Email: szo@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-556-3970

Bio: Sebastian was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany, and moved to the University of Constance to study physics in 2006. During the early years of his study he developed interest in renewable energy technologies and joined the photovoltaics department of Prof. Giso Hahn. After a 6 months research stay in the Buonassisi group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he graduated with a diploma thesis on defect characterization of micro- and nanoscale defects in multicrystalline silicon in 2012. Driven to work on novel concepts for solar energy conversion, he joined the starting research group of Dr. Erik Garnett at AMOLF in Amsterdam. There he worked on interfaces in nanoscale photovoltaics and obtained his PhD in 2016. For his postdoc, Sebastian switched research fields focussing on (photo)electrocatalysis in the Boettcher group.

Current Research:  Water dissociation catalysis in bipolar membranes and water electrolysis. Membrane-based water electrolyzers and fuel cells. Operando catalyst and polymer degradation mechanisms. Rational design and fabrication of local environments around a catalyst active site.

Charge Carrier-Selective Contacts in Photoelectrochemistry

In 2018, Sebastian Oener was awarded a DFG Research Fellowship.

Email: jmitch13@uoregon.edu

Phone: 828-896-9237

Current Research: James received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at NC State University under direction of Prof. Veronica Augustyn where his dissertation research focused on understanding materials design strategies for high-power electrochemical energy storage. He joined the Boettcher Laboratory in June 2021. His postdoctoral research focused on developing a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of water dissociation catalysis at the junction of bipolar membranes with emphasis on BPM commercialization.

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Florida 2016

Jingjing studied semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts in solar water splitting photoelectrodes. In 2018 she accepted an Assistant Professor position at San Francisco State University.

After UO: Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University

Bio: Born and raised in Reutlingen, Germany, Christian went to the University of Konstanz to study Physics. Concluding his BSc, which he obtained in 2010, he performed his Bachelor thesis in the group of Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, USA. Christian continued his education by obtaining his MSc in Physics in 2012 from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Following, Christian returned to Germany to become a PhD student in the group of Prof. Klaus Kern at the Max-Planck- Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. During his PhD, he investigated the chemical and electronic properties of the technological important TiO₂ anatase (101) surface by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). He successfully received his PhD degree in 2016.

Research: From March 2017 to 2018 Christian was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Boettcher group. His research focused on development and subsequent application of novel EC-AFM methods to gain more information about catalytic active sites and the semiconductor/catalyst/electrolyte interfaces.

After UO: Technical Sales Engineer at SmarAct, Berkeley CA.

Email: sangeun@knu.ac.kr

Project: Fundamentals of redox supercapacitors for electrical energy storage (arpa-e)

After UO: Assistant Professor of Materials Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Email:  flin@uoregon.edu

Ph.D. Physics, University of Oregon

Project: Semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts: theory, experiment, and applications to solar water photoelectrolysis (DOE BES)

After UO: Director of University of Oregon Semiconductor Graduate Internship Program and the Rapid Materials Prototyping Laboratory

Email: nadaraja@uoregon.edu or vnathavan@gmail.com

Ph.D. Physics, Portland State University w/ Prof. Rolf Koenenkamp

Project: Synthesis and Properties of Solution Processed Transparent Conductors and Semiconductors (with the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry).

After UO: Postdoctoral scholar with Matthew Sheldon at Texas AM.

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. Mat. Interfaces ASAP 2014. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506999p

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-[Ga_13-xIn_x(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. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC01354A

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/cm402424cpdf (cover)

Research: Lizzie joined the Boettcher lab in summer 2015 and studied metal oxide thin film chemistry. She was a joint advised student between Shannon Boettcher and Darren Johnson’s labs.

After UO: Research Engineer at Intel, Hillsboro.

