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  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For invention and development of solvothermal synthesis of monodisperse nanocrystal quantum dots for displays, photovoltaics and memory.
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Overview

Christopher B. Murray is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and engineering, with a significant focus on materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's major topics of work include:

  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Christopher B. Murray has published extensively in notable venues, contributing significant research in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Nano
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Nano Letters

Frequent collaborators in their work include Shengsong Yang, Cherie R. Kagan, Emanuele Marino, Daniel J. Rosen, and Guillaume Gouget.

Some notable recent papers authored by Christopher B. Murray are:

  • "Colloidal Quantum Dots as Platforms for Quantum Information Science" (2020) published in Chemical Reviews
  • "Emergence of complexity in hierarchically organized chiral particles" (2020) published in Science
  • "Photonically active bowtie nanoassemblies with chirality continuum" (2023) published in Nature
  • "Effect of Ni particle size on the production of renewable methane from CO₂ over Ni/CeO₂ catalyst" (2021) published in Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • "Gaussian processes for autonomous data acquisition at large-scale synchrotron and neutron facilities" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Physics

Murray has been recognized with several honors, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for work related to the invention and development of solvothermal synthesis of monodisperse nanocrystal quantum dots for displays, photovoltaics, and memory. They were also named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis and characterization of nearly monodisperse CdE (E = sulfur, selenium, tellurium) semiconductor nanocrystallites

    C.B. Murray;David J. Norris;M.G. Bawendi

  • Monodisperse FePt Nanoparticles and Ferromagnetic FePt Nanocrystal Superlattices

    Shouheng Sun;C. B. Murray;Dieter Weller;Liesl Folks

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Monodisperse Nanocrystals and Close-Packed Nanocrystal Assemblies

    C B Murray;C R Kagan;M G Bawendi

  • Self-organization of CdSe nanocrystallites into three-dimensional quantum dot superlattices

    C. B. Murray;C. R. Kagan;M. G. Bawendi

  • Structural diversity in binary nanoparticle superlattices

    Elena V. Shevchenko;Dmitri V. Talapin;Dmitri V. Talapin;Nicholas A. Kotov;Stephen O'Brien

  • PbSe Nanocrystal Solids for n- and p-Channel Thin Film Field-Effect Transistors

    Dmitri V. Talapin;Christopher B. Murray

  • Designing PbSe Nanowires and Nanorings through Oriented Attachment of Nanoparticles

    Kyung-Sang Cho;Dmitri V Talapin;Wolfgang Gaschler;Christopher B Murray

  • Control of Metal Nanocrystal Size Reveals Metal-Support Interface Role for Ceria Catalysts

    Matteo Cargnello;Matteo Cargnello;Vicky V. T. Doan-Nguyen;Thomas R. Gordon;Rosa E. Diaz

  • Colloidal synthesis of nanocrystals and nanocrystal superlattices

    C. B. Murray;Shouheng Sun;W. Gaschler;H. Doyle

  • Prospects of Nanoscience with Nanocrystals

    Maksym V. Kovalenko;Liberato Manna;Liberato Manna;Andreu Cabot;Zeger Hens

  • Using binary surfactant mixtures to simultaneously improve the dimensional tunability and monodispersity in the seeded growth of gold nanorods.

    Xingchen Ye;Chen Zheng;Jun Chen;Yuzhi Gao

  • Electronic Energy Transfer in CdSe Quantum Dot Solids

    C. R. Kagan;C. B. Murray;M. Nirmal;M. G. Bawendi

  • Three-dimensional binary superlattices of magnetic nanocrystals and semiconductor quantum dots

    F. X. Redl;K.-S. Cho;K.-S. Cho;C. B. Murray;S. O'Brien

  • Nonaqueous Synthesis of TiO2 Nanocrystals Using TiF4 to Engineer Morphology, Oxygen Vacancy Concentration, and Photocatalytic Activity

    Thomas R. Gordon;Matteo Cargnello;Taejong Paik;Filippo Mangolini

  • A generalized ligand-exchange strategy enabling sequential surface functionalization of colloidal nanocrystals.

    Angang Dong;Xingchen Ye;Jun Chen;Yijin Kang

  • Improved Size-Tunable Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods through the Use of Aromatic Additives

    Xingchen Ye;Linghua Jin;Humeyra Caglayan;Jun Chen

  • Long-range resonance transfer of electronic excitations in close-packed CdSe quantum-dot solids.

    C. R. Kagan;C. B. Murray;M. G. Bawendi

  • Binary nanocrystal superlattice membranes self-assembled at the liquid-air interface.

    Angang Dong;Jun Chen;Patrick M. Vora;James M. Kikkawa

  • Synthesis of monodisperse cobalt nanocrystals and their assembly into magnetic superlattices (invited)

    Unknown

  • Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Self-Assembled Cobalt-Nanocrystal Superlattices

    C. T. Black;C. B. Murray;R. L. Sandstrom;Shouheng Sun

  • Cluster-Assembled Materials

    Shelley A. Claridge;A. W. Castleman;Shiv N. Khanna;Christopher B. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Cherie R. Kagan
Cherie R. Kagan University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin T. Diroll
Benjamin T. Diroll Argonne National Laboratory
Xingchen Ye
Xingchen Ye Indiana University
Matteo Cargnello
Matteo Cargnello Stanford University
Dmitri V. Talapin
Dmitri V. Talapin University of Chicago
Shouheng Sun
Shouheng Sun Brown University
James M. Kikkawa
James M. Kikkawa University of Pennsylvania
Charles T. Black
Charles T. Black Brookhaven National Laboratory
Raymond J. Gorte
Raymond J. Gorte University of Pennsylvania

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