Kevin D. Belfield University of Central Florida Department of Chemistry P.O. Box 162366 Orlando, FL 32816-2366 (407) 823-1028 E-mail: belfield@ucf.edu http://chemistry.cos.ucf.edu/faculty_belfield.php http://belfield.cos.ucf.edu/ Kevin D. Belfield received the B.S. in Chemistry in 1982 from Rochester Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University in 1988, where he studied the kinetics and mechanism of thermal rearrangements of organic molecules. After conducting research in polymer stabilization and degradation at Ciba-Geigy, he worked in the area of synthesis and characterization of functionalized polymers at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He then pursued postdoctoral research in mechanistic organic chemistry at Harvard University, utilizing photochemical reactions and determining radical stabilization energies of polyenyl radicals through spectroscopically aided kinetic studies. He joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Detroit Mercy in 1992, where he received funding from Ford Motor Co. for new materials for stereolithography and from NSF. He moved to the University of Central Florida’s Department of Chemistry in 1998 to establish a program in functional polymer chemistry and organic photonic materials. He was appointed Chair of the Chemistry Department in November 2004, and holds joint appointments in the College of Optics and Photonics, the Biomolecular Science Center, and the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are in the area of multiphoton absorbing materials, two-photon photochemistry, in vivo and ex vivo two-photon fluorescence bioimaging, magnetic polymeric and sol-gel nanocomposites, site-specific fluorophore labeling, fluorescent-based sensors and bioimaging probes, photodynamic therapy agents, nanostructured functional organic and polymeric materials, and two-photon based 3D high density optical data storage. EDUCATION: 1983-1988 Ph.D. Chemistry Syracuse University 1978-1982 B.S. Chemistry Rochester Institute of Technology 2 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2004 - present: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry 2003 - present: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Professor of Chemistry 2000-2004: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Graduate Coordinator, Department of Chemistry 1998 - 2003: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Associate Professor of Chemistry, tenured 1992 - 1998: University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI Assistant/Associate Professor of Chemistry, tenured in 1996 Graduate Coordinator, 1994-1998 1990-1992: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1989-1990 State University of New York, Syracuse, NY College of Environmental Science & Forestry Department of Chemistry & Polymer Research Institute Postdoctoral Research Associate 1988-1989 Ciba-Geigy Corp., Ardsley, NY Polymer Additives Division Senior Scientist AWARDS: • • • • • • • • • • • 2011 Pegasus Professor Award, University of Central Florida (highest honor for a faculty member at the university) 2010 Inducted into the National Commission of Cooperative Education (NCCE) Co-op Hall of Fame 2009 Rochester Institute of Technology College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award 2009 Chair, American Chemical Society Orlando Section 2003 University of Central Florida Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award 2003 UCF College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award 2002 American Chemical Society Orlando Section Outstanding Chemist Award 2002 Distinguished Researcher Award, University of Central Florida 1999 - 2002 Cottrell College Science Award 1997, 1998 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Faculty Fellowship 1994, 1997 University of Detroit Mercy Science Teacher of the Year 3 • • • 1996, 1997 University of Detroit Mercy Outstanding Moderator of the Year 1997 American Chemical Society Outstanding Award - ACS Student Affiliate 1995, 1996 American Chemical Society Commendable Award - ACS Student Affiliate REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (*indicates/precedes corresponding author): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Yue, X.; Yanez, C. O.; Yao, S.; *Belfield, K. D. “Selective Cell Death by Photochemically Induced pH Imbalance in Cancer Cells” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135, in press. Morales, A. R.; Frazer, A.; Woodward, A. W.; Ahn-White, H.-Y.; Fonari, A.; Tongwa, P.; Timofeeva, T. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Design, Synthesis, Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Push-Pull Two-Photon Absorbing Chromophores with Acceptor Groups of Varying Strength” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 78, in press. Morales, A. R.; Yanez, C. O.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, X.; Biswas, T.; Komatsu, M.; *Belfield, K. D. “Small Molecule Fluorophore and Copolymer RGD Peptide Conjugates for Ex Vivo Two-Photon Fluorescence Tumor Vasculature Imaging” Biomaterials 2012, 33, 84778485. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Morales, A. R.; Yue, X.; Luchita, G.; Przhonska, O. V.; Kachkovsky, O. D. “Two-Photon Absorption and Time-Resolved Stimulated Emission Depletion Spectroscopy of a New Fluorenyl Derivative” ChemPhysChem 2012, 13, 34813491. Ahn, H.Y.; Yao, S.; Wang. X.; *Belfield, K. D. “Near-Infrared Emitting Squaraine Dyes with High 2PA Cross Sections for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2012, 4, 2847-2854. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Morales, A. R.; Yue, X.; Luchita, G.; Przhonska, O. V. “Transient Excited-state Absorption and Gain Spectroscopy of a Two-Photon Absorbing Probe with Efficient Superfluorescent Properties” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2012, 116, 11261-11271. Yao, S.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-photon Fluorescent Probes for Bioimaging” European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2012, 3199-3217. Biswas, S.; *Belfield, K. D.; Das, R.; Ghosh, S.; Hebard, A. “Superparamagnetic Nanocomposites Templated with Pyrazole-containing Diblock Copolymers” Polymers 2012, 4, 1211-1225. DOI:10.3390/polym4021211 Ahn, H.-Y.; Fairfull-Smith, K. E.; Morrow, B. J.; Lussini, V.; Kim, B.; Bondar, M. V.; Bottle, S. E.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-photon Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging of Cellular Oxidative Stress using Profluorescent Nitroxides” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 4721-4730. Biswas, S.; Ahn, H-Y.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-photon Absorption Enhancement of Polymer-templated J-aggregates” Langmuir 2012, 28, 1515-1522. 4 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Qaddoura, M. A.; *Belfield, K. D.; Heiney, P. A. “Liquid Crystal-directed Assembly and Phase Morphology of a Squaraine Dye” Supramolecular Chemistry 2012, 24, 299-311. DOI:10.1080/10610278.2012.658391 Diaz, C.; Frazer, A.; Morales, A.; Belfield, K. D.; Ray, S.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Structural Identification of a Novel Axially Chiral Binaphthyl Fluorene Based Salen Ligand in Solution Using Electronic Circular Dichroism: A Theoretical Experimental Analysis” Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2012, 116, 2453-2465. Spencer, S.; Hu, H.; Li, Q.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Qaddoura, M.; Yao, S.; Ioannidis, A.; Belfield, K.; *Collison, C. J. “Controlling J-aggregate Formation for Increased Short-circuit Current and Power Conversion Efficiency with a Squaraine Donor” Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 2012, doi: 10.1002/pip.2289. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Morales, A. R.; Padhila, L. A.; Przhonska, O. V.; Wang, X. “Two-photon STED Spectral Determination for a New V-shaped Organic Fluorescent Probe with Efficient Two-photon Absorption” ChemPhysChem 2011, 12, 2755-2762. Luchita, G.; Bondar. M. V.; Yao, S.; Mikhaylov, I. A.; Yanez, C. O.; Przhonska, O. V.; Masunov, A. E.; *Belfield, K. D. “Efficient Photochromic Transformation of a New Fluorenyl Diarylethene: One- and Two-photon Absorption Spectroscopy” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2011, 3, 3559-3567. Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Urakami, T.; Bondar, M. V.; Komatsu, M.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-photon Fluorescence Vascular Bioimaging with New Bioconjugate Probes Selective Towards the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2” Bioconjugate Chemistry 2011, 22, 2060-2071. Qaddoura, M. A.; *Belfield, K. D.; Tongwa, P.; DeSanto, J. E.; Timofeeva, T. V.; Heiney, P. A. “Thermotropic Behavior, Self-Assembly and Photophysical Properties of a Series of Squaraines” Supramolecular Chemistry 2011, 23, 731-742. DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2011.622391 Wang, X.; Morales, A. R.; Urakami, T.; Zhang, L.; Bondar, M. V.; Komatsu, M.; *Belfield, K. D. “Folate Receptor-targeted Aggregation-enhanced Near-IR Emitting Silica Nanoprobe for One-photon in vivo and Two-photon ex vivo Fluorescence Bioimaging” Bioconjugate Chemistry 2011, 22, 1438-1450. Biswas, S.; Wang, X.; Morales, A. R.; Ahn, H.-Y.; *Belfield, K. D. “Integrin-targeting Block Copolymer Probes for Two-photon Fluorescence Bioimaging” Biomacromolecules 2011, 12, 441-449. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V.; Wang, X.; Yao, S. “Superfluorescent Fluorenyl Probe with Efficient Two-photon Absorption” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2011, 13, 4303-4310. Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Qaddoura, M. A.; Wang, X.; Arnett, C. L.; Coombs, S. A.; Yu, J.; Bassiouni, R.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-Photon Fluorescence Lysosomal Bioimaging with a Micelle-Encapsulated Fluorescent Probe” Journal of Fluorescence 2011, 21, 1223-1230. DOI: 10.1007/s10895-010-0801-3 5 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Tsuchikawa, R.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D.; *Ishigami, M. “Photosensitization of carbon nanotubes using dye aggregates” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2011, 23, 202204. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/23/20/202204 Nguyen, D. M.; Wang, X.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Rodriguez, L.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Novel Hydrophilic Bis(1,2,3-triazolyl)fluorenyl Probe for in vitro Zinc Ion Sensing” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2010, 2, 2978-2981. DOI: 10.1021/am100719v Parthasarathy, A.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Belfield, K. D.; *Schanze, K. S. “Two-photon Excited Florescence of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte and its Application in Cell Imaging” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2010, 2, 2744-2748. DOI: 10.1021/am100784m *Belfield, K. D.; Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V. “New Two-Photon Absorbing Probe with Efficient Superfluorescent Properties” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010, 114, 14087-14095. DOI: 10.1021/jp107343k Wang, X.; Nguyen, D. M.; Yanez, C. O.; Rodriguez, L.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “High Fidelity Hydrophilic Probe for Two-photon Fluorescence Lysosomal Imaging” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, 12237-12239. DOI: 10.1021/ja1057423 Wang, X.; Yao, S.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Zhang, Y.; Bondar, M. V.; Torres, J. A.; *Belfield, K. D. “Folate Receptor Targeting Silica Nanoparticle Probe for Two-photon Fluorescence Bioimaging” Biomedical Optics Express 2010, 1, 453-462 (feature article). *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Frazer, A.; Morales, A. R.; Kachkovsky, O. D.; Mikhailov, I. A.; Masunov, A. E.; Przhonska, O. V. “Fluorene-based Metal Ion Sensing Probe with High Sensitivity to Zn2+ and Efficient Two-photon Absorption” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010, 114, 9313-9321. Yao, S.; Ahn, H.-Y.; Wang, X.; Fu, J.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J.; *Belfield, K. D. “Donor-Acceptor-Donor Fluorene Derivatives for Two-Photon Fluorescence Lysosomal Imaging” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 3965-3974 (feature article). DOI: 10.1021/jo100554j Andrade, C. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Rodriguez, L.; *Belfield, K. D. “A Series of Fluorene-based Two-photon Absorbing Molecules: Synthesis, Linear and Nonlinear Characterization, and Bioimaging” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 3975-3982. DOI: 10.1021/jo1005075 Nguyen, D. M.; Frazer, A., Rodriguez, L.; *Belfield, K. D. “Selective fluorescence sensing of zinc and mercury ions with hydrophilic 1,2,3-triazolyl fluorene probes” Chemistry of Materials 2010, 22, 3472-3481. DOI: 10.1021/cm100599g Morales, A. R.; Luchita, G.; Yanez, C. O.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Linear and Nonlinear Photophysics and Bioimaging of an Integrin-targeting Watersoluble Fluorenyl Probe” Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2010, 8, 2600-2608. DOI: 10.1039/paperno Qaddoura, M. A.; *Belfield, K. D. “Probing the Texture of the Calamitic Liquid Crystalline Dimer of 4-(4-Pentenyloxy)benzoic Acid” Materials 2010, 3, 827-840. Kumi, G.; Yanez, C. O.; Belfield, K. D.; *Fourkas, J. T. “High-speed multiphoton absorption polymerization: Fabrication of microfluidic channels with arbitrary crosssections and high aspect ratios” Lab on a Chip 2010, 10, 1057-1060. DOI:10.1039/B923377F 6 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. Passier, R.; Ritchie, J.; Toro, C.; Diaz, C.; Masunov, A. E.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Thermally Controlled Preferential Molecular Aggregation State in a Thiacarbocyanine Dye” Journal of Chemical Physics 2010, 133, 134508-1-134508-7. Biswas, S.; *Belfield, K. D.; Das, R. K.; Ghosh, S.; Hebard, A. F. “Block Copolymermediated Formation of Superparamagnetic Nanocomposites” Chemistry of Materials 2009, 21, 5644-5653. DOI: 10.1021/cm902854d Yanez, C. O.; Andrade, C. D.; Yao, S.; Luchita, G.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D. “Photosensitive Polymeric Materials for Two-Photon 3D Optical Data Storage Systems” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2009, 1, 2219-2229. DOI: 10.1021/am900587u Morales, A. R.; Yanez, C. O.; Schafer-Hales, K. J.; Marcus, A. I.; *Belfield, K. D. “Biomolecule Labeling and Imaging with a New Fluorenyl Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe” Bioconjugate Chemistry 2009, 20, 1992-2000. DOI: 10.1021/bc900302t *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Yanez, C. O.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V. “Oneand Two-photon Stimulated Emission Depletion of a Sulfonyl-containing Fluorene Derivative” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2009, 113, 7101-7106. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp902060m Morales, A. M.; Schafer-Hales, K. J.; Yanez, C. O.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Markus, A. I.; *Belfield, K. D. “Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer and Photophysics of a New Fluorenyl Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe” ChemPhysChem 2009, 10, 2073-2081. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200900032 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Yanez, C. O.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V. Twophoton Absorption and Lasing Properties of New Fluorene Derivatives” Journal of Materials Chemistry 2009, 19, 7498-7502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b820950b *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Masunov, A. E.; Mikhailov, I. A.; Morales, A. R.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “Two-photon Absorption Properties of New Fluorene-based Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2009, 113, 4706-4711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp8102832 Yanez C. O.; Andrade, C. D.; *Belfield, K. D. “Characterization of Novel Sulfonium Photoacid Generators and their Microwave-assisted Synthesis” Chemical Communications 2009, 827-829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b815831b Rodriguez, L.; Ahn, H.