Berkeley
Nanogeoscience Center
Nanogeoscience Group Publications
An evolving list of publications,
organized by topic. Structure and Properties of Nanoparticles
Gilbert, B. Zhang, H. Chen, B., Kunz, M, Huang F., and Banfield J.F.
Compressibility of zinc sulfide nanoparticles.
Physical Review B, 74, 115405 (2006)
Naicker, P.K. Cummings,P.T., Hengzhong Z.,| and Banfield J.F.
Characterization of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
J. Phys. Chem. B, 109, 15243-15249 (2005)
Gilbert B., Huang, F., Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F.
Nanoparticles: strained and stiff.
Science, 305, 651-654 (2004)
Ranade, M. R. Navrotsky A., Zhang, H. Banfield, J. F., Elder, S. H., Zaban, A., Borse, P. H., Doran, G. S. and Whitfield, H. J.
Energetics of Nanocrystalline TiO2.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99, 6476-6481 (2002).
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F.
A model for exploring particle size and temperature dependence of excess heat capacities of nanocrystalline substances.
NanoStructured Materials, 10, 184-195 (1998)
Nanomaterials: Size-dependent stability and phase transformations
Finnegan, M.P., Zhang, H., and Banfield J.F.
Phase stability and transformation in titania nanoparticles in aqueous solutions dominated by surface energy.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 1962-1968 (2007)
Zhang, H. et al.
Polymorphic transformations and particle coarsening in nanocrystalline titania ceramic powders and membranes.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 6621-6629 (2007)
Zhang, H., Chen, B., Gilbert, B., and Banfield, J.F.
Kinetically controlled formation of a novel nanoparticulate ZnS with mixed cubic and hexagonal stacking.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 16, 249-254 (2006)
Huang, F. and Banfield J.F.
Size-dependent phase transformation kinetics in nanocrystalline ZnS.
Journal of the American Chemical Soc. 127, 4523-4529 (2005)
Zhang, H. and Banfield J.F.
Size dependence of the kinetic rate constant for phase transformation in TiO2 nanoparticles.
Chemistry of Materials. (2005)
Gilbert, B., Zhang, H., Huang, F., Finnegan, M.P., Waychunas, G.A., and Banfield, J.F.
Special phase transformation and crystal growth pathways observed in nanoparticles.
Geochemical Transactions, 4, 20-27 (2003)
Gilbert B, Frazer BH, Zhang H, Huang F, Banfield JF, Haskel D, Lang JC, Srajer G, De Stasio G
X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the cubic and hexagonal polytypes of zinc sulfide
Physical Review B, Art. # 245205 (2002)
Zhang H. and J. F. Banfield
Phase transformation of nanocrystalline anatase-to-rutile via combined interface and surface nucleation.
Journal of Materials Research, 15(2), 437-448 (2000)
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F.
Understanding polymorphic phase transformation behavior during growth of nanocrystalline aggregates: insights from TiO2.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104, 3481–3487 (2000)
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F.
A new kinetic model for the anatase-to-rutile phase transformation in nanocrystalline material revealing a second order dependence on the number of particles.
American Mineralogist, 84, 528-535 (1999)
Penn R.L. and Banfield J.F.
Formation of rutile nuclei at anatase {112} twin interfaces and the phase transformation mechanism in nanocrystalline titania.
American Mineralogist, 84, 871- 876 (1999)
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F.
Phase stability in the nanocrystalline TiO2 system
In "Phase Transformations and Systems Driven Far From Equilibrium",
Eds. E. Ma, P. Bellon, M. Atzmon, R. Trivedi, MRS, 619-624 (1998).
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F.
Thermodynamic analysis of phase stability in nanocrystalline titania.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 8, 2073-2076 (1998)
Gribb, A.A. and Banfield, J.F.
Particle size effects on transformation kinetics and phase stability in nanocrystalline TiO2.
American Mineralogist, 82, 717-729 (1997)
Nanomaterials and surface interactions
Goodell, C.; Gilbert, B., Weigand, S.,Banfield, J.F.
Kinetics of water adsorption driven structural transformation of ZnS nanoparticles.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 4791-4796 (2008)
Zhang, H., et al.
Interaction between water and ZnS nanoparticles studied by temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and molecular dynamics simulations.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A3, 111, 5008-5014 (2007)
Gilbert, B., Huang , F., Lin Z., Goodell , C., Zhang, H., Banfield J.F.
Surface chemistry controls crystallinity of ZnS nanoparticles.
