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Frank C. Spano

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Frank C. Spano

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Chemistry

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CHEM 1951

Honors General Chemical Science I

Undergraduate

CHEM 1952

Honors General Chemical Science II

Undergraduate

CHEM 3302

Physical Chemistry Lecture II

Undergraduate

CHEM 5301

Quantum Chemistry

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Qarai, M., Ghosh, R., & Spano, F. (2021). Understanding Bipolarons in Conjugated Polymers Using a Multiparticle Holstein Approach. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(44), 24487-24497. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06767.

  • Chang, X., Qarai, M.B., & Spano, F. (2021). HJ-aggregates of donor-acceptor-donor oligomers and polymers. Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(3). doi: 10.1063/5.0054877.

  • Kim, J., Liess, A., Stolte, M., Krause, A., Stepanenko, V., Zhong, C., Bialas, D., Spano, F., & Würthner, F. (2021). An Efficient Narrowband Near-Infrared at 1040 nm Organic Photodetector Realized by Intermolecular Charge Transfer Mediated Coupling Based on a Squaraine Dye. Advanced Materials. doi: 10.1002/adma.202100582.

  • Qarai, M.B., Chang, X., & Spano, F. (2020). Vibronic exciton model for low bandgap donor-acceptor polymers. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(24). doi: 10.1063/5.0029193.

  • Ghosh, R. & Spano, F. (2020). Excitons and Polarons in Organic Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research, 53(10), 2201-2211. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00349.

  • Sutherland, G., Polak, D., Swainsbury, D., Wang, S., Spano, F., Auman, D., Bossanyi, D., Pidgeon, J., Hitchcock, A., Musser, A., Anthony, J., Dutton, P., Clark, J., & Hunter, C. (2020). A Thermostable Protein Matrix for Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Semiconductors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(32), 13898-13907. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c05477.

  • Spano, F. (2020). Exciton-phonon polaritons in organic microcavities: Testing a simple ansatz for treating a large number of chromophores. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(20), 204113. doi: 10.1063/5.0002164.

  • Janke, S., Qarai, M., Blum, V., & Spano, F. (2020). Frenkel-Holstein Hamiltonian applied to absorption spectra of quaterthiophene-based 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(14). doi: 10.1063/1.5139044.

  • Zheng, C., Mark, M., Wiegand, T., Diaz, S., Cody, J., Spano, F., McCamant, D., & Collison, C. (2020). Measurement and Theoretical Interpretation of Exciton Diffusion as a Function of Intermolecular Separation for Squaraines Targeted for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(7), 4032-4043. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11816.

  • Zhong, C., Bialas, D., & Spano, F. (2020). Unusual Non-Kasha Photophysical Behavior of Aggregates of Push-Pull Donor-Acceptor Chromophores. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(3), 2146-2159. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b09368.

  • Zheng, C., Zhong, C., Collison, C., & Spano, F. (2019). Erratum: Non-Kasha Behavior in Quadrupolar Dye Aggregates: The Red-Shifted H-Aggregate (Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2019) 123: 5 (3203−3215) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11416). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(50), 30765. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10881.

  • Ghosh, R., Luscombe, C., Hambsch, M., Mannsfeld, S., Salleo, A., & Spano, F. (2019). Anisotropic Polaron Delocalization in Conjugated Homopolymers and Donor-Acceptor Copolymers. Chemistry of Materials, 31(17), 7033-7045. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01704.

  • Oleson, A., Zhu, T., Dunn, I., Bialas, D., Bai, Y., Zhang, W., Dai, M., Reichman, D., Tempelaar, R., Huang, L., & Spano, F. (2019). Perylene Diimide-Based Hj- And hJ-Aggregates- And Prospect of Exciton Band Shape Engineering in Organic Materials. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(33), 20567-20578. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04429.

  • Zhong, C., Bialas, D., Collison, C., & Spano, F. (2019). Davydov Splitting in Squaraine Dimers. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(30), 18734-18745. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05297.

  • Bialas, D., Zhong, C., Würthner, F., & Spano, F. (2019). Essential states model for merocyanine dye stacks: bridging electronic and optical absorption properties. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(30), 18654-18664. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04430.

  • Zheng, C., Zhong, C., Collison, C., & Spano, F. (2019). Non-Kasha Behavior in Quadrupolar Dye Aggregates: The Red-Shifted H-Aggregate. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(5), 3203-3215. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b11416.

  • Broch, K., Dieterle, J., Branchi, F., Hestand, N., Olivier, Y., Tamura, H., Cruz, C., Nichols, V., Hinderhofer, A., Beljonne, D., Spano, F., Cerullo, G., Bardeen, C., & Schreiber, F. (2018). Robust singlet fission in pentacene thin films with tuned charge transfer interactions. Nature Communications, 9(1). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03300-1.

