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Publications

Savoie group research papers

2024

  1. Wardzala, J. J.; King, D. S.; Ogunfowora, L.; Savoie, B.; Gagliardi, L. Organic Reactivity Made Easy and Accurate with Automated Multireference Calculations. ACS Cent. Sci. 2024.
  2. Hwang, J.; Zhao, Q.; Ahmed, M.; Yakisan, A. C.; Espenship, M. F.; Laskin, J.; Savoie, B. M.; Mei, J. Reductive Doping Inhibits the Formation of Isomerization-Derived Structural Defects in N-Doped Poly(Benzodifurandione) (n-PBDF). Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202401465.
  3. Ogunfowora, L. A.; Singh, I.; Arellano, N.; Pattison, T. G.; Magbitang, T.; Nguyen, K.; Ransom, B.; Lionti, K.; Nguyen, S.; Topura, T.; Delenia, E.; Sherwood, M.; Savoie, B. M.; Wojtecki, R. Reactive Vapor-Phase Inhibitors for Area-Selective Depositions at Tunable Critical Dimensions. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024.

2023

  1. Wardzala, J.; King, D.; Ogunfowora, L.; Savoie, B.; Gagliardi, L. Organic Reactivity Made Easy and Accurate with Automated Multireference Calculations. ChemRxiv December 7, 2023.
  2. Tahir, H.; Eedugurala, N.; Hsu, S.-N.; Mahalingavelar, P.; Savoie, B. M.; Boudouris, B. W.; Azoulay, J. D. Large Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in a High-Spin Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymer. Advanced Materials, 2306389.
  3. Singla, V.; Zhao, Q.; Savoie, B. M. Learning Stability Scores from Computationally Generated Kinetic Data. ChemRxiv November 6, 2023.
  4. Vaddadi, S. M.; Zhao, Q.; Savoie, B. M. Graph to Activation Energy Models Easily Reach Irreducible Errors but Show Limited Transferability. ChemRxiv November 1, 2023.
  5. Jin, T.; Savoie, B. M. Deductive Machine Learning Challenges and Opportunities in Chemical Applications. ChemRxiv September 20, 2023.
  6. Jin, T.; Zhao, Q.; Schofield, A. B.; Savoie, B. M. Machine Learning Models Capable of Chemical Deduction for Identifying Reaction Products. ChemRxiv June 14, 2023.
  7. Akkiraju, S.; Gilley, D. M.; Savoie, B. M.; Boudouris, B. W. Anomalous Magnetoresistance in a Nonconjugated Radical Polymer Glass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 2023, 12 (43), e2308741120.
  8. Perera, K.; Wu, W.; Jenkins, K. A.; Espenship, M. F.; Zeller, M.; You, L.; Ahmed, M.; Lang, K.; Liu, G.; Chaudhary, J.; Abtahi, A.; Forbes, D.; Laskin, J.; Savoie, B. M.; Mei, J. Degradation Pathways of Conjugated Radical Cations. Chem. Mater. Accepted.
  9. Zhao, Q.; Savoie, B. M. Deep Reaction Network Exploration of Glucose Pyrolysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2023, 120 (34), e2305884120.
  10. Sun, J.; Wang, K.; Ma, K.; Park, J. Y.; Lin, Z.-Y.; Savoie, B. M.; Dou, L. Emerging Two-Dimensional Organic Semiconductor-Incorporated Perovskites─A Fascinating Family of Hybrid Electronic Materials. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (38), 20694–20715.
  11. Khot, A.; Savoie, B. M. Δ-Learning Applied to Coarse-Grained Homogeneous Liquids. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2023, 159 (5), 054104.
  12. Jackson, N. E.; Savoie, B. M.; Statt, A.; Webb, M. A. Introduction to Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023, 19 (14), 4335–4337.
