Postdoc in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania (Advisor: Cherie R. Kagan) Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Stanford University (Advisor: Steven G. Boxer) B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Materials Chemistry: Nanocrystal synthesis and surface chemistry. Self- and directed-assembly of nanocrystal solids for use as energy conversion materials. Physical Chemistry: Ultra-fast and steady state spectroscopy to study the behavior of electrons in semiconductor nanocrystals.

Fafarman, A.T.; Hong, H.; Oh, S.J.; Caglayan, H.; Ye, X.; Diroll, B.T.; Engheta, N.; Murray, C.B.; Kagan, C.R. Air-Stable, Nanostructured Electronic and Plasmonic Materials from Solution-Processable, Silver Nanocrystal Building Blocks. ACS Nano 2014, DOI: 10.1021/nn406461p.

Turk, M. E.; Choi, J.; Oh, S. J.; et al. Gate-Induced Carrier De localization in Quantum Dot Field Effect Transistors. Nano Lett. 2014, 10, 5948-5952.

Kim, D. K.*; Fafarman, A. T.*; Diroll, B. T.; Chan, S. H.; Gordon, T. R.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. Solution-Based Stoichiometric Control over Charge Transport in Nanocrystalline CdSe Devices. ACS Nano 2013, Just Accepted.

Choi, J.-H.; Oh, S. J.; Lai, Y.; Kim, D. K.; Zhao, T.; Fafarman, A. T.; Diroll, B. T.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. In Situ Repair of High-Performance, Flexible Nanocrystal Electronics for Large-Area Fabrication and Operation in Air. ACS Nano 2013, ASAP.

Fafarman, A. T.*; Hong, S.-H.*; Caglayan, H.; Ye, X.; Diroll, B. T.; Paik, T.; Engheta, N.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. Chemically Tailored Dielectric-to-Metal Transition for the Design of Metamaterials from Nanoimprinted Colloidal Nanocrystals. Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 350-357.

Saboktakin, M.; Ye, X.; Oh, S. J.; Hong, S.-H.; Fafarman, A. T.; Chettiar, U. K.; Engheta, N.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. Metal Enhanced Upconversion Luminescence Tunable through Metal Nanoparticle-Nanophosphor Separation. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 8758-8766.

Choi, J.-H.; Fafarman, A. T.; Oh, S. J.; Ko, D.-K.; Kim, D. K.; Diroll, B. T.; Muramoto, S.; Gillen, J. G.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. Bandlike Transport in Strongly Coupled and Doped Quantum Dot Solids: A Route to High-Performance Thin-Film Electronics. Nano Lett. 2012, 12, 2631-2638.

Koh, W.; Saudari, S. R.; Fafarman, A. T.; Kagan, C. R.; Murray, C. B. Thiocyanate-Capped PbS Nanocubes: Ambipolar Transport Enables Quantum Dot Based Circuits on a Flexible Substrate. Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 4764-4767.

Fafarman, A. T.; Koh, W.; Diroll, B. T.; Kim, D. K.; Ko, D.-K.; Oh, S. J.; Ye, X.; Doan-Nguyen, V.; Crump, M. R.; Reifsnyder, D. C.; Murray, C. B.; Kagan, C. R. Thiocyanate-Capped Nanocrystal Colloids: Vibrational Reporter of Surface Chemistry and Solution-Based Route to Enhanced Coupling in Nanocrystal Solids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 15753-15761.

Sigala, P. A.*; Fafarman, A. T.*; Schwans, J. P.*; Fried, S. D.; Fenn, T. D.; Caaveiro, J. M. M.; Pybus, B.; Ringe, D.; Petsko, G. A.; Boxer, S. G.; Herschlag, D. Quantitative dissection of hydrogen bond-mediated proton transfer in the ketosteroid isomerase active site. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2013, 110, E2552-E2561.

Fafarman, A. T.*; Sigala, P. A.*; Schwans, J. P.; Fenn, T. D.; Herschlag, D.; Boxer, S. G. Quantitative, directional measurement of electric field heterogeneity in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2012, 109, E299-E308.

Fafarman, A. T.; Boxer, S. G. Nitrile Bonds as Infrared Probes of Electrostatics in Ribonuclease S. J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 13536-13544.

Fafarman, A. T.; Sigala, P. A.; Herschlag, D.; Boxer, S. G. Decomposition of Vibrational Shifts of Nitriles into Electrostatic and Hydrogen-Bonding Effects. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 132, 12811-12813.

Sigala, P. A.; Fafarman, A. T.; Bogard, P. E.; Boxer, S. G.; Herschlag, D. Do ligand binding and solvent exclusion alter the electrostatic character within the oxyanion hole of an enzymatic active site? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12104-12105.

Fafarman, A. T.; Borbat, P.; Freed, J.; Kirshenbaum, K. Characterizing the structure and dynamics of folded oligomers: Pulsed ESR studies of peptoid helices. Chem. Commun. 2007, 377-379.

Caffrey, C.; Steverding, D.; Swenerton, R.; Kelly, B.; Walshe, D.; Debnath, A.; Zhou, Y.; Doyle, P.; Fafarman, A. T.; Zorn, J.; Land, K.; Beauchene, J.; Schreiber, K.; Moll, H.; Ponte-Sucre, A.; Schirmeister, T.; Saravanamuthu, A.; Fairlamb, A.; Cohen, F.; McKerrow, J.; Weisman, J.; May, B. Bis-acridines as lead antiparasitic agents: Structure-activity analysis of a discrete compound library in vitro. Antimicrob. Agents Chemo. 2007, 51, 2164-2172.

Fafarman, A. T.; Webb, L. J.; Chuang, J. I.; Boxer, S. G. Site-specific conversion of cysteine thiols into thiocyanate creates an IR probe for electric fields in proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13356-13357.

Jang, H.; Fafarman, A. T.; Holub, J.; Kirshenbaum, K. Click to fit: Versatile polyvalent display on a peptidomimetic scaffold. Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1951-1954.

May, B. C. H.; Fafarman, A. T.; Hong, S. B.; Rogers, M.; Deady, L. W.; Prusiner, S. B.; Cohen, F. E. Potent inhibition of scrapie prion replication in cultured cells by bis-acridines. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100, 3416-3421.

Burkoth, T.; Fafarman, A. T.; Charych, D.; Connolly, M.; Zuckermann, R. Incorporation of unprotected heterocyclic side chains into peptoid oligomers via solid-phase submonomer synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 8841-8845.