College of Arts and Sciences

In AFOSR-funded research, graduate student J. J. Mihaly, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Purdue University, has completed an extensive study of the synthesis and photophysics of triplet-photoactive gold(I) alkynyls, with comparisons to the corresponding gold(I) aryls.  Ultrafast spectroscopic studies reveal efficient intersystem crossing and high...

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In DOE-funded research, undergraduate Mengdi Li and graduate student Ted Liska in the laboratory of Thomas Gray, in collaboration with the university of Houston and Purdue University, have discovered platinum(II) isonitrile complexes that phosphoresce in solution and the solid state.  Triplet-state light emitters have potential applications in the design...

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DOE-funded research by graduate student Ted Liska and undergraduate Anna Swetz in the laboratory of Thomas Gray, in collaboration with the University of Houston and Purdue University, has uncovered a chelating ligand that combines with platinum(II) alkynyls to yield efficient solid-state triplet light emission.  Read about it in Chem....

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Research by graduate student J. J. Mihaly in the lab of Thomas Gray, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Air Force Academy, and Purdue University, has generated new phosphorescent organogold molecules having microsecond-scale excited-state lifetimes at room temperature.  Read about it in Organometallics.  

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Invited Review by undergraduate student Brennan Ashwood and graduate student Marvin Pollum in the Crespo Group title “Photochemical and Photodynamical Properties of Sulfur-Substituted Nucleic Acid Bases”, among the top most cited articles in recent publication history of the Photochemistry & Photobiology journal of the American Society for Photobiology. This article was...

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