Publications

2025

(20) 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, Accepted, Invited article to the special issue: “2025 Pioneers in Energy Research: Prashant Kamat.” DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c05559

2024

(19) Understanding, and moving beyond, band bending for innovations in semiconductor-based solar energy conversion
Adam C. Nielander and Shane Ardo, 2024, Submitted.

(18) 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.

(17) 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.

(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, A. Alec Talin, Rohini Bala Chandran, and Justin B. Sambur, 2024, Submitted.

(15) 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, 2024, Submitted.

(14) Revealing the Influence of Binding Motifs on Electron Transfer and Recombination Kinetics for CdSe Quantum Dots Functionalized with a Modified Viologen
Olivia Bird, Kenneth Drbohlav, Evan Gowdy, Faith Flinkingshelt, Lauren Pellows, Benjamin Hammel, Bradley Layne, Shane Ardo, Jenny Y. Yang, Kenneth Miller, and Gordana Dukovic, 2024, Submitted.

(13) 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, 2024, Submitted.

(12) 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.

(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, Accepted.

(10) Electronic Topological Transitions in Cadmium at Pressure Studied via Theoretical and Experimental X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Jasmine Hinton, Daniel Schacher, Wonseok Lee, Alexander Smith, Emily Siska, Changyong Park, Paul Ellison, Scott Cushing, Craig Schwartz, Keith 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, Daniel Esposito, Shane Ardo, and Rohini Bala Chandran, Energy Environ. Sci., Advance Article, 2024. 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, Accepted, 2024. 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

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.