Complete list of refereed journal publications

1. Melechko, A. V., K. L. Klein, J. D. Fowlkes, D. K. Hensley, I. A. Merkulov, T. E. McKnight, P. D. Rack, J. A. Horton and M. L. Simpson. Control of carbon nanostructure: From nanofiber toward nanotube and back Journal of Applied Physics 102(7): 074314-7(2007).
2. S J Randolph, J D Fowlkes, A V Melechko, K L Klein, H M Meyer III, M L Simpson and P D Rack Controlling thin film structure for the dewetting of catalyst nanoparticle arrays for subsequent carbon nanofiber growth  Nanotechnology 18 No 46 (21 November 2007) 465304 (8pp) Abstract/a>  |  References Full text:  Acrobat PDF (987 KB)
3. Y F Guan, A V Melechko, A J Pedraza, M L Simpson and P D Rack Non-lithographic organization of nickel catalyst for carbon nanofiber synthesis on laser-induced periodic surface structures Nanotechnology 18 No 33 (22 August 2007) 335306 (7pp) Abstract  |  References Full text:  Acrobat PDF (1.30 MB)
4. D. G. J. Mann, T. E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, and G. S. Sayler, Quantitative analysis of EDC-condensed DNA on vertically aligned carbon nanofiber gene delivery arrays, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 97, 680-688 (2007).
5. Zhe Yu, Timothy E. McKnight, M. Nance Ericson, Anatoli V. Melechko, Michael L. Simpson, and Barclay Morrison III, Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays Record Electrophysiological Signals from Hippocampal Slices, Nano Lett.; 2007; ASAP Web Release Date: 30-Jun-2007; (Letter) 
6. I. A. Merkulov, V. I. Merkulov, A. V. Melechko, K. L. Klein, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson Model of carbon nanofiber internal structure formation and instability of catalytic growth interface,, Phys. Rev. B 76, 014109 (2007) 

7. Jun, S.-I., P.D. Rack, T.E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, and M.L. Simpson, Low-temperature solid-phase crystallization of amorphous silicon thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering with substrate bias.  Applied Physics Letters, 2006. 89(2): p. 022104-3. |

8. Dhindsa, M. S., N. R. Smith, J. Heikenfeld, P. D. Rack, J. D. Fowlkes, M. J. Doktycz, A. V. Melechko and M. L. Simpson. Reversible Electrowetting of Vertically Aligned Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanofibers. Langmuir 22(21): 9030-9034(2006).

9. Fowlkes, J.D., A.V. Melechko, K.L. Klein, P.D. Rack, D.A. Smith, D.K. Hensley, M.J. Doktycz, and M.L. Simpson, Control of catalyst particle crystallographic orientation in vertically aligned carbon nanofiber synthesis. Carbon, 2006. 44(8): p. 1503-1510.

10. Fowlkes, J.D., E.D. Hullander, B.L. Fletcher, S.T. Retterer, A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, M.L. Simpson, and M.J. Doktycz, Molecular transport in a crowded volume created from vertically aligned carbon nanofibres: a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching study. Nanotechnology, 2006. 17(22): p. 5659-5668.
11. McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, B.L. Fletcher, S.W. Jones, D.K. Hensley, D.B. Peckys, G.D. Griffin, M.L. Simpson, and M.N. Ericson, Resident Neuroelectrochemical Interfacing Using Carbon Nanofiber Arrays. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006. 110(31): p. 15317-15327.

12. McKnight, T.E., C. eeraphatdit, S.W. Jones, J.D. Fowlkes, B.L. Fletcher, K.L. Klein, A.V. Melechko, M.J. Doktycz, and M.L. Simpson, Site-specific biochemical functionalization along the height of vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays. Chemistry of Materials, 2006. 18(14): p. 3203-3211.

13. Klein, K.L., A.V. Melechko, J.D. Fowlkes, P.A. Rack, D.K. Hensley, H.M. Meyer, L.F. Allard, T.E. McKnight, and M.L. Simpson, Formation of ultrasharp vertically aligned Cu-Si nanocones by a DC plasma process.. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006. 110(10): p. 4766-4771.

14. Fletcher, B.L., T.E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, M.L. Simpson, and M.J. Doktycz, Biochemical functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanofibres. Nanotechnology, 2006. 17(8): p. 2032-2039.

