Adam Jaffe
Assistant Professor
- Office
- 375 Stepan Chemistry
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-2696
- ajaffe@nd.edu
Research Areas
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Research Specialties
- Energy
- Materials
- Measurement
Prospective Graduate Students
Biography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2021-present | Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame |
| 2017-2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2017 | Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Stanford University |
| 2012 | A.B. in Chemistry, summa cum laude, Princeton University |
Selected Awards
2025 Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
2024 NSF CAREER Award
2019-2021 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship
2018 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award
2016 Stanford University William S. Johnson Fellowship
2013-2016 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship
2012 Princeton Undergraduate Research Symposium Grand Prize
2011 Princeton Energy Grand Challenges Research Fellowship
Research Interests
Research in the Jaffe group combines the diverse chemical properties of molecules with the favorable structural and electronic properties of crystalline inorganic solids to develop new hybrid material platforms. Hybrid organic-inorganic approaches to the mild synthesis and modification of solid-state systems yield fundamental understanding and desired functionality. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of relationships between structural and electronic properties and on addressing key challenges related to a cleaner energy future.
Projects combine synthesis of hybrid and solid-state materials with characterization through crystallography, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and in situ high-pressure diamond-anvil cell techniques. Materials are designed and tuned to target applications such as energy storage, catalysis, and optoelectronics. These materials exhibit intriguing properties including variable band gaps, stimulus-responsive phase transitions, and controllable ionic and electronic conductivity.
Selected Publications
- Padilla II, A. and Jaffe, A. "Anion Exchange in Bismuth Oxyhalides for Electronic Property Control and Isolation of BiON3" 2025 Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 12 (24), pp.8470–8478. DOI: 10.1039/d5qi01602a.
- Torres-Cadena, R.; Dayaratne, W.; Lee, M. J. and Jaffe, A. "Pressure-Induced Coupling of Hydrated 4,4′-Bipyridine" 2025 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27 (44), pp.23545–23549. DOI: 10.1039/d5cp03862f.
- Campos, J. M.; Beck, W. D.; Prokop, B. S. and Jaffe, A. "Iron-Directed Thermolysis of Pyridine-N-Oxide in Layered Metal Cyanides" 2025 ACS Materials Letters, 7 (11), pp.3512–3517. DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.5c01040.
- Robertson, G. M. and Jaffe, A. "Structural and Electronic Tuning of Hybrid Metal Thiocyanate N-Oxides" 2025 Dalton Transactions, 54 (39), pp.14648–14653. DOI: 10.1039/d5dt02188j.
- Torres-Cadena, R.; Dayaratne, W.; Chen, H. T.; Kovrigin, E. L.; Tucker, M. G.; Haberl, B. and Jaffe, A. "Negative Compressibility Transitions in Hybrid Metal Oxides" 2025 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147 (29), pp.25931–25939. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c08464.
- Dayaratne, W.; Torres-Cadena, R.; Walte, A. F.; Wan, S. C.; Campos, J. M. and Jaffe, A. "A Hybrid Bronze Age: Progress and Potential in Mixed-Valence Organic-Inorganic Metal Oxides" 2025 Inorganic Chemistry, 64 (26), pp.12881–12899. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c01018.