2024

Hofsommer, D.T., Zamborini, I.R., Uttarwar, S.S., Phipps, C.A., Gautam, M., Nkurunziza, F., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., "Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to Ethyl Formate in Ethanol", 2024, ACS Sust. Chem. Eng., Advance Article. DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c05853

2023

Gautam, M., Nkurunziza, F., Mulvehill, M.C., Uttarwar, S.S., Hofsommer, D.T., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., "Two-Membrane Dual Non-Aqueous/Aqueous Electrolyte Flow Cell Operation for Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to Methyl Formate", ChemSusChem, 2023, e202301337. DOI:10.1002/cssc.202301337

Muchharla, B., Sushko, P.V., Sadasivuni, K.K., Cao, W., Tomar, A., Elsayed-Ali, H., Adedeji, A., Karoui, A., Spurgeon, J.M., and Kumar, B., "Underlying Substrate Effect on Electrochemical Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction with Low-Platinum-Loaded Catalysts", Small Struct., 2023, 2300265. DOI:10.1002/sstr.202300265

Nkurunziza, F., Phipps, C.A., Hofsommer, D.T., Mulvehill, M.C., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., "Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Catalytic Activity and Materials Characterization of Heterogeneous Zinc Carbonaceous Layers Derived from a Zinc(II) Molecular Catalyst", ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2023, 6 (20), 10432–10441. DOI:10.1021/acsaem.3c01455

Gulati, S., Mulvehill, M.C., Thompson, T.C., and Spurgeon, J.M., "Optical Properties and Photocatalytic Performance of Si/TiO₂ Tandem Semiconductor Microwire Slurries", Energy Fuels, 2023, 37 (12), 8573–8582. DOI:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c00568

Hofsommer, D.T., Gautam, M., Uttarwar, S.S., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., "Prolonged Stability of Pb-Catalyzed CO₂ Electroreduction to Methyl Formate in Acidic Methanol", ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2023, 6 (4), 2624–2632. DOI:10.1021/acsaem.3c00166

2022

Spurgeon, J.M., Theaker, N., Phipps, C.A., Uttarwar, S.S., and Grapperhaus, C.A., “A Comparative Technoeconomic Analysis of Pathways for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ with Methanol to Produce Methyl Formate”, ACS Sust. Chem. Eng., 2022, 10 (38), 12882-12894. DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c04362

Gautam, M., Hofsommer, D.T., Uttarwar, S.S., Theaker, N., Paxton, W.F., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., “The Effect of Flue Gas Contaminants on Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to Methyl Formate in a Dual Methanol/Water Electrolysis System”, Chem Catalysis, 2022, 2, 1-15. DOI:10.1016/j.checat.2022.08.001

Malali, P., Muchharla, B., Cao, W., Elsayed-Ali, H.E., Adedeji, A., Karoui, A., Sadasivuni, K.K., Abdullah, A.M., Spurgeon, J.M., and Kumar, B., “Low Platinum- loaded Molybdenum Co-catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline and Acidic Media”, Langmuir, 2022, 38, 9526-9531. DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00902

Phipps, C.A., Hofsommer, D.T., Toda, M.J., Nkurunziza, F., Shah, B., Spurgeon, J.M., Kozlowski, P.M., Buchanan, R.M., and Grapperhaus, C.A., “Ligand-Centered Hydrogen Evolution with Ni(II) and Pd(II)DMTH”, Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 9792-9800. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01326

Rahaman, M.S., Tulaphol, S., Hossain, M.A., Mulvehill, M.C., Spurgeon, J.M., Maihom, T., and Sathitsuksanoh, N., “Mechanism of transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds by zirconium and hafnium-containing metal-organic frameworks”, Mol. Catal., 2022, 522, 112247. DOI:10.1016/j.mcat.2022.112247.

