Matt Kast
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-kast/16/256/990
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.
Current Research: Matt is currently studying the chemistry of metal oxide selective contacts.
Publications: Google Scholar Page
Dr. Adam Batchellor
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 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuc3jqpIfvc), 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. Please see his Linked in page for his current employment and whereabouts.
.
Dr. Adam Smith
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.
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
Publications in Boettcher lab:
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.
.
Dr. Thomas J. (T.J.) Mills
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.
Publications in Boettcher lab
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.
Nicholas Gurnon
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
Publications
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. Interfaces2014, 6, 22830–22837. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506999p
Dr. Andrew (Andy) Ritenour
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.
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: Linked in
Publications in Boettcher lab
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.
Dr. Lena Trotochaud
Lena finished her doctoral studies in March of 2014. Please view her LinkedIn account to see her current whereabouts and research: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lenatrotochaud/
Publications in Boettcher lab
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 SnxTi1-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
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Sangeun Chun
Project: Fundamentals of redox supercapacitors for electrical energy storage (arpa-e)
Current: Assistant Professor of Materials Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Email: sangeun@knu.ac.kr
Dr. Fuding Lin
Ph.D. Physics, University of Oregon
Project: Semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts: theory, experiment, and applications to solar water photoelectrolysis (DOE BES)
Current: Director of University of Oregon Semiconductor Graduate Internship Program and the Rapid Materials Prototyping Laboratory
Email: flin@uoregon.edu
Dr. Athavan Nadarajah
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).
Email: nadaraja@uoregon.edu or vnathavan@gmail.com
Publications
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-[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. 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)
Visiting Graduate students |
|
|---|---|
Radhakrishnan Venkatharthick
|
Radhakrishnan was a visiting graduate student from Central Electrochemical Research Institute in India. |
Shihui Zou
|
Shihui Zou was a visiting Ph.D. student from Prof. Jie Fan’s group in Zhejiang China. He is now a PostDoctoral Scholar in Prof. Jie Fan’s group. He also maintains a chemistry blog (in Chinese): http://www.weidu8.net/author/rationalscience Research: Shihui studied OER catalysts as well as integration of OER catalysts with semiconductor photoelectrodes in the Boettcher lab during the 2014-2015 academic year. Zou, S.; Burke, M.; 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. Submitted2015. 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650 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, Invited ‘Up and Coming’ Perspective, Submitted. |
Skye Rios
|
Skye Rios was a visiting PhD student working with Dr. Todd Deutsch and Dr. John Turner at NREL / University of Colorado. He is NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Research: Characterizing electronic and junction properties of passivization and protection layers for high-efficiency tandem photo-electrodes using non-aqueous electrolytes.
|
Hyo Sang Jeon
|
Hyo Sang was a visiting graduate student from Korea Institute of Science and Technology and spent the summer of 2015 in the Boettcher lab. |
UO Undergraduate Students |
|
|---|---|
| Johnny Archer | Research: Fundamentals of 1st-row OER catalysts |
| Jesse Harris | Research: Amorphous thin film synthesis |
|
Richard C. Cramer
|
Mini Bio: An undergraduate from Bend, OR. Richard is a 2009 Presidential Scholar at the University of Oregon where he is a Chemistry/Physics double major and is a part of the Robert D. Clark Honors College. He joined the Boettcher lab in the summer of 2011. In 2012 he was awarded the Beckman Scholarship which provided funding for his work in the Boettcher lab. Richard finished his undergraduate studies in June of 2014. Please view his LinkedIn account to see his current whereabouts and research. www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-c-cramer/5a/2a3/9a7 Research: Close spaced vapor transport growth of GaAs crystals and GaAs-conductive polymer heterojunctions Ritenour, A. J.; Cramer, R. C.; Levinrad, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Efficient n-GaAs Photoelectrodes Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from a Solid Source. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2012, 4, 69-73. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am201631ppdf 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. pdf |
|
Mahkah Wu
|
Mini Bio: Honors College student that completed his undergraduate studies in June 2014 Research: Solution precursors for conducting and semiconducting thin film deposition 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. ASAP, Chemistry of Materials. 2015. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01813pdf |
|
Alex (Guangyuan) Liang
|
Research: Thin film perovskite and spinel oxygen-evolution electrocatalysts |
| Robert DeLancey |
Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after his undergraduate degree Research: III-V materials via CSVT for photovoltaics 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. ASAP, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014. (cover) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01943ASource data and Editable Figures |
|
James Ranney
|
Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after his undergraduate degree Research: Catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction 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/ja502379cpdf 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/ja307507apdf |
| Gina Macy |
Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after her undergraduate degree Research: Catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction |
| Ben Nail |
Mini Bio: McNair Scholar and continued to graduate school at UC Davis Research: Tungstan oxide nanowires |
| Thomas Dannenhoffer | Research: Catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction and mixed metal oxide thin films |
| Erik Jensen | Research: III-IV materials via CSVT for photovoltaics |
Summer Undergraduate Students |
|
|---|---|
|
Lyndi Strange
|
Program: MSI REU (2015) Research: III-V by CSVT for photovoltaics |
|
Allison Davis
|
Program: MSI REU (2014) Research: GaAsP by CSVT for photovoltaics Home university: Park UniversityGreenaway, A. L.; Davis, A.; 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. Submitted2015. |
|
Kevin Alegria-Valenzuela
|
Program: NSF CSMC REU Research: Doped oxides |
|
Chris Siefe
|
Program: NSF CSMC REU Research: Metal oxide for nanolaminates Home university: UC Santa Barbara |
|
Marta Sulima
|
Program: NSF CSMC REU Research: Mixed oxide oxygen electrocatalyst films for use in acidic electrolyte Home university: Cornell University |
|
Julija Vinckeviciute
|
Program: NSF CSMC REU (2013) Research: Multi-component solution processing of thin films with tunable dielectric constants for advanced anti-reflective coatings (for solar applications)Home university: Northwestern University |
|
Alejandro Negrete
|
Program: MSI REU program (2013) Research: Defect analysis in GaAs deposited by close-space vapor transport Home university: California State University, San Bernardino |
| Solomon Levinrad |
Program: Johnson Scholar (2012) Home university: Oregon State University |
| Nazmuhl Sarker | Program: NSF REU (2012) |
| Bri Gordon | Program: NSF Solid State REU (2012) |
| Mitsue Szczepanski | Program: UCORE |
| Tre Buchanan | Program: Scholarships for Oregon Scientists Program |
| Kerisha Williams | Program: UCORE |
| Matthew D Robertson | |
High School Students |
|
|---|---|
| James Asbury | South Eugene High; Spring and Summer 2015; Catalysis project |
| Chris Gabor |
South Eugene High; Spring and Summer 2014; Catalysis project 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650 |
|
Erica Pledger
|
South Eugene High; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2014 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650 |
| Sarah Hovet | Springfield High School; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2013 |
| Micaela Holt | Springfield High School; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2012 |