Publications

31. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Nicholas P. Weinghartz, Sarah Kromer, Felix N. Castellano, Lin X. Chen, Spin-vibronic coherence drives singlet-triplet conversion, Nature, 620, 776-781 (2023)

*read more on this- Argonne National Lab, North Carolina State University, Chemistry Community page, Phys.org and many more

30. Chris Rehhagen, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Kyra N. Schwarz, Gregory D. Scholes, Stefan Lochbrunner, Comparison of Frenkel and excimer diffusion in perylene bisimide nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 4490-4496 (2023)

29. Basanta Rajbongshi, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Suman Bhowmik, Pratik Sen, Ultrafast excited state relaxation of a model green fluorescent protein chromophore: femtosecond fluorescence and transient absorption study, J. Mol. Struct., 1275, 134538 (2023)

28. Madison C. Schwinn, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Changmin Lee, Matthew P. Bland, Thomas W. Song, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark C. Hersam, Lin, X. Chen, Charge transfer dynamics and interlayer exciton formation in MoS2/VOPc mixed dimensional heterojunction, J. Chem. Phys. 157, 184701 (2022)

27. Chris Rehhagen, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Kyra N. Schwarz, Gregory D Scholes, Stefan Lochbrunner, The effect of intermolecular electronic coupling on the exciton dynamics in perylene red nanoparticles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 8695-9704 (2022)

26.Yusuke Yoneda, Bryan Kudisch, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Margherita Maiuri, Yutaka Nagasawa, Gregory D. Scholes, and Hiroshi Miyasaka, Vibrational Dephasing along the Reaction Coordinate of an Electron Transfer Reaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 14511-14522 (2021)

25. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Bo Fo, Bryan Kudisch, Gregory D Scholes, Interplay of Quantum Vibrations During an Ultrafast Electron Transfer Reaction, Nature Chemistry, 13, 70-76 (2021)

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24. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Gregory D. Scholes, From Fundamental Theories to Quantum Coherences in Electron Transfer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 708-722 (2019)

23. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Mate J. Bezdek, Paul J. Chirik, Gregory D. Scholes, Dinitrogen Coupling to a Terpyridine-Molybdenum Chromophore Is Switched on by Fermi Resonance, Chem-Cell Press, 5, 402-416 (2019)

*Highlighted with a preview titled Illuminating Fermi Resonances that Trigger Reaction in a Complex Molecule written by David M. Leitner at University of Nevada Reno

22. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Mate J. Bezdek, Marius Koch, Paul J. Chirik, Gregory D. Scholes, Ultrafast Photophysics of a Dinitrogen-Bridged Molybdenum Complex, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 6298-6307 (2018)

*Featured in JACS Spotlight

**Featured in Phys.org by the US Department of Energy

21. Chanelle C. Jumper, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Sewei Wang, Gregory D. Scholes, From coherent to vibronic light harvesting in photosynthesis, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol., 47, 39-46 (2018) *Authors at first and second place contributed equally

20. Samik Jhulki, S. Seth, Shahnawaz R. Rather, A. Ghosh, T. J. Chow, J. N. Moorthy, Nitrogen-Free Bifunctional Bianthryl Leads to Stable White-Light Emission in Bilayer and Multilayer OLED Devices, ACS Omega, 3, 1416-1424 (2018)

19. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Gregory D. Scholes, Is back-electron transfer process in Betaine-30 coherent?, Chem. Phys. Lett., 683, 500-506 (2017)

*Appeared in a special issue commemorating A. Zewail, Nobel Laureate in Femtosecond Spectroscopy

18. Chanelle C. Jumper, Paul C. Arpin, Daniel B. Turner, Scott D. McClure, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Jacob C. Dean, Jeffery A. Cina, P. A. Kovac, Tihana Mirkovic, Gregory D. Scholes, Broad-Band Pump-Probe Spectroscopy Quantifies Ultrafast Solvation Dynamics of Proteins and Molecules, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 7, 4722-4731 (2016)

17. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Gregory D. Scholes, Slow Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation Leads to Long-Lived Excited-State Wavepackets, J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 6792-6799 (2016)

