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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Andrew A. Gewirth is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and energy, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, catalysis, and electrochemistry.

Gewirth's scholarly output includes numerous publications addressing topics related to electrocatalysts for energy conversion, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery materials and technologies, electrochemical analysis and applications, advanced battery technologies research, and fuel cells and related materials.

Frequent venues for their publications include ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Catalysis, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, ACS Applied Energy Materials, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Notable recent papers by Gewirth include:

  • Electrochemical CO2-to-ethylene conversion on polyamine-incorporated Cu electrodes, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Highly reversible Zn anode with a practical areal capacity enabled by a sustainable electrolyte and superacid interfacial chemistry, 2022, Joule
  • Beyond Local Solvation Structure: Nanometric Aggregates in Battery Electrolytes and Their Effect on Electrolyte Properties, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Potential Dependence of the Local pH in a CO2 Reduction Electrolyzer, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Preparation of Nonprecious Metal Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of Oxygen Using a Low-Temperature Sacrificial Metal, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Gewirth collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including Paul J. A. Kenis, Xinyi Chen, Ruixian Zhang, Richard T. Haasch, and Gavin S. Lindsay.

Throughout their career, Gewirth has received recognition such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2009 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Nanoporous Copper–Silver Alloys by Additive-Controlled Electrodeposition for the Selective Electroreduction of CO2 to Ethylene and Ethanol

    Thao T. H. Hoang;Thao T. H. Hoang;Sumit Verma;Sumit Verma;Sichao Ma;Sichao Ma;Timothy T. Fister

  • Electroreduction of dioxygen for fuel-cell applications: materials and challenges.

    Andrew A. Gewirth;Matthew S. Thorum

  • Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Heterogeneous Aqueous Systems

    Andrew A. Gewirth;Jason A. Varnell;Angela M. DiAscro

  • Electrochemical CO2-to-ethylene conversion on polyamine-incorporated Cu electrodes

    Xinyi Chen;Xinyi Chen;Junfeng Chen;Nawal M. Alghoraibi;Danielle A. Henckel

  • Electrochemical applications of in situ scanning probe microscopy

    Andrew A. Gewirth;Brian K. Niece

  • Atomic-Resolution Electrochemistry with the Atomic Force Microscope: Copper Deposition on Gold

    S. Manne;P. K. Hansma;J. Massie;V. B. Elings

  • Insights into the Low Overpotential Electroreduction of CO2 to CO on a Supported Gold Catalyst in an Alkaline Flow Electrolyzer

    Sumit Verma;Sumit Verma;Yuki Hamasaki;Chaerin Kim;Wenxin Huang

  • Inhibition due to the interaction of polyethylene glycol, chloride, and copper in plating baths: A surface-enhanced Raman study

    Z. Vivian Feng;Xiao Li;Andrew A. Gewirth

  • Poisoning the Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Carbon-Supported Fe and Cu Electrocatalysts: Evidence for Metal-Centered Activity

    Matthew S. Thorum;Jeanne M. Hankett;Andrew A. Gewirth

  • Electronic structure of plastocyanin: excited state spectral features

    Andrew A. Gewirth;Edward I. Solomon

  • In-Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Sulfur Speciation in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    Heng Liang Wu;Laura A. Huff;Andrew A Gewirth

  • Identification of carbon-encapsulated iron nanoparticles as active species in non-precious metal oxygen reduction catalysts.

    Jason A. Varnell;Edmund C. M. Tse;Charles E. Schulz;Tim T. Fister

  • Nitrate adsorption and reduction on Cu(100) in acidic solution.

    Sang-Eun Bae;Karen L Stewart;Andrew A Gewirth

  • Nanoporous Copper Films by Additive-Controlled Electrodeposition: CO2 Reduction Catalysis

    Thao T. H. Hoang;Sichao Ma;Jake I. Gold;Paul J. A. Kenis

  • Electronic structure and bonding of the blue copper site in plastocyanin

    Kevin W. Penfield;Andrew A. Gewirth;Edward I. Solomon

  • Nitrate reduction pathways on Cu single crystal surfaces: Effect of oxide and Cl−

    Dennis P. Butcher;Andrew A. Gewirth

  • Strain Anisotropies and Self-Limiting Capacities in Single-Crystalline 3D Silicon Microstructures: Models for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes

    Jason L. Goldman;Brandon R. Long;Andrew A. Gewirth;Ralph G. Nuzzo

  • Sparingly Solvating Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    Lei Cheng;Larry A. Curtiss;Kevin R. Zavadil;Andrew A. Gewirth

  • A Highly Efficient Single-Chain Metal-Organic Nanoparticle Catalyst for Alkyne-Azide "Click" Reactions in Water and in Cells.

    Yugang Bai;Xinxin Feng;Hang Xing;Yanhua Xu

  • The Interplay of Al and Mg Speciation in Advanced Mg Battery Electrolyte Solutions

    Kimberly A. See;Karena W. Chapman;Lingyang Zhu;Kamila M. Wiaderek

  • Spectroscopic and Theoretical Studies of the Unusual EPR Parameters of Distorted Tetrahedral Cupric Sites:' Correlations to X-ray Spectral Features of Core Levels

    Andrew A. Gewirth;Susan L. Cohen;Harvey J. Schugar;Edward I. Solomon

  • In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy of Underpotential Deposition of Ag on Au(111)

    Chun Hsien Chen;Scott M. Vesecky;Andrew A. Gewirth

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph G. Nuzzo
Ralph G. Nuzzo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul J. A. Kenis
Paul J. A. Kenis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven C. Zimmerman
Steven C. Zimmerman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nancy R. Sottos
Nancy R. Sottos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard T. Haasch
Richard T. Haasch University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul Fenter
Paul Fenter Argonne National Laboratory
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University
Larry A. Curtiss
Larry A. Curtiss Argonne National Laboratory
Michael J. Bedzyk
Michael J. Bedzyk Northwestern University

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