Publications

Ing-Angsara Thonchai, Zachary J. Knepp, Domenica R. Fertal, Helen Flynn, Elizabeth R. Young* and Lisa A. Fredin*.

“Acid Violet 3: A Base-Activated Water-Soluble Photoswitch.” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024, asap article.
(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07128)
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Shea M. Martin, Zachary J. Knepp, Ing Angsara Thongchai, Kiera Englehart,
Keyri Sorto, Athina Jaffer, Lisa A. Fredin* and Elizabeth R. Young*.

“The doorstop proton: acid-controlled photoisomerization in pyridine-based azo dyes.” New Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 47, 11882 – 11889.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NJ01769A)
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Robert C. Hamburger, Tao Huang, Shea M. Martin, Craig A. Pointer, Lisa A. Fredin* and Elizabeth R. Young*.

“Ultra-fast Excited-state Dynamics of Substituted trans-Naphthalene Azo Moieties.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023, 25, 15302–15313.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP04572A)
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Shea M. Martin, Gil Repa, Robert C. Hamburger, Craig A. Pointer, Kaytlin Ward, Trong-Nham, Pham, Maxwell I. Martin, Joel Rosenthal*, Lisa A. Fredin*, Elizabeth R. Young*.

“Elucidation of Complex Triplet Excited State Dynamics in Pd(II) Biladiene Tetrapyrroles.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023, 25, 2179 – 2189.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP04572A)
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Gary F Moore*, Elizabeth R. Young*.

“Preface: To the special issue: Photochemistry and Electrochemistry of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis.” Photosynthesis Research, 2022, 151, 143–144.
(https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-022-00901-2)
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Qiuqi Cai, Anthony T. Rice, Craig A. Pointer, Maxwell I. Martin, Brendan Davies, An Yu, Kaytlin Ward, Phoebe R. Hertler, Molly C. Warndorf, Glenn P.A. Yap, Elizabeth R. Young, and Joel Rosenthal*

“Synthesis, Electrochemistry and Photophysics of Pd(II) Biladiene Complexes Bearing Varied Substituents at the sp3-Hybridized 10-Position.” 

Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 15797–15807.
(https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02458)
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Craig Pointer, Pascal Büttner, Florian Scheler, Dirk Döhler, Ignacio Mínguez-Bacho, Julien Bachmann, and Elizabeth R. Young*

““Elucidating Mechanistic Details of Photo-Induced Charge Transfer in Antimony Sulfide-Based p-i-n Junctions.” 

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125, 18429–18437.
(https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c03962)
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Shea M. Martin, Amanda N. Oldacre, Craig Pointer, Tao Huang, Gil M. Repa, Lisa Fredin, Elizabeth R. Young*

“Proton-controlled non-exponential photoluminescence in a pyridylamidine-substituted Re(I) complex.

Dalton Transactions, 2021, 50, 7265-7276.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT01132D)
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Pascal Büttner, Florian Scheler, Craig Pointer, Dirk Döhler, Tadahiro Yokosawa, Erdmann Spiecker, Pablo P. Boix, Elizabeth R. Young*, Ignacio Mínguez-Bacho*, and Julien Bachmann*

“ZnS Ultrathin Interfacial Layers for Optimizing Carrier Management in Sb2S3-based Photovoltaics.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 10, 11861–11868.
(https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c21365)
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Caleb Wehrmann, Muhammad Imran, Craig Pointer, Lisa A. Fredin*, Elizabeth R. Young*, Mark S. Chen*

“Spin multiplicity effects in doublet versus singlet emission: the photophysical consequences of a single electron.

Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 10212-10219.
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0SC04211K)
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Amanda N. Oldacre, Elizabeth R. Young*

“Electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer of an anthracene-based azo dye.

RSC Adv, 2020, 10, 14804-14811.
(https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA01643H)
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Pascal Büttner, Florian Scheler, Craig Pointer, Dirk Döhler, Maïssa K. S. Barr, Aleksandra Koroleva, Dmitrii Pankin, Ruriko Hatada, Stefan Flege, Alina Manshina, Elizabeth R. Young*, Ignacio Mínguez-Bacho*, Julien Bachmann*

“Adjusting Interfacial Chemistry and Electronic Properties of Photovoltaics Based on a Highly Pure Sb2S3 Absorber by Atomic Layer Deposition.

