Publications

29. S. Avery Vigil, Ziqing Lin, and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Advancing Electrocatalyst Design Principles via Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy. ACS Catalysis, Accepted.
28. S. Avery Vigil, Ziqing Lin, and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy of Ruthenium Oxide Electrocatalysts. Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_1, July 2025, ozaf048.732. DOI: 10.1093/mam/ozaf048.732 Article Link
27. Ziqing Lin, Payal Chaudhary, S. Avery Vigil, Matteo Fratarcangeli, Conner J. Soderstedt, Vitaly Alexandrov and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Understanding the Reaction Energetics of Oxygen-evolving ElectrocatalystsEnergy Environ. Sci., DOI: 10.1039/D5EE02196K. Article Link
26. Conner J. Soderstedt, Yong Yuan, S. Avery Vigil, Heber H. Ford, Matteo Fratarcangeli, Ziqing Lin, Jingguang G. Chen, and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Oxidized Overlayers of Ruthenium and Iridium as Electrocatalysts for Anodic Reactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04767. Article Link

25. Konstantina G. Mason, Natalia Mosqueda, S. Avery Vigil, Paola N. Del Pozo-Gonzalez, Saxton Feiner, Kingston P. Robinson, Jenna M. Ynzunza, Ankita Kumari, Rose E. Smiley, Erika La Plante, George Agbeworvi, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, and Jesús M. Velázquez, Heterointercalation in Chevrel-Phase Sulfides: A Model Periodic Solid for the Investigation of Chain Electron TransferJ. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025 147 (21), 18155-18165. Article Link

24. Matteo Fratarcangeli*, S. Avery Vigil*, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Understanding Electrochemical Degradation via Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2025. Article Link

23. Matteo Fratarcangeli, S. Avery Vigil, Ziqing Lin, and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Direct Observation of Structural Disorder Effects on Iridium Dioxide Nanocrystal Dissolution. Matter, 2025. Article Link

22. S. Avery Vigil and Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Dissolution Heterogeneity Observed in Anisotropic Ruthenium Dioxide Nanocrystals via Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 16, 11133-11140. Article Link

21. Shichen Guo, Michael Boyarsky, S. Avery Vigil, Yifan Yu, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Michael E. Gehm, and Benjamin J. Wiley, Toward One-Way Smoke: Synthesis of Copper-Based Microclubs with Asymmetric Scattering and Absorption. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 2315289. Article Link

20. Monica Allen, Kwabena Bediako, William J. Bowman, Michelle Calabrese, Lucas Caretta, Rose K. Cersonsky, Wen Chen, Santiago Correa, Rachel Davidson, Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Carissa N. Eisler, Ariel Furst, Ting Ge, Andrew Hook, Yi-Ting Hsu, Chunjing Jia, Jianfeng Lu, Alessandro Lunghi, Marco S. Messina, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Eva Nichols, Reshma Rao, Martin Seifrid, Katherine E. Shulenberger, Alexandr N. Simonov, Xiao Su, Dayne F. Swearer, Evelyn Tang, Mercedes K. Taylor, Helen Tran, Gustavo F. Trindade, Ryan Truby, Hendrik Utzat, Ying Yang, Daryl W. Yee, Shenlong Zhao, and Steve Cranford, 35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023. Matter, 2023, 6, 8, 2480-2487. Article Link

19. Rolf E. R. Møller-Nilsen, Silvia Canepa, Eric Jensen,  Hongyu Sun, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Murat N. Yesibolati, A. Paul Alivisatos, and Kristian S. Mølhave, Quantifying Aqueous Radiolytic Products in Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023, 127, 31, 15512-15522. Article Link

18. Michelle F. Crook, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Justin C. Ondry, Jim Ciston, Karen C. Bustillo, Alfred Vargas, and A. Paul Alivisatos, EELS Studies of Cerium Electrolyte Reveal Substantial Solute Concentration Effects in Graphene Liquid Cells. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 12, 6648-6657. Article Link

17. Chang Yan, Dana Byrne, Justin C. Ondry, Axel Kahnt, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Gaurav A. Kamat, Zi-Jie Liu, Christian Laube, Ye Zhang, Peter Ercius, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Facet-selective etching trajectories of individual semiconductor nanocrystals. Sci. Adv., 2022, 8, eabq1700. Article Link

16. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Michelle F. Crook, Vida Jamali, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Recent advances in the study of colloidal nanocrystals enabled by in situ liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy. MRS Bulletin, 2022, 47, 305-313. Article Link

15. Weilai Yu, Matthias H. Richter, Pakpoom Buabthong, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Carlos G. Read, Ethan D. Simonoff, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Investigations of the Stability of Etched or Platinized p-InP(100) Photocathodes for Solar-driven Hydrogen Evolution in Acidic or Alkaline Aqueous Electrolytes. Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 6007-6020. Article Link

14. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Michelle F. Crook, Justin C. Ondry, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Redox Mediated Control of Electrochemical Potential in Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 31, 12082-12089. Article Link

13. Michelle F. Crook, Christian Laube, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Axel Kahnt, Stefan Zahn, Justin C. Ondry, Aijia Liu, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Elucidating the Role of Halides and Iron during Radiolysis-Driven Oxidative Etching of Gold Nanocrystals Using Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy and Pulse Radiolysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 30, 11703-11713. Article Link

12. Xingzhi Wang, Jie Li, Hyun D. Ha, Jakob C. Dahl, Justin C. Ondry, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Teresa Head-Gordon, and A. Paul Alivisatos, AutoDetect-mNP: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm for Automated Analysis of Transmission Electron Microscope Images of Metal Nanoparticles. JACS Au, 2021, 1, 3, 316-327. Article Link

11. Hoduk Cho, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Vida Jamali, Myoung H. Oh, and A. Paul Alivisatos, In Situ Quantification of Interactions Between Charged Nanorods in a Predefined Potential Energy Landscape. Nano Lett., 2021, 21, 1, 628-633. Article Link

10. Hyun D. Ha, Chang Yan, Georgios Katsoukis, Gaurav A. Kamat, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Heinz Frei, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Precise Colloidal Plasmonic Photocatalysts Constructed by Multistep Photodepositions. Nano Lett., 2020, 20, 12, 8661-877. Article Link

9. Harold J. Fu, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Pakpoom Buabthong, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Enhanced Stability of Silicon for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Through Self-Healing Enabled by an Alkaline Protective Electrolyte. Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, 13, 4132-4141. Article Link

8. Gaurav A. Kamat, Chang Yan, Wojciech T. Osowiecki, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Marc Ledendecker, and A. Paul Alivisatos, Self-Limiting Shell Formation in Cu@Ag Core-Shell Nanocrystals during Galvanic Replacement. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2020, 11, 5318-5323. Article Link

7. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Sisir Yalamanchili, Harold J. Fu, Harry A. Atwater, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Conformal SnOx heterojunction coatings for stabilized photoelectrochemical water oxidation using arrays of silicon microcones. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 9292-9301. Article Link

6. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Crystalline nickel, cobalt, and manganese antimonates as electrocatalysts for the chlorine evolution reaction. Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, 12, 1241-1248. Article Link

5. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Tin Oxide as a Protective Heterojunction with Silicon for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation in Strongly Acidic or Alkaline Electrolytes. Adv. Energy Mater., 2018, 8, 1801155. Article Link

4. Ke Sun, Nicole Ritzert, Jimmy John, Haiyan Tan, William G. Hale, Jingjing Jiang, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Thomas P. Moffat, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Performance and failure modes of Si anodes patterned with thin-film Ni catalyst islands for water oxidation. Sustain. Energy Fuels, 2018, 2, 983-998. Article Link

3. Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Clara A. MacFarland, Carlos G. Read, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, Bruce S. Brunschwig, and Nathan S. Lewis, Crystalline nickel manganese antimonate as a stable water-oxidation catalyst in aqueous 1.0 M H2SO4. Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 2103-2108. Article Link

2. Roc Matheu, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, Xavier Sala, Harry B. Gray, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Antoni Llobet, and Nathan S. Lewis, Photoelectrochemical Behavior of a Molecular Ru-Based Water-Oxidation Catalyst Bound to TiO2-Protected Si Photoanodes. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11345-11348. Article Link

1. Ke Sun, Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez, William C. Schmidt, Xinghao Zhou, J. Chance Crompton, Rui Liu, Fadl H. Saadi, Yikai Chen, Kimberly M. Papadantonakis, and Nathan S. Lewis, A comparison of the chemical, optical, and electrocatalytic properties of water-oxidation catalysts for use in integrated solar-fuel generators. Energy Environ. Sci., 2017, 10, 987-1002. Article Link