Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2011)

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

Dissertation

Development and Application of Methods to Study Nanoparticle Diffusion Using Intensity Correlation Spectroscopy

Publications

1. A. Tcherniak, S. Dominguez-Medina, W.-S. Chang, P. Swanglap, L. S. Slaughter, C. F. Landes, S. Link, One-photon plasmon luminescence and its application to correlation spectroscopy as a probe for rotational and translational dynamics of gold nanorods, J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 15938 (2011). 
2. S. Khatua, P. Manna, W.-S. Chang, A. Tcherniak, E. Friedlander, E. R. Zubarev, S. Link, Plasmonic Nanoparticles – Liquid Crystal Composites, J. Phys. Chem. C 114 7251 (2010).
3. L. S. Slaughter, W.-S. Chang, P. Swanglap, A. Tcherniak, B. P. Khanal, E. R. Zubarev, S. Link, Single-particle spectroscopy of gold nanorods beyond the quasi-static limit: Varying the width at constant aspect ratio. J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 4934 (2010).
4. A. Tcherniak, J. W. Ha, S. Dominguez-Medina, L. S. Slaughter, S. Link, Probing a century old prediction one plasmonic particle at a time, Nano Lett. 10, 1398 (2010). View article
5. A. Tcherniak, A. Prakash, J. T. Mayo, V. Colvin, S. Link, Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy of magnetite nanocrystal diffusion, J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 844 (2009). 
6. A. Tcherniak, C. Reznik, S. Link, C. F. Landes, Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: Criteria for analysis in complex system, Anal. Chem. 81, 746 (2009).
7. A. Tcherniak, D. Solis, S. Khatua, A. A. Tangonan, T. R. Lee, S. Link, Chain-length dependent nematic ordering of conjugated polymers in a liquid crystal solvent, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 12262 (2008).