Capillary Rise Infiltration (CaRI)
Surface diffusion measurements highlighted in Phys.Org news.
Commentary featuring the surface diffusion paper in PNAS
Unusual Weak Interparticle-Distance Dependence in Raman Enhancement from Nanoparticle Dimers .
Raspberry-MMs Highlighted in Nanotechnology News.
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Spiky Gold Nanoshells.
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Spiky Gold Nanoshells.
Soft Matter Hot Paper: Surface and Bulk Flow of a Molecular Glass Former
Glass Surfaces Not So Glassy. (Feature Article in Science )
Journal articles:
66. Fang, H.; Fang, Z.; Thakur, A.; Anasori, B.; Rappe, A.M.; Fakhraai, Z. Signatures of Band-like Optical and Charge Transport in Ti3C2Tx MXene Flakes. ChemRxiv. 2024. doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-rpf17. Preprint
65. Teitsworth, T. S.; Fang, H.; Harvey, A. K.; Orr, A. D.; Donley, C. L.; Fakhraai, Z.; Atkin, J. M.; Lockett, M. R. Diazonium-Functionalized Silicon Hybrid Photoelectrodes: Film Thickness and Composition Effects on Photoelectrochemical Behavior. Langmuir 2024, 40 (34), 18133-18141. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01787.
62. Fang, H., Thakur, A., Zahmatkeshsaredorahi, A., Fang, Z., Rad, V., Shamsabadi, A.A., Pereyra, C., Soroush, M., Rappe, A.M., Xu, X.G. and Anasori, B., and Fakhraai, Z., Stabilizing Ti3C2Tx MXene flakes in air by removing confined water. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2024 121(28), e2400084121, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400084121.
61. Luo, P., Wolf, S., Govind, S., Stephens, R., Kim, D., Chen, C., Nguyen, T., Wąsik, P., Zhernenkov, M., Mcclimon, B. and Fakhraai, Z., High-density stable glasses formed on soft substrates. Nat. Mater. 2024 23(5), 688-694, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01828-w
60. Zahmatkeshsaredorahi, A., Jakob, D.S., Fang, H., Fakhraai, Z., and Xu, X.G.,Pulsed Force Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy through Integration of Lock-In Detection. Nano Letters 2023 14(4), 4839-4848, DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02452
, , , , , , , , , , , , and Step-by-Step Guide for Synthesis and Delamination of Ti3C2Tx MXene. Small Methods 2023. 7(8), 2300030, DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202300030
57. Luo, P. and Fakhraai, Z. Surface-Mediated Formation of Stable Glasses. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 2023 74(1), 361-389, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-042018-052708
56. Huffman, B.L., Bein, G.P., Atallah, H., Donley, C.L., Alameh, R.T., Wheeler, J.P., Durand, N., Harvey, A.K., Kessinger, M.C., Chen, C.Y., Fakhraai, Z., Atkin, J.M., Castellano, F.N., and Dempsey J.L., Surface Immobilization of a Re (I) Tricarbonyl Phenanthroline Complex to Si (111) through Sonochemical Hydrosilylation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022 74(1), pp.361-389, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c17078
55.Ma, T., Liu, A., Nitzsche, M.P., Jin, Y., Buznitsky, K., Sridhar, A., Fakhraai, Z. and Singer, J.P., Thin film rheology via focused laser spike thermocapillary dewetting. MRS Communications 2022. 12(5), pp.692-699, DOI:10.1557/s43579-022-00270-w
54. Zhang, A., Moore, A. R., Zhao, H., Govind, S., Wolf, S. E., Jin, Y., Walsh, P., Riggleman, R. A., Fakhraai, Z. The Role of Intra-molecular Relaxations on the Structure and Stability of vapor-Deposited Glasses. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2022, 156(24), 244703. DOI: 10.1063/5.0087600
53. Lee, S.; Ibrahim, O.; Fakhraai, Z.; Park, S.-J. Heterogeneity in Dynamic Metamolecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2022, 126(15), 6668-6677. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01214
52. Sarah E. Wolf, S. F., Aixi Zhang, Haoqiang Zhao, Patrick J. Walsh, Kevin T. Turner, and Zahra Fakhraai, Role of Molecular Layering in the Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Stable Glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022, 13(15), 3360-3368. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00232
