Brendan Ward-O’Brien

University of Southern California — United States

Engineering · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films(4), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties(2), High Entropy Alloys Studies(2), Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies(2), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications(2)

Publications9 total

Mechanistic Insights into the Aminolytic Decomposition of Mo(CO) <sub>6</sub> to Form MoC <sub> 1– <i>x</i> </sub> Nanoparticles
Chemistry of Materials·2026
Size-controlled synthesis of ultrasmall Cu <sub>3</sub> VS <sub>4</sub> nanocrystals <i>via</i> direct ternary nucleation
Chemical Communications·2026
Probing the Entropic Stabilization of High-Entropy Lanthanide Oxysulfates
Chemistry of Materials·2025Open Access
Gradient aerosol chemical vapor deposition (GA-CVD) for vertically graded thin films of Mo<sub><i>x</i></sub>W<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>S<sub>2</sub> and W<sub><i>x</i></sub>Mo<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>S<sub>2</sub>
Chemical Communications·2025Open Access
Direct Heterogeneous Integration of Molybdenum Disulfide via Spin-on Molecular Chemistry
2024Open Access
Environment effects upon electrodeposition of thin film copper oxide nanomaterials
Journal of Materials Chemistry C·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Quantum Confined High-Entropy Lanthanide Oxysulfide Colloidal Nanocrystals
Nano Letters·2022· 23 citedOpen Access
High entropy metal chalcogenides: synthesis, properties, applications and future directions
Chemical Communications·2022· 99 citedOpen Access
Synthesis of High Entropy Lanthanide Oxysulfides via the Thermolysis of a Molecular Precursor Cocktail
Journal of the American Chemical Society·2021· 38 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

David J. Lewis(7), Mark A. Buckingham(4), Weichen Xiao(2), E.J. Pickering(2), Charles Smith(2), David J. Binks(2), Robert J. Cernik(2), Y. C. Chen(2), Richard L. Brutchey(2), Yi Li(1), Jie Qu(1), Ruben Ahumada‐Lazo(1), Xiangli Zhong(1), Yasser Aboura(1), Firoz Alam(1), Timothy L. Burnett(1), Paul D. McNaughter(1), Rongsheng Cai(1), Amrita Chattopadhyay(1), Joseph M. Flitcroft(1)