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(147) Kang, R.; Zhao, Y.; Hait, D.; Gauthier, J. A.; Kempler, P. A.; Thurman, K.; Boettcher, S. W.; Head-Gordon, M., Understanding Ion-transfer Reactions in Silver Corrosion and Electrodeposition from First-principles Calculations and Experiments. submitted to J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023.

(146) Kaufman, A. J.; Nielander, A. C.; Meyer, G. J.; Maldonado, S.; Ardo, S.; Boettcher, S. W., Absolute band-edge energies aren’t very important in the design of photoelectrochemical materials. in revision at Nature Catalysis 2023.

(145) Twight, L.; Tonsberg, A.*; Sagui, N.; Nicola, E.; Boettcher, S., Trace Fe in alkaline electrolyte governs the activity of perovskite LaNiO3 and La2NiO4 via formation of redox-active surface NiOxHy during operation.  https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/651afd8100659409124e7306

(144)  Lindquist G, Gaitor J, Thompson W, Brogden V, Noonan K, Boettcher S. Oxidative instability of ionomers in hydroxide-exchange-membrane electrolyzers.  Energy and Environmental Science. 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D3EE01293J (pre-print at https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/64471e4183fa35f8f632b031)

(143) Chen, L.; Xu, Q.; Boettcher, S. W., Kinetics and mechanism of heterogeneous voltage-driven water-dissociation catalysis. Joule 2023, 7 (8), 1867-1886.  (pre-print at https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/64494c02df78ec50156cfb0b)

(142) 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.

(141) 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. 2023, re-submission pending revisions.

(140) Shaw, W.; Autrey, T.; Bare, S.; Biddinger, E.; Boettcher, S.; Britt, P.; Brown, R.; Bullock, R. M.; Chen, J.; Daniel, C.; Delferro, M.; Dorhout, P.; Gaffney, K.; Gagliardi, L.; Harper, A.; Heldebrant, D.; Kidder, M.; Luca, O.; Lyubovsky, M.; Male, J.; Miller, D.; Morris, J.; Prozorov, T.; Rallo, R.; Rioux, R.; Sadow, A.; Schaidle, J.; Schulte, L.; Senanayake, S.; Sholl, D.; Tarpeh, W.; Toma, F. M.; Vlachos, D.; Vogt, B.; Yang, J.; Arenholz, E.; Helms, B.; Huang, W.; Jordahl, J.; Karakaya, C.; Kian, K.; Kothandaraman, J.; Lercher, J.; Liu, P.; Malhotra, D.; Mueller, K.; O’Brien, C.; Palomino, R.; Qi, L.; Rodriguez, J.; Rousseau, R.; Russell, J.; Sarazen, M.; Smith, E.; Stevens, M. B.; Surendranath, Y.; Tassone, C.; Tran, B.; Tumas, W.; Walton, K., Closing the Carbon Cycle: Net-Zero Carbon Emissions for Difficult to Electrify Segments of our Economy. Revised manuscript submitted, Nature Reviews Chem, 2023.

(139)  Ou, Y.; Samanta, B.; Liu, L.; Fehrs, J. L.; Twight, L. P.; Caspary-Toroker, M.; Boettcher, S. W., Cooperative Fe Sites on Transition Metal (Oxy)hydroxides for High Oxygen Evolution Activity.  Nature Communications  2023. accepted. preprint: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/64e8f5b73fdae147fad3c87f

(138) 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.

(137) 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.

(136)  Glenn, J. R.; Lindquist, G. A.; Roberts, G. M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ayers, K. E., Standard operating procedure for post-operation component disassembly and observation of benchtop water electrolyzer testing. Frontiers in Energy Research 2022, 10, 10.3389/fenrg.2022.908672.

(135)   Chen, L.; Xu, Q.; Oener, S. Z.; Fabrizio, K.; Boettcher, S. W., Design principles for water dissociation catalysts in high-performance bipolar membranes. Nature Communications 2022, 13 (1), 3846.