51. Burel, C.; Ibrahim, O.; Marino, E.; Bharti, H.; Murray, C. B.; Donnio, B.; Fakhraai, Z.; Dreyfus, R., Tunable Plasmonic Microcapsules with Embedded Noble Metal Nanoparticles for Optical Microsensing. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022, 5 (2), 2828-2838. DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c04542
50. Wolf, S. E.; Liu, T.; Govind, S.; Zhao, H.; Huang, G.; Zhang, A.; Wu, Y.; Chin, J.; Cheng, K.; Salami-Ranjbaran, E., Design of a homologous series of molecular glassformers. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2021, 155 (22), 224503. DOI: 10.1063/5.0066410
49. Maguire, S. M.; Bilchak, C. R.; Corsi, J. S.; Welborn, S. S.; Tsaggaris, T.; Ford, J.; Detsi, E.; Fakhraai, Z.; Composto, R. J., Effect of Nanoscale Confinement on Polymer-Infiltrated Scaffold Metal Composites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, 13 (37), 44893-44903. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c12491
48. Ibrahim, O.; Lee, S.; Kim, S. W.; Pyun, S. B.; Woods, C.; Cho, E. C.; Park, S.-J.; Fakhraai, Z., Optical Magnetic Multipolar Resonances in Large Dynamic Metamolecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021, 125 (30), 16605-16619. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04538
47. Jin, Y.; Zhang, A.; Wolf, S. E.; Govind, S.; Moore, A. R.; Zhernenkov, M.; Freychet, G.; Shamsabadi, A. A.; Fakhraai, Z., Glasses denser than the supercooled liquid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021, 118 (31). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100738118
46. Venkatesh, R. B.; Manohar, N.; Qiang, Y.; Wang, H.; Tran, H. H.; Kim, B. Q.; Neuman, A.; Ren, T.; Fakhraai, Z.; Riggleman, R. A., Polymer-Infiltrated Nanoparticle Films Using Capillarity-Based Techniques: Toward Multifunctional Coatings and Membranes. Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering 2021, 12, 411-437. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-101220-093836
45. Hosseini Jebeli, S. A.; West, C. A.; Lee, S. A.; Goldwyn, H. J.; Bilchak, C. R.; Fakhraai, Z.; Willets, K. A.; Link, S.; Masiello, D. J., Wavelength-dependent photothermal imaging probes nanoscale temperature differences among subdiffraction coupled plasmonic nanorods. Nano Letters 2021, 21 (12), 5386-5393. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01740
44. Fulco, S.; Wolf, S.; Jakes, J. E.; Fakhraai, Z.; Turner, K. T., Effect of surface detection error due to elastic–plastic deformation on nanoindentation measurements of elastic modulus and hardness. Journal of Materials Research 2021, 36 (11), 2176-2188. DOI: 10.1557/s43578-021-00223-4
43.Wang, H.; Kearns, K. L.; Zhang, A.; Arabi Shamsabadi, A.; Jin, Y.; Bond, A.; Hurney, S. M.; Morillo, C.; Fakhraai, Z., Effect of Nanopore Geometry in the Conformation and Vibrational Dynamics of a Highly Confined Molecular Glass. Nano Letters 2021, 21 (4), 1778-1784. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04744
42. Song, B.; Hou, J.; Wang, H.; Sidhik, S.; Miao, J.; Gu, H.; Zhang, H.; Liu, S.; Fakhraai, Z.; Even, J., Determination of dielectric functions and exciton oscillator strength of two-dimensional hybrid perovskites. ACS Materials Letters 2020, 3 (1), 148-159. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00505
41. Song, B.; Liu, F.; Wang, H.; Miao, J.; Chen, Y.; Kumar, P.; Zhang, H.; Liu, X.; Gu, H.; Stach, E. A., Giant gate-tunability of complex refractive index in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. ACS Photonics 2020, 7 (10), 2896-2905. DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01220
40. Zhang, A.; Jin, Y.; Liu, T.; Stephens, R. B.; Fakhraai, Z., Polyamorphism of vapor-deposited amorphous selenium in response to light. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020, 117 (39), 24076-24081. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009852117