  13. Zhao, Q.; Anstine, D. M.; Isayev, O.; Savoie, B. M. Δ2 Machine Learning for Reaction Property Prediction. Chem. Sci. 2023.
  14. Lin, Z.-Y.; Sun, J.; Shiring, S. B.; Dou, L.; Savoie, B. M. Design Rules for Two-Dimensional Organic Semiconductor-Incorporated Perovskites (OSiP) Gleaned from Thousands of Simulated Structures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202305298.
  15. Tan, Y.; Li, J.; Li, S.; Yang, H.; Chi, T.; Shiring, S. B.; Liu, K.; Savoie, B. M.; Boudouris, B. W.; Schroeder, C. M. Enhanced Electron Transport in Nonconjugated Radical Oligomers Occurs by Tunneling. Nano Lett. 2023.
  16. Tan, Y.; Boudouris, B. W.; Savoie, B. M. Bridging the Monomer to Polymer Gap in Radical Polymer Design. ACS Macro Lett. 2023, 801–807.
  17. Liang, Z.; Hsu, S.-N.; Tan, Y.; Tahir, H.; Kim, H. J.; Liu, K.; Stoehr, J. F.; Zeller, M.; Dou, L.; Savoie, B. M.; Boudouris, B. W. Significant Charge Transport Effects Due to Subtle Molecular Changes in Nitroxide Radical Single Crystals. Cell Reports Physical Science 2023, 101409.
  18. Yungbluth, J. C.; Medvedev, G. A.; Savoie, B. M.; Caruthers, J. M. Unified Description for the Temperature Dependence of Mobility in Liquids. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2023, 158 (16), 164503.
  19. Sun, J.; Ma, K.; Lin, Z.-Y.; Tang, Y.; Varadharajan, D.; Chen, A. X.; Atapattu, H. R.; Lee, Y. H.; Chen, K.; Boudouris, B. W.; Graham, K. R.; Lipomi, D. J.; Mei, J.; Savoie, B. M.; Dou, L. Tailoring Molecular-Scale Contact at Perovskite/Polymeric Hole Transporting Material Interface for Efficient Solar Cells. Advanced Materials, 2300647.
  20. Davies, D. W.; Seo, B.; Park, S. K.; Shiring, S. B.; Chung, H.; Kafle, P.; Yuan, D.; Strzalka, J. W.; Weber, R.; Zhu, X.; Savoie, B. M.; Diao, Y. Unraveling Two Distinct Polymorph Transition Mechanisms in One N-Type Single Crystal for Dynamic Electronics. Nat Commun 2023, 14 (1), 1304.
  21. Zhao, Q.; Vaddadi, S. M.; Woulfe, M.; Ogunfowora, L. A.; Garimella, S. S.; Isayev, O.; Savoie, B. M. Comprehensive Exploration of Graphically Defined Reaction Spaces. Sci Data 2023, 10 (1), 145.
  22. Zhao, Q.; Garimella, S. S.; Savoie, B. M. Thermally Accessible Prebiotic Pathways for Forming Ribonucleic Acid and Protein Precursors from Aqueous Hydrogen Cyanide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023.
  23. Seo, B.; Savoie, B. M. Evidence That Less Can Be More for Transferable Force Fields. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2023, acs.jcim.2c01163.
  24. Wang, K.; Lin, Z.-Y.; Zhang, Z.; Jin, L.; Ma, K.; Coffey, A. H.; Atapattu, H. R.; Gao, Y.; Park, J. Y.; Wei, Z.; Finkenauer, B. P.; Zhu, C.; Meng, X.; Chowdhury, S. N.; Chen, Z.; Terlier, T.; Do, T.-H.; Yao, Y.; Graham, K. R.; Boltasseva, A.; Guo, T.-F.; Huang, L.; Gao, H.; Savoie, B. M.; Dou, L. Suppressing Phase Disproportionation in Quasi-2D Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes. Nat Commun 2023, 14 (1), 397.
  25. Liang, Z.; Tan, Y.; Hsu, S.-N.; F. Stoehr, J.; Tahir, H.; B. Woeppel, A.; Debnath, S.; Zeller, M.; Dou, L.; M. Savoie, B.; W. Boudouris, B. Charge Transport and Antiferromagnetic Ordering in Nitroxide Radical Crystals. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering 2023.

