.

Posted on arXiv as arXiv:1908.05373 [physics.chem-ph] link

88. Crystal symmetry, strain, and facet-dependent nature of topological surface states in mercury selenide link

Daniel Dumett Torres, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124 (19), 10344–10352.

​87. The chemical potential of plasmonic excitations link

Sungju Yu and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59 (5), 2085–2088.

86. Using plasmonically generated carriers as redox equivalents link

Sungju Yu, Varun Mohan, and Prashant K. Jain*

MRS Bulletin, 2020, 45 (1), 4348

Invited review for themed issue on Materials for Hot-Carrier Chemistry.

85. Mechanistic understanding of plasmon-enhanced electrochemistry link

Andrew J. Wilson, Varun Mohan, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (48), 2936029369.

84. Taking the heat off of plasmonic chemistry link

Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (40), 24347−24351

Invited Viewpoint

Most read article of journal as per Oct 2019 and Nov 2019 lists

Posted on arXiv as arXiv:1908.09415 [physics.chem-ph] link

83. Selective branching of  plasmonic photosynthesis into hydrocarbon production and hydrogen generation link

Sungju Yu and Prashant K. Jain*
ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4 (9), 2295−2300.

82. Room-temperature superionic-phase nanocrystals synthesized with a twinned lattice link

Jianxiao Gong and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 3285.

Editors’ highlight on recent research on Inorganic and Physical Chemistry link

81. Revealing the thermodynamic properties of elementary chemical reactions at the single-molecule level link
Xiaodong Liu, Yuwei Zhang, Tao Chen, Prashant K. Jain, and Weilin Xu*

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019, 123 (29), 6253–6259.

80. Synergy between plasmonic and electrocatalytic activation of methanol oxidation on palladium-silver alloy nanotubes link

Lin Huang, Jiasui Zou, Jin-Yu Ye, Zhi-You Zhou, Zhang Lin, Xiongwu Kang*, Prashant K. Jain*, and Shaowei Chen

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58 (26), 8794–8798.

79. One-dimensional cuprous selenide nanostructures with switchable plasmonic and super-ionic phase attributes link

Kihyun Cho, Jaeyoung Heo, Yun-Mo Sung, and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58 (25), 84108415.

78. Plasmonic photosynthesis of C1–C3 hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide assisted by an ionic liquid link

Sungju Yu and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 2022.

Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles published in 2019 link

UIUC News Bureau story: Artificial photosynthesis transforms carbon dioxide into liquefiable fuels link

Editors' highlight on recent research on Energy Materials link

Featured on EurekaAlert, Nanotechnology Now, Times of India, Express UK, Phys.Org, ScienceDaily, and other science news media.

77. In-situ electron microscopy mapping of an order-disorder transition in a superionic conductor link

Jaeyoung Heo, Daniel Dumett Torres, Progna Banerjee, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 1505.

76. Unconventional long-range cation ordering in copper selenide nanocrystals link

Jaeyoung Heo, Daniel Dumett Torres, and Prashant K. Jain*

Chemistry of Materials, 2019, 31 (1), 68–72.

Structure deposited in Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center. link

75. Watching visible light-driven CO2 reduction on a plasmonic nanoparticle catalyst link

Gayatri Kumari, Xueqiang Zhang, Dinumol Devasia, Jaeyoung Heo, and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (8), 8330–8340.

Most read article of journal as per Sep 2018 list.

74. Mechanism of sulfidation of small ZnO nanoparticles link

Progna Banerjee and Prashant K. Jain*

RSC Advances, 2018, 8 (60), 34476–34482.

73. In situ formation of catalytically active graphene in ethylene photo-epoxidation link

​Xueqiang Zhang, Gayatri Kumari, Jaeyoung Heo, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 3056.

Editors’ highlight on recent research on Inorganic and Physical Chemistry link

72. Plasmon-enhanced multi-carrier photocatalysis link

Firdoz Shaik, Imanuel Peer, Prashant K. Jain, and Lilac Amirav*

Nano Letters, 2018, 18 (7), 4370–4376.

Most read article of journal as per Jul and Aug 2018 lists.

71. Physical models for energy-converting nanofluids link

Prashant K. Jain*

Physics Today, 2018, 71 (8), 10–11.

 

70. Lithiation of copper selenide nanocrystals link

Progna Banerjee and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57 (30), 9315–9319.
Featured under Hot Topic: Batteries and Supercapacitors.

69. Harvesting multiple electron–hole pairs generated through plasmonic excitation of Au nanoparticles link

Youngsoo Kim, Jeremy G. Smith, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Chemistry, 2018, 10 (7), 763–769.

UIUC News Bureau story: Team achieves two-electron chemical reactions using light energy, gold link

Highlighted on NSF Science360 Now: 2 electrons are better than 1 link

Featured in PhysOrg, Science Daily, Eureka Alert and several other science media outlets.

