Publications
1. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.; Jin, S. “Energy Trapping and Shock Disintegration
in a Composite Granular Medium” Physical Review Letters; 96, 058002, 2006.
2. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.; Jin, S. “Tunability of solitary wave properties in
one dimensional strongly nonlinear phononic crystals” Physical Review E; 73, 026610, 2006.
3. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F. “Strongly nonlinear waves in a chain of polymer coated steel
beads.” Physical Review E; 73, 026612, 2006.
4. Ye, X.R.; Daraio, C.; Wang, C.; Talbot, J. B.; Jin, S. “Room Temperature Solvent-free
Synthesis of Monodisperse Magnetite Nanocrystals” Journal of Nanoscience &
Nanotechnology; 6, 3, 852-856, 2006.
5. AuBuchon, J.F.; Chen, L.H.; Daraio, C.; Jin, S., “Multibranching Carbon Nanotubes via SelfSeeded Catalysts” Nano Letters; 6, 2, 324-328, 2006.
6. Chen, L.H.; AuBuchon, J.F.; Chen, I.C.; Daraio, C.; Ye, X.R.; Gapin, A.I.; Jin, S.; Wang, C.
M.; ”Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Carbon Microfibers by DC Plasma-Enhanced
Chemical Vapor Deposition” Applied Physics Letters; 88, 033103, 2006.
7. Rao, R. ; Chandrasekaran, H.; Gubbala, S. ; Sunkara, M.K. ; Daraio, C.; Jin, S., Rao, A.M.
“Synthesis of Low-Melting Metal Oxide and Sulfide Nanowires and Nanobelts” Journal of
Electronic Materials; 35, 5, 2006.
8. Oh, S.H.; Daraio, C.; Chen, L.H.; Pisanic, T.R.; Finones, R.; Jin, S., “Significantly
Accelerated Osteoblast Cell Growth on Aligned TiO2 Nanotubes” Journal of Biomedical &
Materials Research; Part A, DOI 10/1002/jbm.a, 97-103, 2006.
9. Park, J.; Daraio, C.; Jin, S.; Bandaru, P.R. “Electrical characterization of the three-way gating
capability of Y-junction carbon nanotube transistors” Applied Physics Letters; 88, 243113,
2006.
10. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Rao, A. M.; Jin, S. “Impact Response by a Forest of Coiled
Carbon Nanotubes” Journal of Applied Physics; (in press) 2006.
11. Daraio C.*; AuBuchon, J.F.*; Chen, L.H.; Gapin, A.I.; Jin S. “Iron Silicide Root Formation in
Carbon Nanotubes Grown by Microwave PECVD”. Journal of Physical Chemistry B; 109, 51,
24215-24219, 2005.
12. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.; Jin, S. “Strongly nonlinear waves in a chain of
Teflon beads” Physical Review E; 72, 016603, 2005.
13. Bandaru, P.R.; Daraio, C.; Jin, S. and Rao, A.M. “Novel electrical switching behavior and
logic in carbon nanotube Y-junctions” Nature Materials; 4, 663-666, 2005.
14. Nesterenko, V.F.; Daraio, C.; Herbold, E.B.; Jin, S. “Anomalous wave reflection at the
interface of two strongly nonlinear granular media” Physical Review Letters; 95, 158702,
2005.
15. Oh, S.H.; Finones, R. R.; Daraio, C.; Chen L.-H.; Jin, S. “Growth of nano-scale
hydroxyapatite using chemically treated titanium oxide nanotubes” Biomaterials; 26, 4938–
4943, 2005.
16. Nalla, R.K.; Porter, A.E.; Daraio, C.; Minor, A.M.; Radmilovic, V.; Stach, E.A.; Tomsia, A.P.
and Ritchie R.O. “Ultrastructural examination of dentin using focused ion beam crosssectioning and transmission electron microscopy” Micron, 36, 672-680, 2005.
17. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V. F.; Aubuchon, J. F.; Jin, S.; “Dynamic Nanofragmentation of
Carbon Nanotubes” Nano Letters; 4, 10, 1915-1918, 2004.
18. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V. F.; Jin, S. “Highly Nonlinear Contact Interaction and Dynamic
Energy Dissipation by Forest of Carbon Nanotubes” Applied Physics Letters; 85, 23, 57245726, 2004.
