Publications

Submitted and in Preparation

• Calibrating the Oxidative Capacity of Microdroplets, T. Majumder, D. Eremin, B. Delibas, V. Fokin, J. Dawlaty, (under review)

• Photothermal Spectroscopy in Attenuated Total Internal Reflection Geometry by Polarization Rotation and Deflection, M. Rayaluru, A. Maitra, A. Pennathur, J. Dawlaty (in preparation)

• From Boltzmann’s Entropy to Equilibrium Constant: Elucidating an Unclear Connection, S. Parsons, K. Takematsu, J. Dawlaty (in preparation for J. Chem. Ed)

• Capturing CO2 as Alcohol Carbonates: Correlation between pKa and Vibrational Frequency of the Asymmetric Stretch, B. Delibas, D. Cotton, K. Sudhakaran, J. Dawlaty (in preparation)

Published

1. Photoinduced Carbon Dioxide Release via a Metastable Photoacid in a Nonaqueous Environment, D. Cotton, T. Khuu, K. Takematsu, B. Delibas, J. Dawlaty, Just accepted in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2024)

2. Measuring the Electric Fields of Ions Captured in Crown Ethers, A. Maitra, W. Lake, A. Mohamed, S. Edington, P. Das, B. Thompson, S. Hammes-Schiffer, M. Johnson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 7458–7465 (2024) Link

3. Visualizing Partial Solvation at the Air-Water Interface, K. Judd, S. Parsons, D. Eremin, V. Fokin, J. Dawlaty, Chem. Sci.,15, 8346-8354 (2024) Link

4. Direct Spectroscopic Observation of Ultraslow Ion Desolvation at an Interface, A. Maitra, A. Pennathur, E. Chiang, J. Dawlaty ACS Appl. Energy Mater.  7, 13, 5528–5536 (2024) Link

5. Electro-Inductive Effect Dominates Vibrational Frequency Shifts of Conjugated Probes on Gold Electrodes,  W. Lake, J. Meng, J. Dawlaty, T. Lian, S. Hammes-Schiffer, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 41, 22548–22554 (2023) Link

6. Phenol as a Tethering Group to Metal Surfaces: Stark Response and Comparison to Benzenethiol, S. Menachekanian, C. Perez, A. Pennathur, M. Voegtle, D. Blauth, O. Prezhdo, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 14, 37, 8353–8359 (2023) Link

7. Inferring Energetics of CO2-Aniline Adduct Formation from Vibrational Spectroscopy, B. Delibas, K. Kron, D. Cotton, S. Sharada, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. A, 127, 24, 5162–5170 (2023) Link

8. Distinguishing between the Electrostatic Effects and Explicit Ion Interactions in a Stark Probe, A. Maitra, P. Das, B. Thompson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. B , 127, 11, 2511–2520 (2023) Link

9. Inductive Effect Alone Cannot Explain Lewis Adduct Formation and Dissociation at Electrode Interfaces, S. Menachekanian, M. Voegtle, R. Warburton, S. Hammes-Schiffer, J. Dawlaty, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 10, 5759–5768  (2023) Link

10. Direct Determination of Plasmon Enhancement Factor and Penetration Depths in Surface Enhanced IR Absorption Spectroscopy, C. Tseng, A. Pennathur, D. Blauth, N. Salazar, J. Dawlaty, Langmuir, 39, 9, 3179–3184  (2023) Link

11. Controlling Water Delivery to an Electrochemical Interface with Surfactants, A. Pennathur, C. Tseng, N. Salazar, J. Dawlaty, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 4, 2421–2429. (2023) Link

12. Can Bronsted Photobases Act as Lewis Photobases?  M. Voegtle, J. Dawlaty, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144, 18, 8178–8184. (2022) Link

13. Modeling and Characterization of Exciplexes: Insights from Quantum Chemistry and Fluorescence Spectroscopy, K. Kron, J.R. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, S. M. Sharada, J. Phys. Chem. A, 126, 15, 2319–2329 (2022). Link

