2021 Publications

    1. LaMountain, T.; Nelson, J.; Lenferink, E.J.; Amsterdam, S.H.; Murthy, A.A.; Marks, T.J.; Dravid, V.P.; Hersam, M.C.; Stern, N.P.; Valley-selective optical Stark effect of exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor, Nature Comm. 2021, 12, 4530.DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24764-8.
    2. Huang, W.; Yu, X.; Zeng, L.; Wang, B.; Takai, A.; DiCarlo, G.; Bedzyk, M.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Ultraviolet Light-Densified Oxide-Organic Self-Assembled Dielectrics: Processing Thin Film Transistors at Room Temperature, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 3445-3453. DOI: 1021/acsami.0c20345.
    3. Arinaga, A.M.; Ziegelski, M.; Marks, T.J.; Alternative Oxidants for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane, Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2-16. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012862.
    4. Eckstein, B.J.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Wang, G.; Wang, B.; Manley, E.F.; Fabiano, S.; Ortiz, R.P.; Chen, L.X.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Processable High Electron Mobility π-Copolymers via Mesoscale Backbone Conformational Ordering, Adv Funct Mater 2021, 31, 2009359. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202009359.
    5. Amsterdam, S.H.; LaMountain, T.; Stanev, T.K.; Sangwan, V.K.; López-Arteaga, R.; Padgaonkar, S.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Weiss, E.A.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Stern, N.P.; Tailoring the Optical Response of Pentacene Thin Films via Templated Growth on Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 26-31, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03132.
    6. Kratish, Y.; Nakamuro, T.; Liu, Y.; Li, J.; Tomotsuka, I.; Harano, K.; Nakamura, E.; Marks, T.J.; Synthesis and Characterization of a Well-Defined Carbon Nanohorn-Supported Molybdenum Dioxo Catalyst by SMART-EM Imaging. Surface Structure at the Atomic Level: A contribution to the “Frontiers of Molecular Science,Diamond Collection”, Chem. Soc. Japan, 2021, 94, 427-432. DOI:10.1246/bcsj20.2020299.
    7. Afzal, S.; Prakash, A.; Littlewood, P.; Choudhury, H.; Ghouri, Z.K.; Mansour, S.; Wang, D.; Marks, T.J.; Weitz, E.; Stair, P.; Elbashir, N.; Catalyst Deactivation by Carbon Deposition: The Remarkable Case of Nickel Confined by Atomic Layer Deposition, ChemCatChem, 2021, 13, 2988-3000. DOI: 1002/cctc.202100109.
    8. Li, G.; Zhang X.; Jones, L.O.; Alzola, J.M.; Mukherjee, S.; Feng, L.-W.; Zhu, W.; Stern, C.L.; Huang, W.; Yu, J.; Sangwan, V.K.; Delongchamp, D.M.; Kohlstedt, K.L.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Hersam, M.C.; Schatz, G.C.; Facchetti. A.; Marks, T.J.; Systematic Merging of Nonfullerene Acceptor pi-Extension and Tetrafluorination Strategies Affords Polymer Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency, Amer. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 6123–6139. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00211.
    9. Huang, L.; Wang, Z.; Chen, J.; Wang, B.; Chen, Y.; Huang, W.; Chi, L.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Porous Semiconducting Polymers Enable High-Performance Electrochemical Transistors, Mater. 2021, 33, e2007041. DOI:10.1002/adma.202007041.
    10. Stallings, K.; Smith, J.; Chen, Y.; Zeng, L.; Wang, B.; Di Carlo, G.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics for Solution-Processed Top-Gated Amorphous IGZO Thin Film Transistors, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 15399–15408. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c00249.
    11. Dicken, R.D.; Motta, A.; Marks, T.J.; Homoleptic Lanthanide Amide Catalysts for Organic Synthesis: Experiment and Theory, ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 2715-2734. DOI: 1021/acscatal.0c04882.
    12. Zhang, J.; Mason, A.H.; Wang, Y.; Motta, A.; Kobayashi, T.; Pruski, M.; Gao, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Beyond the Active Site. Cp*ZrMe3/Sulfated Alumina-Catalyzed Olefin Polymerization Tacticity via Catalyst···Surface Ion-Pairing, ChemCatChem, 2021, 13, 2564-2569. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202100406.
    13. Wang, Z.; Zhuang, X.; Wang, B., Huang, W; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Doping Indium Oxide Films with Amino-Polymers of Varying Nitrogen Content Markedly Affects Charge Transport and Mechanical Flexibility, Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2100451. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202100451.
    14. Wang, B.; Huang, W.; Lee, S.; Huang, L.; Wang, Z.; Chen, Y.: Chen, Z.; Feng, L.; Wang, G.; Yokota, T.; Someya, T.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A. Foundry-Compatible High-Resolution Patterning of Vertically Phase-Separated Semiconducting Films for Ultraflexible Organic Electronics, Nature Comm. 2021, 12, 4937. DOI: 1038/s41467-021-25059-8.
    15. Amsterdam, S.H.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Leveraging Molecular Properties to Tailor Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures Beyond Energy Level Alignment, Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 4543–4557. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00799.
