Publications from Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research


[19] Crosby, L.; Enterkin, J.A.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; and Marks, L.D. “Wulff Shape of Strontium Titanate Nanocuboids”. Surface Science 2014, 632, L22-L25.


[18] Antunez, P.D.; Torelli, D.A.; Yang, F.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Lewis, N.S.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Low Temperature Solution-Phase Deposition of SnS Thin Films”. Chemistry of Materials 2014, 26, 19, 5444-5446.


[17] Rabuffetti, F.A. and Brutchey, R.L. “Complex Perovskite Oxide Nanocrystals: Low-Temperature Synthesis and Crystal Structure”. Dalton Transactions 2014, 43, 14499-14513.


[16] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Culver, S.P.; Lee, J.S.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Local Structural Investigation of Eu3+-Doped BaTiO3 Nanocrystals”. Nanoscale 2014, 6, 2909-2914.


[15] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Culver, S.P.; Suescun, L.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Structural Disorder in AMoO4 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) Scheelite Nanocrystals”. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 1056-1061.


[14] Rabuffetti, F.A. and Brutchey, R.L. “Local Structure of Ba1-xSrxTiO3 and BaTi1-yZryO3 Nanocrystals Probed by X-ray Absorption and X-ray Total Scattering”. ACS Nano 2013, 7, 11435-11444.


[13] Culver, S.P.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Zhou, S.; Mecklenburg, M.; Song, Y.; Melot, B.C.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Low Temperature Synthesis of AMoO4 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) Scheelite Nanocrystals”. Chemistry of Materials 2013, 25, 4129-4134.


[12] Buckley, J.J.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Hinton, H.L.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Synthesis and Characterization of Ternary SnxGe1-xSe Nanocrystals”. Chemistry of Materials 2012, 24, 3514-3516.


[11] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Lee, J.S.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Low Temperature Synthesis of Complex Ba1-xSrxTi1-yZryO3 Perovskite Nanocrystals”. Chemistry of Materials 2012, 24, 3114-3116.


[10] Rabuffetti, F.A. and Brutchey, R.L. “Structural Evolution of BaTiO3 Nanocrystals Synthesized at Room Temperature”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134(22), 9475-9487.


[9] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Lee, J.S.; and Brutchey, R.L. “Vapor Diffusion SolGel Synthesis of Fluorescent Perovskite Oxide Nanocrystals”. Advanced Materials 2012, 24, 1434-1438.


[8] Rabuffetti, F.A. and Brutchey, R.L. “Local Structural Distortion in BaZrxTi1-xO3 Nanoparticles Synthesized at Room Temperature”. Chemical Communications 2012, 48, 1437-1439.


[7] Rabuffetti, F.A. and Brutchey, R.L. “Tailoring the Mechanism of the Amorphous-to-Crystalline Phase Transition of PbTiO3 via Kinetically Controlled Hydrolysis”. Chemistry of Materials 2011, 23, 4063-4076.


[6] Enterkin, J.A.; Setthapun, W.; Elam, J.W.; Christensen, S.T.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Marks, L.D.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Stair, P.C.; and Marshall, C.L. “Propane Oxidation over Pt/SrTiO3 Nanocuboids”. ACS Catalysis 2011, 1, 629-635.


[5] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Stair, P.C.; and Poeppelmeier, K.R. “Synthesis-Dependent Surface Acidity and Structure of SrTiO3 Nanoparticles”. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114, 11056-11067.


[4] Setthapun, W; Damion Williams, W.; Kim, S.-M.; Feng, H.; Elam, J.W.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Stair, P.C.; Stach, E.A.; Ribeiro, F.H.; Miller, J.T.; and Marshall, C.L. “Genesis and Evolution of Surface Species During Pt Atomic Layer Deposition on Oxide Supports Characterized by in-situ XAFS Analysis and Water-Gas Shift Reaction”. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114, 9758-9771.


[3] Christensen, S.T.; Elam, J.W.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Ma, Q.; Weigand, S.J.; Lee, B.; Seifert, S.; Stair, P.C.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; Hersam, M.C.; and Bedzyk, M.J. “Controlled Growth of Platinum Nanoparticles on Strontium Titanate Nanocubes by Atomic Layer Deposition”. Small 2009, 5, 750-757.


