Publications

Many VIPER students have co-authored papers based on their research at Penn, and we are happy to share their accomplishments here! Click the journal article titles below to see the publications and student names to go to their profiles. 

 

Publications

 

2022

  1. Huang, Renjing, Chang, Jian, Choi, Hyuck, Vohs, John M., Gorte, Raymond J. "Furfural Upgrading by Aldol Condensation with Ketones over Solid-Base Catalysts." Catalysis Letters (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-03960-1  

 

  1. Rosen, Daniel J., Shengsong Yang, Emanuele Marino, Zhiqiao Jiang, and Christopher B. Murray. "In Situ EXAFS-Based Nanothermometry of Heterodimer Nanocrystals under Induction Heating." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126, no. 7 (2022): 3623-3634.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00608

 

  1. Foucher, Alexandre C., Shengsong Yang, Daniel J. Rosen, Jennifer D. Lee, Renjing Huang, Zhiqiao Jiang, Francisco G. Barrera et al. "Synthesis and Characterization of Core-Shell Cu-Ru, Cu-Rh, and Cu-Ir Nanoparticles." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02538

 

  1. Kumar, Pawan, Jason Lynch, Baokun Song, Haonan Ling, Francisco Barrera, Kim Kisslinger, Huiqin Zhang et al. "Light–matter coupling in large-area van der Waals superlattices." Nature nanotechnology 17, no. 2 (2022): 182-189. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-021-01023-x

 

  1. Huang, Renjing, Jian Chang, Hyuck Choi, John M. Vohs, and Raymond J. Gorte. "Furfural Upgrading by Aldol Condensation with Ketones over Solid-Base Catalysts." Catalysis Letters (2022): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-03960-1

 

  1. Metlay, Amy S., Brandon Chyi, Yein Yoon, Ryszard J. Wycisk, Peter N. Pintauro, and Thomas E. Mallouk. "Three-Chamber Design for Aqueous Acid–Base Redox Flow Batteries." ACS Energy Letters 7, no. 3 (2022): 908-913. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00040

 

  1. Georgia Georgostathi, Rachit Kumar, Ashley S. Hodges, Olivia Nelson, Shavonne Massey, Nicholas S. Abend, Alexis A. Topjian, Ian Yuan.: Processed Electroencephalogram Normative Values in Neonates. Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA) 2022 Annual Meeting (virtual) Jan 2022. https://journals.lww.com/anesthesiaanalgesia/Citation/2022/04001/Abstracts_of_Papers_Presented_at_the_2022_Virtual.1.aspx

 

2021

  1. Yan, Zhifei, Ryszard J. Wycisk, Amy S. Metlay, Langqiu Xiao, Yein Yoon, Peter N. Pintauro, and Thomas E. Mallouk. "High-Voltage Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Enabled by Catalyzed Water Dissociation and Acid–Base Neutralization in Bipolar Membranes." ACS Central Science 7, no. 6 (2021): 1028-1035. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.1c00217

 

  1. Furigay, Maxwell H., Subhajyoti Chaudhuri, Sean M. Deresh, Alexander B. Weberg, Pragati Pandey, Patrick J. Carroll, George C. Schatz, and Eric J. Schelter. "Selective reduction of niobium (V) species to promote molecular niobium/tantalum separation." Inorganic chemistry 61, no. 1 (2021): 23-27. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02976

 

  1. Kumar, Pawan, Kelotchi S. Figueroa, Alexandre C. Foucher, Kiyoung Jo, Natalia Acero, Eric A. Stach, and Deep Jariwala. "Efficacy of boron nitride encapsulation against plasma-processing of 2D semiconductor layers." Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 39, no. 3 (2021): 032201. https://avs.scitation.org/doi/10.1116/6.0000874

 

  1. Hofmann, Matthew, Zhiyao Tang, Jonathan Orgill, Jonathan Nelson, David Glanzman, Brent Nelson, and André DeHon. "XBERT: Xilinx Logical-Level Bitstream Embedded RAM Transfusion." In 2021 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9444089

 

  1. Azadi, Mohsen, George A. Popov, Zhipeng Lu, Andy G. Eskenazi, Avery Ji Won Bang, Matthew F. Campbell, Howard Hu, and Igor Bargatin. "Controlled levitation of nanostructured thin films for sun-powered near-space flight." Science Advances 7, no. 7 (2021): eabe1127. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe1127

 

  1. Welborn, Samuel S., John S. Corsi, Lin Wang, Asaph Lee, Jintao Fu, and Eric Detsi. "Effects of side reactions on the kinetics of nanoporous gold formation revealed by real-time X-ray scattering during electrolytic dealloying." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9, no. 35 (2021): 19994-20005. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ta/d1ta04822h

