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1982
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Kirk S. Schanze is affiliated with The University of Texas at San Antonio in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Materials Science, with a strong focus on Materials Chemistry. Other notable subfields include History and Philosophy of Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their scholarly output addresses several key topics, including:

  • Academic Writing and Publishing
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Frequently publishing in specialized scientific venues, Schanze contributes extensively to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Central Science
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Some of their recent papers encompass a range of topics and publication venues, including:

  • Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Highly Efficient Turn-Up Fluorescent Sensing of Aniline, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic optoelectronic synapse based on photon-modulated electrochemical doping, 2023, Nature Photonics
  • Visible Light-Induced Borylation of C-O, C-N, and C-X Bonds, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Direct Observation of the Reduction of Aryl Halides by a Photoexcited Perylene Diimide Radical Anion, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Progress in Perovskite Photocatalysis, 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Throughout their career, Schanze has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Shu Wang, Prashant V. Kamat, T. Randall Lee, Jillian M. Buriak, and Gilbert C. Walker.

In 2011, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Best Publications

  • Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale: Current Status

    David M. Adams;Louis Brus;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Stephen Creager

  • Conjugated polyelectrolytes: synthesis, photophysics, and applications.

    Hui Jiang;Prasad Taranekar;John R. Reynolds;Kirk S. Schanze

  • One-dimensional organic lead halide perovskites with efficient bluish white-light emission.

    Zhao Yuan;Chenkun Zhou;Yu Tian;Yu Shu

  • Amplified fluorescence sensing of protease activity with conjugated polyelectrolytes

    Mauricio R. Pinto;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Photophysics of diimine platinum(II) bis-acetylide complexes

    C E Whittle;J A Weinstein;M W George;K S Schanze

  • Amplified Quenching of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte by Cyanine Dyes

    Chunyan Tan;Evrim Atas;Jürgen G. Müller;Mauricio R. Pinto

  • Photophysics, aggregation and amplified quenching of a water-soluble poly(phenylene ethynylene)

    Chunyan Tan;Mauricio R. Pinto;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Microporous Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for Highly Efficient Turn-Up Fluorescent Sensing of Aniline.

    Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Ru He;Ru He;Lin-Hua Xie;Zu-Jin Lin

  • Conjugated polyelectrolytes: Synthesis and applications

    Mauricio R. Pinto;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Studies of intramolecular electron and energy transfer using the fac-(diimine)ReI(CO)3 chromophore

    Kirk S. Schanze;D. Brent MacQueen;Thomas A. Perkins;Leonardo A. Cabana

  • Extended Conjugation Platinum(II) Porphyrins for use in Near-Infrared Emitting Organic Light Emitting Diodes

    Kenneth R. Graham;Yixing Yang;Jonathan R. Sommer;Abigail H. Shelton

  • Donor–Acceptor–Donor-based π-Conjugated Oligomers for Nonlinear Optics and Near-IR Emission

    Stefan Ellinger;Kenneth R. Graham;Pengjie Shi;Richard T. Farley

  • Mechanistic understanding of surface plasmon assisted catalysis on a single particle: cyclic redox of 4-aminothiophenol

    Ping Xu;Leilei Kang;Nathan H. Mack;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Photophysics of monodisperse platinum-acetylide oligomers: delocalization in the singlet and triplet excited states.

    Yao Liu;Shujun Jiang;Ksenija Glusac;David H. Powell

  • Unusual Photophysics of a Rhenium(I) Dipyridophenazine Complex in Homogeneous Solution and Bound to DNA

    Heather D. Stoeffler;Nancy B. Thornton;Stacy L. Temkin;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Saccharide Detection Based on the Amplified Fluorescence Quenching of a Water-Soluble Poly(phenylene ethynylene) by a Boronic Acid Functionalized Benzyl Viologen Derivative

    Nicolas DiCesare;Mauricio R Pinto;Kirk S Schanze;Joseph R Lakowicz

  • A Water-Soluble Poly(phenylene ethynylene) with Pendant Phosphonate Groups. Synthesis, Photophysics, and Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Films†

    Mauricio R. Pinto;and Boris M. Kristal;Kirk S. Schanze

  • Photovoltaic Cells Based on Sequentially Adsorbed Multilayers of Conjugated Poly(p-phenylene ethynylene)s and a Water-Soluble Fullerene Derivative†

    Jeremiah K. Mwaura;Mauricio R. Pinto;David Witker;Nisha Ananthakrishnan

  • Variable Band Gap Poly(arylene ethynylene) Conjugated Polyelectrolytes

    Xiaoyong Zhao;Mauricio R. Pinto;Lindsay M. Hardison;Jeremiah Mwaura

  • Amplified Fluorescence Quenching in a Poly(p-phenylene)-Based Cationic Polyelectrolyte

    Benjamin S. Harrison;Michael B. Ramey;and John R. Reynolds;Kirk S. Schanze

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Wang
Shu Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prashant V. Kamat
Prashant V. Kamat University of Notre Dame
Jillian M. Buriak
Jillian M. Buriak University of Alberta
John R. Reynolds
John R. Reynolds Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Hyun Jae Kim
Hyun Jae Kim Yonsei University
Peter J. Stang
Peter J. Stang University of Utah
Teri W. Odom
Teri W. Odom Northwestern University
T. Randall Lee
T. Randall Lee University of Houston

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