Prof. Trevor Smith | ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Prof. Trevor Smith

Chief Investigator

Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Laboratories

Prof. Trevor Smith is a spectroscopist in the School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. His primary interests are the development of super-resolution optical imaging methods and the use of ultrafast laser spectroscopy and time-resolved microscopy to study fast chemical processes, including energy transfer, electron transfer and excitons in polymers, nanocrystals and other materials.

Qualifications: 
GCertUniTeach, University of Melbourne 2006
PhD, University of Melbourne 1992
BSc, University of Melbourne 1983
ORCID iD: 
0000000344539713
Centre Research Themes: 
1. Excitonic Systems for Solar Energy Conversion
2. Control of Excitons

Publications

Book Chapters
Hirvonen, L. M.; Smith, T. A. Super-resolution optical microscopy with structured illumination. In Fundamentals of Fluorescence Imaging; Fundamentals of Fluorescence Imaging; Jenny Stanford Publishing: Singapore, 2019; pp pp 383-414.
Journal Articles
Gao, C.; Shukla, A.; Gao, H.; Miao, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, P.; Luo, G.; Zeng, Y.; Wong, W. W. H.; Smith, T. A.; et al. Harvesting Triplet Excitons in High Mobility Emissive Organic Semiconductor for Efficiency Enhancement of Light‐Emitting Transistors. Advanced Materials In Press, 2208389 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208389. doi: 10.1002/adma.202208389
Kathiravan, A.; Thulasi, S.; Smith, T. A.; Ashokkumar, M.; Jhonsi, M. Asha. Nanoarchitectonics of Congo red dye to biocompatible fluorescent carbon dots for highly sensitive Fe 3+ and ferritin detection. The Analyst 2023 DOI: 10.1039/D2AN01674E. doi: 10.1039/D2AN01674E
Manian, A.; Hudson, R. J.; Ramkissoon, P.; Smith, T. A.; Russo, S. P. Interexcited State Photophysics I: Benchmarking Density Functionals for Computing Nonadiabatic Couplings and Internal Conversion Rate Constants. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2023, 19 (1), 271-292 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00888. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00888
Chakraborty, S.; Xu, Y.; Roberts, A.; Goswami, D.; Smith, T. A. An investigation of evanescent wave-induced fluorescence spectroscopy for exploring high refractive index media. Physica Scripta 2023, 98 (1), 015014 DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/aca437. doi: 10.1088/1402-4896/aca437
Zheng, F.; Raeber, T.; Rubanov, S.; Lee, C.; Seeber, A.; Hall, C. R.; Smith, T. A.; Gao, M.; Angmo, D.; Ghiggino, K. P. Spontaneous Formation of a Ligand-Based 2D Capping Layer on the Surface of Quasi-2D Perovskite Films. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14 (46), 51910–51920 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c14929. doi: 10.1021/acsami.2c14929
Zeng, P.; Ren, X.; Wei, L.; Zhao, H.; Liu, X.; Zhang, X.; Xu, Y.; Yan, L.; Boldt, K.; Smith, T. A.; et al. Control of Hot Carrier Relaxation in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals Using Damping Ligands. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61 (15), e202111443 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202111443. doi: 10.1002/anie.202111443
Laird, J. S.; Ravishankar, S.; Rietwyk, K. J.; Mao, W.; Bach, U.; Smith, T. A. Intensity Modulated Photocurrent Microspectrosopy for Next Generation Photovoltaics. Small Methods 2022, 6 (9), 2200493 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202200493. doi: 10.1002/smtd.202200493
Liu, X.; Zeng, P.; Chen, S.; Smith, T. A.; Liu, M. Charge Transfer Dynamics at the Interface of CsPbX 3Perovskite Nanocrystal‐Acceptor Complexes: A Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Study. Laser & Photonics Reviews 2022, 16 (12), 2200280 DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200280. doi: 10.1002/lpor.202200280
Kalčec, N.; Peranić, N.; Barbir, R.; Hall, C. R.; Smith, T. A.; Sani, M. Antoine; Frkanec, R.; Separovic, F.; Vrček, I. Vinković. Spectroscopic study of L-DOPA and dopamine binding on novel gold nanoparticles towards more efficient drug-delivery system for Parkinson’s disease. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 2022, 268, 120707 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120707. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120707
