Publications

2019

Young, J. D.; Honick, C. R.; Zhou, J.; Pitts, C. R.; Ghorbani, F.; Peters, G. M.; Lectka, T.; Tovar, J. D.; Bragg, A. E.  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01226E


2018

Snyder, J. A. and Bragg, A. E. Ultrafast Pump–Repump–Probe Photochemical Hole Burning as a Probe of Excited-State Reaction Pathway Branching. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 5847–5854, DOI:  10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02489

Hollingsworth, W. R.; Magnanelli, T. J.; Segura, C.; Young, J. D.; Bragg, A. E.; Ayzner, A. L. Polyion Charge Ratio Determines Transition between Bright and Dark Excitons in Donor/Acceptor-Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Complexes.  J. Phys. Chem. C. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06195

Smith, K. J.; Cheng, Y.; Arinze, E. S.; Kim, N. E.; Bragg, A. E.; Thon, S. M. Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Large Plasmonic Aluminum Nanoparticles. ACS Photonics. 2018, 5 (3) 805-813.


2017

Snyder, J. A.; Graninger, P.; Bettinger, H. F.; Bragg, A. E. BN-Doping and the Photochemistry of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons: Photocyclization of Hexaphenyl Benzene and Hexaphenyl Borazine. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2017, 121 (44) 8359-8367.

Zhao, X.; Madan, D.; Cheng, Y.; Zhou, J.; Li, H.; Thon, S. M.; Bragg, A. E.; DeCoster, M. E.; Hopkins, P. E.; Katz, H. E. High Conductivity and Electron-Transfer Validation in an N-Type Fluoride-Anion-Doped Polymer for Thermoelectrics in Air. Adv. Mater. 2017, 29 (34), n/a-n/a.

Snyder, J. A.; Graninger, P.; Bettinger, H. F.; Bragg, A. E. Excited-State Deactivation Pathways and the Photocyclization of BN-Doped Polyaromatics. J. Phys. Chem. A 2017, 121 (27), 5136-5146.

Zhou, J.; Folster, C. P.; Surampudi, S. K.; Jimenez, D.; Klausen, R. S.; Bragg, A. E. Asymmetric Charge Separation and Recombination in Symmetrically Functionalized Hybrid Oligosilanes. Dalton Trans. 2017, 46 (27), 8716-8726.


2016

Zhou, J.; Outlaw, V. K.; Townsend, C. A.; Bragg, A. E. Quenching of pH-Responsive Luminescence of a Benzoindolizine Sensor by an Ultrafast Hydrogen Shift. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22 (43), 15212-15215.

Bragg, A. E.; Yu, W.; Zhou, J.; Magnanelli, T. J.; Ultrafast Raman Spectroscopy as a Probe of Local Structure and Dynamics in Photoexcited Conjugated Materials. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2016, 7(19), 3990-4000.

Molloy, M. S.; Snyder, J. A.; DeFrancisco, J. R.; Bragg, A. E. Structural Control of Nonadiabatic Photochemical Bond Formation: Photocyclization in Structurally Modified ortho-Terphenyls. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2016, 120(23), 3998-4007.

Yu, W.; Magnanelli, T. J.; Zhou, J.; Bragg, A. E. Structural Heterogeneity in the Localized Excited States of Poly(3-hexylthiophene). J. Phys. Chem. B., 2016, 120(22), 5093-5102.

Pitts, C. R.; Ling, B.; Snyder, J. A.; Bragg, A. E.; Lectka, T. Aminofluorination of Cyclopropanes: A Multifold Approach through a Common, Catalytically Generated Intermediate. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138(20), 6598-6609.

Zhou, J.;Surampudi, S. K.; Bragg, A. E.; Klausen, R. S. Photoinduced Charge Separation in Molecular Silicon. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22(18), 6204-6207.

Sanders, A. M.; Magnanelli, T. J.; Bragg, A. E.; Tovar, J. D. Photoinduced Electron Transfer Within Supramolecular Donor-Acceptor Peptide Nanostructures Under Aqueous Conditions. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138(10), 3362-3370.

Outlaw, V.; Zhou, J.; Bragg, A. E.; Townsend, C. A.; Unusual blue-shifted acid-responsive photoluminescence behavior in 6-amino-8-cyanobenzo[1,2-b]indolizines. RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 61249-61253.


2015

Zhou, J.; Yu, W.; Bragg, A. E. Structural Relaxation of Photoexcited Quaterthiophenes Probed with Vibrational Specificity. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 3496-3502.

Zhou, J.; Guo, X.; Katz, H. E.; Bragg, A. E. Molecular Switching via Multiplicity-Exclusive E/Z Photoisomerization Pathways. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (33), 10841–10850.

Snyder, J. A.; Bragg, A. E. Structural Control of Nonadiabatic Bond Formation: The Photochemical Formation and Stability of Substituted 4a,4b-Dihydrotriphenylenes. J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119(17), 3972–3985.

Guo, X.; Zhou, J.; Siegler, M. A.; Bragg, A. E.; Katz, H. E. Visible-Light-Triggered Molecular Photoswitch Based on Reversible E/Z Isomerization of a 1,2-Dicyanoethene Derivative. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54(16), 4782-4786.

Donohoo-Vallett, P. J.; Bragg, A. E. π-Delocalization and the Vibrational Spectroscopy of Conjugated Materials: Computational Insights on Raman Frequency Dispersion in Thiophene, Furan, and Pyrrole Oligomers. J. Phys. Chem. B., 119(8), 3583-3594.

Magnanelli, T. J.; Bragg, A. E. Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Polaron Pair Formation in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Aggregates. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 438-445.


2014 and earlier

Yu, W.; Donohoo-Vallett, P. J.; Zhou, J.; Bragg, A. E. Ultrafast Photo-Induced Nuclear Relaxation of a Conformationally Disordered Conjugated Polymer Probed with Transient Absorption and Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopies. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2014, 141, 044201.

Molloy, M. C.; Snyder, J.; Bragg, A. E. Structural and Solvent Control of Nonadiabatic Photochemical Bond Formation: Phoyocyclization of o-Terphenyl in Solution. J. Phys. Chem. A 2014, 118(22), 3913-3925.

Smith, M. C.; Snyder, J. A.; Streifel, B. C.; Bragg, A. E. Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of Ortho-Terphenyl and 1,2-Diphenylcyclohexene: The Role of “Ethylenic Twisting” in the Nonadiabatic Photocyclization of Stilbene Analogs. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 1895–1900.

Yu, W.; Zhou, J.; Bragg, A. E. Exciton Conformational Dynamics of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT) in Solution from Time-Resolved Resonant-Raman Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 1321–1328.