Publications

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60) D. Bain, J. Chang, Y. Lai, T. Khazanov, P.J. Milner & A.J. Musser. ‘Torsional Disorder in Tetraphenyl [3]-Cumulenes: Insight into Excited State Quenching‘, Photochem 2024, 4, 138-150.

 

59)      A. George, T. Geraghty, Z. Kelsey, S. Mukherjee, G. Davidova, W. Kim & A.J. Musser. ‘Controlling the Manifold of Polariton States Through Molecular Disorder’, Advanced Optical Materials 2024, in press. (Rising Stars collection)

 

 

58) J. Kim*, Y. Xu*, D.C. Bain, M. Li, M. Cotlet, Q. Yu & A.J. Musser, ‘Small to Large Polaron Behavior Induced by Controlled Interactions in Perovskite Quantum Dot Solids‘, ACS Nano 2023, 17, 23079–23093.

 

 

57) T.Khazanov, S. Gunasekaran, A. George, R. Lomlu, S. Mukherjee & A.J. Musser, ‘Embrace the darkness: An experimental perspective on organic exciton–polaritons‘, Chemical Physics Reviews 2023, 4, 041305.

 

56) S.-Z. Sun, B.T. Nicholls, D. Bain, T. Qiao, C.G. Page, A.J. Musser & T.K. Hyster. ‘Enantioselective decarboxylative alkylation using synergistic photoenzymatic catalysis’, Nature Catalysis 7, 35-42, 2024.

55) S. Gunasekaran, R.F. Pinard & A.J. Musser. ‘Continuum model of strong light-matter coupling for molecular polaritons’, arXiv preprint arXiv: 2308.08744.

54) A.J. Musser & H. Stern. ‘Elusive excited states identified from cutting-edge molecular movies’, Nature 2023, 616, 255-256 (invited News & Views).

 

53) A. Halder, D.C. Bain, T.A. Pitt, Z. Shi,  J. Oktawiec, J.-H. Lee, S. Tsangari, M. Ng, J. Fuentes-Rivera, A.C. Forse, T. Rubcevski, D.A. Muller, A.J. Musser & P. Milner. ‘Trapping of Photoluminescent Kinetic Intermediates During High-Concentration Synthesis of Non-Emissive Metal-Organic Frameworks’, Chemistry of Materials 2023, 35, 10086-10098.

 

 

52) K. Majumder*, S. Mukherjee*, N. A. Panjwani*, J. Lee, R. Bittl, W. Kim, S. Patil & A. J. Musser, ‘Controlling Intramolecular Singlet Fission Dynamics via Torsional Modulation of Through-Bond versus Through-Space Couplings’Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 20883-20896.

 

51) O. Millington, S. Montanaro, A. Leventis, A. Sharma, S.A. Dowland, N. Sawhney, K.J. Fallon, W. Zeng, D.G. Congrave, A.J. Musser, A. Rao & H. Bronstein. ‘Soluble diphenylhexatriene dimers for intramolecular singlet fission with high triplet energy’, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 2499-2510.

50) M. Purdy, P. Budden, K. Fallon, C. N. Gannett, H. D. Abruña, W. Zeng, R. Friend, A. J. Musser & H. Bronstein, ‘Re-thinking Dimer Design Principles with Indolonaphthyridine Intramolecular Singlet Fission’Chemistry: A European Journal 2023, 29, e202301547.

49) D. W. Polak, I. Andrews, G. Farrow, A. J. Musser, A. Auty, D. Chekulaev, J. A. Weinstein, M. Heeney & J. Clark. ‘Conjugation-length dependence of regioregular oligo 3-alkyl(thienylene-vinylene)s demonstrates polyene-like behaviour with weak electron–electron correlations’Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2023, 25, 11205-1121.

BPP structures and PL lifetimes48) X. Xu*, A.L. Vonder Haar*R. YoshiokaQ. ZhangS. VasylevskyiA.J. Musser & A. Narita. ‘Solvent-tunable exciton-charge transfer mixed state enhances emission of functionalized benzo[rst]pentaphene through symmetry breaking‘, Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 720-723 (2022 Emerging Investigators Collection).

