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Spaller, W., Lu J., and Stokes B., "Tetrahydroxydiboron‐Mediated Palladium‐Catalyzed Deoxygenative Transfer Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones" Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, DOI:10.1002/adsc.202200482, 2022.

Liu, Q., Zhou, H., Nichols, F., Kuo, H., Mercado, R., Lu, B., Zhu, W., Liu, Y., Lu, J. Bridges F., Chen, S., “Oxygen reduction reaction catalyzed by carbon composites with ruthenium-doped iron oxide nanoparticles” Materials Advances, DOI:10.1039/D2MA00054G, (2022).

Hu, X., Yang, Q., Ye, T., Martini, A. M., Simulation of Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements of Hydrophilic Self-Assembled Monolayers in Water., Langmuir, 36, 2240−2246, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03655, 2021.

Karkee R and Strubbe A. D, Panoply of doping-induced reconstructions and electronic phases in Ni-doped 1T-MoS2, Materials Science, arXiv:2107.07541, 2021.

Khajeh A, Bhuiyan FH, Mogonye J-E, Pesce-Rodriguez RA, Berkebile S and Martini A, "Thermal Decomposition of Tricresyl Phosphate on Ferrous Surfaces", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 5076. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10789, 2021.

Rodriguez, A., Jaman, M.S., Acikgoz, O., Wang, B., Yu, J., Grutzmacher, P.G., Rosenkranz, A., Baykara, M.Z., The Potential of Ti3C2TX Nano-sheets (MXenes) for Nanoscale Solid Lubrication Revealed by Friction Force Microscopy, Applied Surface Science 535, 147664, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147664, 2021.

​Acerce, M., Chiovoloni, S., Hernandez, Y., Ortuno, C., Qian, J., Lu, J., "Poly(1,5-diaminonaphthalene)-Grafted Monolithic 3D Hierarchical Carbon as Highly Capacitive and Stable Supercapacitor Electrodes", Applied Materials and Interfaces, 53301-54620, (2021).

Leveille, M., Shen, X., Fu, W., Jin, K., Acerce M., Wang, C., Bustamante, J., Casas, A., Feng, Y., Ge, N., Hirst, L., Ghosh, S., Lu, J. "Directional, Low-Energy Driven Thermal Actuating Bilayer Enabled by Coordinated Submolecular Switching", Advanced Science, 202102077, (2021).

Vellore, A., Romero Garcia, S., Johnson, D. A., and Martini, A., "Ambient and Nitrogen Environment Friction Data for Various Materials & Surface Treatments for Space Applications", Tribology Letters 69, 10 (2021).

Guerrero, E., Karkee, R., and Strubbe, D. A., “Phase stability and Raman/IR signatures of Ni-doped MoS2from DFT studies,” J. Phys. Chem., C 125, 13401−13412 (2021).

Karkee, R., Guerrero, E., and Strubbe, D. A., “Enhanced interlayer interactions in Ni-doped MoS2, and structural and electronic signatures of doping site,” Phys. Rev. Materials, 074006 (2021).

Macedo Andrade, A., Liu, Z., Grewal, S., Nelson, A. J., Nasef, Z., Diaz, G., Lee, M. H., "MOF-derived Co/Cu-embedded N-doped Carbon for Trifunctional ORR/OER/HER Catalysis in Alkaline Media," Dalton Transactions, 50, 5473-5482, (2021).

Mendewala, B., Vickers, E. T., Nikolaidou, K., DiBenedetto, A., Delmas, W. G., Zhang, J. Z., and Ghosh, S., “High Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrator based on Organo-metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots with Plasmon Enhancement,” Advanced Optical Materials, in press (2021).

Lin, D., Rao, D., Chiovoloni, S., Wang, S., Lu, J., Li, Y., "Prototypical Study of Double-layered Cathodes for Aqueous Rechargeable Static Zn-I2 Batteries", Nano Letters, 2021.

Yao, B., Peng, H., Zhang, H., Kang, J., Zhu, C., Delgado, G., Byrne, D., Faulkner, S., Freyman, M., Lu, X., Worsley, M., Lu, J., Li, Y., "Printing Porous Carbon Aerogels for Low Temperature Supercapacitors.", Nano Letters, 2021.

