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Balaji, Ganapathy; Della Pelle, Andrea M.; Popere, Bhooshan C.; Chandrasekaran, A.; and Thayumanavan, S. "Synthesis and Properties of Thienopyrrole Based Heteroacenes -- Indolodibenzothienopyrrole and Dicarbazolodithienopyrrole", Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, in press (2012). DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25087J

Nagarjuna, G.; and Venkataraman, D. "Strategies for Controlling the Active Layer Morphologies in OPVs", J. Poly. Sci., Poly. Phys., in press (2012). DOI: 10.1002/polb.23073

Feng, Xinjian; Zhu, Kai; Frank, Arthur J.; Grimes, Craig A.; Mallouk, Thomas E. "Rapid Charge Transport in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Made from Vertically Aligned Single-Crystal Rutile TiO2 Nanowires", Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., 51, 2727-2730 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108076

Pentzer, Emily; Bokel, Felica A.; Hayward, Ryan C.; Emrick, Todd  "Nanocomposite 'Superhighways' by Solution Assembly of Semiconductor Nanostrucrures with Ligand-Functionalized Conjugated Polymers", Adv. Mater., 27, 2254-2258 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104788

Popere, Bhooshan C.; Della Pelle, Andrea M.; Poe, Ambata; and Thayumanavan, S. "Molecular Architectures for Organic Photovoltaics", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, 4043-4057 (2012). DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23422j

Yu, Xi; Eymur, Serkan; Singh, Vijay; Yang, Boqian; Tonga, Murat; Bheemaraju, Amarnath; Cooke, Graeme; Subramani, Chandramouleeswaran; Venkataraman, Dhandapani; Stanley, Robert J.; and Rotello, Vincent M. "Flavin as a Photo-active Acceptor for Efficient Energy and Charge Transfer in a Model Donor-Acceptor System", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, 6749-6754 (2012). DOI: 10.1039/C2CP40073A

Li, Le; Shen, Xiaobo; Hong, Sung Woo; Hayward, Ryan C.; Russell, Thomas P. "Fabrication of Co-continuous Nanostructures and Porous Polymer Membranes: Spinodal Decomposition of Homopolymer and Random Copolymer Blends", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 4089-4094 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107867

Zhang, L.; Walker, B.; Liu, F.; Colella, N.; Wei, Q.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; Watkins, J. J.; Nguyen, T-Q.; Briseno, A. L.  Triisopropylsilylethynyl-Functionalized Dibenzo[def,mno]Chrysene: A Solution-Processed Small Molecule for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, J. Mater. Chem. 22, 4266-4268 (2012).   DOI:10.1039/C2JM14998B

Mbanga, B. L.; Grason, G. M.; Santangelo, C. D. Frustration on extrinsic goemetries, Physical Review Letters, 108, 017801/1-5 (2012).  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.017801

Fakhouri, S.; Zhang, L.; Briseno, A. L.  Oligothiophene Crystallization, Materials Today, 14, 623 (2012). (P)

Qin, D.-D.; Tao, C.-L.; Friesen, S. A.; Varghese, O.; Bao, N.-Z.; Yang, Z.-Y.; Mallouk, T. E.; Grimes, C. A. Dense layers of vertically oriented WO3 as anodes for photoelectrochemical water oxidation, Chem. Comm., 48, 729-731 (2012).   DOI:10.1039/C1CC15691H

Bae, W. J.; Scilla, C.; Duzhko, V. V.; Jo, W. H.; Coughlin, E. B. Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Soluble Low-Bandgap Thienothiophene Polymers with Various Alkyl Side-Chain Lengths, J. Polym. Sci. A, Polym. Chem., 49(15), 3260-3271 (2011).  DOI: 10.1002/pola.24761

Girão, E. C.; Liang, L.; Cruz-Silva, E.; Souza Filho, A. G.; Meunier; V. Emergence of Atypical Properties in Assembled Graphene Nanoribbons, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 135501/1-5 (2011).      DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.135501

Bheemaraju, A.; Pourmand, M.; Yang, B.; Surampudi, S.; Benanti, T. L.; Achermann, M.; Barnes, M. D.; Venkataraman, D. Effect of Side Chains on Charge Transfer in Quaterthiophene-Naphthalene diimide Based Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Dyads, J. Macromol. Sci. Part A: Pure and App. Chem. 48, 986-993 (2011).      DOI: 10.1080/10601325.2011.620473

