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Research scientist with 20+ years of experience in materials science, physical chemistry and nanotechnology.
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Research
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Gray Literature Search,
Systematic Literature Review,
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Consulting
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Work Experience
Principal Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 2016 - Present 
Research Engineer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
June 2003 - September 2016
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow
US Naval Research Laboratory
September 2001 - June 2003
Education
Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Pennsylvania State University
- June 2000
B.S. (Chemistry)
Hope College
August 1991 - June 1994
Certifications
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Steven Kooi, Wanting Xie, Arash Alizadeh-Dehkharghani, Qiyong Chen, Victor K. Champagne, Xuemei Wang, Aaron T. Nardi, Sinan Müftü, Jae-Hwang Lee(2017). Dynamics and extreme plasticity of metallic microparticles in supersonic collisions . Scientific Reports. 7. (1). Springer Nature
Veysset, D., Hsieh, A.J., Kooi, S.E., Nelson, K.A.(2017). Molecular influence in high-strain-rate microparticle impact response of poly(urethane urea) elastomers . Polymer (United Kingdom). 123. p. 30-38.
Kaminer, I., Kooi, S.E., Shiloh, R., Zhen, B., Shen, Y., López, J.J., Remez, R., Skirlo, S.A., Yang, Y., Joannopoulos, J.D., et al.(2017). Spectrally and spatially resolved smith-purcell radiation in plasmonic crystals with short-range disorder . Physical Review X. 7. (1).
Veysset, D., Maznev, A.A., Veres, I.A., Pezeril, T., Kooi, S.E., Lomonosov, A.M., Nelson, K.A.(2017). Acoustical breakdown of materials by focusing of laser-generated Rayleigh surface waves . Applied Physics Letters. 111. (3).
Singer, J.P., Kooi, S.E., Thomas, E.L.(2017). Corrigendum to: Focused laser-induced marangoni dewetting for patterning polymer thin films (Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, (2016), 54, 2, (225-236), 10.1002/polb.23906) . Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 55. (6).
Veysset, D., Hsieh, A.J., Kooi, S., Maznev, A.A., Masser, K.A., Nelson, K.A.(2016). Dynamics of supersonic microparticle impact on elastomers revealed by real-time multi-frame imaging . Scientific Reports. 6.
Steven Kooi, David Veysset, Alexei A. Мaznev, Thomas Pezeril, Keith A. Nelson(2016). Interferometric analysis of laser-driven cylindrically focusing shock waves in a thin liquid layer . Scientific Reports. 6. (1). Springer Nature
Jonathan P. Singer, Steven E. Kooi, Edwin L. Thomas(2015). Focused laser-induced marangoni dewetting for patterning polymer thin films . Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics. 54. (2). p. 225--236. Wiley-Blackwell
Veysset, D., Pezeril, T., Kooi, S., Bulou, A., Nelson, K.A.(2015). Laser-induced versus shock wave induced transformation of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite . Applied Physics Letters. 106. (16).
Dorval Courchesne, N.-M., Klug, M.T., Huang, K.J., Weidman, M.C., Cantú, V.J., Chen, P.-Y., Kooi, S.E., Yun, D.S., Tisdale, W.A., Fang, N.X., et al.(2015). Constructing Multifunctional Virus-Templated Nanoporous Composites for Thin Film Solar Cells: Contributions of Morphology and Optics to Photocurrent Generation . Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119. (25). p. 13987-14000.
Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne, Matthew T. Klug, Po-Yen Chen, Steven E. Kooi, Dong Soo Yun, Nina Hong, Nicholas X. Fang, Angela M. Belcher, Paula T. Hammond(2014). Nanoporous Networks: Assembly of a Bacteriophage-Based Template for the Organization of Materials into Nanoporous Networks (Adv. Mater. 21/2014) . Advanced Materials. 26. (21). p. 3568--3568. Wiley-Blackwell
Jonathan P. Singer, Kevin W. Gotrik, Jae-Hwang Lee, Steven E. Kooi, Caroline A. Ross, Edwin L. Thomas(2014). Alignment and reordering of a block copolymer by solvent-enhanced thermal laser direct write . Polymer. 55. (7). p. 1875--1882. Elsevier {BV}
Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne, Matthew T. Klug, Po-Yen Chen, Steven E. Kooi, Dong Soo Yun, Nina Hong, Nicholas X. Fang, Angela M. Belcher, Paula T. Hammond(2014). Assembly of a Bacteriophage-Based Template for the Organization of Materials into Nanoporous Networks . Advanced Materials. 26. (21). p. 3398--3404. Wiley-Blackwell
Jonathan P. Singer, Pao-Tai Lin, Steven E. Kooi, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Edwin L. Thomas(2013). Direct-Write Thermocapillary Dewetting of Polymer Thin Films by a Laser-Induced Thermal Gradient . Advanced Materials. 25. (42). p. 6100--6105. Wiley-Blackwell
Jonathan P. Singer, Jae-Hwang Lee, Steven E. Kooi, Edwin L. Thomas(2012). Rapid fabrication of 3D terahertz split ring resonator arrays by novel single-shot direct write focused proximity field nanopatterning . Optics Express. 20. (10). p. 11097. The Optical Society
Singer, J.P., Lee, J.-H., Kooi, S.E., Thomas, E.L.(2012). Rapid fabrication of 3D terahertz split ring resonator arrays by novel single-shot direct write focused proximity field nanopatterning . Optics Express. 20. (10). p. 11097-11108.
Pezeril, T., Saini, G., Veysset, D., Kooi, S., Fidkowski, P., Radovitzky, R., Nelson, K.A.(2011). Direct visualization of laser-driven focusing shock waves . Physical Review Letters. 106. (21).
Zhang, G., Singer, J.P., Kooi, S.E., Evans, R.E., Thomas, E.L., Fraser, C.L.(2011). Reversible solid-state mechanochromic fluorescence from a boron lipid dye . Journal of Materials Chemistry. 21. (23). p. 8295-8299.
Jonathan P. Singer, Steven E. Kooi, Edwin L. Thomas(2011). Focused laser spike (FLaSk) annealing of photoactivated chemically amplified resists for rapid hierarchical patterning . Nanoscale. 3. (7). p. 2730. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})
Steven Kooi, Ming-Chia Li, Guang-Wei Chang, Tao Lin, Rong-Ming Ho, Wei-Tsung Chuang(2010). Birefringence Control of Semicrystalline Block Copolymers by Crystallization under Confinement . Langmuir. 26. (22). p. 17640--17648. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Steven Kooi, Jae-Hwang Lee, Lifeng Wang, Mary C. Boyce, Edwin L. Thomas(2010). Enhanced Energy Dissipation in Periodic Epoxy Nanoframes . Nano Letters. 10. (7). p. 2592--2597. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Mindy Levine, Inja Song, Trisha L. Andrew, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2010). Photoluminescent energy transfer from poly(phenyleneethynylene)s to near-infrared emitting fluorophores . Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry. 48. (15). p. 3382--3391. Wiley-Blackwell
Julian M. W. Chan, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2010). Synthesis of Stair-Stepped Polymers Containing Dibenz[a,h]anthracene Subunits . Macromolecules. 43. (6). p. 2789--2793. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Chan, J.M.W., Tischler, J.R., Kooi, S.E., Bulović, V., Swager, T.M.(2009). Synthesis of j-aggregating dibenz[a,j]anthracene-based macrocycles . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131. (15). p. 5659-5666.
Moslin, R.M., Andrew, T.L., Kooi, S.E., Swager, T.M.(2009). Anionic oxidative polymerization: The synthesis of poly(phenylenedicyanovinylene) (PPCN2V) . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131. (1). p. 20-21.
