Education: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Our group investigates chemistry at the nanometer length scale, working at the intersection between solid state chemistry and advanced characterization.

Real-time observation of the solid--liquid--vapor dissolution of individual tin(IV) oxide nanowires. B. M. Hudak, Y.-J. Chang, L. Yu, G. Li, D. N. Edwards, and B. S. Guiton*. ACS Nano, Article ASAP (2014).

Resonance-Rayleigh scattering and electron energy-loss spectroscopy of silver nanocubes. V. Iberi, N. W. Bigelow, N. Mirsaleh-Kohan, S. Griffin, P. D. Simmons, Jr., B. S. Guiton, D. J. Masiello*, and J. P. Camden*. J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 10254 (2014).

Light-activated tandem catalysis driven by multicomponent nanomaterials. E. M. Zahran, N. M. Bedford, M. A. Nguyen, Y.-J. Chang, B. S. Guiton, R. R. Naik, L. G. Bachas*, and M. R. Knecht*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 32 (2014).

Synthesis and characterization of p-n homojunction-containing zinc oxide nanowires. G. Li, A. Sundararajan, A. Mouti, Y.-J. Chang, A. R. Lupini, S. J. Pennycook, D. R. Strachan, and B. S. Guiton*. Nanoscale 5, 2259 (2013) (pdf).

Single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman scattering: Can STEM/EELS image electromagnetic hot spots?. N. Mirsaleh-Kohan, V. Iberi, P. D. Simmons, Jr., N. W. Bigelow, A. Vaschillo, M. M. Rowland, M. D. Best, S. J. Pennycook, D. J. Masiello*, B. S. Guiton*, and J. P. Camden*. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2303 (2012).

Correlated optical measurements and plasmon mapping of silver nanorods. B. S. Guiton*, V. Iberi, S. Li, D. N. Leonard, C. M. Parish, P. G. Kotula, M. Varela, G. C. Schatz, S. J. Pennycook, and J. P. Camden*. Nano Lett. 11, 3482 (2011).

Spontaneous compositional nanopatterning in Li-containing perovskite oxides. B. S. Guiton and P. K. Davies*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 17168 (2008).

Neutron powder diffraction of (Nd7/12Li1/4)TiO3 nano-checkerboard superlattices. B. S. Guiton*, H. Wu, and P. K. Davies*. Chem. Mater. 20, 2860 (2008).

Real-time TEM imaging of the formation of crystalline nano-scale gaps. D. R. Strachan*, D. E. Johnston, B. S. Guiton, S. S. Datta, P. K. Davies, D. A. Bonnell, and A. T. Johnson*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 056805 (2008).

Nano-chessboard superlattices formed by spontaneous phase separation in oxides. B. S. Guiton* and P. K. Davies*. Nature Mater. 6, 586 (2007).

Strain-induced self organization of metal-insulator domains in single-crystalline VO2 nanobeams. J. Wu, Q. Gu, B. S. Guiton, N. P. de Leon, L. Ouyang, and H. Park*. Nano Lett. 6, 2313 (2006).

Clean electromigrated nanogaps imaged by transmission electron microscopy. D. R. Strachan*, D. E. Smith, M. D. Fischbein, D. E. Johnston, B. S. Guiton, M. Drndic, D. A. Bonnell, and A. T. Johnson*. Nano Lett. 6, 441 (2006).

Single-crystalline vanadium dioxide nanowires with rectangular cross sections. B. S. Guiton, Q. Gu, A. L. Prieto, M. S. Gudiksen, and H. Park*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 498 (2005).

Computer simulation of Al-Mg ordering in glaucophane and a comparison with infrared spectroscopy. E. J. Palin, B. S. Guiton, M. S. Craig, M. D. Welch, M. T. Dove, and S. A. T. Redfern. Eur. J. Mineral. 15, 893 (2003).

Monte Carlo methods for the study of cation ordering in minerals. M. C. Warren, M. T. Dove*, E. R. Myers, A. Bosenick, E. J. Palin, C. I. Sainz-Diaz, B. S. Guiton, and S. A. T. Redfern. Mineral. Mag. 65, 221 (2001).

Computational methods for the study of energies of cation distributions: applications to cation-ordering phase transitions and solid solutions. A. Bosenick, M. T. Dove*, E. R. Myers, E. J. Palin, C. I. Sainz-Diaz, B. S. Guiton, M. C. Warren, M. S. Craig, and S. A. T. Redfern. Mineral. Mag. 65, 193 (2001).