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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James E. Penner-Hahn is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with a focus on Molecular Biology, as well as areas intersecting Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Materials Chemistry.

Their recent scholarly output demonstrates engagement with topics such as Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders, Folate and B Vitamins Research, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Metalloenzymes and Iron-Sulfur Proteins, Enzyme Function and Inhibition, Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, and Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Determining the coordination environment and electronic structure of polymer-encapsulated cobalt phthalocyanine under electrocatalytic CO2 reduction conditions using in situ X-Ray absorption spectroscopy, 2020, Dalton Transactions
  • Probing a Silent Metal: A Combined X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopic Study of Biologically Relevant Zinc Complexes, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • An Interprotein Co-S Coordination Complex in the B12-Trafficking Pathway, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Photoactive Excited State of the B12-Based Photoreceptor CarH, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Traversing the Red-Green-Blue Color Spectrum in Rationally Designed Cupredoxins, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Collaborations have often involved several co-authors with whom there is a track record of multiple joint publications. These include Aniruddha Deb, Roseanne J. Sension, Vincent L. Pecoraro, Taylor P. McClain, and Ryan M. Lamb.

Awards recognizing their contributions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1991.

Best Publications

  • X-ray absorption edge determination of the oxidation state and coordination number of copper: application to the type 3 site in Rhus vernicifera laccase and its reaction with oxygen

    Lung Shan Kau;Darlene J. Spira-Solomon;James E. Penner-Hahn;Keith O. Hodgson

  • Metal ion chaperone function of the soluble Cu(I) receptor Atx1.

    R. A. Pufahl;C. P. Singer;K. L. Peariso;S. J. Lin

  • Effect of Dopants on Zirconia Stabilization—An X‐ray Absorption Study: I, Trivalent Dopants

    Ping Li;I‐Wei ‐W Chen;James E. Penner‐Hahn

  • Structural, spectroscopic, and reactivity models for the manganese catalases.

    Amy J. Wu;James E. Penner-Hahn;Vincent L. Pecoraro

  • Oxidation state of gold and arsenic in gold-bearing arsenian pyrite

    Grigore Simon;Hui Huang;James E. Penner-Hahn;Stephen E. Kesler

  • X-ray-absorption studies of zirconia polymorphs. I. Characteristic local structures.

    Ping Li;I-Wei Chen;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies of the blue copper site: Metal and ligand K-edge studies to probe the origin of the EPR hyperfine splitting in plastocyanin

    Susan E. Shadle;James E. Penner-Hahn;Harvey J. Schugar;Britt Hedman

  • Structural characterization of horseradish peroxidase using EXAFS spectroscopy: evidence for Fe=O ligation in compounds I and II

    James E. Penner-Hahn;Kim. Smith Eble;Thomas J. McMurry;Mark. Renner

  • X-ray-absorption studies of zirconia polymorphs. II. Effect of Y2O3 dopant on ZrO2 structure.

    Ping Li;I-Wei Chen;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • EXAFS and Near Edge Structure III

    Keith O. Hodgson;Britt Hedman;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopy in coordination chemistry

    James E. Penner-Hahn;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • Sulfur speciation in heavy petroleums: Information from X-ray absorption near-edge structure

    Geoffrey S. Waldo;Robert M.K. Carlson;J.Michael Moldowan;Kenneth E. Peters

  • Reexamination of lead(II) coordination preferences in sulfur-rich sites: implications for a critical mechanism of lead poisoning.

    John S. Magyar;O Tsu-Chien Weng;Charlotte M. Stern;David F. Dye

  • Cu(I) Recognition Via Cation-Pi and Methionine Interactions in Cusf.

    Yi Xue;Anna V Davis;Gurusamy Balakrishnan;Jay P Stasser

  • Structural characterization and thermal stability of MoS2 intercalation compounds

    Keenan E. Dungey;M. David Curtis;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • A short Fe-Fe distance in peroxodiferric ferritin: control of Fe substrate versus cofactor decay?

    Jungwon Hwang;Carsten Krebs;Boi Hanh Huynh;Dale E. Edmondson

  • Structural characterization of the manganese sites in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex using x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    James E. Penner-Hahn;Richard M. Fronko;Vincent L. Pecoraro;Charles F. Yocum

  • Effect of Dopants on Zirconia Stabilization—An X‐ray Absorption Study: III, Charge‐Compensating Dopants

    Ping Li;I‐Wei ‐W Chen;James E. Penner‐Hahn

  • The physical and chemical action of fire suppressants

    Ronald S. Sheinson;James E. Penner-Hahn;Doren Indritz

  • Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro testing of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles targeted using folic acid-conjugated dendrimers

    Kevin J. Landmark;Stassi DiMaggio;Jesse Ward;Christopher Kelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent L. Pecoraro
Vincent L. Pecoraro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Charles F. Yocum
Charles F. Yocum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Thomas V. O'Halloran
Thomas V. O'Halloran Northwestern University
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Carol A. Fierke
Carol A. Fierke Texas A&M University
I-Wei Chen
I-Wei Chen University of Pennsylvania
John H. Dawson
John H. Dawson University of South Carolina
Rowena G. Matthews
Rowena G. Matthews University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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