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Biocompatible fluorescent carbon dot-based nanoprobes for G-quadruplex targeting in cancer cells

García-Millán, T., Hunt, E., Allen, N. M., Giorio, G. A. M., Oliver, T. A. A., Ramos-Soriano, J. & Galan, M. C., 1 Jun 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Materials Advances. 7, 13, p. 6809-6817 9 p.

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Supramolecular Control of Dual Emission in Macrocycle-Confined Dimers

Yang, T., Jones, J. F., Zhang, S., Li, B., Li, S., Yu, Y., Sun, Y., Liu, H., Yang, B., Oliver, T. A. A. & Wu, G., 25 May 2026, In: JACS Au. 6, 5, p. 3059–3066 8 p.

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Ultrafast solution-phase photochemistry revealed by multi-octave continuum probe

Godínez Castellanos, J. L., Oliver, T. A. A., Larsen, K. A., Brahms, C., Travers, J. C., Forbes, R., Bain, M. & Bradforth, S. E., 20 Feb 2026, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 17, 9, p. 2634–2643 10 p.

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Dynamic equilibrium between the fluorescent state of tryptophan and its cation-electron ion pair governs triplet state population

Kumar, R., Khan, S., Ghosh, D., Karras, G., Clark, I., Greetham, G. M., Oliver, T. A. A., Orr-Ewing, A. J. & Fielding, H., 3 Sept 2025, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147, 35, p. 32064-32076 13 p.

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Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Rhodamine 700 using an 8-fs Ultrabroadband Laser Source and Full Wavelength Reference Detection

Gajo, C., Jordan, C. J. C. & Oliver, T. A. A., 17 Apr 2025, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129, 15, p. 3537–3551 15 p.

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Confinement and Catalysis within De Novo Designed Peptide Barrels

Petrenas, R., Hawkins, O. A., Jones, J. F., Scott, D. A., Fletcher, J. M., Obst, U., Lombardi, L., Pirro, F., Leggett, G. J., Oliver, T. A. A. & Woolfson, D. N., 29 Jan 2025, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147, 4, p. 3796-3803 8 p.

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Nile Red Fluorescence: Where’s the Twist?

Gajo, C., Shchepanovska, D., Jones, J. F., Karras, G., Malakar, P., Greetham, G. M., Hawkins, O. A., Jordan, C. J. C., Curchod, B. F. E. & Oliver, T. A. A., 28 Nov 2024, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128, 47, p. 11768–11775 8 p.

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Efficient Ground-State Recovery of UV-Photoexcited p-Nitrophenol in Aqueous Solution by Direct and Multistep Pathways.

Ghosh, D., Spinlove, K. E., Greene, H. J. M., Lau, N., Gomez, S., Kao, M.-H., Whitaker, W. A., Clark, I. P., Malakar, P., Worth, G., Oliver, T. A. A., Fielding, H. & Orr-Ewing, A. J., 25 Oct 2024, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146, 44, p. 30443-30454 12 p.

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Rationally seeded computational protein design of ɑ-helical barrels

Albanese, K. I., Petrenas, R., Pirro, F., Naudin, E. A., Borucu, U., Dawson, W. M., Scott, D. A., Leggett, G. J., Weiner, O., Oliver, T. A. A. & Woolfson, D. N., 1 Aug 2024, In: Nature Chemical Biology. 20, 8, p. 991-999 9 p.

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Unraveling the Photoionization Dynamics of Indole in Aqueous and Ethanol Solutions

Kumar, G., Kellogg, M., Dey, S., Oliver, T. A. A. & Bradforth, S. E., 2 May 2024, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128, 17, p. 4158–4170 13 p.

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The solvent-dependent photophysics of diphenyloctatetraene

Polak, D. W., Hannon, A., Marczak Giorio, G., Hawkins, O. A. & Oliver, T. A. A., 28 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127, 38, p. 8199–8207 9 p.

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Multicolor Photoluminescent Carbon Dots à La Carte for Biomedical Applications

Garcia-Millan, T., Ramos-Soriano, J., Ghirardello, M., Liu, X., Santi, C. M., Eloi, J.-C., Pridmore, N., Harniman, R. L., Morgan, D. J., Hughes, S., Davis, S. A., Oliver, T. A. A., Kurian, K. M. & Galan, M. C., 27 Sept 2023, In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15, 38, p. 44711-44721 11 p.

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An expandable, modular de novo protein platform for precision redox engineering

Hutchins, G. H., Noble, C. E. M., Bunzel, H. A., Williams, C., Dubiel, P., Yadav, S. K. N., Molinaro, P. M., Barringer, R., Blackburn, H., Hardy, B. J., Parnell, A. E., Landau, C., Race, P. R., Oliver, T. A. A., Koder, R. L., Crump, M. P., Schaffitzel, C., Oliveira, A. S. F., Mulholland, A. J. & Anderson, J. L. R., 1 Aug 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 31, e2306046120.

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Probing the electronic structure and photophysics of thiophene–diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives in solution

Polak, D. W., Casal, M., Toldo, J., Hu, X., Amoruso, G., Pomeranc, O., Heeney, M., Barbatti, M., Ashfold, M. N. R. & Oliver, T. A. A., 15 Aug 2022, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24, 34, p. 20138–20151 14 p.

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Small variations in reaction conditions tune carbon dot fluorescence

Garcia Millan, T., Swift, T. A., Morgan, D. J., Harniman, R. L., Masheder, B., Hughes, S., Davis, S. A., Oliver, T. A. A. & Galan, M. C., 14 May 2022, In: Nanoscale. 14, 18, p. 6930–6940 11 p.

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High-Efficiency Excitation Energy Transfer in Biohybrid Quantum Dot–Bacterial Reaction Center Nanoconjugates

Amoruso, G., Liu, J., Polak, D. W., Tiwari, K., Jones , M. R. & Oliver, T. A. A., 17 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12, 23, p. 5448−5455 8 p.

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Singlet and Triplet Contributions to the Excited-State Activities of Dihydrophenazine, Phenoxazine, and Phenothiazine Organocatalysts Used in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

Bhattacherjee, A., Sneha, M., Lewis-Borrell, L. J., Amoruso, G., Oliver, T. A. A., Tyler, J. L., Clark, I. P. & Orr-Ewing, A. J., 10 Mar 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 9, p. 3613 – 3627 15 p.

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Photosynthesis and crop productivity are enhanced by glucose‐functionalised carbon dots

Swift, T., Fagan, D., Benito-Alifonso, D., Hill, S. A., Yallop, M. L., Lawson, T., Oliver, T. A. A., Galan, M. C. & Whitney, H. M., 1 Jan 2021, In: New Phytologist. 229, 2, p. 783-790

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Exploring ultraviolet photoinduced charge-transfer dynamics in a model dinucleotide of guanine and thymine

Duchi, M., O’Hagan, M., Kumar, R., Bennie, S., Galan, C., Curchod, B. & Oliver, T. A. A., 3 Jul 2019, In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21, 26, p. 14407-14417 11 p.

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Following Bimolecular Excited-State Proton Transfer between Hydroxycoumarin and Imidazole Derivatives

Amoruso, G., Taylor, V., Duchi, M., Goodband, E. & Oliver, T. A. A., 6 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 123, 22, p. 4745-4756 12 p.

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