Zhihua Chen, Jean Bouffard, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2008). Highly Emissive Iptycene−Fluorene Conjugated Copolymers: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties . Macromolecules. 41. (18). p. 6672--6676. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Steven Kooi, Zheng Zhou, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Howard Saltsburg(2008). The Role of the Interface in CO Oxidation on Au/CeO2Multilayer Nanotowers . Advanced Functional Materials. 18. (18). p. 2801--2807. Wiley-Blackwell
Guoqing Zhang, Steven E. Kooi, J. N. Demas, Cassandra L. Fraser(2008). Emission Color Tuning with Polymer Molecular Weight for Difluoroboron Dibenzoylmethane-Polylactide . Advanced Materials. 20. (11). p. 2099--2104. Wiley-Blackwell
Mustafa Karaman, Steven E. Kooi, Karen K. Gleason(2008). Vapor Deposition of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Dielectric Bragg Mirrors having Rapid and Reversibly Tunable Optical Reflectance . Chemistry of Materials. 20. (6). p. 2262--2267. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Kooi, S.E.(2008). Focused ion beam processing of polymeric materials for analytical sample preparation . Microscopy and Microanalysis. 14. (SUPPL. 2). p. 688-689.
Pezeril, T., Leon, F., Chateigner, D., Kooi, S., Nelson, K.A.(2008). Picosecond photoexcitation of acoustic waves in locally canted gold films . Applied Physics Letters. 92. (6).
Guoqing Zhang, Jianbin Chen, Sarah J. Payne, Steven E. Kooi, J. N. Demas, Cassandra L. Fraser(2007). Multi-Emissive Difluoroboron Dibenzoylmethane Polylactide Exhibiting Intense Fluorescence and Oxygen-Sensitive Room-Temperature Phosphorescence . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. (29). p. 8942--8943. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Ji-Hyun Jang, Chaitanya K. Ullal, Steven E. Kooi, Koh, Edwin L. Thomas(2007). Shape Control of Multivalent 3D Colloidal Particles via Interference Lithography . Nano Letters. 7. (3). p. 647--651. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Martin, T.P., Kooi, S.E., Chang, S.H., Sedransk, K.L., Gleason, K.K.(2007). Initiated chemical vapor deposition of antimicrobial polymer coatings . Biomaterials. 28. (6). p. 909-915.
Guoqing Zhang, Jianbin Chen, Sarah J. Payne, Steven E. Kooi, J. N. Demas, Cassandra L. Fraser(2007). Multi-Emissive Difluoroboron Dibenzoylmethane Polylactide Exhibiting Intense Fluorescence and Oxygen-Sensitive Room-Temperature Phosphorescence [J. Am. Chem. Soc.2007,129, 8942−8943] . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. (50). p. 15728--15728. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Saini, G., Pezeril, T., Torchinsky, D.H., Yoon, J., Kooi, S.E., Thomas, E.L., Nelson, K.A.(2007). Pulsed laser characterization of multicomponent polymer acoustic and mechanical properties in the sub-GHz regime . Journal of Materials Research. 22. (3). p. 719-723.
Jang, J.-H., Ullal, C.K., Maldovan, M., Gorishnyy, T., Kooi, S., Koh, C.Y., Thomas, E.L.(2007). 3D micro- and nanostructures via interference lithography . Advanced Functional Materials. 17. (16). p. 3027-3041.
Andrew Satrijo, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2007). Enhanced Luminescence from Emissive Defects in Aggregated Conjugated Polymers . Macromolecules. 40. (25). p. 8833--8841. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Guy D. Joly, Lars Geiger, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2006). Highly Effective Water-Soluble Fluorescence Quenchers of Conjugated Polymer Thin Films in Aqueous Environments . Macromolecules. 39. (21). p. 7175--7177. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Steven Kooi, Jongseung Yoon, Wonmok Lee, Jean-Michel Caruge, Moungi Bawendi, Edwin L. Thomas, Paras N. Prasad(2006). Defect-mode mirrorless lasing in dye-doped organic/inorganic hybrid one-dimensional photonic crystal . Applied Physics Letters. 88. (9). p. 091102. {AIP} Publishing
Kooi, S.E., Jang, J.-H., Ullal, C., Thomas, E.L.(2006). Focused ion beam enabled analysis of nanocomposite and nanostructured soft materials . Microscopy and Microanalysis. 12. (SUPPL. 2). p. 1264-1265.
