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Vyacheslav (Slava) Rotkin

Frontier Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Engineering Science and Mechanics

N332 Millennium Science Complex

vvr5@psu.edu

814-863-3087

 
 

 

Education

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Rasoul Moradi and Slava Rotkin, 2022, "Nanoarchitectonics for abused-drug detection (Review)", Small, 18, pp. 2104847
  • Rasoul Moradi and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2021, "Nanoarchitectonics for Abused-Drug Biosensors", Small, 2104847
  • Ya Feng, Henan Li, Taiki Inoue, Shohei Chiashi, Slava V Rotkin, Rong Xiang and Shigeo Maruyama, 2021, "One-dimensional van der Waals heterojunction diode", ACS Nano, 15, pp. 5600-5609
  • Hongtu He, Zhe Chen, Yen-Ting Lin, Seung Ho Hahn, Jiaxin Yu, Adri C.T. van Duin, Tobias D. Gokus, Slava V. Rotkin and Seong H Kim, 2021, "Subsurface structural change of silica upon nanoscale physical contact: Chemical plasticity beyond topographic elasticity", Acta Materialia, pp. 116694
  • H He, Z Chen, Y-T Lin, SH Hahn, J Yu, ACT van Duin, TD Gokus, Vyacheslav Rotkin and SH Kim, 2021, "Subsurface structural change of silica upon nanoscale physical contact: Chemical plasticity beyond topographic elasticity", Acta Materialia, 208, pp. 116694
  • Huy Quang Ta, Alicja Bachmatiuk, Rafael Gregorio Mendes, David J. Perello, Liang Zhao, Barbara Trzebicka, Thomas Gemming, Slava V. Rotkin and Mark H. Rummeli, 2020, "Large-Area Single-Crystal Graphene via Self-Organization at the Macroscale", ADVANCED MATERIALS, 32, (45)
  • Daniel A. Heller, Prakrit V. Jena, Matteo Pasquali, Kostas Kostarelos, Lucia G. Delogu, Rachel E. Meidl, Slava V Rotkin, David A. Scheinberg, Robert E. Schwartz, Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, YuHuang Wang, Alberto Bianco, Ardemis A. Boghossian, Sofie Cambre, Laurent Cognet, Simon R. Corrie, Philip Demokritou, Silvia Giordani, Tobias Hertel, Tetyana Ignatova, Mohammad F. Islam, Nicole M. Iverson, Anand Jagota, Dawid Janas, Junichiro Kono, Sebastian Kruss, Markita P. Landry, Yan Li, Richard Martel, Shigeo Maruyama, Anton V. Naumov, Maurizio Prato, Susan J. Quinn, Daniel Roxbury, Michael S. Strano, James M. Tour, R. Bruce Weisman, Wim Wenseleers and Masako Yudasaka, 2020, "Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation", NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 15, (3), pp. 164-166
  • Mark H. Rummeli, Huy Quang Ta and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2019, "Synthesis and Nano-Characterization of Graphene Single- and Few-Layer Films", Interface, 28, (4), pp. 67-71
  • Prakrit V Jena, Daniel Roxbury, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Daniel A Heller and Christopher P Horoszko, 2019, "Optical Voltammetry of Polymer-Encapsulated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 123, (39), pp. 24200-24208
  • Massooma Pirbhai, Swetha Chandrasekar, Ming Zheng, Tetyana Ignatova, Vyacheslav Rotkin and Sabrina Jedlicka, 2019, "Augmentation of C17.2 Neural Stem Cell Differentiation via Uptake of Low Concentrations of ssDNA-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Advanced Biosystems, 3, pp. 1800321
  • T. Ignatova, S. Chandrasekar, M. Pirbhai, S. S. Jedlicka and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2017, "Micro-Raman spectroscopy as an enabling tool for long-term intracellular studies of nanomaterials at nanomolar concentration levels", JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B, 5, (32), pp. 6536-6545
  • Tetyana Ignatova, Sabrina Jedlicka and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2017, "(Invited) Long Term Intracellular Study of Carbon Nanomaterials at Ultra-Low Concentrations", Meeting Abstracts, MA2017-02, (8), pp. 657
  • Subash Adhikari, David J. Perello, Chandan Biswas, Arunabha Ghosh, Van Luan, Nguyen, Jihoon Park, Fei Yao, Vyacheslav Rotkin and Young Hee Lee, 2016, "Determining the Fermi level by absorption quenching of monolayer graphene by charge transfer doping", NANOSCALE, 8, (44), pp. 18710-18717
  • Eric Seabron, Scott MacLaren, Xu Xie, Vyacheslav Rotkin, John A. Rogers and William L. Wilson, 2016, "Scanning Probe Microwave Reflectivity of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Imaging of Electronic Structure and Quantum Behavior at the Nanoscale", ACS NANO, 10, (1), pp. 360-368
  • Huy Q. Ta, David J. Perello, Dinh Loc Duong, Gang Hee Han, Sandeep Gorantla, Van Luan Nguyen, Alicja Bachmatiuk, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Young Hee Lee and Mark H. Ruemmeli, 2016, "Stranski-Krastanov and Volmer-Weber CVD Growth Regimes To Control the Stacking Order in Bilayer Graphene", NANO LETTERS, 16, (10), pp. 6403-6410
  • Tetyana Ignatova, Alexander Balaeff, Michael Blades, Ming Zheng, Peter Stoeckl and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2016, "Two-color spectroscopy of UV excited ssDNA complex with a single-wall nanotube photoluminescence probe: Fast relaxation by nucleobase autoionization mechanism", NANO RESEARCH, 9, (2), pp. 571-583
  • B. Terres, L. A. Chizhova, F. Libisch, J. Peiro, D. Joerger, S. Engels, A. Girschik, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Vyacheslav Rotkin, J. Burgdoerfer and C. Stampfer, 2016, "Size quantization of Dirac fermions in graphene constrictions", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7
  • C. Neumann, S. Reichardt, P. Venezuela, M. Droegeler, L. Banszerus, M. Schmitz, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Mauri, B. Beschoten, Vyacheslav Rotkin and C. Stampfer, 2015, "Raman spectroscopy as probe of nanometre-scale strain variations in graphene", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 6