15. Fletcher, B.L., T.E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, D.K. Thomas, M.N. Ericson, and M.L. Simpson, Transfer of flexible arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofiber electrodes to temperature-sensitive substrates. Advanced Materials, 2006. 18(13): p. 1689-+

16. Fowlkes, J. D., B L Fletcher, E D Hullander, K L Klein, D K Hensley, A V Melechko, M L Simpson and M J Doktycz, Tailored transport through vertically aligned carbon nanofibre membranes; controlled synthesis, modelling, and passive diffusion experiments, Nanotechnology v.16 p.3101-3109 (2005),

17. Seung-Ik Jun, Philip D. Rack, Timothy E. McKnight, Anatoli V. Melechko, Michael L. Simpson, Direct-current substrate bias effects on amorphous silicon sputter-deposited films for thin film transistor fabrication,  Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 132108 (2005)

18. Jun, S.-I., T.E. McKnight, A. V. Melechko, M. L. Simpson, P. D. Rack., Characterisation of reactively sputtered silicon oxide for thin-film transistor fabrication,  Electron. Letts. 41 (14), July 7, 2005, 59-60 

19. Merkulov, I. A., A. V. Melechko, J. C. Wells, H. Cui, V. I. Merkulov, M. L. Simpson, and D. H. Lowndes. Two growth modes of graphitic carbon nanofibers with herringbone structure,  , Phys. Rev. B, vol. 72, 2005, 045409.  

20. Jun, S.-I., P.D. Rack, T.E. McKnight, A.V. Melechko, and M.L. Simpson, Electrical and micro-structural characterization of molybdenum tungsten electrodes using a combinatorial thin film sputtering technique J. of Appl. Phys, 97(5), Mar. 1, 2005, 054906-01.  

21. Melechko, A. V., V. I. Merkulov, T. E. McKnight, M. A. Guillorn, K. L. Klein, D. H. Lowndes, and M. L. Simpson, Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers and related structures: Controlled synthesis and directed assembly, . Applied Physics Reviews (J. Appl. Phys.), 97(4): p. Feb. 15, 2005, 041301-39.

22. Klein, K. L., A. V. Melechko, P. D. Rack, J.D. Fowlkes, H. M. Meyer, and M. L. Simpson, Cu-Ni composition gradient for the catalytic synthesis of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers, . Carbon vol 43 (9), 2005, 1857-1863.

23. Baylor, L. R., W. L. Gardner, X. Yang, R. J. Kasica, M. A. Guillorn, B. Blalock, H. Cui, D. K. Hensley, S. Islam, D. H. Lowndes, A. V. Melechko, V. I. Merkulov, D. C. Joy, P. D. Rack, M. L. Simpson, and D. K. Thomas. Initial lithography results from the digital electrostatic e-beam array lithography concept.  J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 22(6), Nov/Dec 2004, 3021-3024.

24. McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, D.G.J. Mann, G.D. Griffin, and M.L. Simpson, Tracking gene expression after DNA delivery using spatially indexed nanofiber arrays,  Nano Letters, 2004. 4(7): p. 1213-1219.  

25. McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, D.W. Austin, T. Sims, M.A. Guillorn, and M.L. Simpson, Microarrays of vertically-aligned carbon nanofiber electrodes in an open fluidic channel,  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2004. 108(22): p. 7115-7125.  

26. Zhang, L., D. Austin, V.I. Merkulov, A.V. Meleshko, K.L. Klein, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Four-probe charge transport measurements on individual vertically aligned carbon nanofibers, Applied Physics Letters, 2004. 84(20): p. 3972-3974.

27. Coffman, E.A., A.V. Melechko, D.P. Allison, M.L. Simpson, and M.J. Doktycz, Surface patterning of silica nanostructures using bio-inpired templates and directed synthesis.   Langmuir, 2004. 2004(20): p. 8431-8436.

28. Fletcher, B.L., E.D. Hullander, A.V. Melechko, T.E. McKnight, K.L. Klein, D.K. Hensley, J.L. Morrell, M.L. Simpson, and M.J. Doktycz Microarrays of biomimetic cells formed by the controlled synthesis of carbon nanofiber membranes, , Nano Letters, 2004.

