Boettcher Group Publications

For most up-to-date group publications, please access Prof. Boettcher's Google Scholar Profile. 

Author-accepted PDFs (open-access) are available below via UC eScholarship

2025:

  • D’Antona, N.; Kelly, J.; Barnard, N.; Ardo, S.; Wang, Y.; Surendranath, Y.; Markland, T. E.; Kempler, P. A.; Boettcher, S. W., Proton-Transfer Kinetics at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18349. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Pendergast, A. D.; Boettcher, S. W. Thrifting Iridium for Hydrogen. Science 2025, 387 (6735), 718-719. DOI: 10.1126/science.adv4929. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Basera, P.; Zhao, Y.; Garcia-Esparza, A. T.; Babbe, F.; Bothra, N.; Vinson, J.; Sokaras, D.; Yano, J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Bajdich, M., The Role of Cu3+ in the Oxygen Evolution Activity of Copper Oxides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c18147.  (Accepted Pdf)
  • Zhai, T.; Wang, H.; Beaudoin, S. R.; Zhang, R.; Kwak, M.; Hou, S.; Guo, Z.; Boettcher, S. W., Perovskite Catalysts for Pure-Water-Fed Anion-Exchange-Membrane Electrolyzer Anodes: Co-design of Electrically Conductive Nanoparticle Cores and Active Surfaces. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147 (18), 15448-15458. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c01621. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Han, S.; Sasmal, S.; Shen, M.; Wu, Y.; Vulpin, O. T.; Hou, S.; Kim, S.; Lee, J. Y.; Yoon, J.; Boettcher, S. W., Advancing SnO2-Based Water Dissociation Catalysis in Bipolar-Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10 (4), 1633-1641. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00309. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Rajeev, M.; Jerome-Saboori, A.; Shekhar, R.; Boettcher, S. W.; Kempler, P. A., Impacts of Dissolved Iron on Alkaline Water Electrolysis Cells. ACS Catal. 2025, 15 (4), 2847-2856. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c07439. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Vulpin, O. T.; Mitchell, J. B.; Chen, L.; Lim, J.; Sasmal, S.; Price, N. G.; Jarvis, S. R.; Boettcher, S. W., Comparing Advanced Bipolar Membranes for High-Current Electrodialysis and Membrane Electrolysis. ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10 (2), 845-852. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c03538. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Liu, L.; Twight, L. P.; Xi, S.; Ou, Y.; Boettcher, S. W., Dynamics of Fe Adsorption and Desorption from CoOxHy During Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis. ACS Catal. 2025, 15 (1), 275-283. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c04777.  (Accepted Pdf)

2024:

  • Sarma, P. V.; Kramar, B. V.; Chen, L.; Sasmal, S.; Weingartz, N. P.; Huang, J.; Mitchell, J. B.; Kwak, M.; Chen, L. X.; Boettcher, S. W., Local Electric Field Effects on Water Dissociation in Bipolar Membranes Studied Using Core–Shell Catalysts. Chem. Mater. 2024, 36 (24), 11863-11872. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02190. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Boettcher, S. W. Introduction to Green Hydrogen. Chem. Rev. 2024, 124 (23), 13095-13098. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00787. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Thurman, K. A.; Cannan, C. M.; Shekhar, R.; Zhao, Y.; Boettcher, S. W.; Kempler, P. A. Anions in Corrosion: Influence of Polymer Electrolytes on the Interfacial Ion Transfer Kinetics of Cu at Au(111) Surfaces. ACS Electrochem. 2025, 1 (4), 425-432. DOI: 10.1021/acselectrochem.4c00181. 

  • Kaufman, A. J.; Nielander, A. C.; Meyer, G. J.; Maldonado, S.; Ardo, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Absolute Band-Edge Energies are over-Emphasized in the Design of Photoelectrochemical Materials. Nat. Catal. 2024, 7 (6), 615-623. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01161-0 (Accepted Pdf)

