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Gregory Girolami

Part-time Faculty
Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials

4047 Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801


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Daly, S. R.; Bellott, B. J.; Kim, D. Y.; Girolami, G. S., Synthesis of the Long-Sought Unsubstituted Aminodiboranate Na(H3B-NH2-BH3) and Its N-Alkyl Analogs. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, (21), 7254-7255.

Daly, S. R.; Girolami, G. S., Synthesis, Characterization, and Structures of Divalent Europium and Ytterbium N,N-Dimethylaminodiboranates. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, (10), 4578-4585.

Daly, S. R.; Girolami, G. S., Synthesis, Characterization, and Structures of Uranium(III) N,N-Dimethylaminodiboranates. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, (11), 5157-5166.

Daly, S. R.; Girolami, G. S., Uranium-hydrogen interactions: synthesis and crystal structures of tris(N,N-dimethylaminodiboranato)uranium(III). Chemical Communications 2010, 46, (3), 407-408.

Daly, S. R.; Kim, D. Y.; Yang, Y.; Abelson, J. R.; Girolami, G. S., Lanthanide N,N-Dimethylaminodiboranates: Highly Volatile Precursors for the Deposition of Lanthanide-Containing Thin Films. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, (7), 2106-2107.

Daly, S. R.; Piccoli, P. M. B.; Schultz, A. J.; Todorova, T. K.; Gagliardi, L.; Girolami, G. S., Synthesis and Properties of a Fifteen-Coordinate Complex: The Thorium Aminodiboranate [Th(H3BNMe2BH3)(4)]. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2010, 49, (19), 3379-3381.

Flener-Lovitt, C.; Woon, D. E.; Dunning, T. H.; Girolami, G. S., A DFT and ab Initio Benchmarking Study of Metal-Alkane Interactions and the Activation of Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2010, 114, (4), 1843-1851.

Kim, D. Y.; Girolami, G. S., Highly Volatile Magnesium Complexes with the Aminodiboranate Anion, a New Chelating Borohydride. Synthesis and Characterization of Mg(H3BNMe2BH3)(2) and Related Compounds. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, (11), 4942-4948.

Dunbar, A. C.; Gozum, J. E.; Girolami, G. S., Synthesis and characterization of phosphine adducts of thorium borohydride, Th(BH4)(4) Crystal structures of Th(BH4)(4)(PEt3)(2) and Th(BH4)(4)(Me2PCH2CH2PMe2)(2). Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2010, 695, (25-26), 2804-2808. 

Ye, W.; Martin, P. A. P.; Kumar, N.; Daly, S. R.; Rockett, A. A.; Abelson, J. R.; Girolami, G. S.; Lyding, J. W., Direct Writing of Sub-5 nm Hafnium Diboride Metallic Nanostructures. ACS Nano 2010, 4, (11), 6818-6824. 

Bellott, B. J.; Noh, W.; Nuzzo, R. G.; Girolami, G. S., Nanoenergetic materials: boron nanoparticles from the pyrolysis of decaborane and their functionalisation. Chemical Communications 2009, (22), 3214-3215.

Girolami, G. S., Origin of the Terms Pnictogen and Pnictide. Journal of Chemical Education 2009, 86, (10), 1200-1201.

Kumar, N.; Noh, W.; Daly, S. R.; Girolami, G. S.; Abelson, J. R., Low Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition of Hafnium Nitride-Boron Nitride Nanocomposite Films. Chemistry of Materials 2009, 21, (23), 5601-5606.

Kumar, N.; Yanguas-Gil, A.; Daly, S. R.; Girolami, G. S.; Abelson, J. R., Remote plasma treatment of Si surfaces: Enhanced nucleation in low-temperature chemical vapor deposition. Applied Physics Letters 2009, 95, (14), doi:10.1063/1.3243980.

Menard, L. D.; Wang, Q.; Kang, J. H.; Sealey, A. J.; Girolami, G. S.; Teng, X. W.; Frenkel, A. I.; Nuzzo, R. G., Structural characterization of bimetallic nanomaterials with overlapping x-ray absorption edges. Physical Review B 2009, 80, (6), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.064111.

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