2023 Publications

A deep-blue-emitting heteroatom-doped MR-TADF nonacene for high-performance organic light-emitting diodes
Madayanad Suresh, S., Zhang, L., Hall, D., Si, C., Ricci, G., Matulaitis, T., Slawin, A. M. Z., Warriner, S., Olivier, Y., Samuel, I. D. & Zysman-Colman, E., 13 Feb 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, 8, 8 p., e202215522.
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A donor-acceptor 10-cycloparaphenylene and its use as an emitter in an organic light-emitting diode
Chen, D., Wada, Y., Kusakabe, Y., Sun, L., Kayahara, E., Suzuki, K., Tanaka, H., Yamago, S., Kaji, H. & Zysman-Colman, E., 17 Feb 2023, In: Organic Letters. 25, 6, p. 998-1002 5 p.
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Achieving bright organic light emitting field effect transistors with sustained efficiency through hybrid contact design
Chiu, S., Hsu, A., Ying, L., Liaw, Y-K., Lin, K-T., Ruan, J., Samuel, I. D. W. & Hsu, B., 28 Jun 2023, In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15, 25, p. 30524–30533 10 p.
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Alchemy reimagined: photocatalysis using anthropogenic waste materials
Millward, F. & Zysman-Colman, E., 2 Aug 2023, In: Trends in Chemistry. 5, 8, p. 584-587 4 p.
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An oligomer approach for blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters based on twisted donor-acceptor units
Duda, E., Madayanad Suresh, S., Hall, D., Bagnich, S., Saxena, R., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Beljonne, D., Olivier, Y., Köhler, A. & Zysman-Colman, E., 14 Mar 2023, In: Chemistry of Materials. 35, 5, p. 2027-2037 11 p.
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Artificial p–n-like Junction Based on Pure 2D Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Structure Having Naphthalene Diimide Acceptor Moieties
Feng, Z., Liu, X., Imaoka, K., Ishii, T., Tumen-Ulzii, G., Tang, X., Harrington, G. F., Heinrich, B., Ribierre, J. C., Chamoreau, L. M., Sosa Vargas, L., Kreher, D., Goushi, K., Matsushima, T., Zhou, G., Mathevet, F. & Adachi, C., 12 Mar 2023, In: Advanced Optical Materials. 11, 10, 2202734.
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Azaborine as a versatile weak donor for thermally activated delayed fluorescence
Sudhakar, P., Kuila, S., Stavrou, K., Danos, A., Slawin, A. M. Z., Monkman, A. & Zysman-Colman, E., 31 May 2023, In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15, 21, p. 25806-25818 13 p.
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Benchmarking DFT functionals for excited-state calculations of donor–acceptor TADF emitters: insights on the key parameters determining reverse inter-system crossing
Hall, D., Sancho-García, J. C., Pershin, A., Beljonne, D., Zysman-Colman, E. & Olivier, Y., 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 127, 21, p. 4743-4757 15 p.
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Benzophenone as a cheap and effective photosensitizer for the photocatalytic synthesis of dimethyl cubane-1,4-dicarboxylate
Prentice, C., Martin, A. E., Morrison, J. J., Smith, A. D. & Zysman-Colman, E., 28 Apr 2023, In: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 21, 16, p. 3307-3310 4 p.
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Borylation–reduction–borylation for the formation of 1,4-azaborines
Kothavale, S. S., Iqbal, S. A., Hanover, E. L., Gupta, A. K., Zysman-Colman, E. & Ingleson, M. J., 15 Dec 2023, In: Organic Letters. 25, 49, p. 8912-8916 5 p.
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Brominated B1-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for the synthesis of deep-red to near-infrared delayed fluorescence emitters
Yuan, K., Gupta, A. K., Si, C., Uzelac, M., Zysman-Colman, E. & Ingleson, M. J., 11 Aug 2023, In: Organic Letters. 25, 31, p. 5880-5884 5 p.
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Bulky iridium NHC complexes for bright, efficient deep-blue OLEDs
Mackenzie, C. F. R., Zhang, L., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 18 Jan 2023, In: Advanced Optical Materials. 11, 2, 14 p., 2201495.
