Chemistry Faculty, Staff, Student Scholarship
This collection holds the creative and scholarly works of the Department of Chemistry's faculty, staff, and students. It includes scholarly content such as journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, etc.
Submissions from 2025
Super-Resolution Imaging Reveals Resistance to Mass Transfer in Functionalized Stationary Phases, Ricardo Monge Neria, Muhammad Zeeshan, Aman Kapoor, Tae Kyong John Kim, Nichole Hoven, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Burcu Gurkan, Christine E. Duval, and Lydia Kisley
Electrochemically-Assisted Low Power Density Laser Writing on Stainless Steel via Enrichment of Chromium Oxides, Zechariah J. Pfaffenberger, Lianlian Liu, Tae Kyong John Kim, Vignesh Venkataramani, and Lydia Kisley
Submissions from 2024
Electronic Relaxation Pathways in Thio-Acridone and Thio-Coumarin: Two Heavy-Atom-Free Photosensitizers Absorbing Visible Light, Chris Acquah, Sean Hoehn, Sarah Krul, Sourav Kanti Seth, Eric Lee, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
CRADLE Explorer: CASFER Interactive Platform for Data and Model Visualization, Olatunde D. Akanbi, Vibha S. Mandayam, Haiping Ai, Arafath Nihar, Erika I. Barcelos, Laura S. Bruckman, Jeffrey Yarus, Yinghui Wu, Huichun (Judy) Zhang, and Roger H. French
Cross-Correlation Increases Sampling in Diffusion-Based Super-Resolution Optical Fluctuation Imaging, Jeanpun Antarasen, Benjamin Wellnitz, Stephanie N. Kramer, Surajit Chatterjee, and Lydia Kisley
Reply To: On The Statistical Foundation of a Recent Single Molecule Fret Benchmark, Dorothy A. Erie, Lydia Kisley, and Dushani Dunukara
Carbon-Sulfur Bond Elongation as the Promoting Reaction Coordinate in the Efficient Sub-Nanosecond Intersystem Crossing in Thianaphthene Derivatives, Cameron Griffith, Erqian Mao, Sean J. Hoehn, Sarah E. Krul, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Structural and Electronic Factors Controlling the Efficiency and Rate of Intersystem Crossing to the Triplet State in Thiophene Polycyclic Derivatives, Cameron Griffrith, Sarah E. Krul, Sean J. Hoehn, Tram Phan, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of the Electronic Relaxation Mechanisms of 2-Pyrimidinone: The Primary UVA Absorbing Moiety of the DNA and RNA (6–4) Photolesion, Sean J. Hoehn, Sarah E. Krul, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
A Practical Guide to Light-Sheet Microscopy for Nanoscale Imaging: Looking Beyond the Cell, Stephanie N. Kramer, Jeanpun Antarasen, Cole R. Reinholt, and Lydia Kisley
The mRNACalc Webserver Accounts for the N1-methylpseudouridine Hypochromicity to Enable Precise Nucleoside-Modified mRNA Quantification, Sarah E. Krul, Sean J. Hoehn, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Geospatial Analysis of Precipitation Data and River Networks Using Satellite Imagery, Vibha S. Mandayam, Olatunde D. Akanbi, Ethan Tobey, Adaezeogo Ezeogo-Enwo, Hyangmok Baek, Atharva Gupta, Laura S. Bruckman, Erika I. Barcelos, and Roger H. French
Electronic Relaxation Mechanism of 9-methyl-2,6-diaminopurine and 2,6-diaminopurine-2′-deoxyribose in Solution, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Naishka E. Caldero-Rodríguez, Sourav Kanti Seth, Karitza Díaz-González, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Knowledge Management of Historical Data: Ontology Development for Chemical Reactions, Quynh D. Tran, Alexander Harding Bradley, Balashanmuga Priyan Rajamohan, Jonathan E. Gordon, Van D. Tran, Kiefer Lin, Erika I. Barcelos, Laura S. Bruckman, and Roger H. French
Materials Data Science Ontology (MDS-Onto): Unifying Domain Knowledge in Materials and Applied Data Science, Van D. Tran, Jonathan E. Gordon, Alexander Harding Bradley, Balashanmuga Priyan Rajamohan, Quynh D. Tran, Gabriel Ponón, Yinghui Wu, Laura S. Bruckman, Erika I. Barcelos, and Roger H. French
Effect of Polyacrylamide Gel Elasticity on Collagen Type Ii Fibril Assembly, Kathryn G. Wilcox, Stephanie Kramer, Surajit Chatterjee, Adam Linscott, Sneha Suresh, Lydia Kisley, and Svetlana Morozova
Submissions from 2023
Low-Cost, 3D Printed Irradiation System for In Vitro Photodynamic Therapy Experiments, Chris Acquah, Zachary Pabis, Sourav Kanti Seth, Liraz Levi, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Photophysical Characterization of Isoguanine in a Prebiotic-Like Environment, Naishka E. Caldero-Rodríguez and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Microwave Regeneration and Thermal and Oxidative Stability of Imidazolium Cyanopyrrolide Ionic Liquid for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide, Yun-Yang Lee, Eda Cagli, Aidan Klemm, and Ruth Dikki
Evaluation of a Photodynamic Therapy Agent Using a Canine Prostate Cancer Model, Dong Luo, Xinning Wang, Gopalakrishnan Ramamurthy, Ethan Walker, Lifang Zhang, Aditi Shirke, Naraen G. Naidu, Clemens Burda, Lee Ponsky, and James Basilion
Thieno[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-thione: An Effective, Oxygenation Independent, Heavy-Atom-Free Photosensitizer for Cancer Cells, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Sean J. Hoehn, Heather J. Folkwein, Liraz Levi, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Hydrodynamic voltammetry of Fe2+/3+ in aqueous deep eutectic solvents towards redox flow batteries, Desiree Mae Prado, Xiaochen Shen, Robert Savinell, and Clemens Burda
Understanding the Role Thin Film Interfaces Play in Solar Cell Performance and Stability, Mirra M. Rasmussen, Laura S. Bruckman, and Ina T. Martin