Cao, H. H., Abel, G. R., Gu, Q., Gueorguieva, G.-A. V., Zhang, Y., Nanney, W. A., … Ye, T., Seeding the Self-Assembly of DNA Origamis at Surfaces. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 5, 5203–5212, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b09348, 2020.

Hu, X., Yang, Q., Ye, T., & Martini, A., Simulation of Subnanometer Contrast in Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy of Hydrophilic Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers in Water. Langmuir, 36(9), 2240–2246., DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03655, 2020.

Kou, T., Chen, M., Wu, F., Smart, T. J., Wang, S., Wu, Y., … Li, Y. (2020). Carbon doping switching on the hydrogen adsorption activity of NiO for hydrogen evolution reaction. Nat Commun. 30; 11(1):590, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14462-2, 2020.

Vickers, E. T., Xu, K., Li, X., & Zhang, J. Z., Dependence of stability and electronic and optical properties of perovskite quantum dots on capping ligand chain length. J. Chem. Phys. 152, 034701, DOI: 10.1063/1.5133803, 2020.

Xu, K., Vickers, E. T., Luo, B., Allen, A. L. C., Chen, E., Roseman, G., … Zhang, J. Z. (2020)., First Synthesis of Mn-Doped Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Magic Sized Clusters at Room Temperature. J Phys Chem Lett., 11(3): 1162–1169., DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03700, 2020.

Yang, Q., Nanney, W., Hu, X., Ye, T., Martini, A. M. 2020 Nanoscale Friction of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Self-Assembled Monolayers in Water, Tribology Letters, 68:(2),63, 1-9., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-020-01301-0, 2020.

Vickers T. E, Enlow E. E, Delmas G. W, DiBenedetto C. A, Chowdhury H. A, Bahrami B, Dreskin W. B, Graham A. T, Hernandez N. I, Carter A. S, Ghosh S, Qiao Q, Zhang Z. J, Enhancing Charge Carrier Delocalization in Perovskite Quantum Dot Solids with Energetically Aligned Conjugated Capping Ligands, ACS Energy Lett. 2020, 5, 3, 817–825, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00093, 2020.

Yi-Hsuan Chiu, Sarah A. Lindley, Chun-Wen Tsao, Ming-Yu Kuo, Jason K. Cooper, Yung-Jung Hsu, Jin Z. Zhang, “Hollow Au Nanosphere-Cu2O Core-Shell Nanostructures with Controllable Core Surface Morphology”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 21, 11333–11339, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02214, 2020.

O.E. Dagdeviren, O. Acikgoz, P. Grütter, M.Z. Baykara, Direct Imaging, Three-dimensional Interaction Spectroscopy, and Friction Anisotropy of Atomic-scale Ripples on MoS2, npj 2D Materials and Applications volume 4, Article number: 30, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-020-00164-2, 2020.

M. Medina, A. Rodriguez, O. Acikgoz, C.S. Meduri, G. Kumar, M.Z. Baykara, Comparative Tribological Properties of Pd-, Pt-, and Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glasses, Lubricants, 8, 85, DOI: 10.3390/lubricants8090085, 2020.

W. Fu, T. M. Alam, J. Li, J. Bustamante, R. W. Adams, S. J. Teat, W. Yang, Y. Liu, J. Q. Lu, “Arene Substitution Design for Controlled Conformational Changes of Dibenzocycloocta-1,5-dienes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 39, 16651–16660, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c06579, 2020.

Karkee, R., Guerrero, E., and Strubbe, D. A., Structural studies of Ni-doped MoS2 monolayers and polytypes using density functional theory, Applied Surface Science Volume 469, 1 March 2019, Pages 292-297, 2020.

Acikgoz, O., Yanilmaz, A., Dagdeviren, O. E., Çelebi, C., and Baykara, M. Z., Inverse Layer Dependence of Friction on Chemically Doped MoS2, arXiv:2007.05805, 2020.

Gu, Q., Cao, H., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., Petrek, Z., Shi, F., Josephs, E., Ye, T., "Toward a Quantitative Relationship between Nanoscale Spatial Organization and Hybridization Kinetics of Surface Immobilized Hairpin DNA Probes.", American Chemical Society, 2020.

