Publications

The Bovine Carbonic Anhydrase Promoted Dehydration of Bicarbonate to CO2 for the Electrochemical Production of Syngas J. CO2 Util. 2023, 71, 102461PDF

Engineering the Right Microenvironment Nature Synthesis 2023 News & views

The Effect of Tensile Strain in Pd–Ni Core–Shell Nanocubes with Tuneable Shell Thickness on Urea Electrolysis Selectivity Nanoscale 2023, 15, 5181-5187, selected for issue cover.PDF

Electrochemical Hydrodimerization of Furfural in Organic Media as an Efficient Route to Jet Fuel Precursor ChemElectroChem 2023, 10, e202200865, selected for issue cover.PDF

Simulating Electric Field and Current Density in Nanostructured Electrocatalysts Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022 , 24, 25695 - 25719, selected for issue cover.PDF

Nickel-Catalyzed Urea Electrolysis: From Nitrite and Cyanate as Major Products to Nitrogen Evolution Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202209839.PDF

Reaction-Intermediate-Induced Atomic Mobility in Heterogeneous Metal Catalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022 , 24, 19432 - 19442.PDF

Low-Frequency Oscillations in Optical Measurements of Metal-Nanoparticle Vibrations Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 5365-5371.

Designing Hot Spots in Plasmonic Assemblies through the Shape and Arrangement of Constituents chapter 8 in World Scientific Reference on Plasmonic Nanomaterials: Principles, Design and Bio-applications: Volume 3: Self-Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructures, 2022, 301-350.Author's copy PDF

Pathways of Ammonia Electrooxidation on Nickel Hydroxide Anodes and an Alternative Route towards Recycled Fertilizers Green Chem. 2022, 24, 1578-1589.PDF

Hands-on Electrochemical Reduction of CO2: Understanding Electrochemical Principles through Active Learning J. Chem. Educ. 2022, 2, 1036-1043, selected for issue cover.PDF

Interparticle Gap Geometry Effects on Chiroptical Properties of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Assemblies Nanotechnology 2021, 33, 125203PDF

Mechanism of Ammonia Oxidation to Dinitrogen, Nitrite, and Nitrate on 𝛽-Ni(OH)2 from First-Principles Simulations Electrochem. Sci. Adv. 2021, PDF

Shape Control in Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Non-Elongated Cu Nanoparticles and their Optical Properties Nanoscale 2021, 13, 12505-12512, part of 2021 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection.PDF

Interplay of Electrochemical and Electrical Effects Induces Structural transformations in Electrocatalysts Nature Catalysis 2021, 4, 479–487, selected for issue cover.Full Text

Translating Tactics from Direct CO2 Electroreduction to Electroorganic Coupling Reactions with CO2 Adv. Energy Sustainability Res. 2021, 2, 2100001, invited.PDF

Inductive Effects in Cobalt-doped Nickel Hydroxide Electronic Structure Facilitating Urea Electrooxidation Chemosphere 2021, 279, 130550, invited, special issue “2D Advanced Materials and Technologies for Industrial Wastewater Treatment”.PDF

Relative Activity of Metal Cathodes towards Electroorganic Coupling of CO2 with Benzylic Halides Electrochim. Acta 2021, 387, 138528, invited, special issue “Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 for the Synthesis of Value-added Chemicals”.PDF

Multiphoton Induced Photoluminescence during Time-resolved Laser-induced Incandescence Experiments on Silver and Gold Nanoparticles J. Appl. Phys. 2021, 129, 183107.

Numerical Investigation of Delamination Onset and Propagation in Catalyst Layers of PEM Fuel Cells under Hygrothermal Cycles Int. J. Hydrog. Energy 2021, 46, 11071-11083.

Synthesis of Dimeric Molecules via Ag-Catalyzed Electrochemical Homocoupling of Organic Bromides Paired with Electrooxidation of Urea J. Electrochem. Soc. 2020, 167, 155521.PDF

Sustainable at Both Ends: Electrochemical CO2 Utilization Paired with Electrochemical Treatment of Nitrogenous Waste Green Chem. 2020, 22, 4456-4462.PDF

Energy Transport in CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystal Solids ACS Photonics 2020, 7, 154-164.

Electrochemical CO2 Fixation to α-Methylbenzyl Bromide in Divided Cells with Nonsacrificial Anodes and Aqueous Anolytes ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2019, 7, 19631-19639.PDF

Reductive and Coordinative Effects of Hydrazine in Structural Transformations of Copper Hydroxide Nanoparticles Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1445.PDF

Trapping a Photoelectron behind a Repulsive Coulomb Barrier in Solution J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 5742-5747.

Pd–CNT–SiO2 Nanoskein: Composite Structure Design for Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 10733-10736.PDF

Cu(II)-nanoparticle-derived Structures under CO2 Reduction Conditions: a Matter of Shape Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019, 21, 5894-5897.PDF

An Aligned Octahedral Core in a Nanocage: Synthesis, Plasmonic, and Catalytic properties Nanoscale 2019, 11, 3138-3144.PDF

Self‐Assembly and Surface Patterning of Polyferrocenylsilane‐Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2018, 39, 1700554.

Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance of Palladium Nanoparticles with High Energy Surfaces in Formic Acid Oxidation J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 11582-11585.PDF

Rational Design of Efficient Palladium Catalysts for Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 8115-8120.PDF

Linear Assembly of Patchy and Non-patchy Nanoparticles Faraday Discuss. 2016, 191, 189-204.PDF

Surface Patterning of Nanoparticles with Polymer Patches Nature 2016, 538, 79-83.

Enhanced Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction via Field-induced Reagent Concentration Nature 2016, 537, 382-386.PDF

Colloidal Cholesteric Liquid Crystal in Spherical Confinement Nature Commun. 2016, 7, 12520.PDF

Toward Rational Design of Palladium Nanoparticles with Plasmonically Enhanced Catalytic Performance RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 47907-47911.PDF

Large-Scale Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals in Aqueous Suspensions Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 3196-3202.PDF

Shape‐Dependent Interactions of Palladium Nanocrystals with Hydrogen Small 2016, 12, 2450-2458.

Circular Dichroism of Chiral Nematic Films of Cellulose Nanocrystals Loaded with Plasmonic Nanoparticles ACS Nano 2015, 9, 10377-10385.PDF

Domino [4+1]-annulation of α, β-unsaturated δ-amino Esters with Rh (II)–carbenoids – a New Approach towards Multi-functionalized N-aryl Pyrrolidines Org. Biomol. Chem 2015, 13, 2640-2651.PDF

Structural and Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Chains of plasmonic nanocubes Nano Letters 2014, 14, 6314-6321.PDF

Shaken, and Stirred: Oscillatory Segmented Flow for Controlled Size-Evolution of Colloidal Nanomaterials Lab Chip 2014, 14, 2309-2318.PDF

Self-Assembled Plasmonic Nanostructures Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 3976-3991.PDF

Colloidal Analogs of Molecular Chain Stoppers Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 2013, 110, 18775-18779. PDF

Structural Transitions in Nanoparticle Assemblies Governed by Competing Nanoscale Forces J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10262-10265PDF

The Role of Hole Localization in Sacrificial Hydrogen Production by Semiconductor–Metal Heterostructured Nanocrystals Nano Letters 2011, 11, 2919-2926.

Heteroepitaxial Growth of Colloidal Nanocrystals onto Substrate Films via Hot-Injection Routes ACS Nano 2011, 5, 4953-4964.

Suppression of the Plasmon Resonance in Au/CdS Colloidal Nanocomposites Nano Letters 2011, 11, 1792-1799.