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Publications: Dr Andrew Danos

Lodola F, Miranda‐Salinas H, Kuila S, Danos A, Monkman AP ( 2025 ) . Identifying Key Physical Properties of Simple Organic Drop Cast Films that give Visible to Ultraviolet Light Up‐Conversion . ChemPhotoChem
Maggiore A, Qu Y, Clavier G, Colella M, Danos A, Monkman AP, Guillot R, Pugliese M et al. ( 2025 ) . Multifunctional benzonitrile derivatives with TADF and mechanofluorochromic properties and their application in OLEDs . Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Carrod AJ, Berghuis AM, Gopalakrishnan VN, Monkman A, Danos A, Börjesson K ( 2025 ) . Separating triplet exciton diffusion from triplet–triplet annihilation by the introduction of a mediator . Chemical Science vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 1293 - 1301 .
Dos Santos JM, Hall D, Basumatary B, Bryden M, Chen D, Choudhary P, Comerford T, Crovini E et al. ( 2024 ) . The Golden Age of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials: Design and Exploitation . Chemical Reviews vol. 124 , ( 24 ) 13736 - 14110 .
Karakurt O, Demirgezer EF, Dastemir M, Cakmaktepe SC, Miranda-Salinas H, Aksoy E, Danos A, Monkman A et al. ( 2024 ) . Design and performance of sulfur and selenium-substituted triarylboron D3-A TADF emitters for OLED applications . Organic Electronics vol. 134 ,
Mattiello S, Danos A, Stavrou K, Ronchi A, Baranovski R, Florenzano D, Meinardi F, Beverina L et al. ( 2024 ) . Diffusion‐Free Intramolecular Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Contributes to the Enhanced Exciton Utilization in OLEDs . Advanced Optical Materials vol. 12 , ( 33 )
Öner S, Kuila S, Stavrou K, Danos A, Fox MA, Monkman AP, Bryce MR ( 2024 ) . Exciplex, Not Heavy-Atom Effect, Controls the Triplet Dynamics of a Series of Sulfur-Containing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules . Chemistry of Materials vol. 36 , ( 15 ) 7135 - 7150 .
Stavrou K, Franca LG, Danos A, Monkman AP ( 2024 ) . Key requirements for ultraefficient sensitization in hyperfluorescence organic light-emitting diodes . Nature Photonics vol. 18 , ( 6 ) 554 - 561 .
Franca LG, Danos A, Saxena R, Kuila S, Stavrou K, Li C, Wedler S, Köhler A et al. ( 2024 ) . Exploring the Early Time Behavior of the Excited States of an Archetype Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecule . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 15 , ( 6 ) 1734 - 1740 .
Brebels S, Cardeynaels T, Jackers L, Kuila S, Penxten H, Salthouse RJ, Danos A, Monkman AP et al. ( 2024 ) . Isomeric modulation of thermally activated delayed fluorescence in dibenzo[ a , c ]phenazine-based (deep) red emitters . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 12 , ( 25 ) 9255 - 9265 .
Miranda-Salinas H, Wang J, Danos A, Matulaitis T, Stavrou K, Monkman AP, Zysman-Colman E ( 2024 ) . Peripheral halogen atoms in multi-resonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters: the role of heavy atoms in intermolecular interactions and spin orbit coupling . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 12 , ( 6 ) 1996 - 2006 .
Alanazi F, Eggeman AS, Stavrou K, Danos A, Monkman AP, Mendis BG ( 2023 ) . Quantifying Molecular Disorder in Tri-Isopropyl Silane (TIPS) Pentacene Using Variable Coherence Transmission Electron Microscopy . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 14 , ( 36 ) 8183 - 8190 .
Paredis S, Cardeynaels T, Kuila S, Deckers J, Van Landeghem M, Vandewal K, Danos A, Monkman AP et al. ( 2023 ) . Balanced Energy Gaps as a Key Design Rule for Solution‐Phase Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescence . Chemistry - A European Journal vol. 29 , ( 42 )
Sudhakar P, Kuila S, Stavrou K, Danos A, Slawin AMZ, Monkman A, Zysman-Colman E ( 2023 ) . Azaborine as a Versatile Weak Donor for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces vol. 15 , ( 21 ) 25806 - 25818 .
Franca LG, Danos A, Monkman A ( 2023 ) . Donor, Acceptor, and Molecular Charge Transfer Emission All in One Molecule . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 14 , ( 11 ) 2764 - 2771 .