Hofsommer, D.T., Liang, Y., Uttarwar, S.S., Pishgar, S., Gautam, M., Gulati, S., Grapperhaus, C.A., and Spurgeon, J.M., “The pH and Potential Dependence of Pb-catalyzed Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Methyl Formate in a Dual Methanol/Water Electrolyte”, ChemSusChem, 2022, 15 (5), e202102289. DOI:10.1002/cssc.202102289

2021

Gulati, S., Mulvehill, M.C., Pishgar, S., and Spurgeon, J.M., “In-situ Magnetic Alignment of a Slurry of Tandem Semiconductor Microwires Using a Ni Catalyst”, Small, 2021, 18, 2103822. DOI:10.1002/smll.202103822

Pishgar, S., Mulvehill, M.C., Gulati, S., Sumanasekera, G., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Investigation of n-GaAs photoanode corrosion in acidic media with various thin Ir co-catalyst layers”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2021, 4, 10, 10799-10809. DOI:10.1021/acsaem.1c01768.

Pishgar, S., Gulati, S., Strain, J.M., Liang, Y., Mulvehill, M.C., and Spurgeon, J.M., “In-situ Analytical Techniques for the Investigation of Material Stability and Interface Dynamics in Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Applications”, Small Methods, 2021, 2100322. DOI:10.1002/smtd.202100322.

Calvary, C.A., Hietsoi, O., Hofsommer, D.T., Brun, H.C., Costello, A.M., Mashuta, M.S., Spurgeon, J.M., Buchanan, R.M., and Grapperhaus, C.A., “Copper bis(thiosemicarbazone) Complexes with Pendent Polyamines: Effects of Proton Relays and Charged Moieties on Electrocatalytic HER”, Euro. J. Inorganic Chem., 2021, 3, 267-275. DOI:10.1002/ejic.202000774.

Bates, A., Spurgeon, J.M., Park, S., Sunkara, M., and Paxton, W., “Earth-Abundant Redox Couples Using Durable Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes: Beyond Vanadium Redox Couples”, Applied Energy, 2021, 282, 116252. DOI:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116252.

2020

Strain, J.M., Gulati, S., Pishgar, S., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Pulsed electrochemical carbon monoxide reduction on oxide-derived copper catalyst”, ChemSusChem, 2020, 13, 3028-3033. DOI:10.1002/cssc.202000464.

Cronin, S., Strain, J., Mashuta, M., Spurgeon, J., Buchanan, R., and Grapperhaus, C., “Exploiting Metal-Ligand Cooperativity to Sequester, Activate, and Reduce Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide with a Neutral Zinc Complex”, Inorganic Chem., 2020, 59, 4835-4841. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00121.

Strain, J.M., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Assessing contaminants from ion-exchange membranes in the evaluation of aqueous electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction”, J. CO₂ Util., 2020, 35, e298-e302. DOI:10.1016/j.jcou.2019.10.012.

Samsudeen, N., Spurgeon, J., Matheswaran, M., and Satyavolu, J., “Simultaneous biohydrogen production with distillergy wastewater treatment using modified microbial elelectrolysis cell”, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 2020, 45, 18266-18274. DOI:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.06.134.

2019

Pishgar, S., Strain, J.M., Gulati, S., Sumanasekera, G., Gupta, G., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Investigation of the photocorrosion of n-GaP photoanodes in acid with in-situ UV-Vis spectroscopy”, J. Mater. Chem. A., 2019, 7, 25377-25388. DOI:10.1039/C9TA10106C

Calvary, C.A., Hietsoi, O., Strain, J., Mashuta, M., Spurgeon, J.M., Buchanan, R.M., Grapperhaus, C.A., “Synthesis, Characterization, and HER Activity of Pendant Diamine Derivatives of NiATSM”, Euro. J. Inorganic Chem., 2019, 33, 3782-2790. DOI:10.1002/ejic.201900721

Gulati, S., Hietsoi, O., Calvary, C.A., Strain, J.M., Pishgar, S., Brun, H.C., Grapperhaus, C.A., Buchanan, R.M., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on Si photocathodes modified with bis(thiosemicarbazonato)nickel(II)/Nafion”, ChemComm, 2019, 55, 9440-9443. DOI:10.1039/C9CC04117F

Gupta, A., Vishnosky, N., Hietsoi, O., Losovyj, Y., Strain, J., Spurgeon, J., Mashuta, M., Jain, R., Buchanan, R.M., Gupta, G., and Grapperhaus, C.A., “Effect of Stacking Interactions on the Translation of Structurally Related Bis(thiosemicarbazonato)nickel(II) HER Catalysts to Modified Electrode Surfaces”, Inorganic Chem., 2019, 58, 12025-12039. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01209

2018

Kumari, S., Pishgar, S., Schwarting, M.E., Paxton, W.F., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Synergistic plasma-assisted electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia”, ChemComm, 2018, 54, 13347-13350. DOI: 10.1039/C8CC07869F.

