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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. Fellow, American Chemical Society. Fellow, American Physical Society.  Guggenheim Fellow. Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. 

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

Time-Resolved Molecular Transport across Living Cell Membranes
Biophysical Journal, 104, 139-45 (2013)
Jia Zeng, Heather M. Eckenrode, Susan Dounce and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Second Harmonic Light Scattering from the Surface of Colloidal Objects: Theory and Applications
Langmuir, 30, 2588-99 (2014) [Cover]
Grazia Gonella and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Chemical Activation through Super Energy Transfer Collisions
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 1682–5 (2014) (communication)
Matthew Nikow, Jianqiang Ma, Jonathan M. Smith, Michael Wilhelm, Yong-Chang Han, Amit R. Sharma, Joel M. Bowman, and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Real-Time Molecular Uptake and Membrane-Specific Transport in Living Cells by Optical Microscopy and Nonlinear Light Scattering
Chem Phys Lett, 605-606, 158-63 (2014) [Cover]
Michael J. Wilhelm, Joel B. Sheffield, Grazia Gonella, Yajing Wu, Christian Spahr, Jia Zeng, Bolei Xu, and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Gram’s stain does not cross the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane
ACS Chemical Biology, 10, 1711-7, (2015) [Cover]
Michael J. Wilhelm, Joel B. Sheffield, Yajing Wu, Christian Spahr, Mohammad Sharifian Gh., Grazia Gonella, Bolei Xu, and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Surprisingly large cross-section for super energy transfer from hyperthermal atoms to ambient molecules
Phys. Rev. A, (Rapid Communication), 93, 040702 (2016)
Jianqiang Ma, Jonathan M. Smith, Michael J. Wilhelm, and Hai-Lung Dai
 
Observation of Organic Molecules at the Aerosol Surface
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7: 2294–7 (2016)                 
Yajing Wu, Wanyi Li, Bolei Xu, Xia Li, Han Wang, V. Faye McNeill, Yi Rao, 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, 341–6 (2017)
Nicholas R. Monahan, Dezheng Sun, Kristopher W. Williams, Bolei Xu, Yu Zhong, Bharat Kumar, Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Gugang Chen, Colin Nuckolls, Tony F. Heinz, Hai-Lung Dai, Yi Rao, X.-Y. Zhu
 
Effects of Molecular Structure and Solvent Polarity on Adsorption of Carboxylic Anchoring Dyes onto TiO2 Particles in Aprotic Solvents
Langmuir, 33 (28), 7036-42 (2017)
Fang, Hui; Xu, Bolei; Li, Xia; Kuhn, Danielle; Zander, Zachary; Tian, Guocai; Chen, Victoria; Chu, Rosa ; DeLacy, Brendan; Rao, Yi; Dai, Hai-Lung
 
Photolytic production of HCN and HNC in astrophysical environments? A propensity study of methyl cyanoformate
The Astrophysical Journal, 849, Article #15 (12 pages) (2017)
Michael J. Wilhelm, Emilio Martínez-Núñez, Jesús González-Vázquez, Saulo A. Vázquez, Jonathan M. Smith, and Hai-Lung Dai

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