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Publications.

 

Engineered Growth of Organic Crystalline Films Using Liquid Crystal Solvents, F. Scott Wilkinson, R. F. Norwood, Joseph M. McLellan, L. Rhys Lawson, David L. Patrick, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006 128, 16468.  pdf  supporting information (pdf).

 

 

Simulation in Force Spectroscopy, D. L. Patrick, in "Handbook of Force Spectroscopy", A. Noy (Ed.), Springer, (in press).

 

 

Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystal Solvents, D. L. Patrick, T. Fegurgur, F. S. Wilkinson, Proc. SPIE, 5936, 5936A (2005).  preprint (PDF)

 

 

Controlled symmetry breaking to grow chiral films from achiral molecules, A. Berg, D. L. Patrick, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 43, 1744 (2005).  preprint (PDF)

 

 

Controlling the Orientation of Micron-Sized Rod-Shaped SiC Particles with Nematic Liquid Crystal Solvents, M. D. Lynch, Chem. Mat. 16, 762 (2004).  PDF

 

 

Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Chemical Force Microscopy, D. L. Patrick, J. Flanagan IV, P. Kohl, R. M. Lynden-Bell, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 6792 (2003).  PDF

 

 

Controlling Molecular Alignment in an Organic Monolayer with a Sacrificial Liquid Crystal Template, S. Hickman, A. Hamilton, D. L. Patrick, Surface Science, 537, 113 (2003).   PDF

 

 

Organizing Carbon Nanotubes with Liquid Crystal Solvents, M. Lynch, D. L. Patrick, Nanolett., 2, 1197 (2002). Science Magazine news story PDF

 

 

Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Interfacial Fluids of Achiral Molecules, P. Kohl, D. L. Patrick, J. Phys. Chem. B. 105, 8203 (2001). PDF

 

 

Formation of Uniaxial Molecular Films by Liquid Crystal Imprinting in a Magnetic Field, J. D. Mougous, A. J. Brackley, K. Foland, R. T. Baker, D. L. Patrick Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2742 (2000).  Phys. Rev. Focus news story  PDF

 

 

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Atomic Force Microscopy: Imaging Single-Atom Vacancies on Ag(001) and Pt(001), M. Katagiri, D. L. Patrick, R. M. Lynden-Bell, Surface Science 431, 260 (1999).  PDF

 

 

Competitive Adsorption, Phase Segregation, and Molecular Motion at a Solid-Liquid Interface Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, R. T. Baker, J. D. Mougous, A. Brackley, and D. L. Patrick, Langmuir 15, 4884 (1999).  Journal cover  PDF

 

 

Atomistic Simulations of Fluid Structure and Solvation Forces in Atomic Force Microscopy D. L. Patrick and R. M. Lynden-Bell, Surface Science 380, 224 (1997).  PDF

 

 

“Nanometer-Scale Aspects of Molecular Ordering in Nanocrystalline Domains at a Solid Interface: The Role of Liquid Crystal - Surface Interactions Studied by STM and Molecule Corrals”, D.L. Patrick, V.J. Cee, M.D. Morse and T.P. Beebe, Jr., Journal of Physical Chemistry, 103, 8328 (1999).  PDF

 

 

“Transition from Epitaxial to Non-Epitaxial Ordered Monolayers in Pyrolyzed 8CB Studied by STM”, F. Stevens, D. L. Patrick, V. J. Cee, T. J. Purnell, T. Cook, T. P. Beebe, Jr., Langmuir, 14, 2396 (1998).  PDF

 

 

“On the Mechanism of Molecular Ordering in Monolayer Liquid Crystal Films”, D. L. Patrick, V. J. Cee, T. P. Beebe, Jr., J. Phys. Chem. 100, 8478 (1996).  PDF

 

 

“Defect Pinning in Monolayer Films by Highly Controlled Graphite Defects: Molecule Corrals”, D. L. Patrick, V. J. Cee, T. Purcell, and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Langmuir 12, 1830 (1996).  PDF

 

 

'Molecule Corrals' for Studies of Monolayer Films, D. L. Patrick, V. J. Cee and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Science 265, 231 (1994).

 

 

“Substrate Defects and Variations in Interfacial Ordering of Monolayer Molecular Films on Graphite”, D. L. Patrick and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Langmuir 10, 298 (1994).  PDF

 

 

“An Ultrahigh Vacuum Surface Science Chamber with Integral Scanning Tunneling Microscope”, A. J. Leavitt, T. Han, J. M. Williams, R. S. Bryner, D. L. Patrick, C. E. Rabke-Clemmer, and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 65(1), 75 (1994). 

 

 

“Superperiodic Features Observed on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”, V. J. Cee, D. L. Patrick, and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Surf. Sci. 329,141 (1994).  PDF

 

 

“Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy: Tools for Imaging the Chemical State”, D. L. Patrick and T. P. Beebe, Jr., pp. 159-227, in Microscopic and Spectroscopic Imaging of the Chemical State, book chapter, M. D. Morris, ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc. (1993).

 

 

“On the Origin of Large-Scale Periodicities Observed During Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite”, D. L. Patrick and T. P. Beebe, Jr., Surf. Sci. Lett. 297, L119 (1993). 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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