  • Christoph Neumann, Sven Reichardt, Marc Droegeler, Bernat Terres, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Bernd Beschoten, Vyacheslav Rotkin and Christoph Stampfer, 2015, "Low B Field Magneto-Phonon Resonances in Single-Layer and Bilayer Graphene", NANO LETTERS, 15, (3), pp. 1547-1552
  • Tetyana Ignatova, Michael Blades, Juan G. Duque, Stephen K. Doorn, Ivan Biaggio and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2014, "Formation and dynamics of "waterproof" photoluminescent complexes of rare earth ions in crowded environment", PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 16, (48), pp. 26715-26721
  • Benjamin O. Tayo and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2012, "Charge impurity as a localization center for singlet excitons in single-wall nanotubes", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 86, (12)
  • Andrei Nemilentsau and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2012, "Optimization of nanotube thermal interconnects for near-field radiative heat transport", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 101, (6)
  • Andrei M. Nemilentsau and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2012, "Vertical Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Forests as Plasmonic Heat Pipes", ACS NANO, 6, (5), pp. 4298-4304
  • Tetyana Ignatova, Hikmat Najafov, Aleksandr Ryasnyanskiy, Ivan Biaggio, Ming Zheng and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2011, "Significant FRET between SWNT/DNA and Rare Earth Ions: A Signature of Their Spatial Correlations", ACS NANO, 5, (7), pp. 6052-6059
  • A. M. Nemilentsau, G. Ya. Slepyan, S. A. Maksimenko, Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2011, "Spontaneous decay of an excited state of an emitter coupled to parallel SWNTs placed in the vicinity of a plane interface between two dielectric materials", PHOTONICS AND NANOSTRUCTURES-FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS, 9, (4), pp. 381-389
  • A. M. Nemilentsau, G. Ya. Slepyan, S. A. Maksimenko, Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2010, "Spontaneous decay of the excited state of an emitter near a finite-length metallic carbon nanotube", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 82, (23)
  • Xinning Ho, Lina Ye, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Qing Cao, Sakulsuk Unarunotai, Shuaib Salamat, Muhammad A. Alam and John A. Rogers, 2010, "Scaling Properties in Transistors That Use Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", NANO LETTERS, 10, (2), pp. 499-503
  • Andrei M. Nemilentsau, Gregory Y. Slepyan, Sergey A. Maksimenko, Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2010, "Scattering of the near field of an electric dipole by a single-wall carbon nanotube", JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS, 4
  • Xinning Ho, Lina Ye, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Xu Xie, Frank Du, Simon Dunham, Jana Zaumseil and John A. Rogers, 2010, "Theoretical and experimental studies of Schottky diodes that use aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes", NANO RESEARCH, 3, (6), pp. 444-451
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, Vasili Perebeinos, Alexey G. Petrov and Phaedon Avouris, 2009, "An Essential Mechanism of Heat Dissipation in Carbon Nanotube Electronics", NANO LETTERS, 9, (5), pp. 1850-1855
  • Coskun Kocabas, Simon Dunham, Qing Cao, Kurt Cimino, Xinning Ho, Hoon-Sik Kim, Dale Dawson, Joseph Payne, Mark Stuenkel, Hong Zhang, Tony Banks, Milton Feng, Vyacheslav Rotkin and John A. Rogers, 2009, "High-Frequency Performance of Submicrometer Transistors That Use Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", NANO LETTERS, 9, (5), pp. 1937-1943
  • Vasili Perebeinos, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Alexey G. Petrov and Phaedon Avouris, 2009, "The Effects of Substrate Phonon Mode Scattering on Transport in Carbon Nanotubes", NANO LETTERS, 9, (1), pp. 312-316
  • S. W. Lee, A. Kornblit, D. Lopez, Vyacheslav Rotkin, A. A. Sirenko and H. Grebel, 2009, "Negative Differential Resistance: Gate Controlled and Photoconductance Enhancement in Carbon Nanotube Intraconnects", NANO LETTERS, 9, (4), pp. 1369-1373
  • Jared M. Maxson and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2008, "Classification and analysis of excitations in a coupled finite nanoparticle cylinder-shell lattice", NANO LETTERS, 8, (9), pp. 2944-2948
  • Yan Yan, Jean Toulouse, Iavor Velchev and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2008, "Decoupling and asymmetric coupling in triplecore photonic crystal fibers", JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, 25, (9), pp. 1488-1495
  • Stacy E. Snyder and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2008, "Optical identification of a DNA-wrapped carbon nanotube: Signs of helically broken symmetry", SMALL, 4, (9), pp. 1284-1286
  • Qing Cao, Minggang Xia, Coskun Kocabas, Moonsub Shim, John A. Rogers and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2007, "Gate capacitance coupling of singled-walled carbon nanotube thin-film transistors", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 90, (2)
  • Seong Jun Kang, Coskun Kocabas, Taner Ozel, Moonsub Shim, Ninad Pimparkar, Muhammad A. Alam, Vyacheslav Rotkin and John A. Rogers, 2007, "High-performance electronics using dense, perfectly aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes", NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 2, (4), pp. 230-236
  • V. I. Puller and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2007, "Helicity and broken symmetry of DNA-nanotube hybrids", EPL, 77, (2)
  • A. G. Petrov and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2006, "Energy relaxation of hot carriers in single-wall carbon nanotubes by surface optical phonons of the substrate", JETP LETTERS, 84, (3), pp. 156-160