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Bio: Chris completed his undergrad in physics from St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. He traveled across the country to enter the Graduate Internship Program at the University of Oregon. in 2012 he completed his M.S. in applied physics through their semiconductor track. For the programs internship component, he worked at IBM in Vermont. He continued to work there for 3 years as a Process Engineer for ultra-high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHV-CVD) of SiGe films. To further develop his career, he wanted to gain more research experience and exposure to the solar side of the semiconductor industry. In 2015 he returned to Oregon to join the Boettcher Lab in their research on the development and characterization of an alternative method for deposition of III-V films for solar application.

At UO: Chris worked on the design and installation of their new deposition reactor to facilitate the growth of III-V films utilizing dry HCl as a transport agent. He fabricated single junction solar cells of CSVT GaAs, including the first integration of GaInP into a device structure grown by CSVT.

After UO: In the Fall of 2019 he started a new role as a Process Development Engineer withing the R&D Power group at Wolfspeed in Durham, NC.

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Research: Forest Laskowski joined the Boettcher lab in 2015 and studied the semiconductor-catalyst-solution interface of water-splitting devices.

After UO: Postdoc position with Prof. Kimberly See at Caltech

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Research: Michael Nellist joined the Boettcher lab in 2015 and studied the semiconductor-catalyst-solution interface of water-splitting devices. Michael graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 2014 and graduated from UO with a PhD in 2018.

After UO: Research Engineer at Intel, Hillsboro.

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. Accounts of Chemical Research 2016, 49, 733. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00001

Bio & Research: Lisa received her B.S. in Chemistry from Worcester State University in Worcester, MA in 2013, During her time there she received the departmental award in Chemistry and interned in R&D at Gentex/Essilor USA.  She joined the Boettcher Lab in summer 2014 and is currently investigating mixed metal oxides for oxygen evolution catalysis. As part of the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry (CSMC), she is also researching the effects of first row transition metal cations on the atomic and electronic structure of amorphous metal oxide films.  Outside of the lab, Lisa serves as Treasurer on the executive board for UO Women in Graduate Sciences and as a divisional representative for the Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Representative Advisory Team.

After UO: Applied Materials (Bay Area)

Woods, K.N., Plassmeyer, P.N., Park, D.H., Enman, L.J., Grealish, A.K., Kirk, B.L., Boettcher, S.W., Keszler, D.A. and Page, C.J., Low-Temperature Steam Annealing of Metal Oxide Thin Films from Aqueous Precursors: Enhanced Counterion Removal, Resistance to Water Absorption, and Dielectric Constant. Chem Mater. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03585

Stevens, M.B., Trang, C.D., Enman, L.J., Deng, J. and Boettcher, S.W., 2017. Reactive Fe-sites in Ni/Fe (oxy) hydroxide are responsible for exceptional oxygen electrocatalysis activity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139(33), 11361–11364. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b07117

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. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b11084

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 Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts. Chem Mater. 2016, 29(1), 120-140. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02796

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 Catal. 2016, 6(4), 2416-2423. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.5b02924

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(22), 7549-7558. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03148

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(18), 3737-3742. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b016502015

Kast, M. G.; Enman, L. J.; Gurnon, N. J.; Nadarajah, A.; Boettcher, S. W. Solution-Deposited F:SnO₂/TiO₂ as a Base-Stable Protective Layer and Antireflective Coating for Microtextured Buried-Junction H₂-Evolving Si Photocathodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 22830–22837.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506999p

Email: agreenawaychem@gmail.com

BIO:  Annie Greenaway is currently a Director’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, working on the discovery of new, earth abundant and non-toxic semiconductors. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Oregon, working on low-cost routes to the deposition of III-V ternaries and GaAs microstructures. While at UO, Annie was the recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012), an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship (2016), and a P.E.O. International Scholar Award (2016), as well as the chemistry department’s Graduate Student Teaching Award (2013). Annie was also part of the Executive Board for Women in Graduate Sciences (2015 and 2016) and a founding member of LGBT+ in STEM (2016-2017). She obtained her B.A. in Chemistry from Hendrix College (2012), where she was awarded both the Truman and Goldwater Scholarships (2011) after completing two Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory working on photoelectrochemical water splitting (2010 and 2011).