29. Guillorn, M.A., X. Yang, A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, M.D. Hale, V.I. Merkulov, M.L. Simpson, L.R. Baylor, W.L. Gardner, and D.H. Lowndes, Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber-based field emission electron sources with an integrated focusing electrode.   Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2004. 22(1): p. 35-39.  

30. Chisholm, M.F., Y.H. Wang, A.R. Lupini, G. Eres, A.A. Puretzky, B. Brinson, A.V. Melechko, D.B. Geohegan, H.T. Cui, M.P. Johnson, S.J. Pennycook, D.H. Lowndes, S. Arepalli, C. Kittrell, S. Sivaram, M. Kim, G. Lavin, J. Kono, R. Hauge, and R.E. Smalley, Comment on "Single crystals of single-walled carbon nanotubes formed by self-assembly"  . Science, 2003. 300(5623).  

31. McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, V.I. Merkulov, M.J. Doktycz, C.T. Culbertson, S.C. Jacobson, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Effects of microfabrication processing on the electrochemistry of carbon nanofiber electrodes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2003. 107(39): p. 10722-10728.

32. McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, G.D. Griffin, M.A. Guillorn, V.I. Merkulov, F. Serna, D.K. Hensley, M.J. Doktycz, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Intracellular integration of synthetic nanostructures with viable cells for controlled biochemical manipulation.   Nanotechnology, 2003. 14(5): p. 551-556.

33. Melechko, A.V., T.E. McKnight, D.K. Hensley, M.A. Guillorn, A.Y. Borisevich, V.I. Merkulov, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Large-scale synthesis of arrays of high-aspect-ratio rigid vertically aligned carbon nanofibres. Nanotechnology, 2003. 14(9): p. 1029-1035.

34. Melechko, A.V., T.E. McKnight, M.A. Guillorn, V.I. Merkulov, B. Ilic, M.J. Doktycz, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson,  Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as sacrificial templates for nanofluidic structures. Applied Physics Letters, 2003. 82(6): p. 976-978.

35. Yang, X.J., M.A. Guillorn, D. Austin, A.V. Melechko, H.T. Cui, H.M. Meyer, V.I. Merkulov, J.B.O. Caughman, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson,  Fabrication and characterization of carbon nanofiber-based vertically integrated Schottky barrier junction diodes.
    Nano Letters, 2003. 3(12): p. 1751-1755.

36. Baylor, L.R., D.H. Lowndes, M.L. Simpson, C.E. Thomas, M.A. Guillorn, V.I. Merkulov, J.H. Whealton, E.D. Ellis, D.K. Hensley, and A.V. Melechko, Digital electrostatic electron-beam array lithography, . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2002. 20(6): p. 2646-2650.

37. Baylor, L.R., V.I. Merkulov, E.D. Ellis, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, A.V. Melechko, M.L. Simpson, and J.H. Whealton, Field emission from isolated individual vertically aligned carbon nanocones.   Journal of Applied Physics, 2002. 91(7): p. 4602-4606.

38. Guillorn, M.A., A.V. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, D.K. Hensley, M.L. Simpson, and D.H. Lowndes, Self-aligned gated field emission devices using single carbon nanofiber cathodes.   Applied Physics Letters, 2002. 81(19): p. 3660-3662.

39. Guillorn, M.A., T.E. McKnight, A. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, P.F. Britt, D.W. Austin, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Individually addressable vertically aligned carbon nanofiber-based electrochemical probes.   Journal of Applied Physics, 2002. 91(6): p. 3824-3828.  

40. Melechko, A.V., T.E. McKnight, M.A. Guillorn, D.W. Austin, B. Ilic, V.I. Merkulov, M.J. Doktycz, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Nanopipe fabrication using vertically aligned carbon nanofiber templates  . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2002. 20(6): p. 2730-2733.  

41. Melechko, A.V., V.I. Merkulov, D.H. Lowndes, M.A. Guillorn, and M.L. Simpson, Transition between 'base' and 'tip' carbon nanofiber growth modes.    Chemical Physics Letters, 2002. 356(5-6): p. 527-533.

42. Merkulov, V.I., D.K. Hensley, A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Control mechanisms for the growth of isolated vertically aligned carbon nanofibers.   Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2002. 106(41): p. 10570-10577.  

