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Overview

Alejandro L. Briseno is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering, with additional work in mechanics of materials, polymers and plastics, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Energetic Materials and Combustion
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications

A number of frequent co-authors have collaborated with Alejandro L. Briseno, reflecting an active research network:

  • Edmund K. Burnett
  • Benjamin P. Cherniawski
  • Qianxiang Ai
  • Sean Parkin
  • Chad Risko

The scientist has published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Aerospace Science and Technology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Vibrational Excitation Mechanism in Tunneling Spectroscopy beyond the Franck-Condon Model" (2020) in Physical Review Letters
  • "Accelerated Decomposition Kinetics of Ammonium Perchlorate via Conformal Graphene Coating" (2021) in Chemistry of Materials
  • "Physical vapor deposition of zinc phthalocyanine nanostructures on oxidized silicon and graphene substrates" (2020) in Journal of Crystal Growth
  • "Orienting and shaping organic semiconductor single crystals through selective nanoconfinement" (2020) in Soft Matter
  • "Rubrene single crystal solar cells and the effect of crystallinity on interfacial recombination" (2022) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Alejandro L. Briseno's work spans an interdisciplinary spectrum broadly situated in materials chemistry and electronic engineering. Their research often integrates crystallographic techniques such as X-ray diffraction to explore molecular structures relevant to organic electronics, photovoltaics, and energetic materials. This cross-cutting approach aligns with the studied phenomena in crystallization, molecular junctions, and conducting polymers.

The combination of publications in both chemistry-focused and physics-oriented journals reflects an engagement with foundational and applied aspects of material sciences. Their collaboration network includes several researchers with repeated partnerships, indicating ongoing joint scientific contributions.

Best Publications

  • Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Mang M. Ling;Shuhong Liu

  • Perylenediimide nanowires and their use in fabricating field-effect transistors and complementary inverters.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Colin Reese;Jessica M. Hancock

  • Oligo- and polythiophene/ZnO hybrid nanowire solar cells

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Thomas W. Holcombe;Akram I. Boukai;Erik C. Garnett

  • Controlled Deposition of Crystalline Organic Semiconductors for Field-Effect-Transistor Applications

    Shuhong Liu;Wechung Maria Wang;Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld

  • Introducing organic nanowire transistors

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C.B. Mannsfeld;Samson A. Jenekhe;Zhenan Bao

  • High‐Performance Organic Single‐Crystal Transistors on Flexible Substrates

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Ricky J. Tseng;Mang-Mang Ling;Eduardo H. L. Falcao

  • Fabrication of Field-Effect Transistors from Hexathiapentacene Single-Crystal Nanowires

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Xianmao Lu;Yujie Xiong

  • TiO2/BiVO4 Nanowire Heterostructure Photoanodes Based on Type II Band Alignment

    Joaquin Resasco;Hao Zhang;Nikolay Kornienko;Nigel Becknell

  • Unconventional, chemically stable, and soluble two-dimensional angular polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: from molecular design to device applications.

    Lei Zhang;Yang Cao;Nicholas S. Colella;Yong Liang

  • Understanding the Morphology of PTB7:PCBM Blends in Organic Photovoltaics

    Feng Liu;Wei Zhao;John R. Tumbleston;Cheng Wang

  • Patterned growth of large oriented organic semiconductor single crystals on self-assembled monolayer templates.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Joanna Aizenberg;Yong-Jin. Han;Rebecca A. Penkala

  • Polymer semiconductor crystals

    Jung Ah Lim;Feng Liu;Sunzida Ferdous;Murugappan Muthukumar

  • Efficient polymer solar cells based on a low bandgap semi-crystalline DPP polymer-PCBM blends.

    Feng Liu;Yu Gu;Cheng Wang;Wei Zhao

  • Oligothiophene semiconductors: synthesis, characterization, and applications for organic devices.

    Lei Zhang;Nicholas S. Colella;Benjamin P. Cherniawski;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld

  • Organic single-crystalline p-n junction nanoribbons.

    Yajie Zhang;Huanli Dong;Qingxin Tang;Sunzida Ferdous

  • Self-Assembly, Molecular Packing, and Electron Transport in n-Type Polymer Semiconductor Nanobelts

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Patrick J. Shamberger;Fumio S. Ohuchi

  • High Mobility Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors from Bisindoloquinoline Semiconductors

    Eilaf Ahmed;Alejandro L. Briseno;Younan Xia;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Bistetracene: An Air-Stable, High-Mobility Organic Semiconductor with Extended Conjugation

    Lei Zhang;Alexandr Fonari;Yao Liu;Andra-Lisa M. Hoyt

  • Patterning organic semiconductors using "dry" poly(dimethylsiloxane) elastomeric stamps for thin film transistors.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Mark Roberts;Mang-Mang Ling;Hyunsik Moon

  • Hexathiapentacene: structure, molecular packing, and thin-film transistors.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Qian Miao;Mang-Mang Ling;Colin Reese

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sean Parkin
Sean Parkin University of Kentucky
James J. Watkins
James J. Watkins University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kenneth R. Carter
Kenneth R. Carter University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Todd Emrick
Todd Emrick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hiroko Yamada
Hiroko Yamada Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Younan Xia
Younan Xia Johns Hopkins University

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