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Preprints
1. “Ultrafast In vivo Transient Absorption Spectroscopy”, Tomi K Baikie, Darius Kosmützky, Joshua M Lawrence, Victor Gray, Christoph Schnedermann, Robin Horton, Joel D Collins, Hitesh Medipally, Bartosz Witek, Marc M Nowaczyk, Jenny Zhang, Laura Wey, Christopher J Howe, Akshay Rao, arXiv:2307.09448
2. “Correlating activity and defects in (photo) electrocatalysts using in-situ transient optical microscopy”, Camilo A Mesa, Michael Sachs, Ernest Pastor, Nicolas Gauriot, Alice J Merryweather, Miguel A Gomez-Gonzalez, Konstantin Ignatyev, Sixto Giménez, Akshay Rao, James R Durrant, Raj Pandya, https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13401
3. “Generalised Framework for Controlling and Understanding Ion Dynamics with Passivated Lead Halide Perovskites”, Tomi K Baikie, Philip Calado, Krzysztof Galkowski, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Yi-Chun Chin, Joel Luke, Charlie Henderson, Tom Dunlop, James McGettrick, Ji-Seon Kim, Akshay Rao, Jenny Nelson, Samuel D Stranks, Piers RB Barnes, arXiv:2305.14942
4. “Room Temperature Optically and Magnetically Active Edges in Phosphorene Nanoribbons”, Arjun Ashoka, Adam J Clancy, Naitik A Panjwani, Nicholas JM Popiel, Alex Eaton, Thomas G Parton, Loren Picco, Sascha Feldmann, Rebecca RC Shutt, Remington Carey, Eva SY Aw, Thomas J Macdonald, Marion E Severijnen, Sandra Kleuskens, Hilton Barbosa de Aguiar, Richard H Friend, Jan Behrends, Peter Christianen, Christopher A Howard, Akshay Rao, Raj Pandya, arXiv:2211.11374
5. “Energy Efficient Dissociation of Excitons to Free Charges”, Maxim Tabachnyk, Samuel L. Smith, Leah R. Weiss, Aditya Sadhanala, Alex W. Chin, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao. arXiv:1704.03780
2024
1. “Decoupling excitons from high-frequency vibrations in organic molecules”, Pratyush Ghosh, Antonios M. Alvertis, Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, Alexander J. Gillett, Shengzhi Dong, Alexander J. Sneyd, Hwan-Hee Cho, Emrys W Evans, Bartomeu Monserrat, Feng Li, Christoph Schnedermann, Hugo Bronstein, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Nature, (Accepted), 2024.
2. “Revealing the potential of luminescent solar concentrators in real-world environments”, Tomi K. Baikie, Benjamin Daiber, Emil Kensington, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, Bruno Ehrler, Akshay Rao, JOULE (In Press), 2024.
3. “Suppression of Dexter Transfer by Covalent Encapsulation for Efficient Matrix-Free Narrowband Deep Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs”, Hwan-Hee Cho, Daniel Congrave, Alexander Gillett, Stephanie Montanaro, Haydn Francis, Victor Gonzalez , Junzhi Ye, Rituparno Chowdhury, Weixuan Zeng, Marc Etherington, Jeroen Royakkers, Oliver Millington, Andrew Bond , Felix Plasser , Jarvist Frost , Clare Grey, Akshay Rao , Richard Friend , Neil Greenham, Hugo Bronstein, Nature Materials (In Press), 2024
4. “Direct Linearly-Polarised Electroluminescence from Perovskite Nanoplatelet Superlattices” Junzhi Ye, Aobo Ren, Linjie Dai, Tomi Baikie, Renjun Guo, Debapriya Pal, Sebastian Gorgon, Julian E Heger, Junyang Huang, Yuqi Sun, Rakesh Arul, Gianluca Grimaldi, Kaiwen Zhang, Javad Shamsi, Yi-Teng Huang, Hao Wang, Jiang Wu, A Femius Koenderink, Laura Torrente Murciano, Matthias Schwartzkopf, Stephen V Roth, Peter Muller-Buschbaum, Jeremy J Baumberg, Samuel D Stranks, Neil C Greenham, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Wei Zhang, Akshay Rao, Robert LZ Hoye, Nature Photonics (in Press), 2024
5. “Ligand Directed Self-Assembly of Bulk Organic-Semiconductor/Quantum-Dot Blend Films Enables Near Quantitative Harvesting of Triplet Excitons”, Jesse Allardice, Victor Gray, Simon Dowland, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Michael P. Weir, James Xiao, Zhilong Zhang, Jurjen F. Winkel, Anthony J. Petty II, John Anthony, Richard Friend, Anthony J. Ryan, Richard A. L. Jones, Neil C. Greenham, Akshay Rao, Journal of the American Chemical Society (in Press), 2024.
2023
6. “Photosynthesis re-wired on the pico-second timescale”, Tomi K. Baikie, Laura T. Wey, Hitesh Medipally, Erwin Reisner, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Richard H. Friend, Christopher J. Howe, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Jenny Z. Zhang, Nature, 2023. DOI:10.1038/s41586-023-05763-9.
7. “Local Symmetry Breaking Drives Picosecond Spin Domain Formation in Polycrystalline Semiconducting Films”, Arjun Ashoka, Satyawan Nagane, Nives Strkalj, Bart Roose, Jooyoung Sung, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll, Samuel D. Stranks, Sascha Feldmann, Akshay Rao, arXiv:2207.02765, Nature Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01550-z.
8. “Hole-limited electrochemical doping in conjugated polymers”, Scott T. Keene, Joonatan E. M. Laulainen, Raj Pandya, Maximilian Moser, Christoph Schnedermann, Paul A. Midgley, Iain McCulloch, Akshay Rao, George G. Malliaras, Nature Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01601-5.
9. “The relationship between ionic-electronic coupling and transport in organic mixed conductors”, Scott T. Keene, Akshay Rao, George G. Malliaras, Science Advances, 2023, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi3536
10. “Soluble Diphenylhexatriene Dimers for Intramolecular Singlet Fission with High Triplet Energy”, Oliver Millington, Stephanie Montanaro, Anastasia Leventis, Ashish Sharma, Simon A. Dowland, Nipun Sawhney, Kealan J. Fallon, Weixuan Zeng, Daniel G. Congrave, Andrew J. Musser, Akshay Rao, Hugo Bronstein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12060.
11. “Aza-Cibalackrot: Turning on Singlet Fission Through Crystal Engineering”, Michael Purdy, Jessica R Walton, Kealan J Fallon, Daniel TW Toolan, Peter Budden, Weixuan Zeng, Merina K Corpinot, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, Lars van Turnhout, Richard Friend, Akshay Rao, Hugo Bronstein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00971.
12. “Synthesis and intramolecular singlet fission properties of ortho-phenylene linked oligomers of diphenylhexatriene”, Oliver Millington, Ashish Sharma, Stephanie Montanaro, Anastasia Leventis, Simon A Dowland, Daniel G Congrave, Cherie Anne Lee, Akshay Rao, Hugo Bronstein, Chemical Science, DOI: 10.1039/D3SC03665K
13. “Spatially Resolved Optical Efficiency Measurements of Luminescent Solar Concentrators”, Tomi K Baikie, James Xiao, Bluebell Drummond, Neil C Greenham, Akshay Rao, ACS Photonics, 2023, DOI:10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00601.