14. Short Pulse Photothermal Modulation of Silicon Optical Cavities Measured by Continuous Mid-IR Probe , A.K. Pennathur, C. Tseng, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 126, 9, 4953 (2022). Link

15. Advances in Vibrational Stark Shift Spectroscopy for Measuring Interfacial Electric Fields, Sohini Sarkar, Cindy Tseng, Anwesha Maitra, Matthew J. Voegtle, Jahan M. Dawlaty, Book chapter in ACS Books: Emerging Trends in Chemical Applications of Lasers  (2021) Link

16. Electric Fields Influence Intramolecular Vibrational Energy Relaxation and Linewidths , Anwesha Maitra, S. Sarkar David Leitner, Jahan M. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 12, 32, 7818 (2021) Link

17. Mechanistic Insights about Electrochemical Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Derived from a Vibrational Probe, Sohini Sarkar, Anwesha Maitra, William R. Lake, Robert E. Warburton, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Jahan M. Dawlaty, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 22, 8381–8390 (2021) Link

18. Interfacial Polarization and Ionic Structure at the Ionic Liquid–Metal Interface Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations,  Matthew J. Voegtle, Tanmoy Pal, Anuj K. Pennathur, Sevan Menachekanian, Joel G. Patrow, Sohini Sarkar, Qiang Cui, and Jahan M. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. B, 125, 10, 2741–2753 (2021). Link

19. Strong Propensity of Ionic Liquids in Their Aqueous Solutions for an Organic-Modified Metal Surface,  A. Pennathur, M. Voegtle, S. Menachekanian, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. B, 124, 34, 7500–7507 (2020). Link

20. Electrics Fields at Metal-Surfactant Interfaces: A Combined Vibrational Spectroscopy and Capacitance Study, S. Sarkar, A. Maitra, S. Banarjee, S. Thoi, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. B. (2020). Link

21. Kinetic Evidence for the Necessity of Two Proton Donor Molecules for Successful Excited State Proton Transfer by a Photobase, J. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. A 2019, 123, 48  (2019). Link

22. Photochemistry of 2-nitroarenes: 2-nitrophenyl-α-trifluoromethyl carbinols as synthons for fluoroorganics, K. Belligund,  T. Mathew, J. Hunt, A. Nirmalchandar, R.  Haiges, J. Dawlaty, G.K.S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 40, 15921 (2019). Link

23. Teaching Entropy from Phase Space Perspective: Connecting the Statistical and Thermodynamic Views Using a Simple 1-D Model, D. Bhattacharyya, J. Dawlaty, J. Chem. Educ. 96, 10, 2208, (2019) Link

24. Ultrafast Dynamics of Hot Electrons in Nanostructures: Distinguishing the Influence on Interband and Plasmon Resonances, Y. Wang, H. Shi, L. Shen, Y. Wang, S. Cronin, J. Dawlaty, ACS Photonics, 6, 9, 2295. (2019) Link

25. Hot Electron-driven Photocatalysis and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in Plasmon Resonant Grating Structures, Y. Wang, L. Shen, Y. Wang, B. Hou, G. N. Gibson, N. Poudel, J. Chen, H. Shi, E. Guignon, N. C. Cady, W. D. Page, A. Pilar, J. Dawlaty, S. B. Cronin, Faraday Discuss., 214, 325 (2019). Link

26. Electrodes as Polarizing Functional Groups: Correlation Between Hammett Parameters and Electrochemical Polarization , S. Sarkar, J. Patrow, M. Voegtle, A. Pennathur, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 8, 4926 (2019). Link

27. Optical pKa Control in a Bifunctional Iridium Chelate, I. Demianets, J. R. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, T. Williams, Organometallics, 38, 200 (2019).  Link

28. Donor-Acceptor Pre-association, Excited State Solvation Threshold, and Optical Energy Cost as Challenges in Chemical Applications of Photobases, J.R. Hunt, C. Tseng, J. Dawlaty, Faraday Discussions, Ultrafast Photoinduced Energy and Charge Transfer, Faraday Discuss., 216, 252  (2019) Link

29. Photodriven Deprotonation of Alcohols by a Quinoline Photobase, J. R. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. A, 122, 7931  (2018). Link