Youngmi Kim, Jean Bouffard, Steven E. Kooi, Timothy M. Swager(2005). Highly Emissive Conjugated Polymer Excimers . Journal of the American Chemical Society. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Kooi, S.E., Baker, L.A., Sheehan, P.E., Whitman, L.J.(2004). Dip-pen nanolithography of chemical templates on silicon oxide . Advanced Materials. 16. (12). p. 1013-1016.
Steven Kooi, Pehr E. Pehrsson, Wei Zhao, Jeffrey W. Baldwin, Chulho Song, Jie Liu, Bo Zheng(2003). Thermal Fluorination and Annealing of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107. (24). p. 5690--5695. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Steven Kooi, Oh-Kil Kim, Jongtae Je, Jeffrey W. Baldwin, Pehr E. Pehrsson, Leonard J. Buckley(2003). Solubilization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Supramolecular Encapsulation of Helical Amylose . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125. (15). p. 4426--4427. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Ancona, M.G., Kooi, S.E., Kruppa, W., Snow, A.W., Foos, E.E., Whitman, L.J., Park, D., Shirey, L.(2003). Patterning of narrow Au nanocluster lines using V<inf>2</inf>O<inf>5</inf> nanowire masks and ion-beam milling . Nano Letters. 3. (2). p. 135-138.
Pehrsson, P.E., Zhao, W., Baldwin, J.W., Song, C., Liu, J., Kooi, S., Zheng, B.(2003). Thermal fluorination and annealing of single-wall carbon nanotubes . Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107. (24). p. 5690-5695.
Steven Earl Kooi, Ulrich Schlecht, Marko Burghard, Klaus Kern(2002). Electrochemical Modification of Single Carbon Nanotubes . Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41. (8). p. 1353--1355. Wiley-Blackwell
Steven E. Kooi, Ulrich Schlecht, Marko Burghard, Klaus Kern(2002). Elektrochemische Modifizierung einzelner Kohlenstoff-Nanoröhren Diese Arbeit wurde von der Europäischen Union (Projektnummer HPRN-CT-1999-00011) unterstützt. Die Autoren danken B. Siegle, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, für die Unterstützung bei der Aufnahme der Auger-Spektren . Angewandte Chemie. 114. (8). p. 1409. Wiley-Blackwell
Kooi, S.E., Schlecht, U., Burghard, M., Kern, K.(2002). Electrochemical modification of single carbon nanotubes . Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. 41. (8). p. 1353-1355.
Knez, M., Sumser, M., Bittner, A.M., Wege, C., Jeske, H., Kooi, S., Burghard, M., Kern, K.(2002). Electrochemical modification of individual nano-objects . Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 522. (1). p. 70-74.
Kooi, S.E., Leskiw, B.D., Castleman Jr., A.W.(2001). Relaxation Dynamics of Electronically Excited Nanoscale Metal-Carbon Complexes: Vanadium-Carbon Clusters . Nano Letters. 1. (3). p. 113-116.
Kooi, S.E., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1999). Dehydrogenation of ammonia by early transition metals: Formation of metal nitride clusters . Chemical Physics Letters. 315. (1-2). p. 49-54.
Sakurai, H., Kooi, S.E., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1999). Latest Findings on the Photoionization of Met-Cars . Journal of Cluster Science. 10. (4). p. 493-507.
Card, D.A., Folmer, D.E., Kooi, S., Sato, S., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1999). The interaction of titanium-carbon cluster fragments . European Physical Journal D. 9. (1-4). p. 195-200.
Kooi, S.E., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1999). Photofragmentation of Vanadium Oxide Cations . Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 103. (29). p. 5671-5674.
Kooi, S.E., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1998). Delayed ionization in transition metal-carbon clusters: Further evidence for the role of thermionic emission . Journal of Chemical Physics. 108. (21). p. 8864-8869.
Bartz, J.A., Friday, T.O., Goodman, B.R., Kooi, S.E., Blair, R.G., Polik, W.F.(1998). Energy disposal in the photodissociation of Co(CO)<inf>3</inf>NO near 225 nm . Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 102. (52). p. 10697-10702.
