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Present	Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Crystallographically Determined Etching and Its Relevance to the Metal-Assisted Catalytic ...

Frontiers in Chemistry (2019)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, Bret A. Unger, Alexis T. Ernst and Mark Aindow

Metal-assisted catalytic etching (MACE) using Ag nanoparticles as catalysts and H2O2 as oxidant has been performed on single-crystal Si wafers, ...

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Nano to Global: Small Structures and Their Impact on Energy ...

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations (2018)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Crystallographically Defined Silicon Macropore Membranes

Open Material Sciences (2018)

Shannon C. Knight, Bret A. Unger and Kurt W. Kolasinski

Laser ablation with nanosecond-pulsed Nd:YAG laser irradiation combined with anisotropic alkaline etching of Si wafers creates 4–20 µm macropores that ...

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Hierarchical Porous Silicon and Porous Silicon Nanowires Produced with Regenerative ...

ECS Transactions (2018)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, Bret A. Unger, Haibo Yu, Alexis T. Ernst, et al.

ReEtching produces nanostructured silicon when a catalytic agent, e.g. dissolved V2O5, is used to facilitate etching between Si and H2O2. ...

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Plume and Nanoparticle Formation During Laser Ablation

Chemistry Faculty Publications (2018)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, Mool C. Gupta and Leonid V. Zhigilei

The processes that lead to material ejection when a solid sample is irradiated near and above the pulsed laser ablation ...

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Silicon Surface Photochemistry

Chemistry Faculty Publications (2018)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

General concepts of photochemistry on metal and semiconductor surfaces are elucidated. These concepts are then applied more specifically to describe ...

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Controlled Microfabrication of High-Aspect-Ratio Structures in Silicon at the Highest ...

Advanced Functional Materials (2017)

Chiara Cozzi, Giovanni Polito, Kurt W. Kolasinski and Giuseppe Barillaro

In this work the authors report on the controlled electrochemical etching of high-aspect-ratio (from 5 to 100) structures in silicon ...

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Regenerative Electroless Etching of Silicon

Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2017)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, Nathan J. Gimbar, Haibo Yu, Mark Aindow, et al.

Regenerative electroless etching (ReEtching), described herein for the first time, is a method of producing nanostructured semiconductors in which an ...

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Charge Transfer at the Liquid/Solid Interface to Affect Nanostructure ...

Chemistry Faculty Publications (2017)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Subtractive methods to form pyrite and sulfide nanostructures of Fe ...

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science (2016)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

The low Z metals Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn are Earth abundant, i.e. inexpensive, and their sulfides are of ...

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Physical Chemistry: How Chemistry Works

College of the Sciences & Mathematics Faculty Books (2016)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

Physical Chemistry: How Chemistry Works takes a fresh approach to teaching in physical chemistry. This modern textbook is designed to ...

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Electron transfer during metal-assisted and stain etching of silicon

Semiconductor Science and Technology (2015)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

The etching of silicon in fluoride solutions is limited by the kinetics of charge transfer not thermodynamics. This characteristic is ...

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The stoichiometry of metal assisted etching (MAE) of Si in ...

Electrochimica Acta (2015)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, William B. Barclay, Yu Sun and Mark Aindow

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Porous Layers Composed of Oxide Crystallites Formed by the Combination ...

ECS Transactions (2015)

Abbie S. Ganas, Dmitry A. Znamensky, Nahúm Méndez Alba, José Luis Hernández-Pozos, et al.

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Bubbles: A review of their relationship to the formation of ...

Mesoporous Biomaterials (2014)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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The mechanism of galvanic/metal-assisted etching of silicon

Nanoscale Research Letters (2014)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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The Mechanism of Photo-Hydrosilylation on Silicon and Porous Silicon Surfaces

Journal of the American Chemical Society (2013)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Electroless Etching of Si with IO-3 and Related Species

Nanoscale Research Letters (2012)

Kurt Kolasinski and J W Gogola

We have previously derived seven requirements for the formulation of effective stain etchants and have demonstrated that Fe3+, Ce4+, and ...

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Surface Science: Foundations of Catalysis and Nanoscience

College of the Sciences & Mathematics Faculty Books (2012)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

Surface science has evolved from being a sub-field of chemistry or physics, and has now established itself as an interdisciplinary ...

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Making Bread from Air: The World's Most Important Chemical ...

Chemistry Faculty Publications (2012)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Rational Design of Etchants For Electroless Porous Silicon Formation

Pits and Pores 4: New Materials and Applications - in Memory of Ulrich Gosele (2011)

Kurt Kolasinski and J W Gogola

From fundamental considerations of the surface chemistry of Si etching in fluoride solutions as well as pore formation and propagation, ...

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Charge Transfer and Nanostructure Formation During Electroless Etching of Silicon

Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2010)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Dynamics of Porous Silicon Formation by Etching in HF + V2O5 ...

Molecular Physics (2010)

Kurt W. Kolasinski, Justin B. Hartline, Bryan T. Kelly and Julia Yadlovskiy

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Etching of Silicon in Fluoride Solutions

Surface Science (2009)

Kurt W. Kolasinski

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Stain Etching with Fe(III), V(V), and Ce(IV ...

Electrochemical and Solid State Letters (2009)

M E Dudley and Kurt Kolasinski

Stain etchants made from (HF+V(2)O(5)) or (HF+FeCl(3)center dot 6H(2)O+HCl or H(2)SO(4)) exhibited virtually no initiation time before the formation of ...

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