Publications

Publications

Liu, X., Guo, L., Morris, D., Kane, A., Hurt, R.H., Targeted Removal of Bioavailable Metal as a Detoxification Strategy for Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon, 46(3) 489-500 (2008).

Manchester, S., Wang, X., Kulaots, I., Gao, Y., Hurt, R.H., High Activity Mercury Capture on Freshly Ozone-Treated Carbon Surfaces, Carbon 46(3) 518-524 (2008).

Bulut, L., Yan, A., Hurt, R.H., Catalytic Combustion as a Synthesis Tool for Micropatterned Carbon Materials, Combustion and Flame, in press.

Guo, L., Von Dem Bussche, A., Buechner, M., Kane, A.B., Hurt, R.H., Adsorption of Essential Micronutrients by Carbon Nanotubes and its Implications for Nanotoxicity Testing, Small, in press.

Johnson NC, Manchester S, Sarin L, Gao Y, Kulaots I, Hurt RH, “Release of Mercury vapor from Broken Compact Fluorescent Lamps and In Situ Capture by New Nanomaterial Sorbents,” accepted for publication in Environmental Science and Technology.

X. Liu, V. Gurel, D. Morris, D. W. Murray, A. Zhitkovich, A. B. Kane, R. H. Hurt, "Bioavailability of Nickel in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes", Advanced Materaials, 19(19) 2790-2796 (2007)

Aihui Yan, Annette Von Dem Bussche, Agnes B. Kane, Robert Hurt, "Tocopherol Polyethylene Glycol Succinate as a Safe, Antioxidant Surfactant for Processing Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes", Carbon, 45(13) 2463-2470 (2007)

Lin Guo, Xinyuan Liu, Vanesa Sanchez, Charles Vaslet, Agnes B Kane, Robert H. Hurt, "A Window of Oppurtunity: Designing Carbon Nanomaterials for Environmental Safety and Health", Materials Science Forum, Vols. 544-545, 511-516 (2007)

Lin Guo, Daniel G. Morris, Xinyuan Liu, Charles Vaslet, Robert H. Hurt, Agnes B. Kane, "Iron Bioavailability and Redox Activity in Diverse Carbon Nanotube Samples", Chem. Matter., 19(14), 3472-3478 (2007)

Aihui Yan, Bonnie W. Lau , Bevan S. Weissman, Indrek Külaots, Nancy Y. C. Yang, Agnes B. Kane, Robert H. Hurt, "Biocompatible, hydrophilic, supramolecular carbon nanoparticles for cell delivery", Advanced Materials, 18(18) 2373-2378 (2006)

Jian K, Kulaots I, Yan A, Crawford GP, Hurt RH. "Reconstruction and hydrophobicity of nanocarbon surfaces composed solely of graphene edges," Carbon, 44(10) 2102-2106 (2006).

Hurt, R.H., Monthioux, M., Kane, A., "Toxicology of Carbon Nanomaterials: Status, Trends, and Perspectives on the Special Issue," Carbon, 44(6) 1028-1033 (2006).

Kengqing Jian, Robert H. Hurt, Brian W. Sheldon, Gregory P. Crawford, "Visualization of Liquid Crystal Director Fields within Carbon Nanotube Cavities," Applied Physics Letters, 88, 163110 (2006).

Hurt R.H., Haynes B.S., "On the Origin of Power-Law Kinetics in Carbon Oxidation," Proc. Comb. Inst., 30 (2) 2161-2168 (2005)

M. E. Sousa, S. G. Cloutier, K. Q. Jian, B. S. Weissman, R. H. Hurt, and G. P. Crawford, "Patterning Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Precursors for Carbon Nanotube Arrays," Applied Physics Letters, 87, 173115 (2005)

Chan, C., Crawford, G., Gao, Y., Hurt, R.H.., Jian, K., Li, H., Sheldon, BM., Sousa, M., Yang, "Liquid Crystal Engineering of Carbon Nanofibers and Nanotubes," Carbon, 43 (12) 2431-2440 (2005)

Jian K., Xianyu H., Eakin J., Gao Y., Crawford G.P., Hurt R.H., "Orientationally Ordered and Patterned Discotic Films and Carbon Films from Liquid Crystal Precursors," Carbon, 43 (2) 407-415 (2005).

Khanna, R., Sahajwalla, V., Hurt ,R.H., "An atomistic technique for simulating non-covalent interactions in large ensembles of high-molecular-weight polyaromatics ," Carbon, 43(1) 67-77 (2004)

M. E. Sousa, C, Chan, K. Jian, Y. Gao, N Yang, R. Hurt, and G. P. Crawford, “Micro-Patterned Carbon Nanotube Arrays Using Pen-Writable Lyotropic Liquid Crystals,” Society for Information Display Digest of Technical Papers 35, 936-939 (2004)

Jian, K. Shim, H.S., Tuhus-Dubrov, D., Woodward, C., Bernstein, S. Pfeffer, M. Steingart, D., Sachsmann, S., Gournay, T., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Liquid Crystal Surface Anchoring of Mesophase Pitch," Carbon, 41 (11) 2073-2083 (2003)

Chen, X., Farber, M., Gao, Y., Kulaots, I., Suuberg, E.M., Hurt, R.H., "Mechanisms of Surfactant Adsorption on Nonpolar, Air-Oxidized, and Ozone-Treated Carbon Surfaces," Carbon 41 (8) 1489-1500 (2003).

