2015 Publications

• Shi, Y.; Frattarelli, D.; Watanabe, N.; Facchetti, A.; Cariati, E.; Righetto, S.; Tordin, E.; Zuccaccia, C.; Macchioni, A.; Wegener, S.L.; Stern, C.L.; Ratner, M.A.; Marks, T.J. Ultra-High Response Multi-Twisted Electro-Optic Chromophores:  Influence of πSystem Elongation and Interplanar Torsion on Hyperpolarizability, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2015, in press.

• Yu, X,; Smith, J.; Zhou, N.; Zeng, Li.; Guo,P.; Xia, Y.; Alvarez, A.;  Aghion, S.; Lin, H.; Yu, J.; Chang,R.P.H.; Michael J. Bedzyk, M.J.; Ferragut, R.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A. Spray-combustion synthesis: efficient solution route to high-performance oxide transistors, PNAS, 2015, 112, 3217-3222. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501548112.

• Zhou, N.; Kim, M.-G.; Loser, S.; Smith, J.; Yoshida, H.; Guo, X.; Song, C.K.; Jin, H.; Yoon, S.M.; Freeman, A.J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks. T.J.  Amorphous Oxide Alloys as Interfacial Layers with Broadly Tunable Work Functions for Organic Photovoltaic Cells, PNAS, 2015, 112, 7897-7902. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508578112

• Howell, S.L.; Jariwala, D.; Wu, C.-C.; Sangwan, V.K.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Lauhon, L.J. Investigation of Band-Offsets at Monolayer-Multilayer MoS2 Junctions by Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy, NanoLetters, 2015, 15, 2278–2284. DOI: 10.1021/nl504311p.

• Savoie, B.M.; Dunaisky, S.; Marks, T.J.; Ratner, M.A. The Scope and Limitations of Ternary Blend Organic Photovoltaics, Adv. Energy Mater., 2015, 5. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400891.

• Sanguineti, A.; Turrisi, R.; Sassi, M.; Patriarca, G.E.; Salamone, M.M.; Ruffo, R.; Vaccaro, G.; Meinardi, F.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Beverina, L.; Stokes Shift/Emission Efficiency Trade-Off in Donor-Acceptor Perylene Monoimide Dyes for Luminescent Solar Concentrators, J. Mater. Chem.  A, 2015, 3, 8045-8054. DOI: 10.1039/c5ta01134e.

• Zolper, T.J.; Jungk, M.; Marks, T.J.; Chung, Y.-W.; Wang, Q.; Correlationg of Polysiloxane Molecular Structure to Shear-Thinning Power-Law Exponent using Elastohydrodynamic Film Thickness Measurements,  J. Tribology, 2015, 137, 031503-1 – 10.

• Hartnett, P.E.; Dyar, S.M.; Margulies, E.A.; Shoer, L.E.; Cook, A.W.; Marks, T.J.; Wasielewski, M.R. Long-lived Charge Carrier Generation in Ordered Films of a Covalent Perylenediimide-Diketo-pyrrolopyrrole-Perylenediimide Molecule, Chem. Science, 2015 ,6, 402-411. DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02551B.

• Wood, J.D.; Wells, S.A.; Jariwala, D.; Chen, K.-S.; Cho, E.; Sangwan, V.K.; Liu, X.; Lauhon, L.J.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Effective Passivation of Exfoliated Black Phosphorus Transistors with Respect to Ambient Degradation, Nano Letters 2015, 14, 6964–6970. DOI: 10.1021/nl5032293.

• Sangwan, V.K.; Jariwala, D.; Kim, I.S.; Chen, K.-S.; Marks, T.J.; Lauhon, L.J.; Hersam, M.C.;  Gate Tunable Memristive Phenomena Mediated by Grain Boundaries in Single-Layer MoS2, Nature Nanotech.. 2015, 10, 403–406. DOI:10.1038/nnano.2015.56.

• Facchetti, A.; Ortiz, R.P.; Marks, T.J.; Self-Assembled Mono and Multilayers for Functional Opto-Electronic Devices, in Supramolecular Materials for Opto-Electronics, Koch, N., Ed. RSC Smart Materials Series, 2015, 119-172.   DOI:10.1039/9781782626947.

• Jariwala, D.; Sangwan, V.K.; Ted Seo, J.-W.; Xu, W.; Smith, J.; Kim, C.H.; Lauhon, L.J.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Large-area, low-voltage, anti-ambipolar heterojunctions from solution-processed semiconductors, 2015, NanoLett., 2015, 15, 416–421. DOI: 10.1021/nl5037484.

• Hsieh, H.-H.; Yu, X.; Xia, Y.; Sheets, C.W.; Hsiao, C.-C.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Novel Approaches for Fabricating High-Performance Low-Temperature Solution-Processed Metal Oxide Transistors, SID Digest 2014, 45, 427-430. DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-0159.2014.tb00115.x.

• Jackson, N.E.; Savoie, B.M.; Marks, T.J., Chen, L.X.; Ratner, M.A.; The Next Breakthrough for Organic Photovolatics? J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6, 77–84.