-Y.; *Belfield, K. D. “Femtosecond Two-photon Absorption Measurements Based on the Accumulative Photo-thermal Effect and the Rayleigh Interferometer” Optics Express 2009, 17, 19617-19628. Qaddoura M. A.; *Belfield, K. D. “Synthesis, Characterization and Texture Observations of Calamitic Liquid Crystalline Compounds” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2009, 10, 4772-4788. DOI:10.3390/ijms10114772 Mikhailov, I. M.; Bondar, M. V.; Belfield, K. D.; *Masunov, A. E. “Electronic Properties of a New Two-photon Absorbing Fluorene Derivative: The Role of DFT Functionals in Quantum-chemical Design of Improved Nonlinear Chromophore” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2009, 113, 20719-20724. Patel, P. D.; Mikhailov, I. A.; Belfield, K. D.; *Masunov, A. E. “Theoretical Study of Photochromic Compounds: 2. Thermal Mechanism for Byproduct Formation and FatigueResistance of Diarylethenes used as Data Storage Materials” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 2009, 109, 3711-3722. Toro C.; De Boni, L.; Yao, S.; Ritchie, J. P.; Masunov, A. E.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Linear and Nonlinear Optical Characterizations of a Monomeric Symmetric 7 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Squaraine-based Dye in Solution” Journal of Chemical Physics 2009, 130, 214504-1214504-6. Mikhailov, I.; Belfield, K. D.; *Masunov, A. E. “DFT-Based Methods in the Design of Two-Photon Operated Molecular Switches” Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2009, 113, 7080-7089. *Bondar, M. V. Przhonska, O. V. Yanez, C. O. Belfield, K. D. “New Fluorene Molecules with Efficient Two-photon Absorption for Multidisciplinary Nonlinear Optical Applications” Ukranian Journal of Physics 2009, 54, 14-21. Morales, A. R.; Schafer-Hales, K. J., Marcus, A. I.; *Belfield, K. D. “Amine Reactive Fluorene Probes: Synthesis, Optical Characterization, Bioconjugation, and Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging” Bioconjugate Chemistry 2008, 19, 2559-2567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bc800415t *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V. “Photophysical Characterization, Two-Photon Absorption and Optical Power Limiting of Two Fluorenylperylene Diimides” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2008, 112, 5618-5622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp711950z Toro C.; De Boni, L.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Photophysical Characterization of a Highly Conjugated Bipyridyl-based Dye Synthesized by a Unique Two-step Approach” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2008, 112, 12185-12190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp804975a Balu, M.; Padhila, L. A.; Hagan, D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D.; Zheng, S. J.; Barlow, S.; Marder, S. “Broadband Z-scan characterization using a highspectral-irradiance, high-quality supercontinuum” Journal of the Optical Society of America B – Optical Physics 2008, 25, 159-165. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “Two-Photon Absorption Cross Section Determination for Fluorene Derivatives: Analysis of the Methodology and Elucidation of the Origin of the Absorption Processes” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2007, 111, 12723-12729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp074456f Yao, S.; Schafer-Hales, K. J.; *Belfield, K. D. “A New Water-Soluble Near-Neutral Ratiometric Fluorescent pH Indicator” Organic Letters 2007, 9, 5645-5648. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol7026366 Corredor, C. C.; Huang, Z.-L.; *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Bondar, M. V. “Photochromic Polymer Composites for Two-Photon 3D Optical Data Storage” Chemistry of Materials 2007, 19, 5165-5173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm071336b Cohanoschi, I.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Effect of the concentration of organic dyes on their surface plasmon enhanced two-photon absorption cross section using activated Au nanoparticles” Journal of Applied Physics 2007, 101, 086112-1-086112-3. *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Kachkovsky, O. D.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “Solvent effect on the steady-state fluorescence anisotropy of two-photon absorbing fluorene derivatives” Journal of Luminescence 2007, 126 (1), 14-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2006.04.012 Andrasik, S. J.; *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Morales, A. R.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “One- and Two-Photon Singlet Oxygen Generation with New Fluorene-based Photosensitizers“ ChemPhysChem 2007, 8, 399-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200600568 8 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. *Belfield, K. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Huang, Z.-L. “A Novel Two-Photon Absorbing PAG and its Application in 3-D Microfabrication” RadTech Report 2007, 21(5), 42-47. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, L. “Norbornene Functionalized Diblock Copolymers via Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization for Magnetic Nanoparticle Stabilization” Chemistry of Materials 2006, 18, 5929-5936. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm062004u *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Corredor, C. C.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “Two-photon photochromism of a diarylethene derivative enhanced by Förster’s resonance energy transfer from two-photon absorbing fluorenes” ChemPhysChem 2006, 7, 2514-2519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.200600553 *Hernandez, F. E.; Cohanoschi, I.; Garcia, M.; Toro, C.; Belfield, K. D. “Three-Photon Absorption of a New Series of Halogenated Fluorene Derivatives” Chemical Physics Letters 2006, 430, 133-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2006.08.093 Corredor, C. C.; Huang, Z.-L.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage via Fluorescence Modulation of an Efficient Fluorene Dye by a Photochromic Diarylethene” Advanced Materials 2006, 18, 2910-2914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200600826 Highlighted in Nature Photonics 1, 8-9 (2006) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2006.65 Morales, A. M.; *Belfield, K. D.; Hales, J. M.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J. “Synthesis of Two-Photon Absorbing Unsymmetrical Fluorenyl-Based Chromophores” Chemistry of Materials 2006, 18, 4972-4980. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm061406z Corredor, C. C.; *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Kachkovsky, O. D. “One and Two-Photon Photochromism of 3,4-Bis-(2,4,5-trimethylthiophen-3-yl)furan-2,5-dione” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2006, 184, 177-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2006.04.012 Corredor, C. C.; *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “One- and Two-Photon Photochemical Stability of Linear and Branched Fluorene Derivatives” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2006, 184, 105-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2006.03.036 Yao, S.; Schafer-Hales, K. J.; Cohanoschi, I.; *Hernandez, F. E.; Belfield, K. D. “A Water Soluble Diaminostilbene Derivative as Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe” Synlett 2006, 12, 1863-1866. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-948165 Fu, J.; Przhonska. O. V.; Padilha, L. A.; Hagan, D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W.; Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Slominsky, Y. L.; Kachkovski, A. D. “Two-photon anisotropy: Analytical description and molecular modeling for symmetrical and asymmetrical organic dyes” Chemical Physics 2006, 321, 257268.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.08.021 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Przhonska, O. V; Yao, S. “Two-photon absorption of a supramolecular psuedoisocyanine J-aggregate assembly” Chemical Physics 2006, 320, 118-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2005.07.003 *Belfield, K. D. ; Corredor, C. C.; Morales, A. R. ; Dessources, M. A. ; Hernandez, F. E. “Synthesis and Characterization of New Fluorene-based Singlet Oxygen Sensitizers” Journal of Fluorescence 2006, 16, 105-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10895-005-0008-1 *Belfield, K.D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V. “Singlet oxygen quantum yield determination for a fluorene-based two-photon photosensitizer” Journal of Fluorescence 2006, 16, 111-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10895-005-0001-8 9 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. Cohanoschi, I.; Belfield, K. D.; Toro, C.