Publications 2016

1.     Bingbing Cheng, Venugopal Bandi, Ming-Yuan Wei, Yanbo Pei, Francis D'Souza, Kytai Nguyen, Yi Hong, and Baohong Yuan, ‘High-resolution fluorescence imaging in centimeter-deep tissue phantoms with high signal-to-noise ratio and picomole sensitivity via novel contrast agents’, PLOS ONE, 2016, 11, e0165963.

2.     P. K. Poddutoori, G. N. Lim, M. Pilkington, F. D’Souza, A. Van der Est, ‘Phosphorous(V)-Manganese(II)terpyridine conjugates: synthesis, spectroscopy, and photooxidation studies on a SnO2 surface,’ Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 11383-11495.

3.     Robert Cantu, Habtom B. Gobeze and Francis D’Souza, ‘Synthesis and photochemical studies of a tris(4-iodophenoxy) subphthalocyaninato boron(III)-fulleropyrrolidine dyad,’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2016, 20, 987-996.

4.     Zofia Iskierko, Piyush Sindhu Sharma, Daniel Prochowicz, Krzysztof Fronc, Francis D’Souza, Diana Toczydłowska, Filip Stefaniak, Krzysztof Noworyta, ‘Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) Film with Improved Surface Area Developed by Using Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) for Sensitive Lipocalin (NGAL) Determination,’ ACS Applied Materials & Interface, 2016, 8, 19860-19865.

5.     H. B. Gobeze, T. Tram, C. B. KC, R. R. Cantu, P. A. Karr, F. D’Souza, ‘Singlet oxygen generation and photoinduced charge separation of tetra polyethyleneglycol functionalized zinc phthalocyanine-fullerene dyad’ (invited article) Chinese J. Chem. 2016, 34, 969-974.

6.     Gary N. Lim, Christopher O. Obondi, and Francis D’Souza, ‘Remarkable Generation of a High Energy Charge Separated State of 1.70 eV from a High Potential Donor-Acceptor Dyad – A Novel Catalyst for Energy Demanding Photochemical Reactions’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11517-11521.

7.     Chandra B. KC, Gary N Lim, Francis D’Souza, ‘Tuning optical and electron donor properties by peripheral thio-aryl substitution of subphthalocyanine: New series donor-acceptor hybrids for photoinduced charge separation’ Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 13301-13311.

8.     Christopher O. Obondi, Gary N. Lim, Paul A. Karr, Vladimir N. Nesterov, and Francis D’Souza, ‘Photoinduced charge separation in wide-band capturing, multi-modular bis(donor styryl)BODIPY-fullerene systems’ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 18187-18200. DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03479a.

9.     Chandra B. KC, Francis D’Souza, ‘Design and photochemical study of supramolecular donor-acceptor systems assembled via metal-ligand axial coordiation’ Coord. Chem. Rev. 2016, 322, 104-141.

10.  Ritambhara Sharma,  Habtom B. Gobeze, Francis D’Souza and Mangalampalli Ravikanth, ‘Panchromatic Light Capture and Efficient Excitation Transfer Leading to Near-IR Emission of BODIPY Oligomers’ ChemPhysChem, 2016, 17, 2516-2524.

11.  Myriam Barrejón,  Habtom B. Gobeze,  María J. Gómez-Escalonilla,  José Luis G. Fierro,  Minfang Zhang,  Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima,  Francis D’Souza and Fernando Langa, Ultrafast Electron Transfer in All-Carbon-Based SWCNT-C60 Donor-Acceptor Nanoensembles Connected by Poly(phenylene-ethynylene) Spacers’, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 14716-14910.

12.  Yiqun Yang, Habtom B. Gobeze, Francis D’Souza, Ryszard Jankowiak and Jun Li, ‘Plasmonic Enhancement of Bio-Solar Cells Employing Light Harvesting Complex II Incorporated with Core-Shell Metal@TiO2 Nanoparticles, Adv. Mater. Interface, 2016, 3, 1600371.

13.  T.-P. Phat, A. Wojnarowica, A. Majka, P. Woznicki, P. Borowicz, F. D’Souza, W. Kutner, ‘Fluorescence chemical sensor for selective detection of a 2,4,6-trinitrophenol explosive using molecularly imprinted thiophene polymer’ ACS-Sensors, 2016, 1, 636-639. 

14.  P. J. Commins, J. P. Hill, Y. Matsushita, W. A. Webre, F. D’Souza, J. Labuta, K. Ariga, ‘Selective bromination of activated meso-tetraphenylporphyrins’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines. 2016, 20, 213-222.