43. Merkulov, V., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Growth rate of plasma-synthesized vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. ,  Chemical Physics Letters, 2002. 361(5-6): p. 492-498.  

44. Merkulov, V.I., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, M.L. Simpson, D.H. Lowndes, J.H. Whealton, and R.J. Raridon, Controlled alignment of carbon nanofibers in a large-scale synthesis process.   Applied Physics Letters, 2002. 80(25): p. 4816-4818.

45. Merkulov, V.I., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Effects of spatial separation on the growth of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers produced by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. ,  Applied Physics Letters, 2002. 80(3): p. 476-478.  

46. Plummer, E.W., Ismail, R. Matzdorf, A.V. Melechko, J.P. Pierce, and J.D. Zhang, Surfaces: a playground for physics with broken symmetry in reduced dimensionality. ,  Surface Science, 2002. 500(1-3): p. 1-27.  

47. Samatova, N.F., G. Ostrouchov, A. Geist, and A.V. Melechko, RACHET: An efficient cover-based merging of clustering hierarchies from distributed datasets. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2002. 11(2): p. 157-180.  

48. Zhang, L., A.V. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, M.A. Guillorn, M.L. Simpson, D.H. Lowndes, and M.J. Doktycz Controlled transport of latex beads through vertically aligned carbon nanofiber membranes. ,  Applied Physics Letters, 2002. 81(1): p. 135-137.

49. Guillorn, M.A., A.V. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, E.D. Ellis, M.L. Simpson, L.R. Baylor, and G.J. Bordonaro, Microfabricated field emission devices using carbon nanofibers as cathode elements.  
    Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2001. 19(6): p. 2598-2601.

50. Guillorn, M.A., A.V. Melechko, V.I. Merkulov, E.D. Ellis, C.L. Britton, M.L. Simpson, D.H. Lowndes, and L.R. Baylor, Operation of a gated field emitter using an individual carbon nanofiber cathode.  
    Applied Physics Letters, 2001. 79(21): p. 3506-3508.

51. Melechko, A.V., M.V. Simkin, N.F. Samatova, J. Braun, and E.W. Plummer, Complex structural phase transition in a defect-populated two-dimensional system. Physical Review B, 2001. 64(23).

52. Merkulov, V.I., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Sharpening of carbon nanocone tips during plasma-enhanced chemical vapor growth. Chemical Physics Letters, 2001. 350(5-6): p. 381-385.  
53. Merkulov, V.I., A.V. Melechko, M.A. Guillorn, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson, Alignment mechanism of carbon nanofibers produced by plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition. Applied Physics Letters, 2001. 79(18): p. 2970-2972.

54. Ottaviano, L., A.V. Melechko, S. Santucci, and E.W. Plummer, A variable temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy study of the electronic response of the Sn/Si(111) alpha surface to extrinsic defects. Physics of Low-Dimensional Structures, 2001. 3-4: p. 189-197.  

55. Ottaviano, L., A.V. Melechko, S. Santucci, and E.W. Plummer, Direct visualization of defect density waves in 2D. Physical Review Letters, 2001. 86(9): p. 1809-1812.

56. Plummer, E.W., Ismail, R. Matzdorf, A.V. Melechko, and J.D. Zhang, The next 25 years of surface physics. Progress in Surface Science, 2001. 67(1-8): p. 17-44  
57. Melechko, A.V., J. Braun, H.H. Weitering, and E.W. Plummer, Role of defects in two-dimensional phase transitions: An STM study of the Sn/Ge(111) system.  Physical Review B, 2000. 61(3): p. 2235-2245.  

58. Melechko, A.V., J. Braun, H.H. Weitering, and E.W. Plummer, Two-dimensional phase transition mediated by extrinsic defects.
    Physical Review Letters, 1999. 83(5): p. 999-1002.

59. Weitering, H.H., J.M. Carpinelli, A.P. Melechko, J.D. Zhang, M. Bartkowiak, and E.W. Plummer, Defect-mediated condensation of a charge density wave  Science, 1999. 285(5436): p. 2107-2110.

60. Belostotsky, A.L., A.S. Leonov, and A.V. Meleshko, Nonlinear Phase-Change in Type-Ii 2nd-Harmonic Generation under Exact Phase-Matched Conditions.   Optics Letters, 1994. 19b>(12): p. 856-858.