Publications 2018

1.               Maciej Cieplak, Rafał Węgłowski, Zofia Iskierko, Dorota Węgłowska, Piyush S. Sharma, Krzysztof Noworyta, Francis D'Souza and Wlodzimierz Kutner, ‘Optical chemosensor for protein determination with molecularly imprinted polymer recognition film and birefringence liquid crystal detection’ Biosensors Bioelectronics. 2018, submitted for publication.

2.               G.R. Argade, G. Mohandass, S. Sanders, A. Alsaleh, F. D’Souza, T. D. Golden, and R. S. Mishra, Investigation of 8-hydroxyquinoline as a corrosion inhibitor for high strength magnesium alloy, ChemElectroChem. 2018, submitted for publication.

3.               Lorenzo Vallan, Ruben Canton-Vitoria, Habtom B. Gobeze, Youngwoo Jang, Raul Arenal,  Ana M. Benito, Wolfgang K. Maser, Francis D’ Souza, Nikos Tagmatarchis, Interfacing transition metal dichalcogenides with carbon nanodots for managing photoinduced energy and charge-transfer processes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, in press, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09204.

4.               Niloofar Zarrabi, Christopher O. Obondi, Gary N. Lim, Sairaman Seetharaman, Benjamin G. Boe, Francis D’Souza, Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Charge-Separation in Panchromatic, Vertically Positioned Bis(styryl)BODIPY – Aluminum(III) Porphyrin – Fullerene Supramolecular Triads, Nanoscale, 2018, in press.

5.               Marcin Dąbrowski, Agnieszka Ziminska, Maciej Cieplak, Wojciech Lisowski, Radoslaw Maksym, Francis D’Souza, Alexander Kuhn, Piyush Sindhu Sharma,  Facile Fabrication of Surface Imprinted Inverse Opal Films for Chemosensing of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Hormone, ACS Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, in revision.

6.               Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Yuri E. Kandrashkin, Francis D’Souza and Art van der Est, Triplet Electron Transfer and Spin Polarization in a Palladium Porphyrin–Fullerene Conjugate, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, in revision.

7.               Govind Reddy, Naresh Duvva, Sairaman Seetharaman, Francis D’Souza Lingamallu Giribabu, Photoinduced Energy Transfer in Carbazole-BODIPY Dyads, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, in press.

8.               Jivan S. Shinde, Michael B. Thomas, Madhurima Poddar, Rajneesh Misra, Francis D’Souza, Low-Bandgap, Tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene-Ferrocene Functionalized BODIPY Conjugates: Effect of Nature of BODIPY Ring Substitution on Ground and Excited State Charge Transfer, Chem. Sci., 2018, submitted for publication. 

9.               Katarzyna Bartold,  Agnieszka Pietrzyk-Le,  Francis D’Souza,  and  Wlodzimierz Kutner, Oligonucleotide analogs and mimics for macromolecular biocompounds sensing, Trends in Biotech, 2018, submitted for publication.

10.            Myriam Barrejón, Luis M. Arellano, Habtom B. Gobeze, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, Jose Luis G. Fierro, Francis D’Souza and  Fernando Langa, N-Doped graphene/C60 covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications, Chem. Sci. 2018, DOI: 10.1039/c8sc02013b.

11.            Katarzyna Bartold, Agnieszka Pietrzyk-Le, Karolina Golebiewska, Wojciech Lisowski, Silvia Cauteruccio, Emanuela Licandro, Francis D’Souza, and Wlodzimierz Kutner, Oligonucleotide Determination via Peptide Nucleic Acid Macromolecular Imprinting in an Electropolymerized CG-Rich Artificial Oligomer Analogue, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 27562-27569.

12.            Mushraf Hussain, Ahmed M. El-Zohry, Habtom B. Gobeze, Jianzhang Zhao, Francis D’Souza, and Omar F. Mohammed, Intramolecular Energy and Electron Transfers in Bodipy Naphthalenediimide Triads, J. Phys. Chem. A 2018, 122, 6081-6088.

13.            Valerii Malyshev, Agnieszka Michota-Kamińska, Shuai Shao, Francis D'Souza, Krzysztof Noworyta, Determination of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by using Organic Semiconductor-based Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Film", ECS J. Solid State Sci. and Tech, 2018, 7, Q3189-Q3195.

14.            Christopher O. Obondi, Gary N. Lim, Youngwoo Jang, Prajay Patel, Angela K. Wilson, Prashanth K. Poddutoori, and Francis D’Souza, Charge Stabilization in High-Potential Zinc Porphyrin-Fullerene via Axial Ligation of Tetrathiafulvalene, J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 13636-13647.

15.            Ramesh Maragani, Rajneesh Misra, Michael B. Thomas, and Francis D’Souza, C3-symmetric positional isomers of BODIPY substituted triazines: Synthesis and excited state properties, J. Phys. Chem. A. 2018, 122, 4829-4837.