• Lohr, T.L.; Li, Z.; Marks, T.J.; Thermodynamically Leveraged Tandem Catalysis for Ester RC(O)O-R’Bond Hydrogenolysis. Scope and Mechanism, ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 3675–3679.DOI:10.1021/acscatal.5b00950.

• Stalzer, M.M.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Supported Single-Site Organometallic Catalysts for the Synthesis of Valuable Polyolefins, Catalysis Letters, 2015, 145, 3-14. DOI:10.1007/s10562-014-1427-x.

• Gu, W.; Stalzer, M.M.; Nicholas, C.P.; Bhattacharyya, A.; Motta, A.; Gallagher, J.R.; Zhang, G.; Miller, J.T.; Kobayashi, T.; Pruski, M.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Benzene Selectivity in Competitive Arene Hydrogenation: Effects of Single-Site Catalyst···Super-Acidic Oxide Surface Binding Geometry, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6770–6780. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03254.

• Gong, M.; Shastry, T.A.; Cui, Q.; Kohlmeyer, R.; Luck, K.A.; Rowberg, A.; Marks, T.J.; Durstock, M.F.; Zhao, H.; Hersam, M.C.; Ren, S.; Understanding Charge Transfer in Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 15, 7428–7435. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01536.

• Mouat, A.R.; George, C.; Kobayashi, T.; Pruski, M.; van Duyne, R.P.; Marks, T.J.; Stair, P.C. Highly Dispersed SiOx/Al2O3 Catalysts Illuminate the Reactivity of Isolated Silanol Sites, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 13346–13351. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201505452.

• Smith, J.; Zeng, L.; Khanal, R.; Stallings, K.; Facchetti, A.F.; Medvedeva, J.E.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Marks, T.J.: Cation Size Effects on the Electronic and Structural Properties of Solution-Processed In-X-O Thin Films, Adv. Electron. Mater. 2015, 1: 1500146.  DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201500146.

• Heitzer, H.M.; Marks, T.J.; Ratner, M.A.; Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Molecular Materials for Hi Capacitance Organic Dielectric Applications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 , 7189–7196 . DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03301.

• Bergfield, J.P. Heitzer, H.M.; Van Dyck, C.; Marks, T.J.; Ratner, M.A.; Harnessing Quantum Interference in Molecular Dielectric Materials, ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 6412–6418. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02042.

• McMorrow, J.J.; Walker, A.R.; Sangwan, V.K.; Jariwala, D.; Hoffman, E.; Everaerts, K.; Facchetti, A.; Hersam, M.C.; Marks, T.J.; Solution-Processed Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics on Template-Stripped Metal Substrates, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfac., 2015, 7, 26360–26366. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07744.

• Zhou, N.; Prabakaran, K.; Lee, B.; Chnag, S.H.; Harutyunyan, B.; Guo, P.; Butler, M.R.; Timalsina, A.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Ratner, M.A.; Vegiraju, S.; Yan, S.L.; Wu, C.-G.; Chang, R.P.H.; Facchetti, A.; Chen, M. – C.; Marks, T.J.; Metal-Free Tetrathienoacene Sensitizers for High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, J.Am.Chem. Soc. 2015, 137,4414–4423. DOI: 10.1021/ja513254z.

• Youn, B.J.; Prabakaran, K.; Emery, J.D.; Leever, B.J.; Kewalramani, S.; Lou, S.J.; Zhang, S.; Lin, Y.-J.; Kim, C.; Chen, P.-S.; Stern, C.; Chang, W.-C.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Chen, L.X.; Chen, M.-C.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Diperfluorophenyl Fused Thiophene Semiconductors for n-Type Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFTs), Advan. Electron. Mater.,2015, 1, 1500098. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201500098

• Lohr, T.L.; Marks, T.J.; Recent Advances in Orthogonal Tandem Catalysis, Nature Chem., 2015, 7, 477–482. DOI: 10.1038/NCHEM.226.

• Fallon, K.J.; Yaacobi-Gross, N.; Ashraf, R.S.; Freeman, D.; Palgrave, R.G.; Al-Hashimi, M.; Marks, T.J.; McCulloch, I.; Anthopoulos, T.D.; Bronstein, H.; A novel Nature-inspired conjugated polymer for high performance transistors and solar cells, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 5148–5154. DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542.

• Senanayak, S.; Sangwan, V.; McMorrow, J.; Everaerts, K.; Chen, Z.; Facchetti, A.; Hersam, M.; Marks, T.J.; Narayan, K.; Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics for High-Speed, Low-Voltage Polymer      Logic Circuits, Advan. Electron. Mater. 2015, 1, 1500226. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201500226.

• Gao, Y.; Mouat, A.R.; Motta, A.; Macchioni, A.; Zuccaccia, C.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Bimetallic Pyridyl-Amido Hafnium Polymerization Catalysts for Enhanced α-Olefin Copolymerization, ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 5272–5282.  DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b00788.