    16. Gong, J.; Li, X.; Huang, W.; Guo, P.; Marks, T.; Schaller, R.; Xu, T.; Suppressed Oxidation and Photodarkening of Hybrid Tin Iodide Perovskite Achieved with Reductive Organic Small Molecule, ACS Applied Energy Materials 2021, 4, 4704–4710. DOI: 1021/acsaem.1c00316.
    17. Chen, H.; Huang, W.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Meng, H.; Recent Advances in Multi-Layer Light-Emitting Heterostructure Transistors, Small, 2021, 17, DOI:10.1002/smll.202007661.
    18. Zhang, J.; Mason, A.; Motta, A.; Cesar, L.; Kratish, Y.; Lohr, T.; Miller, J.; Gao, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Surface vs Homogeneous Organo-Hafnium Catalyst Ion-Pairing and Ligand Effects on Ethylene Homo- and Copolymerizations, ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 3239-3250. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04678.
    19. Su, N.; Ma, R.; Li, G.; Liu, T.; Feng, L-W.; Lin, C.; Chen, J.; Song, J.; Xiao, Y.; Qu, J.; Lu, X.; Sangwan, V.K.; Hersam, M.C.; Yan, H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, J.; High-Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells with Poly-Small-Molecule Acceptors Having π-Extended Naphthalene Units and Broad Near-IR Optical Absorption, ACS Energy Lett., 2021, 6, 728-738. DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.1c00009.
    20. Zhou, Q.; Liu, Z-F; Marks, T.J.; Darancet, P.; Electronic Structure of Metallophthalocyanines, MPc (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mg) and Fluorinated MPc, Phys. Chem. A. 2021, 125, 4055–4061. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c10766.
    21. Liu, Y.; Li, J.; Das, A.; Kim, H.; Jones, L.O.; Ma, Q.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Schatz, G.C.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Synthesis and Structure–Activity Characterization of a Single-Site MoO2 Catalytic Center Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide, Amer. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 21532–21540. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07236.
    22. Huang, W.; Chen, J.; Zheng, D.; Yao, Y.; Feng, L.-W.; Chen, Y.; Wang, Z.; Pankow, R.M.; Xia, Y.; Guo, X.; Cheng, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Dielectric materials for electrolyte gated transistor applications, Mater. Chem. C. 2021, 9, 9348-9376. DOI: 10.1039/D1TC02271G.
    23. Islam, S.; Sangwan, V.; Buchholz, D.; Wells, S.; Peng, L.; Zeng, L.; He, Y.; Hersam, M.C.; Ketterson, J.; Marks, T.J.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Grayson, M.; Kanatzidis, M.; Amorphous to Crystal Phase Change Memory Effect with Two-fold Bandgap Difference in Semiconducting K2Bi8Se13, JACS, 2021, 143, 6221–6228. DOI: 1021/jacs.1c01484.
    24. Royakkers, J.; Guo, K.; Toolan, D.; Feng, L.-W; Minotto, A.; Congrave, D.G.; Danowska, M.; Zeng, W.; Bond, A.D.; Al-Hashimi, M.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Cacialli, F.; Bronstein, H.; Molecular Encapsulation of Naphthalene Diimide (NDI) Based π-Conjugated Polymers: A Tool for Understanding Photoluminescence, Chem. 2021, 60, 25005-25012. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202110139.
    25. Liu, S.; Udyavara, S.; Zhang, C.; Peter, M.; Lohr, T.L.; Dravid, V.P.; Neurock, M.; Marks, T.J.; “Soft” Oxidative Coupling of Methane to Ethylene. Mechanistic Insights from Combined Experiment and Theory, PNAS, 2021, 118, e2012666118, DOI:1073/pnas.2012666118.
    26. Li, Z.; Shi, Q.; Wen, K.; Qin, L.; Chen, H.; Huang, W.; Marks, T.J.; Huang, H.; Efficient Room Temperature Catalytic Synthesis of Alternating Conjugated Copolymers via C-S Bond Cleavage, 2021, Nature Comm., 2022, 13, 144. DOI:1038/s41467-021-27832-1.
    27. Alzola, J.M.; Tcyrulnikov, N.A.; Brown, P.J.; Young, R.M.; Marks, T.J.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in Phenylene-Bridged Perylenediimide Dimers, Phys. Chem., 2021, 125, 7633–7643. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05100.
    28. Xia, F.; Li, B.; Liu, Y.; Liu, Y.; Gao, S.; Lu, K.; Kaelin, J.; Wang, R.; Marks, T.J.; Cheng, Y.; Carbon Free and Noble Metal Free Ni2Mo6S8 Electrocatalyst for Selective Electrosynthesis of H2O2, Funct. Mater., 2021, 31, 2104716. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202104716.
    29. Wu, J.; Liao, C.-Y.; Chen, Y.; Jacobberger, R.M.; Huang, W.; Lu, Z.; Tsai, K.-W.; Li, W.-L.; Huang, Y.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Chang, Y.-M.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; To Fluorinate or Not to Fluorinate in Organic Solar Cells: Achieving a Higher PCE of 15.2% when the Donor Polymer is Halogen-Free, Advan. Energy Mater. 2021, 11, 2102648. DOI:10.1002/aenm.202102648.
    30. Mason, A.H., Motta, A.; Das, A.; Ma, Q.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facile Polyolefin Plastics Hydrogenolysis Catalyzed by a Surface Electrophilic d0 Hydride, ChemRxiv. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-7bx90.