Publications

  1. Daniel P. Devore, Thomas L. Ellington, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Illuminating the Performance of Electron Withdrawing Groups in Halogen Bonding,” ChemPhysChem (2024). Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202400607
  2. Saheb Bag, Venkata Surya Kumar Choutipalli, Abhirup Bhadra, Kevin L. Shuford, Dipan Kundu, and C. Retna Raj, “Carbothermal Reduction-Induced Defect Engineering of Vanadium-based High-Capacity Cathode for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Battery,” J. Mater. Chem. A 12, 22998-23007 (2024).
  3. Daniel P. Devore, Thomas L. Ellington, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Elucidating the Role of Electron Donating Groups in Halogen Bonding,” J. Phys. Chem. A. 128, 1477-1490 (2024).
  4. W. M. Uvin G. De Alwis and Kevin L. Shuford, “Anisotropic Behavior of Optical Properties in Edge-Modified Phosphorene Quantum Dots,” J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 11085-11093 (2023).
  5. Thomas L. Ellington, Daniel P. Devore, W. M. Uvin G. De Alwis, Kirk A. French, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Shedding Light on the Vibrational Signatures in Halogen-Bonded Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks,” ChemPhysChem 24, e202200812 (2023).
  6. Olatunde P. Olademehin, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sung J. Kim, “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Secondary-Binding Site in Disaccharide-Modified Glycopeptide Antibiotics,” Sci. Rep. 12, 7087 (2022).
  7. Olatunde P. Olademehin, Thomas L. Ellington, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Towards Quantum Confinement in Graphitic Carbon Nitride-based Polymeric Monolayers,” J. Phys. Chem A 125, 7597-7606 (2021).
  8. W. M. Uvin G. De Alwis, K. L. Dimuthu M. Weerawardene, Thomas L. Ellington, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Electronic Structure Modification of Rectangular Phosphorene Quantum Dots via Edge Passivation,” J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 5029-5036 (2021).
  9. Olatunde P. Olademehin, Sung Joon Kim, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Atomic Interactions in the Vancomycin Binding Site,” ACS Omega 6, 775-785 (2021).
  10. Daniel P. Devore, Thomas L. Ellington, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Interrogating the Interplay between Hydrogen and Halogen Bonding in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks,” J. Phys. Chem A 124, 10817-10825 (2020). ACS Editors’ Choice.
  11. Michael A. Plunk, Alyssa Alaniz, Olatunde P. Olademehin, Thomas L. Ellington, Kevin L. Shuford, Robert R. Kane, “Design and Catalyzed Activation of Tak-242 Prodrugs for Localized Inhibition of TLR4-induced Inflammation,” ACS Med. Chem. Lett. 11, 141 (2020).
  12. Paul A. Brown, Caleb D. Martin, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Aromaticity of Unsaturated BEC4 Heterocycles (E = N, P, As, Sb, O, S, Se, Te),” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 18458-18466 (2019).  Featured on the front cover.
  13. O. Tara Liyanage, Matthew R. Brantley, Emvia I. Calixte, Touradj Solouki, Kevin L. Shuford, and Elyssia Gallagher, “Characterization of Electrospray Ionization (ESI) Parameters for In-ESI Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange of Carbohydrate-Metal Ion Adducts,” J. Amer. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 30, 235-247 (2019).
  14. Andrew G. Smith and Kevin L. Shuford, “Photovoltaic and Charge Transfer Analysis of Perylene Diimide Dimer Systems,” J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 367, 115-123 (2018).
  15. Michael T. Spiegel, Amanda Hoogerbrugge, Shamus Truksa, Andrew G. Smith, Kevin L. Shuford, Kevin K. Klausmeyer, and Patrick J. Farmer, “Synthesis of Transition Metal Selenomaltol Complexes,” Dalton Trans. 47, 9030-9037 (2018).
  16. Paul A. Brown and Kevin L. Shuford, “Exceptional Optical Response of Archimedean Boron and Group-V Ultrathin Nanosheets,” J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 24489-24494 (2017).
  17. Olga N. Samoylova, Emvia I. Calixte, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Selective Ion Transport in Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes,” Appl. Surf. Sci. 423, 154-159 (2017).
  18. Hee-Jeong Jang, Insub Jung, Liqiu Zhang, Sungjae Yoo, Sangji Lee, Sanghyun Cho, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Asymmetric Ag Nanocrescents with Pt Rims: Wet-Chemical Synthesis and Optical Characterization,” Chem. Mater. 29, 5364-5370 (2017).
  19. Andrew G. Smith and Kevin L. Shuford, “Electronic Effects on a D-pi-A Organic Sensitizer upon Heteroatom Substitutions in the pi-Bridge,” J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 332, 580-585 (2017).
