Publications

Tailoring Carbon Tails of Ligands on Au52(SR)32 Nanoclusters Enhances the Near-Infrared Photoluminescence Quantum Yield from 3.8 to 18.3% 
Yitong Wang, Zhongyu Liu, Abhrojyoti Mazumder, Christopher G. Gianopoulos, Kristin Kirschbaum, Linda A. Peteanu, and Rongchao Jin, Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2023, DOI:10.1021/jacs.3c09846

Cholesterol side groups in Helical Poly(3-alkylesterfurans)
Manami Kawakami, Payton Downey, Linda A. Peteanu, Stefan Bernhard, Kevin Noonan, Polymer Journal, December 2022, DOI:10.1038/s41428-022-00741-w

Investigating the impact of regiochemistry in ester functionalized polyfurans
Anthony J. Varni, Manami Kawakami, Stephanie Kramer, Megan Rice, Steven J. Geib, Linda A. Peteanu, Tomasz Kowalewski, Kevin Noonan, Journal of Polymer Science, September 2021, DOI:10.1002/pol.20210535

Unraveling the Contribution of Residual Monomer to the Emission Spectra of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Aggregates: Implications for Identifying H- and J-type Coupling
Stephanie Kramer, Jasper Brown, Megan Rice, Linda A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, June 2021, 12(25):5919-5924, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01334

Single- and Bi-Exciton Character in Ligand-Modified Silicon Nanoparticles as Demonstrated via Single Particle Photon Statistics and Plasmonic Effects
Woong Young So, Sikandar Abbas, Qi Li, Rongchao Jin, Linda A. Peteanu, Nanoscale 13(36), June 2021, DOI:10.1039/D1NR00108F

Structural distortion and electron redistribution in dual-emitting gold nanoclusters
Qi Li, Dongming Zhou, Jinsong Chai, Woong Young So, Tong Cai, Mingxing Li, Linda A. Peteanu, Ou Chen, Mircea Cotlet, X. Wendy Gu, Haiming Zhu, Haiming Zhu, Rongchao Jin, Nature Communications 11(1), June 2020, DOI:10.1038/s41467-020-16686-8

A Mono-Cuboctahedral Series of Gold Nanoclusters: Photoluminescence Origin, Large Enhancement, Wide Tunability and Structure-Property Correlation
Qi Li, Meng Zhou, Woong Young So, Jingchun Huang, Mingxing Li, Douglas R. Kauffman, Mircea Cotlet, Tatsuya Higaki, Linda A. Peteanu, Zhengzhong Shao, Rongchao Jin, Journal of the American Chemical Society 141(13), March 2019, DOI:10.1021/jacs.8b13558

Mechanism of Ligand-Controlled Emission in Silicon Nanoparticles
Woong Young So, Qi Li, Christian Legaspi, Brendan Redler, Krystal M. Koe, Rongchao Jin, Linda A. Peteanu, ACS Nano 12(7), May 2018, DOI:10.1021/acsnano.8b03273

Rigidity and Polarity Effects on the Electronic Properties of Two Deep Blue Delayed Fluorescence Emitters
Christian Legaspi, Regan E. Stubbs, Md Wahadoszamen, David J. Yaron, Linda A. Peteanu, Abraham Kemboi, Eric Fossum, Yongli Lu, Qi Zheng, Lewis J. Rothberg, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122(22), May 2018, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12025

Eliminating Spurious Zero FRET States in Diffusion-based Single-molecule Confocal Microscopy
Sourav Kumar Dey, John R Pettersson, Andrea Topacio, Subha R. Das, Linda A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9(9), March 2018, DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00362

Detection of Ultralow Concentrations of Non-emissive Conjugated Polymer Aggregates via Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Eric C. Wu, Regan E. Stubbs, Linda A. Peteanu, Racquel Jemison, Richard D. McCullough, and Jurjen Wildeman, J. Phys. Chem. B 2017, 121 (21), 5413-5421 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b01918

