2026 Publications

3d-printed optical volatile organic compound sensors based on donor-substituted coumarin thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters
Paniziutti, S., Piras, M. V., Chiappone, A., Podda, E., Ricci, P. C., Porcu, S., Matulaitis, T., Zysman-Colman, E. & Secci, F., 21 Jun 2026, In: Small Science. 6, 6, 13 p., e70325.
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A blue emissive heavy atom-free multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitter shows ultra-fast reverse intersystem crossing
Wang, W., Hafeez, H., Wu, S., McKay, A. P., Cordes, D. B., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 13 Jul 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Early View, 11 p., e9957319.
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Absolute calibration for cyclic voltammetry from the solution-phase ionisation of ferrocene
Baikie, T. K., Harwell, J. R., Baikie, I. D., Zysman-Colman, E., Samuel, I. D. W. & Turnbull, G. A., 20 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ACS Electrochemistry. ASAP, 8 p.
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A columnar liquid crystalline self-assembly of a donor–acceptor TADF emitter design for solution-processed OLEDs
De, J., Yasuda, Y., Takenaka, M., Drysdale-Dykes, A., Kaji, H. & Zysman-Colman, E., 15 May 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical Science. Advance Article, 12 p.
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Analysis and control of untemplated DNA polymerase activity for guided synthesis of kilobase-scale DNA sequences
Castle, S. D., Irvine, T. C. T., Woolfson, A., Linshiz, G., Riley, B. T., Samuel, I. D. W., Picco, L., Holliger, P., Oldfield, L. M., Hessel, A. & Gorochowski, T. E., 26 Feb 2026, In: Nature Communications. 17, p. 1-18 18 p., 3251.
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A trade-off between efficiency and stability in a class of sky-blue organic light-emitting diodes
Tankelevičiūtė, E., Jenatsch, S., Ruhstaller, B., Zysman-Colman, E. & Samuel, I. D. W., 1 Mar 2026, In: FlexMat. 3, 1, p. 20-28 9 p.
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Biocompatible TADF probes for highly multiplexed fluorescence lifetime imaging
Suárez de Cepeda, P., Nadal-Bufi, F., Haug, J., Matulaitis, T., Zhou, Y., Lochenie, C., Qi, Q., Jung, A., Chen, D., González-Bello, C., Bräse, S., Zysman-Colman, E. & Vendrell, M., 16 Feb 2026, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65, 8, 11 p., e21482.
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Borane catalysed annulative sulfenylation of internal alkynes: towards the synthesis and study of fused heterocycles
Das, S., Pramanik, M., Westphäling, J., Gupta, A. K., Wirth, T., Buurma, N. J., Zysman-Colman, E., Baik, M.-H. & Melen, R. L., 29 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chemical Science. Advance Article, 11 p.
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Conjugation-Length Dependent Interplay between Charge Transfer and Locally Excited States in Sequence-Defined Donor-Acceptor Substituted Oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s
Cai, Q., Paha, T., Armbruster, M., Jung, A., Zysman-Colman, E., Unterreiner, A.-N. & Meier, M. A. R., 18 Sept 2026, In: Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
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Corrigendum to "Photodynamic therapy offers a novel approach to managing miltefosine-resistant cutaneous leishmaniasis" [Biomed. Pharmacother. 177 (2024) 116881]
Cabral, F. V., Riahi, M., Persheyev, S., Lian, C., Cortez, M., Samuel, I. D. W. & Ribeiro, M. S., 22 May 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. In Press, p. 1-2 2 p., 119495.
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Donor extended blue TADF dendrimer for high-performance solution-processed OLEDs
Fatahi, M., Yasuda, Y., Kondo, R., Kaji, H. & Zysman-Colman, E., 16 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Science . Early View, 10 p., e76130.
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Donor-substituted C(sp3)-bridged phosphorus-heterotriangulenes as blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters
Schöner, M., Jocic, A., Harrer, S., Fatahi, M., Maurmann, J., Reule, A., Rominger, F., Zysman-Colman, E. & Kivala, M., 16 Feb 2026, In: Advanced Optical Materials. 14, 7, 10 p.