  • Twight, L.; Tonsberg, A.; Samira, S.; Velinkar, K.; Dumpert, K.; Ou, Y.; Wang, L.; Nikolla, E.; Boettcher, S. W. Trace Fe Activates Perovskite Nickelate OER Catalysts in Alkaline Media via Redox-Active Surface Ni Species Formed during Electrocatalysis. J. Catal. 2024, 432, 115443. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115443. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Kwak, M.; Ojha, K.; Shen, M.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrically Insulated Catalyst–Ionomer Anode Interfaces toward Durable Alkaline Membrane Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9 (3), 1025-1034. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c02620. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Zhao, Y.; Hu, X.; Stucky, G. D.; Boettcher, S. W. Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Transport Contributions to Hydrogen Evolution Activity and Electrolyte-Stability Windows for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146 (5), 3438-3448. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12980. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Kang, R.; Zhao, Y.; Hait, D.; Gauthier, J. A.; Kempler, P. A.; Thurman, K. A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Head-Gordon, M. Understanding Ion-Transfer Reactions in Silver Electrodissolution and Electrodeposition from First-Principles Calculations and Experiments. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15 (13), 4996-5008. DOI: 10.1039/D3SC05791G. (Accepted Pdf)

2023:

  • Rios Amador, I.; Hannagan, R. T.; Marin, D. H.; Perryman, J. T.; Rémy, C.; Hubert, M. A.; Lindquist, G. A.; Chen, L.; Stevens, M. B.; Boettcher, S. W.; et al. Protocol for Assembling and Operating Bipolar Membrane Water Electrolyzers. STAR Protoc. 2023, 4 (4), 102606. DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102606. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Ou, Y.; Twight, L. P.; Samanta, B.; Liu, L.; Biswas, S.; Fehrs, J. L.; Sagui, N. A.; Villalobos, J.; Morales-Santelices, J.; Antipin, D.; et al. Cooperative Fe Sites on Transition Metal (Oxy)Hydroxides Drive High Oxygen Evolution Activity in Base. Nat. Commun. 2023, 14 (1), 7688. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43305-z. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Lindquist, G. A.; Gaitor, J. C.; Thompson, W. L.;† Brogden, V.; Noonan, K. J. T.; Boettcher, S. W., Oxidative instability of ionomers in hydroxide-exchange-membrane water electrolyzers. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16 (10), 4373-4387. DOI: 10.1039/d3ee01293j. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Chen, L.; Xu, Q.; Boettcher, S. W., Kinetics and mechanism of heterogeneous voltage-driven water-dissociation catalysis. Joule 2023, 7 (8), 1867-1886. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.06.011. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Marin, D. H.; Perryman, J. T.; Hubert, M. A.; Lindquist, G. A.; Chen, L.; Aleman, A. M.; Kamat, G. A.; Niemann, V. A.; Stevens, M. B.; Regmi, Y. N.; Boettcher, S. W.; Nielander, A. C.; Jaramillo, T. F., Hydrogen production with seawater-resilient bipolar membrane electrolyzers. Joule 2023, 7 (4), 765-781. DOI: 
    10.1016/j.joule.2023.03.005. 

2022:

  • Shen, M.; Kaufman, A. J.; Huang, J.; Price, C.; Boettcher, S. W., Nanoscale Measurements of Charge Transfer at Cocatalyst/Semiconductor Interfaces in BiVO4 Particle Photocatalysts. Nano Lett. 2022, 22 (23), 9493-9499. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03592. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Krivina, R. A.; Zlatar, M.; Stovall, T. N.;† Lindquist, G. A.; Escalera-López, D.; Cook, A. K.; Hutchison, J. E.; Cherevko, S.; Boettcher, S. W., Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis in Acids: Atomic Tuning of the Stability Number for Submonolayer IrOx on Conductive Oxides from Molecular Precursors. ACS Catal. 2023, 13 (2), 902-915. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c04439. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Mitchell, J. B.; Chen, L.; Langworthy, K.; Fabrizio, K.; Boettcher, S. W., Catalytic Proton–Hydroxide Recombination for Forward-Bias Bipolar Membranes. ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 3967-3973. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02043. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Chen, L.; Xu, Q.; Oener, S. Z.; Fabrizio, K.; Boettcher, S. W., Design principles for water dissociation catalysts in high-performance bipolar membranes. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13 (1), 3846. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31429-7. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Krivina, R. A.; Lindquist, G. A.; Beaudoin, S. R.†; Stovall, T. N.†; Thompson, W. L.†; Twight, L. P.; Marsh, D.; Grzyb, J.; Fabrizio, K.; Hutchison, J. E.; Boettcher, S. W., Anode Catalysts in Anion-Exchange-Membrane Electrolysis Without Supporting Electrolyte Conductivity, Dynamics, and Ionomer Degradation. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34 (35), 2203033. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202203033. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Liu, L.; Twight, L. P.; Fehrs, J. L.; Ou, Y.; Sun, D.; Boettcher, S., Purification of residual Ni and Co hydroxides from Fe-free alkaline electrolyte for electrocatalysis studies. ChemElectroChem 2022, 9 (15), e202200279. DOI: 10.1002/celc.202200279.

