William Buhro
Office Contact Information
Campus Box 1134
Research specialization
Chair, Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, 2007
Editor, Chemistry of Materials, 2005-
Associate Editor, Chemistry of Materials, 2002-2005
Secretary, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, 2005-2007
Chair, Solid-State Subdivision, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, 2003
Member, International Advisory Editorial Board, Dalton Transactions, 2001-2007
Member, Board of Editors, Chemistry of Materials, 1998-2002
Member, Board of Editors, Inorganic Chemistry, 1997-1998
Emerson Electric Co. Excellence in Teaching Award, 1996
Washington University CSAS Faculty Award for Teaching, 1995-1996
NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1991-1996
Washington University CSAS Faculty Award for Teaching, 1989-1990
Chester Davis Research Fellow, 1985-1986
Regents of the University of California Fellow, 1980-1981
Phi Beta Kappa, 1980
National Merit Scholarship Finalist, 1976
Publications
Wang, F.; Dong, A.; Sun, J.; Tang, R.; Yu, H.; Buhro, W.E. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 7511-7521. "Solution-Liquid-Solid Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires."
Dong, A.; Wang, F.; Buhro, W.E. Nano Lett. 2007, 7, 1308-1313. "Solution-Liquid-Solid (SLS) Growth of ZnSe-ZnTe Quantum Wires having Axial Heterojunctions."
Glennon, J.J.; Tang, R.; Buhro, W.E.; Loomis, R.A. Nano Lett. 2007, 7, 3290-3295. "Synchronous Photoluminescence Intermittency (Blinking) along Whole Semiconductor Quantum Wires."
Dong, A.; Tang, R.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12254-12262. "Solution-Based Growth and Structural Characterization of Homo- and Hetero-branched Semiconductor Nanowires."
Wang, F.; Yu, H.; Li, J.; Hang, Q.; Zemlyanov, D.; Gibbons, P.C.; Wang, L.-W.; Janes, D.B.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14327-14335. "Spectroscopic Properties of Colloidal Indium Phosphide Quantum Wires."
Wang, F.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14381-14387. "Determination of the Rod-Wire Transition Length in Colloidal Indium Phosphide Quantum Rods."
Glennon, J.J.; Buhro, W.E.; Loomis, R.A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 4813-4817. "A simple surface-trap-filling model for photoluminescence blinking spanning entire CdSe quantum wires."
Sun, J.; Buhro, W.E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3215-3218. "The Use of Single-Source Precursors for the Solution-Liquid-Solid Growth of Metal Sulfide Semiconductor Nanowires."
Dong, A.; Yu, H.; Wang, F.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5954-5961. "Colloidal GaAs Qauntum Wires: Solution-Liquid-Solid Synthesis and Quantum-Confinement Studies."
Sun, J.; Wang, L.-W.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 7997-8005. "Synthesis of Cadmium Telluride Quantum Wires and the Similarity of Their Band Gaps to Those of Equidiameter Cadmium Telluride Quantum Dots."
Wang, F.; Tang, R.; Yu, H.; Gibbons, P.C.; Buhro, W.E. Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 3656-3662. "Size- and Shape-controlled Synthesis of Bismuth Nanoparticles."
Wang, F.; Yu, H.; Jeong, S.; Pietryga, J.M.; Hollingsworth, J.A.; Gibbons, P.C.; Buhro, W.E. ACS Nano 2008, 2, 1903-1913. "The Scaling of the Effective Band Gaps in Indium Arsenide Quantum Dots and Wires."
Wang, F.; Tang, R.; Buhro, W. E. Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 3521-3524. "The Trouble with TOPO; Identification of Adventitious Impurities Beneficial to the Growth of Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots, Rods, and Wires."
Sun, J.; Buhro, W.E.; Wang, L.-W.; Schrier, J. Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 2913-2919. "Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Cadmium Telluride Quantum Wires."
Wang, F.; Tang, R.; Kao, J. L.-F.; Dingman, S.D.; Buhro, W.E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 4983-4994. "Spectroscopic Identification of Tri-n-octylphosphine Oxide (TOPO) Impurities and Elucidation of Their Roles in Cadmium Selenide Quantum-Wire Growth."
Courses Taught
Chem 111A, "General Chemistry".
Chem 461, "Inorganic Chemistry".
Chem 465, "Solid-State and Materials Chemistry".
Chem 490, "Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory"
Chem 541, "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry" (based on the descriptive chemistry of the elements)
Chem 542, "Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry: Optical and Electrical Properties of Quantum Nanostructures".
Chem 582, "Chemical Applications of Group Theory".