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Effect of preheating on phase distribution and orientation of 2D halide perovskite for indoor photovoltaics
Varghese, A. A., Gong, J., Maria Joseph Raj, N. P., Turnbull, G. A. & Krishnan Jagadamma, L., 17 Mar 2026, In: Energy Technology. 14, 3, 16 p., e202501989.
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Enhanced energy transfer from a metal–organic framework to a highly confined organic phosphorescent dye
Hosseini Monjezi, B., Kasper, T., Hong, G., Si, C., Oestreich, R., Weingart, O., Weidler, P. G., Wöll, C., Zysman-Colman, E., Janiak, C., Bräse, S., Müller-Buschbaum, K. & Knebel, A., 15 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Science . Early View, 11 p., e00068.
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Exploring the limits of inductive electron withdrawal in fused bicyclic azaheterocycles
Bhojgude, S. S., Turnbull, D. R., Pagidi, S., C., A., Zysman-Colman, E., Welch, G. C. & Van Humbeck, J. F., 13 Jan 2026, In: Chemical Communications. 62, 3, p. 919-922 4 p.
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Exploring the synergy of combining BINAP and tCzBN motifs within multi-resonant TADF emitters to enhance OLED performance
dos Santos, J. M., Barman, D., Weerasinghe, R. W., Matulaitis, T., Cordes, D. B., McKay, A. P., Tsuchiya, Y., Adachi, C. & Zysman-Colman, E., 3 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 12 p., e71337.
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Harnessing the orientation of columnar discotic liquid crystals for narrowband blue emission with enhanced out-coupling efficiency toward improvement of SP-OLEDs performance
De, J., Gupta, A. K., Litvinas, D., Tenopala-Carmona, F., Lehmann, M., Gather, M. C. & Zysman-Colman, E., 7 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Functional Materials. Early View, 14 p., e28081.
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mer-Ir(pmp)3 as a strongly photoreducing and stable Ir(C^C)3 photocatalyst for metallaphotoredox catalysis
Griffin, M. & Zysman-Colman, E., 5 May 2026, In: Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 13, 9, p. 2707–2718 12 p.
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Interaction of polymer of intrinsic microporosity PIM-1 with explosive analytes at the molecular level: combined experiment and computational modeling
Mohammed, S., Ogugu, E. B., Sharma, R., Taylor, D., Cooke, G., McKeown, N. B., Baryshnikov, G., Ågren, H., Samuel, I. D. W. & Turnbull, G. A., 18 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. ASAP, 8 p.
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Intramolecular FRET cascades enable small efficiency roll-off in solution-processed OLEDs
Fatahi, M., Barman, D., Tsuchiya, Y., Adachi, C. & Zysman-Colman, E., 27 Apr 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 13 p., e71254.
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Intramolecular through-space heavy-atom effect in multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters with [2.2]paracyclophane
Xu, Y., Hafeez, H., Wang, W., Samuel, I. D. W. & Zysman-Colman, E., 30 Jun 2026, In: Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 13, 13, p. 3934–3943 10 p.
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Ligand-dependent locally excited and charge-transfer emission in linear copper(I) mesoionic carbene luminophores
Leon, F., Si, C., Li, C., Thanetchaiyakup, A., Papineau, T. V., Jacquemin, D., Zysman-Colman, E. & Soo, H. S., 18 Sept 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early view, 14 p., e71819.
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Modular enantioselective photocatalysts from privileged pybox scaffolds
Kelch,, R. M., Hämmerling, L., Zysman-Colman, E. & Yoon, T. P., 9 Apr 2026, In: Science. 392, 6794, p. 188-193 6 p.
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Molecular conformation engineering for enhanced performance of violet multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence OLEDs
Park, J., Moon, J., Han, S., Lee, D. R., Ahn, H. J., Kim, J. Y., Baek, J.-H., Zysman-Colman, E. & Lee, J. Y., 30 Jul 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Small Methods. Early view, 11 p., e70911.