16.            Yuba Poudel, Arup Neogi, Gary N. Lim and Francis D’Souza, Hot-carrier powered exciton-plasmon coupling in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide, ACS-Photonics, 2018, in revision.

17.            Robert Cantu, Sairaman Seetharaman, Eric M. Babin, Paul A. Karr, Francis D’Souza, Paddle-Wheel BODIPY-Triphenylene Conjugates – Participation of Redox-Active Hexa-Oxa Triphenylene in Excited State Charge Separation to Yield High-Energy Charge Separated States, J. Phys. Chem. A. 2018, 122, 3780-3786.

18.            B. Shivaprasad Achary, A. R. Ramya, Jagadeesh Babu Nanubolu, Sairaman Seetharaman, Gary N. Lim, Youngwoo Jang, Francis D’Souza and Lingamallu Giribabu, Axially substituted phosphorous(V) corrole with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: syntheses, X-ray structures, and photoinduced energy and electron transfer studies, New. J. Chem. 2018, 42, 8230-8240.

19.            Edison Castro, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Funda Arslan, Gerardo Zavala, Tingyuan Yang, Sairaman Seetharaman, Francis D'Souza  and Luis Echegoyen, New thiophene-based C60 fullerene derivatives as efficient electron transporting materials for perovskite solar cells, New. J. Chem. 2018, 42, 14551-14558.

20.            Syed S. Razi, Yun Hee Koo, Woojae Kim, Wenbo Yang, Habtom Gobeze, Francis D’Souza, Jianzhang Zhao and Dongho Kim, Ping-Pong Energy Transfer in a Bodipy-Containing Pt(II)–Schiff Base Complex: Synthesis, Photophysical Studies, and Anti-Stokes Shift Increase in Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 4877-4890.

21.            Pavel Svec, Whitney A. Webre, Gary J. Richards, David Miklik, Jan Labuta, Paul A. Karr, Katsuhiko Ariga, Francis D’Souza and Jonathan P. Hill, Phenanthroline-fused Pyrazinacenes: One-pot Synthesis, Tautomerization and a Ru(II)(2,2’-bipy) Derivative, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 2541-2548.

22.            Michael B. Thomas, R. G. Waruna Jindasa, Yi Hu,a Benjamin Schmitz, Hong Wang and Francis D’Souza, Investigation of the push-pull effects on β-functionalized zinc porphyrin coordinated to C60 donor-acceptor conjugates (Invited Contribution), Can. J. Chem., 2018, in press.

23.            Luis M. Arellano, Luis Martín-Gomis, Habtom B. Gobeze, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, José Luis G. Fierro, Ángela Sastre-Santos, Francis D’Souza, and  Fernando Langa, Edge-on and face-on functionalized phthalocyanine on enriched semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube hybrids: Formation, ground and excited state interactions, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 5205-5213.

24.            Jorge Follana-Berná, Sairaman Seetharaman, Luis Martín-Gomis, Georgios Charalambidis,  Adelais Trapali, Paul A. Karr, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Francis D’Souza and Ángela Sastre-Santos, Supramolecular Complex of a Fused Zn Phthalocyanine-Zn Porphyrin Dyad Assembled by Two Imidazole-C60 Units: Ultrafast Energy Transfer Followed by Electron Transfer, Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys. J. 2018, 20, 7798-7807

25.            Meg Mahat, Yuri Rostovtsev, Sanjay Karna, Francis D'Souza, and Arup Neogi, Plasmonically induced transparency in graphene oxide quantum dots with dressed phonon states, ACS-Photonics, 2018, 5, 614-620.

26.            W. Webre, H. B. Gobeze, S. Shao, P. A. Karr, K. Ariga, J. P. Hill, F. D’Souza, Fluoride ion binding promoted photoinduced charge separation in a self-assembled C60 alkyl cation bound bis crown ether oxoporphyrinogen supramolecule, Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 1351-1354.

27.            S. Shao, M. B. Thomas, K.-H. Park, Z. Mohaffey, D. Kim, F. D’Souza, Sequential energy transfer followed by electron transfer in a BODIPY–bisstyrylBODIPY bound to C60 triad via a ‘two-point’ binding strategy, Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 54-57.

28.            Piyush Sindhu Sharma,  Zofia Iskierko,  Krysztof Noworyta, Maciej Cieplak,  Pawel Borowicz, Wojciech Lisowski, Francis D’Souza, and  Wlodzimierz Kutner, ‘Synthesis and application of a “plastic antibody” in electrochemical microfluidic platform for oxytocin determination‘ Biosenors Bioelectronics., 2018, 100, 251-258.

29.            Y. Poudel; F. D'Souza; A. Neogi, Plasmon enhanced light emission in molybdenum disulfide, Proc. of SPIE, 2018, 10534, 1053406-1.

30.            Meg  Mahat, Yuri  Rostovtsev, Sanjay  Karna, Francis D'Souza, Arup  Neogi, Plasmonic induced transparency in graphene oxide quantum dots, Proc. of SPIE, 2018, 10534, 1053430.