Faculty News Department of Chemistry · Page 15 Faculty News Liz Young (Cont'd) Recent Publications include: Oldacre, A. O., Young, E.R.* “Electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer of an anthracene-based azo dye.” RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 14804-14811. Büttner, P.; Scheler, F.; Pointer, C.; Döhler, D.; Barr, M.K.S.; Koroleva, A.; Pankin, D.; Hatada, R.; Flege, S.; Manshina, A.; Young, E.R.*; Mínguez-Bacho, I.*, Bachmann, J.* “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, 12, 8747-8756. Martin, K.L; Smith, J.N.; Young, E.R*; Carter, K.R.* “Synthetic Emission Tuning of Carborane-Containing Poly(dihexylfluorene)s.” Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 7951-7960 Pascual-Leone, N.; Conklin, E.; Khomein, P.; Andrade, G.A.; Rosenthal, J.*; Young, E.R.* “Role of Electrostatics in Influencing the Pathway by Which the Excited State [Ru(bpy)3]2+ Is Deactivation by Ferrocene Derivatives” J. Phys Chem. A. 2019, 123, 7673-7682. Ly, J.; Martin, K.; Thomas, S.; Yamashita, M.; Yu, B.; Pointer, C.; Yamada, H.; Carter, K.R.; Parkin, S.; Zhang, L.; Bredas, J.-L.*; Young, E.R.*; Briseno, A.L.* “Short Excited-State Lifetimes Enable Photo-Oxidatively Stable Rubrene Derivatives” J. Phys Chem. A. 2019, 123, 7558-7566. Strahan, J.; Popere, B.C.; Khomein, P.; Pointer, C.A.; Martin, S.M.; Oldacre, A.O.; Thayumanavan, S.; Young, E.R.* “Modulating Absorption and Charge Transfer in Bodipy-Carbazole Donor-Acceptor Dyads through Molecular Design.” Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 8488-8501. Oldacre, A.O.; Pointer, C.A.; Martin, S.M.; Kemmerer, A.; Young, E.R.* “Anthracene-based azo dyes for photo-induced protoncoupled electron transfer.” Chem. Comm. 2019, 55, 5875-5877. Martin, K.A.; Krishnamurthy, A.; Strahan, J.; Young, E.R.*; Carter, K.R.* “Excited state characterization of carboranecontaining poly(dihexyl fluorene)s" J. Phys Chem. A 2019, 123, 1701-1709. In addition, Young and Prof. Gary F. Moore from Arizona State University organized the 29th Winter Inter-American Photochemical Society Conference that took place in Sarasota, Florida from Jan 2-5, 2020. The conference attracted over 100 participants who joined from primarily undergraduate programs, research-intensive universities and several National Labs. Participants came from the United States, as well as Canada and South America. The conference program included a line-up of invited speakers and two evening poster sessions. Invited speakers covered a large range of topics in photochemistry from photo-redox catalysis to charge transport through molecular, supramolecular systems, and materials systems. They shared examples in which spectroscopy was used for such things as identifying forgeries in art and understanding what gives beer its skunky taste. A group of speakers discussed biologically-inspired work including understanding how Photosystem II functions--to how Nitrogenases fix nitrogen. Another group of researchers used MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) to harvest light and promote energy and/or electron transfer. New spectroscopic techniques including Femtosecond M-edge XANES and time-resolved X-ray Free Electron Lasers were presented. Participants engaged in lively discussions at the evening poster sessions from which nine students and post docs received poster awards for their exciting work.
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