Publications

2025

21. Best Practices for In-Situ and Operando Techniques within Electrocatalytic Systems
Nikolay Kornienko, Aditya Prajapati, Christopher Hahn, Inez Weidinger, Yanmei Shi, Yonghyuk Lee, Anastassia Alexandrova, David Thompson, Simon Bare, Shuai Chen, and Shuai Yan, Nature Communications, 2025, accepted.

20. Selective Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Oxalate in Non-Aqueous Solutions using Trace Metal Pb on Carbon Supports Enhanced by a Hydrophobic Microenvironment
Rowan S. Brower, Brian Wuille Bille, Joseph T. Perryman, L. Yao, Coroco A. Nagasaka, Richard Gomez, Faridat Agboola, Elizabeth Neumann, Charles C. L. McCrory, and Jesús M. Velázquez, 2025, submitted.

19. Understanding Electrochemical CO2 Reduction through Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry
Manu Gautam, Francois Nkurunziza, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla, Bijandra Kumar, and Joshua Spurgeon, Analytical Chemistry, 2025, accepted.

18. Alkali Cation Inhibition of Imidazolium-Mediated Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Silver
Francois Nkurunziza, Saudagar Dongare, Soumya Chatterjee, Bhavi Shah, Manu Gautam, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla, Bijandra Kumar, Michael Janik, Burcu Gurkan, Robert L. Sacci, and Joshua M. Spurgeon, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, accepted.

2024

17. The Significance of the ′Insignificant′: Non-covalent Interactions in CO2 Reduction Reactions with 3C-TM (TM=Sc-Zn) Single-Atom Catalysts
Linguo Lu, Jingsong Huang, Alvaro Guerrero, Ian Street, Sriram Mosali, Bobby G. Sumpter, William E. Mustain, and Zhongfang Chen, ChemSusChem, 2024, e202401957. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202401957

16. Rotating Cylinder Electrode in Reactive CO2 Capture: Identifying Active C Species via Transport, VLE Models and Kinetics
Avishek Banerjee, Chudi Yue, Jounghwan Choi, and Carlos G. Morales-Guio, AIChE Journal, 2024, 70(12):e18560. DOI: 10.1002/aic.18560

15. The influence of exogenous amines on the electrochemical CO2 reduction activity of a cobalt–pyridyldiimine catalyst
Piyush Kumar Verma and Charles C. L. McCrory, ChemComm, 2024, 60, 8039. DOI: 10.1039/d4cc02709d

14. Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to Methyl Formate in a Flow Electrolyzer with Mixed Propylene Carbonate/Methanol Catholyte
Sandesh Uttarwar, Dillon Hofsommer, Hartman, C., Francois Nkurunziza, Manu Gautam, Paxton, W.F., Craig Grapperhaus, and Joshua Spurgeon, 2024, 12, 35, 13263-13273. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c04699

13. Reactive Capture and Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 with Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents
Saudagar Dongare, Muhammad Zeeshan, Ahmet Safa Aydogdu, Ruth Dikki, Samira F. Kurtoğlu-Öztulum, Oguz Kagan Coskun, Miguel Munoz, Avishek Banarjee, Manu Gautam, R. Dominic Ross, Jared Stanley, Rowan S. Brower, Robert Sacci, Jesús M. Velázquez, Jenny Y. Yang, Christopher Hahn, Seda Keskin, Carlos G. Morales Guio, Alper Uzun, Joshua M. Spurgeon, and Burcu Gurkan, Chemical Society Reviews, 2024, 53, 8563-8631. DOI: 10.1039/D4CS00390J (Review Article)

12. Synergistic effects of the electric field induced by imidazolium rotation and hydrogen bonding in electrocatalysis of CO2
Oguz Kagan Coskun, Zeynep Bagbudar, Vaishali Khokhar, Saudagar Dongare, Robert E. Warburton, and Burcu Gurkan, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 34, 23775–23785. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c05172