14. “Tailoring Interlayer Charge Transfer Dynamics in 2D Perovskites with Electroactive Spacer Molecules”, Yorrick Boeije, Wouter T. M. Van Gompel, Youcheng Zhang, Pratyush Ghosh, Szymon J. Zelewski, Arthur Maufort, Bart Roose, Zher Ying Ooi, Rituparno Chowdhury, Ilan Devroey, Stijn Lenaers, Alasdair Tew, Linjie Dai, Krishanu Dey, Hayden Salway, Richard H. Friend, Henning Sirringhaus, Laurence Lutsen, Dirk Vanderzande, Akshay Rao and Samuel D. Stranks, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05974
15. “Insights into the kinetics and self-assembly order of small-molecule organic semiconductor/quantum dot blends during blade coating”, Daniel TW Toolan, Michael P Weir, Shuangqing Wang, Simon A Dowland, Zhilong Zhang, James Xiao, Jonathan Rawle, Neil Greenham, Richard H Friend, Akshay Rao, Richard AL Jones, Anthony J Ryan, Nanoscale Horizons, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00079F.
16. “Mixed Small-Molecule Matrices Improve Nanoparticle Dispersibility in Organic Semiconductor-Nanoparticle Films”, Daniel TW Toolan, Michael P Weir, Rachel C Kilbride, John E Anthony, Neil C Greenham, Richard H Friend, Akshay Rao, Oleksandr O Mykhaylyk, Richard AL Jones, Anthony J Ryan, Langmuir, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00152.
17. “High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon”, Aobo Ren, Hao Wang, Linjie Dai, Junfei Xia, Xinyu Bai, Edward Butler-Caddle, Joel A Smith, Huagui Lai, Junzhi Ye, Xiang Li, Shijie Zhan, Chunhui Yao, Zewei Li, Mingchu Tang, Xueping Liu, Jinxin Bi, Bowei Li, Shen Kai, Rui Chen, Han Yan, Jintao Hong, Liming Yuan, Igor P Marko, Adrian Wonfor, Fan Fu, Steven A Hindmarsh, Ana M Sanchez, James Lloyd-Hughes, Stephen J Sweeney, Akshay Rao, Neil C Greenham, Jiang Wu, Yanrong Li, Qixiang Cheng, Richard H Friend, Richard V Penty, Ian H White, Henry J Snaith, Wei Zhang, Nature Photonics, 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01242-9.
18. “Air-Stable Bismuth Sulfobromide (BiSBr) Visible-Light Absorbers: Optoelectronic Properties and Potential for Energy Harvesting”, Xiaoyu Guo, Yi-Teng Huang, Hugh Lohan, Junzhi Ye, Yuanbao Lin, Juhwan Lim, Nicolas Gauriot, Szymon Zelewski, Daniel Darvill, Huimin Zhu, Akshay Rao, Iain McCulloch, Robert LZ Hoye, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04491B
19. “Photogeneration of spin quintet triplet-triplet excitations in DNA-assembled pentacene stacks”, Sarah Orsborne, Jeffrey Gorman, Leah Weiss, Akshay Sridhar, Naitik Panjwani, Giorgio Divitini, Peter Budden, David Palacek, Sean Ryan, Akshay Rao, Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, Afaf El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Jan Behrends, Richard Friend, Florian Auras, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c13743.
20. “Resonant Energy Transfer-Mediated Efficient Hole Transfer in the Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells”, Suraj Yadav, Ravichandran Shivanna, Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Nipun Sawhney, Chandrasekhar Gangadharappa, Sufal Swaraj, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Satish Patil, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, 14, 29, 6601–6609, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01359.
21. “Room-Temperature Photoluminescence Mediated by Sulfur Vacancies in 2D Molybdenum Disulfide”, Yiru Zhu, Juhwan Lim, Zhepeng Zhang, Yan Wang, Soumya Sarkar, Hugh Ramsden, Yang Li, Han Yan, Dibya Phuyal, Nicolas Gauriot, Akshay Rao, Robert LZ Hoye, Goki Eda, Manish Chhowalla, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 14, 13545–13553, DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c02103.
22. “Transmission-based charge modulation microscopy on conjugated polymer blend field-effect transistors”, Yansheng Zhang, Malgorzata Nguyen, Christoph Schnedermann, Scott T Keene, Ian Jacobs, Akshay Rao, Henning Sirringhaus, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, DOI: 10.1063/5.0132426.
23. “Understanding the Chemical Mechanism behind Photoinduced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, Junzhi Ye, Rakesh Arul, Michel K Nieuwoudt, Junzhe Dong, Ting Zhang, Linjie Dai, Neil C Greenham, Akshay Rao, Robert LZ Hoye, Wei Gao, M Cather Simpson, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00478.
24. “Production of Magnetic Arsenic-Phosphorus Alloy Nanoribbons with Small Band Gaps and High Hole Conductivities”, Feng Fei Zhang, Eva Aw, Alexander G. Eaton, Rebecca R. C. Shutt, Juhwan Lim, Jung Ho Kim, Thomas J. Macdonald, Cesar III D. L. Reyes, Arjun Ashoka, Raj Pandya, Oliver D. Payton, Loren Picco, Caroline E. Knapp, Furio Cora, Akshay Rao, Christopher A. Howard, Adam J. Clancy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03230
25. “Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Superstructures for Ultrapure Green Emissions”, Wen Kiat Chan, Jiawei Chen, Donglei Zhou, Junzhi Ye, Ricardo Javier Vázquez, Cheng Zhou, Guillermo Carlos Bazan, Akshay Rao, Zhongzheng Yu, Timothy Thatt Yang Tan, Nanomaterials, 2023, DOI: 10.3390/nano13050815,
2022
26. “Observation of an Ultrafast Exciton Transport Regime at Early Times in Quantum Dot Solids”, Zhilong Zhang, Jooyoung Sung, Daniel Toolan, Sanyang Han, Michael Weir, James Xiao, Simon Dowland, Mengxia Liu, Anthony Ryan, Richard Jones, Shujuan Huang, Akshay Rao. Nature Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01204-6, Full Text.
27. “Operando monitoring of single-particle kinetic state-of-charge heterogeneities and cracking in high-rate Li-ion anodes”, Alice J. Merryweather, Quentin Jacquet, Steffen P. Emge, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Clare P. Grey, Nature Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01324-z, Full Text.
28. “Engineering the Spin Exchange Interaction in Organic Semiconductors” Akshay Rao, Alexander Gillett, Richard Friend, Nature Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01347-6, Full Text.
29. “A New Frontier in Exciton Transport: Transient Delocalization”, Alexander J. Sneyd, David Beljonne, Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01133, Full Text.
30. “Operando visualisation of kinetically-induced lithium heterogeneities in single-particle layered Ni-rich cathodes”, Chao Xu, Alice J. Merryweather, Shrinidhi S. Pandurangi, Zhengyan Lun, David S. Hall, Vikram S. Deshpande, Norman A. Fleck, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Clare P. Grey, Joule, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.09.008, Full Text.
31. “Direct observation of ultrafast singlet exciton fission in three dimensions”, Arjun Ashoka, Nicolas Gauriot, Aswathy V Girija, Nipun Sawhney, Alexander J Sneyd, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Nature Communications, 13, Article number: 5963 (2022), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33647-5, Full Text.
32. “Extracting quantitative dielectric properties from pump-probe spectroscopy”, Arjun Ashoka, Ronnie R. Tamming, Aswathy V. Girija, Hope Bretscher, Sachin Dev Verma, Shang-Da Yang, Chih-Hsuan Lu, Justin M. Hodgkiss, David Ritchie, Chong Chen, Charles G. Smith, Christoph Schnedermann, Michael B. Price, Kai Chen & Akshay Rao. Nature Communications, 2022, Article number: 1437, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29112-y, Full Text.
33. “Quantitative Singlet Fission in Solution-Processable Dithienohexatrienes”, Kealan J. Fallon, Nipun Sawhney, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Ashish Sharma, Weixuan Zeng, Stephanie Montanaro, Anastasia Leventis, Simon Dowland, Oliver Millington, Daniel Congrave, Andrew Bond, Richard Friend, Akshay Rao, Hugo Bronstein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 51, 23516–23521, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10254, Full Text.
