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Publications in 2024

1) The impact of hydrogen peroxide production in OECTs for in vitroClaudia Lubrano, Ottavia Bettucci, Gerwin Dijk, Alberto Salleo, Alexander Giovannitti*, Francesca Santoro*, T, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted.

Publications in 2023

1) Origins of hydrogen peroxide selectivity during oxygen reduction on organic mixed ionic–electronic conducting polymers, Ana De La Fuente Durán, Allen Yu-Lun Liang, Ilaria Denti, Hang Yu, Drew Pearce, Adam Marks, Emily Penn, Jeremy Treiber, Karrie Weaver, Lily Turaski, Iuliana P Maria, Sophie Griggs, Xingxing Chen, Alberto Salleo, William C Chueh, Jenny Nelson, Alexander Giovannitti*, J Tyler Mefford*, Energy Environ. Sci., 2023 [10.1039/D3EE02102E]

2) Controlling swelling in mixed transport polymers through alkyl side-chain physical cross-linking, Nicholas Siemons, Drew Pearce, Hang Yu, Sachetan M Tuladhar, Garrett S LeCroy, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Rawad K Hallani, Alberto Salleo, Iain McCulloch, Alexander Giovannitti, Jarvist M Frost, Jenny Nelson, PNAS, 2023, 120 (35) e2306272120. [10.1073/pnas.2306272120]

3) Garrett LeCroy, Camila Cendra, Tyler J. Quill, Maximilian Moser, Rawad Hallani, James F. Ponder Jr., Kevin Stone, Stephen D. Kang, Allen Yu-Lun Liang, Quentin Thiburce, Iain McCulloch, Frank C. Spano, Alexander Giovannitti*, and Alberto Salleo*, Role of aggregates and microstructure of mixed-ionic electronic-conductors on charge transport in electrochemical transistors, Mater. Horiz., 12, 2023. [10.1039/d3mh00017f]

4) Tyler J. Quill, Garrett LeCroy, David M. Halat, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Adam Marks, Lorena S. Grundy, Iain McCulloch, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Nitash P. Balsara, Alexander Giovannitti*, Alberto Salleo*, Christopher J. Takacs*, An ordered, self-assembled nanocomposite with efficient electronic and ionic transport, Nat. Mater., 2023, 22, 362–368. [10.1038/s4156‑023‑01476-6]

Publications in 2022

1) Iuliana P Maria, Sophie Griggs, Reem B Rashid, Bryan D Paulsen, Jokubas Surgailis, Karl Thorley, Vianna N Le, George T Harrison, Craig Combe, Rawad Hallani, Alexander Giovannitti, Alexandra F Paterson, Sahika Inal, Jonathan Rivnay, Iain McCulloch, Enhancing the Backbone Coplanarity of n-Type Copolymers for Higher Electron Mobility and Stability in Organic Electrochemical Transistors, Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 19, 8593–8602. [10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01552]

2) Nicholas Siemons, Drew Pearce, Camila Cendra, Hang Yu, Sachetan M. Tuladhar, Rawad K. Hallani, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Garrett S. LeCroy, Lucas Siemons, Andrew J. P. White, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo, Jarvist M. Frost, Alexander Giovannitti, Jenny Nelson, Impact of Side-Chain Hydrophilicity on Packing, Swelling, and Ion Interactions in Oxy-Bithiophene Semiconductors, Adv. Mater. 2022, 2204258. [10.1002/adma.202204258]

3) Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Alexander Giovannitti, Adam Marks, Maximilian Moser, Tyler J Quill, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo, Giorgio E Bonacchini, Conjugated polymers for microwave applications: untethered sensing platforms and multifunctional devices, Adv. Mater. 2022, 2202994. [10.1002/adma.202202994]

4) Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Gijun Lee, Ilaria Denti, Garrett LeCroy, Kalee Rozylowicz, Adam Marks, Sophie Griggs, Iain McCulloch, Alexander Giovannitti*, Alberto Salleo*, Tuning Organic Electrochemical Transistor Threshold Voltage using Chemically Doped Polymer Gates, Adv. Mater. 2022, 2202359. [10.1002/adma.202202359]

5) Scott T. Keene, Wesley Michaels, Armantas Melianas, Tyler J. Quill, Elliot J. Fuller, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch, A. Alec Talin, Christopher J. Tassone, Jian Qin, Alessandro Troisi, and Alberto Salleo, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, [10.1021/jacs.2c0213].

