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Robert J Nielsen

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Wen Y, Chen P, Wang L, Li S, Wang Z, Abed J, et al.
J Am Chem Soc . 2021 Apr; 143(17):6482-6490. PMID: 33891414
In hydrogen production, the anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limits the energy conversion efficiency and also impacts stability in proton-exchange membrane water electrolyzers. Widely used Ir-based catalysts suffer from insufficient...
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Gallo Jr A, Farinha A, Emwas A, Santana A, Nielsen R, Goddard 3rd W, et al.
Chem Sci . 2019 Dec; 10(35):8256-8261. PMID: 31859689
The air-water interface serves as a crucial site for numerous chemical and physical processes in environmental science and engineering, such as cloud chemistry, ocean-atmosphere exchange, and wastewater treatment. The development...
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Gallo Jr A, Farinha A, Dinis M, Emwas A, Santana A, Nielsen R, et al.
Chem Sci . 2019 Apr; 10(9):2566-2577. PMID: 30996971
The recent application of electrosprays to characterize the air-water interface, along with the reports on dramatically accelerated chemical reactions in aqueous electrosprays, have sparked a broad interest. Herein, we report...
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Lionetti D, Suseno S, Tsui E, Lu L, Stich T, Carsch K, et al.
Inorg Chem . 2019 Feb; 58(4):2336-2345. PMID: 30730725
The modulation of the reactivity of metal oxo species by redox inactive metals has attracted much interest due to the observation of redox inactive metal effects on processes involving electron...
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Chen J, Nielsen R, Goddard 3rd W, McKeown B, Dickie D, Gunnoe T
J Am Chem Soc . 2018 Nov; 140(49):17007-17018. PMID: 30495938
Alkyl and alkenyl arenes are used in a wide range of products. However, the synthesis of 1-phenylalkanes or their alkenyl variants from arenes and alkenes is not accessible with current...
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Huang Y, Nielsen R, Goddard 3rd W
J Am Chem Soc . 2018 Nov; 140(48):16773-16782. PMID: 30406657
We develop the grand canonical potential kinetics (GCP-K) formulation based on thermodynamics from quantum mechanics calculations to provide a fundamental basis for understanding heterogeneous electrochemical reactions. Our GCP-K formulation arises...
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Qian J, An Q, Fortunelli A, Nielsen R, Goddard 3rd W
J Am Chem Soc . 2018 Apr; 140(20):6288-6297. PMID: 29701965
The Haber-Bosch industrial process for synthesis of ammonia (NH) from hydrogen and nitrogen produces the millions of tons of ammonia gas annually needed to produce nitrates for fertilizers required to...
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Lam Y, Nielsen R, Goddard W, Dash A
Dalton Trans . 2017 Sep; 46(37):12507-12515. PMID: 28901363
Density functional theory (DFT, B3LYP-D3 with implicit solvation in toluene) was used to investigate the mechanisms of olefin hydrosilylation catalyzed by PDI(Fe) (bis(imino)pyridine iron) complexes, where PDI = 2,6-(ArN[double bond,...
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Ping Y, Nielsen R, Goddard 3rd W
J Am Chem Soc . 2016 Dec; 139(1):149-155. PMID: 27936679
How to efficiently oxidize HO to O (oxygen evolution reaction, OER) in photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) is a great challenge due to its complex charge transfer process, high overpotential, and corrosion....
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Zhou H, Yu F, Huang Y, Sun J, Zhu Z, Nielsen R, et al.
Nat Commun . 2016 Sep; 7:12765. PMID: 27633712
With the massive consumption of fossil fuels and its detrimental impact on the environment, methods of generating clean power are urgent. Hydrogen is an ideal carrier for renewable energy; however,...