Cheyenne Christopherson
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)
Research Topic
Red-Emitting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Materials for Sensor Applications
Zachary Hudson
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Luminescent materials
Organic electronics
Polymer chemistry
Organic chemistry
Organic light-emitting diodes
Relevant Degree Programs
Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
I am interested in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Research Methodology
Fluorescence spectroscopy
Atomic force microscopy
Gel permeation chromatography
Polymer synthesis
Cyclic voltammetry
Density functional theory
Recruitment
Doctoral students
2021
2022
1) Luminescent materials design for applications in organic electronics.
2) Fluorescent polymer nanoparticles for biological sensing with high sensitivity.
3) Ultrastable fluorophores for catalysis, electroluminescence, and two-photon fluorescence.
Academic: A first-class grade point average (80%+) majoring in chemistry or a closely related discipline. Senior-level courses in chemistry are an asset.
Research: Undergraduate research experience, including a senior thesis project and one or more terms as a summer research assistant. Experience in one or more areas of synthetic chemistry (organic, inorganic, polymer) are an asset.
Soft skills: i) Interest in broad, multidisciplinary areas of chemistry and materials science; ii) A desire to work collaboratively as part of a team to accomplish shared goals.
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Publications
- Deep-blue fluorophores with imidazoacridine acceptors: enhancing photostability and two-photon fluorescence using structural constraint (2021)
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, - Exploring the Scope of Through-Space Charge-Transfer Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Acrylic Donor–Acceptor Copolymers (2021)
Macromolecules, - 1,8-Naphthalimide-Based Polymers Exhibiting Deep-Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Their Application in Ratiometric Temperature Sensing (2020)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, - A Rapidly Deployable Negative Pressure Enclosure for Aerosol-Generating Medical Procedures (2020)
- Bis(hexamethylazatriangulene)sulfone: a high-stability deep blue-violet fluorophore with 100% quantum yield and CIEy < 0.07 (2020)
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, - Blue to Yellow Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence with Quantum Yields near Unity in Acrylic Polymers Based on D−π–A Pyrimidines (2020)
Macromolecules, - Color-Tunable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in Oxadiazole-Based Acrylic Copolymers: Photophysical Properties and Applications in Ratiometric Oxygen Sensing (2020)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, - Dextran Functionalization of Semiconducting Polymer Dots and Conjugation with Tetrameric Antibody Complexes for Bioanalysis and Imaging (2020)
ACS Applied Bio Materials, - Donor–Acceptor Materials Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Using a Planarized N-Phenylbenzimidazole Acceptor (2020)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, - Organization of Chromophores into Multiblock Bottlebrush Nanofibers Allows for Regulation of Energy Transfer Processes (2020)
Chemistry of Materials, - Room temperature crystallization of amorphous polysiloxane using photodimerization (2020)
Chemical Science, - Self-assembly of luminescent triblock bottlebrush copolymers in solution (2020)
Polymer Chemistry, - Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence in 1,3,4-Oxadiazoles with π-Extended Donors (2020)
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, - Thermally Assisted Fluorescent Polymers: Polycyclic Aromatic Materials for High Color Purity and White-Light Emission (2020)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, - Toward Biodegradable Electronics: Ionic Diodes Based on a Cellulose Nanocrystal–Agarose Hydrogel (2020)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, - Tunable benzothiadiazole-based donor–acceptor materials for two-photon excited fluorescence (2020)
Materials Chemistry Frontiers, - Aggregation-Induced Energy Transfer in Color-Tunable Multiblock Bottlebrush Nanofibers (2019)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, - Cu(0)-RDRP as an efficient and low-cost synthetic route to blue-emissive polymers for OLEDs (2019)
Polymer Chemistry, - Fluorescent Heterotelechelic Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Cellular Imaging (2019)
ACS Applied Nano Materials, - Interface-Dependent Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence in Bottlebrush Polymer Nanofibers (2019)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141 (35), 13970--13976 - Self-assembly of giant bottlebrush block copolymer surfactants from luminescent organic electronic materials (2019)
Soft Matter, 15 (27), 5421--5430 - An efficient room-temperature synthesis of highly phosphorescent styrenic Pt(ii) complexes and their polymerization by ATRP (2018)
Polymer Chemistry, - Cu(0)-RDRP of acrylates based on p-type organic semiconductors (2018)
Polymer Chemistry, 9 (12), 1397--1403 - Multiblock Bottlebrush Nanofibers from Organic Electronic Materials (2018)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, - Polymerization of acrylates based on n-type organic semiconductors using Cu(0)-RDRP (2018)
Polymer Chemistry, - Synthesis of phosphorescent iridium-containing acrylic monomers and their room-temperature polymerization by Cu(0)-RDRP (2018)
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, - Synthesis of polymeric organic semiconductors using semifluorinated polymer precursors (2018)
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 56 (19), 2183--2191 - Ti-Catalyzed Hydroamination for the Synthesis of Amine-Containing π-Conjugated Materials (2018)
