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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2011 - US President's National Medal of Science "For contributions in electrochemistry, including electroluminescence, semiconductor photoelectrochemistry, electroanalytical chemistry, and the invention of the scanning electrochemical microscope.", President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2008 - Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation for the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.
  • 2004 - Welch Award in Chemistry, Robert A. Welch Foundation
  • 2004 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2002 - Priestley Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1998 - Linus Pauling Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1998 - NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (US) For his fundamental developments in mechanistic electrochemistry, electrochemiluminescence, semiconductor photoelectrochemistry, and scanning electrochemical microscopy.
  • 1992 - Luigi Galvani Medal, Italian Chemical Society (Società Chimica Italiana)
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Oesper Award, University of Cincinnati and American Chemical Society
  • 1987 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Allen J. Bard was affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields of study including Engineering, Energy, and Chemistry, with a notable focus on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrochemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist contributed extensively to topics such as Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells.

Among Allen J. Bard's recent published papers were:

  • Atom-by-atom electrodeposition of single isolated cobalt oxide molecules and clusters for studying the oxygen evolution reaction, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Surface Interrogation of Electrodeposited MnOx and CaMnO3 Perovskites by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: Probing Active Sites and Kinetics for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Metal-insulator-semiconductor photoelectrodes for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting, 2024, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Lipid Membrane Permeability of Synthetic Redox DMPC Liposomes Investigated by Single Electrochemical Collisions, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Doping of the Semiconducting Polymer Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) in Organic Photoelectrochemical Cells, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Frequent coauthors included Zhaoyu Jin, Estelle Lebègue, Frédéric Barrière, Shice Wei, and Xuewen Xia.

The scientist published regularly in venues such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Society Reviews, Analytical Chemistry, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Throughout their career, Allen J. Bard received numerous awards and honors including:

  • US President's National Medal of Science, 2011, awarded for contributions in electrochemistry, electroluminescence, semiconductor photoelectrochemistry, electroanalytical chemistry, and the invention of the scanning electrochemical microscope
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2009
  • Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2008, for creation of single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry impacting nanoscopic to complex material systems
  • Welch Award in Chemistry, 2004
  • William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society, 2004
  • Priestley Medal, American Chemical Society, 2002
  • Linus Pauling Award, American Chemical Society, 1998
  • NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 1998, for developments in mechanistic electrochemistry and scanning electrochemical microscopy
  • Luigi Galvani Medal, Italian Chemical Society, 1992
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990
  • Oesper Award, University of Cincinnati and American Chemical Society, 1989
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 1987
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1982

Best Publications

  • Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications

    Allen J. Bard;Larry R. Faulkner

  • Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Splitting of Water to Hydrogen and Oxygen

    Allen J. Bard;Marye Anne Fox

  • Standard Potentials in Aqueous Solution

    Allen J. Bard;Roger Parsons;Joseph Jordan

  • Novel Carbon-Doped TiO2 Nanotube Arrays with High Aspect Ratios for Efficient Solar Water Splitting

    Jong Hyeok Park;Sungwook Kim;Allen J. Bard

  • Voltammetric studies of the interaction of metal chelates with DNA. 2. Tris-chelated complexes of cobalt(III) and iron(II) with 1,10-phenanthroline and 2,2'-bipyridine

    Michael T. Carter;Marisol Rodriguez;Allen J. Bard

  • Encyclopedia Of Electrochemistry Of The Elements

    Allen J. Bard

  • Scanning electrochemical microscopy. Introduction and principles

    Allen J. Bard;Fu Ren F. Fan;Juhyoun. Kwak;Ovadia. Lev

  • Photoelectrochemistry and heterogeneous photo-catalysis at semiconductors

    Allen J. Bard

  • Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence 69: The Tris(2,2‘-bipyridine)ruthenium(II), (Ru(bpy)32+)/Tri-n-propylamine (TPrA) System RevisitedA New Route Involving TPrA•+ Cation Radicals

    Wujian Miao;Jai Pil Choi;Allen J. Bard

  • Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence from Silicon Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

    Zhifeng Ding;Bernadette M. Quinn;Santosh K. Haram;Lindsay E. Pell

  • Scanning electrochemical microscopy

    Juhyoun Kwak;Allen J. Bard;Fu-Ren F. Fan

  • Interaction of Silver(I) Ions with the Respiratory Chain of Escherichia coli: An Electrochemical and Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Study of the Antimicrobial Mechanism of Micromolar Ag+†

    Katherine B. Holt;Allen J. Bard

  • Spin trapping and electron spin resonance detection of radical intermediates in the photodecomposition of water at titanium dioxide particulate systems

    Calvin D. Jaeger;Allen J. Bard

  • Thermodynamic Guidelines for the Design of Bimetallic Catalysts for Oxygen Electroreduction and Rapid Screening by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy. M-Co (M: Pd, Ag, Au)

    José L Fernández;Darren A Walsh;Allen J Bard

  • Scanning electrochemical microscopy. Theory of the feedback mode

    Juhyoun. Kwak;Allen J. Bard

  • Heterogeneous photocatalytic oxidation of cyanide ion in aqueous solutions at titanium dioxide powder

    Steven N. Frank;Allen J. Bard

  • Current Rectification at Quartz Nanopipet Electrodes

    Chang Wei† and;Allen J. Bard;Stephen W. Feldberg

  • IMPROVED PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MIXED TIO2/SIO2 AND TIO2/AL2O3 MATERIALS

    Carl Anderson;Allen J. Bard

  • Electrogenerated chemiluminescence. 37. Aqueous ecl systems based on tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(2+) and oxalate or organic acids

    Israel Rubinstein;Allen J. Bard

  • Electroanalytical chemistry : a series of advances.

    Allen J. Bard

Frequent Co-Authors

Fu Ren F. Fan
Fu Ren F. Fan The University of Texas at Austin
Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox North Carolina State University
J. M. White
J. M. White The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen E. Webber
Stephen E. Webber The University of Texas at Austin
Alan Campion
Alan Campion The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas E. Mallouk
Thomas E. Mallouk University of Pennsylvania
Michael V. Mirkin
Michael V. Mirkin Queens College, CUNY
Henry S. White
Henry S. White University of Utah
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Patrick R. Unwin
Patrick R. Unwin University of Warwick

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