 

47) A. Halder, D. Bain, J. Oktawiec, M. Addicoat, S. Tsangari, J. Fuentes-Rivera, T. Pitt, A.J. Musser & P. Milner. ‘Enhancing Dynamic Spectral Diffusion in Metal-Organic Frameworks Through Defect Engineering‘, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145,  1072–1082.

DPP J-agg spectra

 

46) N. Maity*, W. Kim*, N.A. Panjwani, A. Kundu, K. Majumder, P. Kasetty, D. Mishra, R. Bittl, J. Nagesh, J. Dasgupta, A.J. Musser & S. Patil. ‘Parallel triplet formation pathways in a singlet fission material‘, Nature Communications 2022, 5244.

 

Train cartoon for pol transport

 

45) R. Pandya, A. Ashoka, K. Georgiou, J. Sung, R. Jayaprakash, S. Renken, L. Gai, Z. Shen, A. Rao & A.J. Musser. ‘Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through Dark State Delocalization‘, Advanced Science 2022, 2105569. (Rising Stars collection)

 

BPP dimerization and spectral signatures44) X. Xu, S. Gunasekaran, S. Renken, L. Ripani, D. Schollmeyer, W. Kim, M.o Marcaccio, A.J. Musser & A. Narita. ‘Synthesis and Characterizations of 5,5′-Bibenzo[rst]pentaphene with Axial Chirality and Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer‘, Advanced Science 2022, 2200004.

Scheme of TAM43) R. Pandya, R.Y.S. Chen, Q. Gu, J. Sung, C. Schnedermann, O.S. Ojambati, R. Chikkaraddy, J. Gorman, G. Jacucci, O.D. Onelli, T. Willhammar, D.N. Johnstone, S.M. Collins, P.A. Midgley, F. Auras, T. Baikie, R. Jayaprakash, F. Mathevet, R. Soucek, M. Du, A.M. Alvertis, A. Ashoka, S. Vignolini, D.G. Lidzey, J.J. Baumberg, R.H. Friend, T. Barisien, L. Legrand, A.W. Chin, J. Yuen-Zhou, S.K. Saikin, P. Kukura, A.J. Musser & A. Rao. ‘Microcavity-like exciton-polaritons can be the primary photoexcitation in bare organic semiconductors‘, Nature Communications 2021, 6519.

Decomposition of TA spectrum in terms of predicted artefacts

 

42) S. Renken*, R. Pandya*, K. Georgiou, R. Jayaprakash, L. Gai, Z. Shen, D.G. Lidzey, A. Rao, & A.J. Musser. ‘Untargeted effects in organic exciton–polariton transient spectroscopy: A cautionary tale‘, J. Chem. Phys. 2021, 155, 154701 (JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection)

Vibrational coherence imparted by ultrafast excitation

 

41) W. Kim, A.J. Musser. ‘Tracking ultrafast reactions in organic materials through vibrational coherence: vibronic coupling mechanisms in singlet fission‘, Advances in Physics: X 2021, 6.

 

Bossanyi graphical abstract

40) D.G. Bossanyi, M. Matthiesen, S. Wang, J.A. Smith, R.C. Kilbride, J.D. Shipp, D. Chekulaev, E. Holland, J.E. Anthony, J. Zaumseil, A.J. Musser & J. Clark. ‘Emissive spin-0 triplet-pairs are a direct product of triplet–triplet annihilation in pentacene single crystals and anthradithiophene films‘, Nature Chemistry 2021, 13, 163-171

 

 

Calculated wavefunctions for PDA chains39) A.M. Alvertis, R. Pandya, C. Quarti, L. Legrand, T. Barisien, B. Monserrat, A.J. Musser, A. Rao, A.W. Chin & D. Beljonne. ‘First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains‘, J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 084103

 

PDA electronic structure and push pulse

 

 

38) R. Pandya, Q. Gu, A. Cheminal, R.Y. Chen, E.P. Booker, R. Soucek, M. Schott, L. Legrand, F. Mathevet, N.C. Greenham, T. Barisien, A.J. Musser, A.W. Chin & A. Rao. ‘Optical projection and spatial separation of spin entangled triplet-pairs from the S1 (21Ag-) state of pi-conjugated systems‘, Chem 2020, 6, 2826-2851

