Electrochemistry
150) Madeline H. Hicks, Nicholas B. Watkins, Sebastian Castro, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters. "Cation Competition Experiments during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction As a Probe of the Film-Modified Copper Microenvironment" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, ASAP. link
148) Maxim Zhelyabovskiy, Hyuk-Joon Jung, Paula L. Diaconescu, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "Plastic from CO2, Water, and Electricity: Tandem Electrochemical CO2 and Thermochemical Ethylene-CO Copolymerization." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202503003. link
146) Magel P. Su, Aisulu Aitbekova, Matthew Salazar, Xueqian Li, Shuoyan Xiong, Matthew Espinosa, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and Harry A. Atwater. "A Photothermocatalytic Reactor and Selective Solar Absorber for Sustainable Fuel Synthesis" Device 2025, 3, 100604. link
145) Tianyi He†, Meaghan Bruening†, Matthew Espinosa, and Theodor Agapie. "Novel Silicate Platform as Weakly-Coordinating Anions for Diverse Organometallic and Electrochemical Applications" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202417136. link
143) Madeline H. Hicks†, Weixuan Nie†, Annette E. Boehme, Harry A. Atwater, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters. "Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Acidic Electrolytes: Spectroscopic Evidence for Local pH Gradients" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 25282-25289. link
142) Kyra M. K. Yap†, Aisulu Aitbekova†, Matthew Salazar†, Tobias A. Kistler, Melanie Rodriguez Pabon, Magel P. Su, Nicholas B. Watkins, Sang-Won Lee, Peter Agbo, Adam Z. Weber, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, Adam C. Nielander, Harry A. Atwater, Thomas F. Jaramillo, and Alexis T. Bell. "CO2 Conversion to Butene via a Tandem Photovoltaic-Electrochemical/Photothermocatalytic Process: A Co-design Approach to Coupled Microenvironments" ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9, 4369-4377. link
139) Gavin P. Heim†, Meaghan A. Bruening†, Charles B. Musgrave III, William A. Goddard III, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "Potassium ion modulation of the Cu electrode-electrode interface with ionomers enhances CO2 reduction to C2+ products." Joule 2024, 8, 1-10. link
137) Nicholas B. Watkins, Yungchieh Lai, Zachary J. Schiffer, Virginia M. Canestraight, Harry A. Atwater, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and John M. Gregoire. "Electrode Surface Heating with Organic Films Improves CO2 Reduction Kinetics on Copper." ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9, 1440-1445. link
136) Aisulu Aitbekova, Nicholas Watkins, Matthias H. Richter, Phillip Jahelka, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and Harry A. Atwater. "Molecular Additives Improve the Selectivity of CO2 Photoelectrochemical Reduction over Gold Nanoparticles on Gallium Nitride." Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 1090-1095. link
127) Nicholas B. Watkins, Zachary J. Schiffer, Yungchieh Lai, Charles B. Musgrave III, Harry A. Atwater, William A. Goddard III, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and John M. Gregoire. "Hydrodynamics Change Tafel Slopes in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper." ACS Energy Letters. 2023, 8, 2185-2192. link
126) Weixuan Nie, Gavin P. Heim, Nicholas B. Watkins, Theodor Agapie, and Jonas C. Peters. "Organic Additive-derived Films on Cu Electrodes Promote Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2+ Products Under Strongly Acidic Conditions." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202216102. link
124) Nicholas B. Watkins, Yueshen Wu, Weixuan Nie, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "In situ Deposited Polyaromatic Layer Generates Robust Copper Catalyst for Selective Electrochemical CO2 Reduction at Variable pH." ACS Energy Letters. 2023, 8, 189-195. link
119) Yungchieh Lai, Nicholas B. Watkins, Christopher Muzzillo, Matthias Richter, Kevin Kan, Lan Zhou, Joel A. Haber, Andriy Zakutayev, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and John M. Gregoire. "Molecular Coatings Improve the Selectivity and Durability of CO2 Reduction Chalcogenide Photocathodes." ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 1195-1201. link
115) Yungchieh Lai, Nicholas B. Watkins, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Gavin P. Heim, Lan Zhou, Yueshen Wu, Jonas C. Peters, John M. Gregoire, and Theodor Agapie. "Breaking Scaling Relationships in CO2 Reduction on Copper Alloys with Organic Additives" ACS Cent. Sci., 2021, 7, 1756-1762. link
113) Hossein Yadegari, Adnan Ozden, Tartela Alkayyali, Vikram Soni, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "Glycerol Oxidation Pairs with Carbon Monoxide Reduction for Low-Voltage Generation of C2 and C3 Product Streams" ACS Energy Lett., 2021, 6, 3538-3544. link
107) Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Alex M. Fontani Herreros, Theodor Agapie, and Jonas C. Peters. "Dramatic HER Suppression on Ag Electrodes via Molecular Films for Highly Selective CO2 to CO Reduction" ACS Catalysis. 2021, 11, 4530-4537. link
106) Adnan Ozden, Yuhang Wang, Fengwang Li, Mingchuan Luo, Jared Sisler, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Thomas Burdyny, Yanwei Lum, Hossein Yadegari, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "Cascade CO2 Electroreduction Enables Efficient Carbonate-free Production of Ethylene" Joule. 2021, 5, 706-719. link
102) Adnan Ozden, Fengwang Li, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Yuhang Wang, Sung-Fu Hung, Xue Wang, Bin Chen, Jun Li, Joshua Wicks, Mingchuan Luo, Ziyun Wang, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "High-Rate and Efficient Ethylene Electrosynthesis Using a Catalyst/Promoter/Transport Layer" ACS Energy Lett., 2020, 5, 2811-2818. link
98) Dae-Hyun Nam, Phil De Luna, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Fengwang Li, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Osama Shekhah, Mohamed Eddaoudi, and Edward H. Sargent. "Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction" Nature Materials, 2020, 19, 266-276. link
96) Fengwang Li, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Ziyun Wang, Yilin Li, Christine M. Gabardo, Adnan Ozden, Cao Thang Dinh, Jun Li, Yuhang Wang, Jonathan P. Edwards, Yi Xu, Christopher McCallum, Lizhi Tao, Zhi-Qin Liang, Mingchuan Luo, Xue Wang, Huihui Li, Colin P. O'Brien, Chih-Shan Tan, Dae-Hyun Nam, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Tao-Tao Zhuang, Yuguang C. Li, Zhiji Han, R. David Britt, David Sinton, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and Edward H. Sargent. "Molecular Tuning of CO2-to-Ethylene Conversion" Nature, 2020, 577, 509-513. link (commentaries in Chemical & Engineering News, Science Daily, and Caltech News)
93) Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Jonas Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "In-situ Nanostructuring and Stabilization of Polycrystalline Copper by an Organic Salt Additive Promotes Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Ethylene" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 16952-16958. link
77) Naoki Shida, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie. "Mild electrochemical synthesis of metal phosphides with dibenzo-7-phosphanorbornadiene derivatives: mechanistic insights and application to proton reduction in water" Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 767-770. link
71) Zhiji Han, Ruud Kortlever, Hsiang-Yun Chen, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "CO2 Reduction Selective for C≥2 Products on Polycrystalline Copper with N-Substituted Pyridinium Additives" ACS Central Science 2017 3, 853-859. link
64) Suho Jung, Ruud Kortlever, Ryan J. R. Jones, Michael F. Lichterman, Theodor Agapie, Charles C. L. McCrory, and Jonas Peters. "Gastight Hydrodynamic Electrochemistry: Design for a Sealed Rotating Disk Electrode Cell" Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 581-585. link
