Publications
- Chiroptical and Electronic Properties of Helicenes and Fullerenes as Chiral Semiconductor Materials, PhD Thesis, September 2021.
- Beth Laidlaw, Julien Eng, Jessica Wade, Xingyuan Shi, Francesco Salerno, Matthew J. Fuchter and Thomas J. Penfold, On the factors influencing the chiroptical response of conjugated polymer thin films, Chem. Commun., 2021.
- Julia A. Schmidt, Joseph A. Weatherby, Isaac J. Sugden, Alejandro Santana-Bonilla, Francesco Salerno, Matthew J. Fuchter, Erin R. Johnson, Jenny Nelson, Kim E. Jelfs*,Computational Screening of Chiral Organic Semiconductors: Exploring Side-Group Functionalization and Assembly to Optimize Charge Transport, Cryst. Growth Des., 2021, 21, 9, 5036-5049.
- Wenda Shi, Francesco Salerno, Matthew D. Ward, Alejandro Santana-Bonilla, Jessica Wade, Xueyan Hou, Tong Liu, T. John S. Dennis, Alasdair J. Campbell, Kim E. Jelfs, and Matthew J. Fuchter, Fullerene Desymmetrization as a Means to Achieve Single-Enantiomer Electron Acceptors with Maximized Chiroptical Responsiveness, Adv. Mater., 2020, 33, 2004115.
- Li Wan, Jessica Wade, Francesco Salerno, Oriol Arteaga, Beth Laidlaw, Xuhua Wang, Thomas Penfold, Matthew J. Fuchter*, Alasdair J. Campbell, Natural optical activity as the origin of the large chiroptical properties in π-conjugated polymer thin films, Nature communications, 2020, 11, 6137.
- Wan L, Wade J, Salerno F, Arteaga O, Laidlaw B, Wang X, Penfold T, Fuchter M J, Campbell A J, Inverting the handedness of circularly polarized luminescence from light emitting polymers using film thickness, ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 8099–8105
- Salerno F, Schmidt J A, Rice B, Fuchter M J, Nelson J and Jelfs K E, The influence of nitrogen position on charge carrier mobility in enantiopure aza[6]helicene crystals, Phys. Chem Chem Phys., 2019, 21, 5059-5067;
- Albano G, Salerno F, Portus L, Porzio W, Aronica LA and Di Bari L, Outstanding Chiroptical Features of Thin Films of Chiral Oligothiophenes, Chem Nano Mat, 2018, 10, 1059-1070;
- Brandt JR, Salerno F and Fuchter MJ, The added value of small-molecule chirality in technological applications, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017, 1, 0045;
- Salerno F, Berrocal JA, Haedler AT, Zinna F, Meijer EW and Di Bari L,Highly circularly polarized broad-band emission from chiral naphthalene diimide-based supramolecular aggregates, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 3609-3615;