Alex B. Martinson | Argonne National Laboratory

Alex Martinson is an Argonne Chemist who founded and directs Argonne’s selective interface reactions research program.

Biography

Alex Martinson is a Chemist in the Materials Science Division, Emerging Materials Group. He also serves as Deputy Director of Science for the Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems Center. The aim of his research is to discover and leverage technologically relevant surface chemistries and optoelectronic processes that occur at the interface between materials. His research tests the limits of what is possible in digital materials synthesis and device fabrication at length scales approaching the atomic level. His group develops precision synthesis methods with application to solar energy conversion, water-energy systems, detectors, and catalysis through the design, modeling, and fabrication of heterogeneous surfaces, solar fuels platforms, and advanced membrane materials. Disruptive designs are enabled through the precise spatial and chemical control afforded by atomic layer deposition (ALD). His studies explore the intersection of selective surface synthesis, thin film calorimetry, photoelectrochemistry, and precision cluster catalysis in order to study their synergies and reveal the shortcomings of our control over energy and matter.

Awards, Honors, and Memberships

Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry 2019 Young Investigator (Murray) Award
Deputy Director of Science - Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) Center EFRC
Senior Fellow, Northwestern Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering (NAISE)
Senior Scientist, UChicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE)

Select Publications

114 publications with 8600+ total citations
Author and inventor on 14 patents and pending applications
Kamphaus, E. P.; Shan N.; Jones, J. C.; Martinson, A. B. F.; Cheng, L. “Selective Hydration of Rutile TiO₂ as a Strategy for Site-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 21585-21595. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c24807)
Taggart, A. D.; Jeon, N.; Rozyyev, V.; Karapetrova, E.; Zaluzec, N. J.; Waldman, R. Z.; Darling, S. B.; Elam, J. W.; Martinson, A. B. F. “Electronic Conductivity of Nanoporous Indium Oxide Derived from Sequential Infiltration Synthesis” J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 21191-21198. (https://doi.org.10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06103)
Bielinski, A. R.; Sprague-Klein, E. A.; Phelan, B. T.; Martinson, A. B. F. “Pyroelectric Heat Detection for Calibrated Measurement of Atomic Layer Deposition Reaction Heat” Chem. Mater.　2021, 33, 6176–6185. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01745)
Liu, P.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, C.; Emery, J. D.; Das, A.; Bedzyk, M. J.; Hock, A. S.; Martinson, A. B. F. “Thermal Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold: Mechanistic Insights, Nucleation, and Epitaxy” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 7, 9091-9100. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c17943)
Barry et al. “Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems: The Central Role of Water/Solid Interfaces in Adsorption, Reactivity, and Transport” Chem. Rev. 2021, 121, 15, 9450-9501. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00069)
He, X.; Waldman, R.; Mandia, D.; Jeon, N.; Zaluzec, N.; Borkiewicz, O.; Ruett, U.; Darling, S.; Martinson, A. B. F.; Tiede, D. “Resolving the Atomic Structure of Sequential Infiltration Synthesis Derived Inorganic Clusters” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 14846-14860. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c03848)

Education

Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory, 2008
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Northwestern University - 2008
B.A., Chemistry and Mathematics, Luther College - 2003

Full Publications List

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