 

  1. Yue, Xiujun, Alissa C. Johnson, Sungbong Kim, Ryan R. Kohlmeyer, Arghya Patra, Jessica Grzyb, Akaash Padmanabha et al. "A Nearly Packaging‐Free Design Paradigm for Light, Powerful, and Energy‐Dense Primary Microbatteries." Advanced Materials 33, no. 35 (2021): 2101760.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202101760

 

  1. Raman, Abhinav S., Roshan Patel, and Aleksandra Vojvodic. "Surface stability of perovskite oxides under OER operating conditions: A first principles approach." Faraday Discussions 229 (2021): 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9FD00146H

 

2020

 

  1. Gao, Zhaoli, Pedro Ducos, Huacheng Ye, Jonathan Zauberman, Adithya Sriram, Xinping Yang, Zhiying Wang et al. "Graphene transistor arrays functionalized with genetically engineered antibody fragments for Lyme disease diagnosis." 2D Materials 7, no. 2 (2020): 024001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab5dce

 

  1. Vishnubhotla, Ramya, Adithya Sriram, Olivia O. Dickens, Srinivas V. Mandyam, Jinglei Ping, Emmeline Adu-Beng, and AT Charlie Johnson. "Attomolar detection of ssDNA without amplification and capture of long target sequences with graphene biosensors." IEEE Sensors Journal 20, no. 11 (2020): 5720-5724. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2973949

 

  1. Yue, Xiujun, Jessica Grzyb, Akaash Padmanabha, and James H. Pikul. "Yue, Xiujun, Jessica Grzyb, Akaash Padmanabha, and James H. Pikul. "A minimal volume hermetic packaging design for high-energy-density micro-energy systems." Energies 13, no. 10 (2020): 2492.
    1. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/10/2492

 

  1. Ji, Yichen, Ajibola Lawal, Andrew Nyholm, Raymond J. Gorte, and Omar A. Abdelrahman. "Dehydra-decyclization of tetrahydrofurans to diene monomers over metal oxides." Catalysis Science & Technology 10, no. 17 (2020): 5903-5912. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/cy/d0cy01117g

 

  1. Zhang, Huiqin, Bhaskar Abhiraman, Qing Zhang, Jinshui Miao, Kiyoung Jo, Stefano Roccasecca, Mark W. Knight, Artur R. Davoyan, and Deep Jariwala. "Hybrid exciton-plasmon-polaritons in van der Waals semiconductor gratings." Nature communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17313-2

 

  1. Cortes, John, Christopher Stanczak, Mohsen Azadi, Maanav Narula, Samuel M. Nicaise, Howard Hu, and Igor Bargatin. "Photophoretic levitation of macroscopic nanocardboard plates." Advanced Materials 32, no. 16 (2020): 1906878. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201906878

 

  1. Jiao, Pengcheng, Samuel M. Nicaise, Mohsen Azadi, Joan Cortes, Drew E. Lilley, Wujoon Cha, Prashant K. Purohit, and Igor Bargatin. "Tunable tensile response of honeycomb plates with nanoscale thickness: Testing and modeling." Extreme Mechanics Letters 34 (2020): 100599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2019.100599

 

  1. Campbell, Matthew F., Mohsen Azadi, Zhipeng Lu, Andy G. Eskenazi, Akshat Jain, Ji Won Bang, Philip G. Sieg et al. "Nanostructured Spacers for Thermionic and Thermophotovoltaic Energy Converters." Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 29, no. 5 (2020): 637-644.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9119437?casa_token=BTy0HPTAsSsAAAAA:EXL5RmCtQV6dLydZa9PGh5QA2xF029naGaR-l-GeNxwFfKVeNgQby_2DgMG7t5z8zHRizRFe

 

  1. Cha, Wujoon, Matthew F. Campbell, George A. Popov, Christopher H. Stanczak, Anna K. Estep, Edward B. Steager, Cynthia R. Sung, Mark H. Yim, and Igor Bargatin. "Microfabricated Foldable Wings for Centimeter-Scale Microflyers." Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 29, no. 5 (2020): 1127-1129. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9163234

 

  1. Azadi, Mohsen, Zhipeng Lu, George A. Popov, Christopher H. Stanczak, Andy G. Eskenazi, Pratik Ponnarassery, John Cortes, Matthew F. Campbell, and Igor Bargatin. "Demonstration of atmospheric-pressure radiometer with nanocardboard vanes." Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 29, no. 5 (2020): 811-817. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9153829?casa_token=K8hsU2CGt7cAAAAA:53OVUFY_1FAKzxkJmdElLk-3oPoS4GWmYmSGr062QfHOZLxyfWcbMuAzVT2H7k-j8OLdGrwg

