Epernicus: Louise E Sinks, Ph.D.

Louise E Sinks, Ph.D.

Position:
Senior Researcher

US Nano LLC
Degrees:

Ph.D., Chemistry, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Past Advisors:

Sergei Vinogradov (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Michael J. Therien (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Robin M. Hochstrasser (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Michael R. Wasielewski (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
improving synthesis of inorganic semiconducting nanowires

Communities:

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Louise Sinks's Publications (17)

The roles of molecular structure and effective optical symmetry in evolving dipolar chromophoric building blocks to potent octopolar nonlinear optical chromophores.
Ishizuka T, Sinks LE, Song K, Hung ST, Nayak A, Clays K, Therien MJ

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2011 Mar 9;133(9):2884-96
Single cell responses to spatially controlled photosensitized production of extracellular singlet oxygen.
Pedersen BW, Sinks LE, Breitenbach T, Schack NB, Vinogradov SA, Ogilby PR

Photochemistry and photobiology. 2011 Sep-Oct;87(5):1077-91
Two-photon microscopy of oxygen: polymersomes as probe carrier vehicles.
Sinks LE, Robbins GP, Roussakis E, Troxler T, Hammer DA, Vinogradov SA

The journal of physical chemistry. B. 2010 Nov 18;114(45):14373-82
Phase transfer catalysts drive diverse organic solvent solubility of single-walled carbon nanotubes helically wrapped by ionic, semiconducting polymers.
Deria P, Sinks LE, Park TH, Tomezsko DM, Brukman MJ, Bonnell DA, Therien MJ

Nano letters. 2010 Oct 13;10(10):4192-9
Synthesis and calibration of phosphorescent nanoprobes for oxygen imaging in biological systems.
Sinks LE, Roussakis E, Esipova TV, Vinogradov SA

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2010;(37)
Excited singlet states of covalently bound, cofacial dimers and trimers of perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide)s.
Giaimo JM, Lockard JV, Sinks LE, Scott AM, Wilson TM, Wasielewski MR

The journal of physical chemistry. A. 2008 Mar 20;112(11):2322-30
Photoinitiated charge transport in supramolecular assemblies of a 1,7,N,N'-tetrakis(zinc porphyrin)-perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide).
Kelley RF, Shin WS, Rybtchinski B, Sinks LE, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2007 Mar 21;129(11):3173-81
Exceptional near-infrared fluorescence quantum yields and excited-state absorptivity of highly conjugated porphyrin arrays.
Duncan TV, Susumu K, Sinks LE, Therien MJ

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006 Jul 19;128(28):9000-1
Ultrafast proton transfer dynamics of hydroxystilbene photoacids.
Lewis FD, Sinks LE, Weigel W, Sajimon MC, Crompton EM

The journal of physical chemistry. A. 2005 Mar 24;109(11):2443-51
Wire-like charge transport at near constant bridge energy through fluorene oligomers.
Goldsmith RH, Sinks LE, Kelley RF, Betzen LJ, Liu W, Weiss EA, Ratner MA, Wasielewski MR

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005 Mar 8;102(10):3540-5
Ultrafast photoinduced charge separation resulting from self-assembly of a green perylene-based dye into pi-stacked arrays.
Fuller MJ, Sinks LE, Rybtchinski B, Giaimo JM, Li X, Wasielewski MR

The journal of physical chemistry. A. 2005 Feb 17;109(6):970-5
Combining light-harvesting and charge separation in a self-assembled artificial photosynthetic system based on perylenediimide chromophores.
Rybtchinski B, Sinks LE, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2004 Oct 6;126(39):12268-9
Ultrafast aggregate-to-aggregate energy transfer within self-assembled light-harvesting columns of zinc phthalocyanine tetrakis(perylenediimide).
Li X, Sinks LE, Rybtchinski B, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2004 Sep 8;126(35):10810-1
Solvent control of spin-dependent charge recombination mechanisms within donor-conjugated bridge-acceptor molecules.
Weiss EA, Ahrens MJ, Sinks LE, Ratner MA, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2004 Aug 11;126(31):9510-1
Self-assembly of supramolecular light-harvesting arrays from covalent multi-chromophore perylene-3,4:9,10-bis(dicarboximide) building blocks.
Ahrens MJ, Sinks LE, Rybtchinski B, Liu W, Jones BA, Giaimo JM, Gusev AV, Goshe AJ, Tiede DM, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2004 Jul 7;126(26):8284-94
Making a molecular wire: charge and spin transport through para-phenylene oligomers.
Weiss EA, Ahrens MJ, Sinks LE, Gusev AV, Ratner MA, Wasielewski MR

Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2004 May 5;126(17):5577-84
Bio-inspired optically controlled ultrafast molecular AND gate.
Andersson M, Sinks LE, Hayes RT, Zhao Y, Wasielewski MR

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2003 Jul 14;42(27):3139-43

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