  • Krivina, R. A.; Lindquist, G. A.; Yang, M. C.; Cook, A. K.; Hendon, C. H.; Motz, A. R.; Capuano, C.; Ayers, K. E.; Hutchison, J. E.; Boettcher, S. W., Three-Electrode Study of Electrochemical Ionomer Degradation Relevant to Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14 (16), 18261-18274. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c22472. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Kaufman, A. J.; Krivina, R. A.; Shen, M.; Boettcher, S. W., Controlling Catalyst–Semiconductor Contacts: Interfacial Charge Separation in p-InP Photocathodes. ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7 (1), 541-549. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02590. (Accepted Pdf)

2021:

  • Knecht, T. A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Hutchison, J. E., Electrochemistry-Induced Restructuring of Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Nanocrystal Films of Relevance to CO2 Reduction. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2021, 168 (12), 126521. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac40ca. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Lindquist, G. A.; Oener, S. Z.; Krivina, R.; Motz, A. R.; Keane, A.; Capuano, C.; Ayers, K. E.; Boettcher, S. W. Performance and Durability of Pure-Water-Fed Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers Using Baseline Materials and Operation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13 (44), 51917-51924. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06053.  (Accepted Pdf)

  • Zhao, Y.; Taylor, E. E.; Hu, X.; Evanko, B.; Zeng, X.; Wang, H.; Ohnishi, R.; Tsukazaki, T.; Li, J.-F.; Stadie, N. P.; Yoo, S. J.; Stucky, G. D.; Boettcher, S. W., What Structural Features Make Porous Carbons Work for Redox-Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors? A Fundamental Investigation. ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 854-861. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02424. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Xu, Q.; Oener, S. Z.; Lindquist, G.; Jiang, H.; Li, C.; Boettcher, S. W., Integrated Reference Electrodes in Anion-Exchange-Membrane Electrolyzers: Impact of Stainless-Steel Gas-Diffusion Layers and Internal Mechanical Pressure. ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 305-312. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02338. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Krivina, R. A.; Ou, Y.; Xu, Q.; Twight, L. P.; Stovall, T. N.; Boettcher, S. W. Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Mixed-Metal Oxides/Oxyhydroxides: From Fundamentals to Membrane Electrolyzer Technology.Acc. Mater. Res.  2021, 2 (7), 548-558. DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.1c00087. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Kempler, P. A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ardo, S., Reinvigorating electrochemistry education. iScience 2021, 24, 102481. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102481. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Boettcher, S. W.; Surendranath, Y., Heterogeneous electrocatalysis goes chemical. Nat. Catal. 2021, 4, 4-5. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-00570-1. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Boettcher, S. W.; Oener, S. Z.; Lonergan, M. C.; Surendranath, Y.; Ardo, S.; Brozek, C.; Kempler, P. A., Potentially Confusing: Potentials in Electrochemistry. ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 261-266. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02443. (Accepted Pdf)

2020

  • Oener, S. Z.; Twight, L. P.; Lindquist, G. A.; Boettcher, S. W., Thin Cation-Exchange Layers Enable High-Current-Density Bipolar-Membrane Electrolyzers via Improved Water Transport.  ACS Energy Lett. 2020, 1-8. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02078. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Lindquist, G. A.; Xu, Q.; Oener, S. Z.; Boettcher, S. W., Membrane Electrolyzers for Impure Water Splitting. Joule 2020, 4, 2549-2561. DOI: 
    10.1016/j.joule.2020.09.020. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Oener, S. Z.; Foster, M.; Boettcher, S. W., Accelerating water dissociation in bipolar membranes and electrocatalysis. Science 2020, 369, 1099-1103. DOI: 
    10.1126/science.aaz1487 (Accepted Pdf)

