Dr. Saumyakanti Khatua

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2011)
M.S. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Dissertation

Ordering and Motion of Anisotropic Nanomaterials

Publications

  1. P.-L. E. Chu, L.-Y. Wang, S. Khatua, A. B. Kolomeisky, S. Link, J. M. Tour, Synthesis and Single-Molecule Imaging of Highly Mobile Adamantane-Wheeled Nanocars, ACS Nano 7, 1, 35 (2013). 
  2. J. Olson, P. Swanglap, W.-S. Chang, S. Khatua, D. Solis, S. Link, Detailed mechanism for the orthogonal polarization switching of gold nanorod plasmons. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 419 (2013)
  3. W.-S. Chang, J. B. Lassiter, P. Swanglap, H. Sobhani, S. Khatua, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas, S. Link, A Plasmonic Fano Switch, Nano Lett. 12, 4977 (2012).
  4. S. Khatua, W.-S. Chang, P. Swanglap, J. Olson, S. Link, Active Modulation of Nanorod Plasmons, Nano Lett. 11, 3797 (2011).
  5. 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).
  6. G. Vives, J. M. Guerrero, J. Godoy, S. Khatua, Y.-P. Wang, J. L. Kiappes, S. Link, J. M. Tour, Synthesis of Fluorescent Dye-Tagged Nanomachines for Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy, J. Org. Chem. 75, 6631 (2010). 
  7. S. Khatua, J. Godoy, J. M. Tour, S. Link, Influence of the substrate on the mobility of individual nanocar, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 3288 (2010). 
  8. K. Claytor, S. Khatua, J. M. Guerrero, J. M. Tour, S. Link, Accurately Determining Single Molecule Trajectories of Molecular Motion on Surfaces, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 164710 (2009). 
  9. S. Khatua, J. M. Guerrero, K. Claytor, G. Vives, A. B. Kolomeisky, J. M. Tour, S. Link, Micrometer-Scale Translation and Monitoring of Individual Nanocars on Glass, ACS Nano 3, 351 (2009).
  10. 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).