Publications

Recent publications from group members:

Kim, C.; Govindarajan, N.; Hemenway, S.; Park, J.; Zoraster, A.; Kong, C. J.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Varley, J. B.; Jung, H.-T.; Hahn, C.; Ager, J. W. Importance of Site Diversity and Connectivity in Electrochemical CO Reduction on Cu. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 3128–3138.
Kim, Y.; Yun, G.; Kim, M.; Jamal, A.; Gereige, I.; Ager, J. W.; Jung, W.; Jung, H. Effect of Feature Shape and Dimension of a Confinement Geometry on Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction. Angew. Chemie 2024, 136.
Kong, C. J.; Ager, J. W. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Passes the Acid Test. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2023.
Barecka, M. H.; Kovalev, M. K.; Muhamad, M. Z.; Ren, H.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. CO2 Electroreduction Favors Carbon Isotope 12C over 13C and Facilitates Isotope Separation. iScience 2023, 26, 107834.
Lum, Y.; Ager, J. W. Two Active Sites Are Better than One. Nat. Catal. 2023, 6, 864–865.
Shukla, S.; Mathew, S.; Choe, H. S.; Chugh, M.; Kühne, T. D.; Mirhosseini, H.; Wu, J.; Venkatesan, T.; Sritharan, T.; Ager, J. W. Charge Carrier Transport in Iron Pyrite Thin Films: Disorder-Induced Variable-Range Hopping. J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 18619–18629.
Kim, C.; Ager, J. W. Shaping Multimetallic Nanoparticles. Nat. Synth. 2023.
Barecka, M. H.; DS Dameni, P.; Zakir Muhamad, M.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. Energy-Efficient Ethanol Concentration Method for Scalable CO 2 Electrolysis. ACS Energy Lett. 2023, 3214–3220.
Prabhakar, R. R.; Lemerle, R.; Barecka, M. H.; Kim, M.; Seo, S.; Dayi, E. N.; Dei Tos, I.; Ager III, J. W. TaOx Electron Transport Layers for CO2 Reduction Si Photocathodes. J. Mater Chem. A 2023
Herman, A.; Ager, J. W.; Ardo, S.; Segev, G. Ratchet-Based Ion Pumps for Selective Ion Separations. PRX Energy 2023, 2 (2), 023001.
Jung, H.; Ager, J. W. A Tipping Point for Solar Production of Hydrogen? Joule 2023, 7 (3), 459–461.
Rihm, S. D.; Kovalev, M. K.; Lapkin, A. A.; Ager, J. W.; Kraft, M. On the Role of C4 and C5 Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction via Copper-Based Catalysts. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023 16 1697.
Ren, H.; Kovalev, M.; Weng, Z.; Muhamad, M. Z.; Ma, H.; Sheng, Y.; Sun, L.; Wang, J.; Rihm, S.; Yang, W.; Lapkin, A. A.; Ager, J. W. Operando Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of Carbon Dioxide Reduction Electrocatalysis. Nat. Catal. 2022.
Kong, C. J.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Ager, J. W. Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methyl Formate with Flue Gas as a Feedstock. Chem Catal. 2022, 2, 2124–2126.
Segev, G.; Kibsgaard, J.; Hahn, C.; Xu, Z. J.; Cheng, W.-H.; Deutsch, T.; Xiang, C.; Zhang, J. Z.; Hammarstrom, L.; Nocera, D.; Weber, A. Z.; Agbo, P.; Hisatomi, T.; Osterloh, F.; Domen, K.; Abdi, F. F.; Haussener, S.; Miller, D.; Ardo, S.; McIntyre, P. C.; Hannappel, T.; Hu, S.; Atwater, H. A.; Gregoire, J.; Ertem, M. Z.; Sharp, I.; Choi, K.; Lee, J. S.; Ishitani, O.; Ager, J. W.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Bell, A. T.; Boettcher, S.; Vincent, K.; Takanabe, K.; ARTERO, V.; Napier, R.; Cuenya, B. R.; Koper, M.; Van de Krol, R.; Houle, F. The 2022 Solar Fuels Roadmap. J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 2022.
Lovell, E. C.; Ager, J. W.; Kim, Y. S.; Modestino, M. A. Energy Spotlight. ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 1574–1576.
Kovalev, M. K.; Ren, H.; Zakir Muhamad, M.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. Minor Product Polymerization Causes Failure of High-Current CO2-to-Ethylene Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 599–601.