39. Lee, S.; Woods, C. N.; Ibrahim, O.; Kim, S. W.; Pyun, S. B.; Cho, E. C.; Fakhraai, Z.; Park, S.-J., Distinct Optical Magnetism in Gold and Silver Probed by Dynamic Metamolecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124 (37), 20436-20444. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c05943
38. Bilchak, C. R.; Govind, S.; Contreas, G.; Rasin, B.; Maguire, S. M.; Composto, R. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Kinetic Monitoring of Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Using In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. ACS Macro Letters 2020, 9 (8), 1095-1101. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00444
37. Lin, Y.-C.; Komatsu, H.; Ma, J.; Axelsen, P. H.; Fakhraai, Z., Identifying polymorphs of amyloid-β (1–40) fibrils using high-resolution atomic force microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2019, 123 (49), 10376-10383. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b07854
36. Wang, H.; Qiang, Y.; Shamsabadi, A. A.; Mazumder, P.; Turner, K. T.; Lee, D.; Fakhraai, Z., Thermal degradation of polystyrene under extreme nanoconfinement. ACS Macro Letters 2019, 8 (11), 1413-1418. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00649
35. Lin, Y.-C.; Skolnick, M.; Fakhraai, Z., A Novel Method to Measure the Effective Change of the Interfacial Energy due to Kinetic Self-Assembly of Amyloid Fibrils. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2019, 123 (32), 6990-6996. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04717
34. Sil, D.; Lane, C.; Glor, E.; Gilroy, K. D.; Sylla, S.; Barbiellini, B.; Markiewicz, R.; Hajfathalian, M.; Neretina, S.; Bansil, A., Synthesis and Properties of Au Hydride. ChemistrySelect 2019, 4 (14), 4287-4292. DOI: 10.1002/slct.201900925
33. Samanta, S.; Huang, G.; Gao, G.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, A.; Wolf, S.; Woods, C. N.; Jin, Y.; Walsh, P. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Exploring the importance of surface diffusion in stability of vapor-deposited organic glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2019, 123 (18), 4108-4117. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01012
32. Moore, A. R.; Huang, G.; Wolf, S.; Walsh, P. J.; Fakhraai, Z.; Riggleman, R. A., Effects of microstructure formation on the stability of vapor-deposited glasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019, 116 (13), 5937-5942. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821761116
31. Zhang, Y.; Woods, C. N.; Alvarez, M.; Jin, Y.; Riggleman, R. A.; Fakhraai, Z., Effect of substrate interactions on the glass transition and length-scale of correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2018, 149 (18), 184902. DOI: 10.1063/1.5038174
30. Zhang, Y.; Li, C.; Fakhraai, Z.; Moosa, B.; Yang, P.; Khashab, N. M., Synthesis of spiked plasmonic nanorods with an interior nanogap for quantitative surface-enhanced Raman scattering analysis. ACS omega 2018, 3 (10), 14399-14405. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01153
29. Hor, J. L.; Wang, H.; Fakhraai, Z.; Lee, D., Effect of physical nanoconfinement on the viscosity of unentangled polymers during capillary rise infiltration. Macromolecules 2018, 51 (14), 5069-5078. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00966
28. Wang, H.; Hor, J. L.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, T.; Lee, D.; Fakhraai, Z., Dramatic increase in polymer glass transition temperature under extreme nanoconfinement in weakly interacting nanoparticle films. ACS nano 2018, 12 (6), 5580-5587. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01341
27. Lin, Y.-C.; Li, C.; Fakhraai, Z., Kinetics of surface-mediated fibrillization of amyloid-β (12–28) peptides. Langmuir 2018, 34 (15), 4665-4672. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02744
26. Li, C.; Lee, S.; Qian, Z.; Woods, C.; Park, S.-J.; Fakhraai, Z., Controlling magnetic dipole resonance in raspberry-like metamolecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (12), 6808-6817. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00439
