Publications


Papers in preparation or submitted


  1. Bullet Impact of Nucleation During Growth on Vicinal Surfaces,

    submitted.

    Alexandre Beausoleil, Patrick Desjardins, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Influence of statistic distributions on the electrical properties of disordered carbon nanotube networks, ,

    in preparation.

    Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Alain Rochefort.


Accepted or published papers (partial list)


  1. Bullet Noncovalent Bicomponent Self-Assemblies on a Silicon Surface,

    ACS Nano, 6 (2012) 6905-6911. (PDF) (on line)

    Bulent Baris, Judicaël Jeannoutot, Vincent Luzet, Frank Palmino, Alain Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux.


  1. Bullet Evidence for π-Interactions in Stacked Polymers by STM Simulations,

    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (2011) 18625-18633.  (PDF) (on line)

    Alain Rochefort, Stéphane Bedwani, Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla.


  1. Bullet Engineering Homologous Molecular Organization in 2D and 3D. Cocrystallization of Pyridyl-Substituted

     Diaminotriazines with Alkanecarboxylic Acids,

     Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 (2011) 12908.  (PDF) (on line)

     Adam Duong, Marc-André Dubois, Thierry Maris, Ji-Hyun Yi, AntonioNanci, Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest.


  1. Bullet Intrusive STM Imaging,

    Physical Review B, 83 (2011) 115430. (PDF) (on line)

    Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Large-Scale Patterning of Zwitterionic Molecules on a Si(111)-7x7 Surface,

    ACS Nano, 5 (2011) 424-428. (PDF) (on line)

  1. Mohamed El Garah, Younès Makoudi, Éric Duverger, Frank Palmino, A. Rochefort, Frédéric Chérioux.


  1. Bullet Band Alignment Engineering in Organized rrP3HT/C60 Bulk Heterojunction,

    Organic Electronics, 11 (2010) 1991-1998. (PDF) (on line)

    Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet A Single Molecule Kondo Switch: Multistability of Tetracyanoethylene on Cu(111),

    Nano Letters, 10 (2010) 4175-4180. (PDF) (on line)

    T. Choi, S. Bedwani, A. Rochefort, C.Y. Chen, A.J. Epstein, J.A. Gupta.


  1. Bullet High On-Off Conductance Switching Ratio in Optically-Driven Self-Assembled Conjugated Molecular      

    Systems,

    ACS Nano, 4 (2010) 2411-2421. (PDF) (on line)

    Kacem Smaali, Stéphane Lenfant, Sandrine Karpe, Maïténa Oçafrain, Philippe Blanchard, Dominique

    Deresmes, Sylvie Godey, Alain Rochefort, Jean Roncali and Dominique Vuillaume.


  1. Bullet Strong Adsorption of Aminotriazines on Graphene,

    Chemical Communications, 46 (2010) 2923-2925. (PDF) (on line)

    James D. Wuest, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Hexaphenylbenzenes as Potential Acetylene Sponges,

    Organic Letters, 12 (2010) 380-383. (PDF) (abstract)

    Éric Gagnon, Alain Rochefort, Valérie Métivaud, James D. Wuest.


  1. Bullet Stabilization of Platinum Nanoparticles on Graphene by Non-Invasive Functionalization,

    Carbon, 47 (2009), 2233-2238. (PDF) (abstract)

    A. Rochefort, D.-Q. Yang, E. Sacher


  1. Bullet Structural and Electronic Properties of poly(3-hexylthiophene) π-Stacked Crystal,

   Physical Review B, 79 (2009), 115207. (PDF) (abstract)

   Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Tailoring the Photoluminescence Properties of Ionic Iridium Complexes,

   Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113 (2009) 534-541. (PDF) (abstract).

   Rachida Terki, Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Interaction of Substituted Aromatic Compounds with Graphene,

   Langmuir, 25 (2009) 210-215. (PDF) (abstract)

    Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest


  1. Bullet Strongly Reshaped Organic-Metal Interfaces: Tetracyanoethylene on Cu(100),

    Physical Review Letters, 101 (2008) 216105. (PDF) (abstract)

    Stéphane Bedwani, Daniel Wegner, Michael F. Crommie, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet  Effects of Long Jumps, Reversible Aggregation, and Meyer-Neldel Rule on Submonolayer Epitaxial Growth,

    Physical Review E, 78 (2008) 021604. (PDF) (abstract)

    Alexandre Beausoleil, Patrick Desjardins, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Parallel STM Imaging of Low Dimensional Nanostructures, (PDF) (abstract)

   Journal of Applied Physics, 104 (2008) 023702.

   Barnim A. Janta-Polczynski, Jorge I. Cerdá, Gabriel Éthier-Majcher, Konstantinos Piyakis, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Self Assembly of Rubrene on Copper Surfaces, (PDF) (abstract)

   Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112 (2008) 10214-10221.

   Jill A. Miwa, Fabio Cicoira, Stéphane Bedwani, Josh Lipton-Duffin, Dmitrii F. Perepichka, Alain Rochefort,

   Federico Rosei.