30. Monitoring Local Electric Fields at Electrode Surfaces using SERS-based Stark-shift Spectroscopy during Hydrogen Evolution Reactions, H. Shi, C. Zhi, J. Patrow, B. Zhao, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, A. Benderskii, J. Dawlaty, S. Cronin.  Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10 , 39, 33678  (2018) Link

31. Interfacial Lewis Acid-Base Adduct Formation Probed by Vibrational Spectroscopy, J. Patrow, Y. Wang, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 3631 (2018). Link 

32. Controlled deposition of size-selected MnO nanoparticle thin films for water splitting applications: Reduction of onset potential with particle size, M. Khojasteh, S. Haghighat, J. Dawlaty, V. Kresin, Nanotechnology, 29, 215603 (2018) , Link

33. Proton Capture Dynamics in Quinoline Photobases: Substituent Effect and Involvement of Triplet States, E. Driscoll, J. R. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. A, 121, 7099 (2017). Link

34. Direct Spectroscopic Measurement of Interfacial Electric Fields near an Electrode Under Polarizing or Current-Carrying Conditions, J. Patrow, S. Sorenson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121 , 11585 (2017). Link

35. Solvation Reaction Fields at the Interface Measured by Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy, S. Sorenson, J. Patrow, J. Dawlaty, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 139, 2369 (2017). Link

36. Rabi-like Vibrational Coherence Transfer in a Hydrogen-Bonded Charge Transfer Material, A. Rury, J. Dawlaty, Phys. Rev. B. 95, 214309 (2017).Link

37. Defects Cause Subgap Luminescence from a Crystalline Tetracene Derivative, R. McAnally, J. Bender, L. Estergreen, R. Haiges, S. Bradforth, J. Dawlaty, S. Roberts, A. Rury, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. , 8, 5993 (2017). Link

38. Evidence of Ultrafast Charge Transfer Driven by Coherent Lattice Vibrations, A. Rury, S. Sorenson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 181 (2016).Link

39. The pH-dependence of the Electron Transfer Coefficient: Comparing a Model to Experiment for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, S. Haghighat, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 28489 (2016). Link

40. Coherent Vibrational Probes of Hydrogen Bond Structure Following Ultrafast Electron Transfer, A. Rury, S. Sorenson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 21740 (2016).Link

41. Molecular Seesaw: How Increased Hydrogen Bonding Can Hinder Excited State Proton Transfer, R. Welsch, E. Driscoll, J. Dawlaty, T. Miller III, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 3616 (2016). Link

42. Photobasicity in Quinolines: Origin and Tunability via the Substituents' Hammett Parameters, E. Driscoll, J. R. Hunt, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 2093 (2016). Link

43. Intermolecular Electron Transfer from Intramolecular Excitation and Coherent Acoustic Phonon Generation in a Hydrogen-bonded Charge-transfer Solid, A. Rury, S. Sorenson, J. Dawlaty, J. Chem. Phys., 144, 104701, (2016). Link

44. Electronic Dynamics in Natural Iron Pyrite Studied by Broadband Transient Reflection Spectroscopy, S. Sorenson, J. Patrow, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120 , 7736 (2016). Link

45. Controlling Proton Conductivity with Light: A Scheme based on Photoacid Doping of Materials, S. Haghighat, S. Ostresh, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. B, 120, 1002 (2016). Link

46. Electronic State-Resolved Electron-Phonon Coupling in an Organic Charge Transfer Material from Broadband Quantum Beat Spectroscopy, A. Rury, S. Sorenson, E. Driscoll, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 3560 (2015). Link

47. UItrafast Intramolecular Electron and Proton Transfer in Bis(imino) Isoindole Derivatives, E. Driscoll, S. Sorenson, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. A, 119 (22), pp 5618 (2015). Link

48. Continuous Representation of the Proton and Electron Kinetic Parameters in the pH-Potential Space for Water Oxidation on Hematite, S. Haghighat, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 119 (12), 6619 (2015). Link   

49. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Hematite Films: The Role of Photoexcited Electrons in the Transient Optical Response, S. Sorenson, E. Driscoll, S. Haghighat, J. Dawlaty, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118 (41),  23621 (2014). Link                                                                                                                                           

50. Two-dimensional fluorescence-detected coherent spectroscopy (2D-FDCS) with absolute phasing by confocal imaging of dynamic grating and 27-step phase-cycling, A. De, D. Monahan, J. Dawlaty, G. Fleming, Journal of Chemical Physics. 140, 194201 (2014).

