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Area(s) of Expertise

Current research foci include metal-organic chromophore discovery, photophysics, energy transfer, photochemical upconversion, solar fuels photocatalysis, energy transduction at semiconductor/molecular interfaces, excited state electron transfer, ultrafast phenomena, and next generation OLED technologies.

Publications

• Capturing Real-time Chemical Bond Formation in a Diplatinum Complex Using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction , Microscopy and Microanalysis (2026)
• Correction to “Varying Diphosphine Bridge Length in Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Dimers Tunes Photophysics by Modulating Orbital Overlap” , Inorganic Chemistry (2026)
• Deciphering the excited-state landscape of Cr( iii ) tris(diimines) using [Cr(phen) 3 ] 3+ , Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers (2026)
• Enhanced MMLCT character in thiol-bridged Pt( ii ) dimers featuring tridentate cyclometalating ligands , Dalton Transactions (2026)
• Green, one-pot strategy for substitution of the 5-position of 1,10-phenanthrolines , RSC Advances (2026)
• Hot-Carrier Injection and Millisecond Charge Separation from a Robust Heteroleptic Iron(II) Chromophore Immobilized on TiO 2 , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026)
• Lattice-Directed Spin-Vibronic Coherence-Mediated Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Crystalline Diplatinum Complex , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026)
• Near-Infrared Photoluminescence from Spin-Flip Excited States of π-Conjugated Tris(quinolinolate) Chromium(III) Complexes , Inorganic Chemistry (2026)
• Photoluminescent Cu(I) HETPHENs Featuring Bulky Alkyl-Substituted Phenanthrolines , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026)
• Roblonski: A Material-Efficient Robo-Fluidic Toolbox for Rapid Photochemical Characterization , ACS Central Science (2026)