Chemistry Department Publications
  1. Bhatia, H.; Adams, L. P.; Cordsiemon, I.; Sahoo, S. K.; Choudhury, A.; Cundari, T. R.; Stavropoulos, P. Comparative Nitrene-Transfer Chemistry to Olefins Mediated by First-Row Transition Metal Catalysts Supported by a Pyridinophane Macrocycle with N4 Ligation, Molecules, 2025, 30 (15), art. no. 3097. DOI: 10.3390/molecules30153097
  2. Bhattacharya, S.; Aghayi-Anaraki, M.; Gerasimchuk, N.; Kelley, S. P.; Choudhury, A. Electrochemically Active Molybdenum Phosphate with Open-Framework Structure. Zeitschrift fur Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 2025, 651 (18), art. no. e202500140. DOI: 10.1002/zaac.202500140
  3. Sundaramoorthy, S.; Aghayi-Anaraki, M.; Bhattacharya, S.; Choudhury, A. Accessing Cation and Anion Redox in Mixed-Valent One-Dimensional Iron-Chalcogenides, Na5Fe1S2–xSex(x = 0, 1, and 2), for Na-Ion Batteries. Chemistry of Materials, 2025, 37 (23), 9544 – 9556. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02316
  4. Zhang, Q.; Choudhury, A.; Chernatynskiy, A. A symmetry-oriented crystal structure prediction method for crystals with rigid bodies. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 2025, 37 (9), art. no. 095901. DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ad9f07
  5. Helaley, A.; Yu, H.; Nath, M.; Liang, X. Synergistic Doping and Coating Strategy for Boosting Na7MnO2 Cathode Performance in Sodium-Ion Batteries. Electrochimica Acta, 2025, 541, art. no. 147279. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2025.147279
  6. Kar, R.; Nouralishahi, A.; Liyanage, W. P. R.; Nath, M. Electrodeposited nickel telluride nanoparticles as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for sea water splitting. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2025, 13 (3), art. no. 116865. DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.116865
  7. Zhao, S. -D.; Bai, B.; Schuman, T. Experimental study of dehydration performance of re-crosslinkable preformed particle gel during extruding through an open fracture. Petroleum Science, 2025, 22 (9), 3760 – 3769. DOI: 10.1016/j.petsci.2025.06.010
  8. Heskin, M.; Deuser, B.; Schuman, T.; Chandrashekhara, K.; Bayldon, J.; DeGrange, J.; Patterson, S.; Levenhagen, N. Mechanical and Thermal Characterization of Additively Manufactured Carbon/Nylon 12 and Carbon/PEEK Composites. Applied Composite Materials, 2025,  32(6), 2789–2809. DOI: 10.1007/s10443-025-10363-z
  9. Darko, K.C., Liu, Y., Schuman, T., Wei, M., Bai, B. Laboratory investigation of high-temperature preformed particle gels for fluid control in granite cores for geothermal applications. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2025, 52 (5), 1378 – 1388. DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(25)60649-5
  10. Alotibi, A.; Song, T.; Bai, B.; Schuman, T. Transport and Plugging Performance Evaluation of a Novel Recrosslinkable Microgel Used for Conformance Control in Mature Oil Fields with Superpermeable Channels. SPE Journal, 2025, 30(2), 823-835. https://doi.org/10.2118/215168-PA
  11. Owusu, S. Y.; Soni, R. U.; Sotiriou-Leventis, C. Catalytic synthesis of iron-doped graphitic aerogels from poly(phloroglucinol-terephthalaldehyde – urethane) precursors. Carbon Trends, 2025, 21, art. no. 100573. DOI: 10.1016/j.cartre.2025.100573
  12. Edlabadkar, V. A.; Soni, R. U.; Owusu, S. Y.; Doulah, A. B. M. S. U.; Leventis, N.; Sotiriou-Leventis, C. High-Capacity, Reversible, and Energy-Efficient Water Vapor Sorption by Hierarchical Micro-to-Macroporous Carbon Aerogels from Polybenzoxazine and Polybenzodiazine. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2025, 17 (35), 49829 – 49841. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c10789
  13. Darkwah, E. K.; Aryal, P.; Todeti, S.; Kenik, J.; Insall, S.; Reddy, V. P.; Sotiriou-Leventis, C. Efficient Decontamination of Organophosphate-Based Pesticides and Nerve Agent Simulants Mediated by N-Containing Nucleophiles. ACS Omega, 2025, 10 (32), 35878 – 35891. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c02810
  14. Taiwo, M. D.; Kafeenah, H.; Duvernell, D. D.; Eze, M. O. Bioaccumulation pattern of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fish tissues from two freshwater systems. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 2025, 20, art. no. 100875. DOI: 10.1016/j.hazadv.2025.100875