6) Lewis M Cowen, Peter A Gilhooly-Finn, Alexander Giovannitti, Garrett LeCroy, Harry Demetriou, William Neal, Yifan Dong, Megan Westwood, Sally Luong, Oliver Fenwick, Alberto Salleo, Sandrine Heutz, Christian B Nielsen, Bob C Schroeder, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, [10.1039/D2TC01108E].

Publications in 2021

1) Imke Krauhausen, Dimitrios A. Koutsouras, Armantas Melianas, Scott T. Keene, Katharina Lieberth, Hadrien Ledanseur, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Alexander Giovannitti, Fabrizio Torricelli, Iain Mcculloch, Paul W. M. Blom, Alberto Salleo*,Yoeri van de Burgt*, Paschalis Gkoupidenis* Science Advances, 2021, [10.1126/sciadv.abl5068].

2) Bryan D Paulsen, Alexander Giovannitti, Ruiheng Wu, Joseph Strzalka, Qingteng Zhang, Jonathan Rivnay, Christopher J Takacs, Electrochemistry of Thin Films with In-Situ/Operando Grazing Incidence X‐Ray Scattering: Bypassing Electrolyte Scattering for High Fidelity Time Resolved Studies, 2021, Small, 17, 2103213 [10.1002/smll.202103213]

3) Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Tyler J. Quill, Maximilian Moser, Xingxing Chen, Alberto Salleo and Alexander Giovannitti*, Redox-active polymers designed for the circular economy of energy storage devices, 2021, ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 3450–3457. [10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01625]​

4) Anna A. Szumska, Iuliana P. Maria, Lucas Q. Flagg, Achilleas Savva, Jokubas Surgailis,  Bryan D. Paulsen, Davide Moia, Xingxing Chen, Sophie Griggs, J. Tyler Mefford, Reem B. Rashid, Adam Marks, Sahika Inal, David S. Ginger, Alexander Giovannitti* and Jenny Nelson*, Reversible electrochemical charging of n-type conjugated polymer electrodes in aqueous electrolytes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021 [10.1021/jacs.1c06713].

5) Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Scott Tom Keene, Alexander Giovannitti, Armantas Melianas, Maximilian Moser, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo*, Operation Mechanism of Organic Electrochemical Transistors as Redox Chemical Transducers, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, [10.1039/d1tc02224e]​​​

6) Iuliana P. Maria*, Bryan Paulsen, Achilleas Savva, David Ohayon, Ruiheng Wu, Rawad Hallani, Aniruddha Basu,  Weiyuan Du, Thomas Anthopholus, Sahika Inal, Jonathan Rivnay, Iain McCulloch and Alexander Giovannitti*, The effect of alkyl spacers on the mixed ionic-electronic conduction properties of n-type polymers, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2008718 [10.1002/adfm.202008718].

7) Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Alexander Giovannitti*, Armantas Melianas, Maximillian Moser, Benjamin L. Cotts, Devan Singh, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo, High-Gain Chemically Gated Organic Electrochemical Transistor, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2010868 [10.1002/adfm.202010868]

Publications in 2020

1) Maximilian Moser, Achilleas Savva, Karl Thorley, Bryan D Paulsen, Tania Cecilia Hidalgo, David Ohayon, Hu Chen, Alexander Giovannitti, Adam Marks, Nicola Gasparini, Andrew Wadsworth, Jonathan Rivnay, Sahika Inal, Iain McCulloch*, Polaron Delocalization in Donor‐Acceptor Polymers and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020 [10.1002/anie.202014078]

2) Maximilian Moser, Tania Cecilia Hidalgo, Jokubas Surgailis, Johannes Gladisch, Sarbani Ghos, Rajendar Sheelamanthula  Quentin Thiburce, Alexander Giovannitti, Alberto Salleo,  Nicola Gasparini,  Andrew Wadsworth,  Igor Zozoulenko,  Magnus Berggren,  Eleni Stavrinidou,  Sahika Inal, and Iain McCulloch*, Side Chain Redistribution as a Strategy to Boost Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance and Stability, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2002748 [10.1002/adma.202002748]

3) Armantas Melianas*, Tyler. J. Quill1, Garrett. LeCroy, Yaakov. Tuchman, Hilbert v. Loo, Scott. T. Keene, Alexander Giovannitti, Hye R. Lee, Iuliana. P. Maria, Iain. McCulloch, Alberto Salleo*, Temperature-resilient solid-state organic artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing, Science Advances, 2020, 6, 27 [10.1126/sciadv.abb2958]