Jeffrey A. Bartz, Tyson O. Friday, Brian R. Goodman, Steven E. Kooi, Richard G. Blair, William F. Polik(1998). Energy Disposal in the Photodissociation of Co(CO)3NO near 225 nm . The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 102. (52). p. 10697--10702. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
May, B.D., Kooi, S.E., Toleno, B.J., Castleman Jr., A.W.(1997). Photodissociation of binary metal metallocarbohedrenes . Journal of Chemical Physics. 106. (6). p. 2231-2238.
CONFERENCE PAPER
Massuda, A., Roques-Carmes, C., Solanki, A., Yang, Y., Kooi, S.E., Habbal, F., Kaminer, I., Soljačič, M.(2017). High-order smith-purcell radiation in silicon nanowires . Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. Part F43-CLEO\_AT 2017.
Massuda, A., Roques-Carmes, C., Yang, Y., Kooi, S.E., Yang, Y., Murdia, C., Berggren, K.K., Kaminer, I., Soljacic, M.(2017). Smith-purcell radiation from low-energy electrons . 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2017 - Proceedings. 2017-January. p. 1-2.
Aviram Massuda, Charles Roques-Carmes, Yujia Yang, Steven E. Kooi, Yi Yang, Chitraang Murdia, Karl K. Berggren, Ido Kaminer, Marin Soljacic(2017). Smith-Purcell radiation from low-energy electrons . Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. {OSA}
Aviram Massuda, Charles Roques-Carmes, Amit Solanki, Yi Yang, Steven E. Kooi, Fawwaz Habbal, Ido Kaminer, Marin Soljacic(2017). High-order Smith-Purcell radiation in Silicon Nanowires . Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. {OSA}
Ido Kaminer, Steven E. Kooi, Roy Shiloh, Bo Zhen, Yichen Shen, Josue Lopez, Roei Remez, Scott Skirlo, Yi Yang, John Joannopoulos, et al.(2017). Smith-Purcell radiation in the presence of short-range disorder . Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. {OSA}
Kaminer, I., Kooi, S.E., Shiloh, R., Zhen, B., Shen, Y., López, J.J., Remez, R., Skirlo, S.A., Yang, Y., Joannopoulos, J.D., et al.(2017). Smith-purcell radiation in the presence of short-range disorder . Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. Part F42-CLEO\_QELS 2017.
Kim, B., Kwak, R., Kwon, H.J., Pham, V.S., Kooi, S.E., Lim, G., Han, J.(2014). Purification of ultra-high salinity produced water by multi-stage ion concentration polarization . 18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2014. p. 160-162.
Curi, S., Veysset, D., Balan, R.C., Kooi, S., Nelson, K.A., Elman, N.M., Dhers, S.(2014). Rupture mechanism for thin shells based on ultrasound activation for subcutaneous controlled drug delivery systems . 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014. p. 778-786.
Osgood, R.M., Bullion, K.M., Giardini, S.A., Carlson, J.B., Stenhouse, P., Kingsborough, R., Liberman, V., Parameswaran, L., Rothschild, M., Miller, O., et al.(2014). Scattering of long wavelengths into thin silicon photovoltaic films by plasmonic silver nanoparticles . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 9178.
Osgood, R.M., Giardini, S.A., Carlson, J.B., Gear, C., Diest, K., Rothschild, M., Fernandes, G.E., Xu, J., Kooi, S., Periasamy, P., et al.(2013). Plasmonic Ag nanostructures on thin substrates for enhanced energy harvesting . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 8809.
Steven Kooi, David Veysset, Alex Maznev, Gagan Saini, Thomas Pezeril, Keith Nelson(2012). Interferometric analysis of cylindrically focused laser-driven shock waves in a thin liquid layer . {AIP}
Osgood III, R.M., Stenhouse, P.D., Quigley, C.E., Hoey, M.L., Carlson, J.B., Lopez, K., Kooi, S., Armstrong, L., Haines, C., Kapoor, D., et al.(2012). Large-area Ag nanoparticle arrays for plasmonically enhanced Raman scattering . Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 8457.
Zhang, G., Chen, J., Payne, S.J., Kooi, S.E., Demas, J.N., Fraser, C.L.(2008). Multi-emissive difluoroboron dibenzoylmethane polylactide: Synthesis and optical properties . American Chemical Society, Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry. 49. (1). p. 258-259.
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