Kou, T., Wang, S., Shi, R., Zhang, T., Chiovoloni, S., Lu, J. Q., Chen, W., Worsley, M. A., Wood, B. C., Baker, S. E., Duoss, E. B., Wu, R., Zhu, C., Li, Y., "Water Splitting: Periodic Porous 3D Electrodes Mitigate Gas Bubble Traffic during Alkaline Water Electrolysis at High Current Densities" Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 2002955. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202070189.

Gueorguieva, P., Ghosh, S., Martini, A., Lu, J., “MACES Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program: Integrating Research and Education.”, Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020.

Mercado, R., Wahl, C., En Lu, J., Zhang, T., Lu, B., Zhang, P., Lu, J.Q., Allen, A., Zhang, J.Z. and Chen, S., "Nitrogen‐Doped Porous Carbon Cages for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Oxygen: Enhanced Performance with Iron and Cobalt Dual Metal Centers.", ChemCatChem. doi:10.1002/cctc.201902324, (2020).

Acikgoz, O., Baykara, M.Z., "Speed Dependence of Friction on Single-Layer and Bulk MoS2 Measured by Atomic Force Microscopy.", Applied Physics Letters 116, 071603 (2020).

Riahinasab, S.T., Keshavarz, A., Melton, C.N., Elbaradei, A.,Warren, G.I., Selinger, R.L.B., Stokes, B.J., Hirst, L.S., "Nanoparticle-Based Hollow Microstructures Formed by Two-Stage Nematic Nucleation and Phase Separation.", Nature Communication, Accepted, (2019).

Rao, L., Tang, Y., Song, C., Xu, K., Vickers, E. T., Bonabi Naghadeh, S., Xinrui, D., Li, Z., Zhang, J. Z., “Polar-Solvent-Free Synthesis of Highly Photoluminescent and Stable CsPbBr3Nanocrystals with Controlled Shape and Size by Ultrasonication.” Chem. Mater., 31, 2, 365-375, (2019).

Xu, K., Vickers, E. T., Rao, L., Lindley, S. A., Allen, A. C., Luo, B., Li, X., Zhang, J., “Synergistic Surface Passivation of CH3NH3PbBr3Perovskite Quantum Dots with Phosphonic Acid and (3‐Aminopropyl) Triethoxysilane.” Chem. Eur. J. 10.1002/chem.201805656, (2019).

Naghadeh, S.B., Luo, B., Schwartz, Z., Holingsworth, W., Lindley, S., Brewer, A., Ayzner, A., Zhang, J., “Size Dependence of Charge Carrier Dynamic in Organometal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Deciphering the Radiative vs Non-radiative Components.” J. Phys. Chem. C2, Just Accepted, (2019).

Yao, B., Zhang, J., Fan, X., He, J., Li, Y., “Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.”, Small, 15, 1803746, (2019).

Lindley, S.A., Zhang, J.Z., “Bumpy Hollow Gold Nanospheres for Theranostic Applications: Effect of Surface Morphology on Photothermal Conversion Efficiency.” ACS Applied Nano Materials, S-1, pp 1072–1081 (2019).

Nikolaidou, K., Sarang, S., Ghosh, S., “Nanostructured Photovotaics. accepted, NanoFutures.”, IOP science, Invited Review, (2019).

Talit, K., and Strubbe, D., “Stress effects on Raman spectroscopy of cubic hybrid perovskite: A probe of local strain,” submitted to J. Phys. Chem. C (2019), arXiV:1907.03673

Guerrero, E., and Strubbe, D., “Structural changes and void generation in low-density amorphous silicon: a computational study,” submitted to Phys. Rev. Mater. (2019), arXiv:1907.01327

Vellore, A., Walters, N., and Martini, A., (2019) "Grease Lubrication of Self-Mated 60NiTiBearing Materials", Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 5, 13. DOI:10.3389/fmech.2019.00013.