Saha PK, Mallick A, Turley AT, Bismillah AN, Danos A, Monkman AP, Avestro A-J, Yufit DS et al. ( 2023 ) . Rupturing aromaticity by periphery overcrowding . Nature Chemistry vol. 15 , ( 4 ) 516 - 525 .
Salah L, Makhseed S, Ghazal B, Abdel Nazeer A, Etherington MK, Ponseca CS, Li C, Monkman AP et al. ( 2023 ) . Covalently linked pyrene antennas for optically dense yet aggregation-resistant light-harvesting systems . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics vol. 25 , ( 36 ) 24878 - 24882 .
Paredis S, Cardeynaels T, Brebels S, Deckers J, Kuila S, Lathouwers A, Van Landeghem M, Vandewal K et al. ( 2023 ) . Intramolecular locking and coumarin insertion: a stepwise approach for TADF design . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics vol. 25 , ( 43 ) 29842 - 29849 .
Sharif P, Alemdar E, Ozturk S, Caylan O, Haciefendioglu T, Buke G, Aydemir M, Danos A et al. ( 2022 ) . Rational Molecular Design Enables Efficient Blue TADF−OLEDs with Flexible Graphene Substrate . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 32 , ( 47 )
Hempe M, Kukhta NA, Danos A, Batsanov AS, Monkman AP, Bryce MR ( 2022 ) . Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Is There Evidence Beyond Reasonable Doubt? . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 13 , ( 35 ) 8221 - 8227 .
Kelly D, Franca LG, Stavrou K, Danos A, Monkman AP ( 2022 ) . Laplace Transform Fitting as a Tool To Uncover Distributions of Reverse Intersystem Crossing Rates in TADF Systems . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 13 , ( 30 ) 6981 - 6986 .
Stavrou K, Suresh SM, Hall D, Danos A, Kukhta NA, Slawin AMZ, Warriner S, Beljonne D et al. ( 2022 ) . Emission and Absorption Tuning in TADF B,N‐Doped Heptacenes: Toward Ideal‐Blue Hyperfluorescent OLEDs . Advanced Optical Materials vol. 10 , ( 17 )
Haykir G, Aydemir M, Tekin A, Tekin E, Danos A, Yuksel F, Hizal G, Monkman AP et al. ( 2022 ) . Effects of donor position and multiple charge transfer pathways in asymmetric pyridyl-sulfonyl TADF emitters . Materials Today Communications vol. 31 ,
Turley AT, Saha PK, Danos A, Bismillah AN, Monkman AP, Yufit DS, Curchod BFE, Etherington MK et al. ( 2022 ) . Extended Conjugation Attenuates the Quenching of Aggregation‐Induced Emitters by Photocyclization Pathways . Angewandte Chemie International Edition vol. 61 , ( 24 )
AKSOY E, DANOS A, Lİ C, MONKMAN A, VARLIKLI C ( 2022 ) . The Effect of Imide Substituents on the Excited State Properties of Perylene Diimide Derivatives . Turkish Journal of Science and Technology vol. 17 , ( 1 ) 11 - 21 .
Paredis S, Cardeynaels T, Deckers J, Danos A, Vanderzande D, Monkman AP, Champagne B, Maes W ( 2022 ) . Bridge control of photophysical properties in benzothiazole-phenoxazine emitters – from thermally activated delayed fluorescence to room temperature phosphorescence . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 10 , ( 12 ) 4775 - 4784 .
Sem S, Jenatsch S, Stavrou K, Danos A, Monkman AP, Ruhstaller B ( 2022 ) . Determining non-radiative decay rates in TADF compounds using coupled transient and steady state optical data . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 10 , ( 12 ) 4878 - 4885 .
Hall D, Stavrou K, Duda E, Danos A, Bagnich S, Warriner S, Slawin AMZ, Beljonne D et al. ( 2022 ) . Diindolocarbazole – achieving multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence without the need for acceptor units . Materials Horizons vol. 9 , ( 3 ) 1068 - 1080 .
Danos A, Gudeika D, Kukhta NA, Lygaitis R, Colella M, Higginbotham HF, Bismillah AN, McGonigal PR et al. ( 2022 ) . Not the sum of their parts: understanding multi-donor interactions in symmetric and asymmetric TADF emitters . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 10 , ( 12 ) 4737 - 4747 .
