Recent Publications

Jialang Li , Xiaoan Li, Ehab El Sawy, Sladjana Maslovara, Nael Yasri, Viola Birss and Edward P.L. Roberts, “Investigation of the impact of the flow mode in All-Vanadium-Redox-Flow Battery Using Macroporous and Mesoporous Carbon Electrodes”, Materials Today Communications, (accepted, July, 2024).

Dianne S. Lee, Mir Pouyan Zarabadi, Hridaynath Bhattacharjee, Lin Qi, Jennifer F. McLeod, Kasra Saeedfar, Ishwar Singh, April Woods, Anastasia Messina, Viola I. Birss, Cathleen M. Crudden, and Zhe She, ‘Toll Like Receptor-based Electrochemical Sensors via N-Heterocyclic Carbene-modified Surfaces: Towards Improved Sensing of DNA Molecules’, Materials Advances (accepted, May 2024).

Lin Qi, Robert M. Mayall, Dianne S. Lee, Christene A. Smith, April Woods, Mina R. Narouz, Alexander S. Hyla, Hridaynath Bhattacharjee, Zhe She, Cathleen M. Crudden, and Viola Birss “N-Heterocyclic Carbene Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) as Promising Alternatives to Alkylthiol SAMs on Gold”, Langmuir (accepted, July, 2024).

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Stephanie N. Bonvicini, Annie Hoang, Viola Birss, Sarah K. Purdy, Ramaswami Sammynaiken,
Tsun-Kong Sham, and Yujun Shi, “Pt-rich Core/Au-rich Shell Nanoparticle Formation Using
Pulsed-laser Induced Dewetting and Their Electrochemical Characteristics”, J. Phys. Chem. C.
2023, 127, 28, 13945–13957.

Haris M. Ansari, Dhanvini Gudi, Dipanjan Nandi, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Hui Yuan, Gianluigi
A. Botton, Manisha Gupta and Viola Birss. “Pulsed laser deposition grown La0.3Ca0.7Fe0.7Cr0.3O3-δ
thin films on yttria-stabilized zirconia substrates for fundamental electrochemical energy
conversion studies”, Thin Solid Films 784 (2023).

Marwa Atwa, Xiaoan Li, David O’Connell, Ruohong Sui, Robert Marriott and Viola Birss, “Nano-
engineering of Pore Neck Size In Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Powders: Improving Ion Transport
Rates for Clean Energy Applications”, Chem. Mat. 2023, 35, 2, 395–404.

Emily Nishikawa, Ahamiul Islam, Sylvia Sleep, Viola Birss, and Joule Bergerson, ‘Guiding
research in electrochemical CO2 conversion strategies through a systems-level perspective’, Green
Chemistry 1 (2023) 229-244 (part of the themed collection of Green Chemistry Hot Articles).

Bin Pan, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Richard Rateick, Jr., Christopher R. Clarkson, Xia Tong, Chris
Debuhr, Amin Ghanizadeh and Viola Birss, ‘Hydrophobic nanoporous carbon scaffolds reveal
origin of polarity-dependent electrocapillary imbibition’ Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 1372-1385,
DOI: 10.1039/D2SC05705K (Edge Article).

Manila Ozhukil Valappil, Farisa Forouzandeh, Xiaoan Li, Samantha Luong, Marwa Atwa and
Viola Birss, Understanding passive oxide formation at carbon and its role on corrosion
susceptibility, Electrochim. Acta 422, 2022, 140444.

Samantha Luong, Marwa Atwa, Manila Ozhukil Valappil, and Viola Birss, The Influence of
Monolayer and Multilayer Diazonium Functionalities on the electrochemical oxidation of
nanoporous carbons, J. Electrochem. Soc. 169, 2022, 31512.

Chengying Ai, Irina V. Chernyshova, Erin L. Gawron, Sathish Ponnurangam and Viola I. Birss,
Electrochemistry of new generation conformal polyaniline/carbon scaffolds with monodisperse
nanopores and high capacitance, J. Mat. Chem. C 10, 2022, 2271 – 2280.

Haris Masood Ansari, Adam Stuart Bass, Nabeel Ahmad, and Viola Birss, Unraveling the
evolution of exsolved Fe-Ni alloy nanoparticles in Ni-doped La0.3Ca0.7Fe0.7Cr0.3O3-δ and their role
in enhancing CO2-CO electrocatalysis, J. Mat. Chem. A 10, 2022, 2280-2294.

