Publications

2020

H. Gu, G. Shi, H.-C. Chen, S. Xie, Y. Li, H. Tong, C. Yang, C. Zhu, J. T. Mefford, H. Xia, W. C. Chueh, H. M. Chen, L. Zhang. Strong catalyst-support interactions in electrochemical oxygen evolution on Ni-Fe layered double hydroxide. ACS Energy Lett. 5, 3185-3194 (2020)

W. E. Gent, I. I. Abate, W. Yang, L. F. Nazar, W. C. Chueh. Design Rules for High-Valent Redox in Intercalation Electrodes. Joule 4, 1369-1397 (2020).

P. M. Attia, W. C. Chueh, S. J. Harris. Revisiting the t^0.5 Dependence of SEI Growth. J. Electrochem. Soc.167, 9 (2020).

D. Zhang, M. L. Machala, D. Chen, Z. Guan, H. Li, S. Nemsak, E. J. Crumlin, H. Bluhm, W. C. Chueh. Hydroxylation and cation segregation in (La_0.5Sr_0.5)FeO_3-δ electrodes. Chem. Mater. 32, 7, 2926-2934 (2020).

P. M. Attia, A. Grover, N. Jin, K. A. Severson, T. M. Markov, Y. Liao, M. H. Chen, B. Cheong, N. Perkins, Z. Yang, P. K. Herring, M. Aykol, S. J. Harris, R. D. Braatz, S. Ermon, W. C. Chueh. Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning. Nature578, 397-402 (2020).

J. T. Mefford, Z. Zhao, M. Bajdich, W. C. Chueh. Interpreting Tafel Behavior of Consecutive Electrochemical Reactions through Combined Thermodynamic and Steady State Microkinetic Approaches. Energy Environ. Sci.13, 622-634 (2020)

S. Zhai, J. Rojas, N. Ahlborg, K. Lim, M. C. H. Cheng, C. Xie, M. F. Toney, I. Jung, W. C. Chueh, A. Majumdar. High-capacity thermochemical CO2 dissociation using iron-poor ferrites. Energy Environ. Sci.13, 592-600 (2020)

D. Chen, Z. Guan, D. Zhang, L. Trotochaud, E. Crumlin, S. Nemsak, H. Bluhm, H. L. Tuller, W. C. Chueh. Constructing pathway of mixed ion & electron transfer reactions: O2 incorporation in Pr0.1Ce0.9O2-x. Nat. Catal.3, 116-124 (2020).

2019

T.L. Skafte, Z. Guan, M.L. Machala, C.B. Gopal, M. Monti, L. Martinez, E. Stamate, S. Sanna, J.A. Garrido Torres, E.J. Crumlin, M. García-Melchor, M. Bajdich, W.C. Chueh and C. Graves, Selective high-temperature CO2 electrolysis enabled by oxidized carbon intermediates, Nat. Energy 4, 846-855 (2019).

W. Huang, P.M. Attia, H. Wang, S.E. Renfrew, N. Jin, S. Das, Z. Zhang, D.T. Boyle, Y. Li, M.Z. Bazant, B.D. McCloskey, W.C. Chueh, and Y. Cui, Evolution of the Solid–Electrolyte Interphase on Carbonaceous Anodes Visualized by Atomic-Resolution Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, Nano Lett. 19, 5140-5148 (2019).

J.T. Mefford, A.R. Akbashev, L. Zhang, W.C. Chueh. Electrochemical Reactivity of Faceted β-Co(OH)₂ Single Crystal Platelet Particles in Alkaline Electrolytes. J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 18783-18794 (2019).

G. McConohy, A.C. Baclig, A.D. Poletayev, J. Park, and W.C. Chueh, The ionic resistance and chemical stability of polycrystalline K-β″ alumina in aqueous solutions at room temperature. Solid State Ionics 337, 82 (2019).

K.A. Severson, P.M. Attia, N. Jin, N. Perkins, B. Jiang, Z. Yang, M.H. Chen, M. Aykol, P.K. Herring, D. Fraggedakis, M.Z. Bazant, S.J. Harris, W.C. Chueh, and R.D. Braatz. Data-driven prediction of battery cycle life before capacity degradation. Nat. Energy 4, 383–391 (2019).

S. Das, P.M. Attia, W.C. Chueh, and M.Z. Bazant, Electrochemical Kinetics of SEI Growth on Carbon Black: Part II. Modeling. J. Electrochem. Soc. 166, E107–E118 (2019).