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Solvent effects on the threephoton absorption cross-section of a highly conjugated fluorene derivative” Journal of Chemical Physics 2006, 125, 161102-1 – 161102-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2370750 Cohanoschi, I.; Belfield, K. D.; Toro, C.; Yao, S.; *Hernandez, F. E. “The impact of the electron conjugation length on the three-photon absorption cross section of fluorene derivatives” Journal of Chemical Physics 2006, 124, 194707-1 – 194707-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2202322 Schafer, K. J.; *Belfield, K. D.; Yao. S.; Frederiksen, P. K.; Hales. J. M.; Kolattukudy, P. E. “Fluorene-based fluorescent probes with high two-photon action cross-sections for biological multiphoton imaging applications” Journal of Biomedical Optics 2005, 10 (5), 051402-1-051402-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.2104528 Yao, S.; *Belfield, K. D. “Synthesis of Two-Photon Absorbing Unsymmetrical Branched Chromophores through Direct Tris(bromomethylation) of Fluorene” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2005 70, 5126-5132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo0503512 Cohanoschi, I.; Barbot, A.; Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Mega ThreePhoton Absorption Cross-Section Enhancement in psuedoisocyanine J-Aggregates” Journal of Chemical Physics 2005, 123, 231104-1-231104-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2150209 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hales, J. M.; Morales, A. R.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. “One- and two-photon fluorescence anisotropy of fluorene derivatives,” Journal of Fluorescence 2005, 15(1), 3-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10895-005-0207-9 Cohanoschi, I.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hernandez, F. E. “Three-photon absorption enhancement in symmetrical charge transfer pull-pull fluorene derivatives” Chemical Physics Letters 2005, 406, 462-466.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2005.03.037 *Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; Morales, A. R.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Rigid Two-Photon Absorbing Polymers" Polymers for Advanced Technologies 2005, 16, 150-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pat.550 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Cohanoschi, I.; Hernandez, F. E.; Kachkovsky, O. D.; Przhonska, O. V.; Yao, S. “Excited-state absorption and anisotropy properties of twophoton absorbing fluorene derivatives” Applied Optics 2005, 44, 7232-7238. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-44-33-7232 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Hernandez, F. E.; Morales, A. R.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. “Nonlinear transmission and excited-state absorption in fluorene derivatives” Applied Optics 2004, 43, 6339-6343. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao43-34-6339 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. (2004) “One- and twophoton photostability of 9,9-didecyl-2,7-bis-(N,N-diphenylamino)fluorine” Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 2004, 3, 138-141. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Kang, B.-S.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Synthesis, characterization and optical properties of new two-photon absorbing fluorene derivatives" Chemistry of Materials 2004, 16, 4634-4641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm049872g Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W.; Schafer, K. J.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D.; Pacher, P.; Kwon, O.; Zojer, E.; Bredas, J.-L. "Resonant Enhancement of Two- 10 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. Photon Absorption in Substituted Fluorene Molecules" Journal of Chemical Physics 2004, 121 (7), 3152-3160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1770726 *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Linear and two-photon photophysical properties of a series of symmetrical diphenylaminofluorenes" Chemistry of Materials 2004, 16, 2267-2273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm035253g *Hernandez, F. E.; Belfield, K. D.; Cohanoschi, I. "Three-photon absorption enhancement in a symmetrical charge transfer fluorene derivative" Chemical Physics Letters 2004, 391, 22-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2004.04.051 *Hernandez, F. E.; Belfield, K. D.; Cohanoschi, I.; Balu, M.; Schafer, K. J. "Three and four-photon absorption of a multiphoton absorbing fluorescent probe" Applied Optics 2004, 43 (28), 5394-5398. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-43-28-5394 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. "Photostability of a series of two-photon absorbing fluorene derivatives" Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2004, 162, 489-496.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S10106030(03)00393-9 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. "Photochemical properties of (7-benzothiazol-2-yl-9,9-didecylfluoren-2-yl)diphenylamine under one- and two-photon excitation" Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2004, 162, 569-574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1010-6030(03)00416-7 * J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Photochem..http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b307426a Schafer, K. J.; Hales, J. M; Balu, M.; *Belfield, K. D.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J. "Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections of Common Photoinitiators" Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2004, 162, 497502.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1010-6030(03)00394-0 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V; Morales, A. R.; Yavuz, O.; Przhonska, O. V. "A New Blue Light-Emitting Oligofluorene Glass: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photophysical Properties" Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2003, 16, 194-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.593 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Liu, Y.; Przhonska, O. V. "Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of 5,7-Dimethoxycoumarin under One- and Two-Photon Excitation" Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2003, 16, 69-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.576 Galvan-Gonzalez, A.; Belfield, K. D.; *Stegeman, G. I.; Canva, M.; Marder, S. R.; Staub, K.; Levina, G.; Tweig, R. J. "Photodegradation of Selected p-Conjugated Electro-Optic Chromophores" Journal of Applied Physics 2003, 94 (1), 756-763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1578703 Xia, F.; Cheng, Z.; Xu, H.; Li, H.; *Zhang, Q.; Kavarnos, G. J.; Ting, R. Y.; Abdel-Sadek, G.; Belfield, K. D. "High Electromechanical Responses in a Poly(vinylidene fluoridetrifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) Terpolymer" Advanced Materials 2002, 14, 15741577. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/99519688/ABSTRACT *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J. "A New Photosensitive Polymeric Material for Optical Data Storage using Multichannel Two-Photon Fluorescence Readout" Chemistry of Materials 2002,14, 3656-3662. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm010799t 11 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. *Belfield, K. D.; Liu, Y.; Negres, R. A.; Fan M.; Pan, G.; Hagan, D. J.; Hernandez, F. E. "Two-Photon Photochromism of an Organic Material for Holographic Recording" Chemistry of Materials 2002, 14, 3663-3667. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm0107981 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. "Steady-State Spectroscopic and Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements of New Two-Photon Absorbing Fluorene Derivatives" Journal of Fluorescence 2002, 12, 445-450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021322228428 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Przhonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J. "Photophysical Characterization of 2,9-Bis(7-benzothiazole-9,9'-didecylfluoren-2-yl)perylene Diimide: a New Standard for Steady State Fluorescence Anisotropy" Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2002, 151(1-3), 7-11.