Research – Danışman Research Group

Low energy atom diffraction (in collaboration with Prof. Gianangelo Bracco), X-ray Diffraction, X-ray photoelectron diffraction, scanning probe microscopy and quartz crystal microbalance studies of self assembled monolayers (SAMs) and organic semiconductor thin films.
Carboranethiol Self Assembeled Monolayers (in collaboration with Prof. Ayşen Yılmaz and Prof. Tomas Base)
Computational studies of the above mentioned systems by means of quantum chemistry methods (in collaboration with Prof. Ersen Mete).
Supersonic molecular beam deposition of organic semiconductors for fabrication of organic electronic devices.
Cavity ring-down spectroscopy and fiber optics based trace chemical sensors (in collaboration with Prof. Okan Esentürk).
Development of methods and tools for intoducing mathematical and quantum chemical concepts to undergraduate students.

Primary investigator, Characterization and optimization of pentacene thin films, grown by supersonic molecular beam deposition on Ag(111) and Au(111) surfaces, by helium atom diffraction and quartz crystal microbalance techniques, TÜBİTAK-1001, Project number:107T408, 2007-2010.
Primary investigator, Study of asymmetric disulfide self assembled monolayers as possible bottom-up templating agents, TÜBİTAK-CNR-2504, Project number: 209T084, 2010-2012 (Co-investigator: Prof. Gianangelo Bracco).
Primary Investigator, Development of a Fiber Loop Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy System for Trace Detection, TÜBİTAK-2515 (COST-TD 1105), Project number: 212T079, 2013-2016 (Co-investigator: Prof. Okan Esentürk).
Primary Investigator, Investigation of perfluoropentacene films on flat and vicinal Ag(111) and Au(111) surfaces, TÜBİTAK-1001 (COST-TN 1301), Project number: 113F022, 2013-2017 (Co-investigator: Prof. Gianangelo Bracco).
Co-investigator, Luminescence Properties of Various Metal Ion Doped Borate Compounds and Investigation of Carboranethiol Films on Metal Surfaces, TÜBİTAK-1003, Project number:213M182, 2014-2016 (Primary investigator: Prof. Ayşen Yılmaz, Co-investigator: Prof. Ersen Mete).