  • Y Li, U Ravaioli and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2006, "Metal-semiconductor transition and Fermi velocity renormalization in metallic carbon nanotubes", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 73, (3)
  • S. E. Snyder and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2006, "Polarization component of cohesion energy in single-wall carbon nanotube-DNA complexes", JETP LETTERS, 84, (6), pp. 348-351
  • S Barraza-Lopez, Vyacheslav Rotkin, Y Li and K Hess, 2005, "Conductance modulation of metallic carbon nanotubes by remote charged rings", EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, 69, (6), pp. 1003-1009
  • L Rotkina, Suk-Hoon Oh, JN Eckstein and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2005, "Logarithmic behavior of the conductivity of electron-beam deposited granular Pt/C nanowires", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 72, (23)
  • A Robert-Peillard and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2005, "Modeling hysteresis phenomena in nanotube field-effect transistors", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY, 4, (2), pp. 284-288
  • DY Lu, Y Li, Vyacheslav Rotkin, U Ravaioli and K Schulten, 2004, "Finite-size effect and wall polarization in a carbon nanotube channel", NANO LETTERS, 4, (12), pp. 2383-2387
  • Y Li, Vyacheslav Rotkin and U Ravaioli, 2004, "Metal-semiconductor transition in armchair carbon nanotubes by symmetry breaking", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 85, (18), pp. 4178-4180
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and K Hess, 2004, "Possibility of a metallic field-effect transistor", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 84, (16), pp. 3139-3141
  • AG Petrov and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2004, "Transport in nanotubes: Effect of remote impurity scattering", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 70, (3)
  • AG Petrov and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2003, "Breaking of nanotube symmetry by substrate polarization", NANO LETTERS, 3, (6), pp. 701-705
  • Y Li, Vyacheslav Rotkin and U Ravaioli, 2003, "Electronic response and bandstructure modulation of carbon nanotubes in a transverse electrical field", NANO LETTERS, 3, (2), pp. 183-187
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, HE Ruda and A Shik, 2003, "Universal description of channel conductivity for nanotube and nanowire transistors", APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 83, (8), pp. 1623-1625
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and Y Gogotsi, 2002, "Analysis of non-planar graphitic structures: from arched edge planes of graphite crystals to nanotubes", MATERIALS RESEARCH INNOVATIONS, 5, (5), pp. 191-200
  • M Dequesnes, Vyacheslav Rotkin and NR Aluru, 2002, "Calculation of pull-in voltages for carbon-nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical switches", NANOTECHNOLOGY, 13, (1), pp. 120-131
  • KA Bulashevich and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2002, "Nanotube devices: A microscopic model", JETP LETTERS, 75, (4), pp. 205-209
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2000, "Renormalization of electron energy in OD systems due to depolarization shift", NANOTECHNOLOGY, 11, (4), pp. 332-335
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1999, "Energy characteristics of carbon clusters with passivated bonds", PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE, 41, (5), pp. 729-732
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1999, "Bond passivation model: Diagram of carbon nanoparticle stability", PHYSICS LETTERS A, 261, (1-2), pp. 98-101
  • SF Kharlapenko and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 1999, "Frenkel-excitations of C-N (N=12,60) clusters", CARBON, 37, (5), pp. 847-850
  • NA Gunko and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 1999, "Polymer-C-60 excitation", OPTICAL MATERIALS, 12, (2-3), pp. 391-394
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1998, "Plasmon-Frenkel-exciton in a clustered solid", PHYSICS LETTERS A, 245, (3-4), pp. 292-296
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and SF Kharlapenko, 1998, "On the analytical solutions of the Hamiltonian of a Frenkel exciton for the lattice of a regular polyhedral cluster", JETP LETTERS, 68, (7), pp. 606-610
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1998, "Vacuum-ultraviolet plasma Frenkel excitons: elementary excitations of polymerized fullerene", PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE, 40, (5), pp. 839-841
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1996, "Energy of carbon cluster curved surface", MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION C-MOLECULAR MATERIALS, 8, (1-2), pp. 111-116
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1996, "Multipole excitations of two joint conducting spheres: Application to C-119 molecule", SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS, 97, (3), pp. 183-186
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin and RA Suris, 1994, "Computation of fullerene electron structure in the model of quantum hole convoluted into sphere", FIZIKA TVERDOGO TELA, 36, (12), pp. 3569-3581
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, , "Role of Bilayer Graphene Microstructure on the Nucleation of WSe2 Overlayers", ACS Nano, 17, (13), pp. 12140-12150
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, , "Multidimensional imaging reveals mechanisms controlling label-free multimodal biosensing in vertical 2DM-heterostructures", ACS Nano, 16, (2), pp. 2598–2607