P.M. Attia, S. Das, S.J. Harris, M.Z. Bazant, and W.C. Chueh, Electrochemical Kinetics of SEI Growth on Carbon Black: Part I. Experiments. J. Electrochem. Soc. 166, E97–E106 (2019).

J. Hong, W.E. Gent, P. Xiao, K. Lim, D.-H. Seo, J. Wu, P.M. Csernica, C.J. Takacs, D. Nordlund, C.-J. Sun, K.H. Stone, D. Passarello, W. Yang, D. Prendergast, G. Ceder, M.F. Toney, W.C. Chueh, Metal–oxygen decoordination stabilizes anion redox in Li-rich oxides. Nat. Mater. 18, 256-265 (2019).

J. Wu, Q. Li, S. Sallis, Z. Zhuo, W.E. Gent, W.C. Chueh, S. Yan, Y. Chuang, and W. Yang. Fingerprint Oxygen Redox Reactions in Batteries through High-Efficiency Mapping of Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering. Condens. Matter 4, 1–12 (2019).

K. Dai, J. Wu, Z. Zhuo, Q. Li, S. Sallis, J. Mao, G. Ai, C. Sun, Z. Li, W.E. Gent, W.C. Chueh, Y. Chuang, R. Zeng, Z. Shen, F. Pan, S. Yan, L.F.J. Piper, Z. Hussain, G. Liu, and W. Yang. High Reversibility of Lattice Oxygen Redox Quantified by Direct Bulk Probes of Both Anionic and Cationic Redox Reactions. Joule (2019). doi:10.1016/J.JOULE.2018.11.014

2018

N.C. Bartelt, Y. Li, J.D. Sugar, K. Fenton, A.L.D. Kilcoyne, D.A. Shapiro, T. Tyliszczak, W.C. Chueh, and F. El Gabaly, Simple Stochastic Model of Multiparticle Battery Electrodes Undergoing Phase Transformations. Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 044056 (2018).

Y. Li, H. Chen, K. Lim, H. D. Deng, J. Lim, D. Fraggedakis, P. M. Attia, S. C. Lee, N. Jin, J. Moskon, Z. Guan, W. E. Gent, J. Hong, Y. S. Yu, M. S. Islam, M. Gaberscek, M. Z. Bazant, W. C. Chueh. Fluid-enhanced Surface Diffusion Controls Intra-particle Phase Transformations. Nature Materials 17, 915-922 (2018).

A. D. Poletayev, I. McKay, W. C. Chueh, A. Majumdar, A. Continuous Electrochemical Heat Engines. Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 2964-2971(2018).

S. Zhai, J. Rojas, N. Ahlborg, K. Lim, M. F. Toney, H. Jin, W. C. Chueh, A. Majumdar. Reduced-temperature thermochemical water-splitting using poly-cation oxides. Energy Environ. Sci. 11 2172-2178 (2018).

K. S. N. Vikrant, W. C. Chueh, R. E. Garcia. Charged Interfaces: Electrochemical & Mechanical Effects. Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 1993-2000 (2018).

A. C. Baclig, G. McConohy, A. Poletayev, A. Michelson, N. Kong, J.-H. Lee, W. C. Chueh, and J. Rugolo, High-Voltage, Room-Temperature Liquid Metal Flow Battery Enabled by Na-K|K-β″-Alumina Stability. Joule 2, 1–10 (2018).

A. Akbashev, L. Zhang, J. T. Mefford, J. Park, B. Butz, H. S. Luftman, W. C. Chueh, A. Vojvodic. Activation of Ultrathin SrTiO₃ with Subsurface SrRuO₃ for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 1762--1769 (2018).

Y. Li, W. C. Chueh, Electrochemical and chemical insertion for energy transformation and switching. Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 48, 1–29 (2018).

2017

W. E. Gent, K. Lim, Y. Liang, Q. Li, T. Barnes, S. Ahn, K. H. Stone, M. McIntire, J. Hong, J. H. Song, Y. Li, A. Mehta, S. Ermon, T. Tyliszczak, D. Kilcoyne, D. Vine, J. Park, S. Doo, M. F. Toney, W. Yang, D. Prendergast & W. C. Chueh. Coupling between oxygen redox and cation migration explains unusual electrochemistry in lithium-rich layered oxides. Nature Commun. 8, 2091 (2017).

A. Shavorskiy, X. Ye, O. Karslioglu, A. Poletayev, M. Hartl, I. Zegkinoglou, L. Trotochaud, S. Nemsak, C. Schneider, E. Crumlin, S. Axnanda, Z. Liu, P. Ross, W. Chueh., H. Bluhm. Direct Mapping of Band Positions in Doped and Undoped Hematite during Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 5579-5586 (2017).

