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Jeffrey S. Castrucci, Ph.D.

A self-guided innovator with a focus on sustainable energy and material technologies that enhance societal resilience.

I am a problem solver, a lover of learning, and a voidsmith.

I believe in the importance of encryption. My public key is here.

Also see me on LinkedIn.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Chemical Engineering
PhD Title: Novel Boron Subphthalocyanines for Organic Electronic Devices
NSERC Postgraduate Scholar - Doctoral Level
University of Toronto
Supervisors: Professor Timothy P. Bender and Professor Zheng-Hong Lu

Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours - Chemical Engineering
with a Minor in Sustainable Energy and a Professional Experience Year (PEY) Program
University of Toronto

Areas of Interest

chemical engineering, engineering education, safety culture and risk management, sustainable energy, thermodynamics, transport processes, vacuum science, organic electronics

Projects

Proudest Engineering Accomplishment

I designed, commissioned, and maintained a new machine for making solar power devices and testing their performance

Proudest Scientific Accomplishment

I predicted, and then showed in a subsequent publication, that a new material with specific properties would be able to convert light to electrical power by a non-standard mechanism in a solar panel (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01254)

Teaching

I am currently a sessional lecturer and curriculum developer at the University of Toronto. I have taught a variety of subjects including heat and mass transfer, kinetics and thermodynamics laboratories, and introductory programming.

I developed a Risk Management E-Learning Teaching Module with Minerva Safety Management Education (scroll half way down the linked page). You can see the lecture videos on Youtube, here.

First Author Publications

1. Castrucci, J. S.;* Garner, R. K.;* Dang, J. D.; Thibau, E.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P., Characterization of mu-oxo-(BsubPc)2 in Multiple Organic Photovoltaic Device Architectures: Comparing against and Combining with Cl-BsubPc. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 24712-24721. (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06717)
2.Castrucci, J. S.; Josey, D. S.; Thibau, E.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P., Boron Subphthalocyanines as Triplet Harvesting Materials within Organic Photovoltaics. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 3121-3125. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01254)
3. Beaumont, N.;* Castrucci, J. S.;* Sullivan, P.; Morse, G. E.; Paton, A. S.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P.; Jones, T. S., Acceptor Properties of Boron Subphthalocyanines in Fullerene Free Photovoltaics. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 14813-14823. (DOI: 10.1021/jp503578g)
4. Castrucci, J. S.; Dang, J. D.; Kamino, B. A.; Campbell, A.; Pitts, D.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P., Considerations for the Physical Vapor Deposition of High Molar Mass Organic Compounds. Vacuum 2014, 109, 26-33. (DOI: 10.1016/j.vacuum.2014.05.023)
5. Castrucci, J. S.; Helander, M. G.; Morse, G. E.; Lu, Z.-H.; Yip, C. M.; Bender, T. P., Charge Carrier Mobility in Fluorinated Phenoxy Boron Subphthalocyanines: Role of Solid State Packing. Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 1095-1100. (DOI: 10.1021/cg2015385)

*dual first author publication

For citation statistics, see Google Scholar.

Patents

Bender, T. P.; Plint, T.; Castrucci, J. S. Organic Light Emitting Diode Device Comprising Boron Subphthalocyanine. 2015. US Patent App. 15/117,645 (WO/2015/117234)

Conference Proceedings

Castrucci, J. S.; Norval, G. W. Inculcating Safety Management Through an Electronic Learning Module. 2016. In: Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association. (DOI: 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.6464)

Other Publications

6. David S. Josey, Stephanie R. Nyikos, Richard K. Garner, Aleksa Dovijarski, Jeffrey S. Castrucci, Jonathan M. Wang, Greg J. Evans , Timothy P. Bender., Outdoor Performance and Stability of Boron Subphthalocyanines Applied as Electron Acceptors in Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics. ACS Energy Lett. 2017, 2, 726-732. (DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00716)
7. Lessard, B. H.; White, R. T.; Al-Amar, M.; Plint, T.; Castrucci, J. S.; Josey, D. S.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P., Assessing the Potential Roles of Silicon and Germanium Phthalocyanines in Planar Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Devices and How Pentafluoro Phenoxylation Can Enhance pi-pi Interactions and Device Performance. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 5076-5088. (DOI: 10.1021/am508491v)
8. Josey, D. S.; Castrucci, J. S.; Dang, J. D.; Lessard, B. H.; Bender, T. P., Evaluating Thiophene Electron Donor Layers for the Rapid Assessment of Boron Subphthalocyanines as Electron Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics: Solution or Vacuum Deposition? ChemPhysChem 2015, 16,1245-1250. (DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402751)
9. Lee, K.-H.; Leem, D.-S.; Castrucci, J. S.; Park, K.-B.; Bulliard, X.; Kim, K.-S.; Jin, Y. W.; Lee, S.; Bender, T. P.; Park, S. Y., Green-sensitive organic photodetectors with high sensitivity and spectral selectivity using subphthalocyanine derivatives. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 13089-13095. (DOI: 10.1021/am404122v)
10. Chang, Y.-L.; Puzzo, D. P.; Wang, Z.; Helander, M. G.; Qiu, J.; Castrucci, J. S.; Lu, Z.-H., Improving the efficiency of red phosphorescent organic light emitting diodes by exciton management. Phys. Status Solidi C, 2012, 9, 2537-2540. (DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201200294)
11. Kamino, B. A.; Castrucci, J. S.; Bender, T. P., Controlling the Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Arylamines Through the Use of Simple Silyl Ethers: Liquid, Waxy and Glassy Arylamines. Silicon 2011, 3, 125-137. (DOI: 10.1007/s12633-011-9088-5)
12. Morse, G. E.; Castrucci, J. S.; Helander, M. G.; Lu, Z.-H.; Bender, T. P., Phthalimido-boronsubphthalocyanines: new derivatives of boronsubphthalocyanine with bipolar electrochemistry and functionality in OLEDs. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2011, 3, 3538-3544. (DOI: 10.1021/am200758w)
13. Helander, M. G.; Morse, G. E.; Qiu, J.; Castrucci, J. S.; Bender, T. P.; Lu, Z.-H., Pentafluorophenoxy boron subphthalocyanine as a fluorescent dopant emitter in organic light emitting diodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2010, 2, 3147-3152. (DOI: 10.1021/am100632y)

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