Faculty
Jason B. Benedict
Assistant Professor
Office: 771 Natural Sciences Complex
Phone: (716) 645-4276
Fax: (716) 645-6948
E-mail: jbb6@buffalo.edu
Lab website:
http://www.benedictresearchlabs.com/
Education:
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B.S., Arizona State University (2001)
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Ph. D., University of Washington (2007)
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University at Buffalo (2008-2011)
Specializations:
- Chemical crystallography
- Steady-state and time-resolved X-ray diffraction (TR-XRD)
- Time-resolved microscopy / spectroscopic imaging
- Nano-scale materials chemistry
- Light-induced structural changes and chemical reactions
Research Summary:
From light-based computing and communication to the environmentally-friendly and cost-effective conversion of light from the sun into fuels and/or electrical energy, understanding and controlling the interaction of light and matter remains one of the great scientific challenges of the 21st century. With an emphasis on the study of light-matter interactions in crystalline materials, research in the Benedict lab involves the synthesis of novel materials and the development of new characterization techniques important to many areas of chemistry and physics:
- Synthesis of functionalized polyoxotitanates as models for dye-sensitized solar cells.
- Developing novel metal-organic frameworks for gas storage and TR-XRD applications.
- Designing and constructing versatile microscopes for time-resolved spectroscopy and imaging and improved pumping in TR-XRD experiments
- Exploring the effect of the local chemical environment on the nucleation and growth of photoproducts in solid-state chemical reactions and phase transitions
Selected Recent Publications:
- Benedict, J. B.; Makal, A.; Sokolow, J. D.; Trzop, E.; Scheins, S.; Henning, R.; Graber, T.; Coppens, P., Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction of Excited Species at Atomic Resolution: 100 ps Single-Pulse Diffraction of the Excited State of the Organometallic Complex Rh-2(mu-PNP)(2)(PNP)(2)center dot BPh4. Chemical Communications 2011, 47, (6), 1704-1706.
- Benedict, J. B.; Freindorf, R.; Trzop, E.; Cogswell, J.; Coppens, P., Large Polyoxotitanate Clusters: Well-Defined Models for Pure-Phase TiO2 Structures and Surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, (39), 13669-13671.
- Benedict, J. B.; Coppens, P., The Crystalline Nanocluster Phase as a Medium for Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Light Absorption of Photosensitizer Dyes on Semiconductor Surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132, (9), 2938-2944.
- Coppens, P.; Benedict, J.; Messerschmidt, M.; Novozhilova, I.; Graber, T.; Chen, Y.; Vorontsov, I.; Scheins, S.; Zheng, S., Time-Resolved Synchrotron Diffraction and Theoretical Studies of Very Short-Lived Photo-Induced Molecular Species. Acta Crystallographica Section A 2010, 66, 179-188.
- Kaminski, R.; Graber, T.; Benedict, J. B.; Henning, R.; Chen, Y. S.; Scheins, S.; Messerschmidt, M.; Coppens, P., Optimizing the Accuracy and Precision of the Single-Pulse Laue Technique for Synchrotron Photo-Crystallography. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 2010, 17, 479-485.
- Sathyamoorthy, B.; Axelrod, A.; Farwell, V.; Bennett, S. M.; Calitree, B. D.; Benedict, J. B.; Sukumaran, D. K.; Detty, M. R., Novel 21,23-Ditelluraporphyrins and the First 26,28-Ditellurasapphyrin and 30,33-Ditellurarubyrin. Organometallics 2010, 29, (15), 3431-3441.
- Cao, D. K.; Sreevidya, T. V.; Botoshansky, M.; Golden, G.; Benedict, J. B.; Kaftory, M., Kinetics of Solid State Photodimerization of 1,4-Dimethyl-2-pyridinone in its Molecular Compound. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2010, 114, (27), 7377-7381.
- Benedict, J. B.; Coppens, P., Kinetics of the Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Two-Photon Photodimerization of alpha-trans-Cinnamic Acid to alpha-Truxillic Acid. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2009, 113, (13), 3116-3120.
- Coppens, P.; Pitak, M.; Gembicky, M.; Messerschmidt, M.; Scheins, S.; Benedict, J.; Adachi, S.; Sato, T.; Nozawa, S.; Ichiyanagi, K.; Chollet, M.; Koshihara, S., The RATIO Method for Time-Resolved Laue Crystallography. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 2009, 16, 226-230.
- Benedict, J. B.; Freudenthal, J. H.; Hollis, E.; Kahr, B., Orientational Dependence of Linear Dichroism Exemplified by Dyed Spherulites. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, (32), 10714-10719.
