Former Staff - Muhammet Erkan Kose

Departed on: August 07, 2009
Can be contacted at:
email: erkankose77@yahoo.com

Primary Research Interests

Quantum mechanical calculations on conjugated organic materials
Modeling photophysical properties of thiophene-based dendrimeric structures for photovoltaic applications.
Charge transport/mobility calculations and molecular dynamic simulations for organic systems.

Education

2005	Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2001	M.Sc., Computational Chemistry, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
1999	B.Sc., Chemistry, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Experience

2006–present	Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Kwiseon Kim, NREL
2005–2006	Postdoctoral Researcher, Prof. Ya-Ping Sun, Clemson University, SC

Selected Publications

Brian A. Gregg, Muhammet Erkan Kose, “Reversible switching between molecular and charge transfer phases in a liquid crystalline organic semiconductor,” Chemistry of Materials, ASAP Article (2008 ).
Muhammet E. Kose, William J. Mitchell, Nikos Kopidakis, Christopher H. Chang, Sean E. Shaheen, Kwiseon Kim, Garry Rumbles, “Theoretical studies on conjugated phenyl-cored thiophene dendrimers for photovoltaic applications,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (46): 14257 (2007 )
Ksenija Glusac, M. Erkan Köse, Hui Jiang, and Kirk S. Schanze, “Triplet Excited State in Platinum-Acetylide Oligomers: Triplet Localization and Effects of Conformation,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 111 (5): 929 (2007).
Ya-Ping Sun, Bing Zhou, Yi Lin, Wei Wang, K. A. Shiral Fernando, Pankaj Pathak, Mohammed Jaouad Meziani, Barbara A. Harruff, Xin Wang, Haifang Wang, Pengju G. Luo, Hua Yang, Muhammet Erkan Kose, Bailin Chen, L. Monica Veca, and Su-Yuan Xie, “Quantum-sized carbon dots for bright and colorful photoluminescence,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (24): 7756 (2006).
Muhammet Erkan Köse, Ahmed Omar, Christopher A. Virgin, Bruce F. Carroll, and Kirk S. Schanze, “Principal component analysis calibration method for dual-luminophore oxygen and temperature sensor films: Application to luminescence imaging,” Langmuir 21 (20): 9110 (2005).
Ulrike Salzner and M. Erkan Kose, “Does the donor-acceptor concept work for designing synthetic metals? 2. Theoretical investigation of copolymers of 4-(dicyanomethylene)-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b : 3,4-b ']dithiophene and 3,4-(ethylenedioxy)thiophene,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106 (36): 9221 (2002)