Tauber, Michael
Physical chemistry; Optical and magnetic spectroscopy; Fundamental studies of charge transport and solvation; Applications to energy conversion and energy storage.
Education
2002 Ph.D.,
Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley
1992 B.A.,
Chemistry; Physics,
Cornell University
Awards and Academic Honors
2011
NSF CAREER
2009-2010
Hellman Faculty Fellow
2003-2005
Petroleum Research Fellow of the ACS (at Northwestern Univ.)
Phi Beta Kappa
NSF Predoctoral fellowship
Research Interests
Photo-physics of organic molecules that are coupled in various assemblies (e.g. aggregates, thin films, or dimers); Singlet fission; vibrational and electronic spectroscopy (steady-state and time-resolved); advanced solar cells
Primary Research Area
Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Interdisciplinary interests
Materials
Physical Organic
Biophysics
Image Gallery
Schematic of energy level splittings in aggregates of the carotenoid zeaxanthin
Selected Publications
- Bell NC, Doyle SJ, Battistelli G, LeGuyader CL, Thompson MP, Poe AM, Montalti M, Thayumanavan S, Tauber MJ, Gianneschi NC, "Dye Encapsulation in Polynorbornene Micelles.", Langmuir, 2015,
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- Larson BC, Pomponio JR, Shafaat HS, Kim RH, Leigh BS, Tauber MJ, Kim JE, "Photogeneration and Quenching of Tryptophan Radical in Azurin.", J Phys Chem B, 2015, Vol. 119, Issue 29, 9438-49
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- Wang C, Angelella M, Doyle SJ, Lytwak LA, Rossky PJ, Holliday BJ, Tauber MJ, "Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of the T1 Triplet Excited State of Oligothiophenes.", J Phys Chem Lett, 2015,
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- Prum RO, LaFountain AM, Berg CJ, Tauber MJ, Frank HA, "Mechanism of carotenoid coloration in the brightly colored plumages of broadbills (Eurylaimidae).", J Comp Physiol B, 2014, Vol. 184, Issue 5, 651-72
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- Angelella M, Wang C, Tauber MJ, "Resonance Raman spectra of a perylene bis(dicarboximide) chromophore in ground and lowest triplet states.", J Phys Chem A, 2013, Vol. 117, Issue 38, 9196-204
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- Ault AP, Zhao D, Ebben CJ, Tauber MJ, Geiger FM, Prather KA, Grassian VH, "Raman microspectroscopy and vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy as probes of the bulk and surface compositions of size-resolved sea spray aerosol particles.", Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2013, Vol. 15, Issue 17, 6206-14
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- Berg CJ, LaFountain AM, Prum RO, Frank HA, Tauber MJ, "Vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of the retro-carotenoid rhodoxanthin in avian plumage, solid-state films, and solution.", Arch Biochem Biophys, 2013, Vol. 539, Issue 2, 142-55
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- Phadke A, Zhang C, Arman B, Hsu CC, Mashelkar RA, Lele AK, Tauber MJ, Arya G, Varghese S, "Rapid self-healing hydrogels.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012, Vol. 109, Issue 12, 4383-8
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- Wang C, Angelella M, Kuo C-H, Tauber MJ "Singlet fission in carotenoid aggregates: insights from transient absorption spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE, 2012, Vol. 8459, 845905
- Fei Z, Andreev GO, Bao W, Zhang LM, S McLeod A, Wang C, Stewart MK, Zhao Z, Dominguez G, Thiemens M, Fogler MM, Tauber MJ, Castro-Neto AH, Lau CN, Keilmann F, Basov DN, "Infrared nanoscopy of dirac plasmons at the graphene-SiO₂ interface.", Nano Lett, 2011, Vol. 11, Issue 11, 4701-5
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- Wang C, Schlamadinger DE, Desai V, Tauber MJ, "Triplet excitons of carotenoids formed by singlet fission in a membrane.", ChemPhysChem, 2011, Vol. 12, Issue 16, 2891-4
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- Wang C, Tauber MJ, "High-yield singlet fission in a zeaxanthin aggregate observed by picosecond resonance Raman spectroscopy.", J Am Chem Soc, 2010, Vol. 132, Issue 40, 13988-91
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