Vazirisereshk, R., Martini, A., Strubbe, A., and Baykara, M.Z., (2019), "Solid Lubrication withMoS2: A Review", Lubricants, 7, 57. DOI: 10.3390/lubricants7070057

Mendewala, B., Nikolaidou, K., Sarang, S., Hoffman, C., Lu, Q. J., Ilan, B., and Ghosh, S., “Thepotential of scalability in high efficiency hybrid perovskite thin film luminescent solar concentrators”, Solar Energy 183, 392-397 2019.

Zhang, J. Z., “A “Cocktail” Approach to Effective Surface Passivation of Multiple Surface Defects of Metal Halide Perovskites Using a Combination of Ligands”, JPCL (invited perspective), in press, 2019.

Yao, B., Li, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Song, Y., Xiao, W., … Li, Y., TiN Paper for Ultrafast-Charging Supercapacitors. Nano-Micro Letters, 12(1)., DOI: 10.1007/s40820-019-0340-7, 2019.

Vickers, E. T., Xu, K., Dreskin, B. W., Graham, T. A., Li, X., Zhang, J. Z., “Ligand Dependent Growth and Optical Properties of Hybrid Organo-Metal Halide Perovskite Magic Sized Clusters”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 18746-18752.

Xu, K., Allen, A. C., Luo, B., Vickers, E. T., Wang, Q., Hollingsworth, W. R., Ayzner, A. L., Li, X.,Zhang, J. Z., “Tuning from Quantum Dots to Magic Sized Clusters of Cs PbBr3 Using Novel Planar Ligands Based on the Trivalent Nitrate Coordination Complex”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 4409-4416.

Li, M., Liu, T., Yang, Y., Qiu, W., Liang, C., Tong, Y. and Li, Y., “Zipping Up NiFe(OH)xEncapsulated Hematite to Achieve an Ultralow Turn-On Potential for Water Oxidation, ACS Energy Lett”, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01430, 2019.

Tang, C., Sun, B., Li, M., Zhang, J., Fan, X., Gao, F., Tong, Y., Dong, L., and Li, Y., “Surface Hydroxylated Hematite Promotes Photoinduced Hole Transfer for Water Oxidation, J. Mater”, Chem. A, 7, 8050-8054 (2019)

Peng, H., Yao, B., Wei, X., Liu, T., Kou, T., Xiao, P., Zhang, Y., and Li, Y., “Pore and Heteroatom Engineered Carbon Foams for Supercapacitors, Adv. Energy Mater”, 1803665 (2019)

Adams, S. A., Bonabi, S., Allen, A. L. C., Roseman, G., Ramirez, A. P., Millhauser, G., Zhang, J. Z. “The Effect of Polymer and Gold Functionalization on the Magnetic Properties of Magnetite Nanoparticles” Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging, 2018.

Adams, S. A., Hauser, J. L., Allen, A. L. C., Lindquist, K. P., Ramirez, A. P., Oliver, S., Zhang, J. Z. “Magnetic and Plasmonic Properties of Gold Nanoparticle Decorated Magnetite Particles Functionalized with Silica and Poly (vinyl pyrrolidone)” ACS Applied Nano Materials 2018, 1 (3), 1406–1412.

Allen, A., Romero-Mangado, J., Adams, S., Flynn, M., Chen, B., Zhang, J.Z. "Detection of Saturated Fatty Acids Associated with a Self-Healing Synthetic Biological Membrane Using Fiber-Enhanced Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering" The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2018.

Bonabi Naghadeh, S., Luo, B., Abdelmageed, G., Pu, Y.-C., Zhang, C., Zhang, J. Z., “Photophysical Properties and Improved Stability of Organic-inorganic Perovskite by Surface PassivationJ”. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122(28), 15799-15818

Grewal, S., Macedo Andrade, A., Nelson, A., Thai, K., Karimaghaloo, A., Lee, E. and Lee, M. H., “Critical impact of graphene functionalization for transition metal oxide/graphene hybrids on oxygen reduction reaction", J Phys Chem C 122, 10017- 10026, (2018), published, doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b01893

Gu, Q., Nanney, W., Cao, H. H., Ye, T., “Single Molecule Profiling of Molecular Recognition at a Model Electrochemical Biosensor.” J. of Amer. Chem. Soc. 140, 14134-14143 (2018).

