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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David G. Whitten is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with contributions in subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and General Dentistry. Their work covers a broad spectrum of scientific topics including nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, antimicrobial agents and applications, luminescence and fluorescent materials, infection control and ventilation, dental research related to COVID-19, polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Recent publications by David G. Whitten include the following papers:

  • Highly Effective Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Quantitative Determination of Dark and Light-Activated Antimicrobial Activity of Poly(Phenylene Ethynylene), Polythiophene, and Oligo(Phenylene Ethynylene) Electrolytes, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Controlled and Selective Photo-oxidation of Amyloid-β Fibrils by Oligomeric p-Phenylene Ethynylenes, 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • The Feasibility and Acceptability of Neurologic Music Therapy in Subacute Neurorehabilitation and Effects on Patient Mood, 2022, Brain Sciences
  • Rapid and Effective Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 with a Cationic Conjugated Oligomer with Visible Light: Studies of Antiviral Activity in Solutions and on Supports, 2022, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent coauthors of David G. Whitten include:

  • Eva Y.
  • Kirk S. Schanze
  • Florencia A. Monge
  • Alison M. Kell
  • Pradeepkumar Jagadesan

Their most common publication venues are:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Sciences
  • ACS Materials Letters
  • Applied Ontology

David G. Whitten has been recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2010
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1970

Best Publications

  • Highly sensitive biological and chemical sensors based on reversible fluorescence quenching in a conjugated polymer

    Liaohai Chen;Duncan W. McBranch;Hsing Lin Wang;Roger Helgeson

  • ESTIMATION OF EXCITED-STATE REDOX POTENTIALS BY ELECTRON-TRANSFER QUENCHING. APPLICATION OF ELECTRON-TRANSFER THEORY TO EXCITED-STATE REDOX PROCESSES

    C. R. Bock;J. A. Connor;A. R. Gutierrez;T. J. Meyer

  • Photochemical reactions in organized monolayer assemblies. 6. Preparation and photochemical reactivity of surfactant ruthenium(II) complexes in monolayer assemblies and at water-solid interfaces

    Gerhard Sprintschnik;Hertha W. Sprintschnik;Pierre P. Kirsch;David G. Whitten

  • Photophysics of quantized colloidal semiconductors. Dramatic luminescence enhancement by binding of simple amines

    T. Dannhauser;M. O'Neil;K. Johansson;D. Whitten

  • Photoinduced electron transfer reactions of metal complexes in solution

    David G. Whitten

  • Tuning the Properties of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes through Surfactant Complexation

    Liaohai Chen;Su Xu;and Duncan McBranch;David Whitten

  • Electron transfer quenching of the luminescent excited state of tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II). Flash photolysis relaxation technique for measuring the rates of very rapid electron transfer reactions

    C. R. Bock;T. J. Meyer;D. G. Whitten

  • Fluorescence superquenching of conjugated polyelectrolytes: applications for biosensing and drug discovery

    K. E. Achyuthan;T. S. Bergstedt;L. Chen;R. M. Jones

  • Fluorescent-conjugated polymer superquenching facilitates highly sensitive detection of proteases

    Sriram Kumaraswamy;Troy Bergstedt;Xiaobo Shi;Frauke Rininsland

  • Direct Observation of Sol−Gel Conversion: The Role of the Solvent in Organogel Formation

    Rong Wang;Cristina Geiger;Liaohai Chen;Basil Swanson

  • Solvent and substituent on the thermal isomerization of substituted azobenzenes. Flash spectroscopic study

    David G. Whitten;Peter D. Wildes;J. G. Pacifici;Gether Irick

  • Photochemistry and photophysics of trans-stilbene and related alkenes in surfactant assemblies

    David G. Whitten

  • Supramolecular Aggregates of Azobenzene Phospholipids and Related Compounds in Bilayer Assemblies and Other Microheterogeneous Media: Structure, Properties, and Photoreactivity1

    Xuedong Song;Jerry Perlstein;David G. Whitten

  • The photophysics and photochemistry of .alpha.,.omega.-diphenylpolyene singlet states

    Mary Tedd Allen;David G. Whitten

  • Organogels resulting from competing self-assembly units in the gelator: Structure, dynamics, and photophysical behavior of gels formed from cholesterol-stilbene and cholesterol-squaraine gelators

    Cristina Geiger;Marina Stanescu;Liaohai Chen;David G. Whitten

  • Atropisomer-specific formation of premicellar porphyrin J-aggregates in aqueous surfactant solutions

    David C. Barber;Ruth A. Freitag-Beeston;David G. Whitten

  • Photoinduced electron transfer reactions of transition-metal complexes with amines. Mechanistic studies of alternate pathways to back electron transfer

    Patricia J. DeLaive;Thomas K. Foreman;Charles Giannotti;David G. Whitten

  • Aggregation of Surfactant Squaraine Dyes in Aqueous Solution and Microheterogeneous Media: Correlation of Aggregation Behavior with Molecular Structure

    Huijuan Chen;Mohammad S. Farahat;Kock-Yee Law;David G. Whitten

  • Photochemistry of transition metal complexes. Mechanism and efficiency of energy conversion by electron-transfer quenching

    C. R. Bock;T. J. Meyer;D. G. Whitten

  • Biocidal activity of a light-absorbing fluorescent conjugated polyelectrolyte.

    Liangde Lu;Frauke H Rininsland;Shannon K Wittenburg;Komandoor E Achyuthan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk S. Schanze
Kirk S. Schanze The University of Texas at San Antonio
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Russell H. Schmehl
Russell H. Schmehl Tulane University
Gabriel P. Lopez
Gabriel P. Lopez University of New Mexico
Frank H. Quina
Frank H. Quina Universidade de São Paulo
Lucian A. Lucia
Lucian A. Lucia North Carolina State University
George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond University of Hawaii at Manoa
Abraham Ulman
Abraham Ulman New York University
Samir Farid
Samir Farid University of Rochester
Russell Hilf
Russell Hilf University of Rochester

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