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90
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2080
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760

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard G. Finke is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States, where their research concentrates primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Atmospheric Science, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Organic Chemistry.

The scholar's research topics cover a range of specialized interests: nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, quantum dots synthesis and properties, coagulation and flocculation studies, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, advanced photocatalysis techniques, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, and metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard G. Finke include Christopher B. Whitehead, Luke T. MacHale, Saim Özkār, Derek R. Handwerk, and Patrick D. Shipman.

Publications by this researcher are commonly found in the following scientific venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Materials Advances
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Sustainable Energy & Fuels

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard G. Finke are:

  • LaMer's 1950 model of particle formation: a review and critical analysis of its classical nucleation and fluctuation theory basis, of competing models and mechanisms for phase-changes and particle formation, and then of its application to silver halide, semiconductor, metal, and metal-oxide nanoparticles (2020), Materials Advances
  • Particle Size Distributions via Mechanism-Enabled Population Balance Modeling (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • "Burst Nucleation" vs Autocatalytic, "Burst" Growth in Near-Monodisperse Particle-Formation Reactions (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Particle formation mechanisms supported by in situ synchrotron XAFS and SAXS studies: a review of metal, metal-oxide, semiconductor and selected other nanoparticle formation reactions (2021), Materials Advances
  • Copper Metal-Organic Framework Surface Catalysis: Catalyst Poisoning, IR Spectroscopic, and Kinetic Evidence Addressing the Nature and Number of the Catalytically Active Sites En Route to Improved Applications (2020), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Richard G. Finke has received recognition through fellowships from notable institutions, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1984 and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1982.

Best Publications

  • A review of the problem of distinguishing true homogeneous catalysis from soluble or other metal-particle heterogeneous catalysis under reducing conditions

    Jason A. Widegren;Richard G. Finke

  • A review of modern transition-metal nanoclusters: their synthesis, characterization, and applications in catalysis

    John D. Aiken;Richard G. Finke

  • Transition Metal Nanocluster Formation Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies. A New Mechanism When Hydrogen Is the Reductant: Slow, Continuous Nucleation and Fast Autocatalytic Surface Growth

    Murielle A. Watzky and;Richard G. Finke

  • Protein aggregation kinetics, mechanism, and curve-fitting: A review of the literature

    Aimee M. Morris;Murielle A. Watzky;Richard G. Finke

  • Transition-metal nanocluster stabilization for catalysis: A critical review of ranking methods and putative stabilizers

    Lisa Starkey Ott;Richard G. Finke

  • Trivacant heteropolytungstate derivatives. 3. Rational syntheses, characterization, two-dimensional tungsten-183 NMR, and properties of tungstometallophosphates P2W18M4(H2O)2O6810- and P4W30M4(H2O)2O11216- (M = cobalt, copper, zinc)

    Richard G. Finke;Michael W. Droege;Peter J. Domaille

  • Electrocatalytic water oxidation beginning with the cobalt polyoxometalate [Co4(H2O)2(PW9O34)2]10-: identification of heterogeneous CoOx as the dominant catalyst.

    Jordan J. Stracke;Richard G. Finke

  • Nanocluster nucleation and growth kinetic and mechanistic studies: a review emphasizing transition-metal nanoclusters.

    Eric E. Finney;Richard G. Finke

  • Highly oxidation resistant inorganic-porphyrin analog polyoxometalate oxidation catalysts. 1. The synthesis and characterization of aqueous-soluble potassium salts of .alpha.2-P2W17O61(Mn+.cntdot.OH2)(n-10) and organic solvent soluble tetra-n-butylammonium salts of .alpha.2-P2W17O61(Mn+.cntdot.Br)(n-11) (M = Mn3+,Fe3+,Co2+,Ni2+,Cu2+)

    David K. Lyon;Warren K. Miller;Thomas Novet;Peter J. Domaille

  • Fitting neurological protein aggregation kinetic data via a 2-step, minimal/"Ockham's razor" model: the Finke-Watzky mechanism of nucleation followed by autocatalytic surface growth.