Thermoresponsive Polymers with LCST Transition: Synthesis, Characterization, and their Impact on Biomedical Frontiers, Yichun Yuan, Konpal Raheja, Nathalie B. Milbrandt, Sophia Beilharz, Steffy Tene, Solomon Oshabaheebwa, Umut A. Gurkan, Anna Cristina S. Samia, and Metin Karayilan
Peroxisome Biogenesis Initiated by Protein Phase Separation, Zhenghao Zhang and Lydia Kisley
Minimal Auxiliary Basis Set Approach for the Electronic Excitation Spectra of Organic Molecules, Zehao Zhou and Shane M. Parker
Submissions from 2022
A Blind Benchmark of Analysis Tools to Infer Kinetic Rate Constants From Single-Molecule Fret Trajectories, Dorothy A. Erie, Lydia Kisley, and Dushani Dunukara
Disclosing the Role of C4-Oxo Substitution in the Photochemistry of DNA and RNA Pyrimidine Monomers: Formation of Photoproducts from the Vibrationally Excited Ground State, Sean J. Hoehn, Sarah E. Krul, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Resolving Ultrafast Photoinitiated Dynamics of the Hachimoji 5-Aza-7-Deazaguanine Nucleobase: Impact of Synthetically Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, Sarah E. Krul, Sean J. Hoehn, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
On the Photostability of Cyanuric Acid and Its Candidature as a Prebiotic Nucleobase, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Sean J. Hoehn, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Submissions from 2021
Photochemistry of RNA, RNA Monomers, and Plausible Prebiotic Precursors, Sean J. Hoehn, Naishka E. Caldero-Rodríguez, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Decoupling the Effects of Interfacial Chemistry and Grain Size in Perovskite Stability, Mirra M. Rasmussen, Kyle M. Crowley, Miranda S. Gottlieb, Geneviève Sauvé, and Ina T. Martin
Computationally-Efficient Spatiotemporal Correlation Analysis Super-Resolves Anomalous Diffusion, Shawn Yoshida, William Schmid, Nam Vo, William Calabrase, and Lydia Kisley
Accelerating Molecular Property Calculations with Semiempirical Preconditioning, Zehao Zhou and Shane M. Parker
Submissions from 2020
Excited State Lifetimes of Sulfur-Substituted DNA and RNA Monomers Probed Using the Femtosecond Fluorescence Up-Conversion Technique, Matthew M. Brister and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Integrated Approaches to Reveal Mechanisms by which RNA Viruses Reprogram the Cellular Environment, Christina Haddad, Jesse Davila-Calderon, and Blanton S. Tolbert
Thionated Organic Compounds as Emerging Heavy-Atom-Free Photodynamic Therapy Agents, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Detection of the Thietane Precursor in the UVA Formation of the DNA 6-4 Photoadduct, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Christian Reichardt, Sean J. Hoehn, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Submissions from 2019
Fluorescence Microscopy of Biophysical Protein Dynamics in Nanoporous Hydrogels, Anuj Saini and Lydia Kisley
Submissions from 2017
Excited-State Dynamics of the Thiopurine Prodrug 6-Thioguanine: Can N9-Glycosylation Affect its Phototoxic Activity?, Brennan Ashwood and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Solvatochromic Effects on the Absorption Spectrum of 2-Thiocytosine, Brennan Ashwood and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
2-Thiouracil Intersystem Crossing Photodynamics Studied by Wavelength-Dependent Photoelectron and Transient Absorption Spectroscopies, Brennan Ashwood, Marvin Pollum, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Photorelaxation and Photorepair Processes in Nucleic and Amino Acid Derivatives, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Submissions from 2016
The Origin of Efficient Triplet State Population in Sulfur-Substituted Nucleobases, Marvin Pollum, Nicholas Dunn, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Submissions from 2015
Electronic and Structural Elements that Regulate the Excited-State Dynamics in Purine Nucleobase Derivatives, Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, Christian Reichardt, and Marvin Pollum
Submissions from 2014
High Ionic Strength Narrows The Population of Sites Participating in Protein Ion-Exchange Adsorption: A Single-Molecule Study, Lydia Kisley
Molecular Approaches to Chromatography Using Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Lydia Kisley
Submissions from 2013
Extending Single Molecule Fluorescence Observation Time by Amplitude-Modulated Excitation, Lydia Kisley
Troika of Single Particle Tracking Programing: Snr Enhancement, Particle Identification, and Mapping, Lydia Kisley
Submissions from 2012
Is the Fluorescence Quantum Yield of Tryptophan Independent of Excitation Wavelength?, Nadia Abbass, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Height and Light: Optical Profilometry Characterization for Conservation of Abraded Plastics, Sarah Lavin
Charge Transport Properties of BO-Chelated Azadipyrromethenes, Tingrui Ma, Muyuan Zhao, and Geneviève Sauvé
Remarkable Sensitivity of the Prospective Photodynamic Therapy Agent 6-Selenoguanine to pH, Collin Merrick, Sean J. Hoehn, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Sarah Krul, and Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández
Engineering Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Bacterial Biofilm Treatment, Massado Ngompe, Yu Hsin Tsai, Nathalie Milbrandt, Zhuoying Jiang, Xiong Yu, and Anna Cristina S. Samia