25. Hor, J. L.; Wang, H.; Fakhraai, Z.; Lee, D., Effects of polymer–nanoparticle interactions on the viscosity of unentangled polymers under extreme nanoconfinement during capillary rise infiltration. Soft Matter 2018, 14 (13), 2438-2446. DOI: 10.1039/C7SM02465G
24. Ferrie, J. J.; Haney, C. M.; Yoon, J.; Pan, B.; Lin, Y.-C.; Fakhraai, Z.; Rhoades, E.; Nath, A.; Petersson, E. J., Using a FRET library with multiple probe pairs to drive Monte Carlo simulations of α-synuclein. Biophysical journal 2018, 114 (1), 53-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.11.006 
23. Cubuk, E. D.; Ivancic, R.; Schoenholz, S. S.; Strickland, D.; Basu, A.; Davidson, Z.; Fontaine, J.; Hor, J. L.; Huang, Y.-R.; Jiang, Y., Structure-property relationships from universal signatures of plasticity in disordered solids. Science 2017, 358 (6366), 1033-1037. DOI: 10.1126/science.aai8830
22. Liu, T.; Exarhos, A. L.; Alguire, E. C.; Gao, F.; Salami-Ranjbaran, E.; Cheng, K.; Jia, T.; Subotnik, J. E.; Walsh, P. J.; Kikkawa, J. M., Birefringent stable glass with predominantly isotropic molecular orientation. Physical Review Letters 2017, 119 (9), 095502. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.095502
21. Glor, E. C.; Angrand, G. V.; Fakhraai, Z., Exploring the broadening and the existence of two glass transitions due to competing interfacial effects in thin, supported polymer films. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2017, 146 (20), 203330. DOI: 10.1063/1.4979944
20. Zhang, Y.; Fakhraai, Z., Decoupling of surface diffusion and relaxation dynamics of molecular glasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017, 114 (19), 4915-4919. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701400114
19. Lin, Y.-C.; Repollet-Pedrosa, M. H.; Ferrie, J. J.; Petersson, E. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Potential artifacts in sample preparation methods used for imaging amyloid oligomers and protofibrils due to surface-mediated fibril formation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2017, 121 (12), 2534-2542. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b12560
18. Glor, E. C.; Ferrier, R. C.; Li, C.; Composto, R. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Out-of-plane orientation alignment and reorientation dynamics of gold nanorods in polymer nanocomposite films. Soft Matter 2017, 13 (11), 2207-2215. DOI: 10.1039/C6SM02403C
17. Zhang, Y.; Fakhraai, Z., Invariant fast diffusion on the surfaces of ultrastable and aged molecular glasses. Physical review letters 2017, 118 (6), 066101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.066101
16. Lin, Y.-C.; Komatsu, H.; Ma, J.; Axelsen, P. H.; Fakhraai, Z., Quantitative analysis of amyloid polymorphism using height histograms to correct for tip convolution effects in atomic force microscopy imaging. RSC advances 2016, 6 (115), 114286-114295. DOI: 10.1039/C6RA24031C
15. Zhang, Y.; Potter, R.; Zhang, W.; Fakhraai, Z., Using tobacco mosaic virus to probe enhanced surface diffusion of molecular glasses. Soft Matter 2016, 12 (44), 9115-9120. DOI: 10.1039/C6SM01566B
14. Zhang, Y.; Glor, E. C.; Li, M.; Liu, T.; Wahid, K.; Zhang, W.; Riggleman, R. A.; Fakhraai, Z., Long-range correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2016, 145 (11), 114502. DOI: 10.1063/1.4962734
13. Glor, E. C.; Fakhraai, Z., Cooling Rate Dependent Ellipsometry Measurements to Determine the Dynamics of Thin Glassy Films. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) 2016, (107), e53499. DOI: 10.3791/53499
12. Qian, Z.; Li, C.; Fakhraai, Z.; Park, S.-J., Unusual weak interparticle distance dependence in Raman enhancement from nanoparticle dimers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016, 120 (3), 1824-1830. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b09396
11. Glor, E. C.; Composto, R. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Glass transition dynamics and fragility of ultrathin miscible polymer blend films. Macromolecules 2015, 48 (18), 6682-6689. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00979