Research:  Annie’s work focused on growth of high-quality III-V microstructures and ternary systems using an atmospheric pressure vapor transport system.

After UO: Directors Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.

Greenaway, A. L.*; Bachman, B. F.; Boucher, J. W.; Funch, C. J.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S.W. Water vapor-mediated close-spaced vapor transport growth of epitaxial gallium indium phosphide films on gallium arsenide substrates. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2018, 1, 284-289. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.7b00199. *corresponding author.

Boucher, J. W.; Greenaway, A. L.; Ritenour, A. J.; Davis, A. L.; Bachman, B. F.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Low-Cost Growth of III-V Layers on Si Using Close-Spaced Vapor Transport. Proc. IEEE PVSC 2015, DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356079.

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

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

Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Greenaway, A. L.; Boettcher, S. W., Homojunction GaAs Solar Cells Grown by Close Space Vapor Transport, Proc. 40^th IEEE Photovoltaic Spec. Conf.  2014.

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BIO:  Born and bred in the treasured big sky state (Montana), in 2008 Michaela ventured further west to Tacoma, WA for her undergraduate studies.  In 2012 she graduated magna cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU: Tacoma, WA) in the International Honors program with a BS and honors in chemistry, a BA in biology, and minor in Hispanic studies.  During her stay at PLU, Michaela was a Presidential Scholar (4 year scholarship), played an active role in the on campus Women’s center, played in the on campus harp ensemble, was a resident assistant in a social action and leadership community, and was a student delegate in Oaxaca, Mexico for a semester as a part of Witness for Peace. During the summer of 2010, she worked as an undergraduate researcher (REU student) at Montana State University in Dr. David Dooley’s inorganic biochemistry lab researching the Michaelis-Menton substrate binding of pseudoazurin with nitrous oxide reductase.  In 2011 she worked in Dr. Justin Lytle’s materials and electrochemistry lab studying carbon inverse opal monoliths. In April 2016, Michaela got married and her name changed from Michaela S. Burke to Michaela Burke Stevens.

Research: She joined the Boettcher group in June of 2013 and primarily researched thin film transition-metal stabilized electrocatalysts for water oxidation. She spent 10 weeks as and intern at Proton Onsite and finished her PhD in June of 2017.

After UO: Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford with Thomas Jaramillo

Zaffran, J.; Stevens, M. B.; Trang, C.D.M.; Nagli, M.; Shehadeh, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Toroker, M. C., Influence of Electrolyte Cations on Ni(Fe)OOH Catalyzed Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chem. Mat. ASAP, 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00517

Stevens, M. B.; Enman, L.; Batchellor, A.; Cosby, M.; Vise, A.; Trang, C.; Boettcher, S. Measurement Techniques for the Study of Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts. 2016, Chem. Mater. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02796

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 Catal. 2016, 6, 2416-2423

Zou, S.; Burke, M. S.; Kast, M.; Fan, J.; Danilovic, N.; Boettcher, S. Fe (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysis: intrinsic activity and the roles of electrical conductivity, substrate, and dissolution. Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 8011–8020.

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.

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, 3737–3742.

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, 3638–3648.

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, 5261–5263.

Email: jboucher@uoregon.edu

BIO: Jason is a physics graduate student from the Pacific North West.

Research: Jason studied the properties of III-V semiconductors grown by potentially low-cost vapor transport techniques.

After UO: Intel (Hillsboro, OR).

