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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 investigate photophysical, photochemical, and electrochemical behaviors of porous molecular assemblies like MOFs.

We are looking for UG, grad, and postdoctoral fellows. Contact us.

Group News

    • May 7, 2024: Congratulations Sreehari, for Gower fellowship, and Doctoral Research Assistance (DRA).
    • Feb 14, 2024: Congratulations Sreehari, for the SBCT in 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.
    • Sept 30, 2019: Xinlin’s work on pyrene-porphyrin dyad in MOF with LHC like functionality accepted in JACS.
    • Sept 19, 2019: Karan’s work on charge hopping in crystalline MOF accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B.
    • June 1, 2019: we welcome NSF-REU student Brendan MacAinsh
    • Dec 17, 2018: Jierui and Xinlin’s perspective review on the Light-Harvesting in Porous Crystalline Compositions accepted in ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.
    • Dec 11, 2018: Xinlin and Karan’s review on the electron transport in MOF and electrocatalysis is published in Comments on Inorg. Chem.
    • July 24, 2018: our work on excited-state electronic properties of Zr-MOF is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
    • July 5, 2018: Dr. Deria presented the work on the excitonic property and MOF photophysics in ICPP 10th (Munich, Germany).
    • May 13, 2018: Dr. Deria presented the work on charge-transfer in Zr-MOF at the ECS meeting in Seattle, WA.
    • May 10, 2018: Congratulations to Tanner Smith on his graduation and acceptance at the University of Kentucky. We wish him all the best for his Ph.D. studies there!
    • Feb 20, 2018: our work on charge-transfer in MOF is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations Andrea and Tanner.
    • Jan, 2018: we welcome new graduate students Karan and Xinlin
    • June 1, 2017: we welcome NSF-REU student Andrea van Wyk
    • April 27, 2017: Congrats! Tanner Smith has been awarded the REACH Grant for the 2017-2018 academic year.
    • April 7, 2017: Our work on topological dependent excimer contribution in MOFs photophysics is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
    • Oct 11, 2016: Work with Profs Hupp, Farha, and Snurr at NU on topology dependent catalysis is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
    • Oct 11, 2016: Our work on topological control over the photophysical properties of MOFs is accepted in Chem. Comm.
    • Sept 28, 2016: Our UV-vis-NIR absorption spectrophotometer with 60 mm integrating sphere (200-2700 nm) is installed.
    • July 7, 2016: Dr. Deria presents an invited seminar on our work at the 9th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Nanjing, China.
    • June 1, 2016: We welcome our NSF-REU trainee Sandra White in the group.
    • May 9, 2016: Congratulations on Ralph E. Powe Jr. fellowship to Dr. Deria.
    • March 23, 2016: TCSPC/Edinburg installed.
    • March 29, 2016: Congratulations! Dr. Deria receives a 2016 Energy Boost SEED grant from Advanced Coal Energy and Research Center at SIUC.
    • Nov 2015: We welcome our 1st undergrad Tanner Smith.
    • Oct 2015: We welcome Jiurui Yu in the group.