2022

  1. Gribble, D. A.; Lin, Z.-Y.; Ghosh, S.; Savoie, B. M.; Pol, V. G. Mitigating Polysulfide Shuttles with Upcycled Alkali Metal Terephthalate Decorated Separators. Batteries 2022, 8 (12), 253.
  2. Zhao, Q.; Savoie, B. M. Algorithmic Explorations of Unimolecular and Bimolecular Reaction Spaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202210693.
  3. Luo, X.; Wei, Z.; Seo, B.; Hu, Q.; Wang, X.; Romo, J. A.; Jain, M.; Cakmak, M.; Boudouris, B. W.; Zhao, K.; Mei, J.; Savoie, B. M.; Dou, L. Circularly Recyclable Polymers Featuring Topochemically Weakened Carbon–Carbon Bonds. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022.
  4. Zhao, Q.; Xu, Y.; Greeley, J.; Savoie, B. M. Deep Reaction Network Exploration at a Heterogeneous Catalytic Interface. Nat Commun 2022, 13 (1), 4860.
  5. Iovanac, N. C.; MacKnight, R.; Savoie, B. M. Actively Searching: Inverse Design of Novel Molecules with Simultaneously Optimized Properties. J. Phys. Chem. A 2022.
  6. Tan, Y.; Hsu, S.-N.; Tahir, H.; Dou, L.; Savoie, B. M.; Boudouris, B. W. Electronic and Spintronic Open-Shell Macromolecules, Quo Vadis? J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022.
  7. Ray, S.; Savoie, B. M.; Dudareva, N.; Morgan, J. A. Diffusion of Volatile Organics and Water in the Epicuticular Waxes of Petunia Petal Epidermal Cells. The Plant Journal 2022.
  8. Akriti; Lin, Z.-Y.; Park, J. Y.; Yang, H.; Savoie, B. M.; Dou, L. Anion Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites. APL Materials 2022.
  9. Kim, S.; Seo, B.; Ramasamy, H. V.; Shang, Z.; Wang, H.; Savoie, B. M.; Pol, V. G. Ion–Solvent Interplay in Concentrated Electrolytes Enables Subzero Temperature Li-Ion Battery Operations. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14 (37), 41934–41944.
  10. Zhao, Q.; Hsu, H.-H.; Savoie, B. M. Conformational Sampling for Transition State Searches on a Computational Budget. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2022, 18 (5), 3006–3016.
  11. Wei, Z.; Wang, X.; Seo, B.; Luo, X.; Hu, Q.; Jones, J.; Zeller, M.; Wang, K.; Savoie, B. M.; Zhao, K.; Dou, L. Side-Chain Control of Topochemical Polymer Single Crystals with Tunable Elastic Modulus. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61 (49), e202213840.

2021

  1. A. Khot, B. M. Savoie. How Side-Chain Hydrophilicity Modulates Morphology and Charge Transport in Mixed Conducting Polymers. Journal of Polymer Science. (2021).
  2. Akriti, S. Zhang, Z-Y. Lin, E. Shi, B. P. Finkenauer, Y. Gao, A. J. Pistone, K. Ma, B. M. Savoie, L. Dou. Quantifying Anionic Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites Lateral Heterostructures. Advanced Materials 2021, 2105183.
  3. B. Seo, Z-Y. Lin, Q. Zhao, M. A. Webb, and B. M. Savoie. Topology Automated Force-Field Interactions (TAFFI): A Framework for Developing Transferable Force Fields. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2021 61 (10), 5013-5027
  4. Q. Zhao, B. M. Savoie. Simultaneously Improving Reaction Coverage and Computational Cost in Automated Reaction Prediction Tasks. Nature Computational Science 2021, 1, 479–490.
  5. Y. Tan, N. C. Casetti, B. W. Boudouris, B. M. Savoie. Molecular Design Features for Charge Transport in Non-Conjugated Radical Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 11994-12002.
  6. A. Khot, B. M. Savoie. Top-Down Coarse-Grained Framework forCharacterizing Mixed Conducting Polymers. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 4889-4901.
  7. Akriti, E. Shi, S. B. Shiring, J. Yang, C. L. Atencio-Martinez, B. Yuan, X. Hu, Y. Gao, B. P. Finkenauer, A. J. Pistone, Y. Yu, P. Liao, B. M. Savoie, L. Dou. Layer-by-Layer Anionic Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Vertical Heterostructures. Nature Nanotechnology 2021, 16, 584-591.
  8. Rodriguez, J. R.; Seo, B.; Savoie, B. M.; Pol, V. G. Role of the Solvation Shell Structure and Dynamics on K-Ion and Li-Ion Transport in Mixed Carbonate Electrolytes. Batteries & Supercaps 2022, 5 (1), e202100223.
  9. T. Chi, S. Akkiraju, Z. Liang, Y. Tan, H. J. Kim, X. Zhao, B. M. Savoie, B. W. Boudouris. Design of an n-type Low Glass Transition Temperature Radical Polymer. Polymer Chemistry 2021, 12, 1448-1457.
  10. Q. Zhao, N. C. Iovanac, B. M. Savoie, Transferable Ring Corrections for Predicting Enthalpy of Formation of Cyclic Compounds. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2021, 61, 2798–2805.

