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 Publications

• Prather, K. V., Lee, S., Tsui, E. Y. "Metal-Carbonyl-Functionalized CdSe Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Surface Redox, and Infrared Intensities" 2021 Inorganic Chemistry, 60 (70), pp. 4269-4277. DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03641.
• Ballesteros Ii, M., Tsui, E. Y. "Sulfur transfer reactions of a zinc tetrasulfanido complex" 2020 Dalton Transactions, 49 (45), pp. 16305-16311. DOI:10.1039/d0dt01384f.
• ​​​​​​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.