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2024

Agbo, P. Rate-potential decoupling: a biophysical perspective of electrocatalysis. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 2024, 57 (46), 462001.

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ad6008

Lucas, E.; Bui, J. C.; Stovall, T. N.; Hwang, M.; et al. Asymmetric Bipolar Membrane for High Current Density Electrodialysis Operation with Exceptional Stability. ACS Energy Letters. 2024, 9 (11), 5596-5605.

DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01662

Yap, K. M. K.; Lee, S. A.; Kistler, T. A.; Collins, D. K.; et al. Addressing challenges for operating electrochemical solar fuels technologies under variable and diurnal conditions. Frontiers in Energy Research. 2024, 12, 1483914.

DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1483914

Soto-Montero, T.; Kralj, S.; Azmi, R.; Reus, M. A.; et al. Single-source pulsed laser-deposited perovskite solar cells with enhanced performance via bulk and 2D passivation. Joule. 2024, 8, 1-14.

DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.09.001

Tagliabue, G.; Atwater, H. A.; Polman, A.; Cortés, E. Photonic solutions help fight climate crisis. Nature Photonics. 2024, 18 (9), 879-882.

DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01509-9

Hicks, M. H.; Nie, W.; Boehme, A. E.; Atwater, H. A.; Agapie, T.; Peters, J. C. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Acidic Electrolytes: Spectroscopic Evidence for Local pH Gradients. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146 (36), 25282–25289.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c09512

Liu, A.g; Musgrave, C. B.; Li, X.; Goddard, W. A.; Liu, Y. Non-aqueous alkoxide-mediated electrochemical carbon capture. Nature Energy. 2024, 9, 1415–1426.

DOI: 10.1038/s41560-024-01614-7

Yap, K. M. K.; Aitbekova, A.; Salazar, M.; Kistler, T. A..; et al. CO2 Conversion to Butene via a Tandem Photovoltaic–Electrochemical/Photothermocatalytic Process: A Co-design Approach to Coupled Microenvironments. ACS Energy Letters. 2024, 9 (9), 4369–4377.

DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01866.

Hamilton, S. T.; Kelly, M.; Smith, W. A.; Park, A. A. Electrolyte–Electrocatalyst Interfacial Effects of Polymeric Materials for Tandem CO2 Capture and Conversion Elucidated Using In Situ Electrochemical AFM. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2024, 16 (32), 42021–42033.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c01908

Kim, J.; Lin, J.; Kim, J.; Roh, I.; Lee, S.; Yang, P. A red-light-powered silicon nanowire biophotochemical diode for simultaneous CO2 reduction and glycerol valorization. Nature Catalysis. 2024, 7, 977-986.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01198-1

Zoric, M. R.; Basera, P.; Palmer, L. D.; Aitbekova, A.; et al. Oxidizing Role of Cu Cocatalysts in Unassisted Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using p-GaN/Al2O3/Au/Cu Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 2024, 18 (30), 19538–19548.

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02088

Liu, L.; Xu, Q.; Dos Anjos Cunha, L.; Xin, H.; Head-Gordon, M.; Qian, J. Real-Space Pseudopotential Method for the Calculation of Third-Row Elements X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Signatures. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 2024, 20 (14), 6134-6143.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00535

King, A. J.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T. Understanding Photovoltage Enhancement in Metal–Insulator Semiconductor Photoelectrodes with Metal Nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2024, 16 (28), 36380–36391.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c05928

Kaufman, A. J.; Nielander, A. C.; Meyer, G. J.; Maldonado, S.; Ardo, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Absolute band-edge energies are over-emphasized in the design of photoelectrochemical materials. Nature Catalysis. 2024, 7 (6), 615-623.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01161-0

Zhang, Q.; Musgrave, C. B.; Song, Y.; Su, J.; et al. A covalent molecular design enabling efficient CO2 reduction in strong acids. Nature Synthesis. 2024, 3, 1231–1242.

DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00588-4

Maliyov, I.; Yin, J.; Yao, J.; Yang, C.; Bernardi, M. Dynamic mode decomposition of nonequilibrium electron-phonon dynamics: accelerating the first-principles real-time Boltzmann equation. npj Computational Materials. 2024, 10 (1), 123.