11. Electrochemical CO2 Commercialization Pathways: A Concise Review on Experimental Frontiers and Techno-Economic Analysis
Bijandra Kumar, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla, Moumita Dikshit, Saudagar Dongare, Kapil Kumar, Burcu Gurkan, and Joshua Spurgeon, Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. 2024, 11, 11, 1161-1174. DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00564

10. Importance of Site Diversity and Connectivity in Electrochemical CO Reduction on Cu
Chansol Kim, Nitish Govindarajan, Sydney Hemenway, Junho Park, Anya Zoraster, Calton Kong, Rajiv Prabhakar, Joel Varley, Hee-Tae Jung, Christopher Hahn, and Joel Ager, ACS Cataysis, 2024, 14, 5, 3128–3138. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05904
Highlighted in Nature Energy: Gallagher, J. Delivery of CO. Nat Energy 9, 232 (2024).

9. Corrosion and Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution in Electrochemical Reduction of Ammonium Carbamate on Transition Metal Surfaces
Jounghwan Choi, Shawn Chiu, Avishek Banerjee, Robert L. Sacci, Gabriel M. Veith, Chantal Stieber, Christopher Hahn, Anastassia N. Alexandrova, and Carlos G. Morales-Guio, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024, 0, 15. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01638

8. Understanding the electrode-electrolyte interfaces of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
Oguz Kagan Coskun, Miguel Munoz, Saudagar Dongare, William Dean, and Burcu Gurkan, Langmuir, 2024, 40, 7, 3283–3300. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03397

7. Accelerated screening of carbon dioxide capture by liquid sorbents
Ryan J. R. Jones, Yungchieh Lai, Kevin Kan, Dan Guevarra, Joel A. Haber, Natalia M. Ramirez, Alessandra Zito, Clarabella Li, Jenny Y. Yang, Aaron M. Appel, and John M. Gregoire, Digital Discovery, 2024, 3, 674-680. DOI: 10.1039/D3DD00232B

6. Key Experimental Considerations When Evaluating Functional Ionic Liquids for Combined Capture and Electrochemical Conversion of CO2
Saudagar Dongare, Oguz Kagan Coskun, Eda Cagli, Jared S Stanley, Ab Qayoom Mir, Rowen S Brower, Jesús M Velázquez, Jenny Y Yang, Robert L Sacci, and Burcu Gurkan, Langmuir, 2024. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03828

5. Composition-Property Relationships of Choline Based Eutectic Solvents: Impact of the Hydrogen Bond Donor and CO2 Saturation
Ruth Dikki, Vaishali Khokhar, Muhammad Zeeshan, Sanchari Bhattacharjee, Oguz Kagan Coskun, Rachel Getman, Burcu Gurkan, Green Chemistry, 2024, 26, 6, 3441-3352. DOI: 10.1039/D3GC04905A

4. Maximum and Comparative Efficiency Calculations for Integrated Capture and Conversion CO2
Jenny Y. Yang and Aaron M. Appel, ACS Energy Letters, 2024, 9, 2, 768-770. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c02489

2023

3. Tailoring Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper by Reactive Ionic Liquid and Native Hydrogen Bond Donors
Oguz Kagan Coskun, Saudagar Dongare, Brian Doherty, Aidan Klemm, Mark Tuckerman, and Burcu Gurkan, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, e202312163.

2. Selective Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrous Oxide to Dinitrogen with an Iron Porphyrin Complex
Jared S. Stanley, Xinran S. Wang, and Jenny Y. Yang, ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13 (19), 12617-12622. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c02707

1. A Bifunctional Ionic Liquid for Capture and Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 to CO over Silver
Saudagar Dongare, Oguz Kagan Coskun, Eda Cagli, Kevin Y. C. Lee, Guodong Rao, R. David Britt, Louise A. Berben, and Burcu Gurkan, ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13 (12), 7812-7821. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01538

Acknowledgements: This material is based upon work performed by the Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences Energy Frontier Research.