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Hai-Lung Dai

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry
Physical/Analytical
Office: Sullivan G19
Phone: 215-204-4775
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Biography

1981 - 1984

1981

1974

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

B.S. National Taiwan University

Ellis Lippincott Award in Spectroscopy, Optical Society of America, Society of Applied Spectroscopy, and Coblentz Society. Langmuir Lecturer Award, American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Coblentz Award in Molecular Spectroscopy. H.L. Dai Festschrift, Journal of Physical Chemistry. American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Award. Fellow, American Chemical Society. Fellow, American Physical Society.  Guggenheim Fellow. Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Sloan Fellow. Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. Knight of the Order of the Italian Star, Government of Italy. Distinguished Alumni Award, National Taiwan University. 

Interests

Nonlinear optical and spectroscopic/microscopic studies of the structure and dynamics of surfaces and interfaces, colloidal particles, aerosols, nanoparticles, micelles, liposomes and biological cells; structure and dynamics of new energy materials including RTIL, DSSS, and organic crystals and thin films; energy transfer and reactions of highly excited molecules.

Select Publications

Molecule-Membrane Interactions in Biological Cells Studied with Second Harmonic Light Scattering
Chemistry – An Asian Journal, 15, 200-13 (2020) [Cover, feature article]
Michael J. Wilhelm and Hai-Lung Dai 

Spatially Resolved Membrane Transport in a Single Cell Imaged by Second Harmonic Light Scattering
Biochemistry, 58, 1841-1844 (2019) [Communication]
Mohammad Sharifian Gh., Michael J. Wilhelm, Michael Moore, and Hai-Lung Dai

Super Bright Luminescent Metallic Nanoparticles
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 4155-4159 (2018)
Wei Gan, Bolei Xu, and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Electron Injection from a Carboxylic Anchoring Dye to TiO2 Nanoparticles in Aprotic Solvents
Chem. Phys., 512, 93-97 (2018)
Hui Fang, Yuhao Wu, Danielle L. Kuhn, Zander Zachary, Brendan G. DeLacy, Yi Rao, and Hai-Lung Dai

Azithromycin-Induced Changes to Bacterial Membrane Properties Monitored in Vitro by Second-Harmonic Light Scattering   
ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 9, 569-574 (2018)
Mohammad Sharifian Gh., Michael J. Wilhelm, and Hai-Lung Dai

Is photolytic production a viable source of HCN and HNC in astrophysical environments? A laboratory-based feasibility study of methyl cyanoformate
The Astrophysical Journal, 849, 15 (2017)
Michael J. Wilhelm, Emilio Martínez-Núñez, Jesús González-Vázquez, Saulo A. Vázquez, Jonathan M. Smith, and Hai-Lung Dai

Dynamics of the triplet-pair state reveals the likely coexistence of coherent and incoherent singlet fission in crystalline hexacene
Nature Chemistry, 9, 341–346 (2017)
N. R. Monahan, D. Sun, K. W. Williams, B. Xu, Y. Zhong, B. Kumar, A. R. Harutyunyan, G. Chen, C. Nuckolls, T. F. Heinz, H. L. Dai, Y.Rao, and X.-Y. Zhu

Observation of Organic Molecules at the Aerosol Surface
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 2294–2297 (2016)                        
Yajing Wu, Wanyi Li, Bolei Xu, Xia Li, Han Wang, V. Faye McNeill, Yi Rao, and Hai-Lung Dai

Large cross section for super energy transfer from hyperthermal atoms to ambient molecules
Phys. Rev. A, 93, 040702(R) (2016) [Rapid Communication]
Jianqiang Ma, Michael J. Wilhelm, Jonathan M. Smith, and Hai-Lung Dai

Gram’s stain does not cross the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane
ACS Chemical Biology, 10, 1711-1717, (2015) [Cover Article]
Michael J. Wilhelm, Joel B. Sheffield, Mohammad Sharifian Gh., Yajing Wu, Christian Spahr, Grazia Gonella, Bolei Xu, and Hai-Lung Dai

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