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Eric Vauthey is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research spans a broad range of topics with a focus on photochemistry and electron transfer studies, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, and porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Their subfields of study include materials chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. These diverse areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach integrating chemical and materials science perspectives.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Chemical Science
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Several recent papers by Eric Vauthey illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • Universal quenching of common fluorescent probes by water and alcohols, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Solvent tuning of photochemistry upon excited-state symmetry breaking, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Fluorescent Membrane Tension Probes for Super-Resolution Microscopy: Combining Mechanosensitive Cascade Switching with Dynamic-Covalent Ketone Chemistry, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The excited-state dynamics of the radical anions of cyanoanthracenes, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrosynthesis Cells for Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation Using a Zinc Porphyrin Sensitizer and TEMPO Catalyst, 2021, ACS Catalysis

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their research activity, with frequent collaborations including:

  • Christopher A. Rumble
  • Alexander Aster
  • Naomi Sakai
  • Stefan Matile
  • Ina Fureraj

The main research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Core-substituted naphthalenediimides

    Naomi Sakai;Jiri Mareda;Eric Vauthey;Stefan Matile

  • Photoproduction of Proton Gradients with π-Stacked Fluorophore Scaffolds in Lipid Bilayers

    Sheshanath Bhosale;Adam L. Sisson;Pinaki Talukdar;Alexandre Fürstenberg

  • Ultrafast Elementary Photochemical Processes of Organic Molecules in Liquid Solution

    Tatu Samuli Kumpulainen;Bernhard Felix Lang;Arnulf Rosspeintner;Eric Vauthey

  • Ultrafast Relaxation of the Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Emission Spectrum

    Natalie Renuka Banerji;Sarah Cowan;Eric Vauthey;Alan J. Heeger

  • Universal quenching of common fluorescent probes by water and alcohols

    Jimmy Maillard;Kathrin Klehs;Christopher Rumble;Eric Vauthey

  • Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation

    Eric Vauthey

  • Exciton Formation, Relaxation, and Decay in PCDTBT

    Natalie Renuka Banerji;Sarah Cowan;Mario Leclerc;Eric Vauthey

  • Fluorescent Flippers for Mechanosensitive Membrane Probes

    Marta Dal Molin;Quentin Verolet;Adai Colom;Romain Letrun

  • Direct Visualization of Excited-State Symmetry Breaking Using Ultrafast Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

    Bogdan Dereka;Arnulf Rosspeintner;Zhiquan Li;Robert Liska

  • Ultrafast Photochemistry in Liquids

    Arnulf Rosspeintner;Bernhard Felix Lang;Eric Vauthey

  • A Straightforward Synthesis and Structure−Activity Relationship of Highly Efficient Initiators for Two-Photon Polymerization

    Zhiquan Li;Niklas Pucher;Klaus Cicha;Jan Torgersen

  • Spectral hole burning and holography in an Y2SiO5:Pr3+ crystal.

    Keith Holliday;Mauro Croci;Eric Vauthey;Urs P. Wild

  • Self-Organizing Surface-Initiated Polymerization: Facile Access to Complex Functional Systems

    Naomi Sakai;Marco Lista;Oksana Kel;Shin-ichiro Sakurai

  • Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of DNA Fluorescent Intercalators: New Insight into the Fluorescence Enhancement Mechanism

    Alexandre Fürstenberg;Marc D. Julliard;Todor G. Deligeorgiev;Nikolai I. Gadjev

  • Experimental Evidence of Ultrafast Quenching of the 3MLCT Luminescence in Ruthenium(II) Tris-bipyridyl Complexes via a 3dd State

    Qinchao Sun;Sandra Mosquera-Vazquez;Latévi Max Lawson Daku;Laure Guénée

  • Ultrafast Charge Recombination of Photogenerated Ion Pairs to an Electronic Excited State

    Ana Morandeira;Laurine Cécile Engeli;Eric Vauthey

  • Investigation of the Influence of Solute−Solvent Interactions on the Vibrational Energy Relaxation Dynamics of Large Molecules in Liquids

    Anatolio Pigliucci;Guillaume Duvanel;Latévi Max Lawson Daku;Eric Vauthey

  • Ordered and oriented supramolecular n/p-heterojunction surface architectures: completion of the primary color collection

    Ravuri S. K. Kishore;Oksana Kel;Natalie Banerji;Daniel Emery

  • Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer and Hydrogen Bonding: Toward Asymmetrical Photochemistry.

    Bogdan Dereka;Arnulf Rosspeintner;Maciej Krzeszewski;Daniel T. Gryko

  • On the role of ligand-field states for the photophysical properties of ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes

    Qinchao Sun;Sandra Mosquera-Vazquez;Yan Suffren;Jihane Hankache

  • Ultrafast solvation dynamics of coumarin 153 in imidazolium-based ionic liquids.

    Bernhard Felix Lang;Gonzalo Angulo;Eric Vauthey

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Matile
Stefan Matile University of Geneva
Naomi Sakai
Naomi Sakai University of Geneva
Jérôme Lacour
Jérôme Lacour University of Geneva
Omar F. Mohammed
Omar F. Mohammed King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Urs P. Wild
Urs P. Wild École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Erik T. J. Nibbering
Erik T. J. Nibbering Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Paul V. Bernhardt
Paul V. Bernhardt University of Queensland
Andreas Hauser
Andreas Hauser University of Geneva

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