 

 

molecules and thin films37) G.A. Sutherland, D. Polak, D.J.K. Swainsbury, S. Wang, F.C. Spano, D. Auman, D. Bossanyi, J.P. Pidgeon, A. Hitchcock, A.J. Musser, J.E. Anthony, P.L. Dutton, J. Clark & C.N. Hunter, ‘Thermostable Protein Matrix for Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Semiconductors’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13898–13907

 

 

Graphical abstract of TTc microcavity study

36) D. Polak, R. Jayaprakash, T.P. Lyons, L.A. Matínez-Martínez, A. Leventis, K.J. Fallon, H. Coulthard, D.G. Bossanyi, K. Georgiou, A.J. Petty II, J. Anthony, H. Bronstein, J. Yuen-Zhou, A.I. Tartakovskii, J. Clark & A.J. Musser, ‘Manipulating molecules with strong coupling: harvesting triplet excitons in organic exciton microcavities’, Chemical Science 2020, 11, 343-354 (HOT article and Pick of the Week)

Mixed potential energy surfaces for CT and TT states

 

35) A. Alvertis*, S. Lukman*, T.J.H. Hele, E.G. Fuemmeler, J. Feng, J. Wu, N.C. Greenham, A.W. Chin & A.J. Musser, ‘Switching between coherent and incoherent singlet fission via solvent-induced symmetry-breaking’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 17558-17570

Molecular movie of fission in the pentacene dimer DP-Mes

 

 

34) C. Schnedermann, A.M. Alvertis, T. Wende, S. Lukman, J. Feng, F.A.Y.N. Schröder, D.H.P. Turban, J. Wu, N.D.M. Hine, N.C. Greenham, A.W. Chin, A. Rao, P. Kukura & A.J. Musser, ‘A Molecular Movie of Ultrafast Singlet Fission’, Nature Communications 2019, 4207 (editor’s highlight)

 

Singlet fission design strategy harnessing Baird's rule

 

33) K.J. Fallon, P. Budden, E. Salvadori, A.M. Ganose, C.N. Savory, L. Eyre, S. Dowland, Q. Ai, S. Goodlett, C. Risko, D.O. Scanlon, C.W.M. Kay, A. Rao, R.H. Friend, A.J. Musser & H. Bronstein, ‘Exploiting Excited-State Aromaticity To Design Highly Stable Singlet Fission Materials’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 13867-13876

 

Absorption spectra of heavy-atom polymers

 

32) A.J. Musser, M. Al-Hashimi, M. Heeney & J. Clark, ‘Heavy-atom effects on intramolecular singlet fission in a conjugated polymer’, J. Chem. Phys. 2019, 151, 044902

 

 

Publications before joining Cornell C&CB

Artist's rendering of micropillars and optical modes

 

31) F.L. Al-Jashaam, R. Jayaprakash, D.M. Coles, A.J. Musser, K. Georgiou & D.G. Lidzey, ‘Optical-Mode structure of micropillar microcavities containing a fluorescent conjugated polymer‘, Adv. Quant. Technol. 2019, 3, 1900067 (front cover)

 

30) A.J. Musser & J. Clark, ‘Triplet pair states in organic semiconductors’, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2019, 70, 323-351

29) R. Jayaprakash, K Georgiou, H. Coulthard, A. Askitopoulos, S.K. Rajendran, D.M. Coles, A.J. Musser, J. Clark, I.D.W. Samuel, G.A. Turnbull, P.G. Lagoudakis & D.G. Lidzey, ‘A hybrid organic-inorganic polariton LED’, Light Sci. Appl. 2019, 8, 1-11

28) F.A.Y.N. Schröder, D.H.P. Turban, A.J. Musser, N.D.M. Hine, A.W. Chin, ‘Multi-dimensional tensor network simulation of open quantum dynamics in singlet fission’, Nature Communications 2019, 1062