  15. Unagwu, B. O.; Odu, C. F.; Amuji, C. F.; Eze, M. O.; Ebido, N. E.; Abara, C. U.; Igboka, C. R.; Chukwudi, U. P. The Influence of Black Soldier Fly Residue on Watermelon Growth and the Properties of a Coarse-Textured Ultisol. Soil Systems, 2025, 9 (2), art. no. 43. DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems9020043
  16. Kafeenah, H.; Eze, M. O. Trends in volatile organic compound-based metabolomics for biomarker discovery. Microchemical Journal, 2025, 213, art. no. 113700. DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2025.113700
  17. Davies, A. R.; Moon, N. T.; Duerden, A. J.; McFadden, T. M. C.; Guirgis, G. A.; Grubbs, G. S. Rotational spectroscopy, quadrupole coupling and unusual quartic centrifugal distortion constants of 1,1-dichloro-1-silacyclopent-2-ene. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 2025, 413-414, art. no. 112038. DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2025.112038
  18. Obenchain, D. A.; Hartwig, B.; Frohman, D. J.; Grubbs, G. S.; Long, B. E.; Pringle, W. C.; Novick, S. E.; Cooke, S. A. A Pure Rotational Spectroscopic Study of Two Nearly-Equivalent Structures of Hexafluoroacetone Imine, (CF3)2C=NH. Molecules, 2025, 30 (9), art. no. 2051. DOI: 10.3390/molecules30092051
  19. Isert, J. E.; Grubbs, G. S.; Cooke, S. A. Pure rotational spectroscopic measurements on a uranium-containing polyatomic compound: SUO2. Chemical Physics Letters, 2025, 858, art. no. 141726. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2024.141726
  20. Isert, J. E.; Davies, A. R.; Grubbs, G. S.; Cooke, S. A. Laser ablation syntheses of OThS and OCeS and their characterization by rotational spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2025, 27 (4), 1804 – 1808. DOI: 10.1039/d4cp04382k
  21. Stratulat, A-M.; Nesterova, V.; Korostelev, V.; Beidaghi, M.; Mochalin, V. N.; Klyukin, K. Defect-Driven Degradation of MXenes in Aqueous Environments and Mitigation Strategies: Insights from First-Principles. ACS Nano, 2025, 19(42), 36994–37003. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5c09946
  22. Bondar, D.; Smirnova, O.; Nagappa, N. M.; Heinmaa, I.; Soukup, O.; Kobrlova, T.; Opravil, J.; Hrabinová, M.; Jun, D.; Starkov, P.; Spuul, P.; Kuča, K.; Mochalin, V. N.; Karpichev, Y. Nanodiamond mediated delivery of pyridinium oxime antidotes to central nervous system for potential treatment of exposure to nerve agents. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 2025, 420, art. no. 111711. DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2025.111711
  23. Johnson, B. C.; de Vries, M. O.; Healey, A. J.; Capelli, M.; Manian, A.; Thalassinos, G.; Abraham, A. N.; Hapuarachchi, H.; Luo, T.; Mochalin, V. N.; Jeske, J.; Cole, J. H.; Russo, S.; Gibson, B. C.; Stacey, A.,; Reineck, P. The Nitrogen-Vacancy-Nitrogen Color Center: A Ubiquitous Visible and Near-Infrared-II Quantum Emitter in Nitrogen-Doped Diamond. ACS Nano, 2025, 19 (20), 19046 – 19056. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c18283
  24. Huang, S.; Xiang, G.; Mochalin, V. N. Formation of hydrocarbons and carbon oxides in MXene reactions with water under varying oxidative conditions. Nanoscale, 2025, 17 (16), 9937 – 9946. DOI: 10.1039/d4nr04937c
  25. Gepek, E.; Fayyazbakhsh, F.; Suliandziga, L.; Mochalin, V. N.; Iyibilgin, O.; Huang, Y. -W.; Leu, M. C. PLA-based bone tissue engineering scaffolds incorporating hydroxyapatite and bioactive glass using digital light processing. International Journal of Bioprinting, 2025, 11 (2), 573 – 598. DOI: 10.36922/IJB025040029
  26. Martano, P.; Mahdi, S.; Zhou, T.; Barazandegan, Y.; Iha, R.; Do, H.; Burken, J.; Nam, P.; Yang, Q.; Mu, R. Visceral, Neural, and Immunotoxicity of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Mini Review. Toxics, 2025, 13 (8), art. no. 658.DOI: 10.3390/toxics13080658
  27. Qi, L.; Huang, D.; Kou, H.; Chernatynskaya, A.; Ercal, N.; Yang, H. Synthesis and Characterization of Free Radical Scavenging Dendrimer Nanogels via Cross-Linking Reaction-Enabled Flash Nanoprecipitation. Biomacromolecules, 2025, 26 (5), 2986 – 2995. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5c00050