Bokel, Felica A.; Sudeep, P. K.; Pentzer, Emily; Emrick, Todd; Hayward, Ryan C. Assembly of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/CdSe Hybrid Nanowires by Cocrystallization, Macromolecules, 44, 1768-1770 (2011). [DOI: 10.1021/ma2003807]

Chen, D. A.; Nakahara, A.; Wei, D. G.; Nordlund, D., Russell, T. P.  P3HT/PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics: Correlating Efficiency and Morphology, Nano Letters, 11(2), 561-567 (2011).  DOI: 10.1021/nl103482n

Chen, D.; Liu, F.; Wang, C.; Nakahara, A.; Russell, T. P. Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Active Layers via Bilayer Interdiffusion, Nano Letters, 11(5), 2071-2078 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/nl200552r

Chudomel, J. M.; Yang, B. Q.; Barnes, M. D.; Achermann, M.; Mague, J. T.; Lahti, P. M.  Highly Twisted Triarylamines for Photoinduced Intramolecular Charge Transfer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 8361–8368 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/jp203563y    (P)

Hammer, B. A. G.; Bokel, F. A.; Hayward, R. C.; Emrick, T. Cross-Linked Conjugated Polymer Fibrils: Robust Nanowires from Functional Polythiophene Diblock Copolymers, Chem. Mater., 23, 4250–4256 (2011).  DOI: 10.1021/cm2018345

Kokil, A.; Kumar, A.; Balasubramaniam, S.; Nagarajan, R.; Kumar, J. Facile Single-Step Synthesis and Patterning of Silver Nanoparticles, J. Nanophoton. 5, 053515 (2011).  DOI:10.1117/1.3614008

Kokil, A.; Renna, A.; Kumar, J.; Granados-Focil, S. Synthesis and Characterization of Triazolium Iodide Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. J. Macromol. Sci. A, 48, 1022-1026 (2011).  DOI: 10.1080/10601325.2011.620434

Labastide, J. A.; Baghgar, M.; Dujovne, I.; Venkatraman, B. H.; Ramsdell, D. C.; Venkataraman, D.; Barnes, M. D. Time and polarization resolved photoluminescence from individual semicrystalline polythiophene (P3HT) nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem.  Lett., 2, 2089-2093 (2011).  DOI: 10.1021/jz200958x   (P)

Labastide, J. A.; Baghgar, M.; Dujovne, I.; Yang, Y.; Dinsmore, A. D.; Sumpter, B. G.; Venkataraman, D.; Barnes, M. D. Polymer Nanoparticle Superlattices for Organic Photovoltaic Applications, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 3085–3091 (2011).  DOI: 10.1021/jz2012275   Invited Perspective, selected for Cover Feature (P)

Lee, E.; Hammer, B.; Kim, J-K.; Page, Z.; Emrick, T.; Hayward, R. C. Hierarchical Helical Assembly of Conjugated Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-block-poly(3-triethylene glycol thiophene) Diblock Copolymers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 10390-10393 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/ja2038547

Li, L.; Miesch, C.; Sudeep, P. K.; Balazs, A. C.; Emrick, T.; Russell, T. P.; Hayward, R. C. Kinetically Trapped Co-continuous Polymer Morphologies through Intraphase Gelation of Nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 11, 1997-2003 (2011). DOI: 10.1021/nl200366z [F]

Lin, Y.; Daga, V. K.; Anderson, E. R.; Gido, S. P; Watkins, J. J. Nanoparticle-Driven Assembly of Block Copolymers: A Simple Route to Ordered Hybrid Materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 6513-6516 (2011).  DOI: 10.1021/ja2003632

Lu, H.; Akgun, B.; Russell, T. P. Morphological Characterization of a Low-Bandgap Crystalline Polymer:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, Advanced Energy Materials, 1(5), 870-878 (2011).   DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201100128

Nagarjuna, G.; Kumar, A.; Kokil, A.; Jadhav, K. G.; Yurt, S.; Kumar, J.; Venkataraman, D. Enhancing Sensing of Nitroaromatic Vapours by Thiophene-Based Polymer Films, J. Mater. Chem. 21, 16597-16602 (2011).  DOI: 10.1039/C1JM12949J

Nandwana, V.; Subramani, C.; Eymur, S.; Yeh, Y. C.; Tonga, G. Y.; Tonga, M.; Jeong Y. D; Yang, B. Q.; Barnes, M. D.; Cooke, G.; Rotello, V. M. Recognition-Mediated Assembly of Quantum Dot Polymer Conjugates with Controlled Morphology, Int. J. of Molecular Sci., 12, 6357-6366 (2011).    DOI:10.3390/ijms12096357 (P)

