Ryan M. Young

Research interests

Publications

• Direct observation of chirality-induced spin selectivity in electron donor–acceptor molecules

  Science · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adj5328

• Electron-catalysed molecular recognition

  Nature · 2022 · 10.1038/s41586-021-04377-3

• Accelerating symmetry-breaking charge separation in a perylenediimide trimer through a vibronically coherent dimer intermediate

  Nature Chemistry · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00927-y

• Non-fullerene acceptors with direct and indirect hexa-fluorination afford >17% efficiency in polymer solar cells

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2021 · 10.1039/d1ee03225a

• A Donor–Acceptor [2]Catenane for Visible Light Photocatalysis

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021 · 10.1021/jacs.1c01493

• Mixed Electronic States in Molecular Dimers: Connecting Singlet Fission, Excimer Formation, and Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2020 · 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00397

• Quintet-triplet mixing determines the fate of the multiexciton state produced by singlet fission in a terrylenediimide dimer at room temperature

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 10.1073/pnas.1820932116

• Processing Strategies for an Organic Photovoltaic Module with over 10% Efficiency

  Joule · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.11.006

• Photodriven quantum teleportation of an electron spin state in a covalent donor–acceptor–radical system

  Nature Chemistry · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0332-8

• Singlet Fission in 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene Thin Films

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018 · 10.1021/jacs.8b07498

• Singlet Fission in Covalent Terrylenediimide Dimers: Probing the Nature of the Multiexciton State Using Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018 · 10.1021/jacs.8b04830

• Evidence for Charge-Transfer Mediation in the Primary Events of Singlet Fission in a Weakly Coupled Pentacene Dimer

  Chem · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2018.04.006

• Excimer Formation and Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer in Cofacial Perylene Dimers

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12644

• Unified model for singlet fission within a non-conjugated covalent pentacene dimer

  Nature Communications · 2017 · 10.1038/ncomms15171

• Hole‐Transfer Dependence on Blend Morphology and Energy Level Alignment in Polymer: ITIC Photovoltaic Materials

  Advanced Materials · 2017 · 10.1002/adma.201704263

• Supramolecular Ex plorations: Ex hibiting the Ex tent of Ex tended Cationic Cyclophanes

  Accounts of Chemical Research · 2016 · 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00495

• Direct Observation of a Charge-Transfer State Preceding High-Yield Singlet Fission in Terrylenediimide Thin Films

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b07721

• Enabling singlet fission by controlling intramolecular charge transfer in π-stacked covalent terrylenediimide dimers

  Nature Chemistry · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2589

• Guest and solvent modulated photo-driven charge separation and triplet generation in a perylene bisimide cyclophane

  Chemical Science · 2016 · 10.1039/c6sc01574c

• Ultrafast Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation and Electron Sharing in Perylenediimide Molecular Triangles

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b08386

• Energy Flow Dynamics within Cofacial and Slip-Stacked Perylene-3,4-dicarboximide Dimer Models of π-Aggregates

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1021/ja507653p

• Direct Observation of Ultrafast Excimer Formation in Covalent Perylenediimide Dimers Using Near-Infrared Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jz5011797

• Ultrafast Conformational Dynamics of Electron Transfer in ExBox4+⊂Perylene

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp409883a

• Relative Unidirectional Translation in an Artificial Molecular Assembly Fueled by Light

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013 · 10.1021/ja4094204

• Dynamics of Solvated Electrons in Clusters

  Chemical Reviews · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1021/cr300042h

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