Dr. Owen A. Melville

PhD - 2020


Owen was a man of diverse interests. Both a cat and a dog person, he was interested in the electronic properties of materials, programming, and being skeptical. His hobbies included board games, card games, playing guitar, and eating all the pizza.

Publications with the LRG

90. King, B.; Melville, O. A.; Rice, N. A.; Kashani, S.; Tonnelé, C.; Raboui, H.; Swaraj, S.; Grant, T. M.; McAfee, T.; Bender, T.; Ade, H.; Castet, F.; Muccioli, L.; Lessard, B. H.* Silicon phthalocyanines for n-type organic thin-film transistors: development of structure property relationships doi:10.1021/acsaelm.0c00871

82. Peltekoff, A. J.; Tousignant, M.; Hillier, V. E.; Melville, O. A.; Lessard, B. H.*; Controlled synthesis of poly(pentafluorostyrene-ran-methyl methacrylate) copolymers by nitroxide mediated polymerization and their use as dielectric layers in organic thin-film transistors doi:10.3390/polym12061231

81. Vorona, M. Y.; Yutronkie, N. J.; Melville, O.; Daszczynski, A. J.; Ovens, J. S.; Brusso, J. L.*; Lessard, B. H.* Developing and comparing 2,6-anthracene derivatives: optical, electrochemical, thermal, and their use in organic thin film transistors doi:10.3390/ma13081961

80. Melville, O. A.; Grant, T. M.; Lochhead, K.; King, B.; Ambrose, R.; Rice, N. A.; Boileau, N. T.; Peltekoff, A. J.; Tousignant, M.; Hill, I. G.; Lessard, B. H.* Contact Engineering using Manganese, Chromium and Bathocuproine in Group 14 Phthalocyanine Organic Thin-Film Transistors doi:10.1021/acsaelm.0c00104

79. Tousignant, M. N.; Rice, N. A.; Peltekoff, A. J.; Melville, O. A.; Sundaresan, C.; Miao, C.; Hamad, W.; Lessard, B. H.* Improving Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Thin Film Properties Through the Addition of Low Weight Percentages of Cellulose Nanocrystals doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00068

77. Brixi, S.; Melville, O.; Mirka , B. ; He, Y.; Hendsbee , A.; Meng , H.; Li, Y.; Lessard, B. H.* Air and temperature sensitivity of n-type polymer materials to meet and exceed the standard of N2200 doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60812-x

76. Melville, O. A.; Grant, T. M.; Rice, N. A.; Wang, B.; Josse, P.; Lessard, B. H.* Functionalization of commercial pigment Hostasol Red GG for incorporation into organic thin-film transistors doi:10.1039/C9NJ04851K

75. Peltekoff, A.; Hillier, V.; Lopinski, G.; Melville, O. A.; Lessard, B. H.* Unipolar Polymerized Ionic Liquid Copolymers as High Capacitance Electrolyte Gates for n-type Transistors doi:10.1021/acsapm.9b00959

74. Comeau, Z. J.; Boileau, N.; Lee, T.; Melville, O. A.; Rice, N.; Troung, Y., Harris, C. S.; Lessard, B. H.* Shuhendler, A. J.* On-The-Spot Detection and Speciation of Cannabinoids Using Organic Thin Film Transistors doi:10.1021/acssensors.9b01150

73. Vorona, M. Y.; Yutronkie, N. J.; Melville, O.; Daszczynski, A. J.; Agyei, K. T.; Brusso, J. L.*; Lessard, B. H.* Developing 9,10-anthracene derivatives and their use in organic thin film transistors doi.org/10.3390/ma12172726

72. Boileau, N.; Cranston, R.; Mirka, B.; Melville, O. A.; Lessard, B. H.* Metal phthalocyanine organic thin-film transistors: changes in electrical performance and stability in response to temperature and environment doi:10.1039/C9RA03648B

71. Melville, O. A.; Grant, T. M.; Mirka, B.; Boileau, N.; Lessard, B. H.* Ambipolarity and Air Stability of Silicon Phthalocyanine Organic Thin-Film Transistors doi:10.1002/aelm.201900087

70. Yutronkie, N.; Grant, T. M.; Melville, O. A.; Lessard, B. H.*; Brusso, J.* Old molecule, new chemistry: exploring silicon phthalocynanines as emerging n-type materials in organic electronics doi:10.3390/ma12081334

69. Mirka, B. T.; Fong, D.; Rice, N.; Melville , O.; Adronov, A.; Lessard, B. H.* Polyfluorene-Sorted Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Applications in Organic Thin Film Transistors doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b05357

63. Boileau, N. T.; Melville , O.; Mirka, B.; Cranston, R.; Lessard, B. H.* P and N type copper phthalocyanines as effective semiconductors in organic thin-film transistor based DNA biosensors at elevated temperature doi:10.1039/C8RA08829B

61. Rice, N. A.; Bodnaryk, W.; Mirka, B.; Melville, O.; Adronov, A.*; Lessard, B. H.* Polycarbazole-Sorted Semiconducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Incorporation Into Organic Thin Film Transistors doi:10.1002/aelm.201800539

59. Nazari, M.; Martell, M.; Welsh, T.; Li, Z.; Melville, O.; Cann, J.; Cieplechowicz, E.; Zou, Y.; Lessard, B. H.; Welch, G.* Benzyl and Fluorinated Benzyl Side Chains for Perylene Diimide Non-Fullerene Acceptors doi:10.1039/C8QM00487K

57. Vespa, M.; Cann, J. R.; Melville, O. A.; Dayneko, S. V.; Hendsbee, A. D., Lessard, B. H.; Welch, G. A.* Synthesis of a Perylene Diimide Dimer with Pyrrolic N-H Bonds and N-Functionalized Derivatives for Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Solar cells doi:10.1002/ejoc.201801055

56. Brixi, S.; Melville, O. A.; Boileau, N. Lessard, B. H.* The Influence of Oxygen and Temperature on the Performance of PBDB-T and P3HT in Organic Thin Film Transistors doi:10.1039/C8TC00734A

55. Grant, T. M.; Melville, O. A.; Lessard, B. H.* Silicon Phthalocyanines as N-Type Semiconductors in Organic Thin Film Transistors doi:10.1039/C8TC01116H

52. Rice, N. A.; Magnan, F.; Melville, O.; Brusso, J. L.*; Lessard, B. H. Organic Thin Film Transistors Incorporating Solution Processable 2D Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene Thienoacenes doi:10.3390/ma11010008

50. Melville, O. A.; Rice, N. A.; Therrien, I.; Lessard, B. H.* Organic thin-film transistors incorporating a commercial pigment (Hostasol Red GG) as a low-cost semiconductor doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.10.034

43. Melville, O.; Imperiale, C.; King, B.; Lessard, B. H.* Orthogonally Processable Carbazole-Based Polymer Thin Films by Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b0392

34. Melville, O.; Lessard, B. H.*; Bender, T. P*. Phthalocyanine Based Organic Thin-Film Transistors: A Review of Recent Advances doi:10.1021/acsami.5b01718

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