Boucher, J. W., D. W. Miller, C. W. Warren, J. D. Cohen, B. E. McCandless, J. T. Heath, M. C. Lonergan, and S. W. Boettcher. “Optical response of deep defects as revealed by transient photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopy in CdTe/CdS solar cells.” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 129 (2014): 57-63. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927024814001056

Ritenour, A. J., Boucher, J. W., DeLancey, R., Greenaway, A. L., Aloni, S., & Boettcher, S. W. (2015). Doping and electronic properties of GaAs grown by close-spaced vapor transport from powder sources for scalable III–V photovoltaics. Energy & Environmental Science, 8(1), 278-285. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ee/c4ee01943a

Boucher, J. W., Ritenour, A. J., Greenaway, A. L., Aloni, S., & Boettcher, S. W. (2014, June). Homojunction GaAs solar cells grown by close space vapor transport. In Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th(pp. 0460-0464). IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6924959

Email: mgkast@gmail.com

Bio:     Matt grew up hiking, camping and fishing in Arizona while living in Phoenix, Arizona.  He attended undergraduate studies at Arizona State University after receiving the Presidents Scholarship (2006-2009). Matt was awarded the Bateman Scholarship (2007), the ACS Analytical Chemistry Award (2009) and the Merck Index Award (2010) while attending classes at ASU. He received his BS in Chemistry Summa Cum Laude from ASU in 2010.  Matt first attended the University of Oregon in the summer of 2010 as part of the Material Science Institute’s Graduate Industrial Internship Program.  He received his MS in Chemistry upon completing the semiconductor track of the MSI-GIIP after interning with Intel and completing classes in photovoltatics, electrochemistry and geochemistry.  Matt returned to UO in 2012 as a Transitional Fellow funded by the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry and joined the Boettcher Lab in the winter term of 2012.

Research:    Matt is studied the chemistry of mixed metal oxide thin films and selective contacts.

After UO: Intel (Hillsboro, OR).

BIO: Growing up in Batavia, the midpoint between Buffalo and Rochester, inspired me to…move.  When the sports Gods left me vertically challenged, I figured the best way out of Dodge was to develop my brain.  I got my BS in Chemical Engineering at Clarkson University in 2003 (yeah, same year as Shannon).  After a brief stint at Kodak, I decided to take my father’s advice and join the Air Force.  I commissioned in 2004 and became a Bioenvironmental Engineer (BEE), basically a cross between OSHA, EPA, and the NRC.  After my first assignment in Utah, I went off to get my MS in Chemical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, graduating in 2011.  During my time there, Elvis was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule, and being dead, to marry my longtime sweetheart Nikki and I (He’s a lot taller than he looks in pictures). After leaving Buffalo, I became an instructor of chemistry at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs. I was lucky enough to get to teach general, environmental and weapons chemistry.  Last summer, I worked at the Defense Forensic Science Center in Atlanta doing some explosive research.  This fall, after my band didn’t get signed (youtube), I left for sunny Eugene to begin my PhD in Dr Boettcher’s group.  After completing my degree, I will go back to the BEE career field before returning to teach at USAFA.

Adam finished his doctoral studies in September of 2016 and is still an active Major in the Airforce. 

After UO: Please see his LinkedIn page for his current employment and whereabouts.

BIO: Adam was born and raised in the tundra of the great Northwoods of Wisconsin. He began his collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County where he received such academic distinctions as the Departmental Distinction Award in Chemistry, the Carl A. Tobakos Memorial Scholarship, the Greenheck Engineering Scholarship and several UW Alumni Association Scholarships.

To finish his undergraduate studies, Adam transferred to the University of Wisconsin Madison where he received both a B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering and a B.S. in Chemistry in 2009. While at UW-Madison, he received ongoing funding through the College of Engineering Colbeck Award and was a participant in the UW-Madison Chem-Nano REU. Adam continued his REU research as an undergraduate research assistant in the Dr. Juan de Pablo lab, investigating protein-membrane kinetics, metastable preparations from the cryodessication of novel sugars, and developing control over the visco-elastic properties of gel rocket fuels using nano-materials.