    Aimee M Morris;Murielle A Watzky;Jeffrey N Agar;Richard G Finke

  • A More General Approach to Distinguishing "Homogeneous" from "Heterogeneous" Catalysis: Discovery of Polyoxoanion- and Bu4N+-Stabilized, Isolable and Redissolvable, High-Reactivity Ir.apprx.190-450 Nanocluster Catalysts

    Yin Lin;Richard G. Finke

  • Nanoclusters in Ionic Liquids: Evidence for N-Heterocyclic Carbene Formation from Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids Detected by 2H NMR

    Lisa Starkey Ott;Morgan L Cline;Maggel Deetlefs;Kenneth R Seddon

  • Nanocluster Formation and Stabilization Fundamental Studies: Ranking Commonly Employed Anionic Stabilizers via the Development, Then Application, of Five Comparative Criteria

    Saim Ozkar;Richard G Finke

  • A review of soluble transition-metal nanoclusters as arene hydrogenation catalysts

    Jason A. Widegren;Richard G. Finke

  • Is It Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis? Identification of Bulk Ruthenium Metal as the True Catalyst in Benzene Hydrogenations Starting with the Monometallic Precursor, Ru(II)(η6-C6Me6)(OAc)2, Plus Kinetic Characterization of the Heterogeneous Nucleation, Then Autocatalytic Surface-Growth Mechanism of Metal Film Formation

    Jason A Widegren;Martin A Bennett;Richard G Finke

  • Trisubstituted heteropolytungstates as soluble metal oxide analogs. III. Synthesis, characterization, phosphorus-31, silicon-29, vanadium-51, and 1- and 2-D tungsten-183 NMR, deprotonation, and proton mobility studies of organic solvent solute forms of HxSiW9V3O40x-7 and HxP2W15V3O62x-9

    Richard G. Finke;Brian. Rapko;Robert J. Saxton;Peter J. Domaille

  • Thermolysis of the cobalt-carbon bond of adenosylcobalamin. 2. Products, kinetics, and cobalt-carbon bond dissociation energy in aqueous solution

    Benjamin P. Hay;Richard G. Finke

  • Novel Polyoxoanion- and Bu4N+-Stabilized, Isolable, and Redissolvable, 20-30-.ANG. Ir300-900 Nanoclusters: The Kinetically Controlled Synthesis, Characterization, and Mechanism of Formation of Organic Solvent-Soluble, Reproducible Size, and Reproducible Catalytic Activity Metal Nanoclusters

    Yin Lin;Richard G. Finke

  • Nanocluster Size-Control and “Magic Number” Investigations. Experimental Tests of the “Living-Metal Polymer” Concept and of Mechanism-Based Size-Control Predictions Leading to the Syntheses of Iridium(0) Nanoclusters Centering about Four Sequential Magic Numbers†

    Murielle A. Watzky and;Richard G. Finke

  • α-, β-, and γ-Dodecatungstosilicic Acids: Isomers and Related Lacunary Compounds

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  • A Review of Modern Transition-Metal Nanoclusters: Their Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications in Catalysis

    Aiken, John D., Iii.;Richard G. Finke

Frequent Co-Authors

Saim Özkar
Saim Özkar Middle East Technical University
Kenji Nomiya
Kenji Nomiya Kanagawa University
James P. Collman
James P. Collman Stanford University
John I. Brauman
John I. Brauman Stanford University
Noritaka Mizuno
Noritaka Mizuno University of Tokyo
Alessandro Trovarelli
Alessandro Trovarelli University of Udine
John C. Linehan
John C. Linehan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Cortlandt G. Pierpont
Cortlandt G. Pierpont University of Colorado Boulder
David A. Schiraldi
David A. Schiraldi Case Western Reserve University
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University

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