2020

  1. N. C. Iovanac, B. M. Savoie. Improving the generative performance of chemical autoencoders through transfer learning. Mach. Learn. Sci. Technol. (2020), vol. 1 (4), 045010.
  2. E. Shi, B. Yuan, S. B. Shiring, Y. Gao, Akriti, Y. Guo, C. Su, M. Lai, P. Yang, J. Kong, B. M. Savoie, Y. Yu, L. Dou. Two-dimensional halide perovskite lateral epitaxial heterostructures. Nature 2020, 580, 614-620.
  3. N. C. Iovanac, B. M. Savoie. Simpler is Better: How Linear Prediction Tasks Improve Transfer Learning in Chemical Autoencoders J. Phys. Chem. A (2020), vol. 124 (18), 3679–3685.
  4. J. Chung, A. Khot, B. M. Savoie, B. W. Boudouris. Recent Advances and Opportunities for Mixed Ion and Charge Conducting Polymers. ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 5, 646–655.
  5. Q. Zhao, B. M. Savoie. A Self-Consistent Component Increment Theory for Predicting Enthalpy of Formation. J. Chem. Inf. Model. (2020), 60, 4, 2199–2207

2019

  1. Y. Gao, E. Shi, S. Deng, S. B. Shiring, J. M. Snaider, C. Liang, B. Yuan, R. Song, S. M. Janke, A. Liebman-Peláez, P. Yoo, M. Zeller, B. W. Boudouris, P. Liao, C. Zhu, V. Blum, Y. Yu, B. M. Savoie, L. Huang & L. Dou. Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells. Nat. Chem., (2019) vol. 11 pp 1151-1157.
  2. A. Khot, S.B. Shiring, B. M. Savoie. Evidence of Information Limitations in Coarse-Grained Models. Evidence of Information Limitations in Coarse-Grained Models. J. Chem. Phys. (2019) vol. 151, 244105
  3. N. C. Iovanac, B. M. Savoie. Improved Chemical Prediction from Scarce Data Sets via Latent Space Enrichment. J. Phys. Chem. A (2019), vol. 123 (19), 4295–4302.
  4. D. A. Wilcox, J. Snaider, S. Mukherjee, L. Yuan, L. Huang, B. M. Savoie, B. W. Boudouris, Tuning the Interfacial and Energetic Interactions Between a Photoexcited Conjugated Polymer and Open-Shell Small Molecules. Soft Matter (2019), vol. 2, 294–10.

2018

  1. A. Gumyusenge, D. T. Tran, X. Luo, G. M. Pitch, Y. Zhao, A. K. Jenkins, T. J. Dunn, A. L. Ayzner, B. M. Savoie, J. Mei. Semiconducting polymer blends that exhibit stable charge transport at high temperatures. Science, (2018) vol. 362 pp 1131-1134.
  2. V. K. Davis, C. M. Bates, K. Omichi, B. M. Savoie, N. Momcilovic, Q. Xu, W. J. Wolf, M. A. Webb, K. J. Billings, N. H. Chou, S. Alayoglu, R. K. McKenney, I. M. Darolles, N. G. Nair, A. Hightower, D. Rosenberg, M. Ahmed, C. J. Brooks, T. F. Miller, R. H. Grubbs, S. C. Jones. Room-Temperature Cycling of Metal Fluoride Electrodes: Liquid Electrolytes for High-Energy Fluoride Ion Cells. Science, (2018) vol. 362 pp 1144–1148.
  3. Y. Joo, V. Agarkar, S. H. Sung, B. M. Savoie, B. W. Boudouris. A nonconjugated radical polymer glass with high electrical conductivity. Science, (2018) vol. 359 pp 1391-1395.
  4. M. A. Webb, U. Yamamoto,, B. M. Savoie, Z. G. Wang, T. F. Miller III. Globally Suppressed Dynamics in Ion-Doped Polymers. ACS Macro Lett. (2018), vol. 7, 734–738.