Nandwana, V.; Subramani, C.; Yeh, Y. C.; Yang, B. Q.; Dickert, S.; Barnes, M. D.; Tuominen, M. T.; Rotello, V. M.  Direct Patterning of quantum dot nanostructures via e-beam lithography, J. Materials Chem., 21, 16859-16862 (2011).   DOI: 10.1039/C1JM11782C    (P)

Pandey S. C.; Maroudas, D. Effects of Composition and Compositional Distribution on the Electronic Structure of ZnSe(1-x)Te(x) Ternary Quantum Dots, J. Appl. Phys., 110, 123509/1-6 pages (2011). DOI: 10.1063/1.3670039 [F]

Pandey S. C.; Maroudas, D. Equilibrium Compositional Distribution in Freestanding Ternary Semiconductor Quantum Dots: The Case of In(x)Ga(1-x)As,  J. Chem. Phys., 135, 234701/1-12 (2011). DOI: 10.1063/1.3666847 [F]

Pandey, S. C.; Mountziaris, T. J.; Maroudas, D. Compositional Effects on the Electronic Structure of ZnSe(1-x)S(x) Ternary Quantum Dots, Applied Physics Letters, 99, 101902/1-3 (2011). DOI: 10.1063/1.3633354 [F]

Pandey, S. C.; Sfyris, G. I.; Maroudas, D. Theory of Surface Segregation in Ternary Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Applied Physics Letters, 98, 091907/1-3 (2011).    DOI: 10.1063/1.3559939 [F]

Park, J. Y.; Hendricks, N. R.; and Carter, K. R. Solvent-Assisted Soft Nanoimprint Lithography for Structured Bilayer Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells, Langmuir, 27, 11251-11258 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/la201809g [F]

Popere, B.; Della Pelle, A.; Thayumanavan, S. BODIPY-based Donor-Acceptor π-Conjugated Alternating Copolymers, Macromolecules, 44, 4767-4776 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/ma200839q

Qin, D.-D.; Tao, C.-L.; In, S.-I.; Yang, Z.-Y.; Mallouk, T. E.; Grimes, C. A.  A facile solvothermal method for fabricating arrays of vertically oriented alpha-Fe2O3 nanowires and their application in photoelectrochemical water oxidation, Energy & Fuels, 25. 5257-5263 (2011).   DOI:10.1021/ef201367q

Reddy, J. S.; Kale, T.; Balaji, G.; Chandrasekaran, A.; Thayumanavan, S. Cyclopentadithiophene-Based Organic Semiconductors: Effect of Fluorinated Substituents on Electrochemical and Charge Transport Properties, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 648-654 (2011). [DOI: 10.1021/jz200126s]

Venkatraman, H. B.; Kokil, A.; Satapathi, S.; Kumar, J.; Venkataraman, D. "Conjugated Polymer: TiO2 Nanocomposite Solar Cells Based on P3HT Nanoparticles," Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1312, mrsf10-1312-ii09-06 (2011).    DOI:10.1557/opl.2011.265.

Yalcin, S. E.; Labastide, J. A.; Sowle, D.; Barnes, M. D.  Spectral Properties of Multiply Charged Quantum Dots, Nano Letters. 11, 4425-4430 (2011).   DOI: 10.1021/nl2026103   (P)

Yan, L.-T.; Balazs, A. C. Self-Assembly of Nanorods in Ternary Mixtures: Promoting the Percolation of the Rods and Creating Interfacially Jammed Gels, J. Mater. Chem., 21, 14178-14184 (2011).  DOI: 10.1039/C1JM10397K

Balaji, Ganapathy; Kale, Tejaswini S.; Keerthi, Ashok; Della Pelle, Andrea M.; Thayumanavan, S.; Vallyaveettil, Surech Low Band Gap Thiophene-Perylene Diimide Systems with Tunable Charge Transport Properties, Org. Lett., 13(1), 18-21 (2011). [DOI: 10.1021/ol1023486]

Duan, X. X.; Park, M. H.; Zhao, Y. P.; Berenschot, E.; Wang, Z. Y.; Reinhoudt, D. N.; Rotello, V. M.; Huskens, J. Metal Nanoparticle Wires Formed by an Integrated Nanomolding-Chemical Assembly Process: Fabrication and Properties, ACS Nano, 4(12), 7660-7666 (2010).  DOI: 10.1021/nn102463r