4) Alexander Giovannitti*, Reem B. Rashid, Quentin Thiburce, Bryan Paulsen, Camila Cendra, Karl Thorley, Davide Moia, J. Tyler Mefford, David Hanifi, Du Weiyuan, Max Moser, Alberto Salleo, Jenny Nelson, Iain McCulloch, and Jonathan Rivnay, Energetic control of redox-active polymers towards safe organic bioelectronic materials, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 1908047. [10.1002/adma.201908047]

5) Achilleas Savva, Rawad Hallani, Camila Cendra, Jokubas Surgailis, Tania C Hidalgo, Shofarul Wustoni, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Xingxing Chen, Mindaugas Kirkus, Alexander Giovannitti, Alberto Salleo, Iain McCulloch, Sahika Inal, Balancing Ionic and Electronic Conduction for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1907657 [10.1002/adfm.201907657]

Publications in 2019

1) Johannes Gladisch, Eleni Stavrinidou,* Sarbani Ghosh, Alexander Giovannitti, Maximilian Moser, Igor Zozoulenko, Iain McCulloch, and Magnus Berggren, Reversible Electronic Solid–Gel Switching of a Conjugated Polymer, Adv. Sci. 2019, 1901144 [10.1002/advs.201901144]

2) Maximilian Moser, James F. Ponder Jr., Andrew Wadsworth, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch, Materials in Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Bioelectronic Applications: Past, Present, and Future, Adv. Funct. Mater.2019, 29, 180703. [10.1002/adfm.201807033]

 

3) Maximilian Moser, Karl J Thorley, Floriana Moruzzi, James F Ponder, Iuliana P Maria, Alexander Giovannitti, Sahika Inal, Iain McCulloch, Highly selective chromoionophores for ratiometric Na+ sensing based on an oligoethyleneglycol bridged bithiophene detection unit, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 5359—5365. [10.1039/c8tc06000b]

4) Davide Moia*, Alexander Giovannitti*, Anna A. Szumska, Martin Schnurr, Elham Rezasoltani, Iuliana P. Maria, Piers R.F. Barnes, Iain McCulloch and Jenny Nelson*, A salt water battery with high stability and charging rates made from solution processed conjugated polymers with polar side chains, Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, 12, 1349-1357 [10.1039/C8EE03518K].

5) Camila Cendra, Alexander Giovannitti, Achilleas Savva, Vishak Venkatraman, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo, Sahika Inal, Jonathan Rivnay, Role of the Anion on the Transport and Structure of Organic Mixed Conductors, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1807034. [10.1002/adfm.201807034]

6) Achilleas Savva, Camila Cendra, Andrea Giugni, Bruno Torre, Jokubas Surgailis, David Ohayon, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Alberto Salleo, Jonathan Rivnay, and Sahika Inal, Influence of Water on the Performance of Organic Electrochemical Transistors, Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 927−937. [10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04335]

7) Quentin Thiburce, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch, and Alasdair J. Campbell, Absence of short-channel effects in sub-100 nm ion-doped polymer transistors, Nano Lett., 2019 [10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04717]

Publications in 2018

1) Vishak Venkatraman, Jacob T. Friedlein, Alexander Giovannitti, Iuliana P. Maria, Iain McCulloch, Robert R. McLeod, and Jonathan Rivnay, Subthreshold operation of organic electrochemical transistors for bio-amplification, Adv. Sci., 2018, 1800453 [10.1002/advs.201800453]

2) David Kiefer, Renee Kroon, Anna I. Hofmann, Hengda Sun, Xianjie Liu, Alexander Giovannitti, Dominik Stegerer, Alexander Cano, Jonna Hynynen, Liyang Yu, Yadong Zhang, Michael Sommer, Seth R. Marder, Adam J. Moulé, Iain McCulloch, Mats Fahlman, Simone Fabiano and Christian Müller, Double Doping of Conjugated Polymers with Monomer Molecular Dopants, ‎Nat. Mater., 2018, Nat. Mater. 2019, 18, 149 [10.1038/s41563-018-0263-6]

Publications in 2017

1) Yi Zhang, Shofarul Wustoni, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch and Sahika Inal*, Lipid Bilayer Formation on Organic Electronic Materials, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018 [10.1039/C8TC00370J]

2) Yi Zhang, Achilleas Savva, Shofarul Wustoni, Adel Hama, Iuliana P Maria, Alexander Giovannitti, Iain McCulloch, Sahika Inal, Visualizing the solid–liquid interface of conjugated copolymer films using fluorescent liposomes, ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2018, 1 (5), 1348–1354.[10.1021/acsabm.8b00323]