2019

  • Laskowski, F. A. L., Oener, S. Z., Nellist, M. R., Gordon, A. M., Bain, D. C., Fehrs, J. L. & Boettcher, S. W. Nanoscale catalyst/semiconductor interfaces in photoelectrochemistry. Nat. Mater. 2019. DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0488-z. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Cochran, E. A.; Woods, K. N.; Johnson, D. W.; Page, C. J.; Boettcher, S. W., Unique chemistries of metal-nitrate precursors to form metal-oxide thin films from solution: materials for electronic and energy applications. J. Mater. Chem. A 2019, 7, 24124-24149. DOI: 10.1039/c9ta07727h. (Accepted Pdf)
  •  Enman, L. J., Vise, A. E., Stevens, M. B. & Boettcher, S. W. Effects of Metal Electrode Support on the Catalytic Activity of Fe(oxy)hydroxide for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media. ChemPhysChem 2019, 20 (22), 3089-3095 . DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900511. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Stevens, M. B.; Enman, L. J.; Korkus, E. H.; Zaffran, J.; Trang, C. D. M.†; Asbury, J.†; Kast, M. G.; Toroker, M. C.; Boettcher, S. W., Ternary Ni-Co-Fe oxyhydroxide oxygen evolution catalysts: Intrinsic activity trends, electrical conductivity, and electronic band structure. Nano Research 2019, 12 (9), 2288-2295. DOI: 10.1007/s12274-019-2391-y. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Laskowski, F. A. L.; Nellist, M. R.; Qiu, J.; Boettcher, S. W., Metal oxide/(oxy)hydroxide overlayers as hole collectors and oxygen evolution catalysts on water splitting photoanodes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 1394-1405. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09449. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Xu, D.; Stevens, M. B.; Cosby, M. R.†; Oener, S. Z.; Smith, A. M.; Enman, L. J.; Ayers, K. E.; Capuano, C. B.; Renner, J. N.; Danilovic, N.; Li, Y.; Wang, H.; Zhang, Q.; Boettcher, S. W., Earth-Abundant Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolysis: Effects of Catalyst Conductivity and Comparison with Performance in Three-Electrode Cells. ACS Catalysis 2019, 9 (1), 7-15. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b04001. (Accepted Pdf)

2018

  • Boettcher, S. W., Oxygen stays put during water oxidation. Nat. Catal. 2018, 1 (11), 814-815. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0179-1. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Zhang, T.; Nellist, M.; Enman, L.; Xiang, J.; Boettcher, S., Modes of Fe incorporation in Co-Fe (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. ChemSusChem 2018, 2015-2021. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201801975.