(134)     Xie, K.; Miao, R. K.; Ozden, A.; Liu, S.; Chen, Z.; Dinh, C.-T.; Huang, J. E.; Xu, Q.; Gabardo, C. M.; Lee, G.; Edwards, J. P.; O’Brien, C. P.; Boettcher, S. W.; Sinton, D.; Sargent, E. H., Bipolar membrane electrolyzers enable high single-pass CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products. Nature Communications 2022, 13 (1), 3609.

(133)    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.

(132)     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,  (https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202200279).

(131)     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.

(130)     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.

(129)     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.

(128)     Padavala, S. K. M.; Artyushkova, K.; Boettcher, S.; Nemšák, S.; Stoerzinger, K. A., Understanding methanol dissociative adsorption and oxidation on amorphous oxide films. Faraday Discuss. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1FD00109D

(127)      Bell, A. T.; Boettcher, S. W., Oxygen Evolution Reaction: Catalysts, Mechanisms, and Durability. Journal of Physics: Energy 2021, Invited “Roadmap” Article. Accepted.

(126)      Boettcher, S. W., How might bipolar membranes optimize CO2R electrolyzer efficiency? Journal of Physics: Energy 2021, Invited “Roadmap” Article. Accepted.

(125) Qiu, J.; Nellist, M.; Boettcher, S. W., Metal Oxide Co-catalyst Nanolayers on Photoelectrodes. In Ultrathin Oxide Layers for Solar and Electrocatalytic Systems, Frei, H.; Esposito, D., Eds. Royal Society of Chemistry: 2021.

(124) 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, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c06053.

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(123) Kempler, P. A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ardo, S., Reinvigorating electrochemistry education. iScience 2021, 24, 102481.

(122) 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.

(121) 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.

(120) Lindquist, G. A.; Xu, Q.; Oener, S. Z.; Boettcher, S. W., Membrane Electrolyzers for Impure-Water Splitting. Joule 2020, 4, 2549-2561.

(119) Xu, Q.; Jiang, H.; Duan, X.; Jiang, Z.; Hu, Y.; Boettcher, S. W.; Zhang, W.; Guo, S.; Li, C., Fluorination-enabled Reconstruction of NiFe Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water Oxidation. Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 492-499.

(118) Boettcher, S. W.; Surendranath, Y., Heterogeneous electrocatalysis goes chemical. Nature Catalysis 2021, 4, 4-5.

(117) 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.

(116) 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.

(115) Krivina, R. A.; Knecht, T. A.; Crockett, B. M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Hutchison, J. E., Sculpting Optical Properties of Thin Film IR Filters through Nanocrystal Synthesis and Additive, Solution Processing. Chem. Mater. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03225.

(114) Oener, S. Z.; Foster, M. J.; Boettcher, S. W., Accelerating water dissociation in bipolar membranes and for electrocatalysis. Science 2020, 369, 1099-1103.

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(113) 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. Nature Mater. 2019. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0488-z

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(112) 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 accepted, 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cphc.201900511 Figures and Data

(111) 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, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2391-y  (Young Investigator in NanoEnergy Award Issue)

(110) 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.  https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09449

(109) 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b04001

(108) Boettcher, S. W., Oxygen stays put during water oxidation. Nature Catalysis 2018, 1 (11), 814-815. (News and Views – not peer reviewed) https://rdcu.be/bbMmM

(107) 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201801975  Figures and data

(106) 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.10.031

(105) Cui, J.; Kast, M. G.; Hammann, B. A.; Afriyie, Y.; Woods, K. N.; Plassmeyer, P. N.; Perkins, C. K.; Ma, Z. L.; Keszler, D. A.; Page, C. J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Hayes, S. E., Aluminum Oxide Thin Films from Aqueous Solutions: Insights from Solid-State NMR and Dielectric Response. Chem. Mater. 2018,30 (21), 7456-7463. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b05078

(104) 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01150

(103) 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201808818 All Figures and Data

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(102) 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.  Back cover article. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8EE00546J(101) 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.  https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00187A

(100) 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. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02796