  • Chew, A., Ghosh, R., Pakhnyuk, V., Onorato, J., Davidson, E., Segalman, R., Luscombe, C., Spano, F., & Salleo, A. (2018). Unraveling the Effect of Conformational and Electronic Disorder in the Charge Transport Processes of Semiconducting Polymers. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(41). doi: 10.1002/adfm.201804142.

  • Ghosh, R., Chew, A., Onorato, J., Pakhnyuk, V., Luscombe, C., Salleo, A., & Spano, F. (2018). Spectral Signatures and Spatial Coherence of Bound and Unbound Polarons in P3HT Films: Theory Versus Experiment. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(31), 18048-18060. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03873.

  • Hestand, N. & Spano, F. (2018). Expanded Theory of H- and J-Molecular Aggregates: The Effects of Vibronic Coupling and Intermolecular Charge Transfer. Chemical Reviews, 118(15), 7069-7163. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00581.

  • Herrera, F. & Spano, F. (2018). Theory of Nanoscale Organic Cavities: The Essential Role of Vibration-Photon Dressed States. ACS Photonics, 5(1), 65-79. doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00728.

  • Scholes, D., Yee, P., Lindemuth, J., Kang, H., Onorato, J., Ghosh, R., Luscombe, C., Spano, F., Tolbert, S., & Schwartz, B. (2017). The Effects of Crystallinity on Charge Transport and the Structure of Sequentially Processed F4TCNQ-Doped Conjugated Polymer Films. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(44). doi: 10.1002/adfm.201702654.

  • Chew, A., Ghosh, R., Shang, Z., Spano, F., & Salleo, A. (2017). Sequential Doping Reveals the Importance of Amorphous Chain Rigidity in Charge Transport of Semi-Crystalline Polymers. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(20), 4974-4980. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01989.

  • Herrera, F. & Spano, F. (2017). Dark Vibronic Polaritons and the Spectroscopy of Organic Microcavities. Physical Review Letters, 118(22). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.223601.

  • Herrera, F. & Spano, F. (2017). Absorption and photoluminescence in organic cavity QED. Physical Review A, 95(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053867.

  • Scholes, G., Fleming, G., Chen, L., Aspuru-Guzik, A., Buchleitner, A., Coker, D., Engel, G., Grondelle, R.V., Ishizaki, A., Jonas, D., Lundeen, J., McCusker, J., Mukamel, S., Ogilvie, J., Olaya-Castro, A., Ratner, M., Spano, F., Whaley, K., & Zhu, X. (2017). Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems. Nature, 543(7647), 647-656. doi: 10.1038/nature21425.

  • Austin, A., Hestand, N., McKendry, I., Zhong, C., Zhu, X., Zdilla, M., Spano, F., & Szarko, J. (2017). Enhanced Davydov Splitting in Crystals of a Perylene Diimide Derivative. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(6), 1118-1123. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00283.

  • Hestand, N. & Spano, F. (2017). Molecular Aggregate Photophysics beyond the Kasha Model: Novel Design Principles for Organic Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research, 50(2), 341-350. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00576.

  • Hestand, N. & Spano, F. (2016). Determining the spatial coherence of excitons from the photoluminescence spectrum in charge-transfer J-aggregates. Chemical Physics, 481, 262-271. doi: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2016.06.005.

  • Hestand, N., Kazantsev, R., Weingarten, A., Palmer, L., Stupp, S., & Spano, F. (2016). Extended-Charge-Transfer Excitons in Crystalline Supramolecular Photocatalytic Scaffolds. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(36), 11762-11774. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b05673.

  • Spano, F. & Beljonne, D. (2016). Photophysical Properties of Molecular Aggregates "101." In The WSPC Reference on Organic Electronics: Organic Semiconductors, 1 (pp. 93-130). doi: 10.1142/9678.

  • Herrera, F. & Spano, F. (2016). Cavity-Controlled Chemistry in Molecular Ensembles. Physical Review Letters, 116(23). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.238301.

  • Ghosh, R., Pochas, C., & Spano, F. (2016). Polaron Delocalization in Conjugated Polymer Films. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(21), 11394-11406. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02917.

  • Zheng, C., Bleier, D., Jalan, I., Pristash, S., Penmetcha, A., Hestand, N., Spano, F., Pierce, M., Cody, J., & Collison, C. (2016). Phase separation, crystallinity and monomer-aggregate population control in solution processed small molecule solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 157, 366-376. doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.05.060.