Zheng, F.; Angmo, D.; Hall, C. R.; Rubanov, S.; Yuan, F.; Laird, J. S.; Gao, M.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P. Brownian Tree‐Shaped Dendrites in Quasi‐2D Perovskite Films and Their Impact on Photovoltaic Performance. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2022, 9 (13), 2102231 DOI: 10.1002/admi.202102231. doi: 10.1002/admi.202102231
Xu, W. - L.; White, J. M.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A. High fluorescence efficiency of intrinsic ligand-free zero-dimensional Cs4PbBr 6 particles and microcrystals. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2021, 9 (40), 14371-14377 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC02571F. doi: 10.1039/D1TC02571F
Bradley, S. J.; Chi, M.; White, J. M.; Hall, C. R.; Goerigk, L.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P. The role of conformational heterogeneity in the excited state dynamics of linked diketopyrrolopyrrole dimers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2021, 23 (15), 9357 - 9364 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP00541C. doi: 10.1039/D1CP00541C
Xu, W.; Niu, M.; Yang, X.; Chen, H.; Cai, X.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Hao, X. Chemical vapor deposition growth of phase-selective inorganic lead halide perovskite films for sensitive photodetectors. Chinese Chemical Letters 2021, 32 (1), 489-492 DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.05.017. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.05.017
Zheng, F.; Hall, C. R.; Angmo, D.; Zuo, C.; Rubanov, S.; Wen, Z.; Bradley, S. J.; Hao, X.; Gao, M.; Smith, T. A.; et al. A sandwich-like structural model revealed for quasi-2D perovskite films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2021, 9 (16), 5362-5372 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC00606A. doi: 10.1039/D1TC00606A
Schwarz, K. N.; Mitchell, V. D.; Khan, S. - U. - Z.; Lee, C.; Reinhold, A.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Jones, D. J.; Rand, B. P.; Scholes, G. D. Morphological Requirements for Nanoscale Electric Field Buildup in a Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2021, 12 (1), 537 - 545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03425. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03425
Lyskov, I.; Anda, A.; Wong, Y. X.; Tilley, A. J.; Hall, C. R.; Thia, J.; Russo, S. P.; Wong, W. W. H.; Cole, J. H.; Smith, T. A. Bilirubin analogues as model compounds for exciton coupling. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2020, 22 (27), 15567 - 15572 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP01421D. doi: 10.1039/D0CP01421D
Mao, W.; Hall, C. R.; Bernardi, S.; Cheng, Y. - B.; Widmer-Cooper, A.; Smith, T. A.; Bach, U. Light-induced reversal of ion segregation in mixed-halide perovskites. Nature Materials 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-00826-y. doi: 10.1038/s41563-020-00826-y
Xu, M.; Yu, M.; Liu, B.; Lin, J.; Soleimaninejad, H.; Smith, T. A.; Ding, X.; Bai, L.; Han, Y.; Xie, L.; et al. Hierarchical Uniform Crystalline Nanowires of Wide Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Light-Emitting Optoelectronic Devices. Cell Reports Physical Science 2020, 1 (3), 100029 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100029. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100029
Zhang, B.; Lyskov, I.; Wilson, L. J.; Sabatini, R. P.; Manian, A.; Soleimaninejad, H.; White, J. M.; Smith, T. A.; Lakhwani, G.; Jones, D. J.; et al. FRET-enhanced photoluminescence of perylene diimides by combining molecular aggregation and insulation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2020, 8 (26), 8953 - 8961 DOI: 10.1039/D0TC02108C. doi: 10.1039/D0TC02108C
Masoomi-Godarzi, S.; Hall, C. R.; Zhang, B.; Gregory, M. A.; White, J. M.; Wong, W. W. H.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A.; Jones, D. J. Competitive Triplet Formation and Recombination in Crystalline Films of Perylenediimide Derivatives: Implications for Singlet Fission. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124 (21), 11574 - 11585 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01337. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c01337
