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Articles Awaiting Publication
1. Bhogeshwararao Semaala, Charles M. Cai, Charles E. Wyman, Phillip Christopher*, “Support induced control of surface composition in Cu-Ni/TiO2 catalysts enables high performance conversion of HMF and furfural to methylated furans”, Submitted.
2. Kun Li, Nathaniel J. Hogan, Matthew J. Kale, Peter Nordlander, Naomi J. Halas, Phillip Christopher*, "Balancing near-field enhancement, absorption, and scattering for effective antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysis", submitted.
Peer Reviewed Publications
1. Talin Avanesian, Sheng Dai, Matthew J. Kale, George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan*, Phillip Christopher*, “Quantitative and Atomic Scale View of CO-Induced Pt Nanoparticle Surface Reconstruction at Saturation Coverage via DFT Calculations Coupled with in-situ TEM and IR", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139 (12), pp 4551–4558
2. Ian Wheeldon*, Phillip Christopher*, Harvey W. Blanch, “Integration of heterogeneous and biochemical catalysis for production of fuels and chemicals from biomass”, Accepted, Current Opinion in Biotechnology.
3. Phillip Christopher*, Martin Moskovits, “Hot Charge Carrier Transmission from Plasmonic Nanostructures”, Accepted, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.
4. Matthew J. Kale, Dillon Gidcumb, Franklin J. Gulian, Steven P. Miller, Christopher H. Clark, Phillip Christopher*, “Evaluation of Pt Catalysts for Naval Submarine Pollution Control”, Applied Catalysis B, 2017, 203, 533-540.
5. John C. Matsubu, Leo DeRita, Shuyi Zhang, George W. Graham, Xiaoqing Pan, Phillip Christopher*, "Adsorbate-Mediated Strong Metal-Support Interactions in Oxide Supported Rh Catalysts", Nature Chemistry, 9, 120–127 (2017)
  *See News and Views by Bert Chandler
6. Tana Tana, Xiao, Yiming Huang, Sarina Sarina, Phillip Christopher, Jianfeng Jia, Haishun Wu, Huaiyong Zhu, "Non-Plasmonic metal nanoparticles as visible light photocatalysts for the selective oxidation of aliphatic alcohols with molecular oxygen at near ambient conditions". Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11567