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Linsey Seitz

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech E160
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-467-3056Email Linsey Seitz

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Seitz Group

Departments

Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Education

Helmholtz Post-doc Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ph.D./M.S. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI


Research Interests

Electrocatalysis and Spectroscopy Group


Our society faces an imminent need to address environmental, health, and political issues associated with energy and resource consumption. Catalysis can help pave the way to a more sustainable future by effectively facilitating key bond-making and bond-breaking reactions for production of renewable fuels and treatment of pollutants. In addition, renewable energy capture technologies, such as wind and solar, are becoming more economic and efficient. Increased deployment of these technologies is generating a growing supply of inexpensive, renewable electricity and providing an excellent opportunity for development of impactful electrochemical technologies that can convert, store, and buffer these intermittent sources. 


Research in the Seitz Lab aims to improve the efficiency of electrochemical conversion processes for the production of high energy density fuels and commodity chemicals, as well as the mitigation of waste streams. Our studies seeks fundamental understanding of catalytic materials and reactions using tools at the interface of electrochemistry and spectroscopy to investigate activity, selectivity, and stability, as well as electronic and geometric structure of controlled catalyst surfaces. Our research lies at the interface of chemical engineering, materials science, and physics with the goal of improving the efficiency and technological viability of clean energy and chemical conversion processes. Members of the Seitz Lab believe that catalysis can help pave the way to a more sustainable future by pairing renewable energy sources with efficient catalytic conversion processes to produce fuels and commodity chemicals, and to mitigate waste streams.


Selected Publications

J. Edgington, S. Vispute, R. Li, A. Deberghes, L. C. Seitz*, "Quantification of Electrochemically Accessible Iridium Oxide Surface Area with Mercury Underpotential Deposition," Sci. Adv., 2024, 10(45), eadp8911. (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp8911)


J. Edgington, R. Vicente, S. Vispute, R. Li, M. Sweers, S. Sullivan%, P. Fernandez, L. C. Seitz*, "Dynamics of Highly Active Ln3IrO7 Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid," Adv. Energy Mater., 2024, 2402333. (DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202402333)


B. N. Ruggiero, B. Lu, X. K. Lu, A. E. Deberghes, D. Nordlund, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Efficient Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide in Neutral Media using Boron and Nitrogen Doped Carbon Catalysts," J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 27311-27326. (DOI: 10.1039/D4TA04613G)


A. Deberghes, M. Kazour, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Chlorine Mediated Oxidation of Cyclohexene at High Current Density in a Liquid Diffusion Electrode Reactor," ACS Catal., 2024, 14, 12128-12139. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c03356)


B. Lu, C. Wahl, R. dos Reis, J. Edgington, X. K. Lu, R. Li, M. Sweers, B. Ruggiero, G. T. K. K. Gunasooriya, V. Dravid, L. C. Seitz*, "Key Role of Paracrystalline Motifs on Iridium Oxide Surfaces for Acidic Water Oxidation," Nat. Catal., 2024, 7, 868-877. (DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01187-4)

              + Featured in Nature Catalysis Research Briefing: Nat. Catal., 2024, 7, 862–863. (DOI: 10.1038/s41929-024-01201-9)


B. N. Ruggiero†, X. K. Lu†, K. Adonteng%, J. Dong%, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Local Reaction Microenvironment Impacts on H2O2 Electrosynthesis in a Solid Electrolyte Dual Membrane Electrode Assembly," Chem. Eng. Journal, 2024, 486, 150246. (DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.150246)


R. Li, D. Nordlund, L. C. Seitz*, "Material Dynamics of Manganese-Based Oxychlorides for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid," Chem. Mater., 2024, 36(3), 1299-1307. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02362)


J. Edgington, L. C. Seitz*, "Advancing the Rigor and Reproducibility of Electrocatalyst Stability Benchmarking and Intrinsic Material Degradation Analysis for Water Oxidation," ACS Catal., 2023, 13(5), 3379-3394. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c06282)


B. N. Ruggiero, K. M. Sanroman Gutierrez%, J. D. George, N. M. Mangan, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Probing the Relationship Between Bulk and Local Environments to Understand Impacts on Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction," J. Catal., 2022, 414, 33-43. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2022.08.025)


B. Lu, C. B. Wahl, X. K. Lu, M. E. Sweers, H. Li, V. P. Dravid, L. C. Seitz*, "Iridium incorporated Strontium Tungsten Oxynitride Perovskite for Efficient Acidic Hydrogen Evolution," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144(30), 13547-13555. (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03617)


X. K. Lu, B. Lu, H. Li, K. Lim%, L. C. Seitz*, "Stabilization of Undercoordinated Cu Sites in Strontium Copper Oxides for Enhanced Formation of C2+ Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction," ACS Catal., 2022, 12(11), 6663-6671. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c01019)