Publications

Highlighted Publications

• SWNT Antimicrobial Activity

  Professor Pfefferle was an early pioneer of carbon nanotube technology, collaborating with other professors at Yale to demonstrate their great potential. 

  

• Sooting tendencies of jet and diesel fuels

  Dr. Charles McEnally and Professor Pfefferle established the Yield Sooting Index, a now widely used technique for analyzing the quality of fuels used for combustion. 

  

• Methane Oxidation with Functionalized Hematite

  Professor Pfefferle’s work has grown from combustion to investigation of soot and carbon nanomaterials, and now investigates properties of a wide range of nanomaterials. 

  

• Synthesis of Boron SWNT

  The Pfefferle group has demonstrated successful synthesis of Boron Single-walled nanotubes with 3 nm diameter.