  28. Ateş, B.; Trital, A.; Mani, V. J.; Xu, L.; Kenlee, J.; Ercal, N.; Yang, H. Engineered Multifunctional Drug-Loaded Dendrimer Nanoparticles for Glaucoma: Triple Mechanism via Antioxidant Activity, Iron Chelation, and Enhanced Ocular Transport. Biomacromolecules, 2025, 26 (12), 8726 – 8738. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5c01704
  29. Priester, A.; Yeng, J.; Zhang, Y.; Christofferson, D.; Wang, R.; Convertine, A. J. PISA printing perfusable microcapillaries. Biomaterials Science, 2025, 13 (19), 5358 – 5368. DOI: 10.1039/d5bm00547g
  30. Liu, W.; Gupta, P.; Zhang, Y.; Thapa, K.; Singamaneni, S.; Wang, R. DNA Origami-Assisted Regioselective Organization of Anisotropic Gold Nanotriangle Clusters. ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2025, 3 (3), 514 – 519. DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.4c00086
  31. Petty, B. T.; Fowler, V. R.; Ryu, A., Glick, C. S.; Rock, C. A.; Wang, Q.; Tschumper, G. S.; Shields, G. C. Reliable Structures and Electronic Energies of Small Water Clusters Using Density Functional and Local Correlation Coupled Cluster Model Chemistries. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2025, 129 (40), 9291 – 9302. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c04923
  32. Williams, A. E.; CraigHolan, A.; Surbaugh, L. A.; Huckaba, A. J.; Delcamp, J. H.; Tschumper, G. S.; Hammer, N. I. Liquid 1H-1,2,3-Triazole Interpreted as a Continuous, Self-Assembled Hydrogen-Bonded Linear Network. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2025, 129 (40), 9195 – 9203. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c04341
  33. Xue, Y.; Tschumper, G. S. Systematic characterization of the homogeneous and heterogeneous hydrogen halide dimers. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025, 162 (14), art. no. 144305. DOI: 10.1063/5.0267887
  34. Kehoe, L. M.; Mayes, Z. G.; Brakensiek, K. E.; Ellis, E. L.; Alderfer, A. J.; Chi, L., Woelk, K. Revisiting the Spin–Lattice Relaxation of Homonuclear In-Phase and Antiphase NMR Magnetization. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2025, 129 (39), 8993 – 9000. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c05247
  35. Mayes, Z. G.; Eriyagama, Y. A. M., Chi, L.; Schuman, T. P., Woelk, K. Single and double-selective split-inversion pulse and recovery (SIP-R) sequences for targeted T1 relaxation measurements. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2025, 375, 107884, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2025.107884
  36. Zhu, X.; Jiang, L.; Gong, X.; Chen, J.; Liu, Y.; Sobrado, P.; Guo, Y.; Han, Q. Molecular and functional identification of tyrosine hydroxylase in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2025, 774, art. no. 110626. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2025.110626
  37. Robinson, R.; Britt, K.; Sobrado, P. Functional analysis of R144 in the flavin oxidation mechanism of a flavin‐dependent N‐monooxygenase. Protein Science, 2025, 34 (10), art. no. e70290. DOI: 10.1002/pro.70290
  38. Yu, H.; Peng, C.; Chen, Z.; Li, J.; Li, Y.; Zhu, X.; Huang, Y.; Jiang, L.; Sobrado, P.; Lan, J.; Guo, Y.; Han, Q. Identification of a serine protease involved in spinosad degradation in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology, 2025, 34 (5), 659 – 670. DOI: 10.1111/imb.12990
  39. Lyons, N. S.; Zalenski, R. A.; Sobrado, P. Identification of active site residues involved in substrate binding and cofactor specificity in a putrescine N-monooxygenase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2025, 771, art. no. 110519. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2025.110519
  40. Kizjakina, K.; Dai, Y.; Sobrado, P. Light regulation of flavin reduction by NAD(P)H: Activation of 2-haloacrylate hydratase. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2025, 764, art. no. 110285. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2024.110285
  41. Koh, M.; Kitt, J. P.; Pendergast, A. D.; Harris, J. M.; Minteer, S. D.; Korzeniewski, C. Confocal Raman Microscopy for Measuring In-Situ Temperature-Dependent Structural Changes in Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Thin Films. Applied Spectroscopy, 2025, 79 (9), 1334 – 1345. DOI: 10.1177/00037028241310904
