The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis
(2019)
Book Chapter
Thomson, D., & Tanner, B. (2019). The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis. In G. Gasper, C. Panti, T. McLeish, & H. Smithson (Eds.), Knowing and speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the liberal arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the generation of sounds' (448-482). Oxford University Press
Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging (2019)
Journal Article
Crucho, C. I., Avó, J., Nobuyasu, R., N. Pinto, S., Fernandes, F., Lima, J. C., …Dias, F. B. (2020). Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 109, Article 110528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2019.110528Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) has revolutionized the field of organic light emitting diodes owing to the possibility of harvesting non-emissive triplet states and converting them in emissive singlet states. This mechanism generates... Read More about Silica nanoparticles with thermally activated delayed fluorescence for live cell imaging.
Shapeshifting molecules: The story so far and the shape of things to come (2019)
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Bismillah, A., Chapin, B., Hussein, B., & McGonigal, P. (2020). Shapeshifting molecules: The story so far and the shape of things to come. Chemical Science, 11(2), 324-332. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sc05482kShapeshifting molecules exhibit rapid constitutional dynamics while remaining stable, isolable molecules, making them promising artificial scaffolds from which to explore complex biological systems and create new functional materials. However, their... Read More about Shapeshifting molecules: The story so far and the shape of things to come.
Carbazole‐Based Tetrapodal Anchor Groups for Gold Surfaces: Synthesis and Conductance Properties (2019)
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Bryce, M. R., O'Driscoll, L., Wang, X., Jay, M., Batsanov, A., Sadeghi, H., …Robinson, B. (2020). Carbazole‐Based Tetrapodal Anchor Groups for Gold Surfaces: Synthesis and Conductance Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(2), 882-889. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201911652As the field of molecular‐scale electronics matures and the prospect of devices incorporating molecular wires becomes more feasible, it is necessary to progress from the simple anchor groups used in fundamental conductance studies to more elaborate a... Read More about Carbazole‐Based Tetrapodal Anchor Groups for Gold Surfaces: Synthesis and Conductance Properties.
Polymer Light‐Emitting Transistors With Charge‐Carrier Mobilities Exceeding 1 cm2 V−1 s−1 (2019)
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Chaudhry, M., Panidi, J., Nam, S., Smith, A., Lim, J., Tezner, K., …Anthopoulos, T. (2020). Polymer Light‐Emitting Transistors With Charge‐Carrier Mobilities Exceeding 1 cm2 V−1 s−1. Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(1), Article 1901132. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201901132The vast majority of conjugated polymer-based light emitting field-effect transistors (LEFETs) are characterized by low charge carrier mobilities typically in the range 10-5 to 10-3 cm2 V-1 s-1 range. Fast carrier transport is a highly desirable char... Read More about Polymer Light‐Emitting Transistors With Charge‐Carrier Mobilities Exceeding 1 cm2 V−1 s−1.
Reversible tricolour luminescence switching based on a piezochromic iridium(iii) complex (2019)
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Yang, T., Wang, Y., Liu, X., Li, G., Che, W., Zhu, D., …Bryce, M. R. (2019). Reversible tricolour luminescence switching based on a piezochromic iridium(iii) complex. Chemical Communications, 55(97), 14582-14585. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc08545aOn the basis of rational molecular design, the tricolour luminescence switching of an Ir(III) complex is achieved for the first time. The transformation between two crystalline states and an amorphous state is responsible for the switching behaviour... Read More about Reversible tricolour luminescence switching based on a piezochromic iridium(iii) complex.
Accurate Method To Determine the Mobility of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides with Incomplete Gate Screening (2019)
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Dagan, R., Vaknin, Y., Weisman, D., Amit, I., & Rosenwaks, Y. (2019). Accurate Method To Determine the Mobility of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides with Incomplete Gate Screening. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(47), 44406-44412. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b12611Van der Waals layered transition metal dichalcogenides, usually exhibit high contact resistance due to the induced Schottky barriers, which occur at non-ideal metal-semiconductor contacts. These barriers usually contribute to an underestimation in th... Read More about Accurate Method To Determine the Mobility of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides with Incomplete Gate Screening.
Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric (2019)
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Nam, S., Chaudhry, M. U., Tetzner, K., Pearson, C., Groves, C., Petty, M. C., …Bradley, D. D. (2019). Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric. ACS Photonics, 6(12), 3159-3165. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01265We report the development of highly efficient and stable solution-processed organic light emitting transistors (OLETs) that combine a polymer heterostructure with the transparent high-k dielectric poly(vinylidenefluoride0.62-trifluoroethylene0.31-chl... Read More about Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric.
On the understanding and feasibility of “Breakthrough” Osmosis (2019)
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Wu, J. J., & Field, R. W. (2019). On the understanding and feasibility of “Breakthrough” Osmosis. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 16464. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53417-6Osmosis is the movement of solvent across a permselective membrane induced by a solute-concentration gradient. Now in ‘Forward Osmosis’ it is empirically observed that the diffusion of the solute is counter to that of the solvent i.e. there is so-cal... Read More about On the understanding and feasibility of “Breakthrough” Osmosis.
Organic Light‐Emitting Transistors: Advances and Perspectives (2019)
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Chaudhry, M. U., Muhieddine, K., Wawrzinek, R., Sobus, J., Tandy, K., Lo, S., & Namdas, E. B. (2020). Organic Light‐Emitting Transistors: Advances and Perspectives. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(20), Article 1905282. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201905282The rapid development of charge transporting and light‐emitting organic materials in the last decades has advanced device performance, highlighting the high potential of light‐emitting transistors (LETs). Demonstrated for the first time over 15 years... Read More about Organic Light‐Emitting Transistors: Advances and Perspectives.
Exploring antiaromaticity in single-molecule junctions formed from biphenylene derivatives (2019)
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Gantenbein, M., Li, X., Sangtarash, S., Bai, J., Olsen, G., Alqorashi, A., …Bryce, M. R. (2019). Exploring antiaromaticity in single-molecule junctions formed from biphenylene derivatives. Nanoscale, 11(43), 20659-20666. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr05375aWe report the synthesis of a series of oligophenylene-ethynylene (OPE) derivatives with biphenylene core units, designed to assess the effects of biphenylene antiaromaticity on charge transport in molecular junctions. Analogues with naphthalene, anth... Read More about Exploring antiaromaticity in single-molecule junctions formed from biphenylene derivatives.
Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes of N^N–^N Amido Ligands with Benzannulated N-Heterocyclic Donor Arms: Quinolines Offer Unexpectedly Deeper Red Phosphorescence than Phenanthridines (2019)
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Mandapati, P., Braun, J. D., Killeen, C., Davis, R. L., Williams, J. G., & Herbert, D. E. (2019). Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes of N^N–^N Amido Ligands with Benzannulated N-Heterocyclic Donor Arms: Quinolines Offer Unexpectedly Deeper Red Phosphorescence than Phenanthridines. Inorganic Chemistry, 58(21), 14808-14817. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02480A platform for investigating the impact of π-extension in benzannulated, anionic pincer-type N^N–^N-coordinating amido ligands and their Pt(II) complexes is presented. Based on bis(8-quinolinyl)amine, symmetric and asymmetric proligands bearing quino... Read More about Luminescent Platinum(II) Complexes of N^N–^N Amido Ligands with Benzannulated N-Heterocyclic Donor Arms: Quinolines Offer Unexpectedly Deeper Red Phosphorescence than Phenanthridines.
Energy dispersive spectroscopic measurement of charge traps in MoTe_2 (2019)
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Townsend, N. J., Amit, I., Panchal, V., Kazakova, O., Craciun, M. F., & Russo, S. (2019). Energy dispersive spectroscopic measurement of charge traps in MoTe_2. Physical review B, 100(16), Article 165310. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.165310Spectroscopic techniques are vital to determine the energy distribution of trapped states in semiconducting materials to assess the quality and efficiency of electronic devices. However, there is a need for a sensitive spectroscopic technique that ca... Read More about Energy dispersive spectroscopic measurement of charge traps in MoTe_2.
Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor (2019)
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Huang, R., Kukhta, N., Ward, J., Danos, A., Batsanov, A., Bryce, M., & Dias, F. (2019). Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(42), 13224-13234. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc02175bManipulation of the emission properties of deep-blue emitters exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) through molecular design is challenging. We present an effective strategy to probe deeper into the role of localized (LE) and cha... Read More about Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor.
Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core (2019)
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Kukhta, N., Huang, R., Batsanov, A., Bryce, M., & Dias, F. (2019). Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(43), 26536-26546. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08238Three new symmetrical donor–acceptor–donor (D–A–D)-type molecules were prepared with phenothiazine (PTZ) as electron donors and 9,9-dimethylthioxanthene (TX) as the electron acceptor. The PTZ groups are attached at different positions on the acceptor... Read More about Achieving Conformational Control in RTP and TADF Emitters by Functionalization of the Central Core.
Enolization rates control mono- versus di-fluorination of 1,3-dicarbonyl derivatives (2019)
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Rozatian, N., Beeby, A., Ashworth, I. W., Sandford, G., & Hodgson, D. R. (2019). Enolization rates control mono- versus di-fluorination of 1,3-dicarbonyl derivatives. Chemical Science, 10(44), 10318-10330. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sc04185kFluorine-containing 1,3-dicarbonyl derivatives are essential building blocks for drug discovery and manufacture. To understand the factors that determine selectivity between mono- and di-fluorination of 1,3-dicarbonyls systems, we have performed kine... Read More about Enolization rates control mono- versus di-fluorination of 1,3-dicarbonyl derivatives.
An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core (2019)
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Farias, G., Simeão, D. S., Moreira, T. S., dos Santos, P. L., Bentaleb, A., Girotto, E., …Bechtold, I. H. (2019). An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(39), 12080-12085. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc03704gA [12]phenacene exclusively decorated with four lateral hexylester substituents self-assembles into a nematic liquid crystal glass on cooling after melting at high temperature. This uniaxial nematic organization of a plank-shaped nanographene is unpr... Read More about An unusual plank-shaped nematogen with a graphene nanoribbon core.
Computer Aided Patterning Design for Self-Assembled Microsphere Lithography (SA-MSL) (2019)
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Lees, R., Cooke, M., Balocco, C., & Gallant, A. (2019). Computer Aided Patterning Design for Self-Assembled Microsphere Lithography (SA-MSL). Scientific Reports, 9, Article 12849. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48881-zIn this paper, we use a finite difference time domain solver to simulate the near field optical properties of self-assembled microsphere arrays when exposed to an incoherent light source. Such arrays are typically used for microsphere lithography whe... Read More about Computer Aided Patterning Design for Self-Assembled Microsphere Lithography (SA-MSL).
A family of readily synthesised phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes based on tridentate N^N^O-coordinating Schiff-base ligands (2019)
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Puttock, E., Fradgley, J., Yufit, D., & Williams, J. (2019). A family of readily synthesised phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes based on tridentate N^N^O-coordinating Schiff-base ligands. Dalton Transactions, 48(40), 15012-15028. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt03156aThe synthesis and photophysical properties of 22 platinum(II) complexes featuring N^N^O-coordinating ligands are described. The complexes have the form Pt(N^N^O-Ln)Cl (n = 1 to 20). The tridentate ligands comprise lateral pyridine and phenolate rings... Read More about A family of readily synthesised phosphorescent platinum(II) complexes based on tridentate N^N^O-coordinating Schiff-base ligands.
Strategic modification of ligands for remarkable piezochromic luminescence (PCL) based on a neutral Ir(iii) phosphor (2019)
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Li, D., Li, G., Xie, J., Zhu, D., Su, Z., & Bryce, M. R. (2019). Strategic modification of ligands for remarkable piezochromic luminescence (PCL) based on a neutral Ir(iii) phosphor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C Materials for optical and electronic devices, 7(35), 10876-10880. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tc03646fA new aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active neutral Ir(III) complex has been rationally designed and synthesized by introducing carboxyl and F substituents into the ancillary and cyclometalating ligands, respectively, to construct different kinds... Read More about Strategic modification of ligands for remarkable piezochromic luminescence (PCL) based on a neutral Ir(iii) phosphor.