10. Liu, T.; Cheng, K.; Salami-Ranjbaran, E.; Gao, F.; Li, C.; Tong, X.; Lin, Y.-C.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, W.; Klinge, L., The effect of chemical structure on the stability of physical vapor deposited glasses of 1, 3, 5-triarylbenzene. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2015, 143 (8), 084506. DOI: 10.1063/1.4928521
9. Liu, T.; Cheng, K.; Salami-Ranjbaran, E.; Gao, F.; Glor, E. C.; Li, M.; Walsh, P. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Synthesis and high-throughput characterization of structural analogues of molecular glassformers: 1, 3, 5-trisarylbenzenes. Soft Matter 2015, 11 (38), 7558-7566. DOI: 10.1039/C5SM01044F
8. Hastings, S. P.; Qian, Z.; Swanglap, P.; Fang, Y.; Engheta, N.; Park, S.-J.; Link, S.; Fakhraai, Z., Modal interference in spiky nanoshells. Optics Express 2015, 23 (9), 11290-11311. DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.011290
7. Qian, Z.; Hastings, S. P.; Li, C.; Edward, B.; McGinn, C. K.; Engheta, N.; Fakhraai, Z.; Park, S.-J., Raspberry-like metamolecules exhibiting strong magnetic resonances. ACS nano 2015, 9 (2), 1263-1270. DOI: 10.1021/nn5050678 Featured in PennNews!
6. Glor, E. C.; Fakhraai, Z., Facilitation of interfacial dynamics in entangled polymer films. The Journal of chemical physics 2014, 141 (19), 194505. DOI: 10.1063/1.4901512
5. Lin, Y.-C.; Petersson, E. J.; Fakhraai, Z., Surface effects mediate self-assembly of amyloid-β peptides. ACS nano 2014, 8 (10), 10178-10186. DOI: 10.1021/nn5031669
4. Hastings, S. P.; Swanglap, P.; Qian, Z.; Fang, Y.; Park, S.-J.; Link, S.; Engheta, N.; Fakhraai, Z., Quadrupole-enhanced Raman scattering. ACS nano 2014, 8 (9), 9025-9034. DOI: 10.1021/nn5022346
3. Sanchez-Gaytan, B. L.; Qian, Z.; Hastings, S. P.; Reca, M. L.; Fakhraai, Z.; Park, S.-J., Controlling the topography and surface plasmon resonance of gold nanoshells by a templated surfactant-assisted seed growth method. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2013, 117 (17), 8916-8923. DOI: 10.1021/jp401189k
2. Sanchez-Gaytan, B. L.; Swanglap, P.; Lamkin, T. J.; Hickey, R. J.; Fakhraai, Z.; Link, S.; Park, S.-J., Spiky gold nanoshells: synthesis and enhanced scattering properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2012, 116 (18), 10318-10324. DOI: 10.1021/jp300009b
1. Daley, C.; Fakhraai, Z.; Ediger, M.; Forrest, J., Comparing surface and bulk flow of a molecular glass former. Soft Matter 2012, 8 (7), 2206-2212. DOI: 10.1039/c2sm06826e
Proceedings, Book Chapters, and Other Publications
1. Z. Fakhraai, “Teaching STEM at the Time of Political Distress”, University of Pennsylvania Almanac, Talk about Teaching and Learning, Vol 63, No 20, (2017).
Previous Publications
18. Dalal, S. S.; Fakhraai, Z.; Ediger, M. D., High-throughput ellipsometric characterization of vapor-deposited indomethacin glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2013, 117 (49), 15415-15425. DOI:10.1021/jp405005n |
17. Dalal, S. S.; Sepúlveda, A.; Pribil, G. K.; Fakhraai, Z.; Ediger, M., Density and birefringence of a highly stable α, α, β-trisnaphthylbenzene glass. The Journal of chemical physics 2012, 136 (20), 204501. DOI: 10.1063/1.4719532
16. Paulite, M.; Fakhraai, Z.; Li, I. T.; Gunari, N.; Tanur, A. E.; Walker, G. C., Imaging Secondary Structure of Individual Amyloid Fibrils of a β(2)-Microglobulin Fragment Using Near-Field Infrared Spectroscopy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc 2011. 133, 7376- 7383. DOI: 10.1021/ja109316p
15. Fakhraai, Z.; Still, T.; Fytas, G.; Ediger, M., Structural variations of an organic glassformer vapor-deposited onto a temperature gradient stage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2011, 2 (5), 423-427. DOI:10.1021/jz101723d
14. Fakhraai, Z.; Qi, D.; Forrest, J. A. “Relation between Enhanced Surface Mobility and Tg Reduction in Thin Polymer films”, Abstract of Papers of the American Chemical Society 2011, 242, 295-PMSE.