Chen, Dian; Nakahara, Atsuhiro; Wei, Dongguang; Nordlund, Dennis; Russell, Thomas P. P3HT/PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics: Correlating Efficiency and Morphology, Nano Letters, 11, 561-567 (2010). [DOI: 10.1021/nl103482n]

Early, K. T.; Sudeep, P. K.; Emrick, Todd; Barnes, M. D. Polarization-Driven Stark Shifts in Quantum Dot Luminescence from Single CdSe/oligo-PPV Nanoparticles, Nano Letters, 10, 1754-1758 (2010). [DOI: 10.1021/nl1001789]

Kim, Sanghoon; Mor, Gopal K.; Paulose, Maggie; Varghese, Oomman K.; Baik, Chul; Grimes, Craig A. Molecular Design of Near-IR Harvesting Unsymmetrical Squaraine Dyes, Langmuir, 26, 13486-13492 (2010). [DOI: 10.1021/la101257b]

Lipton-Duffin, J. A.; Miwa, J. A.; Kondratenko, M.; Cicoira, F.; Sumpter, B. G.; Meunier, V.; Perepichka, D. F.; Rosei, F.; Step-by-step growth of epitaxially aligned polythiophene by surface-confined reaction, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 107, 1-5 (2010). [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000726107]

McDonald, Niall A.; Subramani, Chandramouleeswaran; Caldwell, Stuart T.; Zainalabdeen, Nada Y.; Cooke, Graeme; Rotello, Vincent M. Simultaneous hydrogen bonding and pi-stacking interactions between flavin/porphyrin host-guest systems, Tetrahedron Letters, 52, 2107-2110 (2010). [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.11.004]

Mor, Gopal K.; Basham, James; Paulose, Maggie; Kim, Sanghoon; Varghese, Oomman K.; Vaish, Amit; Yoriya, Sorachon; Grimes, Craig A. High Efficiency Forster Resonance Energy Transfer in Solid-State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Nano Letters, 10, 2387-2394 (2010). [DOI: 10.1021/nl100415q]

Nagarjuna, G.; Yurt, Serkan; Jadhav, Kedar G.; and Venkataraman, D. Impact of Pendant 1, 2, 3-Triazole on the Synthesis and Properties of Thiophene-Based Polymers, Macromolecules, 43, 8045-8050 (2010). [DOI: 10.1021/ma101657e]

Nakade, Hiroshi; Jordan, Brian J.; Srivastava, Sudhanshu; Xu, Hao; Yu, Xi; Pollier, Michael A.; Cooke, Graeme; Rotello, Vincent M. Molecular recognition-induced liquid crystals from complementary diaminopyridine and flavin dyads, Supramolecular Chemistry, 22, 691-696 (2010). [DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2010.506540]

Pandey, Sumeet C.; Mountziaris, T. J.; Venkataraman, Dhandapani; Maroudas, Dimitris. Formation of core/shell-like ZnSe1−xTex nanocrystals due to equilibrium surface segregation, Appl. Phys. Lett., 96, 201910 (2010). [DOI: 10.1063/1.3428659]

Subramani, Chandramouleeswaran; Yesilbag, Gulen; Jordan, Brian J.; Li, Xiaoning; Khorasani, Abraham; Cooke, Graeme; Sanyal, Amitav; Rotello, Vincent M. Recognition mediated encapsulation and isolation of flavin–polymer conjugates using dendritic guest moieties, Chem. Commun., 46, 2067-2069 (2010). [DOI: 10.1039/b926746h]

Yan, Li-Tang; Maresov, Egor; Buxton, Gavin A.; Balazs, Anna C. Self-assembly of mixtures of nanorods in binary, phase-separating blends, Soft Matter, 7, 595-607 (2010). [DOI: 10.1039/C0sm00803F]

Zhang, L.; Fakhouri, S. M.; Liu, F.; Timmons, J. C.; Ran, N. A.; Briseno, A. L. Chalcogenoarene Semiconductors: New Ideas From Old Materials, J. Mater. Chem., 21, 1329-1337 (2010). [DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02522D ]

Miquelard-Garnier, Guillaume; Croll, Andrew B.; Davis, Chelsea S.; Crosby, Alfred J. Contact-line Mechanics for Pattern Control, Soft Matter, 6, 5789-5794 (2009). [DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00165A]


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