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John B. Asbury is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans materials science and engineering, with notable contributions in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The scientist's work also covers subfields such as physical and theoretical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics of John B. Asbury's research include:

  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Kyle T. Munson
  • Joshua A. Robinson
  • Conner A. Hoelzel
  • Charles H. Wolstenholme
  • Basel A. Karim

John B. Asbury regularly publishes in leading scientific venues, notably:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Nano
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent papers authored by John B. Asbury include:

  • Reproducibility of cavity-enhanced chemical reaction rates in the vibrational strong coupling regime, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • A General Strategy to Enhance Donor-Acceptor Molecules Using Solvent-Excluding Substituents, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dilute Rhenium Doping and its Impact on Defects in MoS2, 2023, ACS Nano
  • Tuning polymer-backbone coplanarity and conformational order to achieve high-performance printed all-polymer solar cells, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Influence of Ligand Structure on Excited State Surface Chemistry of Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Colloidal-quantum-dot photovoltaics using atomic-ligand passivation

    Jiang Tang;Kyle W. Kemp;Sjoerd H. Hoogland;Kwangseob Jeong

  • Ultrafast Electron Transfer Dynamics from Molecular Adsorbates to Semiconductor Nanocrystalline Thin Films

    John B. Asbury;Encai Hao;Yongqiang Wang;Hirendra N. Ghosh

  • Ultrafast Dynamics of Solute-Solvent Complexation Observed at Thermal Equilibrium in Real Time

    Junrong Zheng;Kyungwon Kwak;John Asbury;Xin Chen

  • Water Dynamics: Vibrational Echo Correlation Spectroscopy and Comparison to Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    John B. Asbury;Tobias Steinel;C. Stromberg;S. A. Corcelli

  • Femtosecond IR Study of Excited-State Relaxation and Electron-Injection Dynamics of Ru(dcbpy)2(NCS)2 in Solution and on Nanocrystalline TiO2 and Al2O3 Thin Films

    John B. Asbury;Randy J. Ellingson;Hirendra N. Ghosh;Suzanne Ferrere

  • Dynamics of water probed with vibrational echo correlation spectroscopy

    John B. Asbury;Tobias Steinel;Kyungwon Kwak;S. A. Corcelli

  • Dynamics of Electron Injection in Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide Films Sensitized with (Ru(4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine)2(NCS)2) by Infrared Transient Absorption

    Randy J. Ellingson;John B. Asbury;Sue Ferrere;Hirendra N. Ghosh

  • Evidences of hot excited state electron injection from sensitizer molecules to TiO 2 nanocrystalline thin films

    John B Asbury;Yong-Qiang Wang;Encai Hao;Hirendra N Ghosh

  • Watching Hydrogen Bonds Break: A Transient Absorption Study of Water

    Tobias Steinel;John B. Asbury;Junrong Zheng;M. D. Fayer

  • Enhanced Mobility-Lifetime Products in PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

    Kwang S. Jeong;Jiang Tang;Huan Liu;Huan Liu;Jihye Kim

  • Parameters affecting electron injection dynamics from ruthenium dyes to titanium dioxide nanocrystalline thin film

    John B. Asbury;Neil A. Anderson;Encai Hao;Xin Ai

  • Bridge Length-Dependent Ultrafast Electron Transfer from Re Polypyridyl Complexes to Nanocrystalline TiO2 Thin Films Studied by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy

    John B. Asbury;Encai Hao;and Yongqiang Wang;Tianquan Lian

  • Observation of Two Triplet-Pair Intermediates in Singlet Exciton Fission

    Ryan D. Pensack;Evgeny E. Ostroumov;Andrew J. Tilley;Samuel Mazza

  • Direct Observation of Ultrafast Electron Injection from Coumarin 343 to TiO2 Nanoparticles by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy

    Hirendra N. Ghosh;John B. Asbury;Tianquan Lian

  • Back Electron Transfer from TiO2 Nanoparticles to FeIII(CN)63-: Origin of Non-Single-Exponential and Particle Size Independent Dynamics

    Yu Xiang Weng;Yong Qiang Wang;John B. Asbury;Hiren N. Ghosh

  • Interfacial Electron Transfer between Fe(II)(CN)64- and TiO2 Nanoparticles: Direct Electron Injection and Nonexponential Recombination

    Hirendra N. Ghosh;John B. Asbury;Yuxiang Weng;Tianquan Lian

  • Water dynamics: dependence on local structure probed with vibrational echo correlation spectroscopy

    Tobias Steinel;John B Asbury;S.A Corcelli;C.P Lawrence

  • Random lasing in organo-lead halide perovskite microcrystal networks

    R. Dhanker;A. N. Brigeman;A. V. Larsen;R. J. Stewart

  • Hydrogen bond dynamics probed with ultrafast infrared heterodyne-detected multidimensional vibrational stimulated echoes.

    John B. Asbury;Tobias Steinel;C. Stromberg;K. J. Gaffney

  • Beyond the Adiabatic Limit: Charge Photogeneration in Organic Photovoltaic Materials

    Ryan D. Pensack;John B. Asbury

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Anthony
John E. Anthony University of Kentucky
Matthew C. Beard
Matthew C. Beard National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Qing Wang
Qing Wang Pennsylvania State University
Dwight S. Seferos
Dwight S. Seferos University of Toronto
Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Larissa Levina
Larissa Levina University of Toronto
Sjoerd Hoogland
Sjoerd Hoogland University of Toronto
Yueh-Lin Loo
Yueh-Lin Loo Princeton University
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University

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