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Ted Sargent

Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Executive Director, Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Departments

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research Interests

We advance and deploy materials chemistry and the physical chemistry of materials and surfaces towards three missions:

  1. Capturing and utilizing CO2 in order to make efficient CO2-recycling fuels and CO2-sequestering materials.
  2. Advancing the performance and the underlying science of high-efficiency solar cells, including perovskite tandem solar cells.
  3. Developing sensors, such as for the UV and infrared wavelengths, that exceed in performance that of existing photodetecting materials and devices.

We rely on computational materials science and computational chemistry; AI/ML; the inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials synthesis, physical chemistry, as well as applied physics, in the pursuit of these goals.


Selected Publications

  • Wan, Haoyue; Jung, Eui Dae; Zhu, Tong; Park, So Min; Pina, Joao M.; Xia, Pan; Bertens, Koen; Wang, Ya Kun; Atan, Ozan; Chen, Haijie; Hou, Yi; Lee, Seungjin; Won, Yu Ho; Kim, Kwang Hee; Hoogland, Sjoerd; Sargent, Edward H., Nickel Oxide Hole Injection Layers for Balanced Charge Injection in Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes, Small (2024).
  • Almutlaq, Jawaher; Liu, Yuan; Mir, Wasim J.; Sabatini, Randy P.; Englund, Dirk; Bakr, Osman M.; Sargent, Edward H., Engineering colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals for quantum information processing, Nature nanotechnology (2024).
  • Esmaeili, Fatemeh; Wu, Yuhao Leo; Wang, Zongjie; Abdrabou, Abdalla; Juska, Vuslat B.; Zargartalebi, Hossein; Flynn, Connor D.; Odom, Teri W.; Sargent, Edward H.; Kelley, Shana O., Spiky Gold Nanoparticles, a Nanoscale Approach to Enhanced Ex Vivo T-Cell Activation, ACS nano (2024).
  • Papangelakis, Panagiotis; Shayesteh Zeraati, Ali; O'Brien, Colin P.; Bonnenfant, Loann; Dorakhan, Roham; Gabardo, Christine M.; Young, Daniel; Kong, Jonathan; Azimi Dijvejin, Zahra; Najarian, Amin Morteza; Park, Sungjin; Shin, Heejong; Miao, Rui Kai; Ip, Alexander; Golovin, Kevin; Sargent, Edward H.; Sinton, David, Carbon-Efficient CO2 Electrolysis to Ethylene with Nanoporous Hydrophobic Copper, Advanced Energy Materials (2024).
  • Wang, Xue; Li, Peihao; Tam, Jason; Howe, Jane Y.; O’Brien, Colin P.; Sedighian Rasouli, Armin; Miao, Rui Kai; Liu, Yuan; Ozden, Adnan; Xie, Ke; Wu, Jinhong; Sinton, David; Sargent, Edward H., Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis, Nature Sustainability (2024).
  • Khan, Jafar I.; Yang, Yi; Palmer, Jonathan R.; Tyndall, Samuel B.; Chaudhuri, Subhajyoti; Liu, Cheng; Grater, Luke; North, Jamie D.; Chen, Bin; Young, Ryan M.; Schatz, George C.; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Swearer, Dayne F.; Sargent, Edward H., Evaluation of interfacial photophysical processes by time-resolved optical spectroscopy in perovskite solar cells, Matter (2024).
  • Fletcher, Jared D.; Schankler, Aaron M.; Liu, Cheng; Yang, Yi; Pereyra Huelmo, Claudia; Laing, Craig C.; Oriel, Evan H.; Chen, Lin X.; Schaller, Richard D.; Sargent, Edward H.; Rappe, Andrew M.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., Two Spacers, One Perovskite, Chemistry of Materials (2024).
  • Abed, Jehad; Heras-Domingo, Javier; Sanspeur, Rohan Yuri; Luo, Mingchuan; Alnoush, Wajdi; Meira, Debora Motta; Wang, Hsiaotsu; Wang, Jian; Zhou, Jigang; Zhou, Daojin; Fatih, Khalid; Kitchin, John R.; Higgins, Drew; Ulissi, Zachary W.; Sargent, Edward H., Pourbaix Machine Learning Framework Identifies Acidic Water Oxidation Catalysts Exhibiting Suppressed Ruthenium Dissolution, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024).