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Affiliations

Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Applied Physics

Research Statement

Among the themes of our research are sustainable and unsolved homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic transformations, single-site surface catalysts, exploratory organo-f-element and early-transition metal organometallic chemistry, novel polymer design and synthesis, flexible, stretchable, and printable electronics, metal oxide electronics, new solar energy materials, molecule-based photonic materials, superconductivity, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, and biological aspects of transition metal chemistry.

Selected Publications

Mason, A.H.; Motta, A.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Demystifying Group-4 Polyolefin Hydrogenolysis Catalysis. Gaseous Propane Hydrogenolysis Mechanism over the Same Catalysts, 2024, PNAS, 121, e2406133121. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406133121

Ramos-Yataco, J.; Zhang, X.; Alayoglu, S.; Pham, H.N.; Datye, A.K.; Marks, T.J.; Notestein, J.M.; Gas-Phase Surface Modification to Control Catalyst Structure and Yields in Methane Dehydroaromatization, 2024, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 37, 113227. DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2024.113227.

Zhang, X.; Ramos-Yataco, J.; Agarwal, A.; Lai, Q.; Alayoglu, S.; Notestein, J.M.; Marks, T.J.; Impact of Iron Species Dispersion on Fe/ZSM-5 Catalyst Performance for Methane Dehydroaromatization (MDA), ChemCatChem, 2024, online. DOl:10.1002/cctc.202400495.

Zeng, L.; Buchholz, D.B; Keane, D.T.; Marks, T.J.; Medvedeva, J.E.; Bedzyk, M.J.; Thermal Stability of Amorphous Metal Oxides: The Interplay of Secondary Cations, Degree of Substitution and Local Structure, 2024, Chem Mater, 36, 5965–5975. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00351.

Kerwin, B.; Liu, S.; Sadhukhan, T.; Dasgupta, A.; Jones, L.; Facchetti, A.; Schatz, G.; Hersam, M.C.; Marks, T.J.; Trifluoromethylation of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: A Mild Functionalization Method for Tunable p-Type Doping, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202403494. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202403494.

Liu, C.; Yang, Y.; Chen, H.; Spanopoulos, I.D.; Bati, A.S.R.; Gilley, I.; Chen, J.; Reynolds, A.; Wiggins, T.; Huang, C.; Fletcher, J.; Liu, Y.; Chen, L.X.; Chen, B.; Zheng, D.; Marks, T.J.; Sargent, E.H.; Kanatzidis, M.G.; 2D Perovskitoid/3D Perovskite Heterostructure Enables Efficient and Stable Large-Area Perovskite Solar Cells; Nature; 2024; online. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07764-8.

Tian, J.-J.; Liu, X.; Ye, L.; Zhang, Z.; Quinn, E.C.; Shi, C.; Broadbelt, L.J.; Marks, T.J.; Chen, E.Y.-X.; Redesigned Nylon 6 with Enhanced Recyclability, Ductility, and Transparency, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202320214. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202320214.

Stoeckel, M.-A.; Feng, K.; Yang, C.-Y.; Liu, X.; Liu, T.; Jeong, S.Y.; Woo, H.Y.; Yao, Y.; Fahlman, M.; Marks, T.J.; Motta, A.; Guo, X.; Fabiano, S.; Facchetti, A.; On-demand catalysed n-doping of organic semiconductors, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, online. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202407273.

Xia, F.; Li, B.; Liu, Y.; Tan, H.; An, B.; Gao, S.; Marks, T.J.; Cheng, Y.; Critical Roles of Chalcogenide Anion on Strengthening Stability of Ni Mo Te for Almost Exclusive Electrocatalysts Nitrate to Ammonia Conversion, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2312079. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202312079.

Edenfield, W.C.; Mason, A.H.; Lai, Q.; Agarwal, A.; Kobayashi, T.; Kratish, Y.; Marks; T.J.; Rapid Polyolefin Plastics Hydrogenolysis Mediated by Single-Site Heterogeneous Electrophilic/Cationic Organo-Group IV Catalysts, ACS Catalysis, 2024, 14, 554–565. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c05161.

Wu, J.; Fu, C.; Pankow, R.; Chen, Y.; Zheng, D.; Lu, Z.; Huang, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Copolymers Based on π-Conjugated Asymmetric Naphthalene Diimide Building Blocks: Synthesis, Crystallography, and Structure−Property−Charge Transport/Photovoltaic Correlations, Chem Mater., 2023, 35, 10106–10118. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02182.