  • Funch, C. J.; Greenaway, A. L.; Boucher, J. W.; Weiss, R.; Welsh, A.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W., Close-spaced vapor transport reactor for III-V growth using HCl as the transport agent. J. Cryst. Growth 2019, 506, 147-155. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.10.031. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Nellist, M. R.; Qiu, J.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Toma, F. M.; Boettcher, S. W., Potential-Sensing Electrochemical AFM Shows CoPi as a Hole Collector and Oxygen Evolution Catalyst on BiVO4 Water-Splitting Photoanodes. ACS Energy Lett. 2018, 3 (9), 2286-2291. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01150. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Enman, L. J.; Stevens, M. B.; Dahan, M. H.; Nellist, M. R.; Toroker, M. C.; Boettcher, S. W., Operando X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Shows Iron Oxidation Is Concurrent with Oxygen Evolution in Cobalt–Iron (Oxy)hydroxide Electrocatalysts. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57 (39), 12840-12844. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201808818. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Evanko, B.; Yoo, S. J.; Lipton, J.; Chun, S.-E.; Moskovits, M.; Ji, X.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D., Stackable bipolar pouch cells with corrosion-resistant current collectors enable high-power aqueous electrochemical energy storage. Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, 11, 2865-2875.  DOI: 10.1039/C8EE00546J. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Laskowski, F. A. L.; Qiu, J.; Nellist, M. R.; Oener, S. Z.; Gordon, A. M.; Boettcher, S. W., Transient photocurrents on catalyst-modified n-Si photoelectrodes: insight from dual-working electrode photoelectro­chemistry. Sustainable Energy Fuels 2018, 2 (9), 1995-2005. DOI: 10.1039/C8SE00187A. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Dette, C.; Hurst, M. R.; Deng, J.; Nellist, M. R.; Boettcher, S. W., Structural Evolution of Metal (Oxy)hydroxide Nanosheets during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 11(6), 5590-5594. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b02796. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Qiu, J.; Hajibabaei, H.; Nellist, M. R.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Oener, S. Z.; Hamann, T. W.; Boettcher, S. W., Catalyst Deposition on Photoanodes: The Roles of Intrinsic Catalytic Activity, Catalyst Electrical Conductivity, and Semiconductor Morphology. ACS Energy Lett. 2018, 3 (4), 961-969. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00336. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Enman, L. J.; Kast, M. G.; Cochran, E. A.; Pledger, E.†; Stevens, M. B.; Boettcher, S. W., Transition-Metal-Incorporated Aluminum Oxide Thin Films: Toward Electronic Structure Design in Amorphous Mixed-Metal Oxides. J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122 (25), 13691-13704. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00239. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Oener, S. Z.; Ardo, S.; Boettcher, S. W., Ionic Processes in Water Electrolysis: The Role of Ion-Selective Membranes. ACS Energy Letters 2017, 2 (11), 2625-2634. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00764. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Cochran, E. A.; Park, D.-H.; Kast, M. G.; Enman, L. J.; Perkins, C. K.; Mansergh, R. H.; Keszler, D. A.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W., Role of Combustion Chemistry in Low-Temperature Deposition of Metal Oxide Thin Films from Solution. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (21), 9480-9488. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03618. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Nellist, M. R.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Qiu, J.; Hajibabaei, H.; Sivula, K.; Hamann, T. W.; Boettcher, S. W., Potential-sensing electrochemical atomic force microscopy for in operando analysis of water-splitting catalysts and interfaces. Nature Energy 2018, 3 (1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-017-0048-1. (Accepted Pdf)

2017

  • Deng, J.; Nellist, M. R.; Stevens, M. B.; Dette, C.; Wang, Y.; Boettcher, S. W., Morphology Dynamics of Single-Layered Ni(OH)2/NiOOH Nanosheets and Subsequent Fe Incorporation Studied by in Situ Electrochemical Atomic Force Microscopy. Nano Lett. 2017, 17 (11), 6922-6926. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03313. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Greenaway, A. L., Boucher, J. W., Oener, S. Z., Funch, C. & Boettcher, S. W. Low-Cost Approaches to III-V Semiconductor Growth for Photovoltaic Applications. ACS Energy Letters, 2017, 2 (10), 2270-2282. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00633. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Qiu, J.; Hajibabaei, H.; Nellist, M. R.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Hamann, T. W.; Boettcher, S. W., Direct in Situ Measurement of Charge Transfer Processes During Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation on Catalyzed Hematite. ACS Cent. Sci. 2017, 3 (9), 1015-1025. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00310. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Stevens, M. B.; Trang, C. D. M.; Enman, L. J.; Deng, J.; Boettcher, S. W., Reactive Fe-Sites in Ni/Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Are Responsible for Exceptional Oxygen Electrocatalysis Activity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (33), 11361-11364.  https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b07117. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Boucher, J.; Boettcher, S., Arsenic antisite and oxygen incorporation trends in GaAs grown by water-mediated close-spaced vapor transport. J. Appl. Phys. 2017, 121 (9), 093102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977757. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Nellist, M.; Chen, Y.; Mark, A.; Gödrich, S.; Stelling, C.; Jiang, J.; Poddar, R.; Li, C.; Papastavrou, G.; Retsch, M.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Huang, Z.; Xiang, C.; Boettcher, S. W., Atomic Force Microscopy with Nanoelectrode Tips for High Resolution Electrochemical, Nanomechanical and Nanoelectrical Imaging. Nanotechnology 2017, 28 (9), 095711. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aa5839. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Laskowski, F. A. L.; Nellist, M. R.; Venkatkarthick, R.; Boettcher, S. W., Junction behavior of n-Si photoanodes protected by thin Ni elucidated from dual working electrode photoelectrochemistry. Energy Environ. Sci. 2017, 10 (2), 570-579. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6EE03505A. (Accepted Pdf)

