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Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer in Metal–Organic Frameworks J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, jacs.3c13764
Triplet Generation Through Singlet Fission in Metal-Organic Framework: An Alternative Route to Inefficient Singlet-Triplet Intersystem Crossing. ( Angew. Chem. Int Ed 2023, e202305323)

Framework-Topology-Controlled Singlet Fission in Metal–Organic Frameworks. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 10.1021/jacs.3c03918)

Decoupling Redox Hopping and Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks -based Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction. (Angew. Chem. Int Ed 2023, e202219046)
Deria Group Summer 2023
Front (L-R): Sreehari, Bapan, Riya
Middle: RECM and REU students
Superradiance and Directional Exciton Migration in Metal–Organic Frameworks (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1396-1406)
Improving Energy Transfer within Metal-Organic Frameworks by Aligning Linker Transition Dipole along Framework Axis (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 25, 11192-11202)
Deria Group Summer 2019
(From left: Xinlin, Jerui, Deria, Karan, and Brendan)
Wavelength-Dependent Energy and Charge Transfer in MOF: A Step towards Artificial Porous Light-Harvesting System (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 16849-16857)
Excited-State Electronic Properties in Zr-Based Metal−Organic Frameworks as a Function of a Topological Network (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10488-10496)
Role of polar node in charge-transfer process within Zr-Based MOF (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2756-2760)
Airfree manipulation for synthesis and spectroscopy.
Spectroscopic components on the optical table.
Deria Group Summer 2017
(From left: Deria, Jerui, Bristi, and Tanner)

We are located in Neckers 306/323, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, SIU, Carbondale, IL. Follow us @deria_lab

We are a physical inorganic chemistry group and we investigate photophysical, photochemical, and electrochemical behaviors of porous molecular assemblies, like MOFs.

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Group News

    • Aug 18, 2025: Congratulations, Dr. Saha, on his first paper from the group (decoding antenna behavior)
    • Aug 12, 2025: Congratulations, Sreehari, for switching off/on ISC in por-MOF in Angew. Chem.!
    • May 7, 2024: Congratulations, Sreehari, for the Gower fellowship and Doctoral Research Assistance (DRA).
    • Feb 14, 2024: Congratulations, Sreehari, for the SBCT in the MOF paper in JACS!
    • August 1, 2023: Congratulations, Sreehari and Jierui, for the topology-dependent SF paper published in JACS.
    • July 31, 2023: Congratulations, Sreehari, for passing his candidacy exam! way to go!
    • July 31, 2023: Congratulations, Sreehari and Jierui, on the ISC/SF paper appearing online in Angew. Chem. 
    • March 21, 2023: Congratulations, Xinlin, on the CO2 reduction paper in Angew. Chem. Int Ed.
    • March 20, 2023: Congratulations Riya for receiving the Willis Swartz award
    • Oct 2022: Congratulations to Xinlin on his successful defense -good luck with your future journey.
    • Feb 17, 2022: Congratulations to Sreehari for receiving Doctoral Graduate Fellowship’22
    • Jan 15, 2022: Congratulations to Sreehari and Jierui for the multi-linker exciton and their superradiance paper in JACS.
    • Sept 9, 2021: Congratulations to XL for exciplex-mediated PCT in MOF light-harvesting system in JACS.
    • July 1, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Deria for his tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
    • April 2, 2021: Congratulations to Jierui Yu on his successful thesis defense -good luck with your future journey (as the first doctor from the group)!!
    • April 1, 2021: Congratulations to Sreehari and Xinlin for their review on the physical properties of porphyrin MOFs in Commun. Chem. (invited).
    • Feb 12, 2021: Congratulations to Sreehari for the collaborative work on Light-harvesting metallacage published in JACS.
    • Feb 9, 2021: Congratulations to Xinlin Li for receiving Doctoral Graduate Fellowship, SIUC.
    • Feb 5, 2021: Congratulations to Jierui Yu for the collaborative work on antenna behavior in MOF published in ACS Energy Lett.
    • July 29, 2020: Congratulations to Xinlin and coworkers for the nice review on PCT@MOF in Dalton Transaction (invited).
    • May 23, 2020: Jierui’s work on improving energy transfer in MOF accepted in JACS.
    • May 7, 2020: Congrats to Pravas for receiving the Early Career Faculty Excellence Award 
    • Feb 27, 2020: Congratulations to Sreehari for receiving the Willis Swartz award
    • Jan 24, 2020: Congratulations to Pravas for receiving the NSF-CAREER award.