27. Kumar, Pawan, James P. Horwath, Alexandre C. Foucher, Christopher C. Price, Natalia Acero, Vivek B. Shenoy, Eric A. Stach, and Deep Jariwala. "Direct visualization of out-of-equilibrium structural transformations in atomically thin chalcogenides." npj 2D Materials and Applications 4, no. 1 (2020): 1-10. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41699-020-0150-2

 

  1. Gosvami, N. N., Imène Lahouij, J. Ma, and R. W. Carpick. "Nanoscale in situ study of ZDDP tribofilm growth at aluminum-based interfaces using atomic force microscopy." Tribology International 143 (2020): 106075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2019.106075

 

2019

 

  1. Pröschel, Alexander, Joel Chacko, Richard Whitaker, Mavis Athene U. Chen, and Eric Detsi. "Visible Light Plasmonic Heating-Enhanced Electrochemical Current in Nanoporous Gold Cathodes." Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166, no. 4 (2019): H146. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0601904jes

 

  1. Chu, Wan-Yi, Zuzana Culakova, Bernie T. Wang, and Karen I. Goldberg. "Acid-assisted hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol in a homogeneous catalytic cascade system." ACS Catalysis 9, no. 10 (2019): 9317-932 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.9b02280

 

  1. Cheisson, Thibault, Kyle D. Kersey, Nolwenn Mahieu, Alex McSkimming, Michael R. Gau, Patrick J. Carroll, and Eric J. Schelter. "Multiple bonding in lanthanides and actinides: Direct comparison of covalency in thorium (IV)-and cerium (IV)-imido complexes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 141, no. 23 (2019): 9185-9190. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.9b04061

 

  1. Cheng, Yuan, Abhinav S. Raman, Julian Paige, Liang Zhang, Danyi Sun, Mavis U. Chen, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Raymond J. Gorte, and John M. Vohs. "Enhancing oxygen exchange activity by tailoring perovskite surfaces." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10, no. 14 (2019): 4082-4088. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01235

 

  1. Paige, Julian M., Yuan Cheng, Paul A. Pepin, Christopher D. Curran, Danyi Sun, Mavis U. Chen, Steven McIntosh, John M. Vohs, and Raymond J. Gorte. "Surface modification of SOFC cathodes by Co, Ni, and Pd oxides." Solid State Ionics 341 (2019): 115051.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssi.2019.115051

 

  1. Kakekhani, Arvin, Radhika N. Katti, and Andrew M. Rappe. "Water in hybrid perovskites: Bulk MAPbI3 degradation via super-hydrous state." APL Materials 7, no. 4 (2019): 041112. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5087290

 

  1. Nicaise, Samuel M., Chen Lin, Mohsen Azadi, Tara Bozorg-Grayeli, Promise Adebayo-Ige, Drew E. Lilley, Yann Pfitzer et al. "Micron-gap spacers with ultrahigh thermal resistance and mechanical robustness for direct energy conversion." Microsystems & nanoengineering 5, no. 1 (2019): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41378-019-0071-4

 

2018

 

  1. Goulas, Konstantinos A., Jennifer D. Lee, Weiqing Zheng, Jonathan Lym, Siyu Yao, Deborah S. Oh, Cong Wang et al. "Spectroscopic characterization of a highly selective NiCu 3/C hydrodeoxygenation catalyst." Catalysis Science & Technology 8, no. 23 (2018): 6100-6108. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/cy/c8cy01280f

 

  1. Lin, Chen, Samuel M. Nicaise, Drew E. Lilley, Joan Cortes, Pengcheng Jiao, Jaspreet Singh, Mohsen Azadi et al. "Nanocardboard as a nanoscale analog of hollow sandwich plates." Nature communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06818-6

 

  1. Gosvami, N. N., J. Ma, and R. W. Carpick. "An in situ method for simultaneous friction measurements and imaging of interfacial tribochemical film growth in lubricated contacts." Tribology Letters 66, no. 4 (2018): 1-10. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11249-018-1112-0

 

  1. Lim, Jin Soo, Diomedes Saldana-Greco, and Andrew M. Rappe. "Improper magnetic ferroelectricity of nearly pure electronic nature in helicoidal spiral CaMn 7 O 12." Physical Review B 97, no. 4 (2018): 045115. http://10.1103/PhysRevB.97.045115

 

2017

 

