Contact Information

Mailing Address

Rochester Institute of Technology
Gosnell Building 08
Rm 08-3290
84 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York 14623-5603

Job Responsibilities

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Core Faculty, Microsystems Engineering
Polymer Photovoltaics Group Leader, NanoPower Research Laboratory

Research Interests

• Physical Chemistry
• Materials; Conjugated Polymers, Photophysics, Excited State Dynamics, Organic Photovoltaic Devices, Molecular Photonics, Fluorescent dyes, Laser spectroscopy/TCSPC.

Selected Publications

Collison, C. J.; Spencer, S.; Preske, A.; Palumbo, C.; Helenic, A.; Bailey, R.; Pellizzeri, S. A New Model for Quantifying the Extent of Interaction between Soluble Polyphenylene-Vinylenes and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Solvent Dispersions. J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 11002-11009.

Collison, C. J.; Pellizzeri, S.; Ambrosio, F. Spectroscopic Evidence for Interaction of Poly[2-methoxy-5-(2′-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] Conformers and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Solvent Dispersions. J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, 5809-5815.

Collison, C. J.; O'Donnell, M. J.; Alexander, J. L. Complexation between Rhodamine 101 and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Indicative of Solvent−Nanotube Interaction Strength. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 15144-15150.

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)

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).

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)

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)

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).

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)

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).

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)

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)

IDW Samuel, G Rumbles, CJ Collison "Efficient interchain photoluminescence in a high-electron affinity conjugated polymer" Physical Review B, 52 (16): 11573-11576 (1995).