Publications 2022

1.     S. Kazemi, Y. Jang, A. Liyanage, P. A. Karr, and F. D’Souza, A Carbon Nanotube Binding Bis(pyrenylstyryl)BODIPY-C60 Nano Tweezer: Charge Stabilization through Sequential Electron Transfer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202212474 (1-7), https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202212474

2.      Yuba Poudel, Sairaman Seetharaman, Swastik Kar, Francis D’Souza, Arup Neogi, Plasmon-Induced Enhanced Light Emission and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in a Tunable Molybdenum Disulfide-Gallium Nitride Heterostructure, Materials 2022, 15(21), 7422; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15217422

3.    Emmanouil Nikoloudakis, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Georgios Charalambidis, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, and Francis D'Souza, A Covalently Linked Nickel(II) Porphyrin – Ruthenium(II) Tris(bipyridyl) Dyad for Efficient Photocatalytic Water Oxidation, Chem. Commun 2022, 58, 12078-12081. DOI: 10.1039/D2CC03563D 

4.      Precious Chukwunenye, Ashwin Ganesan, Mojgan Gharaee, Kabirat Balogun, Fatima Anwar, Qasim Adesope, Thomas R. Cundari, Francis D’Souza and Jeffry A. Kelber, ‘Electrocatalytic Selectivity for Nitrogen Reduction vs. Hydrogen Evolution: A Comparison of Vanadium and Cobalt Oxynitrides at Different pH Values.’ J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 21401-21415. DOI: 10.1039/D2TA05180J

5.        K. Balogun, P. Chukwunenye, F. Anwar, A. Ganesan, Q. Adesope, D. Willadsen, S. Nemšák, T. Cundari, P. S. Bagus, F. D’Souza, J. Kelber, ‘Interaction of molecular nitrogen with vanadium oxide in the absence and presence of water vapor at room temperature: Near-ambient pressure XPS.’ J. Chem. Phys. 2022, 157 (10), 104701.https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0107678

6.      Ruben Canton-Vitoria, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Georgios Rotas, Yusuke Nakanishi, Hisanori Shinohara3 Francis D’ Souza, Nikos Tagmatarchis, ‘Graphene performs the role of an electron donor in covalently interfaced porphyrin-boron azadipyrromethene dyads and manages photoinduced charge-transfer processes’ Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 15060-15072. DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR03740H

7.        S. Maiti, J. Ling, J. Sharma, D. Tietje-Mckinney, M. P. Heaney, T. Runčevski, M. A. Addicoat, F. D’Souza, P. J. Milner, and A. Das, Highly Emissive Donor-Acceptor-Based Sub-Stoichiometric Covalent Organic Frameworks for Water Sensing and Harvesting, Macrocyclic Commun. 2022, 2200751. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202200751

8.       Austen Moss, Youngwoo Jang, Jacob Arvidson, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Francis D’Souza and Hong Wang, ‘Aromatic Heterobicycle-Fused Porphyrins: Impact on Aromaticity and Excited State Electron Transfer Leading to Long-Lived Charge Separation’ Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 9880-9890. DOI: 10.1039/D2SC03238D

9.     Jatan K. Sharma, Brandon J. Bayard, Nick Zosel, Syeda Ali, Noah Holzer, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Paul A. Karr, Francis D’Souza, Prashanth K. Poddutoori, ‘Hypervalent Phosphorus(V) Porphyrins with meso-Methoxyphenyl Substituents: Significance of Number and Position of Methoxy Groups in Promoting Intramolecular Charge Transfer.’ Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 16573-16585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01648

10.     Indresh Singh Yadav, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Rajneesh Misraa, and Francis D’Souza, ‘Star-Shaped Triphenylamine-Tetracyanobutadiene-Phenothiazine Push-Pull Systems: Role of Terminal Phenothiazine in Improving Charge Transfer.’ J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 13300-13310. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03495

11.      Daniel T. Payne, Whitney A. Webre, Habtom Gobese, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Paul A. Karr, Mandeep K. Chahal, Jan Labuta, John S. Fossey, Katsuhiko Ariga, Francis D’Souza and Jonathan P. Hill, Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 10830−10843. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02596 .

