Dr Christopher Hall | ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Dr Christopher Hall

Research Fellow

Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Laboratories

Chris is a physicist/physical chemist specialising in ultrafast electronic and vibrational spectroscopy and has extensive experience characterising excited state interactions in semiconductor nanostructures, proteins and molecular systems.  Chris is primarily focusing on characterising fundamental exciton behaviour in the new materials developed in the Centre.

Qualifications: 
PhD Physics, Swinburne University of Technology (2011)
Hons Physics, Swinburne University of Technology (2006)
BSc Applied Science, Swinburne University of Technology (2005)
Centre Research Themes: 
2. Control of Excitons

Publications

Journal Articles
Bi, P. Qing; Hall, C. R.; Yin, H.; So, S. Kong; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Hao, X. Resolving the Mechanisms of Photocurrent Improvement in Ternary Organic Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (30), 18294-18302 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06267. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06267
Gao, C.; Seow, J. Yi; Zhang, B.; Hall, C. R.; Tilley, A. J.; White, J. M.; Smith, T. A.; Wong, W. Tetraphenylethene 9,10‐Diphenylanthracene Derivatives – Synthesis and Photophysical Properties. ChemPlusChem 2019, 84 (6), 746-753 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900100. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201900100
Mao, W.; Hall, C. R.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Forsyth, C.; Cheng, Y. - B.; Duffy, N. W.; Smith, T. A.; Bach, U. Visualizing Phase Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskite Single Crystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58 (9), 2893 - 2898 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201810193 . doi: 10.1002/anie.201810193
Laptenok, S. P.; Gil, A. A.; Hall, C. R.; Lukacs, A.; Iuliano, J. N.; Jones, G. A.; Greetham, G. M.; Donaldson, P.; Miyawaki, A.; Tonge, P. J.; et al. Infrared spectroscopy reveals multi-step multi-timescale photoactivation in the photoconvertible protein archetype dronpa. Nature Chemistry 2018, 10 (8), 845 - 852 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0073-0. doi: 10.1038/s41557-018-0073-0
Hall, C. R.; Romanov, A. S.; Bochmann, M.; Meech, S. R. Ultrafast Structure and Dynamics in the Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence of a Carbene–Metal–Amide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2018, 9 (19), 5873 - 5876 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02797. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02797
van Wonderen, J. H.; Li, D.; Piper, S. E. H.; Lau, C. Y.; Jenner, L. P.; Hall, C. R.; Clarke, T. A.; Watmough, N. J.; Butt, J. N. Photosensitised Multiheme Cytochromes as Light-Driven Molecular Wires and Resistors. ChemBioChem 2018, 19 (20), 2206 - 2215 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800313. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201800313