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Peng Zhang

Peng Zhang

Associate Research Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
peng.zhang@duke.edu
Box 90346, Durham, NC 27705
5313 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27705

Featured Works

Predicting Dexter Energy Transfer Interactions from Molecular Orbital Overlaps

Journal article Journal of Physical Chemistry C · September 3, 2020 Featured Publication Dexter energy transfer (DET), also known as spin forbidden energy transfer (e.g., 3D1A → 1D3A), is undergoing a resurgence of interest because of its utility in energy science, photocatalysis, and biomedical imaging. The DET reactions enable exciton fissio ... Full text Cite

Universal free-energy landscape produces efficient and reversible electron bifurcation.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · September 2020 Featured Publication For decades, it was unknown how electron-bifurcating systems in nature prevented energy-wasting short-circuiting reactions that have large driving forces, so synthetic electron-bifurcating molecular machines could not be designed and built. The underpinnin ... Full text Cite

Driving high quantum yield NIR emission through proquinoidal linkage motifs in conjugated supermolecular arrays.

Journal article Chemical science · August 2020 Featured Publication High quantum yield NIR fluorophores are rare. Factors that drive low emission quantum yields at long wavelength include the facts that radiative rate constants increase proportional to the cube of the emission energy, while nonradiative rate constants incr ... Full text Cite