Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Biography

Fall 2017

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

2014-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington

2014

Ph.D. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

2008

B.S. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Awards

2014-2017

Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

2014

ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award

2014

Herbert Newby McCoy Award, California Institute of Technology

2009-2012

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Research Interests

Research in the Tsui group will focus on the development of new catalysts using principles and techniques from the areas of bioinorganic, organometallic, and nanomaterials chemistry. Biological enzymes and heterogeneous catalysts are capable of activating very strong bonds in small molecules with high activity and specificity. We will design transition metal complexes and nanoscale materials as models of these systems, incorporating new structural or compositional motifs from enzymatic or heterogeneous active sites to enhance the performance of our artifical catalytic systems. An improved fundamental understanding of these systems will have important applications in chemical synthesis, liquid fuels production, and energy storage. 

Recent Papers

• Lee, H. B.; Tsui, E. Y.; Agapie, T. A "CaMn₄O₂ model of the biological oxygen evolving complex: synthesis via cluster expansion on a low symmetry ligand." Chem. Commun. 2017, 53.
• Tsui, E. Y.; Carroll, G. M.; Miller, B.; Marchioro, A.; Gamelin, D. R. "Extremely Slow Spontaneous Electron Trapping in Photodoped n-Type CdSe Nanocrystals." Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 3754-3762.
• Carroll, G. M.; Tsui, E. Y.; Brozek, C. K.; Gamelin, D. R. "Spectroelectrochemical Measurement of Surface Electrostatic Contributions to Colloidal CdSe Nanocrystal Redox Potentials." Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 7912-7918.
• Tsui, E. Y.; Hartstein, K. H.; Gamelin, D. R. "Selenium Redox Reactivity on Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dot Surfaces." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11105-11108.
• Lin, P.; Tsui, E. Y.; Habib, F.; Murugesu, M.; Agapie, T. "Effect of the Mn Oxidation State on Single-Molecule-Magnet Properties: Mn-III vs Mn-IV in Biologically Inspired DyMn₃O₄ Cubanes." Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 6095-6099.
• Carroll, G. M.; Brozek, C. K.; Hartstein, K. H.; Tsui, E. Y.; Gamelin, D. R. "Potentiometric Measurements of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Redox Potentials." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4310-4313.