Publications

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2010 – present

  • Diverging Effects of NaCl and CsCl on the Mechanical Properties of Nanoconfined Water, Shah H. Khan and Peter M. Hoffmann, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2018. (PDF)
  • Electrolytes related dynamic mechanical properties of nanoconfined water, Shah H. Khan and Peter M. Hoffmann, ECS Transactions, 2018. (PDF)
  • Revisiting the value of competition assays in folate receptor-mediated drug delivery, Steven K. Jones, Anweshar Sarkar, Daniel P. Feldman, Peter Hoffmann and Olivia Merkel, Biomaterials, 2017. (Link)
  • NaCl-dependent ordering and dynamic mechanical response in nanoconfined water, Shah H. Khan*, Edward L. Kramkowski*, and Peter M. Hoffmann, Langmuir, 2016 (Link, Preprint-PDF)
  • Young’s modulus of nanoconfined liquids?, Shah H. Khan and Peter M. Hoffmann, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2016. (Link, Preprint-PDF)
  • How molecular motors extract order from chaos (a key issues review), Peter M. Hoffmann, Reports on the Progress in Physics, 2016. (Link, Preprint-PDF)
  • Squeeze-out dynamics of nanoconfined water: A detailed nanomechanical study, Shah. H. Khan*, Peter M. Hoffmann, Physical Review B, 2015. (Link, ARXIV-Preprint)
  • Viscosity of a nanoconfined liquid during compression, Shah H. Khan, Edward L. Kramkowski, Peter J. Ochs, David M. Wilson, Peter M. Hoffmann, Applied Physics Letters, 2014. (ARXIV preprintLink)
  • Life’s Ratchet, Peter M. Hoffmann, Basic Books, 2012. (More info)
  • Island Growth in Electrodeposition, Lian Guo, Gerko Oskam, Aleksandar Radisic, Peter M. Hoffmann, Peter C. Searson, Journal of Physics D, 2011. (Link)
  • Tracer diffusion in nanofluids measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Venkatesh Subba-Rao*, Peter M. Hoffmann, Ashis Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2011. (Link)
  • Dissociation kinetics of an enzyme-inhibitor system using single-molecule force measurements, Essa Mayyas, Margarida Bernardo, Lindsay Runyan, Anjum Solhail, Venkatesh Subba-Rao, Mircea Pantea, Rafael Fridman, and Peter M. Hoffmann, Biomacromolecules, 2010. (Link)
  • Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films, Shah H. Khan, George Matei, Shivprasad Patil, Peter M. Hoffmann, Physical Review Letters, 2010. (ARXIV preprint, Link)
  • Influence of thermal noise on measured bond lengths in force measurements using dynamic atomic force microscopy, Peter M. Hoffmann, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 2010. (Link)

2005 – 2009

  • Improving a high-resolution fiber-optic interferometer through deposition of a TiO2 reflective coating by simple dip-coating, Venkatesh Subba-Rao, Sudakar Chandran, Jason Esmacher, Ratna Naik, Peter M. Hoffmann, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2009. (Link)
  • Development of Micro Scanning Multiprobes for Material Characterization, Y. Li, Q. Zheng, Z. Wang, R. Katragadda, W. Khalid, R. P. Panguluri, B. Nadgorny, P. M. Hoffmann, and Y. Xu, Sensor Letters, 2008. (Link)
  • Simultaneous Normal and Shear Measurements of Nanoconfined Liquids in a Fiber-based Atomic Force Microscope, George Matei, Steve Jeffery, Shivprasad Patil, Shah H. Khan, Mircea Pantea, John B. Pethica, and Peter M. Hoffmann, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2008. (Link, PDF)
  • Combined Atomic Force Microscopy and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Measurements to Study the Dynamical Structure of Interfacial Fluids, S. Patil, G. Matei, C. A. Grabowski, P. M. Hoffmann and A. Mukhopadhyay, Langmuir, 2007. (Link, PDF)
  • Solid or Liquid? Solidification of a Nanoconfined Liquid under Nonequilibrium Conditions, Shivprasad Patil#, George Matei*, Ahmet Oral, and Peter M. Hoffmann, Langmuir, 2006. (Link, PDF)
  • A highly sensitive Atomic Force Microscope for linear measurements of molecular forces in liquids, Shivprasad Patil, George Matei, Hang Dong, Peter M. Hoffmann, Mustafa Karaköse, and A. Oral, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2005. (Link, PDF)
  • Small-Amplitude Atomic Force Microscopy, Shivprasad V. Patil and Peter M. Hoffmann, Advanced Engineering Materials, 2005. (Link, PDF)

2001 – 2004

  • Direct measurement of molecular stiffness and damping in confined water layers, Steve Jeffery, Peter M. Hoffmann, John B. Pethica, Chandra Ramanujan, H. Özgür Özer, Ahmet Oral, Physical Review B, 2004 (ARXIV-Preprint, Link)
  • Low amplitude, force gradient imaging of Cu(100) surface using tunnel current feedback, H. Özgür Özer, Andrew Norris, Ahmet Oral, Peter M. Hoffmann, and John B. Pethica, Nanotechnology, 2004. (Link, PDF)
  • Dynamics of small amplitude, off-resonance AFM, Peter M. Hoffmann, Applied Surface Science, 2003. (Link)
  • Energy dissipation in AFM and Atomic Loss Processes, Peter M. Hoffmann, Steve Jeffery, John B. Pethica, H. Özgür Özer, and Ahmet Oral, Physical Review Letters, 2001. (Link, PDF)
  • Quantitative atom-resolved force gradient imaging using non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy, Ahmet Oral, Ralph A. Grimble, H. Özgür Özer, Peter M. Hoffmann, and John B. Pethica, Applied Physics Letters, 2001. (Link, PDF)
  • Direct measurement of interatomic force gradients using an ultra-low amplitude AFM, Peter M. Hoffmann, Ahmet Oral, Ralph A. Grimble, H. Özgür Özer, Stephen Jeffery, and John B. Pethica, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 2001. (Link, PDF)
  • Nucleation and Growth of Copper on TiN from Pyrophosphate Solution, Aleksandar Radisic, John G. Long, Peter M. Hoffmann, and Peter C. Searson, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2001. (Link)