Zheng, F.; Zuo, C.; Niu, M.; Zhou, C.; Bradley, S. J.; Hall, C. R.; Xu, W.; Wen, X.; Hao, X.; Gao, M.; et al. Revealing the Role of Methylammonium Chloride for Improving the Performance of 2D Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12 (23), 25980 - 25990 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c05714. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c05714
Gao, C.; Zhang, B.; Hall, C. R.; Li, L.; Chen, Y.; Zeng, Y.; Smith, T. A.; Wong, W. W. H. Triplet fusion upconversion using sterically protected 9,10-diphenylanthracene as the emitter. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2020, 22 (11), 6300 - 6307 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP06311K. doi: 10.1039/C9CP06311K
Xu, Y.; Zhou, J.; Smith, T. A. Time-resolved emission microscopy of light-induced aggregation of luminescent polymers. Methods and Applications in Fluorescence 2020, 8 (1), 014006 DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab5976. doi: 10.1088/2050-6120/ab5976
Kathiravan, A.; Gowri, A.; Srinivasan, V.; Smith, T. A.; Ashokkumar, M.; Jhonsi, M. Asha. A simple and ubiquitous device for picric acid detection in latent fingerprints using carbon dots. The Analyst 2020, 145 (13), 4532 - 4539 DOI: 10.1039/D0AN00750A. doi: 10.1039/D0AN00750A
Xu, W. - L.; Bradley, S. J.; Xu, Y.; Zheng, F.; Hall, C. R.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A. Highly efficient radiative recombination in intrinsically zero-dimensional perovskite micro-crystals prepared by thermally-assisted solution-phase synthesis. RSC Advances 2020, 10 (71), 43579 - 43584 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA08890K. doi: 10.1039/D0RA08890K
Gao, C.; Seow, J. Yi; Zhang, B.; Hall, C. R.; Tilley, A. J.; White, J. M.; Smith, T. A.; Wong, W. W. H. 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
Lin, J.; Liu, B.; Yu, M.; Wang, X.; Lin, Z.; Zhang, X.; Sun, C.; Cabanillas-Gonzalez, J.; Xie, L.; Liu, F.; et al. Ultrastable Supramolecular Self-Encapsulated Wide-Bandgap Conjugated Polymers for Large-Area and Flexible Electroluminescent Devices. Advanced Materials 2019, 31 (1), 1804811 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804811. doi: 10.1002/adma.201804811
Yu, M. - N.; Lin, J. - Y.; Li, Y. - X.; Soleimaninejad, H.; Ou, C. - J.; Bai, L. - B.; Liu, B.; Liu, W.; Wei, Q.; Bo, Y. - F.; et al. Emission Enhanced and Stabilized by Stereoisomeric Strategy in Hierarchical Uniform Supramolecular Framework. Chem 2019, 5 (9), 2470 - 2483 DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.06.021. doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.06.021
Zhang, B.; Gao, C.; Soleimaninejad, H.; White, J. M.; Smith, T. A.; Jones, D. J.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Wong, W. W. H. Highly Efficient Luminescent Solar Concentrators by Selective Alignment of Donor–Emitter Fluorophores. Chemistry of Materials 2019, 31 (8), 3001 - 3008 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00647. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00647
Condé, B.; Robinson, A.; Bodet, A.; Monteau, A. - C.; Fuentes, S.; Scollary, G.; Smith, T. A.; Howell, K. S. Using Synchronous Fluorescence to Investigate Chemical Interactions Influencing Foam Characteristics in Sparkling Wines. Beverages 2019, 5 (3), 54 DOI: 10.3390/beverages5030054. doi: 10.3390/beverages5030054
Bo, Y. - F.; Liu, Y. - Y.; Soleimaninejad, H.; Yu, M. - N.; Xie, L. - H.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Huang, W. Photophysical Identification of Three Kinds of Low-Energy Green Band Defects in Wide-Bandgap Polyfluorenes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2019, 123 (13), 2789 - 2795 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00188. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00188
Gao, C.; Prasad, S. K. K.; Zhang, B.; Dvořák, M.; Tayebjee, M. J. Y.; McCamey, D. R.; Schmidt, T. W.; Smith, T. A.; Wong, W. W. H. Intramolecular Versus Intermolecular Triplet Fusion in Multichromophoric Photochemical Upconversion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123 (33), 20181 - 20187 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07098. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07098
Soleimaninejad, H.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A.; Paige, M. F. Fluorescence anisotropy imaging of a polydiacetylene photopolymer film. Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2019, 97 (6), 422-429 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0360. doi: 10.1139/cjc-2018-0360
