Sandra J. Rosenthal
Jack & Pamela Egan Chair of Chemistry
Chemistry Department Chair
Dr. Rosenthal is currently accepting graduate students for Fall 2024 - APPLY TODAY
The Rosenthal group studies the synthesis, structure, and optical spectroscopies of semiconductor nanostructures. Applications we have explored for our materials include lighting and display technologies. We are particularly interested in applying nanocrystals in neuroscience to elucidate molecular mechanisms of mental disorders.
Specializations
VINSE
VICB
Physical Chemistry
Nanomaterials Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Representative Publications
“Nanotechnology in Neuroscience Reveals Membrane Mobility Matters” Sandra J. Rosenthal. ACS Chemical Neuroscience , 10, 30 (2019)
“Single Quantum Dot Tracking Illuminates Neuroscience at the Nanoscale”, Oleg Kovtun, Ian D Tomlinson, Danielle M Bailey, Lucas B Thal, Emily J Ross, Lauren Harris, Michael P Frankland, Riley S Ferguson, Zachary A Glaser, Jonathan Greer IV, and Sandra J. Rosenthal. Chem. Phys. Lett. 706, 741, (2018).
Continuous-wave lasing in colloidal quantum dot solids enabled by facet-selective epitaxy.
Fengjia Fan, Oleksandr Voznyy, Randy P Sabatini, Kristopher T Bicanic, Michael M Adachi, James R McBride, Kemar R Reid, Young-Shin Park, Xiyan Li, Ankit Jain, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Mayuran Saravanapavanantham, Min Liu, Marek Korkusinski, Pawel Hawrylak, Victor I Klimov, Sandra J Rosenthal, Sjoerd Hoogland, Edward H Sargent, Nature . 2017, 544: 75-79.
Quantum Yield Heterogeneity among Single Nonblinking Quantum Dots Revealed by Atomic Structure-Quantum Optics Correlation. Noah J. Orfield, James R. McBride, Feng Wang, Matthew R. Buck, Joseph D. Keene, Kemar R. Reid, Han Htoon, Jennifer A. Hollingsworth, and Sandra J. Rosenthal
ACS Nano. 2016, 10 (2): 1960-1968
Kovtun O, Sakrikar D, Tomlinson ID, Chang JC, Arzeta-Ferrer X, Blakely RD, Rosenthal SJ. Single-Quantum-Dot Tracking Reveals Altered Membrane Dynamics of an Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity-Disorder-Derived Dopamine Transporter Coding Variant. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2015, [Epub ahead of print].
Orfield NJ, McBride JR, Keene JD, Davis LM, Rosenthal SJ. Correlation of atomic structure and photoluminescence of the same quantum dot: pinpointing surface and internal defects that inhibit photoluminescence. ACS Nano. 2015, 9(1): 831-9.
Keene JD, McBride JR, Orfield NJ, Rosenthal SJ. Elimination of hole-surface overlap in graded CdS(x)Se(1-x) nanocrystals revealed by ultrafast fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 2014, 8(10):10665-73.
Harrell SM, McBride JR, Rosenthal SJ. Synthesis of Ultrasmall and Magic-Sized CdSe Nanocrystals. Chemistry of Materials. 2013, 25 (8): 1199-1210.
Chang JC, Rosenthal SJ. Visualization of Lipid Raft Membrane Compartmentalization in Living RN46A Neuronal Cells Using Single Quantum Dot Tracking. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2012, 3 (10): 737-743.
Rosson TE, Claiborne SM, McBride JR, Stratton BS, Rosenthal SJ. Bright White Light Emission from Ultrasmall Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals. Journal of The American Chemical Society. 2012, 134 (19): 8006-8009.
Chang JC, Tomlinson ID, Warnement MR, Iwamoto H, DeFelice LJ, Blakely RD, Rosenthal SJ. A Fluorescence Displacement Assay for Antidepressant Drug Discovery Based on Ligand-Conjugated Quantum Dots. Journal of The American Chemical Society. 2011, 133 (44): 17528-17531.
Dukes AD, Samson PC, Keene JD, Davis LM, Wikswo JP, Rosenthal SJ. Single-Nanocrystal Spectroscopy of White-Light-Emitting CdSe Nanocrystals. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 2011, 115 (16): 4076-4081.