Chemistry - A European Journal, 24 (21), 5562--5568 - Chemoselective Radical Dehalogenation and C-C Bond Formation on Aryl Halide Substrates Using Organic Photoredox Catalysts (2016)
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 81 (16), 7155-7160 - A facile synthesis of catechol-functionalized poly(ethylene oxide) block and random copolymers (2015)
Journal of Polymer Science Part a-Polymer Chemistry, 53 (23), 2685-2692 - A highly reducing metal-free photoredox catalyst: design and application in radical dehalogenations (2015)
Chemical Communications, 51 (58), 11705-11708 - Fluorous Cylindrical Micelles of Controlled Length by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in Fluorinated Media (2015)
Acs Macro Letters, 4 (2), 187-191 - Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles (2015)
Science, 347 (6228), 1329-1332 - Transformation and patterning of supermicelles using dynamic holographic assembly (2015)
Nature Communications, 6 - Assembly and Disassembly of Ferrocene-Based Nanotubes (2014)
Science, 344 (6183), 481-482 - Colour-tunable fluorescent multiblock micelles (2014)
Nature Communications, 5 - Gradient Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly: Cylindrical Micelles with "Patchy" Segmented Coronas via the Coassembly of Linear and Brush Block Copolymers (2014)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (39), 13835-13844 - Impact of constitutional isomerism on phosphorescence and anion-sensing properties of donor-acceptor organoboron Pt(II) complexes (2014)
Dalton Transactions, 43 (36), 13696-13703 - Tailored hierarchical micelle architectures using living crystallization-driven self-assembly in two dimensions (2014)
Nature Chemistry, 6 (10), 893-898 - Uniform, High Aspect Ratio Fiber-like Micelles and Block Co-micelles with a Crystalline pi-Conjugated Polythiophene Core by Self-Seeding (2014)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (11), 4121-4124 - Double Cyclization/Aryl Migration Across an Alkyne Bond Enabled by Organoboryl and Diarylplatinum Groups (2012)
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 51 (23), 5671-5674 - Efficient and High Yield One-Pot Synthesis of Cyclometalated Platinum(II) beta-Diketonates at Ambient Temperature (2012)
Organic Letters, 14 (7), 1700-1703 - Highly Efficient Blue Phosphorescence from Triarylboron-Functionalized Platinum(II) Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (2012)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134 (34), 13930-13933 - Modulating the Photoisomerization of N,C-Chelate Organoboranes with Triplet Acceptors (2012)
Organic Letters, 14 (21), 5610-5613 - N-Heterocyclic Carbazole-Based Hosts for Simplified Single-Layer Phosphorescent OLEDs with High Efficiencies (2012)
Advanced Materials, 24 (21), 2922-2928 - A Polyboryl-Functionalized Triazine as an Electron Transport Material for OLEDs (2011)
Organometallics, 30 (21), 5552-5555 - Highly efficient orange electrophosphorescence from a trifunctional organoboron-Pt(II) complex (2011)
Chemical Communications, 47 (2), 755-757 - Metal-containing triarylboron compounds for optoelectronic applications (2011)
Dalton Transactions, 40 (31), 7805-7816 - Nonconjugated Dimesitylboryl-Functionalized Phenylpyridines and Their Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes (2011)
Organometallics, 30 (17), 4695-4701 - Probing the Structural Origins of Vapochromism of a Triarylboron-Functionalized Platinum(II) Acetylide by Optical and Multinuclear Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy (2011)
Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (8), 3447-3457 - Pt(II) complex based phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes with external quantum efficiencies above 20% (2011)
Applied Physics Letters, 98 (21) - Switchable Three-State Fluorescence of a Nonconjugated Donor-Acceptor Triarylborane (2011)
Organic Letters, 13 (2), 300-303 - Triarylboron-functionalized 8-hydroxyquinolines and their aluminium(III) complexes (2011)
Chemical Communications, 47 (13), 3837-3839 - Tuning and Switching MLCT Phosphorescence of [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) Complexes with Triarylboranes and Anions (2011)
Inorganic Chemistry, 50 (8), 3373-3378 - Unlocking the full potential of organic light-emitting diodes on flexible plastic (2011)
Nature Photonics, 5 (12), 753-757 - Enhancing Phosphorescence and Electrophosphorescence Efficiency of Cyclometalated Pt(II) Compounds with Triarylboron (2010)
Advanced Functional Materials, 20 (20), 3426-3439 - Linear and star-shaped benzimidazolyl derivatives: syntheses, photophysical properties and use as highly efficient electron transport materials in OLEDs (2010)
Dalton Transactions, 39 (3), 892-899 - Reactivity of Aryldimesitylboranes under Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Conditions (2010)
Organometallics, 29 (18), 4007-4011 - Enhancing the Photochemical Stability of N,C-Chelate Boryl Compounds: C-C Bond Formation versus C = C Bond cis,trans-Isomerization (2009)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (40), 14549-14559 - Impact of Donor-Acceptor Geometry and Metal Chelation on Photophysical Properties and Applications of Triarylboranes (2009)
Accounts of Chemical Research, 42 (10), 1584-1596 - Switchable Ambient-Temperature Singlet-Triplet Dual Emission in Nonconjugated Donor-Acceptor Triarylboron-Pt-II Complexes (2009)
Chemistry-a European Journal, 15 (25), 6131-6137 - The anionic coordination polymer {K2[Pt(II)2Ag(I)8(2,2'-bipyridine)2(O2CCF3)14]}n. (2009)
Acta crystallographica. Section C, Crystal structure communications, 65 (Pt 8), m328-30 - Impact of the Linker on the Electronic and Luminescent Properties of Diboryl Compounds: Molecules with Two BMes(2) Groups and the Peculiar Behavior of 1,6-(BMes(2))(2)pyrene (2008)
Organometallics, 27 (24), 6446-6456 - The influence of alkoxy chain length on the ferroelectric properties of chiral fluorenol liquid crystals (2008)
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 18 (28), 3361-3365
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