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  1. Jialang Li , Xiaoan Li, Ehab El Sawy, Sladjana Maslovara, Nael Yasri, Viola Birss and Edward P.L. Roberts, “Investigation of optimum flow mode in All-Vanadium RFB usisng microporous and mesoporous carbon electrodes” (under review).

  2. Marwa Atwa, Shicheng Xu, Xiaoan Li, Samuel Dull, Zhaoxuan Wang, Haoyang Yu, Timothy Goh, Mehrdad Kiani, Markus Lid, Rui Tang, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fritz B. Prinz, and Viola Birss,“Ionomer-free Pt Microenvironment in Bimodal Carbon Membranes Generates Exceptional Oxygen Reduction Activity and Catalyst Durability” (under review).

  3. 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” (under review).

  4. Chengying Ai, Irina V. Chernyshovab, Erin L. Gawron, Viola I. Birss, and Sathish Ponnurangam, “Highly Ordered PANI/Carbon Composite Electrodes for Combined Ultra-Filtration and CDI Applications", NPJ Clean Water (under review).

  5. 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.

  6. 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).

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. 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).

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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 cellcarbon supports by pentafluorophenyl surface functionalization, J. Power Sources, 378, 732-741

  33. 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.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

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

  40. 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. Electrochemical Society. 164(10), F3123-F3130.

  41. 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.

  42. 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.

  43. 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.

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