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74
Citations
14647
World Ranking
4850
National Ranking
1518

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For applying femtosecond and photoelectron spectroscopies to gain better understanding of electronic interactions that guide chemical reaction dynamics in the condensed phase

Overview

Stephen E. Bradforth is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electrochemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications. Other areas of focus include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Quantum superfluid helium dynamics, Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Bradforth's publication record features contributions to prominent academic venues. Noteworthy venues where they have frequently published include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Accounts of Chemical Research
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Bradforth demonstrate their focus on spectroscopy and chemical dynamics:

  • Controlling Symmetry Breaking Charge Transfer in BODIPY Pairs (2022, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • Photoelectron spectra of alkali metal-ammonia microjets: From blue electrolyte to bronze metal (2020, Science)
  • Probing the Electronic Structure of Bulk Water at the Molecular Length Scale with Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • New Insights into the Charge-Transfer-to-Solvent Spectrum of Aqueous Iodide: Surface versus Bulk (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • Spectroscopic evidence for a gold-coloured metallic water solution (2021, Nature)

Bradforth has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Regular coauthors include Bernd Winter, Mark E. Thompson, Robert Seidel, Matthew Bain, and Philip E. Mason.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Bradforth was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019. Additionally, they are a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), awarded in 2015 with a citation acknowledging the application of femtosecond and photoelectron spectroscopies to understand electronic interactions affecting chemical reaction dynamics in condensed phases.

Best Publications

  • Role of water in electron-initiated processes and radical chemistry: issues and scientific advances.

    Bruce C Garrett;David A Dixon;Donald M Camaioni;Daniel M Chipman

  • Vibrationally Resolved Spectra of C2-C11 by Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy

    D. W. Arnold;S. E. Bradforth;T. N. Kitsopoulos;D. M. Neumark

  • Electronic Excitation Transfer in the LH2 Complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

    Ralph Jimenez;Srivatsan N. Dikshit;Stephen E. Bradforth;Graham R. Fleming

  • Photophysics of dopamine-modified quantum dots and effects on biological systems.

    Samuel J. Clarke;C. Annette Hollmann;Zhijun Zhang;Diana Suffern

  • Efficient Singlet Fission Discovered in a Disordered Acene Film

    Sean T. Roberts;R. Eric McAnally;Joseph N. Mastron;David H. Webber

  • Excitation Transfer in the Core Light-Harvesting Complex (LH-1) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides: An Ultrafast Fluorescence Depolarization and Annihilation Study

    Stephen E. Bradforth;Ralph Jimenez;Frank van Mourik;Rienk van Grondelle

  • The transition state of the f + h2 reaction.

    David E. Manolopoulos;Klaus Stark;Hans-Joachim Werner;Don W. Arnold

  • Singlet Fission in a Covalently Linked Cofacial Alkynyltetracene Dimer

    Nadezhda V. Korovina;Saptaparna Das;Zachary Nett;Xintian Feng

  • Photoelectron spectroscopy of CN−, NCO−, and NCS−

    Stephen E. Bradforth;Eun Ha Kim;Don W. Arnold;Daniel M. Neumark

  • "Quick-Silver" from a Systematic Study of Highly Luminescent, Two-Coordinate, d10 Coinage Metal Complexes.

    Rasha Hamze;Shuyang Shi;Savannah C Kapper;Daniel Sylvinson Muthiah Ravinson

  • The ejection distribution of solvated electrons generated by the one-photon photodetachment of aqueous I− and two-photon ionization of the solvent

    J. A. Kloepfer;V. H. Vilchiz;V. A. Lenchenkov;A. C. Germaine

  • Photophysical properties of biologically compatible CdSe quantum dot structures.

    Jeremiah A. Kloepfer;Stephen E. Bradforth;Jay L. Nadeau

  • Probing the transition state with negative ion photodetachment: the chlorine atom + hydrogen chloride and bromine atom + hydrogen bromide reactions

    R. B. Metz;A. Weaver;S. E. Bradforth;T. N. Kitsopoulos

  • Examination of the 2A’2 and 2E‘ states of NO3 by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of NO−3

    A. Weaver;D. W. Arnold;S. E. Bradforth;D. M. Neumark

  • Femtosecond Wavepacket Spectroscopy: Influence of Temperature, Wavelength, and Pulse Duration

    David M. Jonas;Stephen E. Bradforth;Sean A. Passino;Graham R. Fleming

  • Photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid water and aqueous solution: Electron effective attenuation lengths and emission-angle anisotropy

    Niklas Ottosson;Manfred Faubel;Stephen E. Bradforth;Pavel Jungwirth

  • University learning: Improve undergraduate science education

    Stephen E. Bradforth;Emily R. Miller;William R. Dichtel;Adam K. Leibovich

  • Photoelectron angular distributions from liquid water: effects of electron scattering

    Stephan Thürmer;Robert Seidel;Manfred Faubel;Wolfgang Eberhardt;Wolfgang Eberhardt

  • Wavelength dependence of ultraviolet radiation-induced DNA damage as determined by laser irradiation suggests that cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are the principal DNA lesions produced by terrestrial sunlight

    Ahmad Besaratinia;Jae-in Yoon;Christi Schroeder;Stephen E. Bradforth

  • The Ultrafast Dynamics of Photodetachment

    Xiyi Chen;Stephen E Bradforth

  • Flowing liquid sample jet for resonance Raman and ultrafast optical spectroscopy

    Michael J. Tauber;Richard A. Mathies;Xiyi Chen;Stephen E. Bradforth

  • Femtosecond dynamics of photodetachment of the iodide anion in solution: resonant excitation into the charge-transfer-to-solvent state

    Jeremiah A Kloepfer;Victor H Vilchiz;Victor A Lenchenkov;Stephen E Bradforth

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Thompson
Mark E. Thompson University of Southern California
Daniel M. Neumark
Daniel M. Neumark University of California, Berkeley
Pavel Jungwirth
Pavel Jungwirth Czech Academy of Sciences
Bernd Winter
Bernd Winter Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Anna I. Krylov
Anna I. Krylov University of Southern California
Richard L. Brutchey
Richard L. Brutchey University of Southern California
Graham R. Fleming
Graham R. Fleming University of California, Berkeley
Michael N. R. Ashfold
Michael N. R. Ashfold University of Bristol
Petr Slavíček
Petr Slavíček University of Chemistry and Technology
Ilya A. Shkrob
Ilya A. Shkrob Argonne National Laboratory

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