  20. Paul A. Brown and Kevin L. Shuford, “Archimedean (4,8)-Tessellation of Haeckelite Ultrathin Nanosheets Composed of Boron and Aluminum-Group V Binary Materials,” Nanoscale 8, 19287-19301 (2016).
  21. Emvia I. Calixte, Olga N. Samoylova, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Confinement and Surface Effects of Aqueous Electrolytes within Charged Carbon Nanotubes,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 12204-12212 (2016).
  22. Chengyong Xu, Paul A. Brown, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Strain-Induced Semiconductor-to-Semimetal Phase Transition and Indirect-to-Direct Band Gap Transition in Monolayer 1T-TiS2: A First-Principles Study,” RSC Adv. 5, 83876-83879 (2015).
  23. Yunhua Shi, Mark J. Acerson, Kevin L. Shuford, Bryan F. Shaw, “Voltage-Induced Misfolding of Metalated ALS-Mutant Superoxide Dismutase-1,” ACS Chem. Neurosci. 6, 1696-1707 (2015).
  24. Jonathan H. Barnard, Paul A. Brown, Kevin L. Shuford, and Caleb D. Martin, “1,2-Phosphaborines: Hybrid Inorganic/Organic P-B Analogues of Benzene,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 12083-12086 (2015).
  25. Chengyong Xu, Paul A. Brown, Jing Lu, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Electronic Properties of Halogen-Adsorbed Graphene,” J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 17271-17277 (2015).
  26. Songyi Ham, Hee-Jeong Jang, Yookyung Song, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Octahedral and Cubic Au Nanoframes with Pt Framework,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 9025-9028 (2015).
  27. Dustin C. Buller and Kevin L. Shuford, “Effects of Ethanol on Ion Transport in the NavMs Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel: A Molecular Dynamics Study,” J. Und. Chem. Res. 14, 40-43 (2015).
  28. Olga Samoylova, Emvia Calixte, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ion Transport in Carbon Nanotube Channels,” J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 1659-1666 (2015).
  29. Hee-Jeong Jang, Songyi Ham, Jesus A. I. Acapulco Jr., Yookyung Song, Soonchang Hong, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Fabrication of 2D Au Nanorings with Pt Framework,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 17674-17680 (2014).
  30. Paul A. Brown, Chengyong Xu, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Periodic Trends of Pnictogen Substitution into a Graphene Monovacancy: A First Principles Investigation,” Chem. Mater. 26, 5735-5744 (2014).
  31. Hee-Jeong Jang, Soonchang Hong, Songyi Ham, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Site-Specific Growth of a Pt Shell on Au Nanoplates: Tailoring their Surface Plasmonic Behavior,” Nanoscale 6, 7339-7345 (2014).
  32. Kevin L. Shuford, “Modeling Nanoparticle Optics and Surface Enhanced Emission,” Invited Paper, AIP Conf. Proc. 1590, 168-177 (2014).
  33. Soonchang Hong, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Observation of a Quadrupole Surface Plasmon Mode for Au Nanorods: Effects of Surface Roughness and Crystal Facets,” Chem. Asian J. 8, 1259-1264 (2013).
  34. Sujin Jung, Lichun Liu, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Surface Plasmon Coupling on Linked Au-Pt Nanorods,” J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 3141-3145 (2013).
  35. Matthew C. F. Wander, Kevin L. Shuford, James R. Rustad, and William H. Casey, “Ab-Initio Calculation of the Deprotonation Constants of an Atomistically Defined Nanometer-Sized, Aluminium Hydroxide Oligomer,” Mol. Sim. 39, 220-227 (2013).
  36. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Effect of a Dielectric Coating on Quenching in a Molecule-Nanosphere System,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 546, 129-132 (2012).
  37. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Distance Dependent Quenching Effect in Nanoparticle Dimers,” J. Chem. Phys. 136, 184703 (2012).
  38. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Sensing Properties of a Fabry-Perot Dielectric Structure and Dimer Nanoparticles,” J. Nanotechnology 2012, 745390 (2012).
  39. Matthew C. F. Wander and Kevin L. Shuford, “A Theoretical Study of the Qualitative Reaction Mechanism for the Homogeneous Disproportionation of Pentavalent Uranyl Ions,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 84, 177-185 (2012).
  40. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Fabry-Perot Effect on Dimer Nanoantennas,” Photon. Nanostruc. 10, 36-45 (2012).
