Contact Information

Department of Chemistry
85 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5603

Specialization

• Physical Chemistry
• Materials; Conjugated Polymers, Photophysics, Excited State Dynamics, Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Molecular Photonics, Polymer structure and function.

Education

BSc (Hons) 1992, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, England.
Ph.D., 1996, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, England

Publications

1. CJ Collison, LJ Rothberg, V Treemaneekarn, Y Li “Conformational effects on the photophysics of conjugated polymers: A two species model for MEH-PPV spectroscopy and dynamics” Macromolecules, 34 (7): 2346-2352 (2001)
2. C Collison, V Treemaneekarn, WJ Oldham, JH Hsu, LJ Rothberg, “Aggregation effects on the structure and optical properties of a model PPV oligomer” Synthetic Metals, 119 (1-3): 515-518 (2001).
3. P Wang, CJ Collison, LJRothberg “Origins of aggregation quenching in luminescent phenylenevinylene polymers” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry, 144 (1): 63-68 (2001)
4. G Rumbles, CJ Collison, DL Russell, LA Magnani, AB Holmes, SC Moratti, IDW Samuel, “Photoluminescence studies of solution thermochromism in a cyano-subsituted phenylene vinylene derivative” Synthetic Metals, 111: 501-505 (2000)
5. R Jakubiak, CJ Collison, WC Wan, LJ Rothberg, BR Hsieh “Aggregation quenching of luminescence in electroluminescent conjugated polymers” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 103 (14): 2394-2398 (1999).
6. G Rumbles, IDW Samuel, CJ Collison, PF Miller, SC Moratti, AB Holmes, “Temperature dependent photoluminescence from a cyano-substituted phenylene vinylene polymer.” Synthetic Metals, 101 (1-3): 158-161 (1999)
7. IDW Samuel, G Rumbles, CJ Collison, SC Moratti, AB Holmes, “Intra-and inter-molecular photoexcitations in a cyano-substituted poly(p-phenylenevinylene)” Chemical Physics, 227 (1-2): 75-82 (1998).
8. IDW Samuel, G Rumbles, CJ Collison, RH Friend, SC Moratti, AB Holmes, “Picosecond time-resolved photoluminescence of PPV derivatives” Synthetic Metals, 84 (1-3): 497-500 (1997)
9. IDW Samuel, G Rumbles, CJ Collison, B Crystall, SC Moratti, AB Holmes, “Luminescence efficiency and time dependence in a high electron affinity conjugated polymer” Synthetic Metals, 76 (1-3): 15-18 (1996)
10. IDW Samuel, G Rumbles, CJ Collison “Efficient interchain photoluminescence in a high-electron affinity conjugated polymer” Physical Review B, 52 (16): 11573-11576 (1995).