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Steven Baldelli is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States and has contributed significantly to multiple fields of study, primarily in Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry. Their work spans several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biophysics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The researcher's work covers a broad range of topics, with a focus on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies, and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods.

Steven Baldelli has published papers in various well-regarded scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Baldelli are:

  • Chemical Imaging of Surfaces with Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Surface Dipoles Induce Uniform Orientation in Contacting Polar Liquids, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Generalized dynamic junction theory to resolve the mechanism of direct current generation in liquid-solid interfaces, 2022, Nano Energy
  • Influence of Microcrystallinity on the CO/Pt(poly) Electrode Surface Using Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy Combined With Electrochemistry, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Multicolor Chemical Imaging by Sum Frequency Generation Imaging Microscopy of Monolayers on Metal Surfaces, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Collaboration is a notable feature of Baldelli's research career. Frequent co-authors include T. Randall Lee, Aniqa Ibnat Lim, Jiming Bao, Syed Ali Raza Shah, and Daniela Rodríguez.

Best Publications

  • Efficient solar water-splitting using a nanocrystalline CoO photocatalyst

    Longb Liao;Qiuhui Zhang;Zhihua Su;Zhongzheng Zhao

  • Surface Structure at the Ionic Liquid−Electrified Metal Interface

    Steven Baldelli

  • Influence of Water on the Surface of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

    Selimar Rivera-Rubero;Steven Baldelli

  • Interaction of Organic Cation with Water Molecule in Perovskite MAPbI3: From Dynamic Orientational Disorder to Hydrogen Bonding

    Zhuan Zhu;Viktor G. Hadjiev;Yaoguang Rong;Rui Guo

  • Surface characterization of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium Br-, I-, PF6-, BF4-, (CF3SO2)2N-, SCN-, CH3SO3-, CH3SO4-, and (CN)2N- ionic liquids by sum frequency generation.

    Selimar Rivera-Rubero;Steven Baldelli

  • Probing Electric Fields at the Ionic Liquid-Electrode Interface Using Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Electrochemistry

    Steven Baldelli

  • Influence of Water on the Orientation of Cations at the Surface of a Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid: A Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopic Study

    Steven Baldelli

  • Surface chemistry of room-temperature ionic liquids

    Cesar Aliaga;Cherry S. Santos;Steven Baldelli

  • Alkyl chain interaction at the surface of room temperature ionic liquids: systematic variation of alkyl chain length (R = C(1)-C(4), C(8)) in both cation and anion of [RMIM][R-OSO(3)] by sum frequency generation and surface tension.

    Cherry S Santos;Steven Baldelli

  • Surface Spectroscopy of Room-temperature Ionic Liquids on a Platinum Electrode: A Sum Frequency Generation Study

    Selimar Rivera-Rubero and;Steven Baldelli

  • Surface enhanced sum frequency generation of carbon monoxide adsorbed on platinum nanoparticle arrays

    Steve Baldelli;Aaron S. Eppler;Erik Anderson;Yuen-Ron Shen

  • Interfacial Structure of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids at the Solid-Liquid Interface as Probed by Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy.

    Steven Baldelli

  • Nanoscale friction varied by isotopic shifting of surface vibrational frequencies.

    Rachel J. Cannara;Rachel J. Cannara;Matthew J. Brukman;Matthew J. Brukman;Katherine Cimatu;Katherine Cimatu;Anirudha V. Sumant;Anirudha V. Sumant

  • Sum frequency generation study of the room-temperature ionic liquids/quartz interface

    Casey Romero;Steven Baldelli

  • Vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy studies of the influence of solutes and phospholipids at vapor/water interfaces relevant to biological and environmental systems.

    C. Magnus Johnson;Steven Baldelli

  • Sum Frequency Generation of CO on (111) and Polycrystalline Platinum Electrode Surfaces: Evidence for SFG Invisible Surface CO

    Steve Baldelli;Nenad Markovic;Phil Ross;Yuen-Ron Shen

  • Detection of Hydrophobic End Groups on Polymer Surfaces by Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

    Zhan Chen;Robert Ward;Yuan Tian;Steve Baldelli

  • Surface orientation of 1-methyl-, 1-ethyl-, and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium methyl sulfate as probed by sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy.

    Cherry S Santos;Steven Baldelli

  • Gas–liquid interface of room-temperature ionic liquids

    Cherry S. Santos;Steven Baldelli

  • Sum frequency generation spectroscopy and double-layer capacitance studies of the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide-platinum interface.

    Cesar Aliaga;Steven Baldelli

Frequent Co-Authors

T. Randall Lee
T. Randall Lee University of Houston
Jiming Bao
Jiming Bao University of Houston
Christofer Leygraf
Christofer Leygraf Royal Institute of Technology
Gary A. Baker
Gary A. Baker University of Missouri
Robert W. Carpick
Robert W. Carpick University of Pennsylvania
Anirudha V. Sumant
Anirudha V. Sumant Argonne National Laboratory
Zhiming Wang
Zhiming Wang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Zhifeng Ren
Zhifeng Ren University of Houston
Mukhtar Ahmed
Mukhtar Ahmed Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University
Yan Yao
Yan Yao University of Houston

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