Yang, N.Y.C., Jian, K.J., Kulaots, I., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H. "Template Synthesis of Nanophase Mesocarbon," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology," 3 (5) 386-391 (2003).

Jian, K., Shim, H.-S., Schwartzman, A., Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Orthogonal Carbon Nanofibers by Template-Mediated Assembly of Discotic Mesophase Pitch," Adv. Materials, 15 (2) 164-167 (2003).

Crawford, G.P., Hurt, R.H., "Nanomaterials from Discotic Liquid Crystals" in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" Vol 10 pp. 1-27 (H.S. Nalwa Ed.). American Scientific Publishers, 2003.

Hurt, R.H., Krammer, G., Crawford, G., Jian, K., Rulison, C., "Polyaromatic Assembly Mechanisms and Structure Selection in Carbon Materials," Chemistry of Materials, 14 4558-4565 (2002).

Gao, Y., Külaots, I., Chen, X., Aggarwal, R., Mehta, A., Suuberg, E.M., Hurt, R.H., "Ozonation for the Chemical Modification of Carbon Surfaces in Fly Ash," Fuel 80 765-768 (2001).

Hu, Y., Hurt, R.H., "Thermodynamics of Carbonaceous Mesophase II: General Theory for Nonideal Solutions," Carbon 39 887-896 (2001).

Hurt, R.H., Chen, Z-Y. "Liquid Crystals and Carbon Materials," Physics Today, 53 (3) 39-44 March 2000.

Shim, H.S., Hurt, R.H., Yang, N.Y.C. "A Methodology for Analysis of 002 LF Fringe Images and Its Application to Combustion-Derived Carbons", Carbon, 38 29-45 (2000).

Shim, H., Hurt, R.H. "Thermal Annealing of Chars from Diverse Organic Precursors under Combustion-Like Conditions" Energy and Fuels, 14 pp. 340-348 (2000).

Hu, Y., Calo, J.M., Hurt, R.H., Kerstein, A. "Kinetics of Orientational Order / Disorder Transitions and Their Application to Carbon Material Synthesis," Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 7 275-288 (1999).

Hurt, R.H., Sun, J-K, and Lunden, M., "A Kinetic Model of Carbon Burnout in Pulverized Coal Combustion," Combustion and Flame, 113 181-197 (1998).

Hurt, R.H., Structure, Properties, and Reactivity of Solid Fuels (Invited Topical Review Paper), Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, 2887-2904.

Freeman, E., Gao, Y.M., Hurt, R.H., Suuberg, E.S. "Interactions of Carbon-Containing Fly Ash with Commercial Air Entraining Agents for Concrete," Fuel, 76 (8) 761-765 (1997).

Hurt, R. H. and Davis, K. A., "Near-Extinction and Final Burnout in Coal Combustion," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth (International) Symposium on Combustion, 1994, pp. 561-568. (Silver Medal Paper).

Hurt, R. H., Sarofim, A. F., and Longwell, J. P. "Gasification-Induced Densification of Carbons: From Soot to Form Coke" Combustion and Flame, 95 430432 (1993).

Hurt, R. H., D. R. Dudek, J. P. Longwell, and A. F. Sarofim. "The Phenomenon of Gasification-Induced Carbon Densification and its Influence on Pore Structure Evolution" Carbon 26:4, 433-449 (1988)

Presentations

"The Rise and Fall: Synthesis and Destruction of Carbon Materials and Nanoforms in Flames," Plenary Lecture by R. Hurt at the 2005 Joint U.S. Sectional Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA March 2005

"Nature's Minuet in C: Thermal, Catalytic, and Supramolecular Routes to New Carbon Nanomaterials," given by R. Hurt at 10 U.S. locations as The Graffin Lecture of the American Carbon Society, 2004/2005

“Mesocarbon nanobeads synthesized from a lyotropic liquid crystal”, given by Aihui Yan in ACS 229^th Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2005.

“The Supramolecular Approach to Nanocarbon Synthesis,” Keynote lecture by R. Hurt at Carbon2005, Gyoengju, Korea, July 2005.

“Health Effects of Carbon Nanomaterials: The Role of Iron Residues in Free Radical Production and DNA Damage,” given by Lin Guo at Carbon2005, Gyoengju, Korea, July 2005.

Jian K., Chan, C., Sousa, M., Gao, Y., Yang, N., Paukshto, M., Crawford, G., Hurt, R.H. “Novel Carbon Nanoforms from Discotic Liquid Crystals,” given by Kengqing Jian at American Chemical Society National Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2004.