CURRENT PROJECTS

Electrostatic catalysis - effect of static electric fields on chemical reactivity

• Ciampi, S; Darwish, N.; Aitken, H. M.; Diez-Perez, I.; Coote, M.L., Harnessing electrostatic catalysis in single molecule, electrochemical and chemical systems: a rapidly growing experimental tool box. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2018, 47, DOI: 10.1039/C8CS00352A.
• Zhang, L.; Laborda, E.; Darwish, N.; Noble, B. B.; Tyrell, J.; Pluczyk, S.; Brun, A. P. L.; Wallace, G. G.; Gonzalez, J.; Coote, M. L.; Ciampi, S., Electrochemical and Electrostatic Cleavage of Alkoxyamines. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 766–774.
• Aragonès, A. C.; Haworth, N. L.; Darwish, N.; Ciampi, S.; Bloomfield, N. J.; Wallace, G. G.; Diez-Perez, I.; Coote, M. L., Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction. Nature 2016, 531, 88-91.
• Zhang, L.; Vogel, Y. B.; Noble, B. B.; Gonçales, V. R.; Darwish, N.; Brun, A. L.; Gooding, J. J.; Wallace, G. G.; Coote, M. L.; Ciampi, S., TEMPO Monolayers on Si(100) Electrodes: Electrostatic Effects by the Electrolyte and Semiconductor Space-Charge on the Electroactivity of a Persistent Radical. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9611-9619.

Molecular electronics. Single-molecule and Single-particle circuitry

• Vogel, Y. B.; Zhang, J.; Darwish, N.; Ciampi, S., Switching of Current Rectification Ratios within a Single Nanocrystal by Facet-Resolved Electrical Wiring. ACS Nano, 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02934.
• Yueqi Li; Haworth, N. L.; Xiang, L.; Ciampi, S.; Coote, M. L.; Tao, N., Mechanical stretching-induced electron transfer reactions and conductance switching in single molecules. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 14699–14706.
  A.C. Aragonès, N. Darwish, S. Ciampi, F. Sanz, J.J. Gooding, I. Díez-Pérez, Single-Molecule Electrical Contacts on Silicon Electrodes under Ambient Conditions, Nature Communications,  8, 15056 (2017).
• Pla-Vilanova, P.; Aragonès, A. C.; Ciampi, S.; Sanz, F.; Darwish, N.; Diez-Perez, I., The spontaneous formation of single-molecule junctions via terminal alkynes. Nanotechnology 2015, 26, 381001.
• Darwish, N.;* Aragonès, A. C.; Darwish, T.; Ciampi, S.;* Díez-Pérez, I.,* Multi-Responsive Photo- and Chemo-Electrical Single-Molecule Switches. Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 7064-7070.
  
  

Electrochemistry of semiconductors - charge transfer at chemically modified surfaces

• Vogel, Y. B.; Zhang, L.; Darwish, N.; Gonçales, V. R.; Le Brun, A.; Gooding, J. J.; Molina, A.; Wallace, G. G.; Coote, M. L.; Gonzalez, J.; Ciampi, S., Reproducible flaws unveil electrostatic aspects of semiconductor electrochemistry. Nature Communications 2017, 8 (1), 2066.
  
• Vogel, Y. B.; Gonzalez, V. R.; Gooding, J. J.; Ciampi, S., Electrochemical Microscopy Based on Spatial Light Modulators: A Projection System to Spatially Address Electrochemical Reactions at Semiconductors. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2018, 165 (4).
• Vogel, Y. B.; Darwish, N.; Kashi, M. B.; Gooding, J. J.; Ciampi, S., Hydrogen evolution during the electrodeposition of gold nanoparticles at Si(100) photoelectrodes impairs the analysis of current-time transients. Electrochim. Acta 2017, 247, 200-206.
• Y. Yang, S. Ciampi, J.J. Gooding, Coupled Thermodynamic and Kinetic Changes in the Electrochemistry of Ferrocenyl Monolayers Induced by Light, Langmuir, (2017).
• Choudhury, M. H.; Ciampi, S.; Yang, Y.; Tavallaie, R.; Zhu, Y.; Zarei, L.; Gonçales, V. R.; Gooding, J. J., Connecting electrodes with light: one wire, many electrodes. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6 (12), 6769-6776.
• Yang, Y.; Ciampi, S.; Zhu, Y.; Gooding, J. J., Light-Activated Electrochemistry for the Two-Dimensional Interrogation of Electroactive Regions on a Monolithic Surface with Dramatically Improved Spatial Resolution. J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120 (24), 13032-13038.

Green chemistry - Fluidics effects and shaer forces on chemical rates and equilibria

• Ciampi, S.; Eggers, P. K.; Haworth, N. L.; Darwish, N.; Wagner, P.; Coote, M. L.; Wallace, G. G.; Raston, C. L., Decoloration rates of a photomerocyanine dye as a visual probe into hydrogen bonding interactions Chem. Commun. 2015, 51 (23), 4815-4818.