27) Krishnapriya K.C.,  P. Roy, B. Puttaraju, U. Salzner, A.J. Musser, M. Jain, J. Dasgupta & S. Patil, ‘Spin  density  encodes  intramolecular  singlet  exciton  fission  in  pentacene  dimers’, Nature Communications 2019, 33

26) Krishnapriya K.C., A.J. Musser & S. Patil, ‘Molecular design strategies for efficient intramolecular singlet exciton fission’, ACS Energy Letters 2019, 4, 192-202 (ACS editor’s choice)

25) Y. Zhang, A.J. Parnell, O. Blaszczyk, A.J. Musser, I.D.W. Samuel, D.G. Lidzey & G. Bernardo, ‘Effect of fullerene acceptor on the performance of solar cells based on PffBT4T-2OD’, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 19023-19029

24) R.T. Grant, R. Jayaprakash, D.M. Coles, A.J. Musser, S. De Liberato, I.D.W. Samuel, G.A. Turnbull, J. Clark & D.G. Lidzey, ‘Strong coupling in a microcavity containing beta-carotene’, Optics Express 2018, 26, 3320-3327

23) S. Lukman, J.M. Richter, L. Yang, P. Hu, J. Wu, N.C. Greenham & A.J. Musser, ‘Efficient singlet fission and triplet-pair emission in a family of zethrene diradicaloids’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 18376-18385

22) A.J. Musser*, D.M.E. Freeman*, J.M. Frost, H.L. Stern, A.K. Forster, K.J. Fallon, A.G. Rapidis, F. Cacialli, I. McCulloch, T.M. Clarke, R.H. Friend & H. Bronstein, ‘Synthesis and exciton dynamics of donor-orthogonal acceptor conjugated polymers: Reducing the singlet–triplet energy gap’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 11073-11080 (front cover)

21) C.K. Yong, A.J. Musser, S.L. Bayliss, S. Lukman, H. Tamura, O. Bubnova, R.K. Hallani, A. Meneau, R. Resel, M. Maruyama, S. Hotta, L.M. Herz, D. Beljonne, J.E. Anthony, J. Clark & H. Sirringhaus, ‘The entangled triplet pair state in acene and heteroacene materials’, Nature Communications 2017, 15953

20) A.J. Musser*, P.P. Neelakandan*, J.M. Richter, J. Mori, R.H. Friend & J.R. Nitschke, ‘Excitation energy delocalization and transfer to guests within MII4L6 cage frameworks’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 12050-12059

19) H. Stern, A. Cheminal, S. Yost, K. Broch, S. Bayliss, K. Chen, M. Tabachnyk, K. Thorley, N.C. Greenham, J. Hodgkiss, J. Anthony, M. Head-Gordon, A.J. Musser, A. Rao & R.H. Friend, ‘Vibronically coherent ultrafast triplet-pair formation and subsequent thermally activated dissociation control efficient endothermic singlet fission’, Nature Chemistry 2017, 9, 1205-1212

18) A.J. Musser*, T. Mukhopadhyay*, B. Puttaraju, J. Dhar, R.H. Friend & S. Patil, ‘Is the chemical strategy for imbuing ‘polyene’ character in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based chromophores sufficient for singlet fission?’, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8, 984-991

17) A.J. Musser, S.K. Rajendran, K. Georgiou, L. Gai, R.T. Grant, Z. Shen, M. Cavazzini, A. Ruseckas, G.A Turnbull, I.D.W. Samuel, J. Clark & D.G. Lidzey, ‘Intermolecular states in organic dye dispersions: Excimers vs aggregates’, J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 8380-8389 (‘hot article’, inside front cover)

16) J.-H. Kim, J.H. Smit, D.K. Prusty, A.J. Musser, N. Tombros, A. Herrmann & M. Kwak, ‘Ultrasensitive detection of oligonucleotides: Single-walled carbon nanotube transistor assembled by DNA block copolymer’, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2017, 17, 5175-5180

15) S. Lukman, K. Chen, J. Hodgkiss, D. Turban, N. Hine, S. Dong, J. Wu, N. Greenham & A.J. Musser, ‘Tuning the role of charge-transfer states in intramolecular singlet exciton fission through side-group engineering’, Nature Communications 2016, 13622

