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Overview

Dan C. Sorescu is affiliated with the United States Department of Energy in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with significant work in Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of their work cover a breadth of areas including:

  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Their recent publications include:

  • Bulk vs Intrinsic Activity of NiFeOx Electrocatalysts in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction: The Influence of Catalyst Loading, Morphology, and Support Material, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Crystallographic Mapping and Tuning of Water Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks Featuring Distinct Open Metal Sites, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Enhanced Guest@MOF Interaction via Stepwise Thermal Annealing: TCNQ@Cu3(BTC)2, 2021, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Heterogeneous Growth of UiO-66-NH2 on Oxidized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to Form "Beads-on-a-String" Composites, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Optimizing dicyandiamide pretreatment conditions for enhanced structure and electronic properties of polymeric graphitic carbon nitride, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Frequent co-authors in Dan C. Sorescu's scientific work are:

  • Wissam A. Saidi
  • Alexander Star
  • Yueh-Lin Lee
  • Yuhua Duan
  • Dane Morgan

The most common publication venues include:

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

Best Publications

  • Gold-Adatom-Mediated Bonding in Self-Assembled Short-Chain Alkanethiolate Species on the Au(111) Surface

    Peter Maksymovych;Dan C. Sorescu;John T. Yates

  • Electron-induced dissociation of CO2 on TiO2(110).

    Junseok Lee;Dan C. Sorescu;Xingyi Deng

  • Theoretical Study of Oxygen Adsorption on Graphite and the (8,0) Single-walled Carbon Nanotube

    Dan C Sorescu;Kenneth D Jordan;Phaedon Avouris

  • Gold adatom as a key structural component in self-assembled monolayers of organosulfur molecules on Au(1 1 1)

    Peter Maksymovych;Oleksandr Voznyy;Daniel B. Dougherty;Dan C. Sorescu

  • Chemical sensitivity of graphene edges decorated with metal nanoparticles.

    Harindra Vedala;Dan C. Sorescu;Gregg P. Kotchey;Alexander Star;Alexander Star

  • Understanding the sensor response of metal-decorated carbon nanotubes.

    Douglas R. Kauffman;Douglas R. Kauffman;Dan C. Sorescu;Daniel P. Schofield;Brett L. Allen;Brett L. Allen

  • Ranolazine Improves Cardiac Diastolic Dysfunction Through Modulation of Myofilament Calcium Sensitivity

    Joshua D. Lovelock;Michelle M. Monasky;Euy Myoung Jeong;Harvey A. Lardin

  • First-principles calculations of the adsorption, diffusion, and dissociation of a CO molecule on the Fe(100) surface

    Dan C. Sorescu;Donald L. Thompson;Margaret M. Hurley;Cary F. Chabalowski

  • Theoretical Studies of the Hydrostatic Compression of RDX, HMX, HNIW, and PETN Crystals

    Dan C. Sorescu;Betsy M. Rice;Donald L. Thompson

  • CO2 capture properties of alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides: A combined density functional theory and lattice phonon dynamics study

    Yuhua Duan;Dan C. Sorescu

  • Intermolecular Potential for the Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-s-triazine Crystal (RDX): A Crystal Packing, Monte Carlo, and Molecular Dynamics Study

    Dan C. Sorescu;and Betsy M. Rice;Donald L. Thompson

  • Adsorption of NO on the TiO2(110) Surface: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

    Dan C. Sorescu;and Camelia N. Rusu;John T. Yates

  • CO2 adsorption on TiO2(101) anatase: A dispersion-corrected density functional theory study

    Dan C. Sorescu;Wissam A. Al-Saidi;Kenneth D. Jordan

  • Resveratrol suppresses angiotensin II-induced Akt/protein kinase B and p70 S6 kinase phosphorylation and subsequent hypertrophy in rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

    Ursula G. B. Haider;Dan Sorescu;Kathy K. Griendling;Angelika M. Vollmar

  • Theoretical Predictions of Energetic Molecular Crystals at Ambient and Hydrostatic Compression Conditions Using Dispersion Corrections to Conventional Density Functionals (DFT-D)

    Dan C. Sorescu;Betsy M. Rice

  • Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Studies of Crystalline FOX-7 (1,1-Diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene)

    Dan C. Sorescu;and Jerry A. Boatz;Donald L. Thompson

  • Tunable Lattice Constant and Band Gap of Single- and Few-Layer ZnO

    Junseok Lee;Junseok Lee;Dan C. Sorescu;Xingyi Deng;Xingyi Deng

  • First principles calculations of the adsorption and diffusion of hydrogen on Fe(1 0 0) surface and in the bulk

    Dan C. Sorescu

  • Theoretical Study of the Adsorption of Acetylene on the Si(001) Surface

    Dan C. Sorescu;Kenneth D. Jordan

  • Density functional theory studies of the structural, electronic, and phonon properties of Li 2 O and Li 2 CO 3 : Application to CO 2 capture reaction

    Yuhua Duan;Yuhua Duan;Dan C. Sorescu

  • ISOTHERMAL-ISOBARIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF 1,3,5,7-TETRANITRO-1,3,5,7-TETRAAZACYCLOOCTANE (HMX) CRYSTALS

    Dan C. Sorescu;Betsy M. Rice;Donald L. Thompson

  • ADSORPTION OF CO ON THE TIO2(110) SURFACE : A THEORETICAL STUDY

    Dan C. Sorescu;John T. Yates

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald L. Thompson
Donald L. Thompson University of Missouri
Kenneth D. Jordan
Kenneth D. Jordan University of Pittsburgh
Alexander Star
Alexander Star University of Pittsburgh
John T. Yates
John T. Yates University of Virginia
J. Karl Johnson
J. Karl Johnson University of Pittsburgh
Petro Maksymovych
Petro Maksymovych Clemson University
Dane Morgan
Dane Morgan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Arthur P. Baddorf
Arthur P. Baddorf Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University

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