  41. Hua Zhou, P. Ganesh, Volker Presser, Matthew C. F. Wander, Paul Fenter, Paul R. C. Kent, De-en Jiang, Ariel A. Chialvo, Jake McDonough, Kevin L. Shuford, and Yury Gogotsi, “Understanding Controls on Interfacial Wetting at Epitaxial Graphene: Experiment and Theory,” Phys. Rev. B 85, 35406 (2012).
  42. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Transmission Line Equivalent Circuit Model Applied to a Plasmonic Grating Nanosurface for Light Trapping,” Opt. Exp. 20, A141-A156 (2012).
  43. Alessia Polemi and Kevin L. Shuford, “Two-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanosurface for Photovoltaics,” J. Appl. Phys. 110, 114313 (2011).
  44. Matthew C. F. Wander and Kevin L. Shuford, “Alkali Halide Interfacial Behavior in a Sequence of Charged Slit Pores,” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 23610-23619 (2011).
  45. Deepak Bhandari, Sabrina M. Wells, Alessia Polemi, Ivan I. Kravchenko, Kevin L. Shuford, and Michael J. Sepaniak, “Stamping Plasmonic Nanoarrays on SERS-Supporting Substrates,” J. Raman Spec. 42, 1916-1924 (2011).
  46. Sujin Jung, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Optical Property of a Colloidal Solution of Platinum and Palladium Nanorods: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance,” J. Phys. Chem. C. 115, 19049-19053 (2011).
  47. Christine M. Sweeney, Christopher L. Stender, Colleen L. Nehl, Warefta Hasan, Kevin L. Shuford, and Teri W. Odom, “Optical Properties of Tipless Gold Nanopyramids,” Small 7, 2032-2036 (2011).
  48. Alessia Polemi, Sabrina M. Wells, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Michael J. Sepaniak and Kevin L. Shuford, “Dispersion Characteristics in Disk-on-Pillar Array Nanostructures for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy,” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 13624-13629 (2011).
  49. Soonchang Hong, Kevin L. Shuford, and Sungho Park, “Shape Transformation of Gold Nanoplates and their Surface Plasmon Characterization: Triangular to Hexagonal Nanoplates,” Chem. Mater. 23, 2011-2013 (2011).
  50. Sabrina M. Wells, Alessia Polemi, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Kevin L. Shuford, and Michael J. Sepaniak, “Efficient Disk on Pillar Substrates for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Analysis,” Chem. Commun. 47, 3814-3816 (2011).
  51. Matthew C. F. Wander and Kevin L. Shuford, “Electrolyte Effects in a Model System for Mesoporous Carbon Electrodes,” J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 4904-4908(2011).
  52. Matthew C. F. Wander and Kevin L. Shuford, “Molecular Dynamics Study of Interfacial Confinement Effects of Aqueous NaCl Brines in Nanoporous Carbon,” J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 20539-20546 (2010).
  53. Alessia Polemi, Sabrina M. Wells, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Micheal J. Sepaniak, and Kevin L. Shuford, “Local Field Enhancement of Pillar Nanosurfaces for SERS,” J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 18096-18102 (2010).
  54. Kent A. Meyer, Alessia Polemi, Kevin L. Shuford, William B. Whitten, and Robert W. Shaw, “Surface Coating Effects on the Assembly of Gold Nanospheres,” Nanotechnology 21, 415701 (2010).
  55. Hye-Mi Bok, Kevin L. Shuford, Eden Jeong, and Sungho Park, “Intra-Surface Plasmon Coupling between Smooth and Nanoporous Blocks in a Gold Nanorod,” Chem. Commun. 46, 982-984 (2010).
  56. Kevin L. Shuford and Sungho Park, “Nanoparticle Optics of Complex Nanorod Architectures,” Proc. SPIE 7395, 739517 (2009).
  57. Hye-Mi Bok, Kevin L. Shuford, Sungwan Kim, Seong Kyu Kim, and Sungho Park, “Multiple Surface Plasmon Modes for Gold/Silver Alloy Nanorods,” Langmuir 25, 5266-5270 (2009).
  58. Kevin L. Shuford, Kent A. Meyer, Cuncheng Li, Sung Oh Cho, William B. Whitten, and Robert W. Shaw, “Computational and Experimental Evaluation of Nanoparticle Coupling,” J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 4009-4014 (2009).Invited Paper
  59. Cuncheng Li, Kevin L. Shuford, Minghai Chen, Eun Je Lee, and Sung Oh Cho, “A Facile Polyol Route to Uniform Gold Octahedra with Tailorable Size and Their Optical Properties,” ACS Nano 2, 1760-1769 (2008).