12.     Indresh S. Yadav, Youngwoo Jang, Yogajivan Rout, Michael B. Thomas, Rajneesh Misra and Francis D’Souza, Near-IR intramolecular charge transfer in strongly interacting diphenothiazene-TCBD and diphenothiazene-DCNQ donor-acceptor conjugates, Chem. Eur. J. 2022, e202200348.  doi.org/10.1002/chem.202200348.

13.    Dili R. Subedi, Ryan Reid, Patrick F. D’Souza, Vladimir N. Nesterov and Francis D’Souza, ‘Singlet Oxygen Generation in Peripherally Modified Platinum and Palladium Porphyrins: Effect of Triplet Excited State Lifetimes and meso-Substituents on 1O2 Quantum Yields,’ ChemPlusChem, 2022, e202200010. doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202200010

14.    Noah Holzer, Jatan K. Sharma, Steven Peterson, Brandon J. Bayard, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Paul A. Karr, Francis D’Souza and Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Antimony(+5) ion induced tunable intramolecular charge transfer in hypervalent antimony(V) porphyrins, Dalton, Trans, 2022, 51, 5890-5903. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dt00675h

15.     S. Seetharaman, N. Zink-Lorre, D. Gutiérrez-Moreno, P. A. Karr, F. Fernández-Lázaro, F. D’Souza, Charge transfer driven panchromatic light capture, and excited state ultrafast charge transfer/separation in diaminoazobenzene-bridged perylenediimide dyads, Chem. Eur. J. 2022, e202104574 (1 of 10). doi.org/10.1002/chem.202104574

16.     Ting Han, Youngwoo Jang, Jacob Arvidson, Francis D’Souza and Hong Wang, Optical and photophysical properties of platinum benzoporphyrins with C2v and D2h symmetry, J. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2022, A-K, https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1088424622500195.

17.   Niloofar Zarrabi, Noah Holzer, Gary N. Lim, Christopher O. Obondi, Art van der Est, Francis D’Souza and Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Sequential electron transfer in a bis(styryl)BODIPY –aluminum(III) porphyrin – naphthalenediimide reaction center mimic, J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines 2022, 26, 407–417, DOI: 10.1142/S1088424622500341

18.   Anuradha Liyanage, Darshan J. Karunarathne , Seifollah Nasrazadani, Francis D’Souza, Hector R. Siller, Teresa D. Golden, Polyphthalocyanine coatings for corrosion protection on additive manufactured steel materials, Progress in Organic Coatings 170 (2022) 106990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.porgcoat.2022.106990

19.     L. M. Arellano, H. B. Gobeze, Y. Jang, C. Parejo, J. C. Álvarez, M. J. Gómez-Escalonilla, Á. Sastre-Santos, F. D’Souza and F. Langa, Formation and photoinduced electron transfer in porphyrin- and phthalocyanine- bearing N-doped graphene hybrids synthesized via click chemistry, Chem. Eur. J. 2022, e202200254 (1 of 10), doi.org/10.1002/chem.202200254

20.     J. P. Hill, P. A. Karr, R. A. Zuñiga Uy, N. Subbaiyan, Z. Futera, J. Labuta, S. Ishihara, K. Ariga, and F. D’Souza, Analyte Interactions with Oxoporphyrinogen Derivatives: Computational Aspects, Curr. Org. Chem. 2022, 26, 580-595. DOI: 10.2174/1385272826666220208101325.

21.      A. Osonkie, A. Ganesan, P. Chukwunenye, F. Anwar, K. Balogun, M. Gharee, I. Rashed, T. R. Cundari, F. D’Souza and J. A. Kelber,  Electro-catalytic reduction of nitrogen to ammonia: The roles of lattice O and N in reduction at vanadium oxynitride surfaces, ACS Adv. Mater & Interface, 2022, 14, 531-542. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c16104 .