Katherine A Willets

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Katherine A Willets

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 5305

Chemical Kinetics

Graduate

CHEM 8300

Special Topics in Physical Chemistry

Graduate

CHEM 9901

Original Research Proposal Preparation

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Reinhardt, P., Crawford, A., West, C., DeLong, G., Link, S., Masiello, D., & Willets, K. (2021). Toward Quantitative Nanothermometry Using Single-Molecule Counting. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(44), 12197-12205. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c08348.

  • Jebeli, S.H., West, C., Lee, S., Goldwyn, H., Bilchak, C., Fakhraai, Z., Willets, K., Link, S., & Masiello, D. (2021). Wavelength-Dependent Photothermal Imaging Probes Nanoscale Temperature Differences among Subdiffraction Coupled Plasmonic Nanorods. Nano Letters, 21(12), 5386-5393. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01740.

  • Willets, K. (2021). Emerging Trends in Super-resolution Imaging: How Lasers Light the Way. In ACS Symposium Series, 1398 (pp. 255-276). doi: 10.1021/bk-2021-1398.ch012.

  • Cortés, E., Govorov, A., Misawa, H., & Willets, K. (2020). Special topic on emerging directions in plasmonics. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(1). doi: 10.1063/5.0017914.

  • Langer, J., Aberasturi, D.d., Aizpurua, J., Alvarez-Puebla, R., Auguié, B., Baumberg, J., Bazan, G., Bell, S., Boisen, A., Brolo, A., Choo, J., Cialla-May, D., Deckert, V., Fabris, L., Faulds, K., Abajo, F.J.G.d., Goodacre, R., Graham, D., Haes, A., Haynes, C., Huck, C., Itoh, T., Käll, M., Kneipp, J., Kotov, N., Kuang, H., Ru, E.L., Lee, H., Li, J., Ling, X., Maier, S., Mayerhöfer, T., Moskovits, M., Murakoshi, K., Nam, J., Nie, S., Ozaki, Y., Pastoriza-Santos, I., Perez-Juste, J., Popp, J., Pucci, A., Reich, S., Ren, B., Schatz, G., Shegai, T., Schlücker, S., Tay, L., Thomas, K.G., Tian, Z., Duyne, R.v., Vo-Dinh, T., Wang, Y., Willets, K., Xu, C., Xu, H., Xu, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Zhao, B., & Liz-Marzán, L. (2020). Present and future of surface-enhanced Raman scattering. ACS Nano, 14(1), 28-117. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04224.

  • Zhang, Z., Yu, Y., Tang, Y., Guan, Y., Hu, Y., Yin, J., Willets, K., & Ren, S. (2020). Kirigami-Inspired Stretchable Conjugated Electronics. Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(1). doi: 10.1002/aelm.201900929.

  • Bhattacharjee, U., West, C., Jebeli, S.H., Goldwyn, H., Kong, X., Hu, Z., Beutler, E., Chang, W., Willets, K., Link, S., & Masiello, D. (2019). Active Far-Field Control of the Thermal Near-Field via Plasmon Hybridization. ACS Nano, 13(8), 9655-9663. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04968.

  • Willets, K. (2019). Supercharging Superlocalization Microscopy: How Electrochemical Charging of Plasmonic Nanostructures Uncovers Hidden Heterogeneity. ACS Nano, 13(6), 6145-6150. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04062.

  • Yu, Y., Wijesekara, K., Xi, X., & Willets, K. (2019). Quantifying Wavelength-Dependent Plasmonic Hot Carrier Energy Distributions at Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces. ACS Nano, 13(3), 3629-3637. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b00219.

  • Cheng, X., Anthony, T., West, C., Hu, Z., Sundaresan, V., McLeod, A., Masiello, D., & Willets, K. (2019). Plasmon Heating Promotes Ligand Reorganization on Single Gold Nanorods. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(6), 1394-1401. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00079.

  • Willets, K. (2019). Probing nanoscale interfaces with electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 13, 18-24. doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2018.10.005.

  • Samples, E., Schuck, J., Joshi, P., Willets, K., & Dobereiner, G. (2018). Synthesis and Properties of N-Arylpyrrole-Functionalized Poly(1-hexene- alt-CO). Macromolecules, 51(22), 9323-9332. doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01629.