Exciton–Exciton Annihilation as a Probe of Interchain Interactions in PPV–Oligomer Aggregates
Linda A. Peteanu, Sanchari Chowdhury, Jurjen Wildeman, and Matthew Y. Sfeir, J Phys Chem B. 2017 Feb 23;121(7):1707-1714. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b11250. Epub 2017 Feb 9

Spectroscopic and MD Study of Dynamic and Structural Heterogeneities in Ionic Liquids
Eric C. Wu, Hyung J. Kim, and Linda A. Peteanu, J . Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121 (5), pp 1100–1107

Theoretical Investigations on the Roles of Intramolecular Structure Distortion versus Irregular Intermolecular Packing in Optical Spectra of 6T Nanoparticles
Wenqiang Li, Qian Peng, Huili Ma, Jin Wen, Jing Ma, Linda A. Peteanu, Zhigang Shuai, Chemistry of Materials ( IF 9.407 ) 2017-02-03 , DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b04210

Mechanism of Photoinduced Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Experimental and Computational Studies
Pan, Z., Fang, C., Fantin, M., Malhotra, N., So, W.Y. Peteanu, L. Isse, A. Gennaro, A., Liu, P., and Matyjaszewski, K.,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138(7), 2411-2425 (2016)

Dynamic Features of Rod-Shaped Au Nanoclusters
Woong Young So, Anindita Das, Shuxin Wang, Shuo Zhao, Hee Young Byun, Dana Lee, Santosh Kumar, Rongchao Jin, Linda A. Peteanu, Proc. SPIE 9549, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials XIV, 95491D (August 20, 2015)

The Role of Local Environment on the Electronic Properties of a Novel Blue-Emitting Donor-Acceptor Compound
Christian M. Legaspi, Regan E. Stubbs, David J. Yaron, Linda A. Peteanu, Abraham Kemboi, Jesse Picker, Eric Fossum, In Proc. SPIE 9923, Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials XV, 99231K (September 26, 2016)

Modeling Field-Induced Quenching in Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) Polymers and Oligomers 
Legaspi, C.; Peteanu, L. A.; Yaron, D. J. Journal of Physical Chemistry B (invited manuscript) J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119 (24), pp 7625–7634

The Effects of Side-Chain-Induced Disorder on the Emission Spectra and Quantum Yields of Oligothiophene Nanoaggregates: A Combined Experimental and MD-TDDFT Study
Hong, J; Jeon, S.K.; Kim, J. J.; Devi, D.; Chacon-Madrid, K.; Koh, S. M.; Wildeman, J.; Peteanu, L. A.; Ma, J.; J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118 (45), pp 10464–10473. DOI: 10.1021/jp504254a. Publication Date (Web): July 3, 2014