14) R.T. Grant, P. Michetti, A.J. Musser, P. Gregoire, T. Virgili, E. Vella, M. Cavazzini, K. Georgiou, F. Galeotti, C. Clark, J. Clark, C. Silva & D.G. Lidzey, ‘Efficient radiative pumping of polaritons in a strong coupled microcavity by a fluorescent molecular dye’, Adv. Opt. Mater. 2016, 4, 1615-1623

13) H. Stern, A.J. Musser & R.H. Friend, ‘Singlet exciton fission in solution’ (review article), in Photochemistry 2016; Vol. 43, 270–285

12) A.J. Musser*, M. Liebel*, C. Schnedermann, T. Wende, T. Kehoe, A. Rao & P. Kukura, ‘Evidence for conical intersection dynamics mediating ultrafast singlet exciton fission’, Nature Physics 2015, 11, 352-357

11) A.J. Musser, M. Maiuri, D. Brida, G. Cerullo, R.H. Friend & J. Clark, ‘The nature of singlet exciton fission in carotenoid aggregates’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5130-5139

10) S. Lukman, A.J. Musser, K. Chen, S. Athanasopoulos, C.K. Yong, Z. Zeng, Q. Ye, C. Chi, J.M. Hodgkiss, J. Wu, R.H. Friend & N.C. Greenham, ‘Tuneable singlet exciton fission and triplet–triplet annihilation in an orthogonal pentacene dimer’, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 5452-5461

9) H. Stern, A.J. Musser, S. Gelinas, P. Parkinson, L.M. Herz, M.J. Bruzek, J. Anthony, R.H. Friend & B.J. Walker, ‘Identification of a triplet pair intermediate in singlet exciton fission in solution’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2015, 112, 7656-7661

8) A.J. Musser, M. Al-Hashimi, M. Maiuri, D. Brida, M. Heeney, G. Cerullo, R.H. Friend & J. Clark, ‘Activated singlet exciton fission in a semiconducting polymer‘, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12747-12754

7) B.J. Walker, A.J. Musser, D. Beljonne & R.H. Friend, ‘Singlet exciton fission in solution’, Nature Chemistry 2013, 5, 1019-1024

6) J. Zimmermann, M. Kwak, A.J. Musser & A. Herrmann, ‘Amphiphilic DNA block copolymers: Nucleic acid-polymer hybrid materials for diagnostics and biomedicine’, Methods in Molecular Biology: Bioconjugation Protocols, 2nd Ed., 2011, 751, 239

5) M. Kwak, J. Gao, D.K. Prusty, A.J. Musser, V.A. Markov, N. Tombros, M.C.A. Stuart, W.R. Browne, E.J. Boekema, G. ten Brinke, H.T. Jonkman, B.J. van Wees, M.A. Loi & A. Herrmann, ‘DNA block copolymer doing it all: From selection to self-assembly of semiconducting carbon nanotubes’, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 30, 3206

4) L-T.T. Nguyen, A.J. Musser, E.J. Vorenkamp, E. Polushkin, G. ten Brinke & A.J. Schouten, ‘Annealing-induced changes in double-brush Langmuir-Blodgett films of alpha-helical diblock copolypeptides’, Langmuir 2010, 26, 14073

3) M. Kwak, I.J. Minten, M. Anaya, A.J. Musser, M. Brasch, R.J.M. Nolte, K. Mullen, J.J.L.M. Cornelissen & A. Herrmann, ‘Virus-like particles templated by DNA micelles: A general method for loading virus nanocarriers’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7834

2) M. Kwak, A.J. Musser, J. Lee & A. Herrmann, ‘DNA-functionalised blend micelles: Mix and fix polymeric hybrid nanostructures’, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 4935

1) M. Anaya, M. Kwak, A.J. Musser, K. Mullen & A. Herrmann, ‘Tunable hydrophobicity in DNA micelles: Design, synthesis, and characterization of a new family of DNA amphiphiles’, Chem. – A Eur. J. 2010, 16, 12852