2025

First Atallah Lab Paper with Denison Students:

• Nguyen, L. T.; Zupnick, R.; Vo Truong, Quynh; Atallah, T. L.;  Low-Dimensional AgTePh Disordered Aggregation Versus Directed Coalescence for Shortwave-IR to Visible Semiconductors Nanoscale 2025, 17, 19136-19142. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5NR02425K
  Open access chemrxiv version

2024

• Shin, A. J.; Zhao, C.; Shen, Y.; Dickerson, C. E.; Li, B. Y.; Roshandel, H.; Bím, D.; Atallah, T. L.; Oyala, P. H.; Alson, L. K.; Kerr, T. A.; Alexandrova, A. N.; Diaconescu, P. L.; Campbell, W. C.; Caram, J. C. Toward Liquid Cell Quantum Sensing: Ytterbium Complexes with Ultra-Narrow Absorption Science 2024, 385, 651-656.

2023

• Tenney, S.; Tan, L.; Tan, X.; Sonnleitner, M.; Coffey, B.; Williams, J.; Ronquillo, R.; Atallah, T. L.; Ahmed, T.; Caram, J. Efficient 2D to 0D Energy Transfer in HgTe Nanoplatelet-Quantum Dot Heterostructures through High-Speed Exciton Diffusion. J. Phys. Chem Lett., 2023, 14, 9456-9463.

• Bailey, A.; Deshmukh, A.; Bradbury, N. C.; Pengshung, M.; Atallah, T. L.; Williams, J. A.; Barotov, U.; Neuhauser, D..; Sletten, E.; Caram, Exploring the Design of Superradiant J-Aggregates from Amphiphilic Monomer Units Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 3841-3849.

• Sica, A. V.; Hua, A. S.; Lin, H. H.; Sletten, E. M.; Atallah, T. L.;* Caram, J.* Spectrally-Selective Time-Resolved Emission through Fourier-Filtering (STEF) J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 552-558. *Co-Corresponding Author

2022

• Guan, X.; Erşan, S.; Hu, X.; Atallah, T. L.; Xie, Y.; Lu, S.; Cao, B.; Sun, J.; Wu, K.; Huang, Y.; Duan, X.; Caram, J. R.; Yu, Y.; Park, J. O.; Liu, C. Maximizing Light-Driven CO2, and N2 Fixation Efficiency in Quantum Dot–Bacteria Hybrids Nat. Catal. 2022, 5, 1019-1029.

• Tenney, S. M; Tan, L. A.;  Sonnleitner, M. L.; Sica, A. V.; Shin, A. J.; Ronquillo, R.; Ahmed T.; Atallah, T. L.; Caram J. R. Seeded Growth of Mesoscale Quantum-Confined Semiconductor Nanoplatelets Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 6048-6056.

• Deshmukh, A. P; Geue, N.; Bradbury, N. C.; Atallah, T. L.; Chuang, C.; Pengshung, M.; Cao, J.; Sletten, E. M.; Daniel Neuhauser, D.; Caram J. R. Bridging the Gap between H- and J-Aggregates: Classification and  Supramolecular Tunability for Excitonic Band Structures in 2-Dimensional Molecular Aggregates Chem. Phys. Rev. 2022, 3, 021401.

2021

• Chen, P.;* Atallah, T. L.;* Lin, Z.; Wang, P.; Lee, S-J.; Xu, J.; Huang, Z.; Ping, Y.; Huang, Y.; Duan, X.; Caram, J. R.; Duan, X. Approaching the intrinsic exciton physics limit in two-dimensional semiconductor diodes, Nature, 2021, 599, 404-410. *Co-First Author

•  Friedman, H. C.; Cosco, E. D.; Atallah, T. L.; Sletten, E. M.; Caram, J. R. Establishing design principles for emissive organic SWIR chromophores from energy gap laws, Chem, 2021, 7, 3359-3376.

