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Dimosthenis Sokaras is affiliated with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States and has a research focus spanning materials science with specific interests in materials chemistry, radiation, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering. Their publication record includes 126 works primarily in materials science, with notable subfields including 95 publications in materials chemistry and 45 in radiation.

Their research topics encompass several areas related to X-ray and spectroscopic techniques as well as catalytic processes, including:

  • X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Dimosthenis Sokaras's frequent coauthors include Thomas Kröll with 76 collaborations, Roberto Alonso-Mori with 41, Dennis Nordlund with 22, Michael L. Baker with 21, and Angel T. Garcia-Esparza with 19. This collaborative network supports a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to their research endeavors.

Publications appear regularly in several scientific venues. The prominent journals where Sokaras's work has been published include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (17 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (11 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (11 publications)
  • Nature Communications (6 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 publications)

Selected recent papers by Dimosthenis Sokaras showcase the scope and focus of their research:

  • Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Tunable metal hydroxide-organic frameworks for catalysing oxygen evolution, 2022, Nature Materials
  • Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity-Stability Relationships in Ru-Based Pyrochlores, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Direct observation of coherent femtosecond solvent reorganization coupled to intramolecular electron transfer, 2021, Nature Chemistry
  • Unveiling the critical role of the Mn dopant in a NiFe(OH)2 catalyst for water oxidation, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Best Publications

  • Identification of Highly Active Fe Sites in (Ni,Fe)OOH for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

    Daniel Friebel;Mary W. Louie;Mary W. Louie;Michal Bajdich;Kai E. Sanwald;Kai E. Sanwald

  • Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

    Ang Yu Lu;Hanyu Zhu;Jun Xiao;Chih Piao Chuu

  • Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock.

    Jan Kern;Ruchira Chatterjee;Iris D. Young;Franklin D. Fuller

  • Tracking excited-state charge and spin dynamics in iron coordination complexes

    Wenkai Zhang;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Uwe Bergmann;Christian Bressler

  • Simultaneous Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy and Diffraction of Photosystem II at Room Temperature

    Jan Kern;Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Rosalie Tran;Johan Hattne

  • Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Shucheng Chen;Zhihua Chen;Samira Siahrostami;Drew Higgins

  • Structure of photosystem II and substrate binding at room temperature

    Iris D. Young;Mohamed Ibrahim;Ruchira Chatterjee;Sheraz Gul

  • Targeted Ligand-Exchange Chemistry on Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots for High-Efficiency Photovoltaics

    Lance M. Wheeler;Erin M. Sanehira;Erin M. Sanehira;Ashley R. Marshall;Ashley R. Marshall;Philip Schulz;Philip Schulz

  • Phase segregation reversibility in mixed-metal hydroxide water oxidation catalysts

    Chunguang Kuai;Chunguang Kuai;Zhengrui Xu;Cong Xi;Anyang Hu

  • Oxygen Release Induced Chemomechanical Breakdown of Layered Cathode Materials

    Linqin Mu;Ruoqian Lin;Rong Xu;Lili Han

  • Defective Carbon-Based Materials for the Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Shucheng Chen;Zhihua Chen;Samira Siahrostami;Taeho Roy Kim

  • Identification of the active complex for CO oxidation over single-atom Ir-on-MgAl 2 O 4 catalysts

    Yubing Lu;Jiamin Wang;Liang Yu;Libor Kovarik

  • Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy

    Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Sergey Koroidov

  • Understanding Interactions between Manganese Oxide and Gold That Lead to Enhanced Activity for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

    Yelena Gorlin;Chia Jung Chung;Jesse D. Benck;Dennis Nordlund

  • Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

    Raymond G Sierra;Hartawan Laksmono;Jan Kern;Rosalie Tran

  • Drop-on-demand sample delivery for studying biocatalysts in action at X-ray free-electron lasers

    Franklin D Fuller;Sheraz Gul;Ruchira Chatterjee;E Sethe Burgie

  • Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity-Stability Relationships in Ru-Based Pyrochlores

    McKenzie A. Hubert;Anjli M. Patel;Alessandro Gallo;Yunzhi Liu

  • Fully Oxidized Ni–Fe Layered Double Hydroxide with 100% Exposed Active Sites for Catalyzing Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Chunguang Kuai;Chunguang Kuai;Yan Zhang;Yan Zhang;Deyao Wu;Dimosthenis Sokaras

  • Extremely reduced dielectric confinement in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites with large polar organics

    Bin Cheng;Ting You Li;Partha Maity;Pai Chun Wei

  • Room temperature femtosecond X-ray diffraction of photosystem II microcrystals

    Jan Kern;Roberto Alonso-Mori;Julia Hellmich;Rosalie Tran

  • Accurate macromolecular structures using minimal measurements from X-ray free-electron lasers

    Johan Hattne;Nathaniel Echols;Rosalie Tran;Jan Kern

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jan Kern
Jan Kern Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Vittal K. Yachandra
Vittal K. Yachandra Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kelly J. Gaffney
Kelly J. Gaffney SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Athina Zouni
Athina Zouni Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University

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