Very happy to be recognized as a 2021 Victor K. LaMer Keynote Award finalist and a Speaker to deliver a talk on “Surface chemistry control of the properties of aluminum nanocrystals for sustainable photocatalysis” at the 95th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium. Thanks the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry for the invitation!
Our paper on “Hot Carrier multiplication in plasmonic photocatalysis” has been published in PNAS.
In this work, we demonstrate photocatalytic HD exchange reaction on the surface of small copper nanoparticles is primarily driven by plasmon-mediated “hot” electrons with unusually high efficiencies and an external quantum yield that exceeds 100% under high illumination intensities.
Our recent work on “Dynamic control of elementary step energetics via pulsed illumination enhances photocatalysis on metal nanoparticles” has been published in ACS Energy Letters
We demonstrate that photocatalysis using pulsed light, rather than continuous illumination, could be more efficient in driving methanol decomposition reaction by matching the frequency of light pulsing with the kinetic time scales of the elementary reaction steps.
Our recent work on “Atomically dispersed ReOx/SiO2 catalysts for selective methanol carbonylation to acetic acid” has been published in Journal of American Chemical Society and featured in JACS spotlight!
Acidic acid is commonly produced via the reaction of methanol and carbon monoxide using a liquid system with an expensive organo-metallic catalyst (which must be recovered from the effluent stream) and a corrosive halide co-catalyst. By contrast, solid supported catalyst processes for making acetic acid typically suffer from low reactivity, selectivity, or stability. In this work, we have developed a novel supported catalyst process that shows promise for getting around these difficulties.
Our recent work on “Plasmon-driven carbon-fluorine (C(sp3)-F) bond activation with mechanistic insights into hot-carrier-mediated pathways” has been published in Nature Catalysis and featured as Journal Cover!
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Our recent work on “Site-selective reactor deposition on photocatalytic aluminum nanocubes” has been published in Nano Letters!
Our recent work on “Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts” has been published in Nature Energy and Featured in Nature, Rice news, Science daily, and more.
Thrilled to win the prestigious 2019 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Science.
Our work on “Plasmonic photocatalysis of nitrous oxide into N2 and O2 using aluminum-iridium antenna-reactor nanoparticles” has been published in ACS Nano.
Our recent work on “Tailoring the properties of aluminum nanocrystals through Metal-organic frameworks growth” has been published in Science Advances!
