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Troy Van Voorhis

Troy Van Voorhis

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Chemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
29737
World Ranking
3937
National Ranking
1255

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Troy Van Voorhis is a researcher primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines, including Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy, with a substantial focus on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. They have also contributed to fields related to Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Van Voorhis's research topics include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, and Perovskite Materials and Applications.

Their recent published papers cover a variety of subjects and venues:

  • "A pyridinic Fe-N4 macrocycle models the active sites in Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalysts", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Electrochemically mediated carbon dioxide separation with quinone chemistry in salt-concentrated aqueous media", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Toward Prediction of Nonradiative Decay Pathways in Organic Compounds II: Two Internal Conversion Channels in BODIPYs", 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "Colloidal CdSe nanocrystals are inherently defective", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Exchange controlled triplet fusion in metal-organic frameworks", 2022, Nature Materials

Van Voorhis frequently collaborates with colleagues including Hong-Zhou Ye, Oinam Romesh Meitei, Matthias Kick, Moungi G. Bawendi, and Leah P. Weisburn. Their publications predominantly appear in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Nano Letters, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Their contributions have been recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which named them a Fellow in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Advances in molecular quantum chemistry contained in the Q-Chem 4 program package

    Yihan Shao;Zhengting Gan;Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T. B. Gilbert

  • Advances in methods and algorithms in a modern quantum chemistry program package

    Yihan Shao;Laszlo Fusti Molnar;Yousung Jung;Jörg Kussmann

  • Nonlocal van der Waals density functional: The simpler the better

    Oleg A. Vydrov;Troy Van Voorhis

  • Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

    Evgeny Epifanovsky;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Andrew T.B. Gilbert;Xintian Feng;Xintian Feng;Joonho Lee

  • External Quantum Efficiency Above 100% in a Singlet-Exciton-Fission–Based Organic Photovoltaic Cell

    Daniel N. Congreve;Jiye Lee;Nicholas J. Thompson;Eric Hontz

  • A novel form for the exchange-correlation energy functional

    Troy Van Voorhis;Gustavo E. Scuseria

  • Q-Chem 2.0: a high-performance ab initio electronic structure program package

    Jing Kong;Christopher A. White;Christopher A. White;Anna I. Krylov;Anna I. Krylov;David Sherrill;David Sherrill

  • Constrained density functional theory.

    Benjamin Kaduk;Tim Kowalczyk;Troy Van Voorhis

  • Direct optimization method to study constrained systems within density-functional theory

    Qin Wu;Troy Van Voorhis

  • Solid-state infrared-to-visible upconversion sensitized by colloidal nanocrystals

    Mengfei Wu;Daniel N. Congreve;Mark W. B. Wilson;Joel Jean

  • A pyridinic Fe-N 4 macrocycle models the active sites in Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalysts.

    Travis Marshall-Roth;Nicole J. Libretto;Alexandra T. Wrobel;Kevin J. Anderton

  • A transferable model for singlet-fission kinetics

    Shane R Yost;Jiye Lee;Mark W B Wilson;Tony Wu

  • Electronic design criteria for O-O bond formation via metal-oxo complexes.

    Theodore A. Betley;Qin Wu;Troy Van Voorhis;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Nonlocal van der Waals density functional made simple.

    Oleg A. Vydrov;Troy Van Voorhis

  • Charge Transfer State Versus Hot Exciton Dissociation in Polymer−Fullerene Blended Solar Cells

    Jiye Lee;Koen Vandewal;Shane R. Yost;Matthias E. Bahlke

  • Cation-Dependent Intrinsic Electrical Conductivity in Isostructural Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Microporous Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Sarah S. Park;Eric R. Hontz;Lei Sun;Christopher Holman Hendon

  • The Diabatic Picture of Electron Transfer, Reaction Barriers, and Molecular Dynamics

    Troy Van Voorhis;Tim Kowalczyk;Benjamin Kaduk;Lee-Ping Wang

  • Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials Based on Homoconjugation Effect of Donor–Acceptor Triptycenes

    Katsuaki Kawasumi;Tony Wu;Tianyu Zhu;Hyun Sik Chae

  • Extracting electron transfer coupling elements from constrained density functional theory.

    Qin Wu;Troy Van Voorhis

  • Singlet exciton fission photovoltaics.

    Jiye Lee;Priya Jadhav;Philip D. Reusswig;Shane R. Yost

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