Hu, X., Nanney, W., Ye, T., Martini, A. “Amplitude Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy of Self-Assembled Monolayers in Water”. Langmuir, Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01609, 2018.

Huang, Y. H., Shen, X. Y., Z. Wang, J.K., Lu, J., Wang, C. C., “Zero Thermal Expansion Polyarylamide Film with Reversible Conformational Change Structure.”, Macromolecules, 51(21), 8477-8485, (2018).

Kou T., Smart T., Yao B., Chen I., Thota D., Ping Y., Li Y. “Theoretical and Experimental Insight into the Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Ni3S2 in Alkaline Medium”, Adv. Energy Mater., 1703538 (2018)

Lindley, S. A., Cooper, J. K., Rojas-Andrade, M. D., Fung, V., Leahy, C. J.; Chen, S.; Zhang, J. Z. “The Formation Mechanism of Highly Tunable Hollow Gold Nanospheres: Gaining Size Control and Uniform Galvanic Exchange of Sacrificial Cobalt Boride Scaffolds” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10 (15), 12992–13001.

Liu, T., Kou, T., Bulmahn, D., Ortuno-Quintana, C., Liu, G., Lu, J., Li, Y. “Tuning the Electrochemical Properties of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Aerogels in a Blend of Ammonia/Nitrogen Gases.”, ACS Applied Energy Materials,1,5043-5053, 2018.

Nikolaidou, K., Sarang, S., Martin, D., Tung, V., Lu, J.Q., Ghosh, S. “Tuning excitonic properties of pure and mixed halide perovskite thin films via interfacial engineering.” Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1800209, 2018.

Ping, Y., Zhang, J. Z., “Spin-optotronic Properties of Organo-metal Halide Perovskites.”, JPCL (invited Perspective), 9, 6103–6111, (2018).

Pu, Y.C., Ma, H., Sajben, N., Xia, G., Zhang, J., Zhang, J. Z. “Dependence of Interfacial Charge Transfer on Bifunctional Aromatic Molecular Linkers in CdSe Quantum Dot Sensitized TiO2 Photoelectrodes.” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2018, 1(6), 2907-2917.

Song Y., Liu T., Li M., Yao B., Kou T., Feng D., Wang F., Tong Y., Liu X. X., Li Y. “Engineering of Mesoscale Pores in Balancing Mass Loading and Rate Capability of Hematite Films for Electrochemical Capacitors”, Adv. Energy Mater., 1801784 (2018)

Vickers, E. T., Graham, T. A., Chowdhury, A. H., Bahrami, B., Dreskin, B. W., Lindley, S., Naghadeh, S.B., Qiao, Q., Zhang, J. Z., “Improving Charge Carrier Delocalization of Perovskite Quantum Dots by Surface Passivation with Conductive Aromatic Ligands.” ACS Energy Lett. 3, 2931-2939. (2018).

Wang, H., Li, C., Fang, P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, J. Z., “Synthesis, properties, and optoelectronic applications of two-dimensional MoS2 and MoS2-based heterostructures.” Chem. Soc. Rev., 47, 6101-6127, DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00314a, 2018.

Yi P., Wanzhang P., Nan W., Jia-En Lu., Shaowei C., “Ruthenium Ion-Complexed Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets Supported on Reduced Graphene Oxide as High-Performance Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution”, ChemSusChem, 17, 130-136 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701880, 2018.

Abdelmageed, G., Mackeen, C., Hellier, K., Jewell, L., Seymour, L., Tingwald, M., Bridges, F., Zhang, J. Z., Carter, S.; “Effect of Temperature on Light Induced Degradation in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Thin Films and Solar Cells,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume 174, January 2018, Pages 566-571, 2017.

Hao, X., Josephs, E. A., Gu, Q., Ye, T.; “Molecular conformations of DNA targets captured by model nanoarrays,” Nanoscale, 9(36), 13419-13424, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR04715K, 2017.

Galloway, J. D., Mai, D. N., Baxter, R. D.; “Silver-Catalyzed Minisci Reactions Using Selectfluor as a Mild Oxidant,” Org. Lett., 19, 21, 5772–5775, DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02706, 2017.