  60. Kevin L. Shuford, Kent Meyer, Cuncheng Li, Sung Oh Cho, William B. Whitten, and Robert W. Shaw, “Nanoscale Coupling Effects on Single Particle Microscopy,” Proc. SPIE 7033, 7033I (2008).Invited Paper
  61. Hye-Mi Bok, Kevin L. Shuford, Sungwan Kim, and Sungho Park, “Multipole Surface Plasmon Modes for a Colloidal Solution of Nanoporous Gold Nanorods and Their Comparison to Smooth Gold Nanorods,” Nano Lett. 8, 2265-2270 (2008).
  62. Kevin L. Shuford, Jeunghoon Lee, Teri W. Odom, and George C. Schatz, “Optical Properties of Gold Pyramidal Shells,” J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 6662-6666 (2008).
  63. Sungwan Kim, Kevin L. Shuford, Hye-Mi Bok, Seong Kyu Kim, and Sungho Park, “Intraparticle Surface Plasmon Coupling in One-Dimensional Nanostructures,” Nano Lett. 8, 800-804 (2008).
  64. Cuncheng Li, Kevin L. Shuford, Q-Han Park, Weiping Cai, Yue Li, Eun Je Lee, and Sung Oh Cho, “High-Yield Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Gold Nanooctahedra,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 3264-3268 (2007).
  65. Kevin L. Shuford, Stephen K. Gray, Mark A. Ratner, and George C. Schatz, “Substrate Effects on Surface Plasmons in Single Nanoholes,” Chem. Phys. Lett. 435, 123-126 (2007).
  66. Johannes Boneberg, J. König-Birk, H.-J. Münzer, P. Leiderer, Kevin L. Shuford, and George C. Schatz, “Optical Nearfields of Triangular Nanostructures,” Appl. Phys. A 89, 299-303 (2007).
  67. Marc Achermann, Kevin L. Shuford, George C. Schatz, D.H. Dahanayaka, Lloyd A. Bumm, and Victor Klimov, “Near-Field Spectroscopy of Surface Plasmons in Flat Gold Nanoparticles,” Opt. Lett. 32, 2254-2256 (2007).
  68. Kevin L. Shuford, Mark A. Ratner, Stephen K. Gray, and George C. Schatz, “Electric Field Enhancement and Light Transmission in Cylindrical Nanoholes,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 4, 239-246 (2007).
  69. Joel Henzie, Kevin L. Shuford, Eun-Soo Kwak, George C. Schatz, and Teri W. Odom, “Manipulating the Optical Properties of Pyramidal Nanoparticle Arrays,” J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 14028-14031 (2006).
  70. Kevin L. Shuford, Mark A. Ratner, Stephen K. Gray, and George C. Schatz, “Finite-Difference Time-Domain Studies of Light Transmission Through Nanohole Structures,” Appl. Phys. B 84, 11-18 (2006).
  71. Jack Flintermann, Kevin L. Shuford, and George C. Schatz, “Calculations on the Optical Properties of Layered Metal Nanospheres,” Nanoscape 3, 29-37 (2006).
  72. Emma Katheryn Payne, Kevin L. Shuford, Sungho Park, George C. Schatz, and Chad A. Mirkin, “Multipole Plasmon Resonances in Gold Nanorods,” J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 2150-2154 (2006).
  73. Kevin L. Shuford, Mark A. Ratner, and George C. Schatz, “Multipolar Excitation in Triangular Nanoprisms,” J. Chem. Phys. 123, 114713 (2005).
  74. Cleveland Eugene Rayford II, Kevin L. Shuford, and George C. Schatz, “Optical Properties of Gold Nanospheres,” Nanoscape 2, 27-33 (2005).
  75. Jill E. Millstone, Sungho Park, Kevin L. Shuford, Lidong Qin, George C. Schatz, and Chad A. Mirkin, “Observation of a Quadrupole Plasmon Mode for a Colloidal Solution of Gold Nanoprisms,” J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 127, 5312-5313 (2005).
  76. Kevin L. Shuford, “Quantum Control of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Layered Semiconductor Heterostructures,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Florida, Department of Chemistry (2003).
  77. Kevin L. Shuford and Jeffrey L. Krause, “Adiabatic Passage in Quantum Wells,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, 439-445 (2003).
  78. Kevin L. Shuford and Jeffrey L. Krause, “Controlling Terahertz Emission from Quantum Wells,” J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 10818-10824 (2002).
  79. Kevin L. Shuford and Jeffrey L. Krause, “Control of Wave Packet Dynamics in Quantum Wells: Effects of Coulomb Interactions,” J. Appl. Phys. 91, 6533-6538 (2002).
  80. Kevin L. Shuford and Jeffrey L. Krause, “Quantum Control of Charge Carriers in Quantum Wells,” Internat. J. Quantum Chem. 77, 393-402 (2000).