(99) 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

(98) 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

(97) Xu, D.; Stevens, M. B.; Rui, Y.; DeLuca, G.; Boettcher, S. W.; Reichmanis, E.; Li, Y.; Zhang, Q.; Wang, H., The role of Cr doping in NiFe oxide/(oxy)hydroxide electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution. Electrochim. Acta 2018, 265, 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.01.143

(96) 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 Appl. Energy Mater. 2018,1 (2), 284-289. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.7b00199

(95) 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

(94) 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

(93) 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

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(92) Mills, T. J.; Laskowski, F. A. L.; Dette, C.; Nellist, M. R.; Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W., The role of surface states in electrocatalyst-modified semiconductor photoelectrodes: Theory and simulations. Physics arXiv. arXiv:1707.03112 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03112 (not peer reviewed)

(91) 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

(90) Evanko, B.; Boettcher, S. W.; Yoo, S. J.; Stucky, G. D., Redox-Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors: Status, Opportunity, and Best Practices for Performance Evaluation. ACS Energy Lett. 2017,2 (11), 2581-2590. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00828

(89) Oener, S. Z.; Khoram, P.; Brittman, S.; Mann, S. A.; Zhang, Q.; Fan, Z.; Boettcher, S. W.; Garnett, E. C., Perovskite Nanowire Extrusion. Nano Lett. 2017,17 (11), 6557-6563. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02213

(88) Dette, C.; Boettcher, S. W., Surface science: Catalytic hotspots get noisy. Nature 2017, 549 (7670), 34-35. (News and Views Article – not peer reviewed) https://doi.org/10.1038/549034a

(87) Fulton, B. L.; Perkins, C. K.; Mansergh, R. H.; Jenkins, M. A.; Gouliouk, V.; Jackson, M. N.; Ramos, J. C.; Rogovoy, N. M.*; Gutierrez-Higgins, M. T.; Boettcher, S. W.; Conley, J. F.; Keszler, D. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Johnson, D. W., Minerals to Materials: Bulk Synthesis of Aqueous Aluminum Clusters and Their Use as Precursors for Metal Oxide Thin Films. Chem. Mater. 2017,29 (18), 7760-7765.  http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02106

(86) 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 Letters20172 (10), 2270-2282. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00633

(85) Woods, K. N.; Plassmeyer, P. N.; Park, D.-H.; Enman, L. J.; Grealish, A. K.*; Kirk, B. L.; Boettcher, S. W.; Keszler, D. A.; 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. 2017,29 (19), 8531-8538. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03585

(84) Woods, K. N.; Waddington, E. C.; Crump, C. A.; Bryan, E. A.; Gleckler, T. S.; Nellist, M. R.; Duell, B. A.; Nguyen, D. P.; Boettcher, S. W.; Page, C. J., Tunable high-k ZrxAl1-xOy thin film dielectrics from all-inorganic aqueous precursor solutions. RSC Advances 2017,7 (62), 39147-39152.  https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RA08362A

(83) 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

(82) 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 Figures and Data

(81) Yoo, S. J.; Evanko, B.; Wang, X.; Romelczyk, M.; Taylor, A.; Ji, X.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D., Fundamentally Addressing Bromine Storage through Reversible Solid-State Confinement in Porous Carbon Electrodes: Design of a High-Performance Dual-Redox Electrochemical Capacitor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017,139 (29), 9985-9993. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b04603

(80) Zaffran, J.; Stevens, M. B.; Trang, C. D. M.*; Nagli, M.; Shehadeh, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Caspary Toroker, M., Influence of Electrolyte Cations on Ni(Fe)OOH Catalyzed Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Chem. Mater. 2017,29 (11), 4761-4767. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00517

(79) 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

(78) 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

(77) 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

(76) Huang, Z.; De Wolf, P.; Poddar, R.; Li, C.; Mark, A.; Nellist, M. R.; Chen, Y.; Jiang, J.; Papastavrou, G.; Boettcher, S. W.; Xiang, C.; Brunschwig, B. S., PeakForce Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy with Nanoelectrode Probes. Microscopy Today2016, 24 (6), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1551929516000882 (not peer reviewed)

