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Amar H. Flood is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research focuses primarily on Materials Chemistry, with significant work in Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Molecular Biology as subfields.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics including Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry.

Amar H. Flood has published frequently in several scientific journals and databases. The most notable publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Key papers authored or coauthored by Amar H. Flood consist of:

  • "Plug-and-Play Optical Materials from Fluorescent Dyes and Macrocycles," 2020, Chem
  • "Recognition and applications of anion-anion dimers based on anti-electrostatic hydrogen bonds (AEHBs)," 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Tunable Adhesion from Stoichiometry-Controlled and Sequence-Defined Supramolecular Polymers Emerges Hierarchically from Cyanostar-Stabilized Anion-Anion Linkages," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Ultrabright Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles Based on Small-Molecule Ionic Isolation Lattices," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Polarity-Tolerant Chloride Binding in Foldamer Capsules by Programmed Solvent-Exclusion," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Bo W. Laursen
  • Maren Pink
  • Krishnan Raghavachari
  • Junsheng Chen
  • Laura Kacenauskaite

Best Publications

  • Click chemistry generates privileged CH hydrogen-bonding triazoles: the latest addition to anion supramolecular chemistry

    Yuran Hua;Amar H. Flood

  • Linear artificial molecular muscles

    Yi Liu;Amar H. Flood;Paul A. Bonvallet;Scott A. Vignon

  • Whence Molecular Electronics

    Amar H. Flood;J. Fraser Stoddart;David W. Steuerman;James R. Heath

  • Pure C-H hydrogen bonding to chloride ions: a preorganized and rigid macrocyclic receptor.

    Yongjun Li;Amar H. Flood

  • Autonomous artificial nanomotor powered by sunlight

    Vincenzo Balzani;Miguel Clemente-León;Miguel Clemente-León;Alberto Credi;Belén Ferrer;Belén Ferrer

  • A reversible molecular valve

    Thoi D. Nguyen;Hsian Rong Tseng;Paul C. Celestre;Amar H. Flood

  • A pentagonal cyanostar macrocycle with cyanostilbene CH donors binds anions and forms dialkylphosphate [3]rotaxanes

    Semin Lee;Chun-Hsing Chen;Amar H. Flood

  • Strong, size-selective, and electronically tunable C-H...halide binding with steric control over aggregation from synthetically modular, shape-persistent [34]triazolophanes.

    Yongjun Li;Amar H. Flood

  • Chloride capture using a C–H hydrogen-bonding cage

    Yun Liu;Wei Zhao;Chun-Hsing Chen;Amar H. Flood

  • Can terdentate 2,6-bis(1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)pyridines form stable coordination compounds?

    Yongjun Li;John C. Huffman;Amar H. Flood

  • High hopes: can molecular electronics realise its potential?

    Ali Coskun;Ali Coskun;Jason M. Spruell;Jason M. Spruell;Gokhan Barin;William R. Dichtel

  • Flipping the Switch on Chloride Concentrations with a Light-Active Foldamer

    Yuran Hua;Amar H Flood

  • A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles

    Bala Krishna Juluri;Ajeet S. Kumar;Yi Liu;Tao Ye

  • A nanomechanical device based on linear molecular motors

    Tony Jun Huang;Branden Brough;Chih Ming Ho;Yi Liu

  • Molecular‐Mechanical Switch‐Based Solid‐State Electrochromic Devices

    David W. Steuerman;Hsian Rong Tseng;Andrea J. Peters;Amar H. Flood

  • Active molecular plasmonics: controlling plasmon resonances with molecular switches.

    Yue Bing Zheng;Ying Wei Yang;Lasse Jensen;Lei Fang

  • Meccano on the Nanoscale—A Blueprint for Making Some of the World's Tiniest Machines

    Amar H. Flood;Robert J A Ramirez;Wei Qiao Deng;Richard P. Muller

  • Ground-state equilibrium thermodynamics and switching kinetics of bistable [2]rotaxanes switched in solution, polymer gels, and molecular electronic devices

    Jang Wook Choi;Amar H. Flood;Amar H. Flood;David W. Steuerman;David W. Steuerman;Sune Nygaard

  • Structures and properties of self-assembled monolayers of bistable [2]rotaxanes on Au (111) surfaces from molecular dynamics simulations validated with experiment.

    Seung Soon Jang;Yun Hee Jang;Yong-Hoon Kim;William A. Goddard

  • Plug-and-Play Optical Materials from Fluorescent Dyes and Macrocycles

    Christopher R. Benson;Laura Kacenauskaite;Katherine L. VanDenburgh;Wei Zhao

  • A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular

    Muscles Krishna Juluri;Ajeet S. Kumar;Yi Liu;Tao Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Jan O. Jeppesen
Jan O. Jeppesen University of Southern Denmark
Krishnan Raghavachari
Krishnan Raghavachari Indiana University
Yi Liu
Yi Liu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hsian-Rong Tseng
Hsian-Rong Tseng University of California, Los Angeles
Tony Jun Huang
Tony Jun Huang Duke University
Keith C. Gordon
Keith C. Gordon University of Otago
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
James R. Heath
James R. Heath California Institute of Technology
Lasse Jensen
Lasse Jensen Pennsylvania State University

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