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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of pioneering insitu electron microscopy techniques for elucidating dislocation physics in semiconductors and in strained layer epitaxial systems

Overview

Robert Hull is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and materials science, focusing particularly on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Additional areas of study include infectious diseases, aerospace engineering, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Titanium Alloys Microstructure and Properties
  • Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Robert Hull has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Nature Communications
  • Computational Materials Science
  • The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

They have coauthored research with frequent collaborators such as Klaartje Kok, Genevieve Kane, Simeng Lin, Nicholas A. Kennedy, and Neil Chanchlani.

The following are selected publications by Robert Hull, reflecting a diverse research portfolio:

  • "Antibody decay, T cell immunity and breakthrough infections following two SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with infliximab and vedolizumab," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Adaptive characterization of microstructure dataset using a two stage machine learning approach," 2020, Computational Materials Science
  • "Neutralising antibody potency against SARS-CoV-2 wild-type and omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with infliximab and vedolizumab after three doses of COVID-19 vaccine (CLARITY IBD): an analysis of a prospective multicentre cohort study," 2022, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of High-Temperature Inconel-625 Corrosion by Molten Chloride Salts," 2021, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • "High temperature electromigration behavior of cobalt lines observed by in situ transmission electron microscopy," 2023, Applied Physics Letters

Robert Hull's research includes work on COVID-19 clinical and immunological studies, advanced microscopy techniques in materials science, and machine learning approaches to microstructure characterization.

They have received recognition through fellowships such as:

  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society, 2009
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2002, for pioneering in situ electron microscopy techniques related to dislocation physics in semiconductors and strained layer epitaxial systems

Best Publications

  • Nucleation and Growth of CdSe on ZnS Quantum Crystallite Seeds and Vice Versa, in Inverse Micelle Media

    A. R. Kortan;R. Hull;R. L. Opila;M. G. Bawendi

  • Luminescence and photophysics of cadmium sulfide semiconductor clusters: the nature of the emitting electronic state

    N. Chestnoy;T. D. Harris;R. Hull;L. E. Brus

  • Dynamic microscopy of nanoscale cluster growth at the solid–liquid interface

    MJ Williamson;RM Tromp;Philippe Vereecken;R Hull

  • Properties of Crystalline Silicon

    Robert Hull

  • Excited electronic states and optical spectra of ZnS and CdS crystallites in the ≊15 to 50 Å size range: Evolution from molecular to bulk semiconducting properties

    R. Rossetti;R. Hull;J. M. Gibson;L. E. Brus

  • Superconductivity near 70 K in a new family of layered copper oxides

    Robert J. Cava;Bertram Batlogg;J. J. Krajewski;L. W. Rupp

  • Sonochemical Oxidation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

    Yangchuan Xing;Liang Li;Charles C. Chusuei;Robert V. Hull

  • Advances in selective wet oxidation of AlGaAs alloys

    K.D. Choquette;K.M. Geib;C.I.H. Ashby;R.D. Twesten

  • Lasing from excitons in quantum wires

    W Wegscheider;LN Pfeiffer;MM Dignam;A Pinczuk

  • Higher excited electronic states in clusters of ZnSe, CdSe, and ZnS: Spin‐orbit, vibronic, and relaxation phenomena

    N. Chestnoy;R. Hull;L. E. Brus

  • Pt Nanoparticle Binding on Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

    Robert V. Hull;Liang Li;Yangchuan Xing;Charles C. Chusuei

  • Misfit dislocations in lattice-mismatched epitaxial films

    Robert Hull;John C. Bean

  • Hybrid electronic properties between the molecular and solid state limits: Lead sulfide and silver halide crystallites

    R. Rossetti;R. Hull;J. M. Gibson;L. E. Brus

  • Stability of semiconductor strained‐layer superlattices

    R. Hull;J. C. Bean;F. Cerdeira;A. T. Fiory

  • Fabrication and performance of selectively oxidized vertical-cavity lasers

    K.D. Choquette;K.L. Lear;R.P. Schneider;K.M. Geib

  • Nucleation of GaAs on Si: Experimental evidence for a three‐dimensional critical transition

    R. Hull;A. Fischer‐Colbrie

  • Effective mass filtering: Giant quantum amplification of the photocurrent in a semiconductor superlattice

    Federico Capasso;Khalid Mohammed;Alfred Y. Cho;Robert Hull

  • Direct observation of potential distribution across Si/Si p-n junctions using off-axis electron holography

    Martha McCartney;David Smith;Robert Hull;J. C. Bean

  • In situ observations of misfit dislocation propagation in GexSi1−x/Si(100) heterostructures

    R. Hull;J. C. Bean;D. J. Werder;R. E. Leibenguth

  • Nucleation of misfit dislocations in strained-layer epitaxy in the GexSi1−x/Si system

    R. Hull;J. C. Bean

  • Interpretation of dislocation propagation velocities in strained GexSi1−x/Si(100) heterostructures by the diffusive kink pair model

    R. Hull;J. C. Bean;D. Bahnck;L. J. Peticolas

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Bean
John C. Bean University of Virginia
Eric A. Stach
Eric A. Stach University of Pennsylvania
Kent D. Choquette
Kent D. Choquette University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Russell D. Dupuis
Russell D. Dupuis Georgia Institute of Technology
James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University
Rudolf M. Tromp
Rudolf M. Tromp IBM (United States)
John M. Poate
John M. Poate Nokia (United States)
Louis E. Brus
Louis E. Brus Columbia University

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