Bhagwandin, D.D.; Page, K.A.; Tran, L.D.; Yao, Y.; Reidell, A.; Muratore, C.; Fang, Q.; Ruditskiy, A.; Kennedy, W.J.; Zhong, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Lou, J.; Koerner, H.; Baldwin, L.A.; Glavin, N.R.; Orientation and Morphology Control in Acid-Catalyzed Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 8369-8377. DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05798D.

Ye, L.; Liu, X.; Beckett, K.; Rothbaum, J.O.; Lincoln, C.; Broadbelt, L.J.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Catalyst Metal-Ligand Design for Rapid, Selective, and Solventless Depolymerization of Nylon-6 Plastics, Chem., 2024, 10, 172-189. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.10.022.

Sangwan, V.K.; Martin, Z.; Li, G.; Qin, F.; Hadke, S.; Pankow, R.M.; Jeon, W.C.; Zheng, D.; Young, R.M.; Kohlstedt, K.L.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Schatz, G.C.; Facchetti, A.; Marks T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Elucidating Performance Degradation Mechanisms in Non-Fullerene Acceptor Solar Cells, J. Mater. Chem A, 2024, online. DOI:10.1039/D4TA03501A.

Liu, Y.; Agarwal, A.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Aldehyde and Ketone Hydroboration Mediated by a Heterogeneous Single-Site Molybdenum-Dioxo Catalyst: Scope and Mechanistic Implications, ChemCatChem, 2024, 16, DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202301417.

Kim, J.; Pankow, R.M.; Cho, Y.; Duplessis, I.D.; Qin, F.; Meli, D.; Daso, R.; Huang, W.; Zheng, D.; Rivnay, J.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti; A. Monolithically Integrated Ultra-High-Resolution Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistor Arrays and Complementary Circuits, Nature Electronics 2024, 7, 1-10. DOI:10.1038/s41928-024-01127-x.

Xiong, H.; Lin, O.; Lu, Y.; Zheng, D.; Li, Y.; Wang, S.; Xie, W.; Li, C.; Zhang, X.; Lin, Y.; Wang, Z.-X.; Shi, Q.; Marks, T.J.; Huang, H.; General Room Temperature Suzuki−Miyaura Polymerization for Organic Electronics, Nature Mater. 2024, 23, 695–702. DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01794-9.

Kim, J.; Lee, J.; Lee, J.-M.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Park, S.K.; Recent Advances in Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Photodetectors, Small Methods, 2024, 8, 2300246. DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202300246.

Lai, Q.; Mason, A.H.; Agarwal, A.; Edenfield, W.C.; Zhang, X.; Kobayashi T.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.C.; Rapid Polyolefin Hydrogenolysis by a Single-Site Organo-Tantalum Catalyst on a Super-Acidic Support. Structure and Mechanism., Angew Chemie., 2023, 62, e202312546. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202312546.

Qin, F.; Li, G.; Liu, Y.; Cho, Y.; Pankow, R.M.; Zhang, D.; Feng, L.; Wang, Y.; Jeong, S.; Zheng, D.; Yang, C.; Zhou, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Conjugated vs Nonconjugated Polymerized Small Molecule Acceptors (PSMAs). Photovoltaic Response and Mechanical Properties, ACS Energy Lett, 2023, 8, 4733–4745. DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01490.

Utama, M.I.B., Dasgupta, A., Ananth, R.; Weiss, E.A., Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Quantum Photonic Science and Technology, MRS Bulletin, 2023, 48, 1-9. DOI: 10.1557/s43577-023-00584-7.

Zhao, D.; Kim, D.; Ghosh, S.; Wang, G.; Huang, W.; Zhu,Z.; Marks, T.J.; Igor Zozoulenko, I.; Facchetti; A.; Mechanical, Morphological and Charge Transport Properties of NDI Polymers with Variable Built-in π-Conjugation Lengths Probed by Simulation and Experiment, Advan. Funct. Mater., 2023, 34, 2310071. DOI:10.1002/adfm.202310071.

Pankow, R.M.; Kerwin, B.; Cho, Y.; Jeong, S.; Forti, G.; Musolino, B.; Yang, C.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Enhanced Optical Contrast and Switching in Near-Infrared Electrochromic Devices by Optimizing Conjugated Polymer Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Sidechain Content and Gel Electrolyte Composition, Adv Funct Mater. 2023, 34, 2309428. DOI:10.1002/adfm.202309428.

