These are a list of the latest publications by the PI, his students and collaborators

1) US Patent on Conducting Polymers issued January 9, 2007(Patent Number: US7,160,575 B1)

2) Influence of temperature on charge transport and device parameters in an electrospun hybrid organic/inorganic semiconductor Schottky diode, R. Pérez, N.J. Pinto and A.T. Johnson Jr., Synth. Metals 157, 231-234 (2007).

3) Influence of various gases on the device characteristics of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) field effect transistor, R. Rivera, N.J. Pinto, A.T. Johnson, Jr., I. Ramos and A. Meléndez, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Conference Proceedings (2007).

4) Electrical properties of Sb-doped tin oxide nanofibers, N. León*, A. Melendez*, Y. Wang, I. Ramos, N. Pinto and J.J. Santiago, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 61, 683-687 (2007).

5) Electronic properties of electrospun tin oxide nanofibers, A. Melendez*, Y. Wang, I. Ramos, N. Pinto and J.J. Santiago, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 61, 688-692 (2007).

6) Electric response of isolated electrospun polyaniline nanofibers to vapors of aliphatic alcohols, N.J. Pinto, I. Ramos, R. Rojas, P.C. Wang and A.T. Johnson Jr., Sens. Actuators, B, 129, 621-627 (2008).

7) Using electrospinning for the fabrication of rapid response gas sensors based on conducting polymer nanowires, R. Rojas and N.J. Pinto, IEEE Sensors Journal 8, 951-953 (2008).

8) Schottky diode based on a thin film of 4-polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate, A. Bravo and N.J. Pinto, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Conference Proceedings (2008).

9) Aliphatic alcohol vapor sensors based on fibers of 4-polyethylenedioxythiophene-polystyrenesulfonate, O. Martínez, N.J. Pinto and I. Ramos, National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Conference Proceedings (2008).

10) Two experiments in physics based on electrospun polymer nanofibers, N.J. Pinto, Am. J. Phys. 76, 1163-1167 (2008). View paper (.pdf)

11) Schottky diodes based on electrospun polyaniline nanofibers: Effects of varying fiber diameter and doping level on device performance, R. Rivera and N.J. Pinto, Physica E 41, 432-426 (2009).

12) Rectifying junctions of tin oxide and poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers fabricated via electrospinning, N.J. Pinto, K.V. Carrasquillo, C.M. Rodd and R. Agarwal, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 083504 (2009).

13) Integration of nanoscience into the undergraduate curriculum via simple experiments based on electrospun polymer nanofibers, N.J. Pinto (ACS Books 2009 – in print 2009).

14) Fabrication of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)-poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-Polystyrene sulfonate composite nanofibers via electrospinning, O. Martínez, A.G. Bravo and N.J. Pinto, Macromolecules 42, 7924-7929 (2009).

15) Field effect devices and sensors based on electrospun polymer assisted tin oxide nanoribbons, R. Rojas, A. Meléndez, I. Ramos, J.J. Santiago-Avilés and N.J. Pinto, J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10, 2811-2815 (2010).