Limin Huang

Synthesis and processing of nanostructured materials (inorganic materials and polymers) which have unique nano/microstructures and exceptional size-dependent catalytic, electric, magnetic and optical properties, and their applications in catalysis, energy storage and conversion, green nanotechnology, biomedical diagnosis and flexible nanoelectronics.

Selected publications

1. Limin Huang, Zhang Jia, Ioannis Kymissis, Stephen O’Brien, High K Capacitors and OFET Gate Dielectrics from Self Assembled BaTiO3 and (Ba,Sr)TiO3 Nanocrystals in the Superparaelectric Limit, Advanced Functional Materials 2010, Volume 20, Issue 4,  Pages: 554-560.

2. Li Zhang, Limin Huang, Stephen P. O'Brien, and Zhonghua Yu, Electrostatic Doping-induced Phonon Shift of Metallic Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 20118.

3. Limin Huang, Zhang Jia, Stephen O’Brien, Orientated Assembly of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube and Applications, J. Mater. Chem. 2007, 17, 3863 (Invited feature article and cover).

4. Limin Huang, Brian White, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Mingyuan Huang, Henry X.M. Huang, Shalom Wind, James Hone, Stephen P. O’Brien, Co ultrathin film catalyzed chemical vapor deposition of single-walled carbon nanotubes using ethanol as carbon feedstock, J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110 (23), 11103.

5. Matthew Y. Sfeir, Tobias Beetz, Feng Wang, Limin Huang, X.M. Henry Huang, J. Hone, Stephen P. O’Brien, J.A. Misewich, Tony F. Heinz, Yimei Zhu, Louis E. Brus, Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes of Defined Chiral Structure, Science 2006, 312, 554.

6. Xuefeng Guo, Joshua P. Small, Jennifer E. Klare, Yiliang Wang, Meninder S. Purewal, Iris Tam, Byung Hee Hong, Robert Caldwell, Limin Huang, Stephen O’Brien, Jiaming Yan, Ronald Breslow, Shalom J. Wind, James Hone, Philip Kim, and Colin Nuckolls, Recognition and Switching of Molecules Wired between Carbon Nanotube Electrodes, Science 2006, 311, 356.

7. Limin Huang, Zhuoying Chen, James Wilson, Richard D. Robinson, Sarbajit Banerjee, Irving P. Herman, Robert Laibowitz and Stephen P O’Brien, Synthesis and ferroelectricity of BaTiO3 nanocrystals and thin films, J. Appl. Phys. 2006, 100, 034316.

8. Xuefeng Guo, Limin Huang, Stephen O’Brien, Philip Kim, and Colin Nuckolls, Directing and Sensing Changes in Molecular Conformation on Individual Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 15045.

9. Matthew Y. Sfeir, Feng Wang, Limin Huang, Chia-Chin Chuang, J. Hone, Stephen P. O’Brien, Tony F. Heinz, Louis E. Brus Probing Electronic Transitions in Individual Carbon Nanotubes by Rayleigh Scattering, Science 2004, 306, 1540.

10. Limin Huang, Xiaodong Cui, Brian White, Stephen P. O’Brien, Long and Oriented Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Grown by Ethanol CVD, J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 16451.

11. Limin Huang, Xiaodong Cui, Gordana Dukovic, Stephen P. O’Brien, Self-organizing high-density SWNT arrays from surfactant suspensions, Nanotechnology 2004, 15, 1450.

12. Limin Huang, Shalom J. Wind, and Stephen P. O’Brien, Controlled Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from an Ordered Mesoporous Silica Template, Nano. Letters. 2003, 3,3, 299.

13. Limin Huang, Huanting Wang, Zhengbao Wang, Anupam Mitra, Krassimir N. Bozhilov, and Yushan Yan, Nanowire arrays electrodeposited from liquid crystalline phases, Adv. Mater. 2002,14,61-64.

14. Limin Huang, Zhengbao Wang, Jinyu Sun, Lei Miao, Quanzhi Li, Yushan Yan and Dongyuan Zhao, Fabrication of ordered porous structures by self-assembly of zeolite nanocrystals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000,122,3530-3531.