DOI: 10.1038/s41524-024-01308-4

Heim, G. P.; Hirahara, M.; Dev, V. M.; Agapie, T. Synthesis and electronic properties of nitrogen-rich nanographene. Chemical Communications. 2024, 60 (57), 7343-7346.

DOI: 10.1039/D4CC01189A

Huang, Z.; Cheng, T.; Shah, A. H.; Zhong, G.; et al. Edge sites dominate the hydrogen evolution reaction on platinum nanocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 2024, 7, 678-688.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01156-x

Cherrette, Vivien L.; Chou, Kai-Chun; Zeitz, David; Guarino-Hotz, Melissa; Khvichia, Mariam; Barnett, Jeremey; Win, Allison; Babbe, Finn; Zhang, Jin Z. Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics of CH3NH3PbBr3 Perovskite Nanoclusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2024, 15 (19), 5177-5182.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01203

Whittaker, T. N.; Fishler, Y.; Clary, J. M.; Brimley, P.; Holewinski, A.; Musgrave, C. B.; Farberow, C. A.; Smith, W. A.; Vigil-Fowler, D. Insights into Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Metallic and Oxidized Tin Using Grand-Canonical DFT and In Situ ATR-SEIRA Spectroscopy. .2024, 14 (11), 8353-8365.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c01290

Collins, D. K.; Schichtl, Z. G.; Nesbitt, N. T.; Greenaway, A. L.; Mihailetchi, V. D.; Tune, D. l.; Warren, E. L. Utilizing three-terminal, interdigitated back contact Si solar cells as a platform to study the durability of photoelectrodes for solar fuel production. Energy & Environmental Science. 2024, 17 (10), 3329-3337.

DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00349G

Kwon, S.; Stoerzinger, K. A.; Rao, R.; Qiao, L.; Goddard, W. A.; Shao-Horn, Y.Facet-Dependent Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity of IrO2 from Quantum Mechanics and Experiments. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146 (17), 11719-11725.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14271

Jones, R. J. R.; Lai, Y.; Guevarra, D.; Kan, K.; Haber, J. A.; Gregoire, J. M. Accelerated screening of gas diffusion electrodes for carbon dioxide reduction. Digital Discovery. 2024, 3 (6), 1144-1149.

DOI: 10.1039/D4DD00061G

Kistler, T. A.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Agbo, P. A recirculation system for concentrating CO2 electrolyzer products. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2024, 8 (10), 2292-2298.

DOI: 10.1039/D3SE01506H

Heim, G. P.; Bruening, M. A.; Musgrave, C. B.; Goddard, W. A.; Peters, J. C.; Agapie, T. Potassium ion modulation of the Cu electrode-electrolyte interface with ionomers enhances CO2 reduction to C2+ products. Joule. 2024.

DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.03.019

Fishler, Y.; Leick, N.; Teeter, G.; Holewinski, A.; Smith, W. A. Layered Sn–Au Thin Films for Increased Electrochemical ATR-SEIRAS Enhancement. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2024, 16 (15), 19780-19791.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c01525

Chan, T.; Kong, C. J.; King, A. J.; Babbe, F.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Kubiak, C. P.; Ager, J. W. Role of Mass Transport in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Methanol Using Immobilized Cobalt Phthalocyanine. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2024, 7 (8), 3091–3098.

DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.3c02979

Ke, S.; Mangum, J. S.; Zakutayev, A.; Greenaway, A. L.; Neaton, J. B. First-Principles Studies of the Electronic and Optical Properties of Zinc Titanium Nitride: The Role of Cation Disorder. Chemistry of Materials. 2024, 36 (7), 3164-3176.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02696

Kim, Y.; Mendes, J. L.; Michelsen, J. M.; Shin, H. J.; Lee, N.; Choi, Y. J.; Cushing, S. K. Coherent charge hopping suppresses photoexcited small polarons in ErFeO3 by antiadiabatic formation mechanism. Science Advances. 2024, 10 (12).

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk4282

Palmer, L. D.; Lee, W.; Dong, C.; Liu, R.; Wu, N.; Cushing, S. K. Determining Quasi-Equilibrium Electron and Hole Distributions of Plasmonic Photocatalysts Using Photomodulated X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. ACS Nano. 2024, 18 (13), 9344-9353.