34. “Dielectric control of reverse intersystem crossing in thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters”, Alexander J. Gillett, Anton Pershin, Raj Pandya, Sascha Feldmann, Alexander J. Sneyd, Antonios M. Alvertis, Emrys W. Evans, Tudor H. Thomas, Lin-Song Cui, Bluebell H. Drummond, Gregory D. Scholes, Yoann Olivier, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend and David Beljonne. Nature Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01321-2, Full Text.
35. “Understanding the Photoluminescence Quenching of Liquid Exfoliated WS2 Monolayers”, Zhaojun Li, Farnia Rashvand, Hope Bretscher, Beata M. Szydłowska, James Xiao, Claudia Backes, Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, 126, 51, 21681–21688, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05284, Full Text
36. “Strong absorption and ultrafast localisation in NaBiS2 nanocrystals with slow charge-carrier recombination”, Yi-Teng Huang, Seán R Kavanagh, Marcello Righetto, Marin Rusu, Igal Levine, Thomas Unold, Szymon J Zelewski, Alexander J Sneyd, Kaiwen Zhang, Linjie Dai, Andrew J Britton, Junzhi Ye, Jaakko Julin, Mari Napari, Zhilong Zhang, James Xiao, Mikko Laitinen, Laura Torrente-Murciano, Samuel D Stranks, Akshay Rao, Laura M Herz, David O Scanlon, Aron Walsh, Robert LZ Hoye, Nature Communications, 13, Article number: 4960 (2022), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32669-3, Full Text.
37. “Thermodynamic Limits of Photon-Multiplier Luminescent Solar Concentrators”, Tomi K Baikie, Arjun Ashoka, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham, PRX Energy, 2022, PRX Energy 1, 033001, (2022), DOI: 10.1103/PRXEnergy.1.033001, Full Text.
38. “Triplet Transfer from PbS Quantum dots to Tetracene Ligands: Is Faster Always Better?”, Victor Gray, William Drake, Jesse R Allardice, Zhilong Zhang, James Xiao, Daniel G Congrave, Jeroen Royakkers, Weixuan Zeng, Simon Dowland, Neil C Greenham, Hugo Bronstein, John E Anthony, Akshay Rao, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2TC03470K, Full Text.
39. “Elucidating the Role of Antisolvents on the Surface Chemistry and Optoelectronic Properties of CsPbBrxI3-x Perovskite Nanocrystals”, Junzhi Ye, Zhenchao Li, Dominik J. Kubicki, Yunwei Zhang, Linjie Dai, Clara Otero-Martnez, Manuel A. Reus, Rakesh Arul, Kavya Reddy Dudipala, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Yi-Teng Huang, Zewei Li, Ziming Chen, Peter Muller-Buschbaum, Hin-Lap Yip, Samuel D. Stranks, Clare P. Grey, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Neil C. Greenham, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Akshay Rao, Robert L. Z. Hoye, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 27, 12102–12115, DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c0263, Full Text.
40. “Fast A-Site Cation Cross-Exchange at Room Temperature: Single-to Double- and Triple-Cation Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals”, Clara Otero-Martínez,Dr. Muhammad Imran,Dr. Nadine J. Schrenker, Junzhi Ye, Kangyu Ji, Akshay Rao, Samuel D. Stranks, Robert L. Z. Hoye, Sara Bals, Liberato Manna, Jorge Pérez-Juste, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, e202205617, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202205617, Full Text.
41. “Tuning the Coherent Propagation of Organic Exciton-Polaritons through Dark State Delocalization”, Raj Pandya, Arjun Ashoka, Kyriacos Georgiou, Jooyoung Sung, Rahul Jayaprakash, Scott Renken, Lizhi Gai, Zhen Shen, Akshay Rao and Andrew J. Musser, Advanced Science, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/advs.202105569, Full Text.
42. “A mechanistic study of the dopant-induced breakdown in halide perovskites using solid state energy storage devices”, Angus GM Mathieson, Wesley M Dose, Hans-Georg Steinrück, Christopher J Takacs, Sascha Feldmann, Raj Pandya, Alice J Merryweather, David Mackanic, Akshay Rao, Felix Deschler, Michael De Volder, Energy and Environmental Science, 2022, 15, 4323-4337, DOI: 10.1039/D2EE01754G, Full Text.
43. “Deoxyribonucleic Acid Encoded and Size-Defined œÄ-Stacking of Perylene Diimides”, Jeffrey Gorman, Sarah R. E. Orsborne, Akshay Sridhar, Raj Pandya, Peter Budden, Alexander Ohmann, Naitik A. Panjwani, Yun Liu, Jake L. Greenfield, Simon Dowland, Victor Gray, Sean T. J. Ryan, Sara De Ornellas, Afaf H. El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Jonathan R. Nitschke, Jan Behrends, Ulrich F. Keyser, Akshay Rao, Rosana Collepardo-Guevara, Eugen Stulz, Richard H. Friend, Florian Auras. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 1, 368–376, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10241, Full Text.
44. “Linking microscale morphologies to localised performance in singlet fission quantum dot photon multiplier thin films”, Daniel TW Toolan, Michael P Weir, Simon Dowland, Jurjen F Winkel, Jon R Willmott, Zhilong Zhang, Victor Gray, James Xiao, Anthony J Petty, John E Anthony, Neil C Greenham, Richard H Friend, Akshay Rao, Richard AL Jones, Anthony J Ryan, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10, 11192-11198, DOI: 10.1039/D2TC00677D, Full Text.
2021
45. “Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics and phase transitions in battery electrodes”, Alice J. Merryweather, Christoph Schnedermann, Quentin Jacquet, Clare P. Grey, Akshay Rao, Nature, 594, 522–528, 2021, Full Text.
46. “The role of charge recombination to spin-triplet excitons in non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells”, Alexander J. Gillett, Alberto Privitera, Rishat Dilmurat, Akchheta Karki, Deping Qian, Anton Pershin, Giacomo Londi, William K. Myers, Jaewon Lee, Jun Yuan, Seo-Jin Ko, Moritz K. Riede, Feng Gao, Guillermo C. Bazan, Akshay Rao, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, David Beljonne, Richard H. Friend, Nature, 597, 666–671, 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03840-5, Full Text.
47. “Microcavity-Like Exciton-Polaritons can be the Primary Photoexcitation in Bare Organic Semiconductors”, Raj Pandya, Richard Chen, Qifei Gu, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Oluwafemi S Ojambati, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Jeffrey Gorman, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D Onelli, Tom Willhammar, Duncan N Johnstone, Sean M Collins, Paul A Midgley, Florian Auras, Tomi Baikie, Rahul Jayaprakash, Fabrice Mathevet, Richard Soucek, Matthew Du, Silvia Vignolini, David G Lidzey, Jeremy J Baumberg, Richard H Friend, Thierry Barisien, Laurent Legrand, Alex W Chin, Andrew J Musser, Joel Yuen-Zhou, Semion K Saikin, Philipp Kukura, Akshay Rao, Nature Communications, 12, Article number: 6519, 2021, Full Text
48. “Highly efficient exciton transport via transient delocalization in films of poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers prepared by seeded growth”, Alexander J. Sneyd, Tomoya Fukui, David Palecek, Suryoday Prodhan, Isabella Wagner, Yifan Zhang, Jooyoung Sung, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Liam R. MacFarlane, J. Diego Garcia-Hernandez, Linjun Wang, George R. Whittell, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Kai Chen, David Beljonne, Ian Manners, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Science Advances, Vol. 7, no. 32, eabh4232, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh4232, 2021, Full Text.
