2017 Publications

• Lohr, T.L.; Mouat, A.R.; Schweitzer, N.M.; Stair, P.C.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Efficient Catalytic Greenhouse Gas-Free Hydrogen and Aldehyde Formation from Aqueous Alcohol Solutions, 2017, Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 1558-1562. DOI: 10.1039/C6EE03739A.

• Jariwala, D.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Mixed-dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures, Nature Materials, 2017, 16, 170-181. DOI:10.1038/nmat4703

• Jiang, X.F.; Huang, H.; Chai, Y.-F.; Yu, S.-Y.; Lohr, T.L.; Lai, W.; Pan, Y.J.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Facile Hydrolytic Cleavage of Both CS2 Carbon-Sulfur Bonds by Multinuclear Pd(II) Complexes at Room Temperature, Nature Chemistry, 2017, 9, 188-193. DOI:10.1038/nchem.2637.

• Desanker, M.; He, X.; Lu, J.; Liu, P.; Pickens, D.B.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Chung, Y.-W.; Wang, Q.J.; An Alkyl-Cyclen as an Effective Sulphur- and Phosphorus-Free Heterocyclic Friction Modifier for Boundary Lubrication, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 9118–9125. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15608.

• Tan, J.M.; Liu, S.; Gulec, A.; Crosby, L.A.; Drake, T.L.; Wang, C.; Schweitzer, N.M.; Delferro, M.; Marks, L.D.; Marks, T.J.; Stair, P.C.; Strategy for Stabilizing Single-Atom and Small Domain Platinum via Organometallic Chemisorption and Atomic Layer Deposition, Organometallics, 2017, 36, 818–828. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00869.

• Liao, H.-C.; Guo, P.; Hsu, C.-P.; Lin, M.; Wang, B.; Zeng, L.; Huang, W.; Su, W.-F.; Bedzyk, M. J.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Facchetti, A.; Chang, R. P. H.; Kanatzidis, M. G.; Marks, T. J.; Enhanced Efficiency of Hot-Cast Large-Area Planar Perovskite Solar Cells/Modules having Controlled Chloride Incorporation, Advanced Energy Materials, 2017, 7, 1600502. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201601660.

• Eckstein, B.J.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Zhou, N.; Manley, E.F.; Smith, J.; Timalsina, A.; Chang, R.P.H.; Chen, L.X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J. Buta-1,3-diyne Based π-Conjugated Polymers for Organic Transistors and Solar Cells, Macromolecules, 2017, 50,1430–1441. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02702.

• Loser, S.; Lou, S.J.; Savoie, B.M.; Bruns, C.J.; Timalsina, A.; Leonardi, M.J.; Harschneck, T.; Turrisi, R.; Zhou, N.; Stern, C.L.; Sarjeant, A.A.; Facchetti, A.; Chang, R.P.H.; Stupp, S.I.; Ratner, M.A.; Chen, L.X.; Marks, T.J.; Structure-Property Relationships in Heteroacene – Diketopyrrolopyrrole Molecular Donors for Organic Solar Cells, J. Materials Chem. A, 2017, 5, 9217-9232 . DOI: 10.1039/C7TA02037F.

• Mouat, A.R.; Kobayashi, T.; Pruski, M.; Marks, T.J.; Stair, P.C.; Direct Spectroscopic Evidence for Isolated Silanols in SiOx/Al2O3 and Their Formation Mechanism in Atomic Layer Deposition, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2017, 121,6060–6064. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11196.

• Timalsina, A.; Hartnett, P.E.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Strzalka, J.; Reddy, V.S.; Facchetti, A.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Marks, T.J. New Donor Polymer with Tetrafluorinated Blocks for Enhanced Performance in Perylenediimide-Based Solar Cells, J. Mater.  Chem. A., 2017 5, 5351 – 5361. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA00063D.

• Weidner, V.L.; Barger, C.J.; Delferro, M.; Lohr, T.L.; Marks, T.J.; Rapid, mild, and selective ketone and aldehyde hydroboration/reduction mediated by a simple lanthanide catalyst, ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7, 1244–1247. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b03332.