(75) 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

(74) Woods, K. N.; Chiang, T.-H.; Plassmeyer, P. N.; Kast, M. G.; Lygo, A. C.;* Grealish, A. K.;* Boettcher, S. W.; Page, C. J., High-κ Lanthanum Zirconium Oxide Thin Film Dielectrics from Aqueous Solution Precursors. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017,9 (12), 10897-10903. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00915

(73) 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

(72) 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

(71) 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

70) 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

(69) 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

(68) 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

(67) 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

(66) 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 Catalysis2016, 2416-2423. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5b02924

(65) Martinez, A. D.; Warren, E. L.; Gorai, P.; Borup, K. A.; Kuciauskas, D.; Dippo, P. C.; Ortiz, B. R.; Macaluso, R. T.; Nguyen, S. D.; Greenaway, A. L.; Boettcher, S. W.; Norman, A. G.; Stevanović, V.; Toberer, E. S.; Tamboli, A. C. Solar energy conversion properties and defect physics of ZnSiP2Energy Environ. Sci.2016, 9, 1031-1041. http://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE02884A

(64) 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

(63) 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. A2016, 4, 2909-2918.http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/ta/c5ta06900a#!divAbstract.

(62) 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, Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 7549-7558. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03148 (Cover)

(61) 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#(60) Batchellor, A.; Trotochaud, L.; Boettcher, S. W. In Situ Characterization of the Optical Properties of Electrocatalysts, In Advanced and In Situ Analytical Methods for Solar Fuel Materials2015Vol. 371 of Topics in Current Chemistry pp 253-324. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/128_2015_650 (not peer reviewed)

(59) 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 Catalysis2015, 5, 6680-6689.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.5b01551

(58) 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

(57) 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)

(56) 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

(55) 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

(54) 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

(53) 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”)

(52) 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

 

Publications Prior to (Early) Tenure

(51) 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

(50) 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-xInx3-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

(49)  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

(48) 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

(47) 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. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6744. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja502379c

(46) Wang, B.; Maciá-Agulló, J. A.; Prendiville, D. G.; Zheng, X.; Liu, D.; Zhang, Y.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ji, X.; Stucky, G. D. A Hybrid Redox-Supercapacitor System with Anionic Catholyte and Cationic Anolyte. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2014, 161, A1090. http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/161/6/A1090.abstract

(45) Mills, T. J.; Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W. Theory and simulations of electrocatalyst-coated semiconductor electrodes for solar water splitting. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014, 112, 148304. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.148304

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

(43)  Smith, A. M.; Kast, M. G.; Nail, B. A.;* Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. A planar-defect-driven growth mechanism of oxygen deficient tungsten oxide nanowires. J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 6121. http://doi.org/10.1039/C3TA14163B.

-Highlighted as “Emerging investigator”: Profile: Emerging investigators. J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, link

(42) Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W. Adaptive semiconductor-electrocatalyst junctions in water splitting photoanodes. Nat. Mater. 2014, 13, 81-86. http://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3811

– Highlighted in Nature Materials with a News and Views by Thomas Hamann

(41) 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)

(40) 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

(39)  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

(38) 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

(37) 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

(36)  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

(35) 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

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

(33) Ritenour, A. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Towards High-Efficiency GaAs Thin-Film Solar Cells Grown via Close Space Vapor Transport from a Solid Source., Proc. 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Spec. Conf. 2012. http://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317751

(32) 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. Interfaces 2012, 4, 69-73. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am201631p

(31) Trotochaud, L.; 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. Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 4920-4930. http://doi.org/10.1021/cm201737x

Publications prior to joining UO faculty:

(30)  McKone, J. R.; Warren, E. L.; Bierman, M. J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Lewis, N. S.; Gray, H. B. Evaluation of Pt, Ni, and Ni-Mo electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution on crystalline Si electrodes. Energy Environ. Sci. 2011, 4, 3573-3583. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/ee/c1ee01488a

(29)  Johansson, E.; Boettcher, S.W.; O’Leary, L. E.; Poletayev, A. D.; Maldonado, S.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Lewis, N. S. Control of the pH-Dependence of the Band Edges of Si(111) Surfaces Using Mixed Methyl/Allyl Monolayers. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 8594-8601. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp109799e