At the UO Adam was active in the Mad Duck Science Fridays outreach program, received the Promising Scholar Award and was selected as a 2012-2013 NSF GK12 Fellow and did a semester as a graduate intern at Hewlett Packard, Corvallis.

After UO: Adam finished his doctoral studies in June of 2015 and was hired by Intel.  Please see his Linked in page for his current employment and whereabouts: LinkedIn Profile

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. Accepted, Chemistry of Materials. 2015.

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.

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. Accepted.Chem. Comm., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC08670H http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cc/c4cc08670h#!divAbstractpdf

Smith, A. M., Kast, M. G., Nail, B. A., Aloni, S. and Boettcher, S.W. A planar-defect-driven growth mechanism of oxygen-deficient tungsten oxide nanowires, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, DOI:http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ta14163b.

T.J. passed away in a tragic accident in March 2015, during the last year of his graduate studies and months before he planned to graduate. He was awarded his Ph.D. posthumously for his breakthrough research on the theory of photoelectrochemical water splitting systems. T.J. joined the Boettcher lab after finishing his undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon in chemistry where he did undergraduate research with Prof. Mark Lonergan. T.J. took great pride in the quality and rigor of his research. He was insightful and thoughtful. He was kind and truly enjoyed working with and helping others in the research group. His intelligence was breathtaking. He was also a talented musician. He is sorely missed and will be remembered fondly by everyone in the Boettcher lab and all those who knew him.

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.112.148304pdf

Trotochaud, L.; Mills, T.J.; Boettcher, S. W. An Optocatalytic Model for Semiconductor-Catalyst Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes Based on In Situ Optical Measurements on Operational Catalysts. J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2013, 4, 931-935. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz4002604pdf

Mills, T. J.; Boettcher, S. W. The role of surface states in electrocatalyst-modified semiconductor photoelectrodes: Theory and simulations. In preparation. 2015.

Mills, T. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Coupling density functional theory calculations of semiconductor, interface, and catalyst density of states to numerical simulations. In preparation. 2015.

During his time in the Boettcher lab Nick studied solution deposited oxide-thin-film surface passivization and emitter doping optimization of Si solar cells in a collaboration with Solar World. He is currently employed at Polaris Batteries in Portland.

For up to date information please see his LinkedIn profile.

Bio: Andy completed his undergraduate studies at the UO with a B.A. in chemistry cum laude and a minor in Japanese. He conducted gold nanoparticle research in Dr. Hutchison’s group at the UO as an NSF Undergraduate Research Fellow (2004-2005). After graduation he accepted a researcher position at Sony Japan’s Bio-Energy division developing materials and electronics for energy storage devices (2005-2009). After Sony he moved back to Oregon to earn a PhD as one of Prof. Shannon Boettcher’s first graduate students. Andy’s thesis work has centered around gallium arsenide thin films deposited using a vapor transport reactor which he built in the lab. The vapor transport project has since grown into a 3-person team with numerous publications, patents, and funding from the US Department of Energy. In 2014 Andy was selected as a Julie & Rocky Dixon Graduate Innovation Fellow.

After UO: Andy finished his doctoral studies in March of 2015, and was hired by Alta Devices to make high efficiency GaAs solar cells.

Please view his LinkedIn account to see his current whereabouts and research: LinkedIn

Ritenour, A. J.; Boucher, J. W.; DeLancey, R.; Greenaway, A. L.; Aloni, S.; and Boettcher, S. W. Doping and Electronic Properties of GaAs Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from Powder Sources for Scalable III-V PhotovoltaicsAccepted, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014. (cover)

Ritenour, A. J.; Levinrad, S.; Bradley, C.; Cramer, R. C.; and Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Nanostructuring of n-GaAs Photoelectrodes  ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 6840-6849.

Ritenour, A. J. and Boettcher, S. W. Towards high-efficiency GaAs thin-film solar cells grown via close space vapor transport from a solid source Proceedings of the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference. 2012, 913-917.

