Raymond E. Schaak

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry, Chemistry

Research Summary

Research interests include the intersection of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular inorganic chemistry and nanoscience; new low-temperature routes to bulk and nanoscale solid-state materials, particularly non-equilibrium solids made by d

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Recent Publications

Tutorial on Describing, Classifying, and Visualizing Common Crystal Structures in Nanoscale Materials Systems

Baumler, K. J. & Schaak, R. E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: ACS Nanoscience Au.

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Colloidal Nanoparticles of High Entropy Materials: Capabilities, Challenges, and Opportunities in Synthesis and Characterization

Dey, G. R., Soliman, S. S., McCormick, C. R., Wood, C. H., Katzbaer, R. R. & Schaak, R. E., Feb 21 2024, In: ACS Nanoscience Au. 4, 1, p. 3-20 18 p.

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Data-Intensive Exploration of the Photoelectrochemical Responses of Main-Group Metal Sulfides

Katzbaer, R. R., Gelin, S., Theibault, M. J., Khan, M. M., Chandler, C., Colonna, N., Mao, Z., Abruña, H. D., Dabo, I. & Schaak, R. E., Jun 6 2024, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128, 22, p. 8874-8882 9 p.

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Nanomaterials Research at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution: Transforming Nanorods, Undergraduate Research Communities, and Infrastructure

Plass, K. E., Krebs, J. K., Morford, J. L., Schaak, R. E., Stapleton, J. J. & van Duin, A. C. T., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: ACS Nanoscience Au.

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ACS Nanoscience Au in 2024: Looking Back and Gazing Forward

Schaak, R. E., Feb 21 2024, In: ACS Nanoscience Au. 4, 1, p. 1-2 2 p.

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Transition metal-doped CuO nanosheets for enhanced visible-light photocatalysis

Seling, T. R., Katzbaer, R. R., Thompson, K. L., Aksoy, S. E., Chitara, B., Shringi, A. K., Schaak, R. E., Riaz, U. & Yan, F., Feb 1 2024, In: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 448, 115356.

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Disentangling Competitive and Synergistic Chemical Reactivities During the Seeded Growth of High-Entropy Alloys on High-Entropy Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles

Veglak, J. M., Tsai, A., Soliman, S. S., Dey, G. R. & Schaak, R. E., Jul 17 2024, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146, 28, p. 19521-19536 16 p.

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Synthetic Roadmap to a Large Library of Colloidal High-Entropy Rare Earth Oxyhalide Nanoparticles Containing up to Thirteen Metals

Wood, C. H. & Schaak, R. E., Jul 10 2024, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146, 27, p. 18730-18742 13 p.

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Soft Chemistry of Hard Materials: Low-Temperature Pathways to Bulk and Nanostructured Layered Metal Borides

Alameda, L. T., Baumler, K. J., Katzbaer, R. R. & Schaak, R. E., Dec 5 2023, In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 56, 23, p. 3515-3524 10 p.

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Introducing Porosity into Refractory Molybdenum Boride through Controlled Decomposition of a Metastable Mo-Al-B Precursor

Baumler, K. J., Alameda, L. T., Katzbaer, R. R., O'Boyle, S. K., Lord, R. W. & Schaak, R. E., Jan 18 2023, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145, 2, p. 1423-1432 10 p.

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One-step topochemical transformation of MoAlB into metastable Mo2AlB2 using a metal chloride salt reaction

Baumler, K. J., Adams, O. S. & Schaak, R. E., Mar 17 2023, In: Chemical Communications. 59, 32, p. 4814-4817 4 p.

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Best Practices for Using AI When Writing Scientific Manuscripts

Buriak, J. M., Akinwande, D., Artzi, N., Brinker, C. J., Burrows, C., Chan, W. C. W., Chen, C., Chen, X., Chhowalla, M., Chi, L., Chueh, W., Crudden, C. M., Di Carlo, D., Glotzer, S. C., Hersam, M. C., Ho, D., Hu, T. Y., Huang, J., Javey, A. & Kamat, P. V. & 24 others, Kim, I. D., Kotov, N. A., Lee, T. R., Lee, Y. H., Li, Y., Liz-Marzán, L. M., Mulvaney, P., Narang, P., Nordlander, P., Oklu, R., Parak, W. J., Rogach, A. L., Salanne, M., Samorì, P., Schaak, R. E., Schanze, K. S., Sekitani, T., Skrabalak, S., Sood, A. K., Voets, I. K., Wang, S., Wang, S., Wee, A. T. S. & Ye, J., Mar 14 2023, In: ACS nano. 17, 5, p. 4091-4093 3 p.

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Chemical Insights into the Formation of Colloidal High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles

Dey, G. R., McCormick, C. R., Soliman, S. S., Darling, A. J. & Schaak, R. E., Mar 28 2023, In: ACS nano. 17, 6, p. 5943-5955 13 p.

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Computationally-driven discovery of second harmonic generation in EuBa3(B3O6)3 through inversion symmetry breaking

He, J., Alaerts, L., Wang, Y., Trinquet, V., Yoshida, S., Yennawar, H., Sanni, V., Claes, R., Katzbaer, R., Krysko, E., Sarker, S., Schaak, R. E., Rignanese, G. M., Hautier, G., Mao, Z. & Gopalan, V., Dec 1 2023, In: Optical Materials Express. 13, 12, p. 3416-3427 12 p.

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Temperature-Dependent Selection of Reaction Pathways, Reactive Species, and Products during Postsynthetic Selenization of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles

Hole, B., Luo, Q., Garcia, R., Xie, W., Rudman, E., Nguyen, C. L. T., Dhakal, D., Young, H. L., Thompson, K. L., Butterfield, A. G., Schaak, R. E. & Plass, K. E., Nov 14 2023, In: Chemistry of Materials. 35, 21, p. 9073-9085 13 p.

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