Publications 2010
A. S. D. Sandanayaka, E. Maligaspe, T. Hasobe, O. Ito and F. D’Souza, ‘Band Gap Dependent Electron Transfer in Supramolecular Nanohybrids of (6,5)- or (7,6) -Enriched Semiconducting SWNT as Donors and Fullerene as Acceptor’ Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 8749-8751.
Hill, J. P.; El-Khouly, M. E.; Charvet, R.; Subbaiyan, N. K.; Ariga, K.; Fukuzumi, S.; D’Souza, F. ‘Effect of Anion Binding on Charge Stabilization in the Bis-fullerene-Oxoporphyrinogen Conjugate’ Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 7933-7935.
Stranius, K.; Jacobs, R.; Lemmetyinen, H.; Tkachenko, N.; Zandler, M.; D'Souza, F. ‘Excitation Transfer in Metal-Ligand Coordinated Supramolecular Free-Base Porphyrin-Magnesium Phthalocyanine and Free-Base Porphyrin-Magnesium Naphthalocyanine Dyads’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2010, 14, 948-961.
D’Souza, F.; Maligaspe, E.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Subaiyan, N. K.; Karr, P. A.; Hasobe, T.; Ito, O. ‘Photochemical Charge Stabilization in Supramolecualr Phthalocyanine-Multifullerene Conjugates Assembled by Crown Ether-Alkyl Ammonium Cation Interactions’ J. Phys. Chem. A. 2010, 114, 10951-10959.
D’Souza, F.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Ito, O. ‘SWNT-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures with Photosensitizing Donor and Acceptor Molecules’ J. Phys. Chem. Letts. (perspective article), 2010, 1. 2586-2593.
A. Pietrzyk, S. Suriyanarayanan, W. Kutner, E. Maligaspe, M. E. Zandler and F.D’Souza, ‘Molecularly Imprinted Poly[bis(2,2’‑bithienyl)methane Film with Built-in Molecular Recognition Sites for a Piezoelectric Microgravimetry Chemosensor for Selective Determination of Dopamine’ Bioelectrochem. 2010, 80, 62-72.
E. Maligaspe, A. S. D. Sandanayaka, T. Hasobe, O. Ito and F. D’Souza ‘Sensitive Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cell to Band Gaps of Semi-Conductive SWNTs with the Supramolecularly Attached Zinc Porphyrin bearing Pyrene Glues’ J. Am. Chem. Soc.2010, 132, 8158-8164.
E. Maligaspe, T. Kumpulainen, N. K. Subbaiyan, M. E. Zandler, H. Lemmetyinen, N. V. Tkachenko, F. D’Souza, ‘Electronic Energy Harvesting BODIPY-Zinc Porphyrin Dyads Accommodating Fullerene as Photosynthetic Composite of Antenna-Reaction Center’ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (invited article), 2010, 12, 7434-7444.
A. Pietrzyk, S. Suriyanarayanan, W. Kutner, Raghu Chitta, and Francis D’Souza, “Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) based piezoelectric chemosensor for selective determination of adenine” Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2010, 25, 2522-2529.
M. E. El-Khouly, D. Kyu Ju, K.-Y. Kay, F. D`Souza, and S. Fukuzumi, ‘Supramolecular Tetrad of Subphthalocyanine-Triphenylamine-Zinc Porphyrin Coordinated to Fullerene as “Antenna-Reaction Center” Mimic: Formation of Long-Lived Charge-Separated State in Non-Polar Solvent’ Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 6193-6202.
C. A. Wijesinghe, M. E. El-Khouly, J. D. Blakemore, M. E. Zandler, S. Fukuzumi, and F. D’Souza ‘Charge Stabilization in a Closely Spaced Ferrocene-Boron Dipyrrin-Fullerene Triad’ Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 3301-3303.
P. Pieta, G. Z. Zukowska, S. K. Das, F.D’Souza, A. Petr, L. Dunsch and W. Kutner ‘Mechanism of Reductive C60 Electropolymerization in the Presence of Dioxygen and Application of the Resulting Fullerene Polymer for Preparation of a Conducting Composite with Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes’ J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 8150-8160.
E. Maligaspe and F. D’Souza, ‘NOR and AND logic gates based on supramolecular porphyrin-fullerene conjugates’ Org. Letts. 2010, 12, 624-627.
D’Souza, F.; Ito, O. ‘Tetrapyrrole – Nanocarbon Hybrids: Self-assembly and Photoinduced Electron Transfer’ in Handbook of Porphyrin Science Eds. Kadish, K. M.; Guilard, R.; Smith K. M. World Science Publishers, 2010, Vol. 1, Chapter 4, pp 307-437.
Ito, O.; Sandanayaka, A. S. D.; Chitta, R.; D’Souza, F. ‘Effect of potassium ion on switching of photoinduced electron transfer in inclusion dyads formed by crown ether-porphyrins and an ammonium cation-fullerene’ J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 2010, 87, 13-21.
E. Maligaspe, T. Kumpulainen, H. Lemmetyinen, N. V. Tkachenko, N. K. Subbaiyan, M. E. Zandler, and F. D’Souza “Ultrafast Singlet-Singlet Energy Transfer in Self-Assembled via Metal-Ligand Axial Coordination Free-Base Porphyrin-Zinc Phthalocyanine and Free-base Porphyrin-Zinc Naphthalocyanine Dyads” J. Phys. Chem. A. 2010, 114, 268-277.