• Yu, X.; Zeng, L.; Zhou, N.; Guo, P.; Shi, F.; Buchholz, D.B.; Yu, J.; Dravid, V.P.; Chang, R.P.H; Bedzyk, M.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Ultra-Flexible, “Invisible” Thin Film Transistors Enabled by Amorphous Metal Oxide/Polymer Channel Layer Blends, Advan. Mater. 2015, 27, 2390–2399. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201405400.

• Liu, S.; McInnis, J.P.; Invergo, A.M.; Mouat, A.R.; Motta, A.; Delferro, M; Marks, T.J.; Distinctive Cooperative Effects of Diastereomeric Bimetallic Titanium Catalysts in Olefin (Co)Polymerization, 2015, submitted for publication.

• Schneider, A.M.; Lu, L.; Manley, E.; Zeng, T.; Xu, T.; Marks, T.J.; Chen, L.X.; Yu, L.; Wide bandgap OPV polymers based on pyridinonedithiophene unit with efficiency, Chemical Science. 2015, 6, 4860-4866. DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01427A

• Butler, M.R.; Movaghar, B.; Marks, T.J.; Ratner, M.A.; Electron Pairing in Designer Materials: A Novel Strategy for a Negative Effective Hubbard U, Nano Letters, 2015, 15, 1597–1602.  DOI: 10.1021/nl5041176.

• Geier, M.L.; McMorrow, J.J.; Xu, W.; Zhu, J.; Kim, C.H.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Complementary Static Random Access Memory, Nature Nanotech., 2015, 10, 944-948. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.197

• Shi, Y.; He, G.S.; Lou, A,; Baev, A.; Swihart, M.T.; Prasad, P.N.; Marks, T.J.,  Cooperative Co pling of Cyanine and Tictoid Twisted-π-Systems to Amplify Organic Chromophore Cubic Nonlinearities. J.Am.Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 4622–4625. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01042.

• Peter, M.; Marks, T.J.; Platinum Metal-Free Catalysts for Selective Soft Oxidative Methane → Ethylene Coupling. Scope and Mechanistic Observations, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15234–15240. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b09939.

• Zhou, N.; Vegirajum S.; Yu, X.; Manley, E.F.; Butler, M.R.; Leonardi, M.; Guo, P.; Zhao, W.; Hu, Y.; Prabakaran, K.; Chang, R.P.H.; Ratner, M; Chen, L.X.; Facchetti, A.; Chen, M.-C.; Marks, T.J., Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) Functionalized Tetrathienothiophene (TTA) Small Molecules for Organic Thin Film Transistors and Organic Photovoltaic Cells, J. Materials Chem. C. 2015, 3, 8932 – 8941. DOI: 10.1039/C5TC01348H.

• Zhou, N.; Guo, X.; Ortiz, R.P.; Harschneck, T.; Manley, E.F.; Lou, S.J.; Hartnett, P.E.; Yu, X.; Horowitz, N.E.; Burrezo, P.M.; Aldrich, T.J.; Lopez Navarrette, J.T.; Wasielewski, M.; Chen, L.X.; Chang, R.P.H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Marked Consequences of Systematic Oligothiophene Catenation in Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione and Bithiopheneimide Photovoltaic Copolymers,      J.Am.Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12565–12579. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06462.

• Shi, Y.; Frattarelli, D.; Watanabe, N.; Facchetti, A.; Cariati, E.; Righetto, S.; Tordin, E.; Zuccaccia,        C.; Macchioni, A.; Wegener, S.L.; Stern, C.L.; Ratner, M.A.; Marks, T.J. Ultra-High Response Multi-Twisted Electro-Optic Chromophores:  Influence of πSystem Elongation and Interplanar Torsion on Hyperpolarizability, J.Am.Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12521–12538. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04636.

• Hao, F.; Stoumpos, C.C.; Guo, P.; Zhou, N.; Marks, T.J.; Chang, R.P.H.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Solvent-mediated crystallization of CH3NH3SnI3 films for heterojunction depleted perovskite solar cells, J.Am.Chem.Soc. 2015, 137, 11445–11452.DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06658.

• Zhu, J.; Kang, J.; Kang, J.; Jariwala, D.; Wood, J.D.; Seo, J.-W.T.; Chen, K.-S.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Solution-Processed Dielectrics Based on Thickness-Sorted Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets, NanoLett. 2015, 15, 7029–7036. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03075.

• Klet, R.C.; Tussupbayev, S.; Borycz, J.; Gallagher, J.R.; Stalzer, M.M.; Miller, J.T.; Gagliardi, L.; Hupp, J.T.; Marks, T.J.; Cramer, C.J.; Delferro, M.; Farha, O.; Single-Site Organozirconium Polymerization Catalyst Embedded in a Metal–Organic Framework, J.Am.Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15680–15683. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11350.

• Lohr, T.L.; Li, Z.; Marks, T.J.; Selective Ether/Ester C-O Cleavage of an Acetylated Lignin Model via Tandem Catalysis, ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 7004–7007.  DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b01972.

• Shu, D.; Mouat, A.R.; Stephenson, C.J.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Ligand-Unsymmetrical Phenoxyiminato Dinickel Catalyst for High Molecular Weight Long-Chain Branched Polyethylenes, MacroLetters, 2015, 4, 1297–1301. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00781.