Liu, T., Zhang, F., Song, Y., Li, Y.; “Revitalizing Carbon Supercapacitor Electrodes with Hierarchical Porous Structures,” J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 17705-17733, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA05646J, 2017.

Kou, T., Yao, B., Liu, T., Li, Y.; “Recent Advances in Chemical Methods for Activating Carbon and Metal Oxide Based Electrodes for Supercapacitors,” J. Mater. Chem, A, 5, 17151-17173, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TA05003H, 2017.

Song, Y., Liu, T., Yao, B., Li, M., Kou, T., Huang, Z., Feng, D., Wang, F., Tong, Y., Liu, X., Li, Y.; “Ostwald Ripening Improves Rate Capability of High Mass Loading Manganese Oxide for Supercapacitors,” ACS Energy Lett., 2, 1752-1759, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00405, 2017.

Chen, Y.C., Lu, A., Lu, P., Yang, X., Jiang, C. M., Mariano, M., Lin O., Taylor, A., Sharp, I. D., Li, L. J., Chou, S. C., Tung, V.; “Structurally Deformed MoS2 for Electrochemically Stable, Thermally Resistant and Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction,” Adv.Mater., 29, 1703863, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703863, 2017.

Binbin Luo, Sara Bonabi Naghadeh, Jin Z. Zhang, “Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Stability, Surface Passivation, and Structural Control”, Chem. Sus. Chem, invited Focus Review,in press, 2017.

Jee, Y., Karimaghaloo, A., Macedo Andrade, A., Moon, H., Li, Y., Han, J.-W., Ishihara, H., Su, P.-C., Tung, V.C., and Lee, M. H., “Graphene-based oxygen reduction electrodes for low temperature solid oxide fuel cells”, Fuel Cells, DOI: 10.1002/fuce.201600169, 2017.

Zhang F., Liu T., Li M., Yu M., Yang L., Tong Y., Li Y. “Multi-scale Pore Network Boosts Capacitance of Carbon Electrodes for Ultrafast Charging”, Nano Letters, Nano Lett., 17 (5), 3097–3104, 2017.

Khurana, S., Johnson, S., Karimaghaloo, A., Lee, M. H., “Effect of sintering process with CoO on the performance of LSCF-based cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells", International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing - Green Technology, 2017.

Sarang, S., Bonabi, S., Luo, B., Kumar, P., Betady, E., Tung, V., Scheibner, M., Zhang, J., Ghosh, S., "Stabilization of Cubic Crystalline Phase in Organo-Metal Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots via Surface Energy Manipulation" J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 5378–5384 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02399, 2017.

Karimaghaloo, A., Macedo Andrade, A., Grewal, S., Shim, J. H., Lee, M. H., “Mechanism of cathodic performance enhancement by a few-nanometer-thick oxide overcoat on porous Pt cathodes of solid oxide fuel cells,” ACS Omega, 2(3), 806-813, 2017.

Luo, B., Naghadeh, S. B., Zhang, J. Z., “Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Stability, Surface Passivation, and Structural Control,” Chem. Sus. Chem, Focus Review, 3(7), 456 –465, 2017.

Ishihara, H., Chen, W., Chen, Y, Sarang, S., DeMarco, N., Lin, O., Ghosh, S., Tung, V., "Electrohydrodynamically Assisted Deposition of Efficient Perovskite Photovoltaics," Advanced Materials Interfaces, 3(9), DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500762, 2016.

Ishihara, H., Sarang, S., Chen, Y., Lin, O., Phummirat, P., Thung, L., Hernandez, J., Ghosh, S., Tung, V., "Nature Inspiring Processing Route Toward High Throughput Production of Perovskite Photovoltaics," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 6989-6997, 2016.

Shen, S., Lindley, S. A., Chen, X., Zhang, J. Z., "Hematite Heterostructures for Improved Photoelectrochemical (PEC) Solar Water Splitting: Rational Materials Design and Charge Carrier Dynamics," Energy & Environmental Science, 9, 2744-2775, 2016.

Luo, B., Pu, Y., Lindley, S. A., Yang, Y., Lu, L., Li, Y., Li, X., Zhang, J. Z., "Organolead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Branched Capping Ligands Control Crystal Size and Stability," Angewandte Chemie, 55(31), 8864-8868, 2016.