3) Alexander Giovannitti*, Iuliana P. Maria, David Hanifi, Mary J. Donahue, Daniel Bryant, Katrina J. Barth, Beatrice E. Makdah, Achilleas Savva, Davide Moia, Matyáš Zetek, Piers Barnes, Obadiah G. Reid, Sahika Inal, Garry Rumbles, George G. Malliaras, Jenny Nelson,

Jonathan Rivnay,* and Iain McCulloch, The role of the side chain on the performance of n-type conjugated polymers in aqueous electrolytes, Chem. Mater., 2018, 30, 9, 2945–2953 [10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00321]

4) Anna-Maria Pappa, David Ohayon, Alexander Giovannitti, Iuliana Petruta Maria, Achilleas Savva, Ilke Uguz, Jonathan Rivnay, Iain McCulloch, Rosin M. Owens and Sahika Inal,   Direct metabolite detection with an n-type accumulation mode organic electrochemical transistor Sci. Adv. 4, 2018, [10.1126/sciadv.aat0911]

5) Alexander Giovannitti*, Karl J. Thorley, Christian B. Nielsen, Jun Li, Mary J. Donahue, George G. Malliaras, Jonathan Rivnay and Iain McCulloch, Redox-stability of alkoxy-BDT copolymers and their use for organic bioelectronic devices, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 1706325 [10.1002/adfm.20170632]

6) David Kiefer, Alexander Giovannitti, Hengda Sun, Till Biskup, Anna Hofmann, Marten Koopmans, Camila Cendra, Stefan Weber, L Jan Anton Koster, Eva Olsson, Jonathan Rivnay, Simone Fabiano, Iain McCulloch, Christian Müller, Enhanced n-Doping Efficiency of a Naphthalenediimide-Based Copolymer through Polar Side Chains for Organic Thermoelectrics, ACS Energy Lett.,2018, 3, 278-285. [10.1021/acsenergylett.7b01146]

Publications in 2016

1) Yu Zhang, Jun Li, Rui Li, Dan-Tiberiu Sbircea, Alexander Giovannitti, Junling Xu, Huihua Xu, Guodong Zhou, Liming Bian, Iain McCulloch, Ni Zhao, Liquid–Solid Dual-Gate Organic Transistors with Tunable Threshold Voltage for Cell Sensing, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 38687 [10.1021/acsami.7b09384]

2) Alexander Giovannitti, Dan-Tiberiu Sbircea, Sahika Inal, Christian B. Nielsen, Enrico Bandiello, David A. Hanifi,  Michele Sessolo, George G. Malliaras, Iain McCulloch and Jonathan Rivnay*. Controlling the mode of operation of organic transistors through side chain engineering, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2016, 113, 12017-12022 [10.1073/pnas.1608780113]

3) Alexander Giovannitti*, Christian B. Nielsen, Dan-Tiberiu Sbircea, Sahika Inal, Mary Donahue, Muhammad R. Niazi, David A. Hanifi, Aram Amassian, George G. Malliaras, Jonathan Rivnay and Iain McCulloch. N-type organic electrochemical transistors with stability in water, Nat. Commun. 2016, 7, 13066-13075. [10.1038/ncomms13066]

4) Christian B. Nielsen*, Alexander Giovannitti, Dan-Tiberiu Sbircea, Enrico Bandiello, Muhammad R. Niazi, David A. Hanifi, Michele Sessolo, Aram Amassian, George G. Malliaras, Jonathan Rivnay and Iain McCulloch. Molecular Design of Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 10252–10259 [10.1021/jacs.6b05280]

5) Alexander Giovannitti*, Christian B. Nielsen, Jonathan Rivnay, Mindaugas Kirkus, David J. Harkin, Andrew J.P. White, Henning Sirringhaus, George G. Malliaras and Iain McCulloch. Sodium and Potassium Ion Selective Conjugated Polymers for Optical Ion Detection in Solution and Solid State, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2016, 26, 514–523. [10.1002/adfm.201503791]

Publication in 2013

Alexander Giovannitti, Stefan M. Seifermann, Angela Bihlmeier, Thierry Muller, Filip Topic, Kari Rissanen, Martin Nieger, Wim Klopper, Stefan Bräse*. Single and Multiple Additions of Dibenzoylmethane onto Buckminsterfullerene.  Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2013, 7907–7913. [10.1002/ejoc.201301146]

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