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
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
Ng, C.; Zeng, P.; Lloyd, J. A.; Chakraborty, D.; Roberts, A.; Smith, T. A.; Bach, U.; Sader, J. E.; Davis, T. J.; Gómez, D. E. Large-Area Nanofabrication of Partially Embedded Nanostructures for Enhanced Plasmonic Hot-Carrier Extraction. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2019, 2 (3), 1164 - 1169 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01988. doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01988
Flint, K. L.; J. Collins, G.; Bradley, S. J.; Smith, T. A.; Sumby, C. J.; F. Keene, R. Synthesis and Characterisation of Helicate and Mesocate Forms of a Double-Stranded Diruthenium(II) Complex of a Di(terpyridine) Ligand. Australian Journal of Chemistry 2019, 72 (10), 762-768 DOI: 10.1071/CH19220. doi: 10.1071/CH19220
Rohatgi, C. V.; Harada, T.; Need, E. F.; Krasowska, M.; Beattie, D. A.; Dickenson, G. D.; Smith, T. A.; Kee, T. W. Low-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer Dots for Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2018, 1 (9), 4801 - 4808 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01014. doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01014
Lv, C. - K.; Zheng, F.; Yang, X. - Y.; Bi, P. - Q.; Niu, M. - S.; Wang, Y. - Z.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Hao, X. Optimizing the Crystallinity and Phase Separation of PTB7:PC 71 BM Films by Modified Graphene Oxide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (5), 2572 - 2581 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11726. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11726
Yu, M. - N.; Soleimaninejad, H.; Lin, J.; Zuo, Z. - Y.; Liu, B.; Bo, Y. - F.; Bai, L. - B.; Han, Y. - M.; Smith, T. A.; Xu, M.; et al. Photophysical and Fluorescence Anisotropic Behavior of Polyfluorene β-Conformation Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2018, 9 (2), 364 - 372 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03148. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03148
Enders, F.; Budweg, A.; Zeng, P.; Lauth, J.; Smith, T. A.; Brida, D.; Boldt, K. Switchable dissociation of excitons bound at strained CdTe/CdS interfaces. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (47), 22362 - 22373 DOI: 10.1039/C8NR07973K. doi: 10.1039/C8NR07973K
Stevens, A. L.; Novakovic, S.; White, J. M.; Wong, W. W. H.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Paige, M. F.; Steer, R. P. Exciton Dynamics of Photoexcited Pendant Porphyrin Polymers in Solution and in Thin Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2018, 122 (50), 9605–9614 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b09321. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b09321
Zhang, B.; Soleimaninejad, H.; Jones, D. J.; White, J. M.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A.; Wong, W. W. H. Highly Fluorescent Molecularly Insulated Perylene Diimides: Effect of Concentration on Photophysical Properties. Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29 (19), 8395 - 8403 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02968. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02968
Gajic, M.; Lisi, F.; Kirkwood, N.; Smith, T. A.; Mulvaney, P.; Rosengarten, G. Circular luminescent solar concentrators. Solar Energy 2017, 150, 30 - 37 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.04.034. doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2017.04.034
Breukers, R. D.; Smith, G. J.; Stirrat, H. L.; Swanson, A. J.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Raymond, S. G.; Winch, N. M.; Clarke, D. J.; Kay, A. J. Light losses from scattering in luminescent solar concentrator waveguides. Applied Optics 2017, 56 (10), 2630-2635 DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.002630. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.002630
Xu, W. - L.; Niu, M. - S.; Yang, X. - Y.; Bi, P. - Q.; Zhang, K. - N.; Xiong, C.; Yuan, H. - C.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Hao, X. Spatially Resolved Photophysical Dynamics in Perovskite Microplates Fabricated Using an Antisolvent Treatment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121 (47), 26250 - 26255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09844. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09844