C. Amy, D. Budenstein, M. Bagepalli, D. England, F. DeAngelis, G. Wilk, C. Jarrett, C. Kelsall, J. Hirschey, H. Wen, A. Chavan, B. Gilleland, C. Yuan, W. C. Chueh, K. H. Sandhage, Y. Kawajiri, A. Henry. Pumping liquid metal at high temperatures up to 1,673 kelvin. Nature. 550, 199-203 (2017).

M. Lee, J. Hong, J. Lopez, Y. Sun, D. Feng, K. Lim, W. C. Chueh, M. F. Toney, Y. Cui, Z. Bao. High-performance sodium–organic battery by realizing four-sodium storage in disodium rhodizonate. Nature Energy. 2, 861–868 (2017).

L. Zhang, L. Sun, Z. Guan, S. C. Lee, Y. Li, H. Deng, Y. Li, N. Ahlborg, M. Boloor, N. A. Melosh, W. C. Chueh. Quantifying & elucidating thermally-enhanced minority carrier diffusion length using radius-controlled rutile nanowires. Nano Lett. 17, 5264-5272 (2017).

Z. Guan, D. Chen, W. C. Chueh. Analyzing the dependence of oxygen incorporation current density on overpotential and oxygen partial pressure in mixed conducting oxide electrodes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.19, 23414-23424 (2017).

C. B. Gopal, M. García-Melchor, S. C. Lee, Y. Shi, A. Shavorskiy, M. Monti, Z. Guan, R. Sinclair, H. Bluhm, A. Vojvodic, W. C. Chueh. Equilibrium oxygen storage capacity of ultrathin CeO2-δ depends non-monotonically on large biaxial strain. Nature Commun. 8, 15360 (2017)

R. Sinclair, S. C. Lee, Y. Shi, W. C. Chueh. Structure and Chemistry of Epitaxial Ceria Thin Films on Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Substrates, Studied by High Resolution Electron Microscopy. Ultramicroscopy. 175, 25-35 (2017).

2016

Y. Shi, S. C. Lee, M. Monti, C. Wang, Z. A. Feng, W. D. Nix, M. F. Toney, R. Sinclair, W. C. Chueh. Growth of Highly Strained CeO2 Ultrathin Films. ACS Nano. 10, 9938–9947 (2016).

Y. Shi, K. H. Stone, Z. Guan, M. Monti, C. Cao, F. El Gabaly, W. C. Chueh, M. F. Toney. Surface structure of coherently strained ceria ultrathin films. Phys. Rev. B. 94, 205420 (2016).

J. Lim, Y. Li, D. H. Alsem, H. So, S. C. Lee, P. Bai, D. A. Cogswell, X. Liu, N. Jin, Y. Yu, N. J. Salmon, D. A. Shapiro, M. Z. Bazant, T. Tyliszczak, W. C. Chueh. Origin and hysteresis of lithium compositional spatiodynamics within battery primary particles. Science. 353, 566-571 (2016).

Z. A. Feng, C. B. Gopal, X. Ye, Z. Guan, B. Jeong, E. Crumlin, W. C. Chueh. Origin of Overpotential-dependent Surface Dipole at CeO2-x/Gas Interface During Electrochemical Oxygen Insertion Reactions. Chem. Mater. 28, 6233−6242 (2016).

W. E. Gent, Y. Li, S. Ahn, J. Lim, Y. Liu, A. M. Wise, C. B. Gopal, D. N. Mueller, R. Davis, J. N. Weker, J. Park, S. Doo, W. C. Chueh. Persistent State-of-Charge Heterogeneity in Relaxed, Partially Charged Li1−xNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 Secondary Particles. Adv. Mat. 28, 6631-6638 (2016).

C. B. Gopal, F. El Gabaly, A. H. Daniel, W. C. Chueh. Origin and Tunability of Unusually Large Surface Capacitance in Doped Cerium Oxide Studied by Ambient-Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Adv. Mater. 28, 4692-4697 (2016).

L. Zhang, X. Ye, M. Boloor, A. Poletayev, N. A. Melosh, W. C. Chueh. Significantly enhanced photocurrent for water oxidation in monolithic Mo:BiVO4/SnO2/Si by thermally increasing minority carrier diffusion length. Energy Environ. Sci. 9, 2044-2052 (2016). Cover.

