2012 Publications

• Zhu, Q.;Wegener, S.L.; Xie, C.; Uche, O.; Neurock, M.; Marks, T.J. Sulfur as a selective ‘soft’ oxidant for catalytic methane conversion probed by experiment and theory. Nature Chem., 2012, 5, 104-109.

• Weberski, M.P.; Chen, C.; Delferro, M; Marks, T.J. Ligand Steric and Fluoroalkyl Substituent Effects on Enchainment Cooperativity and Stability in Bimetallic Nickel (II) Polymerization Catalysts. Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 10715-10732

• Weberski, M.P.; Chen, C.; Delferro, M.; Zuccaccia, C.; Macchioni, A.; Marks, T.J. Suppression of β-Hydride Chain Transfer in Nickel (II)-Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization via Weak Fluorocarbon Ligand–Product Interactions. Organometallics, 2012, 31, 3773-3789

• Hennek, J.W.; Kim, M.G.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Facchetti, A; Marks, T.J. Exploratory Combustion Synthesis: Amorphous Indium Yttrium Oxide for Thin-Film Transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 9593-9596

• Youn, J.; Dholakia, G.R.; Hennek, J.W.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J. Influence of Thiol Self‐Assembled Monolayer Processing on Bottom‐Contact Thin‐Film Transistors Based on n‐Type Organic Semiconductors. Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22, 1856-1869

• Zhou, N.; Guo, X; Ortiz, R.P.; Li, S.; Zhang, S.; Chang, R.P.H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks T.J. Bithiophene Imide and Benzodithiophene Copolymers for Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Materials, 2012, 24, 2242-2248

• Fredin, L.A.; Li, Z.; Ratner, M.A.; Lanagan, M.T.; Marks, T.J. Enhanced Energy Storage and Suppressed Dielectric Loss in Oxide Core–Shell–Polyolefin Nanocomposites by Moderating Internal Surface Area and Increasing Shell Thickness. Advanced Materials, 2012

• Li, H.; Zhu, Z.; Fahrenbach, A. C.; Savoie, B. M.; Ke, C.; Barnes, J. C.; Lei, J.; Zhao, Y.-L.; Lilley, L. M.; Marks, T. J.; Ratner, M. A.; Stoddart, J. F. Mechanical Bond-Induced Radical Stabilization. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 135 , 456-467.

• Servaites, J. D.; Savoie, B. M.; Brink, J. B.; Marks, T. J.; Ratner, M. A. Modeling geminate pair dissociation in organic solar cells: high power conversion efficiencies achieved with moderate optical bandgaps. Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5, 8343-8350.

• Arago, J.; Ponce, O. R.; Nieto-Ortega, B.; Hernandez, V.; Casado, J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J.; Viruela, P. M.; Orti, E.; Lopez, N. J. T., Carbonyl-functionalized quaterthiophenes: a study of the vibrational Raman and electronic absorption/emission properties guided by theoretical calculations. Chemphyschem, 2012, 13, 168-76.

• Atesin, A. C.; Ray, N. A.; Stair, P. C.; Marks, T. J., Etheric C-O Bond Hydrogenolysis Using a Tandem Lanthanide Triflate/Supported Palladium Nanoparticle Catalyst System. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 14682-14685.

• Boudreault, P.-L. T.; Hennek, J. W.; Loser, S.; Ortiz, R. P.; Eckstein, B. J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., New Semiconductors Based on 2,2′-Ethyne-1,2-diylbis[3-(alk.-1-yn-1-yl)thiophene] for Organic Opto-Electronics. Chem. Mater., 2012, 24, 2929-2942.

• Fredin, L. A.; Li, Z.; Ratner, M. A.; Lanagan, M. T.; Marks, T. J., Enhanced Energy Storage and Suppressed Dielectric Loss in Oxide Core-Shell-Polyolefin Nanocomposites by Moderating Internal Surface Area and Increasing Shell Thickness. Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.), 2012, 24, 5946-5953.

• Gates, B. C.; Marks, T. J., Defragmenting Catalysis. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 11644-11645.

• Gladysz, J. A.; Ball, Z. T.; Bertrand, G.; Blum, S. A.; Dong, V. M.; Dorta, R.; Hahn, F. E.; Humphrey, M. G.; Jones, W. D.; Klosin, J.; Manners, I.; Marks, T. J.; Mayer, J. M.; Rieger, B.; Ritter, J. C.; Sattelberger, A. P.; Schomaker, J. M.; Yam, V. W.-W., Organometallics Roundtable 2011. Organometallics, 2012, 31, 1-18.

•  Gladysz, J. A.; Bochmann, M.; Gabbai, F. P.; Lichtenberger, D. L.; Liebeskind, L. S.; Marks, T. J., The Inaugural 2012 Organometallics Symposium. Organometallics, 2012, 31, 7303-7305.

• Guo, X.; Zhou, N.; Lou, S. J.; Hennek, J. W.; Ponce, O. R.; Butler, M. R.; Boudreault, P.-L. T.; Strzalka, J.; Morin, P.-O.; Leclerc, M.; Lopez, N. J. T.; Ratner, M. A.; Chen, L. X.; Chang, R. P. H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Bithiopheneimide-dithienosilole/dithienogermole copolymers for efficient solar cells: information from structure-property-device performance correlations and comparison to thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione analogues. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 18427-18439.

• Hennek, J. W.; Kim, M.-G.; Kanatzidis, M. G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Exploratory Combustion Synthesis: Amorphous Indium Yttrium Oxide for Thin-Film Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 9593-9596.

• Hennek, J. W.; Xia, Y.; Everaerts, K.; Hersam, M. C.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Reduced contact resistance in inkjet printed high-performance amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide transistors. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2012, 4, 1614-1619.

