Faculty DirectoryLinsey Seitz
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech E160
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
847-467-3056Email Linsey Seitz
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Departments
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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
A. Deberghes, B. N. Ruggiero, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Water Based Electrooxidation of Cyclohexene in a Novel Liquid Diffusion Electrode Reactor Design," ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2023. Invited to Emerging Investigators Special Issue. (DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c04020)
B. N. Ruggiero, A. R. Weidner, J. M. Notestein, L. C. Seitz*, "Observing Local pH Changes Using a Rotating Ring-Disk Electrode Functionalized with a Potentiometric pH Sensing Probe," J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023. Invited to Early-Career and Emerging Researchers Special Issue. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04390)
R. Li, J. Edgington, L. C. Seitz*, "Degradation Mechanism of Calcium Iridium Oxide for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid," ACS Energy and Fuels, 2023, 37(17), 13554–13561. Invited to Rising Star Issue. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c01743)
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, 3379-3394. Invited Perspective. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c06282)
J. Edgington, A. Deberghes, L. C. Seitz*, "Glassy Carbon Substrate Oxidation Effects on Electrode Stability for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysis Stability Benchmarking in Acid," ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2022, 5(10), 12206-12218. (DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.2c01690)
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, and 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)
J. Edgington, N. Schweitzer, S. Alayoglu, L. C. Seitz*, “Constant Change: Exploring Dynamic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysis and Material Transformations in Strontium Zinc Iridate Perovskite in Acid,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143(26), 9961-9971. (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04332)