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Chlorine retention enables the indoor light harvesting of triple halide wide bandgap perovskites
Wang, S., Edwards, P. R., Abdelsamie, M., Brown, P., Webster, D., Ruseckas, A., Rajan, G., Neves, A. I. S., Martin, R. W., Sutter-Fella, C. M., Turnbull, G. A., Samuel, I. D. W. & Jagadamma, L. K., 21 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11, 23, p. 12328-12341 14 p.
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Color tuning of multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on fully fused polycyclic amine/carbonyl frameworks
dos Santos, J. M., Chan, C-Y., Tang, S., Hall, D., Matulaitis, T., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Tsuchiya, Y., Edman, L., Adachi, C., Olivier, Y. & Zysman-Colman, E., 28 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11, 24, p. 8263-8273 11 p.
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Conjugation-modulated excitonic coupling brightens multiple triplet excited states
Wang, T., Gupta, A. K., Wu, S., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Zysman-Colman, E., 25 Jan 2023, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145, 3, p. 1945-1954 10 p.
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Distinguishing electron diffusion and extraction in methylammonium lead iodide
Brown, P., Ruseckas, A., Krishnan Jagadamma, L., Blaszczyk, O., Harwell, J. R., Mica, N. A., Zysman-Colman, E. & Samuel, I. D. W., 30 Mar 2023, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14, 12, p. 3007–3013 7 p.
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Dominance of photo over chromatic acclimation strategies by habitat-forming mesophotic red algae
Voerman, S. E., Marsh, B. C., Bahia, R. G., Pereira-Filho, G. H., Becker, A. C. F., Amado-Filho, G. M., Ruseckas, A., Turnbull, G. A., Samuel, I. D. W. & Burdett, H. L., 11 Oct 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 2008
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Donor influence on the optoelectronic properties of N-substituted tetraphenylimidazole derivatives
Matulaitis, T., dos Santos, P. L., Tsuchiya, Y., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Adachi, C., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 6 Mar 2023, In: ChemistrySelect. 8, 9, 10 p., e202300274.
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Dual photosensitizer cycles working synergistically in a C(sp)-C(sp3) cross-coupling reaction
Bryden, M., Villa, M., Fermi, A., Ceroni, P. & Zysman-Colman, E., 24 Oct 2023, In: Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. 12, 10, 8 p., e202300347.
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Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping
Yoshida, K., Gong, J., Kanibolotsky, A. L., Skabara, P. J., Turnbull, G. & Samuel, I. D. W., 28 Sept 2023, In: Nature. 621, p. 746-752
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Elucidation of an aggregate excited state in the electrochemiluminescence and chemiluminescence of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter
Chu, K., Adsetts, J. R., Whitworth, Z., Kumar, S., Zysman-Colman, E. & Ding, Z., 21 Feb 2023, In: Langmuir. 39, 7, p. 2829-2837 9 p.
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Enhanced photoluminescence and reduced dimensionality via vacancy ordering in a 10H halide perovskite
Liu, H., Hafeez, H., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Peters, G., Lee, S., Samuel, I. D. W. & Morrison, F. D., 27 Feb 2023, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 62, 8, p. 3629-3636 8 p.
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Evaluation of dual application of Photodynamic Therapy - PDT in Candida albicans
Nunes, I. P. F., Crugeira, P. J. L., Sampaio, F. J. P., de Oliveira, S. C. P. S., Azevedo, J. M., Santos, C. L. O., Soares, L. G. P., Samuel, I. D. W., Persheyev, S., de Ameida, P. F. & Pinheiro, A. L. B., 1 Jun 2023, In: Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 42, 10 p., 103327.
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Fluorescence lifetime imaging for explosive detection
Matheson, A. B., Ogugu, E. B., Gillanders, R. N., Turnbull, G. A. & Henderson, R., 13 Nov 2023, In: Optics Letters. 48, 22, p. 6015-6018 4 p.
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Frequency-domain time-resolved luminescence for in-operando study of efficiency roll-off in organic light-emitting diodes
King, L. G., Yoshida, K. & Samuel, I. D. W., 23 Oct 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Synthetic Metals. In press, 117489.