(28)  Boettcher, S. W.; Warren, E. L.; Putnam, M. C.; Santori, E. A.; Turner-Evans, D.; Kelzenberg, M. D.; Walter, M. G.; McKone, J. R.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Atwater, H. A.; Lewis, N. S. Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Using Si Microwire Arrays. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1216-1219. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja108801m

(27)  Kelzenberg, M. D.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Putnam, M. C.; Boettcher, S. W.; Briggs, R. M.; Baek, J. Y.; Lewis, N. S.; Atwater, H. A. High-performance Si microwire photovoltaics. Energy Environ. Sci. 2011, 4, 866-871. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/EE/C0EE00549E

(26)  Schierhorn, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Peet, J. H.; Matioli, E.; Bazan, G.; Stucky, G. D.; Moskovits, M. CdSe Nanorods Dominate Photocurrent of Hybrid CdSe−P3HT Photovoltaic Cell. ACS Nano 2010 4, 6132-6136. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn101742c

(25)  Warren, E. L.; Boettcher, S. W.; Walter, M. G.; Atwater, H. A.; Lewis, N. S. pH-Independent, 520 mV Open-Circuit Voltages of Si/Methyl Viologen2+/+ Contacts Through Use of Radial n+p-Si Junction Microwire Array Photoelectrodes. J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 115, 594-598. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp109147p

(24)  Walter, M.; Warren, E.; McKone, J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Qixi, M.; Santori, L.; Lewis, N. S. Solar Water Splitting Cells. Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 6446-6473. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr1002326

(23)  Strandwitz, N. C.; Nonoguchi, Y.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D. In Situ Photopolymerization of Pyrrole in Mesoporous TiO2. Langmuir 2010, 26, 5319-5322. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la100913e

(22)  Spurgeon, J. M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Kelzenberg, M. D.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Atwater, H. A.; Lewis, N. S. Flexible, Polymer-Supported, Si Wire Array Photoelectrodes. Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 3277. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201000602/abstract

(21)  Putnam, M. C.; Boettcher, S. W.; Kelzenberg, M. D.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Spurgeon, J. M.; Warren, E. L.; Briggs, R. M.; Lewis, N. S.; Atwater, H. A. Si microwire-array solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 2010, 3, 1037-1041.  (cover) http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2010/ee/c0ee00014k

(20)  Kelzenberg, M. D.; Boettcher, S. W.; Petykiewicz, J. A.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Putnam, M. C.; Warren, E. L.; Spurgeon, J. M.; Briggs, R. M.; Lewis, N. S.; Atwater, H. A. Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications. Nat. Mater. 2010, 9, 239-244. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v9/n3/pdf/nmat2635.pdf

(19)  Boettcher, S. W.; Spurgeon, J. M.; Putnam, M. C.; Warren, E. L.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Kelzenberg, M. D.; Maiolo, J. R.; Atwater, H. A.; Lewis, N. S. Energy-Conversion Properties of Vapor-Liquid-Solid-Grown Silicon Wire-Array Photocathodes. Science 2010, 327, 185-187. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/327/5962/185.pdf

(18)  Boettcher, S. W.; Schierhorn, M.; Strandwitz, N. C.; Lonergan, M. C.; Stucky, G. D. Ionic-Ligand-Mediated Electrochemical Charging of Anionic Gold Nanoparticle Films and Anionic-Cationic Gold Nanoparticle Bilayers. J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 4168-4178. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp910308s

(17)  Schierhorn, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Kraemer, S.; Stucky, G. D.; Moskovits, M. Photoelectro­chemical Performance of CdSe Nanorod Arrays Grown on a Transparent Conducting Substrate. Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 3262-3267. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl901522b

(16)  Putnam, M. C.; Turner-Evans, D. B.; Kelzenberg, M. D.; Boettcher, S. W.; Lewis, N. S.; Atwater, H. A. 10 mm minority-carrier diffusion lengths in Si wires synthesized by Cu-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid growth. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2009, 95. http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v95/i16/p163116_s1