[2] Rabuffetti, F.A.; Kim, H.-S.; Enterkin, J.A.; Wang, Y.; Lanier, C.H.; Marks, L.D.; Poeppelmeier, K.R.; and Stair, P.C. “Synthesis-Dependent First-Order Raman Scattering in SrTiO3 Nanocubes at Room Temperature”. Chemistry of Materials 2008, 20, 5628-5635.


[1] Mombru, A.W.; Ivanov, S.; Pardo, H.; Suescun, L.; Faccio, R.; and Rabuffetti, F. “Structural Study in the (La,Nd)2-xSrxCuO4 System”. Physica C 2004, 408, 807-809.


[44] Imer, M.R.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Structure of Triple Perovskite BaSr2MgTa2O9 Revisited”.


Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2022, 306, 122710.

[43] Udayakantha, M.; Perera, S.S.; Davidson, R.D.; Zuin, L.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; and Banerjee, S. “Structure-Dependent Accessibility of Phonon-Coupled Radiative Relaxation Pathways Probed by X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence”.


The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021, 12, 11170-11175.

[42] Dhanapala, B.D.; Munasinghe, H.N.; Dissanayake, K.T.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Expanding the Synthetic Toolbox to Access Pristine and Rare-Earth-Doped BaFBr Nanocrystals”.


Dalton Transactions 2021, 50, 16092-16098.

[41] Dhanapala, B.D.; Munasinghe, H.N.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Temperature-Dependent Luminescence of CaFCl:Yb,Er Upconverting Nanocrystals”.


Journal of Luminescence 2021, 235, 117974.

[40] Amarasinghe, D.K. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Ratiometric Thermometry Using Thermochromic Tb3+:Mn4+:Na4Mg(WO4)3 Phosphors”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2021, 60, 3165-3171.

[39] Munasinghe, H.N.; Suescun, L.; Dhanapala B.D.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Bimetallic Trifluoroacetates as Precursors to Layered Perovskites A2MnF4 (A = K, Rb, Cs)”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2020, 59, 17268-17275.

[38] Perera, S.S.;* Munasinghe, H.N.;* Yatooma, E.N; and Rabuffetti, F.A. (*equal contribution) “Microwave-Assisted Solid-State Synthesis of NaRE(MO4)2 Phosphors (RE = La, Pr, Eu, Dy; M = Mo, W)”.


Dalton Transactions 2020, 49, 7914-7919.

[37] Amarasinghe, D.K.; Perera, S.S.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Rotational Disorder in Double Molybdates and Double Tungstates”.


Crystal Growth and Design 2020, 20, 3442-3348.

[36] Amarasinghe, D.K. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Bandshift Luminescence Thermometry Using Mn4+:Na4Mg(WO4)3 Phosphors”.


Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31, 10197-10204. Video.

[35] Dissanayake, K.T.; Amarasinghe, D.K.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Accessing Mixed-Halide Upconverters Using Heterohaloacetate Precursors”.


Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31, 6262-6267.


[34] Perera, S.S. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Dysprosium-Activated Scheelite-Type Oxides as Thermosensitive Phosphors”.


Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019, 7, 7601-7608.


[33] Sanni, A.M.; Lavan, S.N.; Avramenko, A.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Suescun, L.; and Rury, A.S. “Room- Temperature Broadband Light Emission from Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskite-Like Quantum Wells: THz Spectroscopic Investigation of Metastable Defects”.


The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019, 10, 1653-1662.


[32] Szlag, R.G.; Suescun, L.; Dhanapala, B.D.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Rubidium-Alkaline-Earth Trifluoroacetate Hybrids as Self-Fluorinating Single-Source Precursors to Mixed-Metal Fluorides”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2019, 58, 3041-3049.

[31] Perera, S.S.; Dissanayake, K.T.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Alkaline-Earth Fluorohalide Nanocrystals for Upconversion Thermometry”.


Journal of Luminescence 2019, 207, 416-423.