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S10106030(02)00176-4 *Belfield, K. D.; Bondar, M. V.; Prshonska, O. V.; Schafer, K. J.; Mourad, W. "Spectral Properties of Several Fluorene Derivatives with Potential as Two-Photon Fluorescent Dyes" Journal of Luminescence 2002, 97, 141-146.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S00222313(02)00216-8 *Doering, W. E.; Ekmanis, J. L.; Belfield, K. D.; Klarner, F. G.; Krawczyk, B. "Thermal reactions of anti- and syn-dispiro[5.0.5.2]tetradeca-1,8-dienes: Stereomutation and fragmentation to 3-methylenecyclohexenes. Entropy-dictated product ratios from diradical intermediates?" Journal of the American Chemical Society 2001, 123, 5532-5541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja004128s *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Liu, Y.; Liu, J.; Ren, X.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Multiphoton Absorbing Organic Materials for Microfabrication, Emerging Optical Applications and Nondestructive Three Dimensional Imaging" Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 2000, 13, 837-849. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1099-1395(200012)13:12<837::AIDPOC315>3.0.CO;2-5 *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Mourad, W.; Reinhardt, B. A. "Synthesis of New TwoPhoton Absorbing Fluorene Derivatives via Cu-Mediated Ullmann Condensations" Journal of Organic Chemistry 2000, 65, 4475-4481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo991950+ *Belfield, K. D., Schafer, K. S.; Alexander, M. D., Jr. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Perylene-based Luminescent Organic Glass" Chemistry of Materials 2000, 12, 1184-1186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm000045z *Belfield, K. D.; Ren, X.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Dubikovsky, V.; Miesak, E. J. "Near-IR Two-Photon Photoinitiated Polymerization Using a Fluorone/Amine Initiating System" Journal of the American Chemcial Society 2000, 122, 1217-1218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja991990v *Belfield, K. D.; Najjar, O.; Sriram, S. R. "Synthesis of Polyurethanes and Polyimides for Photorefractive Applications" Polymer 2000, 41, 5011-5020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0032-3861(99)00563-7 Galvan-Gonzalez, A.; Belfield, K. D.; *Stegeman, G. I.; Canva, M.; Chan, K.-P.; Park, K.; Sukhomlinova, L.; Twieg, R. J. "Photostability Enhancement of an Azobenzene Photonic Polymer" Applied Physics Letters 2000, 77, 2083-2085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1313809 *Rokosz, M. J.; Gerlock, J. L.; Kucherov, A. V.; Belfield, K. D.; Fryer, N. L.; Moad, G. "15N CP/MAS Soldi State NMR Spectroscopy of a 15N-enriched Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer Photolyzed in Acrylic/Melamine and Acrylic/Urethane Coatings" Polymer 12 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. Degradation and Stability 2000, 70, 81-88.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S01413910(00)00092-6 *Belfield, K. D.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Schafer, K. J.; Negres, R. A. "New Two-Photon Absorbing Fluorene Derivatives: Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Characterization" Organic Letters 1999, 1, 1575-1578. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ol9909177 *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Najjar, O. "Synthesis of Novel Polysiloxanes Containing Charge Transporting and Second-Order NLO Functionalities with Atom Economical Constructs" Macromolecules 1998, 31, 2918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma970910+ *Belfield, K. D.; Abdelrazzaq, F. B. "Photoinitiated Cationic Crosslinking of 4-Methylene2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane with 2,2'-(1,4-Phenylene)bis-4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane" Macromolecules 1997, 30, 6985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma9613446 *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Schafer, K. J. "Synthesis of Donor-Acceptor Stilbenes Bearing Phosphonate Ester Electron-Withdrawing Groups" Tetrahedron Letters 1997, 38, 6131.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4039(97)01390-7 *Belfield, K. D.; Abdelrazzaq, F. B. "Novel Photoinitiated Cationic Copolymerizations of 4-Methylene-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane" Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry Edition 1997, 35, 2207-2219. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, G. "Photoinitiated Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of a Cyclosiloxane" Polymer Bulletin 1997, 38, 165-168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002890050033 *Belfield, K. D.; Belfield, J. S. "New Methods for the Synthesis of Optically Active Monomers and Polymers" Trends in Polymer Science 1995, 3, 180. *Belfield, K. D.; Wang, J. "Modified Horner-Emmons Reaction of Polymeric Phosphonates: Versatile Synthesis of Pendant Stilbene-Containing Polymers" Journal of Polymer Science A, Polymer Chemistry 1995, 33(8), 1235-1242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.1995.080330806 *Belfield, K. D.; Seo, J. "Facile Enantioselective Synthesis of Two New Bicyclic Chiral Templates" Synthetic Communications 1995, 25, 461. *Doering, W. von E.; Belfield, K. D.; He, J. "Beyond Butadiene: Activation Parameters for Thermal Stereomutations and Cycloreversion of Cyclobutanes from a Photochemical Cyclodimerization of the Rigid, All-Trans Triene 4a-Methyl-2,3,4,4a,5,6-hexahydro-2methylenenaphthalene" Journal of the American Chemical Society 1993, 115, 5414.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja00066a009 *Belfield, K. D.; Wang, A. “Synthesis of Novel Difunctional Monomers with Photochromic Potential” Journal of Polymer Science A, Polymer Chemistry 1993, 31(13), 3493-3497. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.1993.080311340 *Belfield, K. D.; Hofmeister, T. S.; Seo, J. "Direct Determination of Enantiomeric Excess of Carbocyclic Esters by Chiral Capillary Gas Chromatography" Journal of Chromatography 1993, 648, 497-500.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(93)80435-B *Morrill, T. C.; Lu, Q.; Brister, A.; O'Shaughnessy, B.; Belfield, K. "The Halogenolysis of Organoboranes" Synthesis 1993, 973. Belfield, K. D.; Lin, X. Z.; *Cabasso, I. "Hydrosilylation of a,b-Unsaturated Esters: Application for the Synthesis of Functional Polysiloxane Graft Copolymers and Macromonomers" Journal of Polymer Science A, Polymer Chemistry 1991, 29(7), 10731076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pola.1991.080290715 13 125. Chen, G.-F.; Wang, J. T.; *Williams, F.; Belfield, K. D.; Baldwin, J. E. "Matrix ESR Evidence for the Formation of the Bicyclo[3.2.0]hepta-2,6-diene Radical Cation Both from Ionized Quadricyclane and as an Intermediate in the Radical Cation Photoisomerization of Norbornadiene to Cycloheptatriene" Journal of the American Chemical Society 1991, 113, 9853.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja00026a023 126. *Baldwin, J. E.; Belfield, K. D. "Dynamic Isotope Dilution Kinetic Study of the Thermal Conversions of Bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-ene to Bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene and to Cyclopentadiene and Ethene" Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry 1989, 2, 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.610020604 127. *Baldwin, J. E.; Belfield, K. D. "Stereochemistry of the Thermal Isomerization of Bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-2-ene to Bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene" Journal of the American Chemical Society 1988, 110, 296.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja00209a051 128. *Baldwin, J. E.; Belfield, K. D. "Specifically Deuteriated Bicyclo[3.2.0]hepta-2,6-dienes" Journal of Organic Chemistry 1987, 52, 4772.