Older Publications
  • Effects of Solvent Properties on the Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Alkoxy-Substituted PPV Oligomer Aggregates
    Woong Young So, Jiyun Hong, Janice J. Kim, Gizelle A. Sherwood, Kelly Chacon-Madrid, James H. Werner, Andrew P. Shreve, and Linda A. Peteanu
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116 10504-10513 (2012)
  • Wavelength Dependence of the Fluorescence Quenching Efficiency of Nearby Dyes by Gold Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles: The Roles of Spectral Overlap and Particle Size
    Chowdhury, Sanchari; Wu, Zhikun; Jaquins-Gerstl, Andrea; Liu, Shengpeng; Dembska, Anna; Armitage, Bruce A.; Jin, Rongchao; Peteanu, Linda A.
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 20105-20112 (2011)
  • Visualizing Core-Shell Structure in Substituted PPV Oligomer Aggregates Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
    Peteanu, Linda A.; Sherwood, Gizelle A.; Werner, James H.; Shreve, Andrew P.; Smith, Timothy M.; Wildeman, Jurjen Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115 15607-15616 (2011)
  • Fluorescent DNA Nanotags Featuring Covalently Attached Intercalating Dyes: Synthesis, Antibody Conjugation, and Intracellular Imaging
    Stadler, Andrea L.; Delos Santos, Junriz O.; Stensrud, Elizabeth S.; Dembska, Anna; Silva, Gloria L.; Liu, Shengpeng; Shank, Nathaniel I.; Kunttas-Tatli, E.; Sobers, Courtney J.; Gramlich, Philipp M. E.; Carell, Thomas; Peteanu, Linda A.; McCartney, Brooke M.; Armitage, Bruce A. Bioconjugate Chem. 22 1491-1502 (2011)
  • pH-Responsive Fluorescent Molecular Bottlebrushes Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
    Nese, Alper; Lebedeva, Natalia V.; Peteanu, Linda; Sheiko, Sergei, S.; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof Macromolecules 44 5905-5910 (2011)
  • Chain Length and Substituent Effects on the Formation of Excimer-Like States in Nanoaggregates of CN-PPV Model Oligomers
    Sherwood, Gizelle A.; Cheng, Ryan; Chacon-Madrid, Kelly; Smith, Timothy M.; Wildeman, Jurjen; Peteanu, Linda A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114 12078-12089 (2010)
  • Electric-Field-Induced Fluorescence Quenching in Polyfluorene, Ladder-Type Polymers, and MEH-PPV: Evidence for Field Effects on Internal Conversion Rates in the Low Concentration Limit.
    Moscatelli, A., Livingston, K., Young, W. S., Lee, S. J. and Peteanu, L. A. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114 14430-14439 (2010)
  • Electroabsorption of Dimers Containing MM (M = Mo, W) Quadruply Bonded Units: Insights into the Electronic Structure of Neutral Coupled Redox Centers and Their Relationship with Mixed Valence Ions.
    Chisholm, Malcolm H.; Lear, Benjamin J.; Moscatelli, Alberto; Peteanu, Linda A.. Inorganic Chemistry, 49, 3706-3713 (2010)
  • Aggregation Effects on the Emission Spectra and Dynamics of Model Oligomers of MEH-PPV
    Sherwood, Gizelle A.; Cheng, Ryan; Smith, Tim M.; Werner, James H.; Shreve, Andrew P.; Wildeman, Jurjen; Peteanu, Linda A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113 18851-18862 (2009)
  • Electric Field Effects on Internal Conversion: An Alternative Mechanism for Field-Induced Fluorescence Quenching of MEH-PPV and Its Oligomers in the Low Concentration Limit
    Smith, Timothy M.; Kim, Jung; Peteanu, Linda A.; Wildeman, Jurjen Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 10119-10129 (2007)
  • Fluorescent PNA Probes as Hybridization Labels for Biological RNA
    Kelly L. Robertson, Liping Yu, Bruce A, Armitage, A, Javier Lopez, Linda Peteanu, Biochemistry 45 p 6066-6074 (2006)
  • Electrofluorescence of MEH-PPV and Its Oligomers: Evidence for Field-Induced Fluorescence Quenching of Single Chains
    Timothy Smith, Nathanial Hazelton, Linda Peteanu, Jurjen Wildeman, J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 7732-7742 (2006)
  • Effects of Disorder-Induced Symmetry Breaking on the Electroabsorption of a Model Dendrimer
    L. Angela Liu, Linda A. Peteanu, David J. Yaron, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, p. 16841-16849 (2004)
  • Excited State Localization in a 3-Fold Symmetric Molecule as Probed by Electroabsorption Spectroscopy
    Prakriti Ranjan Bangal, Danny Ming Kuang Lam, Linda Peteanu, and Mark van der Auweraer, J. Phys. Chem B 108 p. 16834-16840 (2004)
  • The Effects of Structural and Micro-Environmental Disorder on the Electronic Properties of MEH-PPV and Related Oligomers
    Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Linda A. Peteanu, Limin Angela Liu, David J. Yaron, Jurjen Wildeman, J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 5133-5143 (2003)
  • Stark Spectroscopy of Size-Selected Helical H-aggregates of a Cyanine Dye Templated by Duplex DNA: Effect of Exciton Coupling on Electronic Polarizabilities
    Arindam Chowdhury, Liping Yu, Izaat Raheem, Limin Angela Liu, Linda Peteanu, and David J. Yaron, J. Phys. Chem. B., 107, 3351-3362, (2003). (Invited contribution for special issue in honor of Michael Kasha)
  • Electronic Properties of Small Model Compounds That Undergo Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer as Measured by Electroabsorption Spectroscopy
    L. L. Premvardhan and Linda A. Peteanu, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Special Issue on Excited State Proton Transfer 154, 69-79 (2002)
  • The Electronic Properties of a Model Active Site for Blue Copper Proteins as Probed by Stark Spectroscopy
    A. Chowdhury, L. A. Peteanu, P. L. Holland and W. B. Tolman, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106, 3007-3012 (2002)
  • Characterization of Chiral H- and J-aggregates of Cyanine Dyes formed by DNA Templating using Stark and Fluorescence Spectroscopies
    A. Chowdhury, S. Wachsmann-Hogiu, P. Bangal, I. Raheem, and L. A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105, 12196-12201 (2001)
  • The Electronic Properties of a Model Active Site for Blue Copper Proteins as Probed by Stark Spectroscopy
    A. Chowdhury, L. A. Peteanu, P. L. Holland and W. B. Tolman, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106, 3007-3012 (2002)
  • Conformational Effects on Optical Charge Transfer in the Emeraldine Base Form of Polyaniline from Electroabsorption Measurements and Semi-Empirical Calculations
    L. L Premvardhan, S. Wachsmann-Hogiu, L. A. Peteanu, D. J. Yaron, P-C. Wang, W. Wang, and A. G. MacDiarmid, Journal of Chemical Physics 115, 4359-4366 (2001)
  • Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Absorption in a Rhenium(I) Complex that Contains a p- Conjugated Bipyridine Acceptor Ligand
    K. A. Walters, L. L. Premvardhan, Y. Liu, L. A. Peteanu, and K. S. Schanze, Chemical Physics Letters 339, 255-262 (2001)
  • Stark Spectroscopic Studies of Charge-Transfer Transitions in Blue Copper Proteins: Azurin
    A. Chowdhury, L. A. Peteanu, M. A. Webb and G. R. Loppnow, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105, 527-534 (2001)
  • Electronic Properties of the Conducting Form of Polyaniline from Electroabsorption Measurements
    L. L. Premvardhan, L. A. Peteanu, P-C. Wang, and A. G. MacDiarmid Synthetic Metals 116, 157-161 (2001)
  • Matrix Rigidity and Temperature Effects on Electronic Properties of Conjugated Molecules: An Electroabsorption Study of all-trans-Retinal
    S. A. Locknar, A. Chowdhury, L. A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 104, 5816-5824 (2000)
  • Matrix Rigidity and Temperature Effects on Electronic Properties of Solvatochromic Molecules: An Electroabsorption Study of Coumarin 153
    A. Chowdhury, S. A. Locknar, L. L. Premvardhan, and L. A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103, 9614-9625 (1999)
  • Dipolar Properties of and Temperature Effects on the Electronic States of 3-Hydroxyflavone (3HF) Determined using Stark-Effect Spectroscopy and Compared to Electronic Structure Calculations
    L. L. Premvardhan and L. A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103, 7506-7514 (1999)
  • Calculations of Ground and Excited-State Polarizabilities of Unsubstituted and Donor/Acceptor Polyenes: A Comparison of the Finite-Field and Sum-Over-States Methods
    S. A. Locknar, L. A. Peteanu, Z. Shuai, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Bryan Kohler Festschrift 103, 2197-2201 (1999)
  • Measurements and Calculations of the Dipolar Properties of Two Heterocyclic Photostabilizers that Undergo Excited-State Proton Transfer
    L. L. Premvardhan and L. A. Peteanu, Chemical Physics Letters 296, 521-529 (1998)
  • An Investigation of the Relationship between Dipolar Properties and cis-trans Configuration in Retinal Polyenes: A Stark Spectroscopic Study
    S. A. Locknar and L. A. Peteanu, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 102, 4240-4246 (1998)
  • Stark Spectroscopy of an Excited-State Proton-Transfer Molecule: Comparison of Experimental and Computational Results for o-Hydroxyacetophenone
    L. A. Peteanu and S. A. Locknar, Chemical Physics Letters 274, 79-84 (1997)