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Supramolecular catalysis

Sokołowski, K.; Huang, J.; Földes, T.; McCune, J. A.; Xu, D. D.; de Nijs, B.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Collins, S. M.; Rosta, E.; Baumberg, J. J.; Scherman, O. A. "Nanoparticle Surfactants for Kinetically Arrested Photoactive Assemblies to Track Light-induced Electron Transfer", Nat. Nanotechnol., 2021, 16, 1121–1129. (read here)
 

Sahm, C. D.; Mates-Torres, E.; Eliasson, N.; Sokolowski, K.; Wagner, A.; Dalle, K. E.; Huang, Z.; Scherman, O. A.; Hammarström, L.; Garcia-Melchor, M.; Reisner, E. "Imidazolium-modification enables enhanced photocatalytic CO2 reduction on ZnSe quantum dots", Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 9078–9087. (read here)

de Nijs, B.; Kongsuwan, N.; Saba, M.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Readman, C. A.; Deacon, W. M.; Griffiths, J. P.; Barrow, S. J.; Ojambati, O. S.; Wright, D. A.; Huang, J.; Hess, O.; Scherman, O. A.; Baumberg, J. J.; Kamp, M. "Cascaded Nano-Optics to Probe Microsecond Atomic Scale Phenomena", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 26, 14819–14826. (read here)

Wagner, A.; Hoang Ly, K.; Heidary, N.; Szabó, I.; Földes, T.; Assaf, K.I.; Barrow, S.J.; Sokolowski, K.; Al-Hada, M.; Kornienko, N.; Kuehnel, M.F.; Rosta, E.; Zebger, I.; Nau W.M.; Scherman, O.A.; Reisner, E. "Host-Guest Chemistry Meets Electrocatalysis: Cucurbit[6]uril on a Au Surface as Hybrid System in CO2 Reduction", ACS. Catal., 2020, 10, 751–761. (read here)

Huang, J.; de Nijs, B.; Cormier, S.; Sokołowski, K.; Grys, D-B.; Readman, C.A.; Barrow, S.J.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J. "Plasmon-Induced Optical Control Over Dithionite-Mediated Chemical Redox Reactions", Faraday Discuss., 2018, 214, 455–463. (read here)

Ren, X.; Yu, Z.; Wu, Y.; Liu, J.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[7]uril-Based High-Performance Catalytic Microreactors", Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 14835–14839. (read here)

Cieslak, A.M.; Janeček, E.R.; Sokołowski, K.; Ratajczyk, T.; Leszczynski, M.K.; Scherman, O.A.; Lewinski, J. "Photo-induced Interfacial Electron Transfer of ZnO Nanocrystals to Control Supramolecular Assembly in Water", Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 16128–16132. (read here)

de Nijs, B.; Benz, F.; Barrow, S.J.; Sigle, D.O.; Chikkaraddy, R.; Palma, A.; Carnegie, C.; Kamp, M. Sundararaman, R.; Narang, P.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J. "Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions for Single- Molecule Redox Chemistry", Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 994. (read here)

Palma, A.; Artelsmair, M.; Wu, G.; Barrow, S.J.; Lu, X.; Uddin, N.; Rosta, E.; Masson, E.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[7]uril as a Supramolecular Artificial Enzyme for Diels-Alder Reactions", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 5688–15692. (read here)

Ding, T.; Mertens, J.; Lombardi, A.; Scherman, O.A.; Baumberg, J.J. "Light-Directed Tuning of Plasmon Resonances via Plasmon-Induced Polymerization Using Hot Electrons", ACS Photonics, 2017, 4, 1453–1458. (read here)

Chikkaraddy, R.; de Nijs, B.; Benz, F.; Barrow, S.J.; Scherman, O.A.; Rosta, E.; Demetriadou, A.; Fox, P.; Hess, O.; Baumberg, J.J. "Single-Molecule Strong Coupling at Room Temperature in Plasmonic Nanocavities", Nature, 2016, 535, 127–130. (read here)

Ding, T.; Valev, V.K.; Salmon, A.R.; Forman, C.J.; Smoukov, S.K.; Scherman, O.A.; Frenkel, D.; Baumberg, J.J. "Light-Induced Actuating Nanotransducers", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 2016, 113, 5503–5507. (read here)

Zheng, L.; Sonzini, S.; Ambarwati, M.; Rosta, E.; Scherman, O.A.; Herrmann, A. "Turning Cucurbit[8]uril into a Supramolecular Nanoreactor for Asymmetric Catalysis", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 13007–13011. (read here)

Wu, Y.; Lan, Y.; Liu, J.; Scherman, O.A. "Catalytic Polymeric Nanocomposites via Cucurbit[n]uril Host-Guest Interactions", Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 13416–13419. (read here)

Abo-Hamed, E.K.; Pennycook, T.; Vaynzof, Y.; Toprakcioglu, C.; Koutsioubas, A.; Scherman, O.A. "Highly Active Metastable Ruthenium Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Production Through the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane", Small, 2014, 10, 3145–3152. (read here)

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Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis

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