Research Spotlight

ACS Editor’s Choice Publication by the Walter Lab!

Tyler Adams; Naz Tumpa; Mathili Acharya; Que Nguyen; Nuren Shuchi; Mia Baliukonis; Sarah Starnes; Tino Hofmann; Michael G. Walter; “Achieving Smart Photochromics Using Water-Processable, High Contrast, Oxygen Sensing, and Photoactuating Thiazolothiazole-Embedded Polymer Films,” ACS Appl. Opt. Mater., (2024). 

A water-processable, high contrast, fully organic, dipyridinium thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole embedded photochromic polymer film is implemented as a smart window layer and shows reversible coloration in the presence of oxygen. These films exhibit photochromism as well as photofluorochromism, photoactuation, and can be used for oxygen sensing.

Simple Air-Stable [3]Radialene Anion Radicals as Environmentally Switchable Catholytes in Water

Fuead Hasan, Jonathan H. Gillen, Amaya T. Jayaweera, William D. McDearmon Jr., Dr. Arthur H. Winter, Dr. Christopher M. Bejger

Foley’s lab

1.     Vu, N.; Mejia-Rodriguez, D.; Bauman, N.; Panyala, A.; Mutlu, E.; Govind, N.; *Foley IV, J. J; Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Complete Active Space Configuration Interaction Theory, J. Chem. Theor. Comput., 20, 1214-1227 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01207   

2.     Hodgins, H.; Foley IV, J. J.; Govorov, A.; Gray, S.; Hamilton, I.; Emergence of a low energy peak in the smoothed absolute value circular dichroism spectra of small helical gold nanorods, Accepted in ACS Omega, 9, 5224-5229 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c04943   

3.     Shibu, A.; Jones, S. P.; Tolley, L. P.; Diaz, D.; Kwiatkowski, C. O.; Jones, D. S.; Shivas, J. M.; Foley IV, J. J., Schmedake, T. A.; Walter, M. G. Correlating structure and photophysical properties in thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole crystal derivatives for use in solid-state photonic and fluorscnence-based devices, Mater. Adv., 4, 6321-6332 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00686G

4.     *Foley IV, J. J.; McTague, J..; ^*A. E. DePrince III, Ab initio methods for polariton chemistry, Chem. Phys. Rev., 4, 041301 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0167243

Poler’s lab

Stephen Schmal,‡ Raghav Dosi,‡ Adam Fessler, Carly Kwiatkowski,‡ Abhispa Sahu,‡ and Jordan C. Poler* “Green synthesis of cellulose graft copolymers for anion exchange water purification” Cellulose 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-023-05519-8 (IF = 6.1)