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Raymond R. Unocic is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with substantial contributions in specialized subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy and sustainability, structural biology, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics related to advanced materials and characterization techniques. These topics include 2D materials and applications, MXene and MAX phase materials, graphene research and applications, advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, and catalytic processes in materials science.

Unocic has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Engineering the Interlayer Spacing by Pre-Intercalation for High Performance Supercapacitor MXene Electrodes in Room Temperature Ionic Liquid, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Probing the Local Site Disorder and Distortion in Pyrochlore High-Entropy Oxides, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Spontaneous and reversible hollowing of alloy anode nanocrystals for stable battery cycling, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Unlocking the Catalytic Potential of TiO2-Supported Pt Single Atoms for the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction by Altering Their Chemical Environment, 2021, JACS Au
  • Atomic defects, functional groups and properties in MXenes, 2020, Chinese Chemical Letters

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Unocic include Matthew G. Boebinger, Sudhajit Misra, Kai Xiao, Sergei V. Kalinin, and Ayana Ghosh.

Unocic's research is frequently published in venues such as Microscopy and Microanalysis, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, arXiv (Cornell University), and ACS Catalysis. These platforms reflect the scientist's engagement with communities focused on microscopy techniques, materials development, and catalysis research.

Best Publications

  • Water desalination using nanoporous single-layer graphene

    Sumedh P. Surwade;Sergei N. Smirnov;Ivan V. Vlassiouk;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Atomic Defects in Monolayer Titanium Carbide (Ti3C2Tx) MXene

    Xiahan Sang;Yu Xie;Ming Wei Lin;Mohamed Alhabeb

  • Large-scale delamination of multi-layers transition metal carbides and carbonitrides “MXenes”

    Michael Naguib;Raymond R. Unocic;Beth L. Armstrong;Jagjit Nanda

  • Dopamine as a Carbon Source: The Controlled Synthesis of Hollow Carbon Spheres and Yolk-Structured Carbon Nanocomposites

    Rui Liu;Shannon M. Mahurin;Chen Li;Chen Li;Chen Li;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Mechanochemical-Assisted Synthesis of High-Entropy Metal Nitride via a Soft Urea Strategy

    Tian Jin;Tian Jin;Xiahan Sang;Raymond R. Unocic;Richard T. Kinch

  • Microtwinning and other shearing mechanisms at intermediate temperatures in Ni-based superalloys

    L. Kovarik;R.R. Unocic;Ju Li;P. Sarosi

  • Mesoporous TiO2–B Microspheres with Superior Rate Performance for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Hansan Liu;Zhonghe Bi;Xiao-Guang Sun;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Deep Learning of Atomically Resolved Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Images: Chemical Identification and Tracking Local Transformations.

    Maxim Ziatdinov;Ondrej Dyck;Artem Maksov;Xufan Li

  • Direct exfoliation of natural graphite into micrometre size few layers graphene sheets using ionic liquids

    Xiqing Wang;Pasquale F. Fulvio;Gary A. Baker;Gabriel M. Veith

  • Demonstration of an Electrochemical Liquid Cell for Operando Transmission Electron Microscopy Observation of the Lithiation/Delithiation Behavior of Si Nanowire Battery Anodes

    Meng Gu;Lucas R. Parent;B. Layla Mehdi;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Aqueous proton transfer across single-layer graphene

    Jennifer L. Achtyl;Raymond R. Unocic;Lijun Xu;Yu Cai

  • Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayer: Control of Nucleation and Crystal Morphology

    Yijing Stehle;Harry M. Meyer;Raymond R. Unocic;Michelle Kidder

  • Multimodality of Structural, Electrical, and Gravimetric Responses of Intercalated MXenes to Water

    Eric S. Muckley;Michael Naguib;Hsiu-Wen Wang;Lukas Vlcek

  • Evolutionary selection growth of two-dimensional materials on polycrystalline substrates

    Ivan V. Vlassiouk;Yijing Stehle;Pushpa Raj Pudasaini;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Mechanochemical Synthesis of High Entropy Oxide Materials under Ambient Conditions: Dispersion of Catalysts via Entropy Maximization

    Hao Chen;Hao Chen;Hao Chen;Wenwen Lin;Zihao Zhang;Kecheng Jie

  • Nanoscale Imaging of Fundamental Li Battery Chemistry: Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation and Preferential Growth of Lithium Metal Nanoclusters

    Robert L. Sacci;Jennifer M. Black;Nina Balke;Nancy J. Dudney

  • Characterization of sodium ion electrochemical reaction with tin anodes: Experiment and theory

    Loïc Baggetto;P. Ganesh;Roberta P. Meisner;Roberta P. Meisner;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Direct visualization of initial SEI morphology and growth kinetics during lithium deposition by in situ electrochemical transmission electron microscopy

    Robert L. Sacci;Nancy J. Dudney;Karren L. More;Lucas R. Parent

  • Size-Dependent Disorder–Order Transformation in the Synthesis of Monodisperse Intermetallic PdCu Nanocatalysts

    Chenyu Wang;Dennis P. Chen;Xiahan Sang;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Dislocation decorrelation and relationship to deformation microtwins during creep of a γ′ precipitate strengthened Ni-based superalloy

    Raymond R Unocic;Raymond R Unocic;Ning Zhou;Libor Kovarik;Libor Kovarik;Chen Shen

  • Control and elimination of nucleation-related defects in GaP/Si(001) heteroepitaxy

    T. J. Grassman;M. R. Brenner;S. Rajagopalan;R. Unocic

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiahan Sang
Xiahan Sang Wuhan University of Technology
Gabriel M. Veith
Gabriel M. Veith Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sheng Dai
Sheng Dai Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stephen Jesse
Stephen Jesse Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Nancy J. Dudney
Nancy J. Dudney Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael J. Mills
Michael J. Mills The Ohio State University
Karren L. More
Karren L. More Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrew R. Lupini
Andrew R. Lupini Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kai Xiao
Kai Xiao Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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