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Overview

Craig J. Medforth is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering, with notable subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics mainly centered on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis. Other areas of study include Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, and Chemical Reaction Mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors include Susana L.H. Rebelo, Baltazar de Castro, Mariana B.M.S. Martins, Gabriela A. Corrêa, and Tânia Moniz. The collaborative nature of the work is evident in the consistent partnerships over multiple publications.

The researcher has published in various scientific journals, with frequent venues being Journal of Catalysis, Applied Materials Today, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Catalysts, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

  • "Nanostructured binuclear Fe(III) and Mn(III) porphyrin materials: Tuning the mimics of catalase and peroxidase activity" (2023) in Journal of Catalysis
  • "Binary ionic iron(III) porphyrin nanostructured materials with catalase-like activity" (2020) in Applied Materials Today
  • "Protonation of Planar and Nonplanar Porphyrins: A Calorimetric and Computational Study" (2020) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • "Biomimetic Oxidation of Benzofurans with Hydrogen Peroxide Catalyzed by Mn(III) Porphyrins" (2020) in Catalysts
  • "Nanostructured Binuclear Fe(Iii) and Mn(Iii) Porphyrin Materials: Tuning the Mimics of Catalase and Peroxidase Activity" (2022) in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research involves developing and understanding nanostructured porphyrin materials that mimic enzymatic activity such as catalase and peroxidase. This work bridges materials chemistry and catalysis, with applications connected to biomimetic oxidation processes and electrochemical sensing technologies.

Best Publications

  • Nonplanar porphyrins and their significance in proteins

    John A. Shelnutt;Xing-Zhi Song;Jian-Guo Ma;Song-Ling Jia

  • Porphyrin Nanotubes by Ionic Self-Assembly

    Zhongchun Wang;Craig J. Medforth;John A. Shelnutt

  • Nonplanar porphyrins. X-ray structures of (2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethyl- and -octamethyl-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphinato)zinc(II)

    Kathleen M. Barkigia;M. Dolores Berber;J. Fajer;Craig J. Medforth

  • Controlled synthesis of 2-D and 3-D dendritic platinum nanostructures.

    Yujiang Song;Yi Yang;Craig J Medforth;Eulalia Pereira

  • Nonplanar distortion modes for highly substituted porphyrins

    Craig J. Medforth;Mathias O. Senge;Kevin M. Smith;Laurie D. Sparks

  • Ruffling in a Series of Nickel(II) meso-Tetrasubstituted Porphyrins as a Model for the Conserved Ruffling of the Heme of Cytochromes c.

    W. Jentzen;M. C. Simpson;J. D. Hobbs;X. Song;X. Song

  • Metal dependence of the nonplanar distortion of octaalkyltetraphenylporphyrins

    L. D. Sparks;C. J. Medforth;M. S. Park;J. R. Chamberlain

  • Origin of the red shifts in the optical absorption bands of nonplanar tetraalkylporphyrins.

    Raid E. Haddad;Stephanie Gazeau;Jacques Pecaut;Jean-Claude Marchon

  • Photophysical properties of conformationally distorted metal-free porphyrins. Investigation into the deactivation mechanisms of the lowest excited singlet state

    Steve Gentemann;Craig J. Medforth;Timothy P. Forsyth;Daniel J. Nurco

  • Self-assembled porphyrin nanostructures.

    Craig John Medforth;Craig John Medforth;Zhongchun Wang;Kathleen Ewing Martin;Kathleen Ewing Martin;Yujiang Song

  • Self-metallization of photocatalytic porphyrin nanotubes.

    Zhongchun Wang;Craig John Medforth;John Allen Shelnutt

  • Crystallographic and EXAFS studies of conformationally designed nonplanar nickel(II) porphyrins

    Kathleen M. Barkigia;Mark W. Renner;Lars R. Furenlid;Craig J. Medforth

  • Synthesis of peptide-nanotube platinum-nanoparticle composites.

    Yujiang Song;Yujiang Song;Sivakumar R. Challa;Sivakumar R. Challa;Craig J. Medforth;Yan Qiu;Yan Qiu

  • Self-Assembly and Self-Metallization of Porphyrin Nanosheets

    Zhongchun Wang;Zhiyong Li;Craig J. Medforth;John A. Shelnutt

  • Consequences of Oxidation in Nonplanar Porphyrins: Molecular Structure and Diamagnetism of the .pi. Cation Radical of Copper(II) Octaethyltetraphenylporphyrin

    Mark W. Renner;Kathleen M. Barkigia;Yun Zhang;Craig J. Medforth

  • Variations and Temperature Dependence of the Excited State Properties of Conformationally and Electronically Perturbed Zinc and Free Base Porphyrins

    Steve Gentemann;Nora Y. Nelson;Laurent Jaquinod;Daniel J. Nurco

  • Conformational Flexibility in Dodecasubstituted Porphyrins

    Daniel J. Nurco;Craig J. Medforth;Timothy P. Forsyth;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Picosecond to Microsecond Photodynamics of a Nonplanar Nickel Porphyrin: Solvent Dielectric and Temperature Effects

    Charles Michael Drain, a, b;a Steve Gentemann;a James A. Roberts;c Nora Y. Nelson

  • Relationships between structural parameters and Raman frequencies for some planar and nonplanar nickel(II) porphyrins

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  • Cobalt-Porphyrin Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide in Water II: Mechanism from First Principles

    Kevin Leung;Ida M.B. Nielsen;Na Sai;Craig J. Medforth

  • Porphyrin Nanofiber Bundles from Phase‐Transfer Ionic Self‐Assembly and Their Photocatalytic Self‐Metallization

    Zhongchun Wang;Kuangchiu J. Ho;Craig J. Medforth;John A. Shelnutt;John A. Shelnutt

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Shelnutt
John A. Shelnutt University of Georgia
Jack Fajer
Jack Fajer Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mathias O. Senge
Mathias O. Senge Trinity College Dublin
Anup K. Singh
Anup K. Singh Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Karl M. Kadish
Karl M. Kadish University of Houston
Francis D'Souza
Francis D'Souza University of North Texas
Brian S. Swartzentruber
Brian S. Swartzentruber Sandia National Laboratories
C. Jeffrey Brinker
C. Jeffrey Brinker University of New Mexico
Huifang Xu
Huifang Xu University of Wisconsin–Madison

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