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68) K. Majumder, S. Mukherjee, J. Park, W. Kim*, A.J. Musser* & S. Patil*. ‘The Acetylene Bridge in Intramolecular Singlet Fission: A Boon or A Nuisance?’, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, in press.
67) Y. Xu, J. Kim, S. Ramakrishnan, T. Chen, X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, A.J. Musser, Q. Yu*, ‘Unraveling the Formation Mechanisms of Highly Oriented Tin Perovskite with a 3D-over-2D Heterostructure’, ACS Energy Letters 2024, 9, 4734-4745.
66) J. Kim#, D.C. Bain#, V. Ding†, K. Majumder, D. Windemuller, J. Feng, J. Wu, S. Patil, J. Anthony, W. Kim & A.J. Musser*, ‘Coherent photoexcitation of entangled triplet pair states‘, Nature Chemistry 2024, 16, 1680–1686. # denotes equal contribution
65) M. Andrzejak, G. Mazur, A.J. Musser, P. Petelenz* & T. Skóra, ‘Properties of Coherent Vibrational Wavepackets Critically Depend on the Method of Their Generation’, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024, 128, 24, 9837–9846.
64) W. Kim#, N.A. Panjwani#*, K. C. Krishnapriya, K. Majumder, J. Dasgupta, R. Bittl, S. Patil* & A.J. Musser*, ‘Heterogeneous Singlet Fission in a Covalently Linked Pentacene Dimer‘, Cell Reports Physical Science 2024, 5, 102045. # denotes equal contribution
63) S.M. Griffin†#, D.C. Bain#, A. Halder, S. Tsangari†, P.J. Milner & A.J. Musser*, ‘Unveiling Long-Lived Dual Emission in a Tetraphenylethylene-Based Metal-Organic Framework’, MRS Communications 2024, https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-024-00574-z. Early Career Materials Researcher collection # denotes equal contribution
62) S. Debnath, P. Ramkissoon, A.L. Vonder Haar, U. Salzner, T.A. Smith*, A.J. Musser* & S. Patil*, ‘A Twist in Biphthalimide-Based Chromophores Enables Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence‘, Chemistry of Materials 2024, 36, 4607–4615.
61) Y. Sasaki, K. Georgiou, S. Wang, D.G. Bossanyi, R. Jayaprakash, N. Yanai, N. Kimizuka, D.G. Lidzey, A.J. Musser & J. Clark*. ‘Radiative pumping in a strongly coupled microcavity filled with a neat molecular film showing excimer emission‘, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2024, 26, 14745-14753.
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, 12, 2302387. (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. # denotes equal contribution
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*. ‘Kinetic 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. # denotes equal contribution
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.
48) X. Xu#, A.L. Vonder Haar#, R. Yoshioka, Q. Zhang, S. Vasylevskyi, A.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.
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.
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)
44) X. Xu, S. Gunasekaran, S. Renken, L. Ripani, D. Schollmeyer, W. Kim, M. 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.
43) 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.
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)
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.
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
39) A.M. First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains‘, J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 084103
38) R. Optical projection and spatial separation of spin entangled triplet-pairs from the S1 (21Ag-) state of pi-conjugated systems‘, Chem 2020, 6, 2826-2851
37) 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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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