Maggiore A, Tan X, Brosseau A, Danos A, Miomandre F, Monkman AP, Audebert P, Clavier G ( 2022 ) . Novel D–A chromophores with condensed 1,2,4-triazine system simultaneously display thermally activated delayed fluorescence and crystallization-induced phosphorescence . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics vol. 24 , ( 29 ) 17770 - 17781 .
Franca LG, Danos A, Monkman A ( 2022 ) . Spiro donor–acceptor TADF emitters: naked TADF free from inhomogeneity caused by donor acceptor bridge bond disorder. Fast rISC and invariant photophysics in solid state hosts . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 10 , ( 4 ) 1313 - 1325 .
Haykir G, Aydemir M, Danos A, Gumus S, Hizal G, Monkman AP, Turksoy F ( 2021 ) . Effects of asymmetric acceptor and donor positioning in deep blue pyridyl-sulfonyl based TADF emitters . Dyes and Pigments vol. 194 ,
Aksoy E, Danos A, Li C, Monkman AP, Varlikli C ( 2021 ) . Silylethynyl Substitution for Preventing Aggregate Formation in Perylene Diimides . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 125 , ( 23 ) 13041 - 13049 .
Cardeynaels T, Paredis S, Danos A, Harrison A, Deckers J, Brebels S, Lutsen L, Vanderzande D et al. ( 2021 ) . Difluorodithieno[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine as a strong acceptor for materials displaying thermally activated delayed fluorescence or room temperature phosphorescence . Dyes and Pigments vol. 190 ,
Hempe M, Kukhta NA, Danos A, Fox MA, Batsanov AS, Monkman AP, Bryce MR ( 2021 ) . Vibrational Damping Reveals Vibronic Coupling in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials . Chemistry of Materials vol. 33 , ( 9 ) 3066 - 3080 .
Wright IA, Danos A, Montanaro S, Batsanov AS, Monkman AP, Bryce MR ( 2021 ) . Conformational Dependence of Triplet Energies in Rotationally Hindered N‐ and S‐Heterocyclic Dimers: New Design and Measurement Rules for High Triplet Energy OLED Host Materials . Chemistry - A European Journal vol. 27 , ( 21 ) 6545 - 6556 .
Stavrou K, Danos A, Hama T, Hatakeyama T, Monkman A ( 2021 ) . Hot Vibrational States in a High-Performance Multiple Resonance Emitter and the Effect of Excimer Quenching on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces vol. 13 , ( 7 ) 8643 - 8655 .
Franca LG, Long Y, Li C, Danos A, Monkman A ( 2021 ) . The Critical Role of nπ* States in the Photophysics and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of Spiro Acridine-Anthracenone . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 12 , ( 5 ) 1490 - 1500 .
Cardeynaels T, Paredis S, Danos A, Vanderzande D, Monkman AP, Champagne B, Maes W ( 2021 ) . Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene as a weak donor component for push-pull materials displaying thermally activated delayed fluorescence or room temperature phosphorescence . Dyes and Pigments vol. 186 ,
Haase N, Danos A, Pflumm C, Stachelek P, Brütting W, Monkman AP ( 2021 ) . Are the rates of dexter transfer in TADF hyperfluorescence systems optically accessible? . Materials Horizons vol. 8 , ( 6 ) 1805 - 1815 .
Salah L, Etherington MK, Shuaib A, Danos A, Nazeer AA, Ghazal B, Prlj A, Turley AT et al. ( 2021 ) . Suppressing dimer formation by increasing conformational freedom in multi-carbazole thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 189 - 198 .
Aksoy E, Danos A, Varlikli C, Monkman AP ( 2020 ) . Navigating CIE Space for Efficient TADF Downconversion WOLEDs . Dyes and Pigments vol. 183 ,
Long Y, Mamada M, Li C, dos Santos PL, Colella M, Danos A, Adachi C, Monkman A ( 2020 ) . Excited State Dynamics of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from an Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer System . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 11 , ( 9 ) 3305 - 3312 .
Ward JS, Danos A, Stachelek P, Fox MA, Batsanov AS, Monkman AP, Bryce MR ( 2020 ) . Exploiting trifluoromethyl substituents for tuning orbital character of singlet and triplet states to increase the rate of thermally activated delayed fluorescence . Materials Chemistry Frontiers vol. 4 , ( 12 ) 3602 - 3615 .