15.  Whitney A. Webre,  Jonathan P. Hill,  Yoshitaka Matsushita,  Paul A. Karr,  Katsuhiko Ariga  and  Francis D’Souza, ‘β-Pyrrole Brominated Oxoporphyrinogens: Synthesis, X-ray Structural, Computational, Electrochemical and Anion Binding Studies’ Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 4006-4016.

16.  Ievgen Obraztsov, Wlodzimierz Kutner, Francis D’Souza, ‘Metalloporphyrins in Solar Energy Conversion’ in Electrochemistry of N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes, Eds. J. S. Zagal and F. Bedioui, Springer, volume 1, pp 171-262.

17.  Wojnarowicz,  P. S. Sharma,  M. Sosnowska,  W. Lisowski,  T. P. Huynh,  M. Pszona,  P. Borowicz,  F. D’Souza,  and  W. Kutner, ‘Molecularly imprinted conducting polymer for selective carnosine sensing with capacitive impedimetry’ J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 1156-1165.

18.  Ritambhara Sharma, Habtom B. Gobeze, Tamal Chatterjee, Paul. A. Karr, Francis D’Souza and Mangalampalli Ravikanth, ‘High singlet oxygen production and negative solvatochromism of octabrominated 3-pyrrolyl boron dipyrromethenes’ RSC Advances 2016, 6, 24111-24114.

19.  Jonathan P. Hill, Jan Labuta, Shinsuke Ishihara, Gary J. Richards, Yongshu Xie, Francis D’Souza, and Katsuhiko Ariga, ‘Tautomerism in Oxoporphyrinogens and Pyrazinacenes’ in Tautomerism: Ideas and Applications (Ed.: Liudmil Antonov), Wiley-VCH, 2016, pp 203-228.

20.  Georgia Pagona, Anastasios Stergiou, Habtom B. Gobeze,  George Rotas, Francis D’Souza and Nikos Tagmatarchis, Photoinduced Charge Separation in Oligophenylenevinylene-Based Hamilton-type Receptor Supramolecularly Associating Two C60-Barbiturate Guests,’ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 811-817.

21.  Thien Huynh Ngo, David Zieba, Whitney A. Webre, Gary N. Lim, Paul A. Karr, Scheghajegh Kord, Shangbin Jin, Katsuhiko Ariga, Marzia Galli, Steve Goldup, Jonathan P. Hill, and Francis D’Souza, ‘Engaging Copper(III) Corrole as an Electron Acceptor: Photoinduced Charge Separation in Zinc Porphyrin-Copper Corrole Donor-Acceptor Conjugates’, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 1301-1312.

22.  Chandra B. KC,  Gary N. Lim,  and  Francis D’Souza, ‘Effect of spacer connecting the secondary electron donor phenothiazine in subphthalocyanine-fullerene conjugates in promoting electron transfer followed by hole shift process’ Chem. Asian. J. 2016, 11, 1246-1256.

23.  Christopher Obondi,  Gary N. Lim,  Brittani Churchill,  Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Art van der Est,  and Francis D’Souza, ‘Modulating the generation of long-lived charge separated states exclusively from the triplet excited states in palladium porphyrin–fullerene conjugates’, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 8333-8344.

24.  Gwendolyn D. Blanco, Arto J. Hiltunen, Gary N. Lim, Chandra B. KC, Kimmo M. Kaunisto, Tommi K. Vuorinen, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Helge J. Lemmetyinen, Francis D’Souza, ‘Syntheses, Charge Separation and Inverted Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell Application of Phenothiazine-Fullerene Dyads’ ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 8481-8490.

25.  Piyush Sindhu Sharma,  Agnieszka Wojnarowicz,  Marta Sosnowska, Tiziana Benincori,  Krzysztof Noworyta, Francis D’Souza,  Wlodzimierz Kutner, ‘Potentiometric chemosensor for a neopterin cancer biomarker using an electrochemically synthesized molecularly imprinted polymer as the recognition unit’ Biosensors Bioelectronics, 2016, 77, 565-572, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2015.10.013.

26.  Venugopal Bandi,  Fiona P. D’Souza,  Habtom B. Gobeze and  Francis D’Souza, Competitive Electron Transfer in a novel, Broad-Band Capturing, Subphthalocyanine-AzaBODIPY-C60 Supramolecular Triad, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 579-581.