2015

C. Jarrett, W. Chueh, C. Yuan, Y. Kawajiri, K. Sandhage, A. Henry. Critical Limitations on the Efficiency of Two-Step Thermochemical Cycles. Solar Energy 123, 57-73 (2015).

C. Yuan, C. Jarrett, W. Chueh, Y. Kawajiri, A. Henry. A new solar fuels reactor using a liquid metal heat transfer fluid: Reactor design and efficiency estimation. Solar Energy 122, 547-561 (2015).

Y. Li, S. Meyer, J. Lim, S. C. Lee, W. E. Gent, S. Marchesini, H. Krishnan, T. Tyliszczak, D. Shapiro, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, W. C. Chueh. Effects of Particle Size, Electronic Connectivity, and Incoherent Nanoscale Domains on the Sequence of Lithiation in LiFePO4 Porous Electrodes. Adv. Mater. 27, 6591-6597(2015).

J. Weker, Y. Li, R. Shanmugam, W. Lai, W. C. Chueh. Tracking Non-Uniform Mesoscale Transport in LiFePO4 Agglomerates During Electrochemical Cycling. ChemElectroChem 2, 1576-1581 (2015).

Y. Li, J. N. Weker, W. Gent, D. N. Mueller, J. Lim, D. A. Cogswell, T. Tyliszczak, W. C. Chueh. Dichotomy in the lithiation pathway of ellipsoidal and platelet LiFePO4 particles revealed through nanoscale operando state-of-charge imaging. Adv. Func. Mater. 25, 3677-3687 (2015).

X. Ye, J. Yang, M. Boloor, N. A. Melosh, W. C. Chueh. Thermally-Enhanced Minority Carrier Collection in Hematite During Photoelectrochemical Water and Sulfite Oxidation. J. Mater. Chem. A. 3, 10801-10810 (2015).

Z. A. Feng, M. L. Machala, W. C. Chueh. Surface Electrochemistry of CO2 Reduction and CO Oxidation on Sm-doped CeO2: Coupling between Ce3+ and Carbonate Adsorbates. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 12273-12281 (2015).

D. N. Mueller, M. L. Machala, H. Bluhm, W. C. Chueh. Redox activity of surface oxygen anions in oxygen-deficient perovskite oxides during electrochemical reactions. Nature Commun. 6:6097 (2015).

2014

Y. Li, F. El Gabaly, T. R. Ferguson, R. B. Smith, N. C. Bartelt, J. D. Sugar, K. R. Fenton, D. A. Cogswell, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, T. Tyliszczak, M. Z. Bazant, W. C. Chueh. Transition between Particle-by-Particle and Concurrent Intercalation in Phase-Separating Battery Electrodes. Nature Mater. 13, 1149-1156 (2014).

Z. A. Feng, F. El Gabaly, X. Ye, Z.-X. Shen, W. C. Chueh. Fast Vacancy-Mediated Oxygen Ion Incorporation across the Ceria-Gas Electrochemical Interface. Nature Comm. 5:4374 (2014).

C. Chen, D. Chen, W. C. Chueh, F. Ciucci. Modeling the Impedance Response of Mixed-Conducting Thin Film Electrodes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 11573 (2014).

2013

D. Siegel, W. C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, K. McCarty, J. de la Figurera, M. Blanco-Rey. Determination of the Surface Structure of CeO2(111) by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction. J. Chem. Phys. 139, 114703 (2013).

J. D. Sugar, F. El Gabaly, W. C. Chueh, K. R. Fenton, T. Tyliszczak, P. G. Kotula, N. C. Bartelt. High-resolution chemical analysis on cycled LiFePO4 battery electrodes using energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy. J. Power Sources 246, 512-521 (2014).

X. Ye, J. Melas-Kyriazi, Z. A. Feng, N. A. Melosh, W. C. Chueh. Semiconductor/Mixed Ion & Electron Conductor Heterojunction for Elevated-Temperature Water Splitting. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 15459-15469 (2013).

A. H. McDaniel, E. Miller, D. Arfin, A. Ambrosini, E. Coker, R. O’Hayre, W. C. Chueh, J. Tong. Sr- and Mn-doped LaAlO3-δ for Solar Thermochemical H2 and CO Production. Energy Environ. Sci. 6, 2424-2428 (2013).

W. C. Chueh, F. El Gabaly, J. D. Sugar, N. C. Bartelt, K. R. Fenton, K. R. Zavadil, T. Tyliszczak, W. Lai, K. F. McCarty. Intercalation Pathway in Many-Particle LiFePO4 Electrode Revealed by Nanoscale State-of-Charge Mapping. Nano Lett. 13, 866-872 (2013).

