Publications

Zeta Potential Measurements of SiO2 and TiO2 Particles in Anionic and Cationic Surfactant Solutions
Oluwaseun I. Salako, Joel Jr. Gonzalez, Andrew G. Cummins, John L. Zambrano, Barbara Lewis, Rebecca Lentz, Patrick O. Aghadiuno, William H. Stinson, Daniel V. Esposito, 2025, Submitted.

Nanoscopic plugs block hydrogen crossover in submicron thick proton-conducting SiO2 membranes for water electrolysis
Jesse S. Dondapati, Lucas A. Cohen, William D. H. Stinson, Jingjing Jin, Sampada S. Mahajana, Aidan M. Puma, Acadia K. Hu, Arrelaine A. Dameron, Matthew S. Weimer, Ryan J. Ouimet, Alan C. West, and Daniel V. Esposito, 2025, Submitted.

Exceptionally Long-Lived Charge Separated States in CdS Nanocrystals with a Covalently Bound Phenothiazine Derivative
Sophia M. Click, Madison R. Jilek, Olivia F. Bird, Nathaniel Prugh, Faith A. Flinkingshelt, Yisrael M. L. Lamb, Jenny Y. Yang, Kenneth A. Miller, and Gordana Dukovic, 2025, Submitted.

Electrolyte Immersion Increases Photoconductivity in a Model Polymer Photocathode
William P. Kopcha, Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Casey M. Davis, Jonathon R. Thurston, Eui Hyun Suh, Aniruddha Basu, Zejie Chen, Shane Ardo, Erin L. Ratcliff, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Michael F. Toney, Melissa K. Gish, Andrew J. Ferguson, and Obadiah G. Reid, 2025, Submitted. Collaboration with SPECS EFRC.

Effects of Bilayer Nanoenvironment on the Catalytic Activity of Lipid-Pd Nanoparticle Assemblies in Water
Nicholas Pavlakovich, Young-Seok Shon, and Joe Patterson, 2025, Submitted.

Understanding, and moving beyond, band bending to perform useful work with light: A compendium on photoinduced charge separation
Adam C. Nielander, Matthew R. Shaner, and Shane Ardo, 2024, Submitted. Collaboration with Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA) Hub.

Direct observation of Rh and La dopant positions in SrTiO3 nanoparticles with atomic-scale electron microscopy
Justin T. Mulvey, Pushp Raj Prasad, Zejie Chen, Levi D. Palmer, Bradley W. Layne, Ezra Korican-Barlay, Kenta Watanabe, Mingjie Xu, A. Alec Talin, Xiaoqing Pan, Akihiko Kudo, Scott K. Cushing, Shane Ardo, and Joseph P. Patterson, 2024, Submitted.

Towards Nanoscale and Element-Specific Lattice Temperature Measurements using Core-Loss Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
Levi D. Palmer, Wonseok Lee, Javier Fajardo, Jr., A. Alec Talin, Thomas E. Gage, and Scott K. Cushing, 2024, Submitted. arXiv

Ensembles of optically thin light absorbers can increase theoretical solar-to-fuel efficiencies
Sam Keene, Gabriel S. Phun, Zejie Chen, and Shane Ardo, 2024, Submitted.

2025

(17) Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Energy Transfer Active versus Inactive Nanocrystal/Dye Conjugate Pairs
 Danielle R. Lustig, Enes Buz, Olivia F. Bird, Justin T. Mulvey, Pushp Raj Prasad, Joseph P. Patterson, Gordana Dukovic, Kevin R. Kittilstved, and Justin B. Sambur, ACS Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, 2025, Accepted. DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.5c00009

(16) Models and Measurements Quantify Photon Recycling, Charge-Carrier Diffusion, and Photon Scattering Contributions to Photoluminescence in InP Nanowire Arrays
 Danielle R. Lustig, Fangqi Chen, Wentao Zhang, Olivia F. Bird, Javier Fajardo Jr., Shane Ardo, Shu Hu, Gordana Dukovic, A. Alec Talin, Rohini Bala Chandran, and Justin B. Sambur, J. Phys. Chem. C, , 2024, Accepted. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c01618

(15) Revealing the Influence of Binding Motifs on Electron Transfer and Recombination Kinetics for CdSe Quantum Dots Functionalized with a Modified Viologen
 Olivia F. Bird, Kenneth M. Drbohlav, Evan K. Gowdy, Faith A. Flinkingshelt, Lauren M. Pellows, Benjamin F. Hammel, Bradley W. Layne, Shane Ardo, Jenny Y. Yang, Kenneth A. Miller, and Gordana Dukovic, J. Phys. Chem. C, C: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Nano, Hybrid, and Low-Dimensional Materials, 2025, 129(11), 5556–5570. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c00740

(14) Unequal {110} Facets: The Critical Role of Surface Termination in Determining Photoelectrochemical Activity of Single BiVO4 Particles
 Avishek Banik, Hiroaki Maekawa, Javier Fajardo, Brian Zutter, Francis M. Alcorn, Suhas Kumar, Kenta Watanabe, Akihiko Kudo, Nien-Hui Ge, A. Alec Talin, and Justin B. Sambur, ACS Nano, 2025, 19(6), 6250–6262. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c15460

(13) Synthesis and Characterization of [Ni(H2O)(7-PPh2NArSO3)2]NaBF4 for Light-Driven Quantum Dot-Catalyst Hydrogen Evolution
 Faith A. Flinkingshelt, Sophia M. Click, Hyuna Kwon, Joseph W. Ziller, Tuan Anh Pham, Tadashi Ogitsu, Gordana Dukovic, and Jenny Y. Yang, Energy & Fuels, 2025, 39(4), 2196–2202, Invited article to the special issue: “2025 Pioneers in Energy Research: Prashant Kamat.” DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c05559