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jo00230a022 129. *Vukanovic, V.; Butler, S.; Kapur, S.; Krakower, E.; Allston, T.; Belfield, K. D.; Gibson, G. "The Use of an Arc Plasma Rotating in a Magnetic Field for Metal Coating Glass Substrates" Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 1983, 1, 881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.572016 BOOK CHAPTERS (*indicates/precedes corresponding author): 1. Yanez, C. O.; Andrade, C. D.; Yao, S.; Luchita, G.; Bondar, M. V.; *Belfield, K. D.; “Photosensitive Polymeric Materials for Two-Photon 3D WORM Optical Data Storage and Microfabrication” In Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Herman, W. N.; Flom, S. R.; Foulger, S. H., Eds.; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2010, ACS Symposium Series vol. 1039, Ch. 8, pp. 111-127. DOI: 10.1021/bk-20101039.ch008 2. Mikhailov, I. A.; Tafur, S.; Belfield, K. D.; *Masunov, A. E. “Predictions of Two Photon Absorption profiles using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory combined with SOS and CEO formalisms” In Computational Science – ICCS 2009, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computational Science (LNCS); Seidel, E.; Allen, G.; Nabrzyski, J.; van Albada, D.; Dongarra, J.; Sloot, P., Eds.; Springer: 2009; pp 179-188. 3. *Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; Bondar, M. V. “Organic Multiphoton Absorbing Materials and Devices” in Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices; Sun, S.-S; Dalton, L. R., Eds.; CRC Press, Taylor and Francis: New York, 2008, Ch 18, pp. 573-606. 4. *Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; Bondar, M. V. “Two-photon Absorbing Photonic Materials: From Fundamentals to Applications” in Photoresponsive Polymers I, Advances in Polymer Science 2008, 213, 97-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/12_2007_126 5. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Andrasik, S. J. "Modulation of Optical Properties in New Photosensitive Polymers: 3-D Optical Data Storage Media" In Chromogenic Phenomena in Polymers: Tunable Optical Properties; ACS Symposium Series 888; Jenekhe, S. A.; Kiserow, D. J., Eds.; American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2005, Ch.9, 122134. 14 6. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J. "Two-Photon Photoinitiated Polymerization" In Photoinitiated Polymerization; ACS Symposium Series 847; Belfield; K. D., Crivello; J. R., Eds.; American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2003, Ch. 39. 7. Jonsson, S.; Yang, D.; Viswanathan, K.; Shier, E.; Lindgren, K.; Belfield, K. D.; *Hoyle, C. E. "Mechanistic Aspects of Maleimide-Donor Photocopolymerizations" In Photoinitiated Polymerization; ACS Symposium Series 847; Belfield; K. D., Crivello; J. R., Eds.; American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2003, Ch. 7. 8. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Andrasik, S. J.; Schafer, K. J.; Yavuz, O.; Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Novel Two-Photon Absorbing Polymers" In Functional Condensation Polymers; Carraher, C. E.; Swift, G. G., Eds.; Kluwer: London, 2002, Ch. 11. 9. *Belfield, K. D.; Ren, X.; Liu, J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Two-Photon Photoinitiated Polymerization and Microfabrication" In Forefront of Lithographic Materials Research; Ito, H.; Khojasteh, M. M.; Li, W., Eds.; Society of Plastics Engineers: Brookfield, CT, 2001, pp. 197-201. 10. *Belfield, K. D. "Two-Photon Photochemistry" Spectrum, Spring 2001, 1-6. 11. *Van Stryland, E. W.; Kovsh, D. I.; Negres, R.; Hagan, D. J.; Dubikovsky, V, Belfield, K. "Optical Limiting: Characterization and Numerical Modeling" In Multiphoton and Light Driven Multielectron Processes in Organics: New Phenomena, Materials and Applications; Kajzar, F.; Agranovich, M. V., Eds.; Kluwer:Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 39-52. 12. *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Najjar, O.; Sriram, S. R.; Schafer, K. J. "Methodology for the Synthesis of New Multifunctional Photorefractive Polymers" In Field Responsive Polymers, ACS Symposium Series 726; Khan, I. M.; Harrison, J. S., Eds.; American Chemical Society: Washington, D. C., 1999, pp. 250-263. 13. *Belfield, K. D.; Ren, X.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Dubikovsky, V.; Miesak, E. J. "Two-Photon Photoinitiated Polymer Processing and Microfabrication" Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications Technical Digest 1999. 14. *Belfield, K. D.; Sriram, S. R. "A Novel Architecture for Electro-optic Polyurethanes: Alternating Charge Transporting and Nonlinear Optical Chromophores" Advances in Urethane Science and Technology 1998, 14, 81. CONFERENCE PROCEEDING PAPERS (*indicates/precedes corresponding author): 1. *Belfield, K. D.; Yanez, C. O.; Andrade, C. D.; Yao, S. “New Photosensitive Polymeric Materials for Two-Photon 3D WORM Optical Data Storage” Polym. Preprints 2008, 49(2), 980-981. 2. Patel, P. D.; Mikhailov, I. M.; Belfield, K. D.; *Masunov, A. E. In Prediction of Thermal Cycloreversion and Fatigue-resistance in Photochromic Compounds: A Density Functional Theory Study 17th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (CCTCC). 2008; pp 145-149. 3. Corredor, C. C.; Huang, Z.-L.; *Belfield, K. D. "Two-photon FRET-based 3D optical data storage in a composite polymer containing a photochromic diarylethene and a fluorene dye" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2006, 6330, 63300A. 4. Givishi, R.; Padilha, L. A.; Fu, J.; Hagan. D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D. "Nonlinear absorption and refraction process of fluorene-based molecules via picosecond and femtosecond measurements" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2006, 6192, 61923C. 15 5. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Schafer-Hales, K. J.; Yao, S. “Fluorene-based Fluorescent Probes for Two-Photon Imaging Applications” Polym. Preprints 2006, 47(2), 1006-1007. 6. Corredor, C. C.; Huang, Z.-L.; *Belfield, K. D. “Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage in a Photochromic Diarylethene Polymer Composite” Polym. Preprints 2006, 47(2), 1058-1059. 7. Givishi, R.; McMillian, T. H.; Hagan. D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W.; Schafer, K. J.; Yao, S.; Belfield, K. D. "Nonlinear absorption and refraction measurements of Fluorene-based molecules via Picosecond Z-scans" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2005, 5934, 59340C. 8. Divlianska, I. B.; Weaver, G.; Petrovich, M.; Jabbour, T.; Seigneur, H. P.; ParnellLampen, C.; Thompson, A.; Belfield, K. D.; *Kuebler, S. M. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203. 9. *Belfield, K. D.; Kuebler, S. M.; Yanez, C. “Advances in two-photon polymerization and microfabrication” RadTech Eur. ’05 2005, 2, 77-82. 10. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, L. "Synthesis of functionalized block copolymers via ringopening metathesis polymerization: magnetic ferrofluids" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2004, 91, 783-784. 11. *Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; Hales, J. M.; Bondar, M. V.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Novel two-photon absorbing branched architectures" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2004, 91, 340-341. 12. *Belfield, K. D.; Hernandez, F. E.; Bondar, M. V.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Two-photons and beyond: 2, 3 and 4 photon absorption in conjugated fluorenes" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2004, 91, 346-347. 13. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Yao, S.; Brice, A.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "New highly efficient two-photon fluorescent dyes" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2004, 5351, 173-180. 14. Schafer, K. J.; *Belfield, K. D.; Yao, S.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Fluorescent dyes for multiphoton bio-imaging applications" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2004, 5329, 201-206. 15. *Belfield, K. D.; Wang, Y. "Synthesis of functionalized tri-block copolymers and their applications in dispersing magnetic nanoparticles" Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(1), 11241125. 16. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A.; Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Two-photon absorption in a new symmetrical series of diphenylaminofluorene-based structures" Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(1), 1061-1062. 17. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Yao, S.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Reactive two-photon fluorescent probes for biological imaging" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2003, 5211, 91-95. 18. Hales, J. M.; Schafer, K. J.; Morales, A. R.; Belfield, K. D.; Hagan, D. J.; *Van Stryland, E. W. "Nonlinear optical spectroscopic characterization of a series of fluorene derivatives" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2003, 5211, 21-30. 19. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Andrasik, S. J. "Photosensitive polymeric media for twophoton based optical data storage" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2003, 4797, 275-283. 16 20. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Andrasik, S. Yavuz, O. Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J.; Hales, J. M. "Three-Dimensional Two-Photon Imaging in Polymeric Materials" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2002, 4459, 281-289. 21. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J. "Deep Curing via Near-IR Two-Photon Induced ThiolEne Polymerization" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 83-84. 22. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Andrasik, S J. "Three-Dimensional Two-Photon Fluorescence Lithographic Imaging in a New Photoresponsive Polymer" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 405-406. 23. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J. "Modulation of Optical Properties in New Photosensitive Polymers 3-D Optical Data Storage Media" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 161-162. 24. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Synthesis and Characterization of a Two-Photon Absorbing and Luminescent Aminofluorenyl Polymer" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 104-105. 25. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdel-Sadek, G. G. "Homo- and Co-fluorinated Acrylic Ester Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Coating onto Silicon Surfaces" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 588. 26. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdel-Sadek, G. G.; Huang, J.; Ting, R. Y. "Radical Telomerization of Vinylidene Fluoride in the Presence of Dibromodifluoromethane as Telogen" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 644. 27. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdel-Sadek, G. G.; Ting, R. Y.; Huang, J. "Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorinated Ter-polymers" Polymer Preprints 2002, 43(1), 494-495. 28. Rapaport, A.; Szipocs, F.; Milliez, J.; Jenssen, H.; *Bass, M. A.; Schafer, K. J.; Belfield, K. D. "Optically written displays based on up-conversion of near-infrared light" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 2001, 4294, 47-55. 29. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdel-Sadek, G. G.; LeBlanc, R. A.; Vicker, D. "Taming and Modifying the Surface of Silicon Wafers for Coating with Organic Polymers" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2001, 85, 8-9. 30. *Belfield, K. D.; Liu, J.; Schafer, K. J.; Andrasik, S. J. "Two-Photon Induced Photoinitiated Polymerization" Polymer Preprints 2001, 42(2), 713-714. 31. *Belfield, K. D.; Andrasik, S.; Schafer, K. J.; Yavuz, O.; Hales, J. M.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Maleic Anhydride-Modified Polymers for Two-Photon Upconverted Fluorescence" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 732-733. 32. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Nondestructive Multiphoton Imaging of Polymeric Materials" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 1010-1011. 33. *Belfield, K. D.; Morales, A. R.; Yavuz, O.; Stegeman, G. I.; Chapela, V. M.; Percino, J. "Luminescence and Multiphoton Absorption of a New Class of Bisbenzothiazole Polymer" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 2001, 84, 660-661. 34. Jonsson, S. E.; Yang, D. N.; Kalyanaraman, V.; Shier, E.; *Hoyle, C. E.; Belfield. K.; Lindgren, K. "Mechanistic aspects of donor structure in maleimide/donor photocopolymerizations" Polymer Preprints 2001, 42(2), 222-223. 35. *Belfield, K. D.; Hagan, D. J.; Liu, Y.; Negres, R. A.; Fan, M.; Hernandez, F. E. "Twophoton Photochromism of a Photorefractive Organic Material for Holographic Recording" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 2000, 4104, 15-22. 36. *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Liu, J. "Near-IR Two-Photon Absorbing Dyes and Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization" Polymer Preprints 2000, 41(1), 578-579. 17 37. Negres, R. A.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J.; *Belfield, K. D.; Schafer, K. J.; Przhonska, O. V.; Reinhardt, B. A. "Nonlinear Spectrometer for Characterization of Organic and Polymer Molecules" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 1999, 3796, 88-97. 38. *Belfield, K. D.; Stegeman, G. I.; Najjar, O.; Schafer, K. J.; Meier, J.; Pliska, T. "NLOContaining Polymers with Very Low Near-IR Absorption" Polymer Preprints 1999, 40 (2), 1295-1296. 39. *Belfield, K. D.; Reinhardt, B. A.; Brott, L. L.; Clarson, S. J.; Najjar, O.; Pius, S. M.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Negres, R. “Synthesis and Characterization of New Two-Photon Absorbing Polymers " Polymer Preprints 1999, 40 (1), 127-128. 40. *Belfield, K. D.; Ren, X.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Dubikovsky, V.; Miesak, E. J. "Microfabrication via Two-photon Photoinitiated Polymerization" Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering. 1999, 81, 79-80. 41. *Belfield, K. D.; Metla, D. "Synthesis and Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of a New Liquid Crystalline Dioxolane Monomer" Polymer Preprints 1998, 39 (2), 447-448. 42. *Belfield, K. D.; Najjar, O.; Pius, S. M. "Synthesis of Polysiloxanes Bearing Di- or Triarylamines and NLO Chromophores" Polymer Preprints 1998, 39 (2), 445-446. 43. *Belfield, K.D.; Pichandi, S. "FT-IR Study of UV and Visible Photoinitiated Polymerization of 4-Methylenedioxolanes" Polymer Preprints 1998, 39 (1), 373. 44. *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Najjar, O.; Schafer, K. J.; Sriram, S. "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Organic Photorefractive Materials" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 1997, 3144, 154-165. 45. Grunnet-Jepsen, A.; Thompson, C. L.; Twieg, R. J.; Belfield, K. D.; Bratcher, M. S.; *Moerner, W. E. "Large Gain Photorefractive Polymers" Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 1997, 3144, 216-226. 46. *Belfield, K. D.; Pichandi, S.; Abdelrazzaq, F. B.; Walsh, M. "Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Dental Applications via Simultaneous Photoinitiated Cationic and Radical Polymerization" Polymer Preprints 1997, 38 (2), 88. 47. *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Najjar, O.; Sriram, S.; Schafer, K. "New Multifunctional Photorefractive Polymers" Polymer Preprints 1997, 38 (2), 514. 48. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdelrazzaq, F. B. "Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization of Monoand Difunctional Cyclic Dioxolanes" Polymer Preprints 1997, 38 (1), 199. 49. *Belfield, K. D.; Geng, P. "A New Thermally-Reversible Photocrosslinkable Siloxane" Polymer Preprints 1997, 38 (1), 201. 50. *Belfield, K. D.; Chinna, C.; Sriram, S.; Najjar, O. "Synthesis of New Low Tg Photorefractive Polymers" Polymer Preprints 1997, 38 (1), 203. 51. *Belfield, K. D.; Garcia, G. "New Nonionic Polymeric Hydrogels via Graft Copolymerization" Polymer Materials: Science and Engineering 1997, 76, 383. 52. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, G. "Photoinitiated Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerizations of Spiroorthoesters and a Cyclic Siloxane" Polymer Preprints 1996, 37 (1), 537. 53. *Belfield, K. D.; Abdelrazzaq, F. B. "Novel Photoinitiated Copolymerizations" PolymerPreprints 1996, 37 (1), 539. 54. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, G. "Novel Photoinitiated Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerizations" Polymer Preprints 1995, 36(2), 267. 