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Dr. Geneviève Sauvé
Research Scientist
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Ph. D. Chemistry
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
B. S. Chemistry
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada |
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Genevieve did her Ph. D. at Caltech with Prof. Nathan S. Lewis working on solar cells based on dye sensitization of nanocrystalline titanium dioxide. She then took an industrial postdoctoral position at PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, working on smart windows. In December of 2002, she joined the McCullough group at CMU to work with regioregular polythiophene. Genevieve is fluent in both French and English. At home, she enjoys yoga and aquariology. She is the proud mother of two children. |
Research Interests
* Conjugated Polymers
* Organic Field Effect Transistors
* Solar Energy Conversion and Photoelectrochemistry
Publications:
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Osaka, I.; Sauvé, G.; Zhang, R.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D. Novel Thiophene-Thiazolothiazole Copolymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors. Adv. Mater., 2007, in press.
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Sauvé, G.; McCullough, R. D. High Field-Effect Mobilities for Diblock Copolymers of Poly (3-hexylthiophene) and Poly(methyl acrylate); Adv. Mater., 2007,19(14) 1822-1825.
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Li, B.; Sauvé, G.; Iovu, M. C.; Zhang, R.; Cooper, J.; Santhanam, S.; Schultz, L.; Revelli, J. C.; Kusne, A. G.; Kowalewski, T.; Snyder, J. L.; Weiss, L. E.; Fedder, G. K.; McCullough, R. D.; Lambeth, D. N.; Volatile Organic Compound Detection Using Nanostructured Copolymers; Nano Lett., 2006, 6 (8) 1598-1602.
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Zhang, R.; Li, B.; Iovu, M.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Sauvé, G.; Cooper, J.; Jia, S.; Tristram-Nagle, S.; Smilgies, D. M.; Lambeth, D. N.; McCullough, R. D.; Kowalewski, T. Nanostructure Dependence of Field-Effect Mobility in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Thin Film Field Effect Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128(11), 3480-3481.
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Jeffries-EL, M.; Sauvé, G.; McCullough, R. D. Facile Synthesis of End-Functionalized Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene)s via Modified Grignard Metathesis Reaction. Macromolecules, 2005, 38(25), 10346-10352. PDF
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Ewbank, P. C.; Loewe, R. S.; Zhai, L.; Reddinger, J.; Sauvé, G.; McCullough, R. D. “Regioregular Poly(thiophene-3-alkanoic acid)s: Water Soluble Conducting Polymers Suitable for Chromatic Chemosensing in Solution and Solid State”, Tetrahedron, 2004, 60, pg. 11269-11275. (invited) PDF
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Jeffries-EL, M.; Sauvé, G.; McCullough, R. D. "In-situ End Group Functionalization of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiophene) using the Grignard Metathesis Polymerization Method", Adv. Mater. 2004, 16, 1017. PDF
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Sauvé, G.; Cass, M. E.; Coia, G.; Doig, S. J.; Lauermann, K. E.; Pomykal, K.; Lewis, N. S. "Dye Sensitization of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide with Osmium and Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes", J. Phys. Chem. B 2000 , 104, 6821-6836. PDF
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Sauvé, G.; Cass, M. E.; Doig, S. J.; Lauermann, I.; Pomykal, K.; Lewis, N. S. "High Quantum Yield Sensitization of Nanocrystalline Titanium Dioxide Photoelectrodes with cis-Dicyanobis(4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine)osmium(II) or tris(4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine)osmium(II) Complexes", J. Phys. Chem. B 2000, 104, 3488-3491. PDF
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Kamat, P. V.; Sauvé, G.; Guldi, D. M.; Asmus, K.-D. Radical Reactions of C84. Research on Chemical Intermediates, 1997, 23, 575-585.
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Sauvé, G.; Kamat, P. V.; Thomas, K. G.; Thomas, K. J.; Das, S.; George, M. V. "Photochemistry of Squaraine Dyes: Excited Triplet State and Redox Properties of Crown Ether Squaraines", J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 2117-2123. PDF
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Serpone, N.; Sauvé, G.; Koch, R.; Tahiri, H.; Pichat, P.; Piccinini, P.; Pelizzetti, E.; Hidaka, H. "Standardization Protocole of Process Efficiencies and Activation Parameters in Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Relative Photonic Efficiencies", J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 1996, 94, 191-203. PDF
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Sauvé, G.; Kamat, P. V.; Ruoff, R. S. "Excited Triplet and Reduced Forms of C84", J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 2162-2165. PDF
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Sauvé, G.; Dimitrijevic, N. M.; Kamat, P. V. "Singlet and Triplet Excited State Behaviors of C60 in Nonreactive and Reactive Polymer Films", J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 1199-1203. PDF
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Serpone, N.; Terzian, R.; Lawless, D.; Kennepohl, P.; Sauvé, G. "On the Usage of Turnover Numbers and Quantum Yields in Heterogeneous Photocatalysis", J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 1993, 73, 11-16. |
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Selected Publications in Non-referreed journals and presentations:
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Sauvé, G.; Zhang, R.; Jia, S.; Kowalewski, T.; McCullough, R. D. Synthesis, mobility, and conductivity of well-defined regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and diblock copolymers of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene); Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2006, 6336 (Organic Field-Effect Transistors V), 633614. Poster Presentation
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Sauvé, G.; Iovu, M. C.; Jeffries-EL, McCullough, R. D. Well-Defined Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-b-Poly(acrylate) Di-block Copolymers. Polymer Preprints, 2005, 46(2) 496. Poster Presentation PDF
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McCullough, R. D.; Sauvé, G.; Li, B.; Jeffries-EL, M.; Santhanam, S.; Schultz, L.; Zhang, R.; Iovu, M. C.; Cooper, J.; Sreedharan, P.; Revelli, J. C.; Kusner, A. G.; Kowalewski, T.; Snyder, J. L.; Weiss, L. E.; Lambeth, D. N.; Fedder, G. K. Regioregular Polythiophene Nanowires and Sensors ;Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2005, 5940(Organic Field-Effect Transistors IV), 594005/1-594005/7. Oral Presentation
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Sauvé, Genevieve; Jeffries-El, Malika; McCullough, Richard D. Control of end-groups of regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) using Grignard metathesis ; Polymer Preprints 2003, 44(2), 432. Poster presentation. PDF
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Sauvé, G.; Cass, M.; Coia, G.; Doig, S.; Lewis, N. S. Studies of Ru and Os Bipyridine Complexes as Sensitizers for Polycrystalline TiO2-Based Photoelectrochemical Cells ; 216th ACS National Meeting, August 23-27, 1998. Oral Presentation. |
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