13. Niri, V.; Flatt, B.; Fakhraai, Z.; Forrest, J., Simultaneous monitoring of electroformation of phospholipid vesicles by quartz crystal microbalance and optical microscopy. Chemistry and physics of lipids 2010, 163 (1), 36-41. DOI:10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2
12. L. Stebounova, M. Paulite, Z. Fakhraai, and G. C. Walker, “Biological Imaging Using Near-Field Scanning Microscopy”, Book Chapter in Comprehensive Nansocience and Nanotechnology by D. Andrews, G. Scholes, G. Wiederechts, Elsevier, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-12-374390-9.
11. Leal, R.; Souza, C.; Da Silva, M.; Fakhraai, Z.; Forrest, J.; Papaleo, R., Relaxation of surface tracks on polycarbonate thin films induced by MeV heavy-ion impacts. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2010, 268 (19), 3080-3083. DOI:10.1016/j.nimb.20
10. Paulite, M.; Fakhraai, Z.; Akhremitchev, B. B.; Mueller, K.; Walker, G. C., Assembly, tuning and use of an apertureless near field infrared microscope for protein imaging. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) 2009, (33), e1581. DOI: 10.3791/1581
9. Kofke, M. J.; Waldeck, D. H.; Fakhraai, Z.; Ip, S.; Walker, G. C., The effect of periodicity on the extraordinary optical transmission of annular aperture arrays. Applied Physics Letters 2009, 94 (2), 023104. DOI: 10.1063/1.3067835
8. Qi, D.; Fakhraai, Z.; Forrest, J., Substrate and chain size dependence of near surface dynamics of glassy polymers. Physical review letters 2008, 101 (9), 096101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.096101
7. Mueller, K.; Yang, X.; Paulite, M.; Fakhraai, Z.; Gunari, N.; Walker, G. C., Chemical imaging of the surface of self-assembled polystyrene-b-poly (methyl methacrylate) diblock copolymer films using apertureless near-field IR microscopy. Langmuir 2008, 24 (13), 6946-6951. DOI: 10.1021/la703406d
6. Fakhraai, Z.; Forrest, J., Measuring the surface dynamics of glassy polymers. Science 2008, 319 (5863), 600-604. DOI: 10.1126/science.1151205
5. Sharp, J.; Forrest, J.; Fakhraai, Z.; Khomenko, M.; Teichroeb, J.; Dalnoki-Veress, K., Reply to comment on “The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition temperature of thin polystyrene films” by SA Hutcheson and GB McKenna. The European Physical Journal E 2007, 22 (4), 287-291. DOI: 10.1140/epje/e2007-00035-8
4. Fakhraai, Z.; Forrest, J. A., Probing slow dynamics in supported thin polymer films. Physical review letters 2005, 95 (2), 025701. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.025701
3. Fakhraai, Z.; Valadkhan, S.; Forrest, J., Qualitative discrepancy between different measures of dynamics in thin polymer films⋆. The European Physical Journal E 2005, 18 (2), 143-148. DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2004-10158-1
2. Forrest, J.; Fakhraai, Z., Anomalous Long and Short Time Dynamics in Thin Films of Polystyrene. Abstract of Papers of the American Chemical Society 2005, 229, 298-PMSE.
1. Fakhraai, Z.; Sharp, J.; Forrest, J., Effect of sample preparation on the glass‐transition of thin polystyrene films. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2004, 42 (24), 4503-4507. DOI: 10.1002/polb.20281