2016

  • Kast, M. G.; Cochran, E. A.; Enman, L. J.; Mitchson, G.; Ditto, J.; Siefe, C.; Plassmeyer, P. N.; Greenaway, A. L.; Johnson, D. C.; Page, C. J.; Boettcher, S. W., Amorphous Mixed-Metal Oxide Thin Films from Aqueous Solution Precursors with Near-Atomic Smoothness. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (51), 16800-16808.  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.6b11084. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Boettcher, S. W., ACS Energy Letters: Elevating Solar Fuels and Electrocatalysis Research. ACS Energy Letters 2016, 1 (5), 920-921. (editorial). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00504. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Batchellor, A. S.; Kwon, G.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Tiede, D. M.; Boettcher, S. W., Domain Structures of Ni and NiFe (Oxy)Hydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Catalysts from X-ray Pair Distribution Function Analysis. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121 (45), 25421-25429. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b10306. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Stevens, M. B.; Enman, L. J.; Batchellor, A. S.; Cosby, M. R.;† Vise, A. E.; Trang, C. D. M.; Boettcher, S. W., Measurement Techniques for the Study of Thin Film Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (1), 120-140. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02796. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Greenaway, A. L.; Sharps, M. C.; Boucher, J. W.; Strange, L. E.; Kast, M. G.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W., Selective Area Epitaxy of GaAs Microstructures by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport for Solar Energy Conversion Applications. ACS Energy Letters 2016, 1 (2), 402-408. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00217. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Boucher, J. W.; Greenaway, A. L.; Egelhofer, K. E.; Boettcher, S. W., Analysis of performance-limiting defects in pn junction GaAs solar cells grown by water-mediated close-spaced vapor transport epitaxy. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2017, 159, 546-552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.10.004. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Evanko, B.; Yoo, S. J.; Chun, S.-E.; Wang, X.; Ji, X.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D., Efficient Charge Storage in Dual-Redox Electrochemical Capacitors through Reversible Counterion-Induced Solid Complexation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (30), 9373-9376. Co-corresponding author. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b05038. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Nellist, M. R.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Lin, F.; Mills, T. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Semiconductor–Electrocatalyst Interfaces: Theory, Experiment, and Applications in Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 733-740. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00001. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Enman, L. J.; Burke, M. S.; Batchellor, A. S.; Boettcher, S. W. Effects of Intentionally Incorporated Metal Cations on the Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalytic Activity of Nickel (Oxy)hydroxide in Alkaline Media. ACS Catalysis 2016, 2416-2423. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5b02924. (Accepted Pdf)

2015

  • Zou, S.; Burke, M. S.; Kast, M. G.; Fan, J.; Danilovic, N.; Boettcher, S. W. Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis: Intrinsic Activity and the Roles of Electrical Conductivity, Substrate, and Dissolution. Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 8011-8020.  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03404. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Greenaway, A. L.; Davis, A. L.; Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Gallium arsenide phosphide grown by close-spaced vapor transport from mixed powder sources for low-cost III-V photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices. J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 2909-2918. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/ta/c5ta06900a#!divAbstract. 

  • Burke, M. S.; Enman, L. J.; Batchellor, A.; Zou, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Oxygen-evolution-reaction electrocatalysis on transition metal oxides and (oxy)hydroxides: Activity trends and design principles. Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 7549-7558. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03148. (Accepted Pdf)

  •  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. 2015, 6, 3737. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650#. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Batchellor, A. S.; Boettcher, S. W. Pulse-Electrodeposited Ni–Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts with High Geometric and Intrinsic Activities at Large Mass Loadings. ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 6680-6689. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.5b01551. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Nadarajah, A.; Wu, M. Z. B.; Archila, K.; Kast, M. G.; Smith, A. M.; Chiang, T. H.; Keszler, D. A.; Wager, J. F.; Boettcher, S. W. Amorphous In–Ga–Zn Oxide Semiconducting Thin Films with High Mobility from Electrochemically Generated Aqueous Nanocluster Inks. Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 5587. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01813. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W. Advanced Photoelectrochemical Characterization: Principles and applications of dual-working-electrode photoelectrochemistry. In Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuel Production: From Basic Principles to Advanced Devices; Bisquert, J., Gimenez, S., Eds.; Springer: 2016, pp 323-351. (invited submission) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-29641-8_7 (not peer reviewed). 

