Publications

  1. E. A. Perets, D. Konstantinovsky, T. Santiago, P. E. Videla, M. Tremblay, L. Velarde, V. S. Batista. S. Hammes-Schiffer*, and E. C. Y. Yan*. Beyond the “spine of hydration”: Chiral SFG spectroscopy detects DNA first hydration shell and base pair structures J. Chem. Phys., 2024, 161, 095104.

 


  1. S. R. Abraham, J. P. Joseph, B. M. Rajapakse, A. Dutta, R. K. Das, A. Kuzmin, A. Baev, L. Velarde, P. N. Prasad,* Mark T. Swihart* Giant Plasmonic Enhancement of Chiroptical Properties by Anisotropic Gold Nanocrystals Grown In Situ in a Chiral Polymer. Adv. Opt. Mat., 2024, 2400914.

 


  1. B. M. Rajapakse, A. V. Krayev,* L. N. Holtzman, K. Barmak, P. N. Prasad, and L. Velarde.* Tip-enhanced Raman scattering and near-field optical imaging of semiconducting monolayer and few-layer MoTe2. Mat. Sci. Semicon. Proc., 2024, 178, 108442. Special Issue on 2D Materials: Processing and Applications.

 


  1. V. Bui, V. R. Satti, E. Haddad, L. Hu, E. Deng, L. Zhu, W-I Lee, Y. Yin, K. Kisslinger, Y. Zhang, T. T. Bui, B. M. Rajapakse, L. Velarde, C-Y Nam, and H. Lin Ultrathin polyorganosilica membranes synthesized by oxygen-plasma treatment of polysiloxanes for H2/CO2 separation. J. Membr. Sci., 2023, 688, 122099.

 


  1. N. Stavinski, V. Maheshkar, S. Thomas, K. Dantu,* and L. Velarde.* Mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning for postconsumer plastics recycling. Environ. Sci.: Adv.., 2023, 2, 1099.
    This article is part of the themed collections: Outstanding Papers of 2023 from RSC’s Environmental Science journals, Outstanding Papers 2023 – Environmental Science: Advances, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Environmental Science.

 


  1. L. Bromley, III; P. E. Videla; J. L. Cartagena-Brigantty; V. S. Batista,* and L. Velarde.* Binding and Orientation of Carbamate Pesticides on Silica Surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. C., 2023, 127, 8399–8410.

 


  1. D. Konstantinovsky, E. A. Perets, T. Santiago, L. Velarde, S. Hammes-Schiffer,* and E. C. Yan.* Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structure around Biomolecules at Interfaces. ACS Cent. Sci., 2022, 8, 1404-1414.

 


  1. Y. Zhao, P. Chakraborty, N. Stavinski, L. Velarde, V. Maheshkar, K. Dantu, A. Phani, S. Kim, and T. Thundat.** Standoff and Point Detection of Thin Polymer Layers Using Microcantilever Photothermal Spectroscopy. J. Electrochem. Soc., 2022, 169, 1945-7111.

 


  1. B. Breeman, A. T. Tiglias, J. Mancuso, E. Zurek, D. P. Miller* and L. Velarde.* Insight into the Adsorption Structure of TIPS-Pentacene on Noble Metal Surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. C., 2022, 126, 2689-2698.

 


  1. T. T. Bui, L. A. Colón, and L. Velarde.* Intermolecular Interactions at the Silica–Liquid Interface Modulate the Fermi Resonance Coupling in Surface Methanol. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2021, 12, 5695-5702.

 


  1. H. S. AlSalem, S. T. Al-Goul, A. García-Miranda Ferrari, D. A. C. Brownson, L. Velarde, and S. P. K. Koehler. Imaging the Reactivity and Width of Graphene’s Boundary Region . Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 9612-9615.

 


  1. M. Raab, J. C. Becca, J. Heo, C-K Lim, A. Baev, L. Jensen,* P. N. Prasad,* and L. Velarde.* Doubly resonant sum frequency spectroscopy of mixed photochromic isomers on surfaces reveals conformation-specific vibronic effects. J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 150, 114704.


  1.  S. T. Algoul, S. Sengupta, T. T. Bui, and L. Velarde.* Tuning the Surface Ordering of Self-Assembled Ionic Surfactants on Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Concentration, Tube Diameter, and Counterions. Langmuir, 2018, 34, 9279–9288.


  1. D. Elsenbeck, S. K. Das, L. Velarde.* Substrate influence on the interlayer electron-phonon couplings in fullerene films probed with doubly-resonant SFG spectroscopy. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 18519-18528.

  1. S. Sengupta, L. Bromley III, L. Velarde.* Aggregated States of Chalcogenorhodamine Dyes on Nanocrystalline Titania Revealed by Doubly-Resonant Sum Frequency Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121, 3424-3436.

  2. H. Kearns, S. Sengupta, I. Ramos Sasselli, L. Bromley III, K. Faulds, T. Tuttle, M. A. Bedics, M. R. Detty, L. Velarde*, D. Graham,* and W. E. Smith.* Elucidation of the bonding of a near infrared dye to hollow gold nanospheres – a chalcogen tripod. Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 5160-5170.

  3. Sushanta K. Das, Sanghamitra Sengupta, and Luis Velarde,* Interfacial Surfactant Ordering in Thin Films of SDS-Encapsulated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2016, 7, 320–326.

  4. H. F. Wang,* L. Velarde, W. Gan, and L. Fu. Quantitative Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecular Surfaces and Interfaces: Lineshape, Polarization, and Orientation. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2015, 66, 189-216.

 


For a full list of publications of Prof. Velarde (including prior to UB) visit:

Luis Velarde, ResearcherID

Luis Velarde, Google Scholar