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Introducing MR‐TADF emitters into Light‐Emitting Electrochemical Cells for narrowband and efficient emission
Tang, S., dos Santos, J. M., Ràfols‐Ribé, J., Wang, J., Zysman‐Colman, E. & Edman, L., 24 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Functional Materials.
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Judicious heteroatom doping produces high-performance deep blue/near-UV multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLEDs
Madayanad Suresh, S., Zhang, L., Matulaitis, T., Hall, D., Si, C., Ricci, G., Slawin, A. M. Z., Warriner, S., Beljonne, D., Olivier, Y., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 17 Aug 2023, In: Advanced Materials. 35, 33, 2300997.
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Manipulation of structure and optoelectronic properties through bromine inclusion in a layered lead bromide perovskite
Yang, L., Xuan, W., Webster, D. E. J., Krishnan Jagadamma, L., Li, T., Miller, D. N., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Turnbull, G., Samuel, I. D. W., Chen, H-Y. T., Lightfoot, P., Dyer, M. S. & Payne, J. L., 23 May 2023, In: Chemistry of Materials. 35, 10, p. 3801–3814 14 p.
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Materials for electrochemiluminescence: TADF, hydrogen-bonding, and aggregation- and crystallization-induced emission luminophores
Chu, K., Ding, Z. & Zysman-Colman, E., 6 Sept 2023, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 29, 50, 13 p., e202301504.
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Merging boron and carbonyl based MR-TADF emitter designs to achieve high performance pure blue OLEDs
Wu, S., Zhang, L., Wang, J., Gupta, A. K., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 10 Jul 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, 28, 8 p., e202305182.
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Mesogenic groups control the emitter orientation in multi-resonance TADF emitter films
Chen, D., Tenopala‐Carmona, F., Knöller, J. A., Mischok, A., Hall, D., Madayanad Suresh, S., Matulaitis, T., Olivier, Y., Nacke, P., Gießelmann, F., Laschat, S., Gather, M. C. & Zysman‐Colman, E., 11 Apr 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, 16, 12 p., e202218911.
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Molecular geometry and the photophysics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence: the strange case of DMAC-py-TRZ
Crovini, E., Dhali, R., Sun, D., Matulaitis, T., Comerford, T., Slawin, A. M. Z., Sissa, C., Azzolin, F., Di Maiolo, F., Painelli, A. & Zysman-Colman, E., 28 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11, 24, p. 8284-8292 9 p.
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Multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent (MR-TADF) compounds as photocatalysts
Prentice, C., Morrison, J., Smith, A. D. & Zysman-Colman, E., 9 Jan 2023, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 29, 2, 9 p., e202202998.
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Nanoimprint lithography as a route to nanoscale back-contact perovskite solar cells
Harwell, J. R. & Samuel, I. D. W., 25 Aug 2023, In: ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6, 16, p. 14940-14947 8 p.
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New insights in photodynamic inactivation of Leishmania amazonensis: a focus on lipidomics and resistance
Cabral, F. V., Cerone, M., Persheyev, S., Lian, C., Samuel, I. D. W., Ribeiro, M. S. & Smith, T. K., 15 Sept 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 9, e0289492.
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Organic and inorganic light-emitting diodes for photodynamic therapy of cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Persheyev, S., Samuel, I. D. W. & Smith, T. K., 29 Aug 2023, In: Global Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research. 9, 1, p. 025-030
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Reducing efficiency roll-off in multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLEDs through modulation of the energy of the T2 state
Wang, T., Gupta, A. K., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Zysman-Colman, E., 19 May 2023, In: Advanced Optical Materials. 11, 10, 10 p., 2300114.
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Room-temperature multiple phosphorescence from functionalized corannulenes: temperature sensing and afterglow organic light-emitting diode
Si, C., Wang, T., Gupta, A. K., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Siegel, J. S. & Zysman-Colman, E., 23 Oct 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, 43, 13 p., e202309718.
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Solution-processed high-performance organic light-emitting diodes containing a green-emitting MR-TADF dendrimer
Wu, S., Sun, D. & Zysman-Colman, E., 4 Jun 2023, In: Journal of the Society for Information Display. 31, 6, p. 450-456 7 p.