Rangnekar, S.V.; Sangwan, V.K.; Jin, M.; Khalaj, M.; Szydłowska, B.M.; Dasgupta, A.; Kuo, L.; Kurtz, H.E.; Marks, T.J.; Hersam, M.C.; Electroluminescence from Megasonically Solution-Processed MoS2 Nanosheet Films, ACS Nano, 2023,17, 17516–17526 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c06034.

Forti, G.; Pankow, R.M.; Qin, F.; Cho, Y.; Kerwin, B.; Duplessis, I.; Nitti, A.; Jeong, S.; Yang, C.; Facchetti, A.; Pasini, D.; Marks, T.J.; Anthradithiophene (ADT)-Based Polymerized Non-Fullerene Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells, Chem. Eur. J., 2023, 29, e202300653. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300653.

Arinaga, A.M.; Biswas, A.; Zhang, X.; Greeley, J.; Marks, T.J.; Origin of Rate and Selectivity Trends and Exceptional Yield in Sulfur-Oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation Over Supported Vanadium Catalysts, ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 13395–13413. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c03677.

Li, M.; Park, S.Y.; Wang, J.; Zheng, D.; Wostoupal, O.; Xiao, X.; Yang, Z.; Li, X.; Marks, T.; Zhu, K.; Xu, T.; Nickel-Doped Graphite and Fusible Alloy Bilayer Back Electrode for Vacuum-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with PCE of 21%; ACS Energy Lett., 2023, 8, 2940–2945. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00852.

Pankow, R.M.; Harbuzaru, A.; Zheng, D.; Kerwin, B.; Forti, G.; Duplessis, I.D.; Musolino, B.; Ortiz, R.P.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Oxidative-Reductive Near-Infrared Electrochromic Switching Enabled by Porous Vertically Stacked Multilayer Devices, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 13411–13419. DOI:10.1021/jacs.3c03702.

Liu, Y.; Agarwal, A.; Kratish, Y.; Tobin J. Marks, T. J.; Single-Site Carbon-Supported Metal-Oxo Complexes in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism; Angew Chemie, 2023, 62, e202304221. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202304221.

Yao, Y.; Huang, W.; Chen, J.; Liu, X.; Bai, L.; Chen, W.; Cheng, Y.; Ping, J.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Flexible and Stretchable Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Physiological Sensing Devices, Adv Mater., 2023, 35, 2209906. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209906.

Li, B.; Xia, F.; Liu, Y.; Tan, H.; Gao, S.; Kaelin, J.; Liu, Y.; Lu, K.; Marks, T.J.; Cheng, Y.; Co2Mo6S8 Catalyzes Nearly Exclusive Electrochemical Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia with Enzyme-like Activity, Nano Lett., 2023, 23, 1459–1466. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04828.

Trippodo, E.; Campisciano, V.; Feng, L.-W.; Chen, Y.; Huang, W.; Alzola, J.M.; Zheng, D.; Sangwan, V.K.; Hersam, M.C.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Pignataro, B.; Giacalone, F.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Air-Stable Ternary Organic Solar Cells Achieved by Using Fullerene Additives in Non-Fullerene Acceptor-Polymer Donor Blends, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 8074-8083. DOI: 10.1039/D2TC04971F.

Su, N.; Chen, J.; Peng, M.; Li, G.; Pankow, R.M.; Zheng, D.; Ding, J.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; π Extension and Chlorination of Non-fullerene Acceptors Enable More Readily Processable and Sustainable High-Performance Organic Solar Cells, J. Energy Chemistry, 2023, 79, 321-329. DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2022.12.002.

Zhu, W.; Li, G.; Mukherjee, S.; Powers-Riggs, N.E.; Jones, L.O.; Gann, E.; Joseph Kline, R.; Herzing, A.; Logsdon, J.L.; Flagg, L.; Stern, C.L.; Young, R.M.; Kohlstedt, K.L.; Schatz, G.C.; DeLongchamp, D.M.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Melkonyan, F.S.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; Quantitative Relationships between Film Morphology, Charge Carrier Dynamics, and Photovoltaic Performance in Bulk-Heterojunction Binary vs Ternary Acceptor Blends, Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 1234-1250. DOI: 10.1039/D2EE03883H.

Shim, H.; Sim, K.; Wang; B.; Zhang; Y.; Patel, S.; Jang, S.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Yu, C.; Elastic Integrated Electronics Based on a Stretchable N-Type Elastomer-Semiconductor-Elastomer Stack Structure, Nature Electronics 2023, 6, 1-11. DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-00966-4.

