Welcome to my personal website.  It is still under construction.  In the future it will become a home for my projects, both scientific and personal.
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Selected Publications:

Multicompartment Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Branched Shapes: An Epitaxial Growth Mechanism
Science (2013)

Structurally ordered intermetallic platinum–cobalt core–shell nanoparticles with enhanced activity and stability as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts
Nature Materials (2012)

Channeling of a subangstrom electron beam in a crystal mapped to two-dimensional molecular orbitals
Phys. Rev. B (2012)

Tuning ORR Activity via Controllable Dealloying: A Model Study of Ordered Cu3Pt/C Intermetallic Nanocatalysts
Nano Letters (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl302404g

Data Processing for Atomic Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Microscopy & Microanalysis (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927612000244

Efficient elastic imaging of single atoms on ultrathin supports in a scanning transmission electron microscope
Ultramicroscopy (2012)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.04.014

Twinning and Twisting of Tri- and Bilayer Graphene
Nano Letters (2012) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl204547v

Direct Imaging of a Two-Dimensional Silica Glass on Graphene
Nano Letters (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl204423x

Three-Dimensional Tracking and Visualization of Hundreds of Pt−Co Fuel Cell Nanocatalysts During Electrochemical Aging
Nano Letters (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl203920s

Networked and chiral nanocomposites from ABC triblock terpolymer coassembly with transition metal oxide nanoparticles
Journal of Materials Chemistry (2011)

Surfactant Ligand Removal and Rational Fabrication of Inorganically Connected Quantum Dots
Nano Letters (2011)  doi: 10.1021/nl1036116

Extended Depth of Field for High-Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Microscopy and Microanalysis (2011), 17: 75-80
Most Read 2011 - doi:
10.1017/S1431927610094171

Controlled Synthesis of Uniform Cobalt Phosphide Hyperbranched Nanocrystals Using Tri-n-octylphosphine Oxide as a Phosphorus Source
Nano Letters (2011), 11: 188-197 doi:10.1021/nl103400a

Evolutionary Scheduler for the Deep Space Network
NASA Tech Briefs, July 2010

Deep Space Network Scheduling Using Evolutionary Computational Methods
IEEE Aerospace Conference 2007 paper #1210 (2007)

Sideprojects:

Cornell Spectrum Imager - Open source tool for spectral analysis.

Spork the World: Webcomic

Running MIT Photonic Bands on Cygwin - A guide to running software in Windows. [discussed here]

3D Zone Axis Map for Crystallography - A small program which plots various zone axis on a rotatable sphere.

FHSST.org - A great organization which writes free open source science text books for countries with underfunded schools.

date2et and et2date - Converts a date to seconds past j2000 epoch or converts seconds past j2000 epoch to a date. This is only for you NASA ephemeris geeks.