ACS Appl. Energy Mater, 2019, 2, 8747-8756. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaem.9b01721)
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Brandi M. Cossairt*, Jillian L. Dempsey*, Elizabeth R. Young*

“The Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (ChemWMN): A Tool for Creating Critical Mass in Academic Chemistry.

Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 58, 12493-12496. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02707)
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Kara L. Martin, Jessica N. Smith, Elizabeth R. Young*, and Kenneth R. Carter**

“Synthetic Emission Tuning of Carborane-Containing Poly(dihexylfluorene)s.

Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 7951-7960. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01325)
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Nicolas Pascual-Leone, Eric Conklin, Gabriel A. Andrade, Joel Rosenthal*, and  Elizabeth R. Young*

“Role of Electrostatics in Influencing the Pathway by Which the Excited State [Ru(bpy)3]2+ Is Deactivation by Ferrocene Derivatives.

Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019, 123, 7673-7682. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04427)
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Jack Ly, Kara Martin, Simil Thomas, Masataka Yamashita, Beihang Yu, Craig Pointer, Hiroko Yamada, Kenneth R. Carter, Sean Parkin, Lei Zhang*, Jean-Luc Bredas*, Elizabeth R. Young*, and Alejandro L. Briseno*

“Short Excited-State Lifetimes Enable Photo-Oxidatively Stable Rubrene Derivatives.

Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019, 123, 7558-7566. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04203)
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John Strahan, Bhooshan C. Popere, Piyachai Khomein, Craig A. Pointer, Shea M. Martin, Amanda N. Oldacre, S. Thayumanavan and Elizabeth R. Young

“Modulating Absorption and Charge Transfer in Bodipy-Carbazole Donor-Acceptor Dyads through Molecular Design.

Dalton Transactions, 2019, 48, 8488-8501. (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9DT00094A)
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Amanda N. Oldacre, Craig A. Pointer, Shea M. Martin, Amanda Kemmerer and Elizabeth R. Young

“Anthracene-based azo dyes for photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer.

Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 5875-5877. (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC01206K) 
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Elizabeth R. Young and Amanda Oldacre

“Iron hits the mark.

Science, 2019, 363, 225–226. (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav9866)
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Kara Lindsey Martin, Aditi Krishnamurthy, John Strahan, and Elizabeth R. Young and Kenneth R. Carter

“Excited state characterization of carborane-containing poly(dihexyl fluorene)s.

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2019, 123, 1701-1709. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b07955)
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Claire Drolen, Eric Conklin, Stephen J. Hetterich, Aditi Krishnamurthy, Gabriel A. Andrade, John L. Dimeglio, Maxwell I. Martin, Linh K. Tran, Glenn P. A. Yap, Joel Rosenthal, and Elizabeth R. Young

“pH-Driven Mechanistic Switching from Electron Transfer to Energy Transfer between [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and Ferrocene Derivatives.

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018140, 10169–10178. (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b03933)
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Christine A. Bange, Matthew A. Conger, Bryan Novas, Elizabeth R .Young, Matthew Denis Liptak, Rory Waterman

“Light-driven, zirconium-catalyzed hydrophosphination with primary phosphines.”

ACS Catalysis. 2018, 8, 6230−6238. (pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acscatal.8b01002)
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Piyachai Khomein, Subramani Swaminathan, Elizabeth R. Young, S. Thayumanavan

“Fluorescence Enhancement Through Incorporation of Chromophores in Polymeric Nanoparticles.”

J. Inorg. Organomet Polym. 2018, 28, 407-413. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-017-0670-1)
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Samuel J. Hendel, Ambata M. Poe, Piyachai Khomein, S. Thayumanavan, Elizabeth R. Young

“Photophysical and electrochemical characterization of BODIPY-containing dyads comparing the influence of an A-D-A versus D-A motif on excited-state photophysics.”

J. Phys. Chem. A. 2016, 120, 8794–8803. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6b06590)
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Samuel Hendel and Elizabeth R. Young

“Introduction to electrochemistry and the use of electrochemistry to synthesize and evaluate catalysis for water oxidation and reduction.”