  • Chun, S.-E.; Evanko, B.; Wang, X.; Vonlanthen, D.; Ji, X.; Stucky, G. D.; Boettcher, S. W. Design of aqueous redox-enhanced electrochemical capacitors with high specific energies and slow self-discharge. Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 7818.  http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8818. (Accepted Pdf)

  • 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. 2015, 137, 3638. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b00281. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Lin, F.; Bachman, B. F.; Boettcher, S. W. Impact of Electrocatalyst Activity and Ion Permeability on Water-Splitting Photoanodes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 2427. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00904. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Smith, A; Trotochaud, L.; Burke, M.S.; Boettcher,S.W. Contributions to Activity Enhancement via Fe Incorporation in Ni-(oxy)hydroxide/Borate Catalysts for Near-Neutral pH Oxygen Evolution.  Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 5261. http://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC08670H(invited "Emerging Investigators Issue"). (Accepted Pdf)

  • Kast, M. G.; Enman, L.; Gurnon, N.; Nadarajah, A.; Boettcher, S. W. Solution-deposited F:SnO2/TiO2 as a base stable protective layer and anti-reflective coating for micro-textured buried-junction H2-evolving Si photocathodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 22830. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506999p. (Accepted Pdf)

  • 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. (back cover) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01943A. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Carnes, M. E.; Knutson, C. C.; Nadarajah, A.; Jr., M. N. J.; Oliveri, A. F.; Norelli, K. M.; Crockett, B. M.; Bauers, S. R.; Moreno-Luna, H. A.; Taber, B. N.; Pacheco, D. J.; Olson, J. Z.; Brevick, K. R.; Sheehan, C. E.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Synthesis of Flat-[Ga13-xInx(μ3-OH)6(μ-OH)18(H2O)24(NO3)15] Clusters as Aqueous Precursors for Solution-Processed Semiconductors. J. Mat. Chem. C, 2, 8492-8496, 2014. http://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC01354A. (Accepted Pdf)

  • Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Greenaway, A. L.; Boettcher, S. W., Homojunction GaAs Solar Cells Grown by Close Space Vapor Transport, Proc. 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Spec. Conf.  2014. http://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2014.6924959.

  • Pluth, M. D.; Boettcher, S. W.; Nazin, G. V.; Greenaway, A. L.; Hartle, M. D. Collaboration and Near-Peer Mentoring as a Platform for Sustainable Science Education Outreach. J. Chem. Educ. 2015. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500377m. (Accepted Pdf)

2014

2013

  • Nadarajah, A.; Carnes, M. E.; Kast, M. G.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W. Aqueous Solution Processing of F-Doped SnO2 Transparent Conducting Oxide Films Using a Reactive Tin(II) Hydroxide Nitrate Nanoscale Cluster. Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 4080-4087. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm402424c (cover). (Accepted Pdf)
  • 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 and computations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2013, 110, 18397-18401. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1315396110. 
  • Trotochaud, L.; Boettcher, S. W. Precise Oxygen Evolution Catalysts: Status and Opportunities. Scr. Mater. 2014, 74, 25. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2013.07.019. 
  • Ritenour, A. J.; Levinrad, S.; Bradley, C.; Cramer, R. C.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical nanostructuring of n-GaAs photoanodes. ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (8), 6840–6849. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4020104. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Towards low-cost high-efficiency GaAs photovoltaics and photoelectrodes grown via vapor transport from a solid source. Proc. SPIE 8725, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications V,2013, 87250Z-87250Z. http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1693133. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Trotochaud, L.; Mills, T.J.; Boettcher, S. W. An Opto-catalytic Model for Semiconductor-catalyst Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes Based on in-situ Optical Measurements on Operational Catalysts. J. Phys. Chem. Let. 2013, 4, 931-935. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz4002604. (Accepted Pdf)
  • Jieratum, V.; Kokenyesi, R. S.; Ritenour, A. J.; Zakharov, L. N.; Boettcher, S. W.; Wager, J. F.; Keszler, D. A. Earth-abundant Cu-based chalcogenide semiconductors as photovoltaic absorbers. J. Mater. Chem. 2013, 1, 657-662.http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2TC00106C. 

2012