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Status report on emerging photovoltaics
Anctil, A., Beattie, M. N., Case, C., Chaudhary, A., Chrysler, B. D., Debije, M. G., Essig, S., Ferry, D. K., Ferry, V. E., Freitag, M., Gould, I., Hinzer, K., Hoppe, H., Inganäs, O., Krishnan Jagadamma, L., Hun Jee, M., Kostuk, R. K., Kirk, D., Kube, S., Lim, M., & 21 othersLuther, J. M., Mansfield, L., McGehee, M. D., Nguyen Minh, D., Nain, P., Reese, M. O., Reinders, A., Samuel, I. D. W., van Sark, W., Savin, H., Sellers, I. R., Shaheen, S. E., Tang, Z., Toor, F., Vähänissi, V., Wassweiler, E., Warren, E. L., Whiteside, V. R., Woo, H. Y., Xiong, G. & Zhu, X., 14 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Photonics for Energy. 13, 4, 51 p., 042301.
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Synthesis and optical characterization of lead-free phenylenediammonium bismuth halide perovskites: a long charge carrier lifetime in phenylenediammonium bismuth iodide
Siddique, Z., Payne, J. L., Sajjad, M. T., Mica, N., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Samuel, I. D. W., Iqbal, A. & Irvine, J. T. S., 7 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11, 1, p. 223-234 12 p.
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The design and synthesis of green emissive iridium(III) complexes guided by calculations of the vibrationally-resolved emission spectra
Mackenzie, C. F. R., Kwak, S-Y., Kim, S. & Zysman-Colman, E., 7 Apr 2023, In: Dalton Transactions. 52, 13, p. 4112-4121 10 p.
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The influence of nitrogen doping of the acceptor in orange–red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters and OLEDs
Si, C., Hu, Y-N., Sun, D., Wang, K., Zhang, X. & Zysman-Colman, E., 28 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11, 36, p. 12174-12184 11 p.
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The role of the light source in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy
Piksa, M., Lian, C., Samuel, I. C., Pawlik, K. J., Samuel, I. D. W. & Matczyszyn, K., 7 Mar 2023, In: Chemical Society Reviews. 52, 5, p. 1697-1722 26 p.
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Thermal control of organic semiconductors for trace detection of explosives
Ogugu, E. B., Gillanders, R. N., Mohammed, S. & Turnbull, G. A., 21 Nov 2023, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25, 43, p. 29548-2955 8 p.
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence and high-contrast mechanochromism of anthrone-based donor-acceptor systems
Sudhakar, P., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Zysman-Colman, E., 31 Aug 2023, In: Frontiers in Chemistry. 11, 1248267.
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Thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters showing wide-range near-infrared piezochromism and their use in deep-red OLEDs
Sudhakar, P., Gupta, A. K., Cordes, D. B. & Zysman-Colman, E., 29 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical Science. Advance article, 10 p.
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Treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria colonizing diabetic foot ulcers by OLED induced antimicrobial photodynamic therapy
Piksa, M., Fortuna, W., Lian, C., Gacka, M., Samuel, I. D. W., Matczyszyn, K. & Pawlik, K. J., 28 Aug 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13
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Tuning the emission and exciton utilization mechanisms of pyrazine-based multi-carbazole emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes
Chen, D., Zhang, L., Matulaitis, T., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Zhang, X-H., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 14 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11, 38, p. 13095-13105
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Unveiling the TADF emitters with apparent negative singlet-triplet gaps: implications for exciton harvesting and OLED performance
Chen, X., Bagnich, S., Pollice, R., Li, B., Zhu, Y., Saxena, R., Yin, Y., Zhu, W., Aspuru-Guzik, A., Zysman-Colman, E., Köhler, A. & Wang, Y., 28 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 2301784.
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Visible light-mediated cyclisation reaction for the synthesis of highly-substituted tetrahydroquinolines and quinolines
Sherborne, G. J., Kemmitt, P., Prentice, C., Zysman-Colman, E., Smith, A. D. & Fallan, C., 9 Jan 2023, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62, 2, 10 p., e202207829.
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