  • Sundaresan, V., Monaghan, J., & Willets, K. (2018). Monitoring Simultaneous Electrochemical Reactions with Single Particle Imaging. ChemElectroChem, 5(20), 3052-3058. doi: 10.1002/celc.201800715.

  • Yu, Y., Sundaresan, V., & Willets, K. (2018). Hot Carriers versus Thermal Effects: Resolving the Enhancement Mechanisms for Plasmon-Mediated Photoelectrochemical Reactions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(9), 5040-5048. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12080.

  • Sundaresan, V., Monaghan, J., & Willets, K. (2018). Visualizing the Effect of Partial Oxide Formation on Single Silver Nanoparticle Electrodissolution. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(5), 3138-3145. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11824.

  • Alzahrani, H., Bentley, C., Burrows, R., Cao, C., Cai, Q., Chikere, C., Crooks, R., Dunevall, J., Edwards, M., Ewing, A., Gao, R., Hillman, R., Kahram, M., Kanoufi, F., Kranz, C., Lemineur, J., Long, Y., McKelvey, K., Mirkin, M., Moore, S., Nogala, W., Ren, H., Schuhmann, W., Unwin, P., Vezzoli, A., White, H., Willets, K., Yang, Z., & Ying, Y. (2018). Dynamics of nanointerfaces: General discussion. Faraday Discussions, 210, 451-479. doi: 10.1039/C8FD90026D.

  • Alzahrani, H., Antoine, C., Baker, L., Balme, S., Bhattacharya, G., Bohn, P., Cai, Q., Chikere, C., Crooks, R., Das, N., Edwards, M., Ehi-Eromosele, C., Ermann, N., Jiang, L., Kanoufi, F., Kranz, C., Long, Y., Macpherson, J., McKelvey, K., Mirkin, M., Nichols, R., Nogala, W., Pelta, J., Ren, H., Rudd, J., Schuhmann, W., Siwy, Z., Tian, Z., Unwin, P., Wen, L., White, H., Willets, K., Wu, Y., & Ying, Y. (2018). Processes at nanopores and bio-nanointerfaces: General discussion. Faraday Discussions, 210, 145-171. doi: 10.1039/C8FD90023J.

  • Yu, Y., Williams, J., & Willets, K. (2018). Quantifying photothermal heating at plasmonic nanoparticles by scanning electrochemical microscopy. Faraday Discussions, 210, 29-39. doi: 10.1039/c8fd00057c.

  • Yu, Y., Sundaresan, V., Bandyopadhyay, S., Zhang, Y., Edwards, M., McKelvey, K., White, H., & Willets, K. (2017). Three-Dimensional Super-resolution Imaging of Single Nanoparticles Delivered by Pipettes. ACS Nano, 11(10), 10529-10538. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05902.

  • Zhang, Z., Li, P., Tang, Y., Wilson, A., Willets, K., Wuttig, M., Xiong, R., & Ren, S. (2017). Tunable electroresistance and electro-optic effects of transparent molecular ferroelectrics. Science Advances, 3(8). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701008.

  • Biteen, J. & Willets, K. (2017). Introduction: Super-Resolution and Single-Molecule Imaging. Chemical Reviews, 117(11), 7241-7243. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00242.

  • Willets, K., Wilson, A., Sundaresan, V., & Joshi, P. (2017). Super-Resolution Imaging and Plasmonics. Chemical Reviews, 117(11), 7538-7582. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00547.

  • Sundaresan, V., Marchuk, K., Yu, Y., Titus, E., Wilson, A., Armstrong, C., Zhang, B., & Willets, K. (2017). Visualizing and Calculating Tip-Substrate Distance in Nanoscale Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Using 3-Dimensional Super-Resolution Optical Imaging. Analytical Chemistry, 89(1), 922-928. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04073.

  • Joshi, P., Anthony, T., Wilson, A., & Willets, K. (2017). Imaging out-of-plane polarized emission patterns on gap mode SERS substrates: From high molecular coverage to the single molecule regime. Faraday Discussions, 205, 245-259. doi: 10.1039/c7fd00163k.