• Su, H.-L.; Sredojevic, D.N.; Bronstein, H.; Marks, T.J.; Schroeder, B.C.; Al-Hashimi, M.; Bithiazole an Intriguing Electron Deficient Building Block for Plastic Electronic Applications, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2017, 38, 1600610-1600634. DOI: 10.1002/marc.201600610.

• Manley, E.F.; Strzalka, J.; Fauvell, T.J.; Jackson, N.E.; Marks, T.J.; Chen, L.X. In-Situ GIWAXS Analysis of Solvent and Additive Effects on PTB7 Thin Film Microstructure Evolution During Spin-Coating, Advan. Mater. 2017, 29, 1703933. DOI:10.1002?adma.201703933.

• Eastham, N.D.; Dudnik, A.S.; Aldrich, T.J.; Manley, E.F.; Fauvell, T.J.; Hartnett, P.E.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Chen, L.X.; Facchetti, A.F.; Chang, R.P.H.; Marks, T.J.; Semiconductor Crystallinity and Donor Polymer Molecular Weight Effects on Templating Film Microstructure and Photovoltaic Performance in Polymer:Perylene Blends, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 4432–4444. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00964.

• McMorrow, J.J.; Cress, C.D.; Gaviria Rojas, W.A.; Geier, M.L.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Radiation-Hard Carbon Nanotube Complementary Circuits, ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 2992–3000 . DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b08561

• Jurca, T.; Moody, M.J.; Henning, A.; Emery, J.D.; Wang, B.; Tan, J.M.; Lohr, T.L.; Lauhon, L.J.; Marks, T.J.; Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of MoS2 Films, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 4991-4995. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611838R1.

• Choi, Y.; Kang, J.; Jariwala, D.; Wells, S.A.; Kang, M.S.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Cho, J.H.; Low-Voltage 2D Material Field-Effect Transistors Enabled by Ion Gel Capacitive Coupling, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 4008–4013. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00573.

• Hartnett, P.; Mauck, C.; Harris, M.; Young, R.; Wu, Y.-L.; Marks, T.J.; Wasielewski, M.; Influence of Anion Delocalization on Electron Transfer in a Covalent Porphyrin Donor-Perylenediimide Dimer Acceptor System, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2017,139, 749–756. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10140.

• McMorrow, J.J.; Cress, C.D.; Arnold, H.N.; Sangwan, V.K.; Jariwala, D.; Schmucker, S.W.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on Two-Dimensional MoS2 Field-Effect Transistors, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2017, 110, 073102.

• Marks, T.J.  What is chemistry all about?  C&EN Global Enterp. 2017, 95, 44–49. Publication Date (Web): April 3, 2017 (Article). DOI: 10.1021/cen-09514-cover2

• Huang, H.; Yang, L.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Molecular and Polymeric Semiconduction Enhanced by Noncovalent Conformational Locks, Chem. Rev. 2017, 117, 10291–10318. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00084.

• Wang, B.; Di Carlo, G.; Turrisi, R.; Zeng, L.; Stallings, K.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Beverina, L.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Dipole Moment Inversion Effects in Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics for Thin Film Transistors, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 9974–9980. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03397.

• Van Dyck, C.; Marks, T.; Ratner, M.A.; Chain length dependence of the dielectric constant and polarizability in conjugated organic thin films, ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 5970–5981. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b01807.

• Bergeron, H.; Sangwan, V.; McMorrow, J.; Campbell, G.; Balla, I.; Liu, X.; Bedzyk, M.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.; Chemical vapor deposition of monolayer MoS2 directly on ultrathin Al2O3 for low-power electronics, 2017, submitted for publication.

• Liu, S.; Li, J.; Jurca, T.; Lohr, T.L.; Stair, P.C.; Marks, T.J.; Efficient Carbon-Supported Heterogeneous Molybdenum-Dioxo Catalyst for Chemoselective Reductive Carbonyl Coupling, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2017, 7, 2165 – 2169. DOI: 10.1039/C7CY00336F.

• Logsdon, J.L.; Hartnett, P.E.; Nelson, J.N.; Harris, M.A.; Marks, T.J.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Charge Separation Mechanisms in Ordered Films of Self-Assembled Donor-Acceptor Dyad Ribbons, ACS. Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2017, 9, 33493–33503. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b02585.