Rothbaum, J.O.; Motta, A.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Mechanistic Study of Homoleptic Trisamidolanthanide-Catalyzed Aldehyde and Ketone Hydroboration. Chemically Non-Innocent Ligand Participation, Chem. Sci, 2023, 14, 3247 - 3256. DOI: 10.1039/D2SC06442A.

Zhuang, X.; Kim, J.-S.; Huang, W.; Chen, Y.; Wang, G.; Chen, J.; Yao, Y., Wang, Z.; Yu, J.; Cheng, Y.; Yang, Z.; Lauhon, L.J.; Marks, T.J.; Antonio Facchetti, A.; High Performance and Low Power Source-Gated Transistors Enabled by a Solution-Processed Metal Oxide Homojunction, PNAS 2023, 120, e2216672120. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2216672120.

Huang, W.; Chen, J.; Yao, Y.; Zheng, D., Ji, X.; Feng, L.-W.; Moore, D.; Glavin, N.R.; Xie, M.; Chen, Y.; Pankow, R.M.; Surendran, A.; Wang, Z.; Xia, Y.; Bai, L.; Rivnay, J.; Ping, J.; Guo, X.; Cheng, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Facchetti, A.; Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Complementary Circuits, Nature, 2023, 613, 496–502. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05592-2.

Carter, C.; Kratish, Y.; Marks, T.J.; Influence of Rare Earth Ion on Metal-Metal Charge Transfer in Trinuclear Mixed-Valent Complexes, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 4799–4813. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03973.

Utama, M.I.B.; Zeng, H.; Sadhukhan, T.; Dasgupta, A.; Gavin, S.C.; Ananth, R.; Lebedev, D.; Wang, W.; Chen, J.-S.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Marks, T.J.; Ma, X.; Weiss, E.A.; Schatz, G.C.; Stern, N.P.; Hersam, M.C.; Chemomechanical Modification of Quantum Emission in Monolayer WSe2, Nat Chem. 2023, 14, 2193. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37892-0.

Li, G.; Qin, F.; Jacobberger, R.M.; Mukherjee, S.; Jones, L.O.; Young, R.M.; Pankow, R.M.; Kerwin, B.; Flagg, L.Q.; Zheng, D.; Kohlstedt, K.L.; Sangwan, V.K.; Hersam, M.C.; Schatz, G.C.; DeLongchamp, D.M.; Wasielewski, M.R.; Zhou, Y.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T.J.; What is the role of non-fullerene acceptor symmetry in polymer solar cell efficiency?, Joule, 2023, 7, 2152–2173. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2023.07.005.

Selected Honors/Awards

• U.S. National Medal of Science (highest scientific honor of the United States Government)
• American Chemical Society Joseph Priestley Medal (highest honor of the American Chemical Society)
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences (the second award bestowed; first in catalysis)
• Principe de Asturias Prize for Technical and Scientific Research (the Spanish Nobel Prize)
• U.S. National Academy of Sciences Award in the Chemical Sciences
• Materials Research Society Von Hippel Award (the highest honor of the Materials Research Society)
• Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Harvey Foundation, Israel
• Karl Ziegler Prize, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
• ACS Medals (8): Willard Gibbs, Linus Pauling, F. Albert Cotton, Theodore Richards, William Nichols, John Bailar, Harry Mosher, Alan McDiarmid
• ACS National Awards (6) for: Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Somorjai in Creative Catalysis, Cope Scholar in Organic Chemistry, Distinguished Inorganic Chemistry Service.
• Eminent Scientist Award, ACS Undergraduate Program
• American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (highest honor of the American Institute of Chemists)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Centenary, William Frankland, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Materials for Industry Medals/Awards
• Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Distinguished Scientist Award (Albert Einstein Award)
• Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
• Italian Chemical Society: Paolo Chini and Luigi Sacconi Medals
• North American Catalysis Society: Robert Burwell and Herman Pines Awards in Catalysis
• Schulich Prize, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
• Wilhelm Manchot Prize, Technical U. of Munich
• Wang Yu Award, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (the Premier Organic Chemistry Institute in Asia)
• University of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Kasai, Top Scientist of the World Award
• Research.com ranking of #3 Chemist in the US, #6 Chemist in the World
• Turner Alfrey Award in Polymer Science