Before Denison:

• Shin, A. J.; Hossain, A.; Tenney, S. T; Tan, X.; Tan, L.; Foley IV, J. J.; Atallah, T. L.;* Caram, J. R.* Dielectric Screening Modulates Nanoplatelet Excitons J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 4958-4964. *Co-Corresponding Author

• Cosco, E. D.; Arús, B. A.; Spearman, A. L.; Atallah, T. L.; Leland, O. S.; Bischof, Caram, J. R.; T. S.; Bruns, O. T.; Sletten, E. M. Bright Polymethine Emitters for Multiplexed Shortwave Infrared in Vivo Imaging J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 6836-6846.

• Wang, Y.; Jia, C.; Fan, Z.; Lin, Z.; Lee, S.-J.; Atallah, T. L.; Caram, J. R.; Huang, Y.; Duan, X. Large-Area Synthesis and Patterning of All-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Heterostructures Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 1451-1460.

• Guo, H.; Dickerson, C. E.; Shin, A. J.; Zhao, C.; Atallah, T. L.; Caram, J. R.; Campbell, W. C.; Alexandrova, A. N. Surface Chemical Trapping of Optical Cycling Centers Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 211-213.

• Tenney, S. M.; Vilchez, V.; Sonnleitner, M.;  Huang, C.;  Friedman, H. C.; Shin, A. J.; Deshmukh,A.; Atallah, T. L.; Ithurria S.; Caram, J. R. Mercury Chalcogenide Nanoplatelet-Quantum Dot Heterostructures as a New Class of Continuously Tunable Bright Shortwave Infrared Emitters J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 3473–3480.

• Pengshung, M.; Neal, P.; Atallah, T. L.; Kwon, J.; Caram, J. R.; Lopez, S. A.; Sletten, E. M. Silicon Incorporation in Polymethine Dyes Chem. Comm. 2020, 56, 6110-6113.

• Atallah, T. L.; Sica, A. V.; Shin, A. J.; Friedman, H. C.; Kahrobai, Y. K.;  Caram, J. R. Decay-Associated Fourier Spectroscopy: Visible to Shortwave Infrared Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectra J. Phys. Chem. A 2019, 123, 6792-6798.

• Evans, T. J. S.; Schlaus, A.; Fu, Y.; Zhong, X.; Atallah, T. L.; Spencer, M .S.; Brus, L. E.; Jin, S.; Zhu, X.-Y. Continuous-Wave Lasing in Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanowires Adv. Opt. Mat. 2018, 6, 1700982.

• Miyata, K.; Atallah, T. L.; Zhu, X.-Y. Lead Halide Perovskites: Crystal-Liquid Duality, Phonon Glass Electron Crystals, and Large Polaron Formation Sci. Adv. 2017, 3, e1701469.

• O ’Brien, E. S.; Trinh, M. T.; Kann, R. L.; Chen, J.; Elbaz, G. A.; Masurkar, A.; Atallah, T. L.; Paley, M. V; Patel, N.; Paley, D. W.; Kymissis, I.; Crowther, A. C.; Millis, A. J.; Reichman, D. R.; Zhu, X.; Roy, X. Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Intercalation of a Low-Bandgap Superatomic Crystal Nat. Chem. 2017, 9, 1170-1174.

• Atallah, T. L.; Wang, J.; Bosch, M.;  Seo, D.; R. Burke, Moneer, O.; Zhu, J.; Theibault, M.;  Brus, L.; Hone, J.; Zhu, X.-Y. Electrostatic Screening of Charged Defects in Monolayer MoS2 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 2148-2152.

• Atallah, T. L.; Gustafsson, M. V; Schmidt, E.; Frisbie, C. D.; Zhu, X.-Y. Charge Saturation and Intrinsic Doping in Electrolyte-Gated Organic Semiconductors J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 4840–4844.