49. “Mechanistic Insight to the Chemical Treatments of Monolayer Transition Metal Disulfides for Photoluminescence Enhancement”, Zhaojun Li, Hope Bretscher, Yunwei Zhang, Geraud Delport, James Xiao, Alpha Lee, Samuel D. Stranks, Akshay Rao, Nature Communications,12, Article number: 6044, 2021, Full Text.
50. “Ultrafast melting and recovery of collective order in the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5”, Hope M. Bretscher, Paolo Andrich, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnaga, Ajay K. Sood, Akshay Rao, Nature Communications, 12, Article number: 1699, 2021, Full Text.
51. “Imaging the coherent propagation of collective modes in the excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5 at room temperature”, Hope M. Bretscher, Paolo Andrich, Yuta Murakami, Denis Golež, Benjamin Remez, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnagea, Nigel R. Cooper, Andrew J. Millis, Philipp Werner, A. K. Sood, Akshay Rao, Science Advances, 2021, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6147, Full Text.
52. “Nanoscale Chemical Heterogeneity Dominates the Optoelectronic Response over Local Electronic Disorder and Strain in Alloyed Perovskite Solar Cells”, Kyle Frohna, Miguel Anaya, Stuart Macpherson, Jooyoung Sung, Tiarnan A. S. Doherty, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Andrew J. Winchester, Keshav M. Dani, Akshay Rao, Samuel D. Stranks, Nature Nanotechnology, 2021, DOI:10.1038/s41565-021-01019-7, Full Text.
53. “Photon upconversion through triplet exciton-mediated energy relays”, Sanyang Han, Hui Xu, Zhigao Yi, Jiangbin Zhang, Qifei Gu, Liangliang Liang, Xian Qin, Jiahui Xu, Yiming Wu, Artem Bakulin, Akshay Rao and Xiaogang Liu, Nature Communications, 12, Article number: 3704, (2021), Full Text.
54. “Non-Equilibrium Carrier Transport in Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot Solids and Heterostructures”, Mengxia Liu, Sachin Dev Verma, Zhilong Zhang, Jooyoung Sung, Akshay Rao, Nano Letters, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01892, Full Text
55. “Organic-quantum dot hybrid interfaces and their role in photon fission/fusion application”, Victor Gray, Jesse R. Allardice, Zhilong Zhang and Akshay Rao, Chemical Physics Reviews, 2, 031305, 2021, DOI:10.1063/5.0050464, Full Text.
56. “Rational Passivation of Sulfur Vacancy Defects in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”, Hope M. Bretscher, Zhaojun Li, James Xiao, Diana Y. Qiu, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Jack Alexander-Webber, Arelo O.A. Tanoh, Ye Fan, Géraud Delport, Cyan Williams, Samuel D. Stranks, Stephan Hofmann, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Steven G. Louie, Akshay Rao, ACS Nano,15, 5, 8780–8789, 2021, Full Text.
57. “Giant Photoluminescence Enhancement in MoSe2 monolayers treated with Oleic Acid Ligands”, Arelo O.A Tanoh, James Xiao, Jack Alexander-Webber, Raj Pandya, Zhaojun Li, Akshay Rao, Nanoscale Advances, 2021, Full Text.
58. “Exciton Diffusion in Highly-Ordered One Dimensional Conjugated Polymers: Effects of Back-Bone Torsion, Electronic Symmetry, Phonons and Annihilation”, Raj Pandya, Antonios M. Alvertis, Qifei Gu, Jooyoung Sung, Laurent Legrand, David Kréher, Thierry Barisien, Alex W. Chin, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 12, 3669–3678, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00193, Full Text.
59. “Efficient Energy Funneling in Spatially Tailored Segmented Conjugated Block Copolymer Nanofiber-Quantum Dot or Rod Conjugates”, Yifan Zhang, Huda Shaikh, Alexander J. Sneyd, Jia Tian, James Xiao, Arthur Blackburn, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend and Ian Manners, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c01571, Full Text.
60. “Insights into the Structure and Self-Assembly of Organic-Semiconductor/Quantum-Dot Blends”, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Michael P. Weir, Jesse Allardice, Joel A. Smith, Simon A. Dowland, Jurjen Winkel, James Xiao, Zhilong Zhang, Victor Gray, Adam L. Washington, Anthony J. Petty II, John E. Anthony, Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Richard A. L. Jones and Anthony J. Ryan, Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202109252, Full Text.
61. “Colloidal Metal-Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets: Thickness-Controlled Synthesis, Properties, and Application in Light-Emitting Diodes”, Clara Otero-Martínez, Junzhi Ye, Jooyoung Sung, Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Jorge Pérez-Juste, Zhiguo Xia, Akshay Rao, Robert L. Z. Hoye, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Advanced Materials, 2021, DOiL: 10.1002/adma.202107105, Full Text.
62. “Untargeted Effects in Organic Exciton-Polariton Transient Spectroscopy: A Cautionary Tale”, Scott Renken, Raj Pandya, Kyriacos Georgiou, Rahul Jayaprakash, Lizhi Gai, Zhen Shen, David G. Lidzey, Akshay Rao, Andrew J Musser, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 154701, 2021; DOI: 10.1063/5.0063173, Full Text.
63. “Competition between triplet pair formation and excimer-like recombination controls singlet fission yield”, A.Buyanova, Chanakarn Phansa, Maria E.Sandoval-Salinas, David Casanova, William K.Myers, Neil C.Greenham, AkshayRao, Weimin M.Chen, Yuttapoom Puttisong, Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 2, Issue 2, 100339, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100339, Full Text.
64. “Pentacene-Bridge Interactions in an Axially Chiral Binaphthyl Pentacene Dimer”, Ashish Sharma, Stavros Athanasopoulos, Elango Kumarasamy, Chanakarn Phansa, Amir Asadpoordarvish, Randy P. Sabatini, Raj Pandya, Kaia R. Parenti, Samuel N. Sanders, Dane R. McCamey, Luis M. Campos, Akshay Rao, Murad J. Y. Tayebjee, Girish Lakhwani, Phys. Chem. A ,125, 33, 7226, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05254, Full Text.
65. “Suppressing aggregation induced quenching in anthracene based conjugated polymers”, Daniel G. Congrave, Bluebell H. Drummond, Victor Gray, Andrew D. Bond, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend and Hugo Bronstein, Polymer Chemistry, 12, 1830-1836, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1PY00118C, Full Text.
2020
66. “Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanoparticles turn molecular triplet excitons bright”, Sanyang Han, Renren Deng, Qifei Gu, Limeng Ni, Uyen Huynh, Jiangbin Zhang, Zhigao Yi, Baodan Zhao, Hiroyuki Tamura, Anton Pershin, Hui Xu, Zhiyuan Huang, Shahab Ahmad , Mojtaba, Abdi-Jalebi, Aditya Sadhanala, Ming Lee Tang, Artem Bakulin, David Beljonne, Xiaogang Liu, Akshay Rao, Nature, 587, 594–599, 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2932-2, Full Text.
67. “Long-lived and disorder-free charge transfer states enable endothermic charge separation in efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells”, Ture F. Hinrichsen, Christopher C.S. Chan, David Paleček, Alexander Gillett, Shangshang Chen, Xinhui Zou, Chao Ma, Guichuan Zhang, Hin-Lap Yip, Kam Sing Wong, Richard H. Friend, He Yan, Akshay Rao, Philip C.Y. Chow, Nature Communications, Article number: 5617, 2020, Full Text.