16. Jacob C. Dean, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Gregory D. Scholes, Methylene Blue Exciton States Steer Nonradiative Relaxation: Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Methylene Blue Dimer, J. Phys. Chem. B, 120, 440-454 (2016)

15. Yasser Hassan, T. Janes, Ryan D. Pensack, Shahnawaz R. Rather, P. M. Brodersen, M. A. Winnik, D. T. Song, Gregory D. Scholes, Direct Synthesis of CdSe Nanocrystals with Electroactive Ligands, Chem. Mater., 28, 4953-4961 (2016)

14. Puspal Mukherjee, Shradhey Gupta, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Rajeev Yadav, V. K. Jain, J. Raval, Pratik Sen, Ramping of pH Across the Water-Pool of a Reverse Micelle, Langmuir, 32, 1693-1699 (2016)

13. Puspal Mukherjee, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Pratik Sen, Dual relaxation channel in thioflavin-T: An ultrafast spectroscopic study, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry, 328, 136-147 (2016)

12. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Jacob C. Dean, Gregory D. Scholes, Observing Vibrational Wavepackets during an Ultrafast Electron Transfer Reaction, J. Phys. Chem. A, 119, 11837-11846 (2015)

11. Baswati Sengupta, Puspal Mukherjee, S. Das, Shahnawaz R. Rather, S. Gupta, D. H. Dethe, Pratik Sen, Femtosecond dynamics of photoinduced cis-trans isomerization of ethyl-3-(1H-indole-3-yl)acrylate, Chem. Phys. Lett., 638, 31-37 (2015)

10. J. C. Dean, Shahnawaz R. Rather, D. G. Oblinsky, E. Cassette, C. C. Jumper, G. D. Scholes, Broadband Transient Absorption and Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Methylene Blue, J. Phys. Chem. A, 119, 9098-9108 (2015)

9. Shradhey Gupta, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Pratik Sen, Dynamics of Solvent Response in Methanol-Chloroform Binary Solvent Mixture: A Case of Synergistic Solvation, J. Phys. Chem. B, 119, 3135-3141 (2015)

8. M. Parveen, A. M. Malla, M. Alam, M. Ahmad, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Stereoselective synthesis of Z-acrylonitrile derivatives: catalytic and acetylcholinesterase inhibition studies, New J. Chem., 38, 1655-1667 (2014)

7. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Pratik Sen, Dielectric controlled excited state relaxation pathways of a representative push-pull stilbene: A mechanistic study using femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion technique, J. Chem. Phys., 138, 084308 (2013)

6. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Pratik Sen, Spectroscopic evidence of the presence of an activation barrier in the otherwise barrierless excited state potential energy surface of auramine-O: A femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion study, J. Chem. Phys., 139, 124302 (2013)

5. Shradhey Gupta, Shahnawaz R. Rather, M. Kundu, Pratik Sen, Origin of Strong Synergism in Weakly Perturbed Binary Solvent System: A Case Study of Primary Alcohols and Chlorinated Methanes, J. Phys. Chem. B, 116, 1345-1355 (2012)

4. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Basanta K. Rajbongshi, Nishant N. Nair, Pratik Sen, Gurunath Ramanathan, Excited State Relaxation Dynamics of Model Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Analogs: Evidence for Cis-Trans Isomerism, J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 13733-13742 (2011) *Authors at first and second place contributed equally

3. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Rajeev Yadav, Pratik Sen, Femtosecond Excited-State Dynamics of 4-Nitrophenyl Pyrrolidinemethanol: Evidence of Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Intersystem Crossing Involving the Nitro Group, J. Phys. Chem. A, 115, 8335-8343 (2011)

2. V. Chandrasekhar, S. M. W. Rahaman, T. Hajra, D. Das, T. Ghatak, Shahnawaz R. Rather, Pratik Sen, Jitendra K. Bera, A trinuclear bright red luminophore containing cyclometallated Ir(III) motifs, Chem. Commun., 47, 10836-10838 (2011)

1. Shahnawaz R. Rather, Rajeev Yadav, Pratik Sen, Microviscosity inside a Nanocavity: A Femtosecond Fluorescence Up-Conversion Study of Malachite Green, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 13988-13994 (2010)