Kong, C. J.; Warren, E. L.; Greenaway, A. L.; Prabhakar, R. R.; Tamboli, A. C.; Ager III, J. W. Design Principles of Tandem Cascade Photoelectrochemical Devices. Sustain. Energy Fuels 2021 5, 6361-6371.
Barecka, M. H.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. Techno-Economic Assessment of Emerging CO2 Electrolysis Technologies. STAR Protoc. 2021, 2, 100889
Li, J.; Maresi, I.; Lum, Y.; Ager III, J. W. Effects of Surface Diffusion in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction on Cu Revealed by Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations. J. Chem. Phys. 2021.
Liu, Y.; Qiu, H.; Li, J.; Guo, L.; Ager, J. W. Tandem Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Efficient Intermediate Conversion over Pyramid-Textured Cu–Ag Catalysts. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, acsami.1c08688
Li, J.; Li, J.; Dun, C.; Chen, W.; Zhang, D.; Gu, J.; Urban, J. J.; Ager, J. W. Copper Sulfide as the Cation Exchange Template for Synthesis of Bimetallic Catalysts for CO2 Electroreduction. .RSC Adv. 2021, 11, 23948–23959.
Barecka, M. H.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. Carbon Neutral Manufacturing via On-Site CO2 Recycling. iScience 2021, 24, 102514.
Chen, G.; Sun, Y.; Chen, R. R.; Biz, C.; Fisher, A.; Sherburne, M. P.; Ager, J. W.; Gracia, J.; Xu, Z. J. A Discussion on the Possible Involvement of Singlet Oxygen in Oxygen Electrocatalysis. J. Phys. Energy 2021.
Barecka, M. H.; Ager, J. W.; Lapkin, A. A. Economically Viable CO2 Electroreduction Embedded within Ethylene Oxide Manufacturing. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021 14 1530-1543.
Walukiewicz, W.; Wang, S.; Wu, X.; Li, R.; Sherburne, M. P.; Wu, B.; Sum, T. C.; Ager, J. W.; Asta, M. D. The Bright Side and Dark Side of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites. J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 27340–27355
Nguyen, V.; Gramling, H.; Towle, C.; Li, W.; Lien, D.-H.; Kim, H.; Chrzan, D. C.; Javey, A.; Xu, K.; Ager, J.; Taylor, H. Deterministic Assembly of Arrays of Lithographically Defined WS2 and MoS2 Monolayer Features Directly From Multilayer Sources Into Van Der Waals Heterostructures J. Micro Nano-Manufacturing 2019, 7, 041006
Lingfei Wei, Xiaojie Xu, Gurudayal, James Bullock, and Joel W. Ager, Machine Learning Optimization of P-Type Transparent Conducting Films, Chemistry of Materials, DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01953
Gurudayal.; Perone, D.; Malani, S.; Lum, Y.; Haussener, S.; Ager, J. W. Sequential Cascade Electrocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to C-C Coupled Products. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2019 6 4551-4559.
Gurudayal, J. W. Beeman, J. Bullock, H. Wang, J. Eichhorn, C. Towle, A. Javey, F. M. Toma, N. Mathews, and J. W. Ager: Si photocathode with Ag-supported dendritic Cu catalyst for CO2 reduction. Energy Environ. Sci. 12, 1068 (2019).
H. M. Gramling, C. M. Towle, S. B. Desai, H. Sun, E. C. Lewis, V. D. Nguyen, J. W. Ager, D. Chrzan, E. M. Yeatman, A. Javey, and H. Taylor: Spatially Precise Transfer of Patterned Monolayer WS2 and MoS2 with Features Larger than 104 μm2 Directly from Multilayer Sources. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 1, 407 (2019).
Y. Lum and J. W. Ager: Evidence for product-specific active sites on oxide-derived Cu catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction. Nat. Catal. 2(1), 86 (2019).
Y. Lum and J. W. Ager: Sequential catalysis controls selectivity in electrochemical CO 2 reduction on Cu. Energy Environ. Sci. 11(10), 2935 (2018).
Y. Lum, T. Cheng, W. A. Goddard, and J. W. Ager: Electrochemical CO Reduction Builds Solvent Water into Oxygenate Products. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140(30), 9337 (2018).
L. Mandal, K. R. Yang, M. R. Motapothula, D. Ren, P. Lobaccaro, A. Patra, M. Sherburne, V. S. Batista, B. S. Yeo, J. W. Ager, J. Martin, and T. Venkatesan: Investigating the Role of Copper Oxide in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction in Real Time. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10(10), 8574 (2018).