Ritenour, A. J.; Cramer, R. C.; Levinrad, S.; and Boettcher, S. W. Efficient n-GaAs photoelectrodes grown by close-spaced vapor transport form a solid source  ACS Applied Material Interfaces, 2011, 4, 69-73.

After UO: Lena finished her doctoral studies in March of 2014 and started a postdoctoral scholar position at Berkeley working with Alex Bell. Please view her LinkedIn account to see her current whereabouts and research: LinkedIn

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. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b00281pdf

Trotochaud, L.; Young, S.L.; Ranney, J.K.; Boettcher, S.W. Nickel-Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Electrocatalysts: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Iron Incorporation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136, 6744-6753. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10/1021/ja502379c

Trotochaud, L. and Boettcher, S.W. “Precise Oxygen Evolution Catalysts: Status and Opportunities” Scripta Materialia, 2014, 74, 25-32.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2013.07.019

Trotochaud, L.; Mills, T.J.; Boettcher, S.W. “An Optocatalytic Model for Semiconductor–Catalyst Water-Splitting Photoelectrodes Based on In Situ Optical Measurements on Operational Catalysts” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2013, 4, 931-935.  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz4002604

Trotochaud, L.; Ranney, J.K.; Williams, K.N.; Boettcher, S.W.  “Solution-Cast Metal Oxide Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 17253.   http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja307507a

Trotochaud, L. and Boettcher, S.W. “Synthesis of Rutile-Phase Sn_xTi_1-xO₂ Solid-Solution and (SnO₂)_x/(TiO₂)_1-x Core/Shell Nanoparticles with Tunable Lattice Constants and Controlled Morphologies“Chemistry of Materials, 2011, 23, 4920-4930.   http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm201737x

Jessica obtained a B.S. in Chemistry from California Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2016. Before pursuing her science degree she worked in the legal field as a paralegal for several years. She learned about photoelectrochemical water splitting early in her chemistry education and was fascinated by the area of research. This interest sparked her desire to go to graduate school and research renewable energy. Jessica joined Boettcher lab in 2018 and worked on understanding the semiconductor-catalyst-solution interface of water-splitting devices. She graduated in Spring 2021 and currently works as a process integration engineer for Samsung Austin Semiconductor.

Raina was born in Siberia, Russia. After attaining a business degree at the Eastern-Siberian Tourism Academy in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she moved to the US to study chemistry at the Richard Stockton University of NJ. At Stockton, Raina worked on synthesizing new carbazole derivatives with unique optical and electronic properties under the guidance of Dr Erin Podlesny. Upon completion of her BS in chemistry, Raina moved to Oregon to start her graduate studies at the University of Oregon. She was a joint student in the Boettcher and Hutchison laboratories. After joining the labs in summer of 2018, Raina has been mainly working on designing new catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in acid. She graduated with her PhD in the spring of 2022 and now works as an R&D senior scientist at Moses Lake Industries.

Tawney was a joint student working with Jim Hutchison on the electrochemistry of conducting oxide nanoparticles. She graduated in the spring of 2022 and is now developing electrochemical smart windows as a research scientist at Tynt Technologies, Inc.

Email: glindqui@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-7655

Grace joined the Boettcher lab in summer 2019 and studied anion exchange membrane electrolysis in pure and impure water feed. She graduated with her PhD in 2023 and now works as a senior electrochemical engineer at HGen in Los Angeles, CA.

lihaokun@uoregon.edu

Haokun majored in environmental science at Peking University from 2015 to 2019. During the time of undergraduate research, he decided to go deeper in science, so after graduation he came to the University of Oregon to work with Prof. Shannon Boettcher. Now he is a PhD student studying the fundamentals of bipolar membranes and bipolar membrane electrolysis. In his spare time, he enjoys learning and comparing languages. He is also learning to play the guitar (slowly and amateurly).