2024

(12) Towards Spatial Control of Reaction Selectivity on Model Photocatalysts using Area Selective Atomic Layer Deposition on a Model Dual Site Electrocatalyst Platform
W. Wilson McNeary, William D. H. Stinson, Moaz Waqar, Wenjie Zang, Xiaoqing Pan, Daniel V. Esposito, and Katherine E. Hurst, ACS Nano, 2024, 18(51), 34708-34719. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c10387

(11) Photocatalytic water splitting for large-scale solar-to-chemical energy conversion and storage
Takashi Hisatomi, Qian Wang, Fuxiang Zhang, Shane Ardo, Erwin Reisner, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Akihiko Kudo, Taro Yamada, and Kazunari Domen, Frontiers of Science, 2024, Volume 2. DOI: 10.3389/fsci.2024.1411644

(10) Electronic Topological Transitions in Cadmium at Pressure Studied via Theoretical and Experimental X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
 Jasmine K. Hinton, Daniel Schacher, Wonseok Lee, G. Alexander Smith, Emily Siska, Changyong Park, Paul B. Ellison, Scott K. Cushing, Craig P. Schwartz, Keith V. Lawler, and Ashkan Salamat, Physical Review B, 2024, 110, 205118. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.205118

(9) Confinement Effects on Proton Transfer in TiO2 Nanopores from Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics Simulations
 Hyuna Kwon, Marcos F. Calegari Adrade, Shane Ardo, Daniel V. Esposito, Tuan Anh Pham, and Tadashi Ogitsu, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16(24), 31687–31695. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c02339

(8) Absolute band-edge energies are over-emphasized in the design of photoelectrochemical materials
Aaron J. Kaufman, Adam C. Nielander, Gerald J. Meyer, Stephen Maldonado, Shane Ardo, and Shannon W. Boettcher, Nature Catalysis, 2024, 7, 615-623. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01161-0

(7) Revealing the Role of Redox Reaction Selectivity and Mass Transfer in Current–Voltage Predictions for Ensembles of Photocatalysts
Luisa Barrera, Bradley W. Layne, Zejie Chen, Kenta Watanabe, Akihiko Kudo, Daniel V. Esposito, Shane Ardo, and Rohini Bala Chandran, Energy Environ. Sci., Advance Article, 2024, 17(21), 8254-8273. DOI: 10.1039/D4EE02005G

(6) Probing the Actives Sites of Oxide Encapsulated Electrocatalysts with Controllable Oxygen Evolution Selectivity
William D. H. Stinson, Robert S. Stinson, Jingjing Jin, Zejie Chen, Mingjie Xu, Fikret Aydin, Yinxian Wang, Marco F. Calegari Andrade, Xiaoqing Pan, Tuan Anh Pham, Katherine E. Hurst, Tadashi Ogitsu, Shane Ardo, and Daniel V. Esposito, EES Catalysis, 2024, Volume 2. DOI: 10.1039/D4EY00074A

2023

(5) Characterizing the Ligand Shell Morphology of PEG-Coated ZnO Nanocrystals Using FRET Spectroscopy
Danielle R. Lustig, Enes Buz, Justin T. Mulvey, Joseph P. Patterson, Kevin R. Kittilstved, and Justin B. Sambur, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023, 127(41), 8961‐8973. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c04900

(4) Unveiling the Hidden Influence of Defects via Experiment and Data Science
Justin B. Sambur and Jakoah Brgoch, Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35(18), 7351–7354. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01817

(3) Using electron energy-loss spectroscopy to measure nanoscale electronic and vibrational dynamics in a TEM
Ye-Jin Kim, Levi D. Palmer, Wonseok Lee, Nicholas J. Heller, and Scott K. Cushing, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, 159, 050901. DOI: 10.1063/5.0147356

(2) Single-Particle Measurements Reveal the Origin of Low Solar-to-Hydrogen Efficiency of Rh-Doped SrTiO3 Photocatalysts
Brian Zutter, Zejie Chen, Luisa Barrera, William Gaieck, Aliya S. Lapp, Kenta Watanabe, Akihiko Kudo, Daniel V. Esposito, Rohini Bala Chandran, Shane Ardo, and A. Alec Talin, ACS Nano, 2023, 17(10), 9405‐9414. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01448

(1) Toward Imaging Defect-Mediated Energy Transfer between Single Nanocrystal Donors and Single Molecule Acceptors
Danielle R. Lustig, Zach N. Nilsson, Justin T. Mulvey, Wenjie Zang, Xiaoqing Pan, Joseph P. Patterson, and Justin B. Sambur, Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, 2023, 1(2), 168‐178. DOI: 10.1021/cbmi.3c00015

Patents

Methods for Selectively Depositing Nano- or Microscopic Plugs in Membranes for Electrochemical Appliations
 Daniel V. Esposito, Jesse Dondapati, and Alan West, 2025, Provisional Patent, Columbia University.

Reactor Designs for Photocatalytic O2 Evolution from Water with Integrated Green H2 Compression
 Shane Ardo, Chengxiang Xiang, Daniel V. Esposito, 2024, Provisional Patent 2025-788-1, 12-13-2024, UC Irvine.

Acknowledgements: This material is based upon work performed by Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (DE-SC0023431), which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences Energy Frontier Research.

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