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08181

Choi, C.; Kwon, S.; Gao, Y.; Cheon, S.; Li, J.; Menges, F.; Goddard, W. A.; Wang, H. CO2-Promoted Electrocatalytic Reduction of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146 (12), 8486–8491.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14564

Watkins, N. B.; Lai, Y.; Schiffer, Z. J.; Canestraight, V. M.; Atwater, H. A.; Agapie, T.; Peters, J. C.; Gregoire, J. M. Electrode Surface Heating with Organic Films Improves CO2 Reduction Kinetics on Copper. ACS Energy Letters. 2024, 9, (4), 1440-1445.

DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c00204

Chan, T.; Zoric, M. R.; Shandilya, A.; Loeb, C. K.; Barrett, J. A.; Cordones, A. A.; Kubiak, C. P. Simple Preparation and Characterization of Hybrid Cobalt Phthalocyanine on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Electrodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2024, 7 (6), 2225-2233.

DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.3c02953

Pada Sarker, H.; Abild‐Pedersen, F.; Bajdich, M. Prediction of Feasibility of Polaronic OER on (110) Surface of Rutile TiO2. ChemPhysChem. 2024.

DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400060

Yap, K. M. K.; Wei, W. J.; Rodríguez Pabón, M.; King, A. J.; Bui, J. C.; Wei, L.; Lee, S.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T.; Nielander, A. C.; Jaramillo, T. F. Modeling diurnal and annual ethylene generation from solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction devices. Energy & Environmental Science. 2024, 17 (7), 2453-2467.

DOI: 10.1039/D4EE00545G

Kang, R.; Zhao, Y.; Hait, D.; Gauthier, J. A.; Kempler, P. A.; Thurman, K. A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Head-Gordon, M. Understanding ion-transfer reactions in silver electrodissolution and electrodeposition from first-principles calculations and experiments. Chemical Science. 2024, 15 (13), 4996-5008.

DOI: 10.1039/D3SC05791G

Goddard, W. A.; Musgrave, C. B. Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction Catalyzed by Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Borides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2024, 15 (7), 1899-1907.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00054

Zhao, Y.; Hu, X.; Stucky, G. D.; Boettcher, S. W. Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Transport Contributions to Hydrogen Evolution Activity and Electrolyte-Stability Windows for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146 (5), 3438-3448.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12980

Cho, J.; Medina, A.; Saih, I.; Il Choi, J.; Drexler, M.; Goddard, W. A.; Alamgir, F. M.; Jang, Seung S. 2D Metal/Graphene and 2D Metal/Graphene/Metal Systems for Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO2 to Formic Acid. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2024, 63 (12).

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202320268

DeLuca, E. E.; Chan, T.; Taylor, J. M.; Lee, B.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Kubiak, C. P. Steric Effects on CO2 Reduction with Substituted Mn(bpy)(CO)3X-Type Catalysts on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Reveal Critical Mechanistic Details. ACS Catalysis. 2024, 14 (3), 2071-2083.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05771

Agbo, P. An Expansion of Polarization Control Using Semiconductor–Liquid Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2024, 15 (4), 1135-1142.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03051

Mangum, J. S.; Ke, S.; Gish, M.a K.; Raulerson, E. K.; Perkins, C. L.; Neaton, J. B.; Zakutayev, A.; Greenaway, A. L. Sn-assisted heteroepitaxy improves ZnTiN2 photoabsorbers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2024, 12 (8), 4544-4554.

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA06200G

Aitbekova, A.; Watkins, N.; Richter, M. H.; Jahelka, P.; Peters, J. C.; Agapie, T.; Atwater, H. A. Molecular Additives Improve the Selectivity of CO2 Photoelectrochemical Reduction over Gold Nanoparticles on Gallium Nitride. Nano Letters. 2024, 24 (4), 1090-1095.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03590

Yang, M. Y.; O’Mari, O.; Goddard, W. A.; Vullev, V. I. How Permanent Are the Permanent Macrodipoles of Anthranilamide Bioinspired Molecular Electrets? Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10525

Bui, J. C.; Lees, E. W.; Marin, D. H.; Stovall, T. N.; Chen, L.; Kusoglu, A.; Nielander, A. C.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Boettcher, S. W.; Bell, A. T.; Weber, A. Z. Multi-scale physics of bipolar membranes in electrochemical processes. Nature Chemical Engineering. 2024, 1 (1), 45-60.