Turley AT, Danos A, Prlj A, Monkman AP, Curchod BFE, McGonigal PR, Etherington MK ( 2020 ) . Modulation of charge transfer by N -alkylation to control photoluminescence energy and quantum yield . Chemical Science vol. 11 , ( 27 ) 6990 - 6995 .
Stachelek P, Ward JS, dos Santos PL, Danos A, Colella M, Haase N, Raynes SJ, Batsanov AS et al. ( 2019 ) . Molecular Design Strategies for Color Tuning of Blue TADF Emitters . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces vol. 11 , ( 30 ) 27125 - 27133 .
Colella M, Danos A, Monkman AP ( 2019 ) . Identifying the Factors That Lead to PLQY Enhancement in Diluted TADF Exciplexes Based on Carbazole Donors . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 123 , ( 28 ) 17318 - 17324 .
Pereira DDS, Menelaou C, Danos A, Marian C, Monkman AP ( 2019 ) . Electroabsorption Spectroscopy as a Tool for Probing Charge Transfer and State Mixing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 10 , ( 12 ) 3205 - 3211 .
Etherington MK, Kukhta NA, Higginbotham HF, Danos A, Bismillah AN, Graves DR, McGonigal PR, Haase N et al. ( 2019 ) . Persistent Dimer Emission in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 123 , ( 17 ) 11109 - 11117 .
Colella M, Danos A, Monkman AP ( 2019 ) . Less Is More: Dilution Enhances Optical and Electrical Performance of a TADF Exciplex . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 10 , ( 4 ) 793 - 798 .
Huang R, Kukhta NA, Ward JS, Danos A, Batsanov AS, Bryce MR, Dias FB ( 2019 ) . Balancing charge-transfer strength and triplet states for deep-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence with an unconventional electron rich dibenzothiophene acceptor . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 7 , ( 42 ) 13224 - 13234 .
Kukhta NA, Higginbotham HF, Matulaitis T, Danos A, Bismillah AN, Haase N, Etherington MK, Yufit DS et al. ( 2019 ) . Revealing resonance effects and intramolecular dipole interactions in the positional isomers of benzonitrile-core thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 7 , ( 30 ) 9184 - 9194 .
Haase N, Danos A, Pflumm C, Morherr A, Stachelek P, Mekic A, Brütting W, Monkman AP ( 2018 ) . Kinetic Modeling of Transient Photoluminescence from Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 122 , ( 51 ) 29173 - 29179 .
Guse JA, Jones TW, Danos A, McCamey DR ( 2017 ) . Recombination Dynamics in Thin-film Photovoltaic Materials via Time-resolved Microwave Conductivity . Journal of Visualized Experiments ( 121 )
Davis NJLK, MacQueen RW, Roberts DA, Danos A, Dehn S, Perrier S, Schmidt TW ( 2016 ) . Energy transfer in pendant perylene diimide copolymers . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 4 , ( 35 ) 8270 - 8275 .
Danos A, MacQueen RW, Cheng YY, Dvořák M, Darwish TA, McCamey DR, Schmidt TW ( 2015 ) . Deuteration of Perylene Enhances Photochemical Upconversion Efficiency . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 6 , ( 15 ) 3061 - 3066 .
MacQueen RW, Cheng YY, Danos AN, Lips K, Schmidt TW ( 2014 ) . Action spectrum experiment for the measurement of incoherent photon upconversion efficiency under sun-like excitation . RSC Advances vol. 4 , ( 95 ) 52749 - 52756 .
Keevers TL, Danos A, Schmidt TW, McCamey DR ( 2013 ) . An agnostic approach . Nature Nanotechnology vol. 8 , ( 12 ) 886 - 887 .
Schulze TF, Cheng YY, Fückel B, MacQueen RW, Danos A, Davis NJLK, Tayebjee MJY, Khoury T et al. ( 2012 ) . Photochemical Upconversion Enhanced Solar Cells: Effect of a Back Reflector . Australian Journal of Chemistry vol. 65 , ( 5 ) 480 - 485 .
Derekas A, Kiss LL, Bedding TR, Ashley MCB, Csák B, Danos A, Fernandez JM, Fűrész G et al. ( 2009 ) . Binarity and multiperiodicity in high‐amplitude δ Scuti stars . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 394 , ( 2 ) 995 - 1008 .