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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Raymond E. Schaak is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and specializes in materials science and engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Their main topics of work cover areas such as quantum dots synthesis and properties, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, high entropy alloys studies, 2D materials and applications, and gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • Rational construction of a scalable heterostructured nanorod megalibrary, 2020, Science
  • Simultaneous Multication Exchange Pathway to High-Entropy Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Band Gap Narrowing in a High-Entropy Spinel Oxide Semiconductor for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Catalysis, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Interface-mediated noble metal deposition on transition metal dichalcogenide nanostructures, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • High Entropy Sulfide Nanoparticles as Lithium Polysulfide Redox Catalysts, 2023, ACS Nano

Frequent coauthors include Rowan R. Katzbaer, Connor R. McCormick, Benjamin C. Steimle, Robert W. Lord, and Shelley D. Minteer.

Common publication venues for this researcher consist of ACS Nano, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Nanoscience Au, Chemistry of Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Raymond E. Schaak has received recognition including a Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017 and a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Nanostructured Nickel Phosphide as an Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Eric J. Popczun;James R. McKone;Carlos G. Read;Adam J. Biacchi

  • Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene

    Ganesh R. Bhimanapati;Zhenqiu Lin;Vincent Meunier;Vincent Meunier;Yeonwoong Jung

  • Tutorial on Powder X-ray Diffraction for Characterizing Nanoscale Materials

    Cameron F. Holder;Raymond E. Schaak

  • Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Beyond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Single- and Few-Layer Nanosheets

    Ruitao Lv;Joshua A. Robinson;Raymond E. Schaak;Du Sun

  • Highly active electrocatalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction by cobalt phosphide nanoparticles.

    Eric J. Popczun;Carlos G. Read;Christopher W. Roske;Nathan S. Lewis

  • Diverse Applications of Nanomedicine

    Beatriz Pelaz;Christoph Alexiou;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla;Frauke Alves;Frauke Alves

  • Perovskites by Design: A Toolbox of Solid-State Reactions

    Raymond E. Schaak;Thomas E. Mallouk

  • Best Practices for Reporting Electrocatalytic Performance of Nanomaterials

    Damien Voiry;Manish Chhowalla;Yury Gogotsi;Nicholas A. Kotov

  • Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Metal Phosphide Catalysts for the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction

    Juan F. Callejas;Carlos G. Read;Christopher W. Roske;Nathan S. Lewis

  • 2D materials advances: From large scale synthesis and controlled heterostructures to improved characterization techniques, defects and applications

    Zhong Lin;Amber McCreary;Natalie Briggs;Shruti Subramanian

  • Nanostructured Co2P Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Direct Comparison with Morphologically Equivalent CoP

    Juan F. Callejas;Carlos G. Read;Eric J. Popczun;Joshua M. McEnaney

  • Electrocatalytic and photocatalytic hydrogen production from acidic and neutral-pH aqueous solutions using iron phosphide nanoparticles.

    Juan F. Callejas;Joshua M. McEnaney;Carlos G. Read;J. Chance Crompton

  • Converting metals into phosphides: a general strategy for the synthesis of metal phosphide nanocrystals.

    Amanda E. Henkes;Yolanda Vasquez;Raymond E. Schaak

  • Single-crystal colloidal nanosheets of GeS and GeSe.

    Dimitri D. Vaughn;Romesh J. Patel;Michael A. Hickner;Raymond E. Schaak

  • Amorphous Molybdenum Phosphide Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Joshua M. McEnaney;J. Chance Crompton;Juan F. Callejas;Eric J. Popczun

  • Superconductivity phase diagram of Na(x)CoO2*1.3H2O.

    R. E. Schaak;T. Klimczuk;T. Klimczuk;M. L. Foo;Robert Joseph Cava

  • A total-synthesis framework for the construction of high-order colloidal hybrid nanoparticles

    Matthew R. Buck;James F. Bondi;Raymond E. Schaak

  • Prying Apart Ruddlesden−Popper Phases: Exfoliation into Sheets and Nanotubes for Assembly of Perovskite Thin Films

    Raymond E. Schaak;Thomas E. Mallouk

  • Topochemical Deintercalation of Al from MoAlB: Stepwise Etching Pathway, Layered Intergrowth Structures, and Two-Dimensional MBene

    Lucas T. Alameda;Parivash Moradifar;Zachary P. Metzger;Nasim Alem

  • Tunable intraparticle frameworks for creating complex heterostructured nanoparticle libraries.

    Julie L. Fenton;Benjamin C. Steimle;Raymond E. Schaak

  • One-pot synthesis of hollow superparamagnetic CoPt nanospheres.

    Yolanda Vasquez;and Amandeep K. Sra;Raymond E. Schaak

  • Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution using amorphous tungsten phosphide nanoparticles

    Joshua M. McEnaney;J. Chance Crompton;Juan F. Callejas;Eric J. Popczun

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark C. Hersam
Mark C. Hersam Northwestern University
Ali Javey
Ali Javey University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang J. Parak
Wolfgang J. Parak Universität Hamburg
Molly M. Stevens
Molly M. Stevens University of Oxford
Reginald M. Penner
Reginald M. Penner University of California, Irvine
Andrey L. Rogach
Andrey L. Rogach City University of Hong Kong
Peter Nordlander
Peter Nordlander Rice University

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