• Morris, J. D.; Atallah, T. L.; Park, H.; Ooi, Z.; Dodabalapur, A.; Zhu, X.-Y. Quantifying Space Charge Accumulation in Organic Bulk Heterojunctions by Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Org. Electron. 2013, 14, 3014–3018.

• Morris, J. D.; Atallah, T. L.; Lombardo, C. J.; Park, H.; Dodabalapur, A.; Zhu, X.-Y. Mapping Electric Field Distributions in Biased Organic Bulk Heterojunctions under Illumination by Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Appl. Phys. Lett. 2013, 102, 33301.

• Atallah, T. L.; Blankespoor, R. L.; Homan, P.; Hulderman, C.; Samas, B. M.; Van Allsburg, K.; Vrieze, D. C. Substituent Effects on the Amination of Racemic Allyl Carbonates Using Commercially Available Chiral Rhodium Catalysts. Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 5795–5798.

• Haan, S. L.; Smith, Z. S.; Shomsky, K. N.; Plantinga, P. W.; Atallah, T. L. Anticorrelated Electrons from High-Intensity Nonsequential Double Ionization of Atoms. Phys. Rev. A 2010, 81, 23409.

Presentations

2026

• “Rapid One-Pot Synthesis of 2D AgTePh: Pathways Governing SWIR (Aggregates) vs Visible (Platelets) Emission”, Oral, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, Spring 2026.

2024

• “Doping of Organic and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors Enhances Optoelectronic Properties”, Poster, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2024.

2023

• “Doping Next Gen. Semiconductors: Principles of “Performance Enhancement”, Department Seminar, Denison University, Granville, OH, Fall 2023.

• “Chemical Doping in Crystalline Organic and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors Unlock New Optoelectronic Properties”, Poster, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, Spring 2023.

• “Photocurrent Imaging and Photoluminescence Lifetimes Reveal Intrinsic Excitonic 2D PN Junction Behavior”, Oral, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, Spring 2023.

2022

• “Exciton-Charge Auger Limit Photovoltaic Performance of 2D Semiconductor Devices”, Oral, Material Research Society Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, MA, Fall 2022.

• “Semiconductors and Devices on A Plane: Accessing Fundamental 2D Atomic Semiconductor Properties”, Invited Seminar, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Spring 2022.

Before Denison:

• “Decay Associated Fourier Spectra: Visible to Shortwave Infrared Time-Resolved Emission Spectra”, Oral & Poster, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, CA, Fall 2019.

• “Decay Associated Fourier Spectra: Visible to SWIR Time-Resolved Emission Spectra”, Oral, Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics, San Diego, CA, January 2019.

• “Decay Associated Fourier Spectroscopy: Detecting Luminescence from Visible to Shortwave”, Poster, Seaborg Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, November 2018.

• “Defects in Narrow Bandgap 2D Semiconductors”, Poster, Gordon Research Conference: Two Dimensional Electronics Beyond Graphene, Easton, MA, June 2018.

• “Electrostatic Screening of Charged Defects in 2D Materials”, Oral, American Physical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Spring 2017.

• “Intrinsic Doping at Liquid Electrolyte/Organic Semiconductor Interfaces”, Oral, Material Research Society Meeting and Exhibit, Boston, MA, Fall 2014.

• “Ultrafast Charge Separation at Organic Donor-Acceptor Interfaces: Experiment and Theory”, Poster, International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Atlanta, GA, 2012.

• “Mechanistic Insights into Rhodium Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Substitution Reactions”, Poster, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA, Fall 2012.

• “Scope of a Rhodium Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Substitution Reactions”, West Michigan Regional Undergraduate Science Research Conference, Grand Rapids MI, 2010.

• “Rhodium Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Substitution Reactions”, West Michigan Regional Undergraduate Science Research Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009.

• “Classical Modeling of Non-Sequential Double Ionization: Recollision, Time-Delayed ionization, Drift, and Possible Reattachment”, Poster, International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009