DOI: 10.1038/s44286-023-00009-x

2023

Musgrave, C. B.; Li, Y.; Luo, Z.; Goddard, W. A. Dual atom catalysts for rapid electrochemical reduction of CO to ethylene. Nano Energy. 2023, 118, 108966.

DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.108966

Wei, W. J.; King, A. J.; Bui, J. C.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T. Co-Design of Multijunction Photoelectrochemical Devices for Unassisted CO2 Reduction to Multicarbon Products. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 2023, 170, 126502.

DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ad10e7

Atwater, H. A. Artificial photosynthesis: A pathway to solar fuels. Physics Today. 2023, 76 (12), 32-39.

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.5360

Kan, K.; Guevarra, D.; Zhou, L.; Jones, R. J. R.; Lai, Y.; Richter, M.; Gregoire, J. M. Accelerated Characterization of Electrode‐Electrolyte Equilibration. ChemCatChem. 2023, e202301300.

DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202301300

Zhou, L.; Shinde, A.; Chang, M.; Bruce Van Dover, R.; Thompson, M. O.; Gregoire, J. M. High throughput identification of complex rutile alloys for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2023, 11 (46), 25262-25267.

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04899C

Woods-Robinson, R.l.; Persson, K. A.; Zakutayev, A. Stability and synthesis across barium tin sulfide material space. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2023, 11 (45), 24948-24958.

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04431A

Lee, D. U.; Joensen, B.; Jenny, J.; Ehlinger, V. M.; Lee, S.; Abiose, K.; Xu, Y.; Sarkar, A.; Lin, T. Y.; Hahn, C.; Jaramillo, T. F. Controlling Mass Transport in Direct Carbon Dioxide Zero-Gap Electrolyzers via Cell Compression. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2023, 11 (46), 16661-16668.

DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c05494

Liang, J.; Ma, K.; Zhao, X.; Lu, G.; et al. Elucidating the Mechanism of Large Phosphate Molecule Intercalation Through Graphene-Substrate Heterointerfaces. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2023, 15 (40), 47649-47660.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07763

Osella, S.; Goddard Iii, W. A.CO2 Reduction to Methane and Ethylene on a Single-Atom Catalyst: A Grand Canonical Quantum Mechanics Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023, 145 (39), 21319-21329.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05650

Guevarra, D.; Kan, K.; Lai, Y.; Jones, R. J. R.; Zhou, L.; Donnelly, P.; Richter, M.; Stein, H. S.; Gregoire, J. M. Orchestrating nimble experiments across interconnected labs. Digital Discovery. 2023, 2 (6), 1806-1812.

DOI: 10.1039/D3DD00166K

Cherrette, V. L.; Babbe, F.; Cooper, J. K.; Zhang, J. Z. Octahedral Distortions Generate a Thermally Activated Phonon-Assisted Radiative Recombination Pathway in Cubic CsPbBr3 Perovskite Quantum Dots. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2023, 14 (39), 8717-8725.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02568

Zhou, B.; Ma, Y.; Ou, P.; Ye, Z.; et al. Light-driven synthesis of C2H6 from CO2 and H2O on a bimetallic AuIr composite supported on InGaN nanowires. Nature Catalysis. 2023.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-023-01023-1

Bui, J. C.; Lucas, É.; Lees, E. W.; Liu, A. K.; Atwater, H. A.; Xiang, C.; Bell, A. T.; Weber, A. Z. Analysis of bipolar membranes for electrochemical CO2 capture from air and oceanwater. Energy & Environmental Science. 2023, 16 (11), 5076-5095.

DOI: 10.1039/D3EE01606D

Sun, Q.; Oliveira, N. J.; Kwon, S.; Tyukhtenko, S.; et al. Understanding hydrogen electrocatalysis by probing the hydrogen-bond network of water at the electrified Pt–solution interface. Nature Energy. 2023, 8 (8), 859-869.