Y. Lum and J. W. Ager: Stability of Residual Oxides in Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction Investigated with 18 O Labeling. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 57(2), 551 (2018).
X. Xu, S. Shukla, Y. Liu, B. Yue, J. Bullock, L. Su, Y. Li, A. Javey, X. Fang, and J. W. Ager: Solution-Processed Transparent Self-Powered p-CuS-ZnS/n-ZnO UV Photodiode. Phys. status solidi - Rapid Res. Lett. 12(2), 1700381 (2018).
Gurudayal, J. Bullock, D. F. Srankó, C. M. Towle, Y. Lum, M. Hettick, M. C. Scott, A. Javey, and J. Ager: Efficient solar-driven electrochemical CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons and oxygenates. Energy Environ. Sci. (2017).
Y. Lum, B. Yue, P. Lobaccaro, A. T. Bell, and J. W. Ager: Optimizing C–C Coupling on Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction. J. Phys. Chem. C 121(26), 14191 (2017).
M. M. Monroe, P. Lobaccaro, Y. Lum, and J. W. Ager: Membraneless laminar flow cell for electrocatalytic CO 2 reduction with liquid product separation. J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 50(15), 154006 (2017).
S. K. Maurya, Y. Liu, X. Xu, R. Woods-Robinson, C. Das, J. W. Ager, and K. R. Balasubramaniam: High figure-of-merit p -type transparent conductor, Cu alloyed ZnS via radio frequency magnetron sputtering. J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 50(50), 505107 (2017).
P. Lobaccaro, M. R. Singh, E. L. Clark, Y. Kwon, A. T. Bell, and J. W. Ager: Effects of temperature and gas–liquid mass transfer on the operation of small electrochemical cells for the quantitative evaluation of CO 2 reduction electrocatalysts. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18(38), 26777 (2016).
Y. Kwon, Y. Lum, E. L. Clark, J. W. Ager, and A. T. Bell: CO 2 Electroreduction with Enhanced Ethylene and Ethanol Selectivity by Nanostructuring Polycrystalline Copper. ChemElectroChem 3(6), 1012 (2016).
Y. Liu, Y. Guo, L. T. Schelhas, M. Li, and J. W. Ager: Undoped and Ni-Doped CoO x Surface Modification of Porous BiVO 4 Photoelectrodes for Water Oxidation. J. Phys. Chem. C 120(41), 23449 (2016).
Y. Lum, Y. Kwon, P. Lobaccaro, L. Chen, E. L. Clark, A. T. Bell, and J. W. Ager: Trace Levels of Copper in Carbon Materials Show Significant Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Activity. ACS Catal. 6(1), 202 (2016).
E. Alarcón-Lladó, T. Brazzini, and J. W. Ager: Surface origin and control of resonance Raman scattering and surface band gap in indium nitride. J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 49(25), 255102 (2016).
X. Xu, J. Bullock, L. T. Schelhas, E. Z. Stutz, J. J. Fonseca, M. Hettick, V. L. Pool, K. F. Tai, M. F. Toney, X. Fang, A. Javey, L. H. Wong, and J. W. Ager: Chemical Bath Deposition of p-Type Transparent, Highly Conducting (CuS)x:(ZnS)1-x Nanocomposite Thin Films and Fabrication of Si Heterojunction Solar Cells. Nano Lett. 16(3), 1925 (2016).
Woods-Robinson, R.; Cooper, J. K.; Xu, X.; Schelhas, L. T.; Pool, V. L.; Faghaninia, A.; Lo, C. S.; Toney, M. F.; Sharp, I. D.; Ager, J. W. P-Type Transparent Cu-Alloyed ZnS Deposited at Room Temperature. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2016, 2, 1500396.
L. Chen, J. Yang, S. Klaus, L. J. Lee, R. Woods-Robinson, J. Ma, Y. Lum, J. K. Cooper, F. M. Toma, L.-W. Wang, I. D. Sharp, A. T. Bell, and J. W. Ager: p-Type Transparent Conducting Oxide/n-Type Semiconductor Heterojunctions for Efficient and Stable Solar Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137(30), 9595 (2015).
J. W. Ager, M. R. Shaner, K. A. Walczak, I. D. Sharp, and S. Ardo: Experimental demonstrations of spontaneous, solar-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting. Energy Environ. Sci. 8(10), 2811 (2015).