68. Structural dynamics of the oxygen evolving complex of Photosystem II in water-splitting action link

Andrew J. Wilson and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140 (17), 5853–5859.

Author contributions

67. STM imaging of localized surface plasmons on individual gold nanoislands link

Huy A. Nguyen (co-first), Progna Banerjee (co-first), Duc Nguyen, Joseph W. Lyding, Martin Gruebele*, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2018, 9 (8), 1970–1976.

66. Strain stabilization of superionicity in copper and lithium selenides link

Daniel Dumett Torres and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2018, 9 (6), 1200–1205. 

65. Plasmonic control of multi-electron transfer and C-C coupling in visible-light-driven CO2 reduction on

Au nanoparticles link

Sungju Yu, Andrew J. Wilson, Jaeyoung Heo, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2018, 18 (4), 2189–2194. 

Selected for front cover link

Most read article of journal as per Mar and May 2018

Featured in Chemistry World article 'Forcing reactions with plasmons' link

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited (top 1%)

64. Opportunities and challenges of solar-energy-driven carbon dioxide to fuel conversion with plasmonic catalysts link

Sungju Yu, Andrew J. Wilson, Gayatri Kumari, Xueqiang Zhang, and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Energy Letters, 2017, 2 (9), 2058–2070.

Invited Review

Most read article of journal as per Sep 2017

Featured in Virtual Issue on Plasmons for Energy Conversion, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 1467–1469. link

63. Spectral heterogeneity of hybrid lead halide perovskites demystified by spatially-resolved emission link

Varun Mohan and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017, 121 (35), 19392–19400.

62. A non-natural wurtzite polymorph of HgSe: A potential 3D topological insulator link

Daniel Dumett Torres, Progna Banerjee, Sudhakar Pamidighantam, and Prashant K. Jain*

Chemistry of Materials, 2017, 29 (15), 6356–6366.

61. The nature of plasmonically assisted hot electron transfer in a donor-bridge-acceptor complex link

Youngsoo Kim, Andrew J. Wilson, and Prashant K. Jain*

ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7 (7), 4360–4365.

60. Galvanic reactions at the single-nanoparticle level: Tuning between mechanistic extremes link

Jeremy G. Smith, Xueqiang Zhang, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5 (23), 11940–11948.

Article Invited for 2017 Emerging Investigators issue

59. Liquid-like cationic sub-lattice in copper selenide clusters link

Sarah L. White (co-first), Progna Banerjee (co-first), and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2017, 8, 14514.

UIUC News Bureau press release: Liquid-like cationic sub-lattice in copper selenide clusters link

Smithsonian Magazine story: Charging ahead: the future of batteries link

R&D Magazine story: Nanoclusters help improve lithium ion batteries link

AzoNano story: Nanoclusters and the future of lithium batteries link

Highlighted on CEMag: Layered graphene, imaging nematodes, preventing battery explosions link

Featured on several science news portals: Phys.Org, EurekAlert, and others.

58. Ion exchange transformation of magic-sized clusters link

Sarah L. White, Progna Banerjee, Indranath Chakraborty, and Prashant K. Jain*

Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28 (22), 8391–8398.

57. Ultrashort, angstrom-scale decay of surface enhanced Raman scattering at hot spots link

Gayatri K. Joshi (co-first), Sarah L. White (co-first), Merrell A. Johnson, Rajesh Sardar*, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120 (43), 24973–24981.

56. Kinetics of self-assembled monolayer formation on individual nanoparticles link

Jeremy G. Smith and Prashant K. Jain*

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016, 18 (34), 23990–23997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

55. In-situ single nanoparticle spectroscopy study of bimetallic nanostructure formation link

Jeremy G. Smith (co-first), Indranath Chakraborty (co-first), and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55 (34), 9979–9983.

Evaluated to be a Top 10% manuscript by reviewers

54. Polarization-dependent surface enhanced Raman scattering activity of anisotropic plasmonic nanorattles link

Keng-Ku Liu, Sirimuvva Tadepalli, Gayatri Kumari, Progna Banerjee, Limei Tian, Prashant K. Jain*, and Srikanth Singamaneni*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120 (30), 16899–16906.

53. The ligand shell as an energy barrier in surface reactions on transition metal nanoparticles link

Jeremy G. Smith and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138 (21), 6765–6773.

Author contributions

52. Synthesis of monodisperse palladium nanoclusters using metal-organic frameworks as sacrificial templates link

Xinle Li, Chaoxian Xiao, Tian Wei Goh, Alexandria L. D. Stanton, Yuchen Pei, Prashant K. Jain, and Wenyu Huang*

ChemNanoMat, 2016, 2 (8), 810–815.

Designated VIP Article

Highlighted by ChemistryViews Magazine: Palladium Clusters from Etching link

51. Activation energies of plasmonic catalysts link  erratum

Youngsoo Kim, Daniel Dumett Torres, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2016, 16 (5), 3399–3407.