Fellowships/Memberships

• U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• American Philosophical Society
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Leopoldina, German National Academy of Natural Sciences
• U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italian National Academy of Sciences)
• Foreign Member, European Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, Indian National Academy of Sciences
• U.S. National Academy of Inventors
• Fellow: ACS, Royal Society of Chemistry UK, Materials Research Society, Chemical Research Society of India
• Honorary Fellow, Israel Chemical Society
• Honorary Foreign Fellow, Chinese Chemical Society;
• Lifetime Fellow, American Institute of Chemists

Honorary Degrees, Doctor of Science Honoris Causa

Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, 2011; U. of South Carolina, 2011; The Ohio State U. 2012; Technical U. of Munich, 2016; Nanjing Institute of Technology, 2019

Other Awards

1974 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow; 1975 Camille and Henry Dreyfus TeacherScholar; 1977 DuPont Young Faculty Fellow; 1978 Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide Corp.; 1979 Fresenius Pure and Applied Chemistry Award; 1984 ACS Doolittle Award in Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering; 1984 Sobral Medal, Portuguese Chemical Society; 19861987 Mack Awardee and Lecturer, Ohio State U.; 1989-1990 Guggenheim Fellow; 1998 Phillips Award, U. of Pittsburgh; 2003 Evans Medal, Ohio State U.; 2005 U. of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame; 2005 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry UK; 2009 Honorary Fellow, Chemical Research Society of India; 2009 Fellow, Materials Research Society; 2009 Taylor Award in Materials Research, Penn. State U.; 2010 Distinguished Affiliated Professor Award, Technical U. of Munich; 2010 Centennial Medal, U. of Oviedo (Spain); 2011 Member, Indian Academy of Sciences; 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award and Circle of Discovery, U. of Maryland;. 2013 Honorary Member, Israel Chemical Society; 2013 MacDiarmid Medal, U. of Pennsylvania; 2016 Member, U.S. National Academy of Inventors; 2016 Tannas Award in Materials Science, U. of California, Los Angeles; 2017 Johnson Award in Materials Science, Cornell University; 2018-2024 Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureate.