[30] Yee, T. A.; Suescun, L; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Bond Valence Parameters for Alkali- and Alkaline-Earth-Oxygen Pairs: Derivation and Application to Metal-Organic Compounds”.


Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2019, 270, 242-246.

[29] Munarriz, J.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; and Contreras-Garcia, J. “Building Fluorinated Hybrid Crystals: Understanding the Role of Noncovalent Interactions”.

 

Crystal Growth and Design 2018, 18, 6901-6910.

[28] Lu, H.; Carroll, G.M.; Chen, X.; Amarasinghe, D.K.; Neale, N.; Miller, E.M.; Sercel, P.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; Efros, A.; Beard, M.C. “n-Type PbSe Quantum Dots via Post-Synthetic Indium Doping”.

 

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018, 140, 13753-13763.

[27] Jenks, T.C.; Bailey, M.D.; Corbin, B.A.; Kuda-Wedagedara, A.N.W.; Martin, P.D.; Schlegel, H.B.; Rabuffetti, F.A.; and Allen, M.J. “Photophysical Characterization of a Highly Luminescent Divalent Europium-containing Azacryptate”.


Chemical Communications 2018, 54, 4545-4548.

[26] Dissanayake, K.T. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Multicolor Emission in Chemically and Structurally Tunable Er:Yb:SrFX (X = Cl, Br) Upconverting Nanocrystals”.


Chemistry of Materials 2018, 30, 2453-2462.


[25] Dhanapala, B.D.; Munasinghe, H.N.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Bimetallic Trifluoroacetates as Single-Source Precursors for Fluoroperovskites”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 56, 13311-13320.


[24] Perera, S.S.;* Amarasinghe, D.K.;* Dissanayake, K.T.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. (*equal contribution) “Average and Local Crystal Structure of β-Er:Yb:NaYF4 Upconverting Nanocrystals Probed by X-ray Total Scattering”.

 

Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29, 6287- 6297.


[23] Dhanapala, D.B.; Mannino, N.A.; Mendoza, L.M.; Dissanayake, K.T.;  Martin, P.D.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Synthesis of Bimetallic Trifluoroacetates Through a Crystallochemical Investigation of their Monometallic Counterparts: The Case of (A, A’)(CF3COO)2.xH2O (A = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba)”.


Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 1420-1430.


[22] Perera, S.S. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “NIR-to-NIR and NIR-to-Blue Light Upconversion in Stoichiometric NaYb(MO4)2 (M = Mo, W)”.


CrystEngComm 2016, 18, 5818-5825.


[21] Dissanayake, K.T. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion Luminescence in Er:Yb:SrFBr Nanocrystals”.


Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2016, 4, 2447-2451.


[20] Dissanayake, K.T.; Mendoza, L.M.; Martin, P.D.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Open-Framework Structures of Anhydrous Sr(CF3COO)2 and Ba(CF3COO)2”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2016, 55, 170-176.


[45] Munasinghe, H.N.; Szlag, R.G.; Imer, M.R.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Synthesis, Structure, and Luminescence of Mixed-Ligand Lanthanide Trifluoroacetates”.


Inorganic Chemistry 2022, 61, 5588-5594.

[46] Amarasinghe, D.K.; Dissanayake, K.T.; Dhanapala, D.B.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Local Atomic Environment of Yb3+ in Alkaline-Earth Fluorohalide Nanocrystals”.


CrystEngComm 2022, 24, 5317-5322.

[47] Munasinghe, H.N;* Imer, M.R.;* Szlag, R.G.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. (*equal contribution) “Reactivity of Bi- and Monometallic Trifluoroacetates Towards Amorphous SiO2”.


Dalton Transactions 2022, 51, 18224-18233.

[48] Imer, M.R.; Suescun, L.; and Rabuffetti, F.A. “A Small-Box Approach to the Local Crystal Structure of Y3NbO7”.


Journal of Solid State Chemistry 2023, 325, 124147.

[49] Szlag, R.G. and Rabuffetti, F.A. “Crystalline-to-Semicrystalline Transition in Lanthanide Trifluoroacetates: Implications for Optical Pressure and Temperature Sensing”.


Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2023, 11, 11552-11563.

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