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Overview

Yi Liao is affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of materials science and engineering, with a focus on subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, physical and theoretical chemistry, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's work centers around several key topics:

  • Luminescence and fluorescent materials
  • Photochromic and fluorescence chemistry
  • Organic light-emitting diodes research
  • Photochemistry and electron transfer studies
  • Carbon dioxide capture technologies
  • Perovskite materials and applications
  • Radical photochemical reactions

Yi Liao has published in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • ChemPhotoChem
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Their recent publications include:

  • "Regulation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence to Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Emission Channels by Controlling the Excited-States Dynamics via J- and H-Aggregation" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "A Novel Strategy toward Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Locally Excited State" (2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • "Reversible photo control of proton chemistry" (2022, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • "Daily Cycles of Reversible Protein Condensation in Cyanobacteria" (2020, Cell Reports)
  • "Photochemically-Driven CO2 Release Using a Metastable-State Photoacid for Energy Efficient Direct Air Capture" (2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Frequent collaborators of Yi Liao include Hua Geng, Hongbing Fu, Yuai Duan, Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev, and Adnan Elgattar, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Long-Lived Photoacid Based upon a Photochromic Reaction

    Zheng Shi;Ping Peng;Daniel Strohecker;Yi Liao

  • From charge transport parameters to charge mobility in organic semiconductors through multiscale simulation

    Zhigang Shuai;Hua Geng;Wei Xu;Yi Liao

  • Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Novel Iron Chelators: Structure−Activity Relationships of the 2-Benzoylpyridine Thiosemicarbazone Series and Their 3-Nitrobenzoyl Analogues as Potent Antitumor Agents

    Danuta S Kalinowski;Yu Yu;Philip C Sharpe;Mohammad Islam

  • Quantum Mechanical Design and Structure of the Li@B10H14 Basket with a Remarkably Enhanced Electro-Optical Response

    Shabbir Muhammad;Hongliang Xu;Yi Liao;Yuhe Kan

  • Design and Applications of Metastable-State Photoacids

    Yi Liao

  • Systematic study of the structure-property relationship of a series of ferrocenyl nonlinear optical chromophores.

    Yi Liao;Bruce E. Eichinger;Kimberly A. Firestone;Marnie Haller

  • Regulation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence to Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Emission Channels by Controlling the Excited-States Dynamics via J- and H-Aggregation

    Shuai Li;Shuai Li;Liyuan Fu;Xiaoxiao Xiao;Hua Geng

  • Guest-Host Cooperativity in Organic Materials Greatly Enhances the Nonlinear Optical Response

    Yuriy V. Pereverzev;Kim N. Gunnerson;Oleg V. Prezhdo;Philip A. Sullivan

  • Visible-light activatable organic CO-releasing molecules (PhotoCORMs) that simultaneously generate fluorophores

    Ping Peng;Chaoming Wang;Zheng Shi;Valentine K. Johns

  • Theory-guided design and synthesis of multichromophore dendrimers: an analysis of the electro-optic effect.

    Philip A. Sullivan;Harrison Rommel;Yi Liao;Benjamin C. Olbricht

  • Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of 3-D [RuII/III2(O2CMe)4]3[MIII(CN)6] (M = Cr, Fe, Co)

    Yi Liao;William W. Shum;Joel S. Miller

  • Diruthenium tetraacetate monocation, [RuII/III2(O2CMe)4]+, building blocks for 3-D molecule-based magnets.

    Thomas E. Vos;Yi Liao;William W. Shum;Jae Hyuk Her

  • Electronic Hyperpolarizabilities for Donor−Acceptor Molecules with Long Conjugated Bridges: Calculations versus Experiment

    Kyrill Yu. Suponitsky;Yi Liao;Artëm E. Masunov

  • A Novel Lattice-Hardening Process To Achieve Highly Efficient and Thermally Stable Nonlinear Optical Polymers

    Marnie Haller;Jingdong Luo;Hongxiang Li;Tae-Dong Kim

  • Toward Quantitative Prediction of Charge Mobility in Organic Semiconductors: Tunneling Enabled Hopping Model

    Hua Geng;Qian Peng;Linjun Wang;Haijiao Li

  • Nonmetallic carbon monoxide releasing molecules (CORMs).

    Nawodi Abeyrathna;Kenyatta Washington;Christopher Bashur;Yi Liao

  • A Reversible Photoacid Functioning in PBS Buffer under Visible Light

    Nawodi Abeyrathna;Yi Liao

  • Reversible piezochromic behavior of two new cationic iridium(III) complexes.

    Guo-Gang Shan;Hai-Bin Li;Hong-Tao Cao;Dong-Xia Zhu

  • A theoretical discussion on the relationships among molecular packings, intermolecular interactions, and electron transport properties for naphthalene tetracarboxylic diimide derivatives

    Yun Geng;Shui-Xing Wu;Hai-Bin Li;Xiao-Dan Tang

  • Charge carrier transporting, photoluminescent, and electroluminescent properties of zinc(II)-2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazolate complex

    Xinjun Xu;Yi Liao;Gui Yu;Han You

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Alex K.-Y. Jen
Alex K.-Y. Jen City University of Hong Kong
Bruce H. Robinson
Bruce H. Robinson University of Washington
Jingdong Luo
Jingdong Luo City University of Hong Kong
William H. Steier
William H. Steier University of Southern California
Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology
Tom Baehr-Jones
Tom Baehr-Jones Luminous Computing
Michael Hochberg
Michael Hochberg Luminous Computing
Joel S. Miller
Joel S. Miller University of Utah
Jae-Wook Kang
Jae-Wook Kang Jeonbuk National University

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