Recent Selected Publications

Undergraduate authors are underlined.

A. Austin, N. J. Hestand, C. Zhong, X. Zhu, M. Zdilla, F.C. Spano, J.M. Szarko,“Enhanced Davydov Splitting in Crystals of a Perylene Diimide Derivative,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, submitted.

M.T. Weintraub, E. Xhakaj, A. Austin, J.M. Szarko, “The effects of donor:acceptor intermolecular mixing and acceptor crystallization on the composition ratio of blended, spin coated organic thin films,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016, 4, 2256-7765.

M.T. Weintraub, A. Austin, J.M. Szarko,”Effects of molecular weight and crystallization on the donor-acceptor composition ratio of spin-coated, blended, organic semiconductor films,”Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 251, 3-ENFL.

P. Sippel, J.M. Szarko, T. Hannappel, R. Eichberger, “Ultrafast electron scattering from surface to bulk states at the InP(100) surface,” Physical Review B 2015, 115, 115312.

J.M.Szarko, B.S. Rolczynski, S.J. Lou, T. Xu, J. Strzalka, T.J. Marks, L. Yu, L.X. Chen, “Photovoltaic Function and Exciton/Charge Transfer Dynamics in a Highly Efficient Semiconducting Copolymer,” Advanced Functional Materials 2014, 24, 10-26.

B.S. Rolczynski, J.M. Szarko, H.J. Son, L. Yu, L.X. Chen, “Effects of Exciton Polarity in Charge-Transfer Polymer/PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Films,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2014, 5, 1856-1863.

T. Xu, L. Lu, T. Zheng, J.M. Szarko, A. Schneider, L.X. Chen, L. Yu, “Tuning the Polarizability in Donor Polymers with a Thiophenesaccharin Unit for Organic Photovoltaic Applications,” Advanced Functional Materials 2014, 24, 3432–3437.

A.K. Blackburn, A.C.H. Sue, A.K Shveyd, D. Cao, A. Tayi, A. Narayanan,  B.S.Rolczynski, J.M. Szarko, O.A. Bozdemir, R Wakabayashi, J. Lehrman, B Kahr, L.X. Chen, M.S. Nassar, S.I. Stupp, J.F. Stoddart, “Lock-Arm Supramolecular Ordering: A Molecular Construction Set for Cocrystallizing Organic Charge Transfer Complexes,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 49, 17224-17235.