Marwa Atwa, Xiaoan Li, Zhaoxuan Wang, Samuel Meyer Dull, Shicheng Xu, Linda Tong, Rui
Tang, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fritz Prinz and Viola Birss, 2021, Self-supported nanoporous carbon
scaffold as a host for the 3D atomic layer deposition of Pt: Towards a new generation catalyst
layer for PEM fuel cells, Material Horizons 8 (2021) 2451-2462, Cover Article.

Bin Pan, Christopher R. Clarkson, Chengyao Song, Adnan Younis, Chris Debuhr, Amin
Ghanizadeh, and Viola I. Birss, Fracturing fluid loss in unconventional reservoirs: Evaluating the
impact of osmotic pressure and surfactant and methods to upscale results, URTeC, 2021,
https://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2021-5139

Bin Pan, Christopher R. Clarkson, Marwa Atwa, Xia Tong, Chris Debuhr, Amin Ghanizadeh, and
Viola I. Birss, Spontaneous imbibition dynamics of liquids in partially-wet nanoporous media:
Experiment and theory, Transport in Porous Media, 147(3) 2021, 555-574.

Haris M. Ansari, Paul K. Addo, Suresh Mulmi, Hui Yuan, Gianluigi A. Botton, Venkataraman
Thangadurai and Viola I. Birss, Deciphering the interaction of single phase La0.3Sr0.7Fe0.7Cr0.3O3-δ
with CO2/CO environments for application in symmetrical solid oxide cells, ACS Applied
Materials and Interfaces 14 (11), 2022, 13388-13399.

Robert Mayall, Armando Marenco, Madison Kilgore, Viola Birss, Steve Creager, Ultrasensitive
Detection of surface-confined redox molecules by mediation-based amplification,
ChemElectroChem 8(10), 2021, 1873-1880.

Bin Pan, Christopher R. Clarkson, Chris Debuhr, Amin Ghanizaeh, and Viola Birss, Low-
permeability reservoir sample wettability characterization at multiple scales: Pore-, micro- and
macro-contact angles, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 95 (6), 2021, 104229.

Janina Willkomm, Sara Bouzidi, Erwan Bertin, Viola I. Birss, and Warren E. Piers, Aqueous CO2
Reduction by a Re(bipyridine)-polypyrrole Film Deposited on Colloid-imprinted Carbon, 2021, ACS Catalysis 11, 3, 1096-1105.

Bin Pan, Christopher R. Clarkson, Marwa, Atwa, Chris Debuhr, Amin Ghanizadeh, and Viola
Birss, 2021, Wetting dynamics of nanoliter water droplets in hydrophobic nanoporous media,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 589, 411-423, 2021.

Vicky Fidelsky Kozokaro, Paul Addo, Haris Ansari, Viola Birss and Maytal Caspary-Toroker,
2020, Optimal oxygen vacancy concentration for CO2 reduction in LSFCr perovskite: A
combined density functional theory and thermogravimetric analysis study, J. Phys. Chem. C, 124
(50), 27251-27866.

Robert M. Mayall, Christene A. Smith, Alexander S. Hyla, Dianne S. Lee, Cathleen M. Crudden
and Viola Birss, 2020, Ultrasensitive and Label-free detection of the measles virus using an N-
heterocyclic carbene-based electrochemical biosensor, ACS Sensors, 5, 9, 2747-2752.

Annie Hoang, Ehab El Sawy, Arthur Blackburn, Sanaz Ketabi, Maciej Goledzinowski, Felix J. E.
Comeau, and Viola Birss, 2020, Effect of Synthesis Conditions on the Physical and
Electrocatalytic Properties of Ru@Pt Nanoparticles, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 3, 9, 8423–8436.

M.N. Islam, U. Shrivastava, M. Atwa, X. Li, Viola Birss and Kunal Karan, 2020, Highly ordered
nanoporous carbon scaffold with controllable wettability as the microporous layer for fuel cells,
ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 12, 35, 2020, 39215–39226.

D. Arenas-Esteban, E. Urones-Garrote, J. Carretero-Gonzalez, L.C. Oetero-Diaz, V.I. Birss, D.
Avila-Brande, 2020, Organometallic-derived nanoparticle carbon composites as improved
electrode materials for supercapacitors, Inorg. Chem. 58(14) 9175-9180.

C. Sundrac, A. Ahsen, S. Akkurt, O. Ozturk, V. I. Birss, and A. Buyukaksoy, 2020, Fabrication
of LSCF and LSCF-GDC nanocomposite thin films using polymeric precursors, Solid State Ionics
355 (2020) 115420.