68. “Optical projection and spatial separation of spin entangled triplet-pairs from the S1(21Ag–) state of pi-conjugated systems”, Raj Pandya, Qifei Gu, Alexandre Cheminal, Richard Y. S. Chen, Edward P. Booker, Richard Soucek, Michel Schott, Laurent Legrand, Fabrice Mathevet, Neil C. Greenham, Thierry Barisien, Andrew J. Musser, Alex W. Chin, Akshay Rao, CHEM, 2020, DOI:10.1016/j.chempr.2020.09.011, Full Text.
69. “Direct vs Delayed Triplet Energy Transfer from Organic Semiconductors to Quantum Dots and Implications for Luminescent Harvesting of Triplet Excitons”, Victor Gray, Jesse R. Allardice, Zhilong Zhang, Simon Dowland, James Xiao, Anthony J. Petty II, John E. Anthony, Neil C. Greenham, Akshay Rao, ACS Nano, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09339, Full Text.
70. “Directed Energy Transfer from Monolayer WS2 to Near-Infrared Emitting PbS–CdS Quantum Dots”, Arelo O. A. Tanoh, Nicolas Gauriot, Géraud Delport, James Xiao, Raj Pandya, Jooyoung Sung, Jesse Allardice, Zhaojun Li, Cyan A. Williams, Alan Baldwin, Samuel D. Stranks, and Akshay Rao, ACS Nano, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05818, Full Text.
71. “Optical and electronic properties of colloidal CdSe Quantum Rings”, James Xiao, Yun Liu, Violette Steinmetz, Mustafa Çağlar, Jeffrey Mc Hugh, Tomi Baikie, Nicolas Gauriot, Malgorzata Nguyen, Edoardo Ruggeri, Zahra Andaji-Garmaroudi, Samuel D. Stranks, Laurent Legrand, Thierry Barisien, Richard H. Friend, Neil C. Greenham, Akshay Rao, Raj Pandya, ACS Nano, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c01752, Full Text.
72. “The impact of exciton delocalization on exciton-vibration interactions in organic semiconductors”, Antonios M Alvertis, Raj Pandya, Loreta A Muscarella, Nipun Sawhney, Malgorzata Nguyen, Bruno Ehrler, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Alex W Chin, Bartomeu Monserrat, Physical Review B, 102, 081122(R), 2020, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.081122, Full Text.
73. “Enhanced Ballistic Transport of Charge Carriers in Alloyed and K-Passivated Alloyed Perovskite Thin Films”, Jooyoung Sung, Stuart Macpherson, Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 14, 5402–5406, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01548, Full Text.
74. “Thiol-Anchored TIPS-Tetracene Ligands with Quantitative Triplet Energy Transfer to PbS Quantum Dots and Improved Thermal Stability”, Victor Gray, Zhilong Zhang, Simon Dowland, Jesse R. Allardice, Antonios M. Alvertis, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, John E. Anthony, Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 17, 7239–7244, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02031, Full Text.
75. Controlling the structures of organic semiconductor–quantum dot nanocomposites through ligand shell chemistry”, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Michael P. Weir, Rachel C. Kilbride, Jon R. Willmott, Stephen M. King, James Xiao, Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Richard A. L., Anthony J. Ryan, Soft Matter, 16, 7970-798, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01109F, Full Text.
76. “Femtosecond Transient Absorption Microscopy of Singlet Exciton Motion in Side-Chain Engineered Perylene-Diimide Thin Films”, Raj Pandya, Richard Y. S. Chen, Qifei Gu, Jeffrey Gorman, Florian Auras, Jooyoung Sung, Richard Friend, Philipp Kukura, Christoph Schnedermann, Akshay Rao, J. Phys. Chem. A, 124, 13, 2721-2730, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00346, Full Text.
77. “First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains”, Antonios M. Alvertis, Raj Pandya, Claudio Quarti, Laurent Legrand, Thierry Barisien, Bartomeu Monserrat, Andrew J. Musser, Akshay Rao, Alex W. Chin, David Beljonne, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 084103, 2020, DOI: 10.1063/5.0019009, Full Text.
78. “Emission State Structure and Linewidth Broadening Mechanisms in Type-II CdSe/CdTe Core-Crown Nanoplatelets: A Combined Theoretical-Single Nanocrystal Optical Study”, Violette Steinmetz, Juan I. Climente, Raj Pandya, Josep Planelles, Florent Margaillan, Yuttapoom Puttisong, Marion Dufour, Sandrine Ithurria, Ashish Sharma, Girish Lakhwani, Laurent Legrand, Frederick Bernardot, Christophe Testelin, Maria Chamarro, Alex W. Chin, Akshay Rao, Thierry Barisien, J. Chem. Phys., 124, 31, 17352–17363, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04547, Full Text.
79. “Excitation dynamics in layered lead halide perovskite crystal slabs and microcavities”, Kentaro Fujiwara, Shuai Zhang, Shun Takahashi, Limeng Ni, Akshay Rao and Kenichi Yamashita, ACS Photonics, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00038, Full Text.
2019
80. “Long-Range Wavelike Propagation of Carriers in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites Thin Films”, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, Limeng Ni, Aditya Sadhanala, Richard Y.S. Chen, Changsoon Cho, Lee Priest, Jong Min Lim, Hyun-Kyung Kim, Bartomeu Monserrat, Philipp Kukura and Akshay Rao, Nature Physics, 16, 171–176, (2020), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0730-2, Full Text.
81. “All-optical detection of neuronal membrane depolarization in live cells using colloidal quantum dots”, Mustafa Caglar, Raj Pandya, James Xiao, Sarah K Foster, Giorgio Divitini, Richard YS Chen, Neil C Greenham, Kristian Franze, Akshay Rao and Ulrich F Keyser, Nano Letters, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03026, Full Text.
82. “Ultrafast Tracking of Exciton and Charge Carrier Transport in Optoelectronic Materials on the Nanometer Scale”, Christoph Schnedermann, Jooyoung Sung, Raj Pandya, Sachin Dev Verma, Richard YS Chen, Nicolas Gauriot, Hope Bretscher, Philipp Kukura and Akshay Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6727-6733, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02437, Full Text.
83. “Engineering Molecular Ligand Shells on Quantum Dots for Quantitative Harvesting of Triplet Excitons Generated by Singlet Fission”, Jesse R. Allardice, Arya Thampi, Simon Dowland, James Xiao, Victor Gray, Zhilong Zhang, Peter Budden, Anthony J. Petty II, Nathaniel J. L. K. Davis, Neil C. Greenham, John E. Anthony and Akshay Rao, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 32, 12907-12915, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06584, Full Text.
84. “Enhancing Photoluminescence and Mobilities in WS2 Monolayers with Oleic Acid Ligands”, Arelo O. A Tanoh, Jack Alexander-Webber, James Xiao, Géraud Delport, Cyan A. Williams, Hope Bretscher, Nicolas Gauriot, Jesse Allardice, Raj Pandya, Ye Fan, Zhaojun Li, Silvia Vignolini, Samuel D. Stranks, Stephan Hofmann and Akshay Rao, Nano Letters, 19,9, 6299-6307, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02431, Full Text.
85. “Excited-State Dynamics in Fully Conjugated 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks”, Andreas C. Jakowetz, Ture F. Hinrichsen, Laura Ascherl, Torben Sick, Mona Calik, Florian Auras, Dana D. Medina, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao and Thomas Bein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 29, 11565-11571, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03956584, Full Text.
86. “A Molecular Movie of Ultrafast Singlet Fission”, Christoph Schnedermann, Antonios M. Alvertis, Torsten Wende, Steven Lukman, Jiaqi Feng, Florian A. Y. N. Schroder, David H. P. Turban, Jishan Wu, Nicholas D. M. Hine, Neil C. Greenham, Alex W. Chin, Akshay Rao, Philipp Kukura & Andrew J. Musser, Nature Communications, Volume 10, Article number: 4207 (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12220-7, Full Text.
