
Emily Tsui
Catalyst Design and Synthesis
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
- Ballesteros, M., Tsui, E. Y. "Reactivity of Zinc Thiolate Bonds: Oxidative Organopolysulfide Formation and S3 Insertion" 2019 Inorganic Chemistry, 58 (16), pp. 10501-10507. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01074.
- Schival, K. A., Gipson, R. R., Prather, K. V., Tsui, E. Y. "Photoinduced Surface Charging in Iron-Carbonyl-Functionalized Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals" 2019 Nano Letters, 19 (11), pp. 7770-7774. DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02726.
- Lionetti, D., Suseno, S., Tsui, E. Y., Lu, L., Stich, T. A., Carsch, K. M., Nielsen, R. J., Goddard, W. A.,III, Britt, R. D., Agapie, T. "Effects of Lewis Acidic Metal Ions (M) on Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Heterometallic Mn3MO4 Cubane and Fe3MO(OH) and Mn3MO(OH) Clusters" 2019 Inorganic Chemistry, 58 (4), pp. 2336-2345. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02701.
- Hartstein, K.H., Erickson, C.S., Tsui, E.Y., Marchioro, A., Gamelin, D.R. "Electron Stability and Negative-Tetron Luminescence in Free-Standing Colloidal n-Type CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots" 2017 ACS Nano, 11 (10), pp. 10430-10438. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05551
- Kubin, M., Kern, J., Gul, S., Kroll, T., Chatterjee, R., Löchel, H., Fuller, F.D., Sierra, R.G., Quevedo, W., Weniger, C., Rehanek, J., Firsov, A., Laksmono, H., Weninger, C., Alonso-Mori, R., Nordlund, D.L., Lassalle-Kaiser, B., Glownia, J.M., Krzywinski, J., Moeller, S., Turner, J.J., Minitti, M.P., Dakovski, G.L., Koroidov, S., Kawde, A., Kanady, J.S., Tsui, E.Y., Suseno, S., Han, Z., Hill, E., Taguchi, T., Borovik, A.S., Agapie, T., Messinger, J., Erko, A., Föhlisch, A., Bergmann, U., Mitzner, R., Yachandra, V.K., Yano, J., Wernet, P. "Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins and high-valent metal-complexes at room temperature using free-electron lasers" 2017 Structural Dynamics, 4 (5), 054307. DOI: 10.1063/1.4986627
- Tsui, E.Y., Carroll, G.M., Miller, B., Marchioro, A., Gamelin, D.R. "Extremely Slow Spontaneous Electron Trapping in Photodoped n-Type CdSe Nanocrystals" 2017 Chemistry of Materials, 29 (8), pp. 3754-3762. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00839
Contact Information
- Assistant Professor
- Office: 278 Stepan Chemistry Hall
- Phone: 574-631-0005
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