Named Lectureships and Visiting Professorships

Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, U. of Texas at Austin, 1980; Presidential Lecturer, Tech. U. of Berlin, 1980; Distinguished Visiting Professor, U. of Western Ontario, 1981; Lemieux Lecturer, U. of Ottawa 1984; Reilly Lecturer, U. of Notre Dame 1984-1985; Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, U. of Hawaii 1986; Asher Visiting Lecturer, Technion, Israel 1986; SACS Lecturer, U. of South Carolina 1986; Phi Lambda Upsilon Lecturer, U. of Nebraska 1986-1987; Boomer Lecturer, U. of Alberta 1987; Merck-Frosst Lecturer, U. of British Columbia 1987; Tables Rondes Roussel-Uclaf Lecturer 1987; Kolthoff Lecturer, U. of Minnesota 1988; ESSO Lecturer, U. of Toronto 1988; Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Texas A&M U.1988; Graduiertenkolleg Lecturer, Technical U./Free U. of Berlin 1989; Roberts Lecturer, Grinnell College 1990; U. Lecturer, Boston College 1990; Dow Lecturer, Michigan State U. 1990; RIKEN Frontier Research Program Visiting Scientist (Japan) 1991; Gordon Lecturer, U. of Toronto 1992; National Science Council of Taiwan Lecturer 1992; Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, U. of Florida 1992; Karcher Lecturer, U. of Oklahoma 1993; Hill Lecturer, Duke U. 1993; Purves Lecturer, McGill U. 1993; ICI Distinguished Lecturer, U. of Calgary 1993; W.R. Grace Lecturer, U. of Maryland 1994; E.F. Smith Lecturer, U. of Pennsylvania 1994; Japan Society of Organic Chemistry Lectureship 1994; Stieglitz Lecturer, U. of Chicago - Chicago ACS Section 1994; Gooch-Stephens Lecturer, Baylor U. 1995; Lind Lecturer, U. of Tennessee - Oak Ridge Nat. Lab. 1995; Fishel Lecturer, Vanderbilt U. 1995; Musher Lecturer, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem 1996; H.C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue U. 1996; Xerox of Canada Distinguished Lecturer (U. of British Columbia; Victoria U.) 1996; Kilpatrick Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology 1996; Siedle Lecturer, Indiana U. 1997; Seaborg Lecturer, U. of California Berkeley 1998; Closs Lecturer, U. of Chicago 1998; Abbott Lecturer, U. of North Dakota 1999; Marcus Lecturer, Washington U. 1999; Convention Intercantonale Romande Lecturer, Switzerland 1999; McElvain Lecturer, U. of Wisconsin 2000; Renowned International Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong Polytechnical U. 2001; Bigeleisen Lecturer, SUNY Stony Brook 2002; A.D. Little Lecturer, MIT 2003; Walton Lecturer, Purdue U. 2003; Milkovich Lecturer, U. of Akron 2003; H.B. Jonassen Lecturer, Tulane U. 2004; U. Pierre et Marie Curie Institut Universitaire de France Professor 2005; Alumni Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State U. 2005; H.M. Friedman Lecturer, Rutgers U. 2005; Otto M. Smith Lecturer, Oklahoma State U. 2005; Abbott Lecturer, Montana State U. 2005; Gomberg Lecturer, U. of Michigan 2006; Jortner Lecturer, Tel Aviv U. 2006; Boulder Scientific Lecturer, Colorado State U. 2007; Davis Lecturer, U. of South Carolina 2008; Butler Lecturer, U. of Florida 2008; Whelan Lecturer, U. of Texas El Paso 2008; MacLean Lecturer, McMaster U. 2008; Crano Lecturer, U. of Akron 2008; Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Wayne State U. 2009; Dawson Lecturer, U. of Kentucky 2009; Chevron-Phillips Lecturer, Virginia Tech. 2009; Director’s Distinguished Lecturer, U.S. National Science Foundation 2009; Su Lecturer, U. of Rochester 2009; First International Materials Science Lecturer, International Centre for Materials Science, 2009 (JNC Bangalore); First Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovation Plenary Lecturer, Mexico City 2009; Kilpatrick Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology 2010; Abelson Lecturer, Washington State U. 2010; Second Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovation Plenary Lecturer, Mexico City 2010; Jones Lecturer, Queens U. (Ontario) 2010; Schaeffer Lecturer, U. of New Mexico 2010; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011; Shore Lecturer, Ohio State U. 2011; G. F. Lipscomb Lecturer, U. of South Carolina 2011; Distinguished International Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology 2011; Karcher-Barton Lecturer, U. of Oklahoma 2012; Johnson Lecturer, Stanford U. 2012; Inaugural 3MET Lecturer, U. of Kaiserslautern 2012; Bayer Lecturer, Cornell U. 2013; Bayer Lecturer, U. of Pittsburgh 2013; Rausch Lecturer, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2014; Xingda Lecturer, Peking U., 2014; Frontiers in Molecular Sciences Lecturer/Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014; Distinguished Clean Energy Lecturer, U. of Washington, 2014;King Lecturer, U. of Georgia, 2014; Texas Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, U. of Texas, Austin, 2015;Bergman Lecturer, U. of California, Berkeley, 2015; Eyring Lecturer, Arizona State U., 2015;Annual Center for Plastic Electronics Lecturer, Imperial College London, 2015. Stone Lecturer, U. of Bristol, 2015; ECS Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, U. of Texas Dallas, 2016 Science at the Cutting Edge Lecturer, Michigan State U., 2016; McElvain Academic Lecturer, U. of Wisconsin Madison, 2016; Zhang Dayu Lecturer, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Chemical Physics, 2016; Parry Lecture, U. of Utah, 2017; Johnson Lecturer in Materials Science, Cornell U., 2017; Inaugural Sigma-Aldrich Lecturer in Materials Chemistry, U. of California Santa Barbara, 2017; Dow Lecturer, Stanford U., 2018; Arduengo Lecturer, U. of Alabama, 2018; COPE Distinguished Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018; Inaugural Sigma-Aldrich Lecturer in Materials Chemistry, U. California Santa Barbara, 2018; Annual Grubbs Lecturer, Gwangju Inst. Sci. and Tech., 2018; Advanced Materials Sparkling Lecture, Nanjing Inst. of Tech., 2019; Lee Memorial Lectures, University of Chicago, 2020; McGrath Memorial Lecture, International Advances in Polyolefins Symposium, 2022; Inaugural Richard Smalley Lecturer, Rice U,, 2024; L.K. Doraiswamy Lecturer, Iowa State U., 2024.

Peer-Reviewed Publications, 1741; ISI h-index = 176 on 128,411 citations; Google Scholar h-index = 198 and i10-index = 1303 on 165,638 citations

Issued US Patents, 213