  42. Chen, R.; Tabatabaei-Dakhili, S. A.; Gerulskis, R.; Zhao, Y. -Y.; Lockhart, S.; Tonoyan, L.; Siraki, A. G.; Huang, G.; Kinnaird, A.; Freed, D. H.; Minteer, S. D., Michelakis, E. D.; Ussher, J. R.; Sutendra, G. Cysteine oxidation of a redox hub within complex I can facilitate electron transport chain supercomplex formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2025, 301 (9), art. no. 110555. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110555
  43. Franco, J. H.; Bonaldo, J. V.; Minteer, S. D.; de Andrade, A. R. Enhanced Biofuel Cells Based on a Hybrid Enzymatic/Bimetallic Composite for Complete Lactate Catalytic Electrooxidation. ACS Materials Au, 2025, 5 (4), 732 – 742. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialsau.5c00039
  44. Milam, A.; Gerulskis, R.; Intano, J.; Minteer, S. D. Tricatalytic Organocatalyst–Enzyme Hybrid Cascade for Improving Complete Oxidation of Glucose to Carbon Dioxide. ACS Catalysis, 2025, 15 (13), 11013 – 11021. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c02892
  45. Gerulskis, R., Baiarashov, E., Karimi, M., El Housseini, W., Minteer, S.D. Unveiling pseudocapacitance: a kinetic treatment of the pseudocapacitive biosensor. Chemical Communications, 2025, 61 (50), 9059 – 9062. DOI: 10.1039/d5cc00926j
  46. Das, D.; El Housseini, W.; Brachi, M.; Minteer, S. D.; Miller, A. -F. Electrochemical Observation and pH Dependence of All Three Expected Redox Couples in an Extremophilic Bifurcating Electron Transfer Flavoprotein with Fused Subunits. JACS Au, 2025, 5 (4), 1689 – 1706. DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.4c01219
  47. Baek, S.; Gutiérrez-Portocarrero, S.; Gerulskis, R.; Minteer, S. D.; German, S. R.; White, H. S. Detection of CO2 Locally Generated by Formate Dehydrogenase Using Carbonate Ion-Selective Micropipette Electrodes. ACS Nano, 2025, 19 (13), 13240 – 13249. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c00387
  48. Gerulskis, R.; Minteer, S. D. Terminator: A Software Package for Fast and Local Optimization of His-Tag Placement for Protein Affinity Purification. ACS Bio and Med Chem Au, 2025, 5 (1), 55 – 65. DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.4c00055
  49. Mazumder, M. M.; Gerber, H.; Kohl, P. A.; Minteer, S. D. Development and Evaluation of Butyl Norbornene Based Cross-Linked Anion Exchange Membranes for Enhanced Nonaqueous Redox Flow Battery Efficiency. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2025, 17 (4), 6315 – 6325. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c18366
  50. Koh, M.; Kitt, J. P.; Pendergast, A. D.; Harris, J. M.; Minteer, S. D.; Korzeniewski, C. Unraveling Hydration- and Temperature-Induced Structural Transformations of Linear Poly(ethylenimine) Using Raman Microscopy and Numerical Unmixing. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2025, 129 (46), 20777 – 20786. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c06096
  51. Faria, L. C. I.; Nascimento, S. Q.; Lima, F. C. D. A.; Sedenho, G. C.; Bertaglia, T.; Iost, R. M.; De Souza, J. C. P.; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Minteer, S. D.; Cosnier, S.; Furst, A. L.; Crespilho, F. N. Bioelectrochemical Systems: Prioritizing Energy Density, Long-Term Stability, and Validation. ACS Energy Letters, 2025, 10 (9), 4470 – 4490. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01678
  52. Dantanarayana, A.; Beaver, K.; van Devener, B.; Chandler, N. B.; Minteer, S. D. Understanding palladium ion induced bioelectrocatalysis in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 through electrochemical and genetic interrogations. ACS Electrochemistry, 2025, 1 (10), 2198-2208. https://doi.org/10.1021/acselectrochem.5c00244
  53. Zhang, X.; Tubbesing, J. Z.; Switzer, J. A. Epitaxial Electrodeposition of Cu-BTC Metal–Organic Framework Thin Films onto the (100), (110), and (111) Surfaces of Single-Crystal Gold and Cuprous Oxide Buffer Layers. Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, 64 (31), 15857 – 15867. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c01505
  54. Kapiamba, K. F.; Achterberg, S.; Lin, T. -C.; Whitefield, P. D.; Huang, Y. -W.; Wang, Y. Characterizing the Transient Emission of Particles and Gases from a Single Puff of Electronic Cigarette Smoke. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2025, 38 (2), 270 – 280. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.4c00420