J. Willkomm, E. Bertin, M. Atwa, J-B Lin, V.I. Birss, and W.E. Piers, 2019, Grafting of a
molecular rhenium CO2 reduction catalyst onto colloidal imprinted carbon, ACS Applied Energy
Materials, 2, 4, 2414-2418.

Robert Mayall, M. Renaud-Young, E. Gawron, S. Leong, S. Creager and V. Birss, 2019,
Enhanced signal amplification in a Toll-like Receptor-4 Biosensor utilizing ferrocene-terminated
mixed monolayers, ACS Sensors 4(1) 143-151.

Margaret Renaud-Young, Robert M. Mayall, Vajiheh Salehi, Maciej Goledzinowski, Felix J.E.
Comeau, Justin L. MacCallum, and Viola I. Birss, 2019, Development of an ultra-sensitive
electrochemical sensor for D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and its metabolites using carbon paper
electrode”, Electrochim. Acta 307, 351-359.

Farisa Forouzandeh, Xiaoan Li, Dustin Banham, Fangxia Feng, Siyu Ye, Viola Birss, 2018,
Understanding the Corrosion Resistance of Meso- and Micro-Porous Carbons for Application in
PEM Fuel Cells, J. Echem. Soc. 165(6), F3230-F3240.

Farisa Forouzandeh, Xiaoan Li, Dustin Banham, Fangxia Feng, Abraham Joseph Kakanat, Siyu
Ye, Viola Birss, 2018, Improving the corrosion resistance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell
carbon supports by pentafluorophenyl surface functionalization, J. Power Sources, 378, 732-741

Ehab N. El Sawy and Viola I. Birss, 2018, Nanoengineered Ircore@Ptshell Nanoparticles with
Controlled Pt Shell Coverages for Direct Methanol Electro-Oxidation, ACS Applied Materials &
Interfaces, 10(4), 3459–3469.

Anand Singh, Scott Paulson, Hany Farag, Viola Birss, and Venkataraman Thangadurai, 2018,
Role of Presulfidation and H2S Cofeeding on Carbon Formation on SS304 Alloy during the Ethane–Steam Cracking Process at 700 °C, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 57(4) 1146–1158.

Xiaoan Li, Farisa Forouzandeh, Tobias Fürstenhaupt, Dustin Banham, Fangxia Feng, Siyu Ye,
Daniel Y. Kwok, Viola Birss, 2018, New insights into the surface properties of hard-templated
ordered mesoporous carbons, Carbon, 127, 707-717.

Xiaoan Li, Farisa Forouzandeh, Abraham Joseph Kakanat, Fangxia Feng, Dustin William H.
Banham, Siyu Ye, Daniel Y. Kwok, and Viola Birss, 2018, Surface Characteristics of Microporous and Mesoporous Carbons Functionalized with Pentafluorophenyl Groups, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(2), 2130–2142.

Bri Sebastian, Robert Mayall, Viola Birss and Steve Bryant (2017). Facile fabrication of nano-
particle-decorated amphipathic film at a liquid/liquid interface. Langmuir, 33 (39),10125- 10133.

E. Elsawy and V. Birss (2017). “Understanding the role of Ir during methanol oxidation at PtxIry
alloy nanoparticles”. J. Electrochemical Society 164(14) F1572-1579.

Robert M. Mayall and Viola Birss (2017). “Relating Cyclic Voltammetry and Electrochemical
Impedance Spectroscopy in a Mass Transport Controlled System”, Interface (2017) 53-56.

Bea Molero-Sanchez, B., Paul Addo, Aligul Buyukaksoy, and Viola Birss (2017). Performance
enhancement of La0.3Ca0.7Fe0.7Cr0.3O3-d air electrodes by infiltration methods, J. Electro-
chemical Society. 164(10), F3123-F3130.

Beatriz Molero-Sánchez, Emilio Morán and Viola Birss, 2017, “Rapid and Low Energy
Fabrication of Symmetrical Solid Oxide Cells by Microwave Methods”, ACS Omega 2(7): 3716-
3723.

Robert Mayall, Margaret Renaud-Young, Nora Chan, and Viola Birss, 2017, An electrochemical
lipopolysaccharide sensor based on an immobilized Toll-Like Receptor 4., Biosensors &
Bioelectronics. 87(15):794-801.

Molero-Sanchez B, Addo P., Buyukaksoy A., Paulson S., Birss V. (2016). Electrochemistry of La0.3Sr0.7Feo.7Cr0.3O3-d as an oxygen and fuel electrode for RSOFCs. Faraday Discussions. 182: 159-175.