Tim Su

Check out the latest from our lab: Switchable Rhodamines for Molecular Electronics, now published in @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Host–Guest Interactions Enhance Charge Transport across Single Cyclodextrin/Azobenzene Complex Junction | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Putting PN cages in functional devices! Check out Maryam's latest work @Wiley_Chemistry Advanced Functional Materials: PN cage polymers for self-clearing, high-energy density capacitors that work well at high T! @chemistryatuvic w/ Liu group @BerkeleyLab advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Our (@chemheechan, @gilliardgroup) manuscript with @cromeronieto and team on Ge- and B-doped hexacene derivatives is now online in @ChemicalScience! We unveil Ge-B exchange as a method to obtain extended B-acenes. #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Aluminum: lightest p-block metal with very low electronegativity. Converting Al(III) to Al(I) in stoichiometric reactions is rare. But now, we've made Al redox catalysis a reality! Check it out @nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Excited to start the work with a chemist @TimothyASu on silicon color center with atomic synthetic precision! Thanks RCSA and other sponsors!

@XueyueZ Likewise Sherry!!

Since my days as a graduate student, I have been interested in using carboranes as substituents on heteroatoms to tune electronics, similar to classical alkyl and aryl groups. Over the years, our group and others have demonstrated that C-bound carboranes are actually strongly electron withdrawing, comparable to classical perfluoroarenes. In our latest preprint (tinyurl.com/2mndp5j2), Vicki Rubio shows that this concept extends to the heavy pnictogens, revealing that carborane substitution allows for the construction of highly Lewis acidic Sb(V) centers. A special shout out goes to all coauthors and especially Osvaldo Gutierrez and his team for their contributions to the theoretical and computational aspects of this work.

#Teaching isn’t a performance — it’s a #conversation. Read in the @UCRiverside #magazine about how #researchers like Stephanie Dingwall are turning complex #science into something personal, hands-on and accessible. news.ucr.edu/ucr-magazine/f… @UCRCNAS #biochemistry #teacher #teach

Our work on an atomically precise PbSe nanocrystal has been published @J_A_C_S ! Congratulations to @fuyan_ma for achieving atomic precision in the PbSe nanocrystal and unveiling its structure with unprecedented resolution! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Switchable Rhodamines for Molecular Electronics | Journal of the American Chemical Society @UCRiverside pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@J_A_C_S Congrats to Lan, Matt, Grace, Ashley, and Lamia! Want to highlight here that Grace, an undergrad @UCRiverside, did the heavy lifting on revisions while Lan was on internship. Grace is applying for grad school this year and any program would be lucky to have her!

Check out the latest from our lab: Switchable Rhodamines for Molecular Electronics, now published in @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Can redox active, Lewis acidic magnesium Pac-man complexes form stable "adducts" with alkanes? Jeremy, Matt, Joe and co’s latest pre-print @ChemRxiv says ”Hell Yeah”! Alkane C-H activation by a main group metal incoming? tinyurl.com/3f4c22sz #ozchem @ChemistryMonash @AFOSR

How to obtain X-ray structural data of inherently amorphous compounds? Check-out the latest work by Yaofeng published in @NatureComms in the framework of @for2824 @dfg_public: rdcu.be/eCkXR

@DobrovetskyG Congrats Roman!

Officially promoted to full professor! I'm deeply grateful to all current and former lab members for their hard and creative work, and to my colleagues and mentors for their support over the years! 🙏🙏🙏

Congrats to my talented colleague @NearyGroupUCR !!

Controlling Electrical Flow in Silicon through Quantum Interference azoquantum.com/News.aspx?news… via @AZoQuantum #UCRscience #silicon #technology #electronics #quantum #chemistry #ucr #ucriverside

@CrystalsACM Thanks Abraham! I enjoyed (and cited) your recent 2025 JPCC paper

@TimothyASu Very nice work! Congratulations!!

In our latest preprint, we introduce rhodamines as new scaffolds for molecular electronics. We harness rhodamine's lactone-zwitterion bistability to access on/off conductance ratios that are among the highest reported for chemically-induced switches. tinyurl.com/7r4wbpeb

@SiAdamas Thanks Taichi!

@TimothyASu Super cool, congratulations!

This project has been over 4 years in the making and is spearheaded by a multi-talented grad student, Lan Pham. Funding support is from @acsprf and @NSF.