50. One-to-one correlation between structure and optical response in a heterogeneous distribution of plasmonic constructs link

Aiqin Fang (co-first), Sarah L. White (co-first), Rafael A. Masitas, Frank P. Zamborini*, and Prashant K. Jain,*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015, 119 (42), 24086–24094.

49. Plasmon resonances for solar energy harvesting: A mechanistic outlook link

Jeremy G. Smith, Jacob A. Faucheaux, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Today, 2015, 10 (1), 67–80.

Editor's Choice Article, 2015

Editor's Choice Article and Editor's Highlights, 2016

48. Luminescence blinking of a reacting quantum dot link

Aaron L. Routzahn and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2015, 15 (4), 2504–2509.

47. Regioselective plasmon coupling in metamolecular analogs of benzene derviatives link

Aiqin Fang (co-first), Sarah L. White (co-first), Prashant K. Jain*, and Frank P. Zamborini*

Nano Letters, 2015, 15 (1), 542–548.

46. Catalytic activation of a solid oxide in electronic contact with Au nanoparticles link

Mayank Behl and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54 (3), 992–997.

45. Plasmon-in-a-box: On the physical nature of few-carrier plasmon resonances link

Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5 (18), 3112–3119.

44. Plasmon resonances of semiconductor nanocrystals: Physical principles and new opportunities link

Jacob A. Faucheaux, Alexandria L. D. Stanton, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2014, 5 (6), 976–985.

Invited Perspective

Featured on the cover of the journal

Featured as ACS Editors' Choice Article

Top 5 most read articles of journal as per Apr 2014 list

Featured in JPC Letters Editorial

YouTube video featured by ACS

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Paper (top 1%)

43. Identification of a critical intermediate in galvanic exchange reactions by single-nanoparticle resolved kinetics link

Jeremy G. Smith, Qing Yang#, and Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53 (11), 2867–2872.

42. Unified theoretical framework for realizing diverse regimes of strong coupling between plasmons and electronic transitions link

Jacob A. Faucheaux, Jiayi Fu#, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014, 118 (5), 2710–2717.

41. Single nanocrystal reaction trajectories reveal sharp co-operative switching link

Aaron L. Routzahn and Prashant K. Jain*

Nano Letters, 2014, 14 (2), 987-992.

40. Gold nanoparticles for physics, chemistry, and biology: Book review link

Prashant K. Jain*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014, 53 (5), 1197.

39. Co-operativity in a nanocrystalline solid-state transformation link

Sarah L. White, Jeremy G. Smith, Mayank Behl, and Prashant K. Jain*

Nature Communications, 2013, 4, 2933.

UIUC News Bureau story: Atoms in a nanocrystal cooperate, much like in biomolecules link

Featured in PhysOrg, Laser FocusWorld, and several other science media outlets.

38. Doped semiconductor nanocrystals as plasmonic probes of redox chemistry link

Prashant K. Jain*, Karthish Manthiram, Jesse Engel, Sarah. L White, Jacob A. Faucheaux, and A. Paul Alivisatos*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, 52 (51), 13671–13675.

37. Plasmons in photocharged ZnO nanocrystals revealing dynamics of charge carriers link

Jacob Faucheaux and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013, 4 (18), 3024–3030.

36. Size-dependence of the plasmonic near-field measured via single-nanoparticle photoimaging link

Claire Deeb, Xuan Zhou, Jerome Plain, Gary Wiederrecht, Renaud Bachelot*, Milo J. Russell, and Prashant K. Jain*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117 (20), 10669–10676.

35. Cation exchange on the nanoscale: An emerging technique for new material synthesis, device fabrication, and chemical sensing link

Jessy B. Rivest and Prashant K. Jain*

Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42 (1), 89–96.

Top 15 most read article as per Sep 2012 list

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Paper (top 1%)

34. A regenerable oxide-based H2S adsorbent with nanofibrous morphology link

Mayank Behl, Junghoon Yeom, Quentin Lineberry, Prashant K. Jain*, and Mark A. Shannon

Nature Nanotechnology, 2012, 7 (12), 810–815.

UIUC News Bureau story: Nanofibers clean sulfur from fuel link

Featured by NSF, nano.gov, in Science Daily, PhysOrg, Eureka Alert, The Engineer, R&D Magazine, New Energy and Fuel, and other news link

Two US patents awarded

IChemE Energy Award shortlist

 

33. Plasmonics with doped quantum dots link

Aaron L. Routzahn (co-first), Sarah L. White (co-first), Lam-Kiu Fong, and Prashant K. Jain*

Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2012, 52 (11-12), 983–991.
Invited review in special issue on Nanochemistry honoring Wolf awardee A. Paul Alivisatos and Charles M. Lieber
#1 Most accessed paper of journal as per Feb 2013 list

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