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Narrowband sky-blue emission from acceptor-extended MR-TADF dendrimers
Fatahi, M., Bareikaite, K., Choudhary, P., Hu, Y., Danos, A., Tsuchiya, Y., Adachi, C., Monkman, A. P. & Zysman-Colman, E., 9 Jul 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Advance articles, 9 p.
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Novel optical measurement technique for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy using Scattered Light Integrating Collector (SLIC)
Leite De Avellar, M., Hafeez, H., Hammond, R. & Samuel, I. D. W., 14 Jan 2026, In: Scientific Reports. 16, p. 1-8 8 p., 4040.
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Organic photodiode receiver for a 3.6 gigabit per second visible light communication link
Riahi, M., Majlesein, B., Yoshida, K., Haas, H., Turnbull, G. A. & Samuel, I. D. W., 9 Sept 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Communications Materials.
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Organic room-temperature phosphorescence materials
Liu, D., Cai, Z., Dong, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, R., Chen, Y., Xu, Z., Fu, H., He, Z., Yang, J., Li, Z., Ma, X., Sun, Q., Shuai, Z., Chen, Z., Li, M., Su, S.-J., Data, P., Takeda, Y. & Eyyathiyil, J. & 31 others, Thilagar, P., Xie, H.-L., Xiong, Y., Qi, Z., Yan, D., Liu, H., Yang, B., Wang, Z., Yang, C., Wang, X.-H., Yang, Y.-W., Chen, X., Yang, G., Yuan, W. Z., Zou, S., Zhang, Y., Cheng, A., Zhang, G., Zhang, K., She, P., Zhao, Q., Guo, J., Zhao, Y., Sun, H., Zhu, L., Wang, T., Zysman-Colman, E., Alam, P., Zhao, Z., Tang, B. Z. & Qin, A., 6 Jul 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science China Chemistry. Online first, 222 p.
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Photoluminescence turn-on method to determine the kinetics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials
Diesing, S., Yoshida, K., Zysman-Colman, E. & Samuel, I. D. W., 11 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Physics Research. Early View, 9 p., e00212.
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Recent development of borondifluoride curcuminoid derivatives and their applications
D’Aléo, A., Gupta, A. K., Gong, J., Kato, M., Tosun, S., Mager, L. & Ribierre, J. C., 31 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CCS Chemistry. Ahead of Print, 19 p.
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Reduced concentration quenching of multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter incorporating pillar[5]arene macrocycle
Sun, Z., Chen, Q., Fang, W., Fatahi, M., Choudhary, P., Zhou, X., Liu, X., Xie, G., Zysman-Colman, E., Liu, J. & Wang, H.-B., 6 Sept 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Small. Early View, 11 p., e75663.
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Room temperature phosphorescence from a benzothiophene-based N–B–N multi-resonance core
Karthik, D., Gupta, A. K. & Zysman-Colman, E., 16 Mar 2026, In: Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 10, 6, p. 947–954 8 p.
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Shaking up photochemistry: the future frontiers of mechanophotocatalysis
Millward, F. & Zysman-Colman, E., 28 Jan 2026, In: ACS Central Science. 12, 1, p. 17-27 11 p.
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TADF-emitting dendrimers for scalable bar-coating fabrication of light-emitting electrochemical cells
Tang, S., Sun, D., Larsen, C., Zäll, E., Zysman-Colman, E. & Edman, L., 6 Apr 2026, In: Advanced Materials Technologies. 11, 7, 11 p., e02395.
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Two-photon excited circularly polarized luminescence of hetero[9]helicene with multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence
Zysman-Colman, E., 15 Sept 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. Accepted/in press
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Uncovering the origin of efficiency roll-off in TADF OLEDs
King, L. G., Yoshida, K., Ruseckas, A. & Samuel, I. D. W., 13 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Functional Materials. Early View, 10 p., e31845.
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