DOI: 10.1038/s41560-023-01302-y

Su, J.; Musgrave, C. B.; Song, Y.; Huang, L.; Liu, Y.; Li, G.; Xin, Y.; Xiong, P.; Li, Molly M.; Wu, H.; Zhu, M.; Chen, H. M.; Zhang, J.; Shen, H.; Tang, Ben Z.; Robert, M.; Goddard, W. A.; Ye, R. Strain enhances the activity of molecular electrocatalysts via carbon nanotube supports. Nature Catalysis. 2023.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-023-01005-3

Bonchio, M.; Bonin, J.; Ishitani, O.; Lu, T.; Morikawa, T.; Morris, A. J.; Reisner, E.; Sarkar, D.; Toma, F. M.; Robert, M. Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Nature Catalysis. 2023, 6 (8), 657-665.

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-023-00992-7

Rome, G. A.; Intia, F.; Klein, T. R.; Schichtl, Z. G.; Tamboli, A. C.; Warren, E. L.; Greenaway, A. L. Transparent Conductive Encapsulants for Photoelectrochemical Applications. ChemElectroChem. 2023.

DOI: 10.1002/celc.202300209

Qiao, Y.; Kastlunger, G.; Davis, R. C.; Rodriguez, C. A. G.; Vishart, A.; Deng, W.; Xu, Q.; Li, S.; Benedek, P.; Chen, J.; Schröder, J.; Perryman, J.; Lee, D.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Chorkendorff, I.; Seger, B. Mechanistic Insights into Aldehyde Production from Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on CuAg Alloy via Operando X-ray Measurements. ACS Catalysis. 2023, 13 (14), 9379-9391.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01009

Statt, M. J.; Rohr, B. A.; Brown, K.; Guevarra, D.; Hummelshøj, J.; Hung, L.; Anapolsky, A.; Gregoire, J. M.; Suram, S. K. ESAMP: event-sourced architecture for materials provenance management and application to accelerated materials discovery. Digital Discovery. 2023, 2 (4), 1078-1088.

DOI: 10.1039/D3DD00054K

Qiao, Yu; Kastlunger, Georg; Davis, Ryan C.; et al. Mechanistic Insights into Aldehyde Production from Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on CuAg Alloy via Operando X-ray Measurements. ACS Catalysis. 2023, 13 (14), 9379-9391.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01009

Horio, M.; Sumi, T.; Bullock, J.; Hirata, Y.; et al. Detecting driving potentials at the buried SiO2 nanolayers in solar cells by chemical-selective nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 2023, 123 (3), 31602.

DOI: 10.1063/5.0156171

Xu, Y.; Zheng, M.; Musgrave, C. B.; Zhang, L.; Goddard, W. A.; Bukowski, B. C.; Liu, Y. Assessing the Kinetics of Quinone–CO2 Adduct Formation for Electrochemically Mediated Carbon Capture. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2023, 11 (30), 11333-11341.

DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c03321

Li, S.; Kwon, S.; Goddard, W. A.; Houle, F. A. A stochastic description of pH within nanoscopic water pools. Cell Reports Physical Science. 2023, 4 (6), 101458.

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101458

Yap, K. M. K.; Lee, S.; Steiner, M. A.; Avilés Acosta, J. E.; Kang, D.; Kim, D.; Warren, E. L.; Nielander, A. C.; Jaramillo, T. F. A framework for understanding efficient diurnal CO2 reduction using Si and GaAs photocathodes. Chem Catalysis. 2023, 3 (6), 100641.

DOI: 10.1016/j.checat.2023.100641

Avilés Acosta, J. E.; Lin, J. C.; Un Lee, D.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Hahn, C. Electrochemical Flow Reactor Design Allows Tunable Mass Transport Conditions for Operando Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy. ChemCatChem. 2023.

DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202300520

Lin, J.; Roh, I.; Yang, P. Photochemical Diodes for Simultaneous Bias-Free Glycerol Valorization and Hydrogen Evolution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c01982

Soobrian, B.; King, A. J.; Bui, J. C.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T.; Houle, F. A. Toward a Diverse Next-Generation Energy Workforce: Teaching Artificial Photosynthesis and Electrochemistry in Elementary Schools through Active Learning. J. Chem. Educ. 2023.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00085

Jung, H.; Kim, C.; Yoo, H.; You, J.; Kim, J. S.; Jamal, A.; Gereige, I.; Ager, J. W.; Jung, H. Continuous-flow reactor with superior production rate and stability for CO2 reduction using semiconductor photocatalysts. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16 (7), 2869-2878.

DOI: 10.1039/D3EE00507K

Corpus, K. M.; Bui, J. C.; Limaye, A. M.; Pant, L. M.; Manthiram, K.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T. Coupling covariance matrix adaptation with continuum modeling for determination of kinetic parameters associated with electrochemical CO2 reduction. Joule. 2023.

DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.05.007

Dolmanan, S. B.; Böhme, A.; Fan, Z.; King, A. J.; Fenwick, A. Q.; Handoko, A. D.; Leow, W. R.; Weber, A. Z.; Ma, X.; Khoo, E.; Atwater, H. A.; Lum, Y. Local microenvironment tuning induces switching between electrochemical CO2 reduction pathways. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2023, 11 (25), 13493-13501.

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA02558F

Kim, Chanyeon; King, Alex J.; Aloni, Shaul; Toma, Francesca M.; Weber, Adam Z.; Bell, Alexis T. Codesign of an integrated metal–insulator–semiconductor photocathode for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to ethylene. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023.

DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03525A

Prabhakar, R. R.; Lemerle, R.; Barecka, M.; Kim, M.; Seo, S.; Dayi, E.N.; Dei Tos, I.; Ager, J. W. TaOx electron transport layers for CO2 reduction Si photocathodes. J. Mater. Chem. A. 2023.

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA01028G

King, A. J.; Weber, A. Z.; Bell, A. T. Theory and Simulation of Metal–Insulator–Semiconductor (MIS) Photoelectrodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2023, 15 (19), 23024-23039.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c21114

Epstein, A. R.; Spotte-Smith, E. W. C.; Venetos, M. C.; Andriuc, O.; Persson, K. A. Assessing the Accuracy of Density Functional Approximations for Predicting Hydrolysis Reaction Kinetics. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00176

Zhang, H.; Cheng, D.; Xiang, C.; Lin, M. Tuning the Interfacial Electrical Field of Bipolar Membranes with Temperature and Electrolyte Concentration for Enhanced Water Dissociation. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2023, 11 (21), 8044–8054.

DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c00142

Houle, F. A.; Yano, J.; Ager, J. W. Hurry Up and Wait: Managing the Inherent Mismatches in Time Scales in Natural and Artificial Photosynthetic Systems. ACS Catalysis. 2023, 12 (11), 7139-7158.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c00355

Musgrave, C. B.; Olsen, K.; Liebov, N. S.; Groves, J. T.; Goddard, W. A.; Gunnoe, T. B. Partial Oxidation of Methane Enabled by Decatungstate Photocatalysis Coupled to Free Radical Chemistry. ACS Catalysis. 2023, 13 (9), 6382-6395.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c00750

Watkins, N. B.; Schiffer, Z. J.; Lai, Y.; Musgrave, C. B.; Atwater, H. A.; Goddard, W. A.; Agapie, T.; Peters, J. C.; Gregoire, J. M. Hydrodynamics Change Tafel Slopes in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper. ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8, 2185-2192.

DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00442

Statt, M. J.; Rohr, B. A.; Guevarra, D.; Suram, S. K.; Morrell, T. E.; Gregoire, J. M. The Materials Provenance Store. Scientific Data. 2023, 10 (1), 184.

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02107-0

Zhu, K.; Naserifar, S.; Goddard, W. A.; Su, H. Topology induced crossover between Langevin, subdiffusion, and Brownian diffusion regimes in supercooled water. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023, 25 (15), 10353-10366.

DOI: 10.1039/D2CP04645H

Utterback, J. K.; King, A. J.; Belman-Wells, L.; Larson, D. M.; Hamerlynck, L. M.; Weber, A. Z.; Ginsberg, N. S. Operando Label-Free Optical Imaging of Solution-Phase Ion Transport and Electrochemistry. ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 8 (3), 1785-1792.

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