• Ezhumalai, Y.;  Lee, B.; Fan, M.-S.; Harutyunyan, B.; Prabakaran, K.; Lee, C.-P.; Chang, S.H.; Ni, J.-S.; Vegiraju, S.; Priyanka, P.; Wu, Y.-W.; Liu, C.-W.; Yau, S.; Lin, J.T.; Wu, C.-G.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Chang, R.P.H.; Chen, M.-C.; Ho, K.-C.; Marks, T.J.;  Metal-Free Branched Alkyl Tetrathienoacene (TTAR)-Based Sensitizers for High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 12310-12321. DOI: 10.1039/c7ta01825h.

• Luck, K.A.; Sangwan, V.K.; Hartnett, P.E.; Arnold, H.N.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Correlated In-Situ Low-Frequency Noise and Impedance Spectroscopy Reveal Recombination Dynamics in Organic Solar Cells using Fullerene and Non-Fullerene Acceptors, Advan. Funct.Mater., 2017, 27, 1703805.  DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201703805.

• Wang, Y.; Liao, Q.; Wang, G.; Guo, H.; Zhang, X.; Uddin, M. A.; Shi, S.; Su, H.; Dai, J.; Cheng, X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J.; Guo, X.; Alkynyl-Functionalized Head-to-Head Bithiophene-Containing Linkage as a Weak Donor Unit for High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 4109–4121. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01052.

• Liu, B.; Soe, C.M.M; Stoumpos, C.C.; Nie, W.; Tsai, H.; Lim, K.; Mohite, A.D.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Marks, T.J.; Singer, K.D.; Optical Properties and Modeling of 2D Perovskite Solar Cells, Solar Rapid Res. Lett., 2017, 1, 1700062. DOI: 10.1002/solr.201700062.

• Wang, G.; Huang, W.; Eastham, N.D.; Manley, E.F.; Zeng, L.; Wang, B.; Zhang, X.; Chen, Z.; Li, R.; Melkonyan, F.; Chen, L.X.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Aggregation Control in Brush-Printed Conjugated Polymer Films and Implications for Efficient Charge Transport, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 2017, 114, E10066-E10073. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713634114.

• Chen, J.; Gao, Y.; Xiong, S.; Delferro, M.; Lohr, T.L.; Marks, T.J.; Metal and Counteranion Nuclearity Effects in Organoscandium Catalysis for Isoprene Polymerization and Copolymerization, ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 5214–5219. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b01621.

• Carnerero, A.R.; Espejo, G.L.; Real, M.J.M.; Eckstein, B.; González-Cano, C.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Marks, T.J.; Casado, J.; Navarrete, J.T.L.; Segura, J.L.; Ortiz, R.P.;  Even and Odd Oligothiophene-bridged bis-Naphthalimidesforn-type and Ambipolar Organic Field Effect Transistors, J. Mater. Chem. C., 2017, 5, 9439 – 9450. DOI: 10.1039/C7TC02023F

• Moffitt, S.L.; Zhu, Q.; Ma, Q.; Falduto, A.F.; Buchholz, D.B.; Chang, R.P.H.; Mason, T.O.; Medvedeva, J.E.; Marks, T.J.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Probing the unique role of gallium in amorphous oxide semiconductors through structure-property relationships, Advan. Electron. Mater. 2017, 3, 1700189. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700189.

• Rojas, W.A.G.; McMorrow, J.J.; Geier, M.L.; Tang, Q.; Kim, C.H.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Solution-Processed Carbon Nanotube True Random Number Generator, NanoLetters, 2017, 17, 4976–4981. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02118.

• Timalsina, A.; Manley, E.F.; Hartnett, P.E.; Eastham, N.D.; Smith, J.; Guo, P.; Harschneck, T.; Chang, R.P.H.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Chen, L.X.; Marks, T.J.; Solar Cell Performance of a Small-Molecule Donor Enhanced by Fluorine End-Capping, 2017, submitted for publication.

• Mauck, C.M.; Hartnett, P.E.; Wu, Y.-L.; Miller, C.E.; Marks, T.J.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Singlet Fission within Diketopyrrolopyrrole Nanoparticles in Water, Chem. Mater., 2017, 29, 6810–6817. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01845.