  1. Bullet Nanoscale Adaptive Meshing for Rapid STM Imaging,

   Journal of Computational Physics, 227 (2008) 6720-6726. (PDF)

   Stéphane Bedwani, François Guibault, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Frustrated 2D Molecular Crystallization,

   Journal of the American Chemical Society (Comm.), 129 (2007) 13774-13775. (PDF) (abstract)

   Hui Zhou, Hung Dang, Ji-Hyun Yi, Antonio Nanci, Alain Rochefort, James D. Wuest.


  1. Bullet First Principles Calculations of Photophysical Properties of Semiconducting Iridium Complexes, (link)

   Proceedings of the Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, (2007), 121-122.

   Rachida Terki, Louis-Philippe Simoneau, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Mott-like Transition in Alkanethiol-linked Gold Clusters, (PDF)

   Proceedings of the Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, (2007), 265-266.

   Alain Rochefort, Bijan Movaghar.


  1. Bullet Influence of Structural Organization on the Electronic Properties of Organic Photovoltaic Materials, (PDF)

   Proceedings of the Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, (2007), 225-226.

   Arnaud Maillard, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Application of SPAGS-STM to the Formation of Thin Organic Semiconducting Layer, (PDF)

   Proceedings of the Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, (2007), 53-54.

   Stéphane Bedwani, Jill Miwa, Fabio Cicoira, Barnim Janta-Polczynski, Jorge Cerda, Federico Rosei, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Competitive Hydrogen Bonding in π-Stacked Oligomers, (PDF)

   Advanced Materials, 19 (2007) 1992-1995.

   Alain Rochefort, Étienne Bayard, Salah Hadj-Messaoud.


  1. Bullet Resonant Tunneling Transport in Highly Organized Oligoacene Assemblies, (PDF)

   Organic Electronics, 8 (2007) 1.

   Alain Rochefort, Paul Boyer, Brahim Nacer.


  1. Bullet Tailoring Electronic and Charge Transport Properties of Molecular π-Stacked Heterojunctions, (PDF)

   Applied Physics Letters, 89 (2006) 092115.

   Alain Rochefort, Paul Boyer.


  1. Bullet Hydrogen Bonding and π-Stacking in Highly Organized Arenes-Based Molecular Wire, (PDF)

   Organic Electronics, 7 (2006) 144-154.

   Étienne Bayard, Sébastien Hamel, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Formation of π-Coupled Organic Wire on Si(001)[2x1] Surface, (PDF)

   Chemical Physics Letters, 400 (2004) 347-352.

   Alain Rochefort, Alexandre Beausoleil.


  1. Bullet On the Control of Carbon Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage Applications, (PDF)

   Carbon, 42 (2004) 2187-2193.

   Patrice Guay, Barry Stansfield, Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Electronic and Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotube Peapods, (PDF)

   Physical Review B, 67 (2003) 115401.

   Alain Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Electrical Switching in π-Resonant 1D Intermolecular Channels, (PDF)

   Nano Letters, 2, (2002), 877-880.

   Alain Rochefort, Richard Martel, Phaedon Avouris.


  1. Bullet Quantum Size Effects in Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions, (PDF)

   Nano Letters, 3 (2002) 253-256.

   Alain Rochefort, Phaedon Avouris.


  1. Bullet Switching Behavior of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Under an External Electric Field, (PDF)

   Applied Physics Letters, 78 (2001) 2521-2523.

   A. Rochefort, M. DiVentra, Ph. Avouris


  1. Bullet Bonding of Dicarbonyls to Nickel: Structural and Vibrational Analysis, (PDF)

   Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 105 (2001) 1320-1325.

   A. Rochefort, P.H. McBreen


  1. Bullet Electron Interference Effects on the Conductance of Doped Carbon Nanotubes, (PDF)

   Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 104 (2000) 9807-9811.

   A. Rochefort, Ph. Avouris.


  1. Bullet Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Spectroscopy, Localization and Electrical Breakdown, (PDF)

   a chapter in "Fundamental Materials Research Series : Science and Application of Nanotubes", Kluwer

   Academic Publishing/Plenum Press, M. F. Thorpe (editeur), NY, 2000 p.223 -237.

   Ph. Avouris, R. Martel, H. Ikeda, M. Hersam, H. R. Shea, A. Rochefort.


  1. Bullet Orientation and Conformation of Methyl Pyruvate on Ni(111), (PDF)

   Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122 (2000) 518-524.

   M. Castonguay, J.R. Roy, A. Rochefort, P.H. McBreen.


  1. Bullet Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Distorted Carbon Nanotubes, (PDF)

   Physical Review B, 60(19) (1999) 13824-13830.

   A. Rochefort, Ph. Avouris, F. Lesage, D.R. Salahub.


  1. Bullet L'art de l'architecture atomique, (PDF)

   winning paper at Concours de vulgarisation scientifique de l'ACFAS 1999

   Interface (Septembre 1999) et Québec Science (Septembre 1999)

   A. Rochefort


  1. Bullet Effects of Finite Length on the Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes, (PDF)

   Journal of Physical Chemistry, 103 (1999) 641-646.

   A. Rochefort, D.R. Salahub, Ph. Avouris.


  1. Bullet The Effect of Structural Distorsions on the Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes, (PDF)

   Chemical Physic Letters, 297 (1998) 45.

   A. Rochefort, D.R. Salahub, Ph. Avouris.