Nano Letters, 6, 605-610 (2006)
Gilbert B, Zhang H, Huang F, Banfield JF, Ren, Y., Haskel D, Lang JC, Jurgensen, A., Waychunas, GA
Analysis and simulation of the structure of nanoparticles that undergo a surface-driven structural transformation. Journal of Chemical Physics, 120, 11785-11795 (2004)
Huang, F., Zhang, H., Gilbert, B. and Banfield, J.F.
Reversible, surface-controlled structure transformation in nanoparticles induced by aggregation-disaggregation. Physical Review Letters, 92, (15) electronic identifier 155501 (2004)
Zhang, H., Gilbert, B., Huang, F., and Banfield, J.F.
Water-driven transformation of nanoparticle structure.
Nature, 424, 1025-1029 (2003)
Zhang, H., Penn, R.L., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F
Enhanced Adsorption on Surfaces of Nanocrystalline Materials.
J. Phys. Chem. B. 103, 4656 –4662 (1999)
Nanoparticle crystal growth, oriented attachment, and defect formation
Finnegan, M.P., Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F.
Anatase coarsening kinetics under hydrothermal conditions as a function of pH and temperature.
Chem. Mater. 20, 3443-3449 (2008)
Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F.
Aggregation, coarsening, and phase transformation in ZnS nanoparticles studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Nano Letters, 4, 713-718 (2004)
Moreau, J.W., Webb, R.I., and Banfield, J.F.
Ultrastructure, aggregation-state, and crystal growth of biogenic nanocrystalline sphalerite and wurtzite.
American Mineralogist, 89, 950-960 (2004)
Huang, F., Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F.
Two-step grain-growth kinetics observed in hydrothermal coarsening of nanocrystalline ZnS.
Nano Letters, 3, 373-378 (2003)
Huang, F., Zhang, H., and Banfield, J.F.
The role of oriented attachment crystal growth in hydrothermal coarsening of nanocrystalline ZnS.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107: 10470-10475 (2003)
Zhang, H. and Banfield J.F.
Kinetics of Crystallization and Crystal Growth of Nanocrystalline Anatase in Nanometer-Sized Amorphous Titania. Chemistry of Materials, 14, 4145-4154 (2002)
Banfield, J.F., Welch, S.A., Zhang, H., Ebert, T.T., and Penn, R.L.
Aggregation-based crystal growth and microstructure in natural iron oxyhydroxide biomineralization products. Science, 289, 751-754 (2000)
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F.
Morphology development and crystal growth in nanocrystalline aggregates under hydrothermal conditions: insights from titania.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 1549-1557 (1999)
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F.
Oriented attachment and growth, twinning, polytypism, and formation of metastable phases: insights from nanocrystalline TiO2.
American Mineralogist, 83, 1077-1082 (1998)
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F.
Imperfect oriented attachment: a mechanism for dislocation generation in defect-free nanocrystals.
Science, 281, 969-971 (1998)
Nanomaterials: Impurities and phase transformation kinetics
Chen, B., Zhang, H., Gilbert, B., and Banfield, J.F.
Mechanism of inhibition of nanoparticle growth and phase transformation by surface impurities.
Physical Review Letters, 98, 106103-1– 4 (2007)
Zhang, H., Gilbert, B., Chen, B., Banfield J.F.
WAXS and PDF-based analyses of chromium doping in titania (anatase and brookite).
Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 915, 0915-R07-02 (2006)
Banfield, J.F., Bischoff, B.L., and Anderson, M.A.
TiO2 accessory minerals: coarsening, and transformation kinetics in pure and doped synthetic nanocrystalline materials.
Chemical Geology, 110, 211-232 (1993)
Nanomaterials and microbiology
Moreau J.W., Weber, P.K., Martin, M.C., Gilbert, B., Hutcheon, I.D., and Banfield, J.F.
Extracellular proteins limit the dispersal of biogenic nanoparticles.
Science, 316, 1600-1603 (2007)
Suzuki Y., Kelly S.D., Kemner K.M., Banfield J.F.
Direct microbial reduction and subsequent preservation of uranium in natural near-surface sediment.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 1790-1797 (2005)
Chan, C.S., De Stasio, G., Nesterova, M., Welch, S.A., Girasole, M., Frazer,B., Banfield., J.F.
The role of microbial polymers in templated mineral growth.
Science, 303, 1656-2658 (2004)
Nesterova, M., Moreau, J., and Banfield, J.F.