Other

  • Slava V Rotkin, 2022, "Focus Issue on ECS Nano: Early Career Researchers", ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 11
  • Huy Quang Ta, Alicja Bachmatiuk, Rafael Gregorio Mendes, David J. Perello, Liang Zhao, Barbara Trzebicka, Thomas Gemming, Slava V Rotkin and Mark H. Rümmeli, 2020, "Graphene: Large-Area Single-Crystal Graphene via Self-Organization at the Macroscale (Adv. Mater. 45/2020)", Advanced Materials, 32, (45), pp. 2070340
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2010, "Electronic Properties of Nonideal Nanotube Materials: Helical Symmetry Breaking in DNA Hybrids", ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL 61, 61, pp. 241-261
  • Vyacheslav Rotkin, 2010, "Electronic Properties of Nonideal Nanotube Materials: Helical Symmetry Breaking in DNA Hybrids", ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL 61, 61, pp. 241-261
  • SV KOZYREV and Vyacheslav Rotkin, 1993, "FULLERENE - STRUCTURE, CRYSTAL-LATTICE DYNAMICS, ELECTRON-STRUCTURE, AND PROPERTIES (A REVIEW)", SEMICONDUCTORS, 27, (9), pp. 777-791

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Honorary International Chair Professor, Department of Molecular Science & Organic Polymeric Materials Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology, November 2023 - October 2025
  • JSPS 2023 Invitational Fellowship for Research, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, October 2023 - March 2024
  • Distinguished Visiting Project Professor, Japan Gateway, Kyoto University Top Global Program, July 2022 - June 2023
  • Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, 2021

Service

Service to Penn State:

Service to External Organizations:

  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Board Member, Board of Directors member, Electrochemical Society, June 2016 - June 2020
 


 

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