51. Collective Effects in Linear Spectroscopy of Molecular Aggregates, A. Kocherzhenko, J. Dawlaty, B.  Abolins, F. Herrera, D. Abraham, K. Whaley, Phys. Rev. A, (90), 062502 (2014).

52. Microscopic Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Antenna, J. Dawlaty, A. Ishizaki, A. De, G. Fleming, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 370, 3672 (2012).

53. Mapping the Spatial Overlap of Excitons in a Photosynthetic Complex via Coherent Nonlinear Frequency Generation, J. Dawlaty, D. Bennett, V. Huxter, G. Fleming, Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 044201 (2011).

54. Ultrafast Multidimensional Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications to Photosynthetic Systems, G. Schlau-Cohen, J. Dawlaty, G. Fleming, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 99, 1 (2011).

55. Measurement of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene, J. Dawlaty, S. Shivaraman, M. Chandrashekhar, F. Rana, M. G. Spencer, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 042116 (2008).

56. Measurement of the Optical Absorption Spectra of Epitaxial Graphene from Terahertz to Visible, J. Dawlaty, S. Shivaraman, J. Strait, P. George, M. Chandrashekhar, F. Rana, M. G. Spencer, D. Veksler, Y. Chen, Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 131905 (2008).

57. Ultrafast Optical-Pump Terahertz-Probe Spectroscopy of the Carrier Relaxation and Recombination Dynamics in Epitaxial Graphene, P. George, J. Strait, J. Dawlaty, S. Shivaraman,  M. Chandrashekhar, F. Rana, M. Spencer,Nano Letters, 8, 12, 4248 (2008).

58. Carrier Recombination and Generation Rates for Intravalley and Intervalley Phonon Scattering in Graphene, F. Rana, P. George, J. Strait, J. Dawlaty, S. Shivaraman, M. Chandrashekhar, M. Spencer, Phys. Rev. B, 79, 115447 (2009).

59. High frequency measurements on an AlN/GaN-based intersubband detector at 1550 and 780 nm, D. Hofstetter, E. Baumann, F. Giorgetta, J. Dawlaty, P. George, F. Rana, F. Guillot, E. Monroy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 231104 (2008).

60. Photodetectors Based on Intersubband Transitions Using III-Nitride Superlattice Structures, D. Hofstetter, E. Baumann, F. Giorgetta, R. Théron, H. Wu, W. Schaff, J. Dawlaty, P. George, L. Eastman, F. Rana, P. Kandaswamy, S. Leconte, E. Monroy, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 174208 (2009).

61.  Emission of Terahertz Radiation from SiC, J. Strait, P. George, J. Dawlaty, S. Shivaraman, M. Chandrashekhar, F. Rana, M. Spencer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 051912 (2009)

62. Force-Gradient Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, S. R. Garner, S. Kuehn, J. Dawlaty, N. E. Jenkins, and J. A. Marohn, Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, 5091 (2004).

63. Batch Fabrication and Characterization of Ultrasensitive Cantilevers with Submicron Magnetic Tips,    N. Jenkins, L. DeFlores, J. Allen, T. Ng, S. Garner, S. Kuehn, J. Dawlaty, and J. Marohn, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, 22, 909 (2004).

64. Effects of Noise on Parameter Recovery from Raman Spectrograms, J. Dawlaty, D. Ulness, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 32, 211 (2001).

65. Neisserial pilin genes display extensive interspecies diversity, E. Aho, R. Urwin, A. Batcheller, A. Holmgren, K. Havig, A. Kulakoski, E. Vomhof, N. Longfors, C. Erickson, Z. Anderson, J. Dawlaty, J. Mueller. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 249, 327 (2005).