Model biomimetic studies of templated growth and assembly of nanocrystalline FeOOH.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 1185-1195 (2003)
Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., Banfield J.F.
Microbial Populations Stimulated for U(VI) Reduction in Uranium Mine Sediment.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69: 1337-1346 (2003)
Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S. Kemner, K., and Banfield, J.F.
Nanometer-scale UO2 bioremediation products.
Nature, 419, 134 (2002)
Druschel, G.K., Labrenz, M., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Fowle, D.A. and Banfield, J.F.
Biogenic Precipitation of Monomineralic Nanocrystalline Sulfides: Implications of Observed and Modeled Processes to Ore Deposition.
Economic Geology, 97, 1319-1329 (2002)
Labrenz, M., Druschel, G.K., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Gilbert, B., Welch, S.A., Kemner, K., Logan, G.A., Summons, R., De Stasio, G., Bond, P.L., Lai, B., Kelley, S.D. and Banfield, J.F.
Natural formation of sphalerite (ZnS) by sulfate-reducing bacteria.
Science, 290, 1744-1747 (2000)
Nanomaterials and environmental science
Williams K.H., Hubbard, S.S., and Banfield, J.F.
Galvanic interpretation of self-potential signals associated with microbial sulfate reduction.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, G03019, doi:10.1029/2007JG000440 (2007)
Waychunas G,.A., Kim C.S., and Banfield, J.F.
Nanoparticulate iron oxide minerals in soils and sediments: unique properties and contaminant scavenging mechanisms.
Journal of Nanoparticle Research 7: 409–433 (2005)
Williams, K.H., Ntarlagiannis, D., Slater, L.D., Dohnalkova, A., Hubbard, S.S., and Banfield, J.F.
Geophysical imaging of stimulated microbial biomineralization.
Environmental Science and Technology, 39, 7592-7600 (2005)
Cervini-Silva, J., Fowle, D.A., and Banfield J.F.
Decarboxylation and polymerization of catechol and formation of CeO2 due to coupled redox and dissolution reactions at the surface of cerium(III) phosphate.
American Journal of Science, 305, 711–726 (2005)
Gilbert, B. and Banfield J.F.
Molecular-scale processes involving nanoparticulate minerals in biogeochemical systems.
Ch. 6 in: Molecular Geomicrobiology,
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,Vol. 59,
J.F. Banfield, J. Cervini-Silva, and K. H. Nealson, Eds., p. 109-155 (2005)
Lower, S.K, Hochella, M.F., and Banfield, J.F.
Nanogeoscience: from the movement of electrons to lithospheric plates.
EOS, 83, 53-56 (2002)
Banfield, J.F. and Zhang, H.
Nanocrystals in the Environment.
In: Nanoparticles and The Environment.
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
J.F. Banfield and A. Navrotsky, Eds. Vol. 44, 1-59 (2001)
Banfield, J.F. and Navrotsky A. (2001)
Nanoparticles in the environment.
In: Nanoparticles and The Environment.
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry,
J.F. Banfield and A. Navrotsky, Eds. Vol. 44, I1-I3. (2001)
Nanomaterials synthesis
Penn, R.L., Banfield, J.F., and Voigt, J.
Synthesis of nanocrystalline barium hexaferrite from nanocrystalline goethite using the hydrothermal method. Materials Research Society, 432, 175-181 (1996)
Zhang, H., Finnegan, M., and Banfield, J.F.
Preparing single-phase nanocrystalline anatase from amorphous titania with particle sizes tailored by temperature. Nano Letters, 1, 81-86 (2001)
Nanomaterials aggregation and transport
Guzman, K.A.D., Finnegan, M.P., and Banfield, J.F.
Influence of surface potential on aggregation and transport of titania nanoparticles.
Environmental Science and Technology, 40, 7688-7693 (2006)
Titania: Defects and nanostructures
Banfield, J. F., Veblen, D. R., and Smith, D. J.
The identification of naturally occurring TiO2 (B) by structure determination using high¬-resolution electron microscopy, image simulation, and distance–least–squares refinement.
American Mineralogist, 76, 343-353(1991)
Banfield, J. F. and Veblen, D. R.
Origin of Fe-bearing defects in metamorphic rutile.
American Mineralogist, 76, 113-127 (1992)
Engineered nanomaterials and policy
Dunphy Guzman, K., Taylor, M.R., Banfield, J.F.
Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative Funding, 2000-2004.
Environmental Science and Technology, 40, 1401-1407 (2006)