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Michael O. Wolf is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary research areas span Materials Science and Chemistry, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry as subfields. Additional fields of study include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work engages extensively with topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection.

Michael O. Wolf has coauthored frequently with the following researchers:

  • Duane Hean
  • Jéssica Toigo
  • Ka-Ming Tong
  • Brian O. Patrick
  • Zhen Xu

Common publication venues for their research include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemical Communications

Recent scientific papers authored by or involving Michael O. Wolf feature topics in photofunctional materials and phosphorescence, with the titles and publication details as follows:

  • Controlling ultralong room temperature phosphorescence in organic compounds with sulfur oxidation state, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Quinoline-containing diarylethenes: bridging between turn-on fluorescence, RGB switching and room temperature phosphorescence, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Sulfur-bridged chromophores for photofunctional materials: using sulfur oxidation state to tune electronic and structural properties, 2022, Chemical Science
  • Photosalient and thermosalient crystalline hemithioindigo-anthracene based isomeric photoswitches, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Exploring the Chemoselectivity towards Cysteine Arylation by Cyclometallated AuIII Compounds: New Mechanistic Insights, 2020, ChemBioChem

Best Publications

  • Living Cyclopolymerization of 1,6-Heptadiyne Derivatives Using Well-Defined Alkylidene Complexes: Polymerization Mechanism, Polymer Structure, and Polymer Properties

    Harold H. Fox;Michael O. Wolf;Richard O'Dell;Beatrice L. Lin

  • Transition‐Metal–Polythiophene Hybrid Materials

    M. O. Wolf

  • Direct C-F bond formation using photoredox catalysis.

    Montserrat Rueda-Becerril;Olivier Mahé;Myriam Drouin;Marek B. Majewski

  • Metal nanoparticle—conjugated polymer nanocomposites

    Bryan C. Sih;Michael O. Wolf

  • Charge Transfer and Delocalization in Conjugated (Ferrocenylethynyl)oligothiophene Complexes

    Yongbao Zhu and;Michael O. Wolf

  • SYNTHESIS OF A FERROCENYL-CAPPED RUTHENIUM(II) BIS(ACETYLIDE) COMPLEX : A MODEL FOR ORGANOMETALLIC MOLECULAR WIRES

    Nathan D. Jones;Michael O. Wolf;D. M. Giaquinta

  • EFFECT OF ANCILLARY LIGANDS ON RU(II) ON ELECTRONIC DELOCALIZATION IN RUTHENIUM(II) BISFERROCENYLACETYLIDE COMPLEXES

    Yongbao Zhu;Olivier Clot;Michael O. Wolf;Glenn P. A. Yap

  • Tunable Electron Density at a Rhenium Carbonyl Complex Coordinated to the Conducting Polymer Poly[5,5'-(2-thienyl)-2,2'-bithiazole]

    Michael O. Wolf;Mark S. Wrighton

  • Electronic interactions in metallated polythiophenes: what can be learned from model complexes

    Tracey L Stott;Michael O Wolf

  • Hemilabile coordination complexes for sensing applications

    Sarah E. Angell;Cerrie W. Rogers;Yan Zhang;Michael O. Wolf

  • Recent Advances in Conjugated Transition Metal-containing Polymers and Materials

    Michael O. Wolf

  • Tunable luminescence of bithiophene-based flexible Lewis pairs.

    Yang Cao;Jeffrey K. Nagle;Michael O. Wolf;Brian O. Patrick

  • Successful bifunctional photoswitching and electronic communication of two platinum(II) acetylide bridged dithienylethenes.

    Matthew N. Roberts;Carl-Johan Carling;Jeffrey K. Nagle;Neil R. Branda

  • Cherenkov effect as a probe of photonic nanostructures.

    F. J. García de Abajo;A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham;N. Zabala;N. Zabala;A. Rivacoba;A. Rivacoba

  • Electropolymerization of Oligothienylferrocene Complexes: Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Characterization

    Yongbao Zhu;Michael O. Wolf

  • Models for Conjugated Metal Acetylide Polymers: Ruthenium Oligothienylacetylide Complexes

    Yongbao Zhu;Dylan B. Millet;Michael O. Wolf;Steven J. Rettig

  • Photophysical properties and applications of coordination complexes incorporating pyrene

    Ashlee J. Howarth;Marek B. Majewski;Michael O. Wolf

  • Photochemistry and Surface Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of cis- and trans-4-Cyano-4'-(10-thiodecoxy)stilbene on Polycrystalline Gold

    Michael O. Wolf;Marye Anne Fox

  • Template approaches to conjugated polymer micro- and nanoparticles

    Timothy L. Kelly;Michael O. Wolf

  • Supercapacitive properties of PEDOT and carbon colloidal microspheres.

    Timothy L. Kelly;Kazuhisa Yano;Michael O. Wolf

  • Electropolymerization of Pd(II) complexes containing phosphinoterthiophene ligands.

    Olivier Clot;Michael O. Wolf;Brian O. Patrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Spencer Klein
Spencer Klein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Brian O. Patrick
Brian O. Patrick University of British Columbia
D. Berley
D. Berley University of Maryland, College Park
Subir Sarkar
Subir Sarkar University of Oxford
David A. Williams
David A. Williams University of California, Santa Cruz
Hermann Kolanoski
Hermann Kolanoski Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Kendall Mahn
Kendall Mahn Michigan State University
Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gisela Anton
Gisela Anton University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Reina H. Maruyama
Reina H. Maruyama Yale University

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