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Charles B. Musgrave is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catalysis, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications

Charles B. Musgrave has published extensively in several prestigious venues, including:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Some notable recent papers authored include:

  • "A covalent molecular design enabling efficient CO2 reduction in strong acids", 2024, Nature Synthesis
  • "High-throughput screening to predict highly active dual-atom catalysts for electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia", 2022, Nano Energy
  • "Inorganic Halide Double Perovskites with Optoelectronic Properties Modulated by Sublattice Mixing", 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Surface Hydrides on Fe2P Electrocatalyst Reduce CO2 at Low Overpotential: Steering Selectivity to Ethylene Glycol", 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "How the Bioinspired Fe2Mo6S8 Chevrel Breaks Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction Scaling Relations", 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators include Abdulaziz Alherz, Nicholas R. Singstock, Jacob M. Clary, Christopher Sutton, and Aaron M. Holder, reflecting ongoing partnerships in advancing research in related fields.

Best Publications

  • New tolerance factor to predict the stability of perovskite oxides and halides

    Christopher J. Bartel;Christopher A. Sutton;Bryan R. Goldsmith;Runhai Ouyang

  • Comparison of DFT Methods for Molecular Orbital Eigenvalue Calculations

    Gang Zhang;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization driven by visible light

    Jordan C. Theriot;Chern-Hooi Lim;Haishen Yang;Matthew D. Ryan

  • Singlet fission in pentacene through multi-exciton quantum states

    Paul M. Zimmerman;Zhiyong Zhang;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Efficient generation of H2 by splitting water with an isothermal redox cycle.

    Christopher L. Muhich;Brian W. Evanko;Kayla C. Weston;Paul Lichty

  • Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using N-Aryl Phenoxazines as Photoredox Catalysts

    Ryan M. Pearson;Chern-Hooi Lim;Blaine G. McCarthy;Charles B. Musgrave

  • A review and perspective of efficient hydrogen generation via solar thermal water splitting

    Christopher L. Muhich;Brian D. Ehrhart;Ibraheam Al-Shankiti;Ibraheam Al-Shankiti;Barbara J. Ward

  • Catalyzed dehydrogenation of ammonia-borane by iridium dihydrogen pincer complex differs from ethane dehydrogenation.

    Ankan Paul;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Quantum chemical study of the mechanism of aluminum oxide atomic layer deposition

    Yuniarto Widjaja;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Ion Pairing in N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts for Efficient Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Chern-Hooi Lim;Matthew D. Ryan;Blaine G. McCarthy;Jordan C. Theriot

  • Predicting ionic conductivity of solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte from first principles

    Rojana Pornprasertsuk;Panchapakesan Ramanarayanan;Charles B. Musgrave;Fritz B. Prinz

  • Prediction of transition state barriers and enthalpies of reaction by a new hybrid density-functional approximation

    Jeung Ku Kang;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Mechanism of Homogeneous Reduction of CO2 by Pyridine: Proton Relay in Aqueous Solvent and Aromatic Stabilization

    Chern-Hooi Lim;Aaron M. Holder;Charles B. Musgrave

  • A correlated electron view of singlet fission.

    Paul M. Zimmerman;Charles B. Musgrave;Martin Head-Gordon;Martin Head-Gordon

  • Proton transfer reactions on semiconductor surfaces.

    Collin Mui;Joseph H. Han;George T. Wang;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Reactions of methylamines at the Si(100)-2×1 surface

    Collin Mui;George T. Wang;Stacey F. Bent;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Adsorption of organic matter at mineral/water interfaces: I. ATR-FTIR spectroscopic and quantum chemical study of oxalate adsorbed at boehmite/water and corundum/water interfaces

    Tae Hyun Yoon;Stephen B. Johnson;Charles B. Musgrave;Gordon E. Brown

  • Thermodynamic and kinetic hydricities of metal-free hydrides

    Stefan Ilic;Stefan Ilic;Abdulaziz Alherz;Charles B. Musgrave;Charles B. Musgrave;Ksenija D. Glusac;Ksenija D. Glusac

  • The mechanism of HF/H2O chemical etching of SiO2

    Jeung Ku Kang;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Reduction of CO2 to methanol catalyzed by a biomimetic organo-hydride produced from pyridine.

    Chern-Hooi Lim;Aaron M. Holder;James T. Hynes;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Charge Storage in Cation Incorporated α-MnO2

    Matthias J. Young;Aaron M. Holder;Steven M. George;Charles B. Musgrave

  • Physical descriptor for the Gibbs energy of inorganic crystalline solids and temperature-dependent materials chemistry.

    Christopher J. Bartel;Samantha L. Millican;Ann M. Deml;Ann M. Deml;John R. Rumptz

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan W. Weimer
Alan W. Weimer University of Colorado Boulder
Vladan Stevanović
Vladan Stevanović Colorado School of Mines
Stacey F. Bent
Stacey F. Bent Stanford University
James T. Hynes
James T. Hynes University of Colorado Boulder
Steven M. George
Steven M. George University of Colorado Boulder
Stephan Lany
Stephan Lany National Renewable Energy Laboratory
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Christopher N. Bowman
Christopher N. Bowman University of Colorado Boulder
Jeung Ku Kang
Jeung Ku Kang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
George T. Wang
George T. Wang Sandia National Laboratories

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