• Huang, H.; Chen, Z.; Ortiz, R. P.; Newman, C.; Usta, H.; Lou, S.; Youn, J.; Noh, Y.-Y.; Baeg, K.-J.; Chen, L. X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T., Combining Electron-Neutral Building Blocks with Intramolecular “Conformational Locks” Affords Stable, High-Mobility P- and N-Channel Polymer Semiconductors. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 10966-10973.

• Kim, M.-G.; Hennek, J. W.; Kim, H. S.; Kanatzidis, M. G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Delayed Ignition of Autocatalytic Combustion Precursors: Low-Temperature Nanomaterial Binder Approach to Electronically Functional Oxide Films. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 11583-11593.

• Loser, S.; Miyauchi, H.; Hennek, J. W.; Smith, J.; Huang, C.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., A “zig-zag” naphthodithiophene core for increased efficiency in solution-processed small molecule solar cells. Chem. Commun. (Cambridge, U. K.), 2012, 48, 8511-8513.

• Ortiz, R. P.; Herrera, H.; Seoane, C.; Segura, J. L.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Rational Design of Ambipolar Organic Semiconductors: Is Core Planarity Central to Ambipolarity in Thiophene-Naphthalene Semiconductors? Chem. – Eur. J., 2012, 18, 532-543, S532/1-S532/11.

• Ramanan, C.; Smeigh, A. L.; Anthony, J. E.; Marks, T. J.; Wasielewski, M. R., Competition between Singlet Fission and Charge Separation in Solution-Processed Blend Films of 6,13-Bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene with Sterically-Encumbered Perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide)s. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 386-397.

• Sangwan, V. K.; Ortiz, R. P.; Alaboson, J. M. P.; Emery, J. D.; Bedzyk, M. J.; Lauhon, L. J.; Marks, T. J.; Hersam, M. C., Fundamental Performance Limits of Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors Achieved Using Hybrid Molecular Dielectrics. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 7480-7488.

• Schlitz, R. A.; Ha, Y.-g.; Marks, T. J.; Lauhon, L. J., Quantitative Statistical Analysis of Dielectric Breakdown in Zirconia-Based Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics. ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 4452-4460.

•  Twist, C. P.; Seyam, A. M.; Chen, C.; Kim, M.-G.; Weberski, M. P., Jr.; Ren, N.; Marks, T. J.; Chung, Y.-W.; Wang, Q. J., Molecularly-Engineered Lubricants: Synthesis, Activation, and Tribological Characterization of Silver Complexes as Lubricant Additives. Adv. Eng. Mater., 2012, 14, 101-105.

• Usta, H.; Kim, C.; Wang, Z.; Lu, S.; Huang, H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Anthracenedicarboximide-based semiconductors for air-stable, n-channel organic thin-film transistors: materials design, synthesis, and structural characterization. J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 4459-4472.

• Valle, B.; Loser, S.; Hennek, J. W.; DeGeorge, V.; Klosterman, C.; Andrews, J. H.; Singer, K. D.; Marks, T. J., Spectral aspects of cavity tuned absorption in organic photovoltaic films. Opt Express, 2012, 20, A954-63.

• Walter, S. R.; Youn, J.; Emery, J. D.; Kewalramani, S.; Hennek, J. W.; Bedzyk, M. J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J.; Geiger, F. M., In-Situ Probe of Gate Dielectric-Semiconductor Interfacial Order in Organic Transistors: Origin and Control of Large Performance Sensitivities. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 11726-11733.

• Wegener, S. L.; Marks, T. J.; Stair, P. C., Design Strategies for the Molecular Level Synthesis of Supported Catalysts. Acc. Chem. Res., 2012, 45, 206-214.

• Williams, L. A.; Guo, N.; Motta, A.; Delferro, M.; Fragala, I. L.; Miller, J. T.; Marks, T. J., Surface structural-chemical characterization of a single-site d0 heterogeneous arene hydrogenation catalyst having 100% active sites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., Early Ed. 2012, 1-6.

• Yi, F.; Ou, F.; Liu, B.; Huang, Y.; Marks, T. J.; Ho, S.-T., Modeling and design of high-speed ultralow voltage GaAs electro-optic modulators enabled by transparent conducting materials. J. Lightwave Technol., 2012, 30, 1985-1993.

• Yoon, S. M.; Lou, S. J.; Loser, S.; Smith, J.; Chen, L. X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Fluorinated Copper Phthalocyanine Nanowires for Enhancing Interfacial Electron Transport in Organic Solar Cells. Nano Lett., 2012, 6315-6321.

• Youn, J.; Dholakia, G. R.; Huang, H.; Hennek, J. W.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Influence of Thiol Self-Assembled Monolayer Processing on Bottom-Contact Thin-Film Transistors Based on n-Type Organic Semiconductors. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 1856-1869.

• Youn, J.; Huang, P.-Y.; Huang, Y.-W.; Chen, M.-C.; Lin, Y.-J.; Huang, H.; Ortiz, R. P.; Stern, C.; Chung, M.-C.; Feng, C.-Y.; Chen, L.-H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Versatile α,ω-Disubstituted Tetrathienoacene Semiconductors for High Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 48-60.

• Zhou, N.; Guo, X.; Ortiz, R. P.; Li, S.; Zhang, S.; Chang, R. P. H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J., Polymer Solar Cells: Bithiophene Imide and Benzodithiophene Copolymers for Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.), 2012, 24, 2242-2248.

• Zolper, T.; Li, Z.; Chen, C.; Jungk, M.; Marks, T.; Chung, Y.-W.; Wang, Q., Lubrication Properties of Polyalphaolefin and Polysiloxane Lubricants: Molecular Structure-Tribology Relationships. Tribol. Lett., 2012, 48, 355-365.