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  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Emily A. Weiss is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on materials science. Their work spans several subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, quantum dots synthesis and properties, 2D materials and applications, perovskite materials and applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and molecular junctions and nanostructures.

Emily A. Weiss has published in numerous scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Nano
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Their recent publications include:

  • "Quantum Dot-Sensitized Photoreduction of CO2 in Water with Turnover Number > 80,000" (2021) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Colloidal Quantum Dots as Photocatalysts for Triplet Excited State Reactions of Organic Molecules" (2020) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Selective visible-light photocatalysis of acetylene to ethylene using a cobalt molecular catalyst and water as a proton source" (2022) in Nature Chemistry
  • "Emergent Optoelectronic Properties of Mixed-Dimensional Heterojunctions" (2020) in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Mechanical-Bond-Induced Exciplex Fluorescence in an Anthracene-Based Homo[2]catenane" (2020) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Mark C. Hersam
  • Ioannis Spanopoulos
  • Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
  • Rafael López-Arteaga
  • Suyog Padgaonkar

Emily A. Weiss was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Eutectic Gallium-Indium (EGaIn) : A Liquid Metal Alloy for the Formation of Stable Structures in Microchannels at Room Temperature

    Michael D. Dickey;Ryan C. Chiechi;Ryan J. Larsen;Emily A. Weiss

  • Eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn): a moldable liquid metal for electrical characterization of self-assembled monolayers.

    Ryan C. Chiechi;Emily A. Weiss;Michael D. Dickey;George M. Whitesides

  • Charge Transport in Photofunctional Nanoparticles Self-Assembled from Zinc 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis(perylenediimide)porphyrin Building Blocks

    Tamar Van der Boom;Ryan T. Hayes;Yongyu Zhao;Patrick J. Bushard

  • Making a molecular wire: charge and spin transport through para-phenylene oligomers.

    Emily A. Weiss;Michael J. Ahrens;Louise E. Sinks;Alexey V. Gusev

  • Electronic Processes within Quantum Dot-Molecule Complexes.

    Rachel D. Harris;Stephanie Bettis Homan;Mohamad Kodaimati;Chen He

  • Photoconductance and inverse photoconductance in films of functionalized metal nanoparticles

    Hideyuki Nakanishi;Kyle J. M. Bishop;Bartlomiej Kowalczyk;Abraham Nitzan;Abraham Nitzan

  • The role of ligands in determining the exciton relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

    Mark D. Peterson;Laura C. Cass;Rachel D. Harris;Kedy Edme

  • The Effect of a Common Purification Procedure on the Chemical Composition of the Surfaces of CdSe Quantum Dots Synthesized with Trioctylphosphine Oxide

    Adam J. Morris-Cohen;Martin D. Donakowski;Kathryn E. Knowles;Emily A. Weiss

  • Influence of Defects on the Electrical Characteristics of Mercury-Drop Junctions: Self-Assembled Monolayers of n-Alkanethiolates on Rough and Smooth Silver

    Emily A. Weiss;Ryan C. Chiechi;George K. Kaufman;Jennah K. Kriebel

  • Si/SiO2-Templated Formation of Ultraflat Metal Surfaces on Glass, Polymer, and Solder Supports: Their Use as Substrates for Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Emily A. Weiss;George K. Kaufman;Jennah K. Kriebel;Zhefeng Li

  • Ultrafast Exciton Dissociation and Long-Lived Charge Separation in a Photovoltaic Pentacene–MoS2 van der Waals Heterojunction

    Stephanie Bettis Homan;Vinod K. Sangwan;Itamar Balla;Hadallia Bergeron

  • Regio- and diastereoselective intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions photocatalysed by quantum dots.

    Yishu Jiang;Chen Wang;Cameron R. Rogers;Mohamad S. Kodaimati

  • A Multi-Timescale Map of Radiative and Nonradiative Decay Pathways for Excitons in CdSe Quantum Dots

    Kathryn E. Knowles;Eric A. McArthur;Emily Allyn Weiss

  • Simultaneous Determination of the Adsorption Constant and the Photoinduced Electron Transfer Rate for a Cds Quantum Dot–Viologen Complex

    Adam J. Morris-Cohen;Matthew T. Frederick;Laura C. Cass;Emily Allyn Weiss

  • Conformationally gated switching between superexchange and hopping within oligo-p-phenylene-based molecular wires

    Emily A. Weiss;Michael J. Tauber;Richard F. Kelley;Michael J. Ahrens

  • Relaxation of exciton confinement in CdSe quantum dots by modification with a conjugated dithiocarbamate ligand.

    Matthew T. Frederick;Emily A. Weiss

  • Chemical, Structural, and Quantitative Analysis of the Ligand Shells of Colloidal Quantum Dots

    Adam J. Morris-Cohen;Michał Malicki;Mark D. Peterson;John W.J. Slavin

  • Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers.

    Randall H. Goldsmith;Louise E. Sinks;Richard F. Kelley;Laura J. Betzen

  • Designing the Surfaces of Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Colloidal Photocatalysis

    Emily Allyn Weiss

  • Direct Measurement of Singlet-Triplet Splitting within Rodlike Photogenerated Radical Ion Pairs Using Magnetic Field Effects: Estimation of the Electronic Coupling for Charge Recombination

    Emily A. Weiss;Mark A. Ratner;Michael R. Wasielewski

  • Core-shell and segmented polymer-metal composite nanostructures.

    Michal Lahav;Emily A. Weiss;Qiaobing Xu;George M. Whitesides

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Wasielewski
Michael R. Wasielewski Northwestern University
Mark A. Ratner
Mark A. Ratner Northwestern University
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Mark C. Hersam
Mark C. Hersam Northwestern University
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Ryan C. Chiechi
Ryan C. Chiechi North Carolina State University
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Vinod K. Sangwan
Vinod K. Sangwan Northwestern University
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Tamar Seideman
Tamar Seideman Northwestern University

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