55. *Belfield, K. D.; Zhang, G. "New Developments in the Photoinitiated Polymerization of a Dioxolane Monomer" Polymer Preprints 1995, 36(2), 269. 18 56. *Belfield, K. D.; Seo, J.; Geng, P. "Synthesis of Novel Optically Active Photochromic Polymers" Polymer Preprints 1994, 35(2), 649. 57. *Belfield, K. D.; Seo, J.; Geng, P. "New Optically Active Photochromic Difunctional Monomers" Polymer Preprints 1994, 35(2), 647. 58. *Belfield, K. D.; Wang, J. "Towards a General Method for the Synthesis of Photochromic Polymers with NLO Potential" Polymer Preprints 1994, 35(2), 645. 59. *Belfield, K. D.; Al-Asadi, M. "Preparation of a New Optically Active Monomer via Biocatalysis" Polymer Preprints 1994, 35(2), 651. 60. *Belfield, K. D.; Wang, A. "Synthesis of New Photochromic Monomers" Polymer Preprints 1993, 34(2), 352. GRADUATE THESES/DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (29 M.S. and 13 Ph.D. to date): (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) Synthesis of 3,4,5,6,7,8-Hexahydro-4a(2H)-hydroxymethyl-2-methylenenaphthalene and Analogous Difunctional Monomers with Photochromic Potential, Anyou Wang, 1993, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Versatile Synthesis of Pendant Stilbene-Containing Polymers via Modified HornerEmmons Reactions, Juexian Wang, 1994, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) The Effect of Blowing Conditions on Polyoxazolidone Foam Cell Structure, Hadzimana S. Lekovic, 1995, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis and Polymerization of 2-(4'-Bromo-4-stilbenoxy) ethyl Vinyl Ether for NLO Applications, Ousama M. Najjar, 1995, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of Novel Thermally-Reversible Photocrosslinkable Monomers and Polymers, Peng Geng, 1996, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis and Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerizations of 4-Methylene-2-phenyl-1,3dioxolane, 1,4-Bis(4-methylene-1,3-dioxolane)benzene, and Novel Spiroorthoester Monomers, Feras B. Abdelrazzaq, 1996, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of New Multifunctional Photorefractive Polymers, Chandrasekhar, Chinna, 1997, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) New Nonionic Polymeric Hydrogels via Graft-Copolymerization, Guillermina Garcia, 1997, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of New Nonlinear Optical Chromophores and Photorefractive Polyurethanes and Polyimides, Suresh R. Sriram, 1997, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of Optically Active Monomers and Polymer Derived from (R)-(+)-3,4,5,6,7,8Hexahydro-4a-hydroxymethyl-2(2H)-methylenenaphthalene, Jeongbeob Seo, 1997, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Simultaneous Photoinitiated Polymerization of 4-Methylene-2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane and Methacrylate Derivatives, Senthil Pichandi, 1998, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of Novel Polysiloxanes with Photorefractive Potential, Silvester Pius, 1998, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis and Polymerization of 4-(4-(6-(4-(2-(4-Methylidene-1,3dioxolane)phenoxy)hexoxy)phenyl)-phenyl)methanenitrile: a New Liquid Crystalline Monomer, Dharakumar Metla, 1998, M. S. Thesis (University of Detroit Mercy) Synthesis of New Photorefractive Polymers, Ousama Najjar, Summer 1999, Ph. D. Dissertation Macromolecular Chemistry (University of Detroit Mercy) 19 (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (34) Novel Fluorene-Based Two-Photon Absorbing Materials, Katherine J. Schafer, Fall 1999, M. S. Thesis (UCF) Two-Photon Photoinitiated Radical Polymerization, Xiaobin Ren, Spring 2000, M. S. Thesis (UCF) Two-Photon Organic Photochemical Reactions: Photocycloaddition of 5,7Dimethoxycoumarin and Photoisomerization of an Indolylfulgide, Yong Liu, Fall 2000, M. S. Thesis (UCF) Two-Photon Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization using Near-IR Light, Jun Liu, Spring 2001, M. S. Thesis (UCF) Synthesis, Liposome Encapsulation, and Evaluation of Two-Photon Absorbing Fluorene Dyes for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy, Brian Polk, Spring 2001, M. S. Thesis (UCF) Synthesis of Fluoroinated Random ter-Polymers and Telomers for Block Copolymers, Jinyu Huang, Summer 2002, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Magnetic Polymeric Nanocomposites: Triblock Copolymer Surfactants, Yan Wang, Summer 2002, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Spectral Properties and Determination of Singlet Oxygen Production by Fluorene-based Photosensitizers with Potential Applications in Two-Photon Photodynamic Cancer Therapy, Claudia Corredor, Spring 2003, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Novel Calamitic Liquid Crystalline Compounds: Synthesis, Characterization and texture Observations, Maher Qaddoura, Spring 2003, M. S. Thesis (UCF). TiO2 Catalyzed Photodecomposition of Oleic Acid, Carbon Black, and Nitrogen Dioxide, Summer 2003, Meimei Zou, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte-Coated Silver Nanoparticles with Metanil Yellow for use in Raman Amplification, Dequan Xiao, Summer 2003, M. S. Thesis (UCF). New Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Sol-Gel Nanocomposite Materials for Raman Gain in Fiber Optics, Stephen Andrasik, Spring 2004, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Method for Determination of Singlet Oxygen Quantum Yields for New Fluorene-Based Photosensitizers in Aqueous Media for the Advancement of Photodynamic Therapy, Wade Grabow, Spring 2004, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Synthesis and Characterization of Two-Photon Absorbing Dyes, Alma R. Morales, Fall 2004, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (through University of Puebla, Puebla, Mexico). Magnetic Polymeric Nanocomposites: Well-defined Triblock Copolymer Siderophores, Li Zhang, Fall 2004, M. S. thesis (UCF). Reactive Block Copolymers for Nanoparticle Stabilization, Mohammed Daoudi, Fall 2004, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Two-Photon Reactive Probes for Biological Imaging, Katherine J. Schafer, Summer 2005, Ph. D. Dissertation Biomolecular Science (UCF). Synthesis of Alkylthiol-containing Fluorene Derivatives for Gold Nanoparticle Functionalization, Sriram Mukundarajan, Fall 2005, M. S. Thesis (UCF). Two-Photon 3D Optical Data Storage via Fluorescence Modulation of Fluorene Dyes by Photochromic Diarylethenes, Claudia Corredor, Spring 2007, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). Singlet Oxygen Generation using New Fluorene-based Photosensitizers under One- and Two-photon Excitation, Stephen Andrasik, Fall 2007, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). 20 (35) (36) (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) Synthesis of Novel Fluorene-based Two-Photon Absorbing Molecules and their Applications in Optical Data Storage, Microfabrication, and Stimulated Emission Depletion, Ciceron O. Yanez, Fall 2009, Ph. D. Dissertaion Chemistry (UCF). Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Novel Hydrophilic Fluorene-based Derivatives for Bioimaging Applications, Dao M. Nguyen, Fall 2009, Ph. D. Dissertaion Chemistry (UCF). Synthesis and Applications of Novel Self-assembled Block Copolymers: From Superparamagnetic Nanocomposites to Bioimaging, Sanchita Biswas, Spring 2010, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). Design, Synthesis and Characterization of New Two-Photon Absorbing (2PA) Fluorescent Dyes and Bioconjugates, and their Applications in Bioimaging, Carolina D. Andrade, Fall 2010, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). Self-Assembly of Squaraine Dyes, Maher A. Qaddoura, Spring 2011, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). The Application of Two-Photon Absorbing Probes in Lysosomal, Zinc Ion Sensing, and Folate Receptor-Targeted Bioimaging, Xuhua Wang, Spring 2011, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). Two-photon Cross Section Enhancement of Photochromic Compounds for use in 3D Optical Data Storage, Gheorghe Luchita, Summer 2011, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF). Self-assembly and Photophysics of Selected Organic Materials and Two-photon Bioimaging with Profluorescent Nitroxides, Polyelectrolyte Nanoparticles, and Squaraine Probes, Hyo-Yang Ahn, Summer 2011, Ph. D. Dissertation Chemistry (UCF).