87. “Fine Structure and Spin Dynamics of Linearly Polarized Indirect Excitons in Two-Dimensional CdSe/CdTe Colloidal Heterostructures”, Raj Pandya, Violette Steinmetz, Yuttapoom Puttisong, Marion Dufour, Weimin M. Chenm Richard Y. S. Chenm Thierry Barisien, Ashish Sharma, Girish Lakhwani, Anatolie Mitioglu, Peter C. M. Christianen, Laurent Legrand, Frédérick Bernardot, Christophe Testelin, Alex W. Chin, Sandrine Ithurria, Maria Chamarro and Akshay Rao, ACS Nano, 13,9, 10140-10153, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03252, Full Text.
88. “Slow Carrier Cooling in Hybrid Pb–Sn Halide Perovskites”, Sachin Dev Verma, Qifei Gu, Aditya Sadhanala, Vijay Venugopalan and Akshay Rao, ACS Energy Letters, 4 (3), 736–740, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00251, Full Text.
89. “Ligand Shell Structure in Lead Sulfide–Oleic Acid Colloidal Quantum Dots Revealed by Small-Angle Scattering”, Michael P. Weir, Daniel T. W. Toolan, Rachel C. Kilbride, Nicholas J. W. Penfold, Adam L. Washington, Stephen M. King, James Xiao, Zhilong Zhang, Victor Gray, Simon Dowland, Jurjen Winkel, Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Anthony J. Ryan, Richard A. L. Jones, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, 16, 4713-4719, (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01008, Full Text.
90. “Photon Upconversion from Near-Infrared to Blue Light with TIPS-Anthracene as an Efficient Triplet–Triplet Annihilator”, Naoyuki Nishimura, Victor Gray, Jesse R. Allardice, Zhilong Zhang, Anton Pershin, David Beljonne, Akshay Rao, ACS Materials Letters, 1, 6, 660-664, (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00287, Full Text.
91. “Photon upconversion utilizing energy beyond the band gap of crystalline silicon with a hybrid TES-ADT/ PbS quantum dots system”, Naoyuki Nishimura , Jesse R Allardice , James Xiao, Qifei Gu, Victor Gray and Akshay Rao, Chemical Science, (2019). DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00821G1, Full Text.
92. “Chain Coupling and Luminescence in High-Mobility, Low-Disorder Conjugated Polymers”, Tudor H. Thomas, Jasmine P. H. Rivett, Qifei Gu, David J. Harkin, Johannes M. Richter, Aditya Sadhanala, Chaw Keong Yong, Sam Schott, Katharina Broch, John Armitage, Alexander J. Gillett, S. Matthew Menke, Akshay Rao, Dan Credgington, Henning Sirringhaus, ACS Nano, 13, 12, 13716-13727, (2019), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07147, Full Text.
93. “Exploiting Excited-State Aromaticity To Design Highly Stable Singlet Fission Materials”, Kealan J. Fallon, Peter Budden, Enrico Salvadori, Alex M. Ganose, Christopher N. Savory, Lissa Eyre, Simon Dowland, Qianxiang Ai, Stephen Goodlett, Chad Risko, David O. Scanlon, Christopher W. M. Kay, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Andrew J. Musser and Hugo Bronstein, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2019). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06346, Full Text.
94. “Improving the photoluminescence quantum yields of quantum dot films through a donor/acceptor system for near-IR LEDs”, Nathaniel. J. L. K. Davis, Jesse R. Allardice, James Xiao, Arfa Karani, Tom C. Jellicoe, Akshay Rao and Neil C. Greenham, Materials Horizons, 6, 137-143, (2019). DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01122B, Full Text.
95. “Excimer Formation in Carboxylic Acid-Functionalized Perylene Diimides Attached to Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles”, Jeffrey Gorman, Raj Pandya, Jesse R. Allardice, Michael B. Price, Timothy W. Schmidt, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao and Nathaniel J. L. K. Davis, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123 (6), 3433–3440,(2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b12061, Full Text.
96. “Scan Strategies for Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy at Optical and Vibrational Energies in Perylene Diimide Nanobelts”, Sean M. Collins, Demie M. Kepaptsoglou, Duncan N. Johnstone, Tom Willhammar, Raj Pandya, Jeffrey Gorman, Richard Friend, Akshay Rao, Paul A. Midgley and Quentin Ramasse, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 25, S2, (2019). DOI: 10.1017/S1431927619009425, Full Text.
97. “Magnetic Field Modulation of Recombination Processes in Organic Photovoltaics”, Edward P. Booker, Sam L. Bayliss, Alex Jen, Akshay Rao and Neil C. Greenham, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, 2,(2019), DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2889574, Full Text.
2018
98. “Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth”, Xu-Hui Jin, Michael B. Price, John R. Finnegan, Charlotte E. Boott, Johannes M. Richter, Akshay Rao, S. Matthew Menke, Richard H. Friend, George R. Whittell, Ian Manners, Science, Vol. 360, Issue 6391, pp. 897-900, DOI: 10.1126/science.aar8104, Full Text.
99. “Exciton–Phonon Interactions Govern Charge-Transfer-State Dynamics in CdSe/CdTe Two-Dimensional Colloidal Heterostructures”, Raj Pandya, Richard Y. S. Chen, Alexandre Cheminal, Marion Dufour, Johannes M. Richter, Tudor H. Thomas, Shahab Ahmed, Aditya Sadhanala, Edward P. Booker, Giorgio Divitini, Felix Deschler, Neil C. Greenham, Sandrine Ithurria, Akshay Rao, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, 43, 14097–14111, (2018), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05842, Full Text
100. “The potential of singlet fission photon multipliers as an alternative to silicon-based tandem solar cells”, MH Futscher, A Rao, B Ehrler, ACS Energy Letters, 3 (10), 2587-2592, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01322
101. “Site-selective measurement of coupled spin pairs in an organic semiconductor”, Sam L Bayliss, Leah R Weiss, Anatol Mitioglu, Krzysztof Galkowski, Zhuo Yang, Kamila Yunusova, Alessandro Surrente, Karl J Thorley, Jan Behrends, Robert Bittl, John E Anthony, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Paulina Plochocka, PCM Christianen, Neil C Greenham, Alexei D Chepelianskii, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201718868, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718868115, (2018), Full Text.
102. “Order Enables Efficient Electron-hole Separation at an Organic Heterojunction with a Small Energy Loss”, S. Matthew Menke, Alexandre Cheminal, Patrick Conaghan, Niva A. Ran, Neil C. Greehnam, Guillermo C. Bazan, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Nature Communications, 9, Article number: 277, DOI:10.1038/s41467-017-02457-5, (2018), Full Text.
103. “Singlet Fission and Triplet Transfer to PbS Quantum Dots in TIPS-Tetracene Carboxylic Acid Ligands”, Nathaniel J. L. K. Davis, Jesse R. Allardice, James Xiao, Anthony J. Petty, Neil C. Greenham, John E. Anthony, and Akshay Rao, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9, pp 1454–1460, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00099, (2018), Full Text.
104. “Ultrafast Dynamics of Polariton Cooling and Renormalization in an Organic Single Crystal Microcavity under Non-Resonant Pumping”, Kenichi Yamashita, Uyen Huynh, Johannes M Richter, Lissa Eyre, Felix Deschler, Akshay Rao, Kaname Goto, Takumi Nishimura, Takeshi Yamao, Shu Hotta, Hisao Yanagi, Masaaki Nakayama, Richard H Friend, ACS Photonics, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00041, (2018), Full Text.
105. “All-optical augmentation of solar cells using a combination of up- and downconversion”, Murad J. Y. Tayebjee; Akshay Rao; Timothy W. Schmidt, J. of Photonics for Energy, 8(2), 022007, DOI:10.1117/1.JPE.8.022007, (2018), Full Text.
