Mircea Cotlet

Our research activities are broadly focused on single molecule energy and charge transfer studies of nanomaterials with potential in solar energy conversion and biosensing. This includes hybrid organic/inorganic nanomaterials, biological/inorganic nanostructures and photonic (conjugated) polymers. We use self-assembly methods to connect various donor and acceptor components and to obtain nanostructures with controlled optical behavior.  We also develop ultrasensitive nanoscale optical imaging and probing methods for charge and energy transfer studies, down to single molecule sensitivity. 

• B.S.: Al.I.Cuza University
• Major: Physics
• PhD: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Graduate Program in Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
  • Dissertation Title: Ensemble and Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Autofluorescent Proteins

• Postdoctoral Research:
  • Harvard University, MA, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, Chemistry Division.

Z.Xu, C.Hine, M.Maye and M.Cotlet, Shell-thickness dependent hole transfer in conjugated polymer/quantum dot hybrids, ACS NANO, 2012, 6(6), 4984-4993.

M.Cotlet, H-L.Wang, Z.Xu, Transparent light harvesting polymer films, McGrawHill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2012. 278-282.

Z.Xu, M.Cotlet, Photoluminescence blinking dynamics of colloidal Qdots in the presence of external charge traps" Small, Wiley 2012, 8(2), 252-256.

Z.Xu, M.Cotlet, Control of Photoinduced Single Molecule Electron transfer in quantum dot-fullerene heterodimers,Angewandte Chemie Intl. Ed., 2011, 50(27) 6079.