Abel, Jr, G. R., Calabrese, Z. A., Ayco, J., Hein, J. E., Ye, T., "Measuring and Suppressing the Oxidative Damage to DNA during Cu (I)-Catalyzed Azide–Alkyne Cycloaddition," Bioconjugate Chemistry, 27(3), 698-704, 2016.

Yuze, Z., Flores, J. F., Shao, Y., Guo, J., Chuang, Y., Lu, J. Q., "Reproducibly Creating Hierarchical 3D Carbon to Study the Effect of Si Surface Functionalization on Oxygen Reduction Reaction," Nanoscale, 8(22), 11617-11624, 2016.

Shen, X., Connolly, T., Huang, Y., Colvin, M., Wang, C., Lu, J. Q., "Adjusting Local Molecular Environment for Giant Ambient Thermal Contraction," Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 37(23), 1904-1911, 2016.

Nikolaidou, K., Sarang, S., Hoffman, C., Mendewala, B., Ishihara, H., Lu, J. Q., Ilan, B., Tung, V., Ghosh, S., "Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films as Highly Efficient Luminescent Solar Concentrators," Advanced Optical Materials, 4(12), 2126-2132, 2016.

Abdelmageed, G., Jewell, L., Hellier, K., Seymour, L., Luo, B., Bridges, F., Zhang, J. Z., Carter, S., "Mechanisms for Light Induced Degradation in MAPbI3 Perovskite Thin Films and Solar Cells," Applied Physics Letters, 109(23), DOI: 10.1063/1.4967840, 2016.

Ishihara, H., Chen, Y., De Marco, N., Lin, O., Huang, C., Limsakoune, V., Chou, Y. C., Yang, Y., Tung, V., “Electrohydrodynamic-assisted Assembly of Hierarchically Structured, 3D Crumpled scastructures for Efficient Solar Conversions,” Scientific Reports, 6, 38701, 2016.

Kresse, K. M., Xu, M., Pazzi, J., García-Ojeda, M., Subramaniam, A. B., “Novel Application of Cellulose Paper as a Platform for the Macromolecular Self-Assembly of Biomimetic Giant Liposomes,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 8(47), 32102–32107, 2016.

Amaral, J. J., Betady, E., Quint, M. T., Martin, D., Riahinasab, S. T., Hirst, L. S., Ghosh, S., “Effect of mesogenic ligands on short and long-term spectral dynamics and stability of core-shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots” Materials Research Express, 3(10), 105029, 2016.

Zhang, J., Pu, Y. C., Song, F., Lindley, S. A., Adams, S., Zhang, J., “Size-Tunable synthesis of hollow gold nanospheres using cobalt nanoparticle scaffolds through control of reaction temperature,” Particles, 1600255, 2016.

Sarang, S., Hidetaka, I., Chen, Y-C., Lin, O., Tung, V.C., Ghosh, S. Photovoltaic and Optical Properties of Perovskite Thin Films Fabricated using Marangoni Flow Assisted Electrospraying. Proc. SPIE 9745, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XVIII, 9745, 974519., DOI:10.1117/12.2213249, 2016.

Ishihara, H., Sarang, S., Chen, Y., Lin, O., Phummirat, P., Thung, L., Hernandez, J., Frank, B., Ghosh, S., Tung, V., Nature Inspiring Processing Route Toward High Throughput Production of Perovskite Photovoltaics. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016,4, 6989-6997, 2015.

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Center Mission

Our research, undergraduate, and graduate training and educational outreach programs are carefully designed to mirror NASA MIRO objectives. Our goals include:

  • Enhancing the scientific environment at UC Merced by recruiting and retaining high-caliber faculty and promising graduate students, as well as building facilities for materials science research facilities.

  • Impacting education at UC Merced and beyond by inspiring and training a new generation of STEM workers in a multidisciplinary materials research environment—particularly underrepresented and underprivileged students.

  • Driving research at UC Merced by promoting innovative and collaborative research in functional nanomaterials for energy and sensing for NASA missions and for needs here on Earth.