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 dIn the News
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Recent Publications
The Role of Nanoscience in Energy Research
Bediako, K., Buonsanti, R., Schaak, R. E. & Zheng, N., Apr 16 2025, In: ACS Nanoscience Au. 5, 2, p. 60-61 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Influence of Nanoparticle Seeds on the Formation and Growth of High Entropy Alloys during Core@Shell Nanoparticle Synthesis
Dey, G. R., Young, H. L., Teklu, S., Soliman, S. S. & Schaak, R. E., Mar 11 2025, In: ACS nano. 19, 9, p. 8826-8841 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Multistep Antimony-Seeded Pathway to Catalytic High-Entropy Skutterudite-Type (CoNiRhIrRu)Sb3 Intermetallic Nanoparticles
Soliman, S. S., Mitarotonda, Z., Dey, G. R. & Schaak, R. E., Feb 25 2025, In: Chemistry of Materials. 37, 4, p. 1403-1412 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Structure-Shifting Intermediates During Nanoparticle Cation Exchange for the Retrosynthetic Construction of Intraparticle Heterophase Homojunctions
Suriyawansa, D. N., McCormick, C. R., Young, H. L., O’Boyle, S. K. & Schaak, R. E., Apr 1 2025, In: ACS nano. 19, 12, p. 12416-12426 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Tutorial on Describing, Classifying, and Visualizing Common Crystal Structures in Nanoscale Materials Systems
Baumler, K. J. & Schaak, R. E., Oct 16 2024, In: ACS Nanoscience Au. 4, 5, p. 290-316 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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., Aug 21 2024, In: ACS Nanoscience Au. 4, 4, p. 223-234 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Solution Synthesis and Diffusion-Mediated Formation Pathway of NbTe4 Particles
Thompson, K. L., Herring, P. L., Terrones Maldonado, M. & Schaak, R. E., Sep 9 2024, In: Inorganic chemistry. 63, 36, p. 16815-16823 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review