Prior to 2012

W. Jung, J. O. Dereux, W. C. Chueh, Y. Hao, S. M. Haile. High Electrode Activity of Nanostructured, Columnar Ceria Films for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 5, 8682-8689 (2012).

F. El Gabaly, A. H. McDaniel, M. E. Grass, W. C. Chueh, H. Bluhm, Z. Liu, K. F. McCarty. Identifying Electrochemical Intermediate Species in H2 Oxidation on Solid Electrolytes. Chem. Comm. 48, 8338-8340 (2012).

E. C. C. Souza, W. C. Chueh, W. Jung, E. N. S. Muccillo, S. M. Haile. Ionic and Electronic Conductivity of Nanostructured, Samaria-Doped Ceria. J. Electrochem. Soc. 159, K127-K135 (2012).

W. C. Chueh, A. H. McDaniel, M. E. Grass, Y. Hao, N. Jaibeen, Z. Liu, S. M. Haile, K. F. McCarty, H. Bluhm, F. El Gabaly. Highly Enhanced Concetration and Stability of Reactive Ce3+ on Doped CeO2 Surface Revealed In Operando. Chem. Mater.24, 1876-1882 (2012).

W. C. Chueh, S. M. Haile. Electrochemistry of Mixed Oxygen Ion & Electron Conducting Electrodes in Solid Electrolyte Cells. Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. 3, 313-341 (2012).

W. C. Chueh, Y. Hao, W. Jung & S. M. Haile. High Electrochemical Activity of the Oxide Phase in Ceria-Pt & Ceria-Ni Composite Anodes. Nature Mater. 11, 155-161 (2012).

Z. Lang, W. C. Chueh, K. Ganesan, S. M. Haile & W. Lipinski. Experimental Determination of Transmittance of Porous Cerium Oxide Media in the Spectral Range 300 – 1,100 nm. Exp. Heat Transfer 24, 285-299 (2011).

F. Ciucci, T. Carraro, W. C. Chueh, W. Lai. Reducing Error & Measurement Time in Impedance Spectroscopy Using Model-based Optimal Experimental Design. Electrochim. Acta 56, 5416-5434 (2011).

W. C. Chueh, C-K. Yang, C. M. Garland, W. Lai & S. M. Haile. Unusual Decrease in Conductivity Upon Hydration in Acceptor Doped, Microcrystalline Ceria. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 6442-6451 (2011).

W. C. Chueh, C. Falter, M. Abbott, D. Scipio, P. Furler, S. M. Haile, A. Steinfeld. High-Flux Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of CO2 & H2O Using Nonstoichiometric Ceria. Science 330, 1797-1801 (2010).

F. Ciucci, W. C. Chueh, D. G. Goodwin & S. M. Haile. Surface Reaction & Transport in Mixed Conductors with Electrochemically-Active Surfaces: A 2-D Numerical Study of Ceria. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys 13, 2121-2135 (2011).

W. C. Chueh & S. M. Haile. A Thermochemical Study of Ceria: Exploiting an Old Material for New Modes of Energy Conversion of CO2 Mitigation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 368, 3269-3294 (2010).

W. C. Chueh & S. M. Haile. Electrochemical Studies of Capacitance in Cerium Oxide Thin Films and Its Relationship to Anionic and Electronic Defect Densities. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 8144-8148 (2009).

W. C. Chueh & S. M. Haile. Ceria as a Thermochemical Reaction Medium for Selectively Generating Syngas or Methane from H2O & CO2. Chem. Sus. Chem. 2, 735-739 (2009)

G. A. Umeda, W. C. Chueh, L. Noailles, S. M. Haile & B. S. Dunn. Inverse Opal Ceria-Zirconia: Architectural Engineering for Heterogeneous Catalysis. Energy Environ. Sci. 1, 484 - 486 (2008).

W. C. Chueh, W. Lai & S. M. Haile. Electrochemical Behavior of Ceria with Selected Metal Electrodes. Solid State Ionics 179, 1036 - 1041 (2008).

W. C. Chueh, Z. Shao & S. M. Haile. Tunability of Propane Conversion over Alumina Supported Pt and Rh Catalysts. Top. Catal. 46, 402 - 413 (2007).

Z. Shao, J. Mederos, W. C. Chueh & S. M. Haile. High Power-Density Single-Chamber Fuel Cells Operated on Methane. J. Power Sources 162, 589 - 596 (2006).