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Materials Science

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57

Chemistry

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Peter Debye Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2011 - Bourke Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2004 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1980 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation Not Provided
  • 1973 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mark A. Ratner is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. The subfields of study they contribute to are Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has produced work on a range of topics within these fields. Their main research areas include:

  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Graphene Research and Applications

Mark A. Ratner has published frequently in several notable academic venues, with the most publications appearing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Other frequent publication venues include The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Nature Biotechnology, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Two-photon excited deep-red and near-infrared emissive organic co-crystals," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "Embedding Methods for Quantum Chemistry: Applications from Materials to Life Sciences," published in 2020 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Tunable Symmetry-Breaking-Induced Dual Functions in Stable and Photoswitched Single-Molecule Junctions," published in 2021 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Influence of Vibronic Coupling on Ultrafast Singlet Fission in a Linear Terrylenediimide Dimer," published in 2021 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Analytical Approaches To Identify Plasmon-like Excited States in Bare and Ligand-Protected Metal Nanoclusters," published in 2020 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

The scientist has collaborated extensively with multiple co-authors, including George C. Schatz, Leighton O. Jones, Martín A. Mosquera, Michael R. Wasielewski, and Yu Wang. The number of collaborations ranges, with the most frequent being with George C. Schatz and Leighton O. Jones.

Mark A. Ratner has received various professional recognitions over the years, including the Peter Debye Award from the American Chemical Society in 2016, the Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2011, and election as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010.

Other notable honors include the Irving Langmuir Award by the American Chemical Society in 2004, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2002, Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001, Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1992, Fellowship of the American Physical Society since 1980, and Fellowship of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1973.

Best Publications

  • Electron transport in molecular wire junctions.

    Abraham Nitzan;Mark A. Ratner;Mark A. Ratner

  • Design and construction of molecular assemblies with large second-order optical nonlinearities. Quantum chemical aspects

    David R. Kanis;Mark A. Ratner;Tobin J. Marks

  • 6-31G* basis set for third-row atoms

    Vitaly A. Rassolov;Mark A. Ratner;John A. Pople;Paul C. Redfern

  • 6-31G * basis set for atoms K through Zn

    Vitaly A. Rassolov;John A. Pople;Mark A. Ratner;Theresa L. Windus

  • Molecular electronic-structure theory

    Mark A. Ratner

  • Contemporary Issues in Electron Transfer Research

    Paul F. Barbara;Thomas J. Meyer;Mark A. Ratner

  • Rylene and related diimides for organic electronics.

    Xiaowei Zhan;Antonio Facchetti;Stephen Barlow;Tobin J. Marks

  • Ion Transport in Solvent-Free Polymers

    Mark A. Ratner;Duward F. Shriver

  • Molecular electronics

    Christian Joachim;Mark A. Ratner

  • Molecular-wire behaviour in p-phenylenevinylene oligomers

    William B. Davis;Walter A. Svec;Mark A. Ratner;Michael R. Wasielewski;Michael R. Wasielewski

  • First-principles based matrix Green's function approach to molecular electronic devices: general formalism

    Yongqiang Xue;Yongqiang Xue;Supriyo Datta;Mark A. Ratner

  • Molecular transport junctions: vibrational effects

    Michael Galperin;Mark A Ratner;Abraham Nitzan

  • Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity.

    Chuancheng Jia;Agostino Migliore;Na Xin;Shaoyun Huang

  • Design, Synthesis, and Properties of Molecule-Based Assemblies with Large Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities

    Tobin J. Marks;Mark A. Ratner

  • Hopping transport in conductive heterocyclic oligomers: reorganization energies and substituent effects.

    Geoffrey R. Hutchison;Mark A. Ratner;Tobin J. Marks

  • Electron conduction in molecular wires. I. A scattering formalism

    V. Mujica;V. Mujica;M. Kemp;M. A. Ratner

  • Molecular self-assembled monolayers and multilayers for organic and unconventional inorganic thin-film transistor applications

    Sara A. DiBenedetto;Antonio Facchetti;Mark A. Ratner;Tobin J. Marks

  • Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

    Gregory D. Scholes;Graham R. Fleming;Lin X. Chen;Lin X. Chen;Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  • Advances in Molecular Vibrations and Collision Dynamics

    Joel M. Bowman;Mark A. Ratner

  • Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea

    Mark Ratner;Daniel Ratner

  • Molecular electronics: Some views on transport junctions and beyond

    Christian Joachim;Mark A. Ratner

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Abraham Nitzan
Abraham Nitzan University of Pennsylvania
Michael R. Wasielewski
Michael R. Wasielewski Northwestern University
Duward F. Shriver
Duward F. Shriver Northwestern University
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University
Antonio Facchetti
Antonio Facchetti Northwestern University
Michael Y. Galperin
Michael Y. Galperin National Institutes of Health
Ronnie Kosloff
Ronnie Kosloff Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tamar Seideman
Tamar Seideman Northwestern University

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