Spurgeon, J.M., and Kumar, B., “A Comparative Technoeconomic Analysis of Pathways for Commercial Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Liquid Products”, Energy Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 1536-1551. DOI: 10.1039/C8EE00097B

Spurgeon, J.M., “Converting Sunlight to Clean Fuels: The Challenges of Artificial Photosynthesis and Progress at the Conn Center”, International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Education (RERE-2018), Andra Pradesh, India, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018, 1992, 020002; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5047949.

Rao, K. R., Pishgar, S., Strain, J., Kumar, B., Atla, V., Kumari, S., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to HCOOH on Silicon Photocathodes with Reduced SnO₂ Porous Nanowire Catalysts”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 1736-1742. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA09672K

Theaker, N., Strain, J., Kumar, B., Brian, J.P., Kumari, S., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Heterogeneously Catalyzed Two-step Cascade Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ to Ethanol”, Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 274, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.04.072

S. Ardo, D. Fernandez Rivas, M. Modestino, V. Schulze Greiving, F. Abdi, E. Alarcon llado, V. Artero, K. Ayers, C. Battaglia, J. Becker, D. Bederak, A. Berger, F. Buda, E. Chinello, B. Dam, V. Di Palma, T. Edvinsson, K. Fujii, H. Gardeniers, H. Geerlings, M. Hashemi, S. Haussener, F. Houle, J. Huskens, B. James, K. Konrad, A. Kudo, P. Patil Kunturu, D. Lohse, B. Mei, E. Miller, G. Moore, J. Muller, K. Orchard, T. Rosser, F. Saadi, J. Schüttauf, B. Seger, S. Sheehan, W. Smith, J. Spurgeon, M. Tang, R. van de Krol, P. Vesborg, and P. Westerik, “Pathways to Electrochemical Solar Hydrogen Technologies”, Energy Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 2768-2783. DOI: 10.1039/C7EE03639F.

2017

Kumari, S., Ajayi, B.P., Kumar, B., Jasinski, J., Sunkara, M., and Spurgeon, J.M., “A Low-noble-metal W_1-xIr_xO_3-δ Water Oxidation Electrocatalyst for Acidic Media via Rapid Plasma Synthesis”, Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 2432-2440. DOI: 10.1039/C7EE02626A

White, R.T., Kumar, B., Kumari, S., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Simulations of non-monolithic tandem solar cell configurations for electrolytic fuel generation”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 13112-13121. DOI: 10.1039/C7TA04022A

Kumar, B., Atla, V., Brian, J.P., Kumari, S., Nguyen, T.Q., Sunkara, M., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Reduced SnO₂ Porous Nanowires with High-density Grain Boundaries as Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical CO­₂-to-HCOOH Conversion”, Angewandte Chemie, 2017, 56, 3645-3649. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612194

2016

Kumari, S., White, R.T., Kumar, B., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Solar Hydrogen Production from Seawater Vapor Electrolysis”, Energy Environ. Sci., 2016, 9, 1725-1733. DOI: 10.1039/C5EE03568F

Kumar, B., Brian, J.P., Bertram, K.A., Atla, V., Kumari, S., White, R.T., and Spurgeon, J.M., “New trends in the development of heterogeneous catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction”, Catalysis Today, 2016, 270, 19 - 30. DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2016.02.006

Kumar, B., Brian, J.P., Atla, V., Kumari, S., Bertram, K., White, R.T., and Spurgeon, J.M., “Controlling the Product Syngas H₂:CO Ratio through Pulsed-bias Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ on Copper”, ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 4739-4745. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00857