J. Chem. Educ. 2016, 93, 1821-1966. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00230)
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Afua Nti, Ewruadoja Gadzanku, Elizabeth R. Young

“Ferrocenyl-amidinium compound as building block for aqueous proton-coupled electron transfer studies”

Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2014, 43C, 64–66. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2014.02.012)
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Previous Publications:

Akselrod, G.M.; Young, E.R.; Stone, K.W.; Palatnik, A.; Bulović, V; Tischler, Y.R. “Reduced lasing threshold from organic dye microcavities.” Phys. Rev. B. 2014, 90, 035209. (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.035209) Read more…

Akselrod, G.M.; Young, E.R.; Bradley, M.S.; Bulović, V. “Lasing through a strongly-coupled mode by intra-cavity pumping.” Opt. Express 2013, 21, 12122–12128. (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.012122) Read more…

Costi, R.; Young, E.R.; Bulović, V.; Nocera, D.G. “Stabilized CdSe-CoPi composite photoanode for light-assisted water oxidation by transformation of a CdSe/cobalt metal thin film.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 2364–2367. (https://doi.org/10.1021/am400364u) Read more

Young, E.R.; Rosenthal J.R.; Nocera, D.G. “Energy transfer mediated by asymmetric hydrogen- bonded interfaces.” Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 455–459. (https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SC00596K) Read more…

Young, E.R.; Costi, R.; Paydavosi, S.; Nocera, D.G.; Bulović, V. “Photo-assisted water oxidation with cobalt-based catalyst formed from thin-film cobalt metal on silicon photoanodes.” Energ & Environ. Sci. 2011, 4, 2058–2061. (https://doi.org/10.1039/C1EE01209F) Read more

Akselrod, G.M.; Tischler, J.R.; Young, E.R.; Nocera, D.G.; Bulović, V.; “Exciton-exciton annihilation in organic polariton microcavities.” Phys. Rev. B 2010, 32, 113106-1–113106-4. (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.113106) Read more…

Young, E.R.; Nocera, D.G.; Bulović, V. “Direct formation of a water oxidation catalyst from thin-film cobalt.” Energ & Environ. Sci. 2010, 3, 1726–1728. (https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00177E) Read more…

Young, E.R.; Rosenthal, J.; Hodgkiss, J.M.; Nocera, D.G. “A comparative PCET study of a donor-acceptor pair linked by ionized and non-ionized asymmetric hydrogen-bonded interfaces.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 7678–7684. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ja809777j) Read more…

Young, E.R.; Rosenthal, J.; Nocera, D.G. “Spectral observation of conversion between ionized vs. non-ionized proton-coupled electron transfer interfaces.” Chem. Comm. 2008, 20, 2322–2324. (https://doi.org/10.1039/B717747J) Read more…

Bachmann, J.; Hodgkiss, J.M.; Young, E.R.; Nocera, D.G. “Ground- and excited-state reactivity of iron porphyrinogens.” Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 607–609. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ic0616636) Read more…

Rosenthal, J.; Young, E.R.; Nocera, D.G. “Structurally homologous β- and meso-alkynyl amidinium porphyrins.” Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 8668–8675. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ic700838s) Read more…

Rosenthal, J.; Hodgkiss, J.M.; Young, E.R.; Nocera, D.G. “Spectroscopic determination of proton position in the proton-coupled electron transfer pathways of donor-acceptor supramolecule assemblies.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 10474–10483. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ja062430g) Read more…

Dunetz, J.R.; Sandstrom, C.; Young, E.R.; Baker, P.; Van Name, S.A.; Cathopolous, T.; Fairman, R.; De Paula, J.C.; Åkerfeldt, K.S. “Self-Assembling porphyrin-modified peptides.” Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2559–2561. (https://doi.org/10.1021/ol050644h) Read more…

Schwab, A.D.; Smith, D.E.; Rich, C.S.; Young, E.R.; Smith, W.F.; De Paula, J.C. “Porphyrin nanorods.” J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 11339–11345. (https://doi.org/10.1021/jp035569b) Read more…