  1. Naylor, C.H., Parkin, W.M., Gao, Z., Kang, H., Noyan, M., Wexler, R.B., Tan, L.Z., Kim, Y., Kehayias, C.E., Streller, F. and Zhou, Y.R., 2017. Large-area synthesis of high-quality monolayer 1T’-WTe2 flakes. 2D Materials, 4(2), p.021008 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1583/aa5921

 

  1. Pepin, Paul A., Benjamin T. Diroll, Hyuck J. Choi, Christopher B. Murray, and John M. Vohs. "Thermal and photochemical reactions of methanol, acetaldehyde, and acetic acid on brookite TiO2 nanorods." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121, no. 21 (2017): 11488-11498. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02615

 

2016

 

  1. Naylor, C.H., Parkin, W.M., Ping, J., Gao, Z., Zhou, Y.R., Kim, Y., Streller, F., Carpick, R.W., Rappe, A.M., Drndic, M. and Kikkawa, J.M., 2016. Monolayer single-crystal 1T′-MoTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition exhibits weak antilocalization effect. Nano letters, 16(7), pp.4297-4304. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01342

 

  1. Levin, Jessica R., Walter L. Dorfner, Alan X. Dai, Patrick J. Carroll, and Eric J. Schelter. "Density functional theory as a predictive tool for cerium redox properties in nonaqueous solvents." Inorganic Chemistry 55, no. 24 (2016): 12651-12659. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01779

 

  1. Bogart, Justin A., Bren E. Cole, Michael A. Boreen, Connor A. Lippincott, Brian C. Manor, Patrick J. Carroll, and Eric J. Schelter. "Accomplishing simple, solubility-based separations of rare earth elements with complexes bearing size-sensitive molecular apertures." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 52 (2016): 14887-14892.
    https://10.1073/pnas.1612628113

 

  1. Lim, Jin Soo, Diomedes Saldana-Greco, and Andrew M. Rappe. "Improved pseudopotential transferability for magnetic and electronic properties of binary manganese oxides from DFT+ U+ J calculations." Physical Review B 94, no. 16 (2016): 165151. https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.165151

 

2015

 

  1. Guglietta, Glenn W., Benjamin T. Diroll, E. Ashley Gaulding, Julia L. Fordham, Siming Li, Christopher B. Murray, and Jason B. Baxter. "Lifetime, mobility, and diffusion of photoexcited carriers in ligand-exchanged lead selenide nanocrystal films measured by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy." ACS nano 9, no. 2 (2015): 1820-1828. DOI: https://10.1021/nn506724h

 

  1. Zhang, Mengnan, Tiezheng Jia, Carol Y. Wang, and Patrick J. Walsh. "Organocatalytic synthesis of alkynes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, no. 32 (2015): 10346-10350. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b06137

 

  1. Jia, Tiezheng, Mengnan Zhang, Irina K. Sagamanova, Carol Y. Wang, and Patrick J. Walsh. "Palladium catalyzed diaryl sulfoxide generation from aryl benzyl sulfoxides and aryl chlorides." Organic letters 17, no. 5 (2015): 1168-1171. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00092

 

  1. Jia, Tiezheng, Mengnan Zhang, Hui Jiang, Carol Y. Wang, and Patrick J. Walsh. "Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation of alkyl sulfenate anions." Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, no. 43 (2015): 13887-13893. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b08117

 

  1. Bogart, Justin A., Connor A. Lippincott, Patrick J. Carroll, and Eric J. Schelter. "An Operationally Simple Method for Separating the Rare‐Earth Elements Neodymium and Dysprosium." Angewandte Chemie 127, no. 28 (2015): 8340-8343 https://10.1002/anie.201501659

 

  1. Bogart, Justin A., Connor A. Lippincott, Patrick J. Carroll, Corwin H. Booth, and Eric J. Schelter. "Controlled redox chemistry at cerium within a tripodal nitroxide ligand framework." Chemistry–A European Journal 21, no. 49 (2015): 17850-17859. https://10.1002/chem.201502952

 

  1. Davami, Keivan, Lin Zhao, Eric Lu, John Cortes, Chen Lin, Drew E. Lilley, Prashant K.   Purohit,    and Igor Bargatin. "Ultralight shape-recovering plate mechanical metamaterials." Nature communications 6, no. 1 (2015): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10019

 

  1. Huon, A., A. C. Lang, D. Saldana-Greco, J. S. Lim, E. J. Moon, A. M. Rappe, M. L. Taheri, and S. J. May. "Electronic transition above room temperature in CaMn7O12 films." Applied Physics Letters 107, no. 14 (2015): 142901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4932132