Before Purdue

  1. B. M. Savoie, M. A. Webb, T. F. Miller III. Enhancing Cation Diffusion and Suppressing Anion Diffusion via Lewis-Acidic Polymer Electrolytes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., (2017) vol. 8 pp 641-646.
  2. Adam G. Gagorik, Brett Savoie, Nick Jackson, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary, Mark A. Ratner, George C. Schatz, and Kevin L. Kohlstedt. Improved Scaling of Molecular Network Calculations: The Emergence of Molecular Domains. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. , (2017) vol. 8, pp 415-421.
  3. M. A. Webb, B. M. Savoie, Z. G. Wang, T. F. Miller III. Chemically Specific Dynamic Bond Percolation Model for Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes. Macromolecules, (2015) vol. 48, 7346-7358.
  4. M. A. Webb, Y. Jung, D. E. Pesko, B. M. Savoie, U. Yamamoto, G. W. Coates, N. P. Balsara, Z. G. Wang, T. F. Miller III. Systematic Computational and Experimental Investigation of Lithium-Ion Transport Mechanisms in Polyester-Based Polymer Electrolytes. ACS Cent. Sci., (2015) vol. 1 pp. 198-205.
  5. N. E. Jackson, K. L. Kohlstedt, B. M. Savoie, M. O. de la Cruz, G. C. Schatz, L. X. Chen, M. A. Ratner. Conformational Order in Aggregates of Conjugated Polymers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2015) vol. 137 pp. 6254-6262.
  6. R. Turrisi, A. Sanguineti, M. Sassi, B. M. Savoie, A. Takai, G. Patriarca, M. Salamone, R. Ruffo, G. Vaccaro, F. Meinardi, T. J. Marks, A. Facchetti, L. Beverina. Stokes shift/emission efficient trade-off in donor-acceptor perylene monoimides for luminescent solar concentrators J. Mater. Chem. A., (2015), vol. 3, 8045-8054.
  7. N. E. Jackson, B. M. Savoie, L. X. Chen, M. A. Ratner. A Simple Index for Characterizing Charge Transport in Molecular Materials J. Phys. Chem. Lett., (2015), vol. 6, 1018-1021.
  8. B. M. Savoie, Scott Dunaisky, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. The Scope and Limitations of Ternary Blend Organic Photovoltaics. Adv. Energy Mater., (2014), vol. 5, 201400891.
  9. B. M. Savoie, N. E. Jackson, L. X. Chen, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Mesoscopic Features of Charge Generation in Organic Semiconductors Acc. Chem. Res., (2014), vol. 47, 3385-3394.
  10. B. M. Savoie, K. L. Kohlstedt, N. E. Jackson, L. X. Chen, G. C. Shatz, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Mesoscopic Molecular Network Formation in Amorphous Organic Materials. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., (2014), vol. 111, 10055-10060.
  11. N. E. Jackson, H. M. Heitzer, B. M. Savoie, M. G. Reuter, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Emergent Properties in Locally Ordered Materials. Isr. J. Chem., (2014), vol. 54, 454-466.
  12. H. M. Heitzer, B. M. Savoie, T. J. Marks, and M. A. Ratner. Organic Photovoltaics: Bridging Ultra-Fast and Diffusion-Limited Exciton Quenching Mechanisms Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2014), vol. 53, 7456-7460.
  13. B. M. Savoie, A. Rao, A. A. Bakulin, S. Gelinas, B. Movaghar, Richard H. Friend, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Unequal Partnership: Assymetric Roles of Polymeric Donor and Fullerene Acceptor in Generating Free Charge. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2014), vol. 136, 2876-2884.
  14. N. E. Jackson, B. M. Savoie, K. L. Kohlstedt, T. J. Marks, L. X. Chen, M. A. Ratner. Structural and Conformational Dispersion in the Rational Design of Conjugated Polymers. Macromolecules. (2014), vol. 47, 987-992.
  15. N. E. Jackson, B. M. Savoie, K. L. Kohlstedt, M. Olvera de la Cruz, G. C. Schatz, L. X. Chen, M. A. Ratner. Controlling Conformations of Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecules: The Role of Nonbonding Interactions J. Am. Chem. Soc., (2013), vol. 28, 10475-10483.
  16. B. M. Savoie, B. Movaghar, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Simple Analytic Description of Collection Efficiency in Organic Photovolataics J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2013), vol. 4, 704-709.
  17. B. M. Savoie, N. E. Jackson, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Reassessing the use of one-electron energetics in the design and characterization of organic photovoltaics. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2013), vol. 15, 4538-4547.
  18. D. X. Hu, B. M. Jones, B. M. Savoie, and R. J. Thomson Elimination of Butylcycloheptylprodigiosin as a Known Natural Product Inspired by an Evolutionary Hypothesis for Cyclic Prodigiosin Biosynthesis J. Nat. Prod. (2013), vol. 76, 1937-1945.
  19. H. Li, Z. Zhu, A. C. Fahrenbach, B. M. Savoie, C .Ke, J. C. Barnes, J. Lei, Y.-L Zhao, L. M . Lilley, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner, J. F. Stoddart. Mechanical Bond-Induced Radical Stabilization J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012), vol. 135, 456-467.
  20. J. Servaites, B. M. Savoie, J. Brink, T. J. Marks, M. A. Ratner. Modeling geminate pair dissociation in organic solar cells: high power conversion efficiencies achieved with moderate optical bandgaps Energy Environ. Sci. (2012), vol. 5, 8343-8350.