19. Gothard, N.; Daraio, C.; Gaillard, J.; Zidan, R.; Jin S. and Rao, A. M. “Controlled Growth of
Y-Junction nanotubes using Ti-Doped Vapor catalyst” Nano Letters; 4, 2, 213-217, 2004.
20. AuBuchon, J.F.; Chen, L.H.; Gapin, A.I.; Kim, D.W.; Daraio, C; Jin S.H. “Multiple sharp
bendings of carbon nanotubes during growth to produce zigzag morphology” Nano Letters; 4,
9, 1781-1784, 2004.
21. Srivastava D.; Menon M.; Daraio, C.; et al. ”Vacancy-mediated mechanism of nitrogen
substitution in carbon nanotubes” Physical Review B; 69, 15, 153414, 2004.
22. Chen, L.H.; AuBuchon, J. F.; Gapin, A; Daraio, C.; Bandaru, P.; Jin, S.; Kim D. W.; and Yoo,
I. K.; Wang, C. M. “Control of carbon nanotube morphology by change of applied bias field
during growth” Applied Physics Letters; 85, 22, 5373-53756, 2004.
23. Gopal, V.; Radmilovic, V. R.; Daraio, C.; Jin, S.; Yang, P.; Stach, E. A.; “Rapid Prototyping of
Site-Specific Nanocontacts by Electron and Ion Beam Assisted Direct-Write Nanolithography”
Nano Letters; 4, 11, 2059-2063, 2004.
24. Quist, A.P.; Chand, A.; Daraio, C.; Jin, S.; Lal, R. “An on chip detection system for activity of
ion channels in bilayers supported over silicon chip nanopores” (submitted), 2006.
25. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.B. “On the interaction of solitary waves with an
interface between two strongly nonlinear granular media” (in progress), 2006.
26. Kim, J.; Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.B.; Wang, S. “Strongly nonlinear waves in a
diatomic chain” (in progress), 2006
27. Daraio, C. and Nesterenko, V.F. “Strongly nonlinear wave propagation in two-dimensional
force chains” (in progress), 2006.
28. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Aubuchon, J.; Jin, S. “Dynamic insulator-metal transition in a
strongly nonlinear media” (in progress), 2006.
29. Bandaru, P.R.; Daraio, C. and Rao, A.M. “A thermodynamic model for the evolution of helical
forms in nanowire and nanotube growth” (in progress), 2006
Book Chapters
“Synthesis and patterning methods for nanostructures useful for biological applications”
Daraio, C.; Jin, S., Chapter 5 of the book “At the Building Block Level: Nanotechnology for
Biology and Medicine.” By G.A. Silva, Science of Knowledge Press (in progress).
Patents
“Article comprising pulse trapping composite granular medium and methods for fabricating
such medium.” Daraio, C.; Jin, S. and Nesterenko, V.F.; U.S. Provisional Application Serial
No. 60/758,742 (filed in 2006).
Refereed Conference Proceedings
1. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.; Jin, S. “Pulse mitigation by a composite discrete
medium”. JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE IV Proceedings DYMAT 2006, Dijon, France, (in press),
2006.
2. Park, J.; Daraio, C.; Rao, A.; Bandaru, P.; “Electrical Transport in Carbon Nanotube Yjunctions- a Paradigm for Novel Functionality at the Nanoscale”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp.
Proc. Vol. 922, 0922-U11-08, Materials Research Society, 2006.
3. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Herbold, E.; Jin, S. “Strongly nonlinear waves in polymer based
phononic crystals”. APS – Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 1507-1510, AIP
Conference Proceedings, Baltimore (MD), 2006.
4. Herbold, E.B.; Nesterenko, V. F.; Daraio, C. “Influence of Controlled Viscous Dissipation on
the Propagation of Strongly Nonlinear Waves in Stainless Steel Based Phononic Crystals”
APS - Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 1523-1526, AIP Conference Proceedings,
Baltimore (MD), 2006.
5. Daraio, C.; Nesterenko, V.F.; Jin, S.; “Strongly nonlinear waves in 3D phononic crystals”,
APS - Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 197-200, AIP Conference Proceedings,
Portland (OR), 2003.
6. Barrabes, S.; Daraio, C.; Kassner, M.E.; Hayes, T.A. and Wang, M.Z. "Dynamic Restoration
Mechanisms and Discontinuous Dynamic Recrystallization in -Zirconium", light Metals 2002,
825-839, T. Lewis ed., Canadian Inst. of Mining, Metallurgy and Petrol. Engineers, Montreal
(CA), 2002.