个人简介

FRANCIS D’SOUZA Recieved Ph. D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1992, and post-doctoral studies at the University of Houston and University of Dijon, France. He was a Professor of Chemistry at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS from 1994 to 2011, and joined the faculty of University of North Texas in 2011. He is part of UNT’s BioNano Photonics research cluster.

研究领域

Analytical Materials

Francis D'Souza's research covers wide areas of chemistry, nanophotonics and materials science. Principal research interests include chemistry and supramolecular chemistry of porphyrins and carbon nanomaterials, light energy harvesting, photoelectrochemistry and photovoltaics, ultrafast spectroscopy, electrochemical and photochemical sensors and catalysts, fluorescent chemosensors and biosensors, conducting nanocomposite hybrid materials for energy storage and conversion.

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Bandi, Venugopal; Das, Sushanta K.; Awuah, Samuel G.; You, Youngjae; D'Souza, Francis, ‘Thieno-Pyrrole-Fused 4,4-Difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-Fullerene Dyads: Utilization of Near-Infrared Sensitizers for Ultrafast Charge Separation in Donor-Acceptor Systems.’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 7571-7574. KC, Chandra B.; Lim, Gary N.; Karr, Paul A.; D'Souza, Francis, ‘Supramolecular Tetrad Featuring Covalently Linked Bis(porphyrin)-Phthalocyanine Coordinated to Fullerene: Construction and Photochemical Studies.’ Chem. Eur. J. 2014, in press. Obraztsov, Ievgen; Noworyta, Krzysztof; Hart, Aaron; Gobeze, Habtom B.; KC, Chandra B.; Kutner, Wlodzimierz; D'Souza, Francis, Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Self-Assembled (Alkylether-Derivatized Zn Phthalocyanine)-(C60 Imidazole Adduct) Dyad with Controlled Intermolecular Distance for Photoelectrochemical Studies.’ ACS Appld. Mater. & Interface, 2014, in press. H. B. Gobeze, S. K. Das, F. D’Souza, Femtosecond Transient Absorption Study of Supramolecularly Assembled Metal-Tetrapyrrole-TiO2 Thin Films (Invited).’ J. Phys. Chem. C. 2014, in press. S. K. Das, B. Song, A. Mahler, V. N. Nesterov, A. K. Wilson, O. Ito, F. D’Souza, ‘Electron Transfer Studies of High Potential Zinc Porphyrin-Fullerene Supramolecular Dyads’ J. Phys. Chem. C. 2014, 118, 3994-4006. V. Bandi, M. E. El-Khouly, K. Ohkubo,. V. N. Nesterov, M. E. Zandler,. S. Fukuzumi, and F. D’Souza, Bisdonor-azaBODIPY-Fullerene Supramolecules – Syntheses, Characterization and Light Induced Electron Transfer Studies, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 2321-2332. M. E. El-Khouly, S. Fukuzumi and F. D’Souza, ‘Photosynthetic Antenna-Reaction Center Mimicry using Boron Dipyrromethene Sensitizers’ (invited review) ChemPhysChem, 2014, 15, 30-47. J. P. Hill, Wim F. G. Van Rossom, S. Ishihara, N. Subbaiyan, F. D’Souza, Y. Xie, N. M. S. Ballester, and K. Ariga ‘Unexpected but Convenient Synthesis of Soluble Tetrakis[1-(3,4-benzoquinone)-substituted) Porphyrins’ J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2014, in press. S. K. Das, C. B. KC.; F. D’Souza, ‘Studies on Photocatalytic Electron Pooling of Graphene Oxide Hybrids Decorated with Electron Donor and Electron Acceptor Molecules’ Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, 2014, 22, 116-125.