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Selected Recent Publications

Burke, M. S.; Zou, S.; Enman, L. J.; Kellon, J. E.; Gabor, C. A.; Pledger, E.; Boettcher, S. W. Revised oxygen-evolution-reaction activity trends for first-row transition metal (oxy)hydroxides in alkaline media. J. Phys. Chem Lett., 6, 3737, 2015  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650

S.-E. Chun, B. Evanko, X. Wang, D. Vonlanthen, X. Ji, G. D. Stucky, and S. W. Boettcher, "Design of aqueous redox-enhanced electrochemical capacitors with high specific energies and slow self-discharge,"Nature Communications 6, 7818, 2015. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150804/ncomms8818/full/ncomms8818.html

Burke, M. S.; Kast, M. G.; Trotochaud, L.; Smith, A.; Boettcher, S. W. Cobalt-iron (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts: The role of structure and composition on activity, stability, and mechanism. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,137, 3638, 2015. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b00281

Ritenour, A. J.; Boucher, J. W.; DeLancey, R.; Greenaway, A. L.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Doping and Electronic Properties of GaAs Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from Powder Sources for Scalable III-V Photovoltaics. Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 278-285 (back cover) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01943A

Trotochaud, L.; Young, S.; Ranney, J.; Boettcher, S. Nickel-Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Electrocatalysts: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Iron Incorporation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6744. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja502379c

Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W. Adaptive semiconductor-electrocatalyst junctions in water splitting photoanodes. Nat. Mater. 2014,13, 81-86.  http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmat3811.html

Mills, T. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Theory and simulations of electrocatalyst-coated semiconductor electrodes for solar water splitting. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148304 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.148304

Wang, W.; Liu, W.; Chang, I.-Y.; Wills, L. A.; Zakharov, L. N.; Boettcher, S. W.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Fang, C.; Keszler, D. A. Electrolytic synthesis of aqueous aluminum nanoclusters and in situ characterization by femtosecond Raman spectroscopy & computations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2013, 110, 18397-18401. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/23/1315396110.full.pdf+html

Nadarajah, A.; Carnes, M. E.; Kast, M. G.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W. Aqueous Solution Processing of F-Doped SnO2Transparent Conducting Oxide Films Using a Reactive Tin(II) Hydroxide Nitrate Nanoscale Cluster. Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 4080 4087. (Cover) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm402424c

Ritenour, A. J.; Levinrad, S.; Bradley, C.; Cramer, R. C.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Nanostructuring of n-GaAs Photoanodes. ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (8), pp 6840–6849,http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4020104.

Trotochaud, L.; Ranney, J. K.; Williams, K. N.; Boettcher, S. W. Solution-Cast Metal Oxide Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 17253-17261. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja307507a