个人简介

B.A., University of Oregon, 2003. Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara (Galen D. Stucky). Postdoctoral, California Institute of Technology (Nathan S. Lewis and Harry A. Atwater). Honors and Awards: Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (2001-2003), NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2003-2006), UC Chancellors Fellow (2007), Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2009). Dupont Young Professor (2011), Cottrell Scholar (2014), UO RIGE Early Research Career Award (2014). At Oregon since 2010.

研究领域

Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry/Materials Chemistry/Solid-State Chemistry/Surface & Interfacial Chemistry

The Boettcher solar materials and electrochemistry laboratory is focused on designing, synthesizing, and understanding materials for applications in energy conversion and storage. Specific interests include the synthesis and study of heterogeneous electrocatalysts for water oxidation with defined molecular and nanoscale structures, the use of computer simulation and direct electrical measurements to understand semiconductor-electrocatalyst interfaces, and the development of high-performance III-V semiconductor solar conversion architectures using scalable and inexpensive deposition processes. To address these diverse challenges, the Boettcher group consists of students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds including chemistry (materials, physical, synthetic), engineering, and physics. In particular we are interested in developing the fundamental science needed to enable direct solar water splitting architectures that integrate solar energy conversion with storage in the form of chemical fuel. Figure 1. One vision for a solar water-splitting cell that utilizes only sunlight and water as inputs and generates H2 and O2 products. Researchers around the world are working on various fundamental and applied aspects of similar "devices". We also work closely with groups within the University of Oregon and at Oregon State University through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. Basic and use-inspired research in the CSMC is focused on developing the fundamental solution chemistry to enable large area precise thin-film deposition from aqueous solution precursors. These materials have applications in electrochromic smart windows, solar cells, water splitting cells, heterogenous catalysis, displays, tunneling electronics, etc.

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(56) S.-E. Chun, B. Evanko, X. Wang, D. Vonlanthen, X. Ji, G. D. Stucky, and S. W. Boettcher, "Design of aqueous redox-enhanced electrochemical capacitors with high specific energies and slow self-discharge," Submitted, 2015. Burke, M. S.; Kast, M. G.; Trotochaud, L.; Smith, A.; Boettcher, S. W. Cobalt-iron (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts: The role of structure and composition on activity, stability, and mechanism. Accepted J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2015. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b00281 Lin, F.; Bachman, B.; Boettcher, S. W. The Impact of Electrocatalyst Activity and Ion Permeability on Water-splitting Photoanodes. Submitted. 2015. Smith, A; Trotochaud, L.; Burke, M.S.; Boettcher,S.W. Contributions to Activity Enhancement via Fe Incorporation in Ni-(oxy)hydroxide/Borate Catalysts for Near-Neutral pH Oxygen Evolution. Accepted. Chem. Comm., 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC08670H http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cc/c4cc08670h#!divAbstract Kast, M. G.; Enman, L.; Gurnon, N.; Nadarajah, A.; Boettcher, S. W. Solution-deposited F:SnO2/TiO2 as a base stable protective layer and anti-reflective coating for micro-textured buried-junction H2-evolving Si photocathodes. ACS Appl. Mat. Interfaces ASAP 2014. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506999p Ritenour, A. J.; Boucher, J. W.; DeLancey, R.; Greenaway, A. L.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Doping and Electronic Properties of GaAs Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from Powder Sources for Scalable III-V Photovoltaics. ASAP, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014. (cover) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01943A Source data and Editable Figures Carnes, M. E.; Knutson, C. C.; Nadarajah, A.; Jr., M. N. J.; Oliveri, A. F.; Norelli, K. M.; Crockett, B. M.; Bauers, S. R.; Moreno-Luna, H. A.; Taber, B. N.; Pacheco, D. J.; Olson, J. Z.; Brevick, K. R.; Sheehan, C. E.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Synthesis of Flat-[Ga13-xInx(μ3-OH)6(μ-OH)18(H2O)24(NO3)15] Clusters as Aqueous Precursors for Solution-Processed Semiconductors. J. Mat. Chem. C, 2, 8492-8496, 2014. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC01354A Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Greenaway, A. L.; Boettcher, S. W., Homojunction GaAs Solar Cells Grown by Close Space Vapor Transport, Proc. 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Spec. Conf. 2014. Pluth, M. D.; Boettcher, S. W.; Nazin, G. V.; Greenaway, A. L.; Hartle, M. D. Collaboration and Near-Peer Mentoring as a Platform for Sustainable Science Education Outreach. J. Chem. Educ. 2015. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500377m Trotochaud, L.; Young, S.; Ranney, J.; Boettcher, S. Nickel-Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Electrocatalysts: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Iron Incorporation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6744. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja502379c Wang, B.; Maciá-Agulló, J. A.; Prendiville, D. G.; Zheng, X.; Liu, D.; Zhang, Y.; Boettcher, S. W.; Ji, X.; Stucky, G. D. Faradic Energy Storage Integrated in Electrical Double Layer Capacitors Using Soluble Redox Species. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2014. 161 (6), A1090-A1093. DOI: 10.1149/2.058406jes Boucher, J. W.; Miller, D. W.; Warren, C. W.; Cohen, J. D.; McCandless, B. E.; Heath, J. T.; Lonergan, M. C.; Boettcher, S. W. Optical response of deep defects as revealed by transient photocapacitance and photocurrent spectroscopy in CdTe/CdS solar cells. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2014, ASAP 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.02.024. Smith, A.; Kast, M. G.; Nail, B.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. Planar-Defect-Driven Growth Mechanism of Oxygen Deficient Tungsten Oxide Nanowires. J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 6121. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/TA/c3ta14163b#!divAbstract Mills, T. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Theory and simulations of electrocatalyst-coated semiconductor electrodes for solar water splitting. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148304 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.148304 Lin, F.; Boettcher, S. W. Adaptive semiconductor-electrocatalyst junctions in water splitting photoanodes. Nat. Mater. 2014, 13, 81-86. http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmat3811.html Wang, W.; Liu, W.; Chang, I.-Y.; Wills, L. A.; Zakharov, L. N.; Boettcher, S. W.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Fang, C.; Keszler, D. A. Electrolytic synthesis of aqueous aluminum nanoclusters and in situ characterization by femtosecond Raman spectroscopy & computations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2013, 110, 18397-18401. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/23/1315396110.full.pdf+html Nadarajah, A.; Carnes, M. E.; Kast, M. G.; Johnson, D. W.; Boettcher, S. W. Aqueous Solution Processing of F-Doped SnO2 Transparent Conducting Oxide Films Using a Reactive Tin(II) Hydroxide Nitrate Nanoscale Cluster. Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 4080-4087. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm402424c Ritenour, A. J.; Levinrad, S.; Bradley, C.; Cramer, R. C.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Nanostructuring of n-GaAs Photoanodes. ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (8), pp 6840–6849, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4020104. Trotochaud, L.; Boettcher, S. W. Precise Oxygen Evolution Catalysts: Status and Opportunities. Scr. Mater. 2014, 74, 25-32. Invited Viewpoint, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2013.07.019. Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Boettcher, S. W. Towards low-cost high-efficiency GaAs photovoltaics and photoelectrodes grown via vapor transport from a solid source. Proc. SPIE 8725, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications V, 2013, 87250Z-87250Z. http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1693133 pdf