Mircea Cotlet, PhD

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Mircea Cotlet is a scientist in the Soft and Biological Nanomaterials team at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at SUNY Stony Brook, New York. Mircea's research focuses on time-resolved single molecule optical studies of hybrid nanomaterials applicable to optoelectronics and biosensing. He has co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers in the field of single molecule spectroscopy (h-impact factor 31), 2 patent disclosure applications and presented over 20 invited talks. He is member of the editorial board of Spectroscopy: An International Journal and The Open Chemical Physics Journal. (complete list of publications)

Dr. Cotlet manages the single molecule spectroscopy facility at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at BNL. This facility is part of the Soft Nano Bio theme of CFN.

Contact information

Bus: 631-344-7778
Fax: 631-344-7765
Email: cotlet@bnl.gov

Education

Ph.D. 2002: Physical Chemistry, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
M.S. 1996, Al.I.Cuza. University of Iasi, Romania
B.S. 1995, Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi, Romania

Professional Appointments

2007-present , Scientist, Brookhaven Natl. Labs. NY
2010-present, Adjunct Professor, MSE Stony Brook Univ. NY
2006-2007, Scientist, Los Alamos Natl. Labs NM
2004-2006, Director's fellow, Los Alamos Natl. Labs. NM
2003 HFSP Visiting Postdoc, Harvard, MA

Selected Publications

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.
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 and M.Cotlet*, Control of Photoinduced Single Molecule Electron transfer in quantum dot-fullerene heterodimers, Angew. Chemie Intl. Ed. 2011 50 (27), 6079.
Z.Xu, H.Tsai, R.K.Pai, A.P.Shreve, H.L.Wang* and M.Cotlet*, Structural dynamics and charge transfer via complexation with fullerene in large area conjugated polymer honeycomb thin films, Chemistry of Materials, 2011, 23(3), 759.
M.M.Maye, O.Gang, M.Cotlet*, Photoluminescence enhancement in single Qdot-Au nanoparticle DNA-linked heterodimers probed by single molecule spectroscopy, Chem Comm. 2010 (46) 6111.
C Wang, H Tsai, Z Xu, M Cotlet*, H Wang*, Synthesis and characterization of ethylene glycol substituted PPV derivatives, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2010, 2:(3), 738
H Xie, B Swanson*, H Kagawa, J Trent, , K Mudalige, M Cotlet*, An intrinsically fluorescent recognition ligand scaffold based on chaperonin proteins and semiconductor quantum dot conjugates, Small, 2009, 5(9), 1036.

Research Projects

Single molecule optical studies of hybrid materials for solar energy conversion and biosensing.
Structure/function relationship in photonic polymers.
Plasmon-exciton interactions in hybrid nanomaterials.

Last Modified: August 29, 2012