• Eastham, N.D.; Dudnik, A.S.; Harutyunyan, B.; Aldrich, T.J.; Leonardi, M.J.; Manley, E.F.; Butler, M.R.; Harschneck, T.; Ratner, M.A.; Chen, L.X.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Facchetti, A.; Chang, R.P.H.; Marks, T.J.; Enhanced Light Absorption in Fluorinated Ternary Small Molecule Photovoltaics, ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2, 1690–1697. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00486.

• Aldrich, T.J.; Leonardi, M.J.; Dudnik, A.S.; Eastham, N.D.; Harutyunyan, B.; Fauvell, T.J.; Manley, E.F.; Zhou, N.; Butler, M.R.; Harschneck, T.; Ratner, M.A.; Chen, L.X.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Chang, R.P.H.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Enhanced Fill Factor Through Chalcogen Side Chain Manipulation in Small Molecule Photovoltaics, ACS Energy Lett. 2017, 2415–2421. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00743

• Chen, J.; Zhang, X.; Wang, G.; Uddin, M.A.; Tang, Y.; Wang, Y.; Liao, Q.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Guo, X.; Dithienylbenzodiimide: a New Electron-Deficient Unit for n-Type Polymer Semiconductors, 2017, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 9559-9569. DOI: 10.1039/C7TC02903A.

• Eckstein, B.J.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Manley, E.F.; Fabiano, S.; Mouat, A.R.; Chen, L.X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Naphthalene Bis(4,8-diamino-1,5-dicarboxyl)amide Building Block for Semiconducting Polymers, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 14356–14359 .  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07750

• Soe, C.M.M.; Stoumpos, C.C.; Kepenekian, M; Traoré, B.; Tsai, H.; Nie, W.; Wang, B.; Katan, C.; Mohite, A.; Even, J.; Marks, T.J.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; Dion-Jacobson 2D Hybrid Perovskites (C(NH2)3)(CH3NH3)nPbnI3n+1 (n = 1, 2, 3): Structural, Optical Properties and Photovoltaic Performance, 2017, submitted for publication.

• Fallon, K.J.; Santala, A.; Wijeyasinghe, N.; Manley, E.F.; Goodeal, N.; Leventis, A.; Freeman, D.M.E.; Al-Hashimi, M.; Chen, L.X.; Marks, T.J.; Anthopoulos, T.D.; Bronstein, H.; Effect of Alkyl Chain Branching Point on 3D Crystallinity in High N-type Mobility Indolonaphthyridine Polymers, Advan. Funct. Mater.2017, 27, 1704069. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201704069.

• Lou, A.J.-T.; Dreyer, E.F.C.; Rand, S.C.; Marks, T.J.; Molecular Design Principles for Magneto-Electric Materials: All-Electric Susceptibilities Relevant to Optimal Molecular Chromophores; J. Phys. Chem. C., 2017, 121, 16491–16500. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04307.

• Liu, S.; Invergo, A.M.; McInnis, J.P.; Mouat, A.R.; Motta, A.; Lohr, T.L.; Delferro, M.; Marks, T.J.; Distinctive Stereochemically-Linked Cooperative Effects in Bimetallic Titanium Olefin Polymerization Catalysts, Organometallics 2017, 36, 4403–4421. DOI:org/10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00641.

• Chen, J.; Gao, Y.; Lohr, T.L.; Marks, T.J.; Functional Group-Assisted Copolymerization of Ethylene/Amino Olefins Catalyzed by Mono- and Binuclear Organoscandium Complexes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 1-6. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708797.

• Aldrich, T.J.; Swick, S.M.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Marks, T.J. Enhancing Non-Fullerene ITIC Acceptor Crystallinity via Substituent Manipulation Increases Solar Cell Efficiency, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 10294–10298. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04616.

• Soe, C.; Stoumpos, C.; Kepenekian, M.; Traoré, B.; Tsai, H.; Nie, W.; Wang, B.; Katan, C.; Seshadri, R.; Mohite, A.; Even, J.; Marks, T.J.; Kanatzidis, M.; New Type of 2D Perovskites with Alternating Cations in the Interlayer Space, (C(NH2)3)(CH3NH3)nPbnI3n+1: Structure, Properties and Photovoltaic Performance, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 16297-16309. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09096.