(15)  Strandwitz, N. C.; Khan, A.; Boettcher, S. W.; Mikhailovsky, A. A.; Hawker, C. J.; Nguyen, T. Q.; Stucky, G. D. One- and two-photon induced polymerization of methylmethacrylate using colloidal CdS semiconductor quantum dots. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 8280-8288. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja711295k

(14)  Schierhorn, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ivanovskaya, A.; Norvell, E.; Sherman, J. B.; Stucky, G. D.; Moskovits, M. Fabrication and electrochemical photovoltaic response of CdSe nanorod arrays. J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 8516-8520. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp802624j

(13)  Fan, J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Tsung, C. K.; Shi, Q.; Schierhorn, M.; Stucky, G. D. Field-directed and confined molecular assembly of mesostructured materials: Basic principles and new opportunities. Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 909-921. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm702328k

(12)  Boettcher, S. W.; Berg, S. A.; Schierhorn, M.; Strandwitz, N. C.; Lonergan, M. C.; Stucky, G. D. Ionic Ligand Mediated Electrochemical Charging of Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies. Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 3404-3408. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nl8021412

(11) Boettcher, S. W.; Strandwitz, N. C.; Schierhorn, M.; Lock, N.; Lonergan, M. C.; Stucky, G. D. Tunable electronic interfaces between bulk semiconductors and ligand-stabilized nanoparticle assemblies. Nat. Mater. 2007, 6, 592-596. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v6/n8/pdf/nmat1943.pdf

(10)  Boettcher, S. W.; Fan, J.; Tsung, C. K.; Shi, Q. H.; Stucky, G. D. Harnessing the Sol-Gel Process for the Assembly of Non-Silicate Mesostructured Oxide Materials. Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 784-792. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ar6000389

(9) Schierhorn, M.; Lee, S. J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D.; Moskovits, M. Metal-silica hybrid nanostructures for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 2829. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.200601254/pdf

(8) Fan, J.; Boettcher, S. W.; Stucky, G. D. Nanoparticle assembly of ordered multicomponent mesostructured metal oxides via a versatile sol-gel process. Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 6391-6396. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm062359d

(7) Boettcher, S. W.; Bartl, M. H.; Hu, J. G.; Stucky, G. D. Structural analysis of hybrid titania-based mesostructured composites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 9721-9730. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja050753r

(6) Bartl, M. H.; Boettcher, S. W.; Frindell, K. L.; Stucky, G. D. 3-D molecular assembly of function in titania-based composite material systems. Acc. Chem. Res. 2005, 38, 263-271. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ja050753r

(5) Andersson, M.; Birkedal, H.; Franklin, N. R.; Ostomel, T.; Boettcher, S.; Palmqvist, A. E. C.; Stucky, G. D. Ag/AgCl-loaded ordered mesoporous anatase for photocatalysis. Chem. Mater. 2005, 17, 1409-1415. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm0485761

(4) Cheng, C. H. W.; Boettcher, S. W.; Johnston, D. H.; Lonergan, M. C. Unidirectional current in a polyacetylene hetero-ionic junction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 8666-8667. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja0493695

(3) Bartl, M. H.; Boettcher, S. W.; Hu, E. L.; Stucky, G. D. Dye-activated hybrid organic/inorganic mesostructured titania waveguides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10826-10827. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja0480771

(2) Jin, S.; Popp, F.; Boettcher, S. W.; Yuan, M.; Oertel, C. M.; DiSalvo, F. J. Synthesis, characterization and properties of Mo6S8(4-tert-butylpyridine)6 and related M6S8L6 cluster complexes (M = Mo, W). J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 2002, 3096-3100. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2002/DT/b202246j

(1) Daniels-Hafer, C.; Jang, M.; Boettcher, S. W.; Danner, R. G.; Lonergan, M. C. Tuning charge transport at the interface between indium phosphide and a polypyrrole-phosphomolybdate hybrid through manipulation of electrochemical potential. J. Phys. Chem. B 2002, 106, 1622-1636. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp013022w