106. “Hybridizing semiconductor nanocrystals with metal-organic frameworks for visible and near-infrared photon upconversion”, Shogo Amemori, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Marcus Leo Böhm, James Xiao, Uyen Huynh, Tomoki Oyama, Kenji Kaneko, Akshay Rao, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, Dalton Transactions, DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04794K, (2018), Full Text.
2017
107. “Elucidation of Excitation Energy Dependent Correlated Triplet Pair Formation Pathways in an Endothermic Singlet Fission System”, Arya Thampi, Hannah L. Stern, Alexandre Cheminal, Murad J. Y. Tayebjee, Anthony J. Petty II, John E. Anthony and Akshay Rao, Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2017), DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06274, Full Text
108. “Ultrafast Triplet Pair Formation and Subsequent Thermally Activated Dissociation Control Efficient Endothermic Singlet Exciton Fission”, Hannah L Stern, Alexandre Cheminal, Shane R Yost, Katharina Broch, Sam L Bayliss, Kai Chen, Maxim Tabachnyk, Karl Thorley, Neil Greenham, Justin Hodgkiss, John Anthony, Martin Head-Gordon, Andrew J Musser, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Nature Chemistry, (2017), doi:10.1038/nchem.2856, Full Text, Open Access.
109. “Visualising Excitations at Buried Heterojunctions in Organic Semiconductor Blends”, Andreas C. Jakowetz, Marcus L. Böhm, Aditya Sadhanala, Sven Huettner, Akshay Rao and Richard H. Friend, Nature Materials, 16, 551–557, (2017), Full Text.
110. “Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley–Queisser limit”, Akshay Rao & Richard H Friend, Nature Reviews Materials, 2, Article number: 17063, doi:10.1038/natrevmats.2017.63, (2017), Full text here
111. “Real-Time Observation of Exciton-Phonon Coupling Dynamics in Self-Assembled Hybrid Perovskite Quantum Wells”, Limeng Ni, Uyen Huynh, Alexandre Cheminal, Tudor H. Thomas, Ravichandran Shivanna, Ture F. Hinrichsen, Shahab Ahmad, Aditya Sadhanala and Akshay Rao, ACS NANO, (2017), 10.1021/acsnano.7b03984, Full Text here
112. “Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells”, Yasunari Tamai, Yeli Fan, Vincent O. Kim, Kostiantyn Ziabrev, Akshay Rao, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Richard H. Friend and S. Matthew Menke, ACS NANO, (2017), 10.1021/acsnano.7b06575, Full Text here
113. “On the energetics of bound charge-transfer states in organic photovoltaics”, Jiangbin Zhang, Andreas Jakowetz, Guangru Li, Dawei Di, Stephen Matthew Matthew Menke, Akshay Rao, Richard Friend, Artem A Bakulin, J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 11949-11959, (2017), Full Text
2016
114. “Real-Time Observation of Multiexcitonic States and Ultrafast Singlet Fission Using Coherent 2D Electronic Spectroscopy”, Artem A. Bakulin, Sarah E. Morgan, Tom B. Kehoe, Mark W.B Wilson, Alex Chin, Donatas Zigmantas, Dassia Egorova, and Akshay Rao. Nature Chemistry, 8, 16–23 (2016). Full Text.
115. “Observation of Strongly Exchange-Coupled Triplet Pairs in an Organic Semiconductor”, Leah R. Weiss, Sam L. Bayliss, Felix Kraffert, Karl J. Thorley, John E. Anthony, Robert Bittl, Richard Friend, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham, and Jan Behrends. Nature Physics, (2016). Full Text.
116. “What Controls the Rate of Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Charge Separation Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaic Blends”, Andreas C Jakowetz, Marcus L Böhm, Jiangbin Zhang, Aditya Sadhanala, Sven Huettner, Artem A Bakulin, Akshay Rao, and Richard H Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2016). Full Text.
117. “Synthesis and Optical Properties of Lead-Free Cesium Tin Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals”, Tom C Jellicoe, Johannes M Richter, Hugh FJ Glass, Maxim Tabachnyk, Ryan Brady, Siân E Dutton, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Dan Credgington, Neil C Greenham, and Marcus L Böhm. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138, 9, (2016). Full Text.
118. “Sub-10 Femtosecond Time-Resolved Vibronic Microscopy”, Christoph Schnedermann, Jong Min Lim, Torsten Wende, Alex Soares Duarte, Limeng Ni, Qifei Gu, Aditya Sadhanala, Akshay Rao, and Philipp Kukura, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02387, (2016), Full Text.
119. “Spin signatures of exchange-coupled triplet pairs formed by singlet fission”, Sam L Bayliss, Leah R Weiss, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Alexei D Chepelianskii, and Neil C Greenham. Physical Review B, 94, 4, (2016). Full Text.
120. “A Complete Quantitative Analysis of Spatio‐Temporal Dynamics of Excitons in Functional Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes”, Amrita Dey, Akshay Rao, Dinesh Kabra. Advanced Optical Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600678. Full Text.
121. “Charge Generation and Electron-Trapping Dynamics in Hybrid Nanocrystal-Polymer Solar Cells”, Frederik S. F. Morgenstern, Marcus L. Böhm, René J. P. Kist, Aditya Sadhanala, Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao, and Neil C. Greenham. J. Phys. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07591. Full Text.
2015
122. “Evidence for Conical Intersection Dynamics Mediating Ultrafast Singlet Exciton Fission”, Andrew J. Musser, Matz Liebel, Christoph Schnedermann, Torsten Wende, Tom B. Kehoe, Akshay Rao, and Philipp Kukura. Nature Physics, 11, 352–357 (2015) Full Text.
123. “Electroluminescence from Organometallic Lead Halide Perovskite-Conjugated Polymer Diodes”, Aditya Sadhanala, Abhishek Kumar, Sandeep Pathak, Akshay Rao, Ullrich Steiner, Neil C. Greenham, Henry J. Snaith and Richard H. Friend. Advanced Electronic Materials, 1, 3, (2015). Full Text.
124. “First Principles Calculations of Charge Transfer Excitations in Polymer–Fullerene Complexes: Influence of Excess Energy”, Dorota Niedzialek, Ivan Duchemin, Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz, Silvio Osella, Akshay Rao, Richard Friend, Xavier Blase, Stephan Kümmel, David Beljonne. Advanced Functional Materials, 25, 13, (2015). Full Text.
2014
125. “Resonant Energy Transfer of Triplet Excitons from Pentacene to PbSe Nanocrystals”, Maxim Tabachnyk, Bruno Ehrler, Simon Gélinas, Marcus L. Böhm, Brian J. Walker, Kevin P. Musselman, Neil C. Greenham, Richard H. Friend and Akshay Rao. Nature Materials 13, 1033, (2014). Full Text
126. “Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes”, Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao, Abhishek Kumar, Samuel L. Smith, Alex W. Chin, Jenny Clark, Tom S. van der Poll, Guillermo C. Bazan, Richard H. Friend, Science, 343, 6170, 512-516, (2014). Full Text
127. “Unequal Partnership: Asymmetric Roles of Polymeric Donor and Fullerene Acceptor in Generating Free Charge” Brett M. Savoie, Akshay Rao, Artem A. Bakulin, Simon Gelinas, Bijan Movaghar, Richard H. Friend, Tobin J. Marks, Mark A. Ratner. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (7), 2876–2884, (2014). Full Text
128. “A Transferable Model For Singlet Fission Kinetics”, Shane R. Yost, Jiye Lee, Mark W. B. Wilson, David P. McMahon, Rebecca R. Parkhurst, Nicholas J. Thompson, Akshay Rao, Kerr K. F. Johnson, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Timothy M. Swager, Richard H. Friend, Marc A. Baldo and Troy Van Voorhis. Nature Chemistry, 6, 492–497 (2014). Full Text
129. “Ultrafast Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Conjugated Polymer: Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticle Blends”, Frederik S.F. Morgenstern, Akshay Rao, Marcus L. Boehm, René J.P. Kist, Yana Vaynzof and Neil C. Greenham. ACS NANO, 8 (2), 1647–1654, (2014). Full Text
130. “Quantitative Bimolecular Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics through Triplet Exciton Formation”, Philip C.Y. Chow, Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (9), 3424–3429, (2014). Full Text
131. “How Disorder Controls the Kinetics of Triplet Charge Recombination in Semiconducting Organic Polymer Photovoltaics”, Eric R. Bittner, Vladimir Lankevic, Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao, David A. Ginger and Richard H. Friend, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16, 20321, (2014). Full Text
132. “First Principles Calculations of Charge Transfer Excitations in Polymer–Fullerene Complexes: Influence of Excess Energy”, Dorota Niedzialek, Ivan Duchemin, Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz, Silvio Osella, Akshay Rao, Richard Friend, Xavier Blase, Stephan Kümmel, David Beljonne, Advanced Functional Materials, doi: 10.1002/adfm.201402682. Full Text
133. “Trap-Induced Losses in Hybrid Photovoltaics”, Feng Gao, Zhe Li, Jianpu Wang, Akshay Rao, Ian A. Howard, Agnese Abrusci, Sylvain Massip, Christopher R. McNeill and Neil C. Greenham. ACS NANO, 8 (4), 3213-3221, (2014). Full Text
134. “Bimolecular Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics”, Girish Lakhwani, Akshay Rao, Richard H Friend, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 65, (2014). Full Text
135. “Interface limited charge extraction and recombination in organic photovoltaics”, Abhishek Kumar, Girish Lakhwani, Einat Elmalem, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham and Richard H. Friend, Energy & Environmental Science, 7, 2227-2231, (2014). Full Text
2013
136. “The Role of Spin in the Kinetic Control of Recombination in Organic Photovoltaics”, Akshay Rao, Philip C.Y. Chow, Simon Gélinas, Cody W. Schlenker, Chang-Zhi Li, Hin-Lap Yip, Alex K-Y. Jen, David S. Ginger, Richard H. Friend, Nature, 500 (7463), 435-439, (2013). Full Text
137. “Temperature-Independent Singlet Exciton Fission in Tetracene”, Mark W. B. Wilson, Akshay Rao, Kerr Johnson, Simon Gélinas, Riccardo di Pietro, Jenny Clark, Richard H. Friend, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135 (44), 16680–16688, (2013). Full Text
138. “Singlet Exciton Fission in Polycrystalline Pentacene: From Photophysics toward Devices”, Mark W. B. Wilson, Akshay Rao, Bruno Ehrler, Richard H Friend, Accounts of Chemical Research, 46 (6), 1330–1338, (2013). Full Text
139. “Triplet Dynamics in Pentacene Crystals: Applications to Fission-Sensitized Photovoltaics”, Andrey D. Poletayev, Jenny Clark, Mark W. B. Wilson, Akshay Rao, Yoshitaka Makino, Shu Hotta, Richard H. Friend, Advanced Materials, 26, 919–924, (2013). Full Text
2012
140. “The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalised States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors”, Artem A. Bakulin, Akshay Rao, Vlad G. Pavelyev, Dorota Niedzialek, Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne, Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Richard H. Friend, Science, 335, 6074, 1340-1344, (2012). Full Text
141. “Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices” Artem A Bakulin, Stoichko D Dimitrov, Akshay Rao, Philip CY Chow, Christian B Nielsen, Bob Camille Schroeder, Iain McCulloch, Huib J Bakker, James R Durrant, Richard H Friend, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4 (1), 209–215, (2012). Full Text
142. “Singlet Exciton Fission-Sensitized Infrared Quantum Dot Solar Cells”, Bruno Ehrler, Mark W. B. Wilson, Akshay Rao, Richard H. Friend and Neil C. Greenham, Nano Letters, 12 (2), 1053–1057 (2012). Full Text
143. “Exciton-charge annihilation in organic semiconductor films”, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, Akshay Rao, Alex Barker, Andrew R. Campbell, R. Alex Marsh, and Richard H. Friend, Advanced Functional Materials, 22 (8), 1567–1577, (2012). Full Text
144. “Excitons and charges at organic semiconductor heterojunctions”, Richard H Friend, Matthew Phillips, Akshay Rao, Mark W.B. Wilson, Zhe Li and Christopher R McNeill, Faraday Discussions, 155, 339-348, (2012). Full Text
2011
145. “Photophysics of Pentacene Thin Films: The Role of Exciton Fission and Heating Effects”, Akshay Rao, Mark W. B. Wilson, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, Riccardo Di Pietro and Richard H. Friend, Physical Review B, 84, 195411, (2011). Full Text
146. “Ultrafast Dynamics of Exciton Fission in Polycrystalline Pentacene”, Mark W.B. Wilson, Akshay Rao, J. Clark, R. S. S. Kumar, D. Brida, G. Cerullo, and R. H. Friend, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (31), 11830–11833, (2011). Full Text
147. “Time-Evolution of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) as an Energy Relay Dye in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”, Nicola Humphry‐Baker, Kristina Driscoll, Akshay Rao, Tomas Torres, Henry Snaith, Richard Friend, Nano Letters (2011). Full Text
148. “Polymer Blend Solar Cells Based on a High-Mobility Naphthalenediimide-Based Polymer Acceptor: Device Physics, Photophysics and Morphology”, Jennifer R. Moore, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, Akshay Rao, Sylvain Massip, Benjamin Watts, David J. Morgan, Richard H. Friend, Christopher R. McNeill and Henning Sirringhaus, Advanced Energy Materials, 1, 230–240, (2011). Full Text
2010
149. “Exciton Fission and Charge Generation via Triplet Excitons in Pentacene/C60 Bilayers”, Akshay Rao, Mark W.B. Wilson, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, Heinz Bassler and Richard H. Friend. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132 (36), 12698–12703, (2010). Full Text
150. “Subnanosecond Geminate Charge Recombination in Polymer-Polymer Photovoltaic Devices”, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Andrew R. Campbell, R. Alex Marsh, Akshay Rao, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, and Richard H. Friend, Physical Review Letters, 104, 177701, (2010). Full Text
151. “Polymeric spin-valves at room temperature”, Nicola A Morley, D Dhandapani, A Rao, H Al Qahtani, MRJ Gibbs, M Grell, D Eastwood and BK Tanner, Synthetic Metals, 161, 7–8, 558–562, (2010). Full Text
2009
152. “Efficient ZnO Nanowire Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Organic Dyes and Core−shell Nanostructures”, Natalie O. V. Plank, Ian Howard, Akshay Rao et.al. J. Phys. Chem. C, 113 (43), 18515–18522, (2009). Full Text
153. “Effect of polymer processing on spin magnetoresistance in organic structures”, D. Dhandapani, A. Rao, N. A. Morley, A. Das, M. Grell, and M. R. J. Gibbs. J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07C702, (2009). Full Text
2008
154. “Comparison of Room Temperature Polymeric Spin-Valves With Different Organic Components”, D. Dhandapani, N. A. Morley, A. Rao, A. Das, M. Grell, and M. R. J. Gibbs. IEEE Transactions On Magnetics, Vol. 44, No. 11, (2008). Full Text
155. “Room temperature organic spintronics”, N. A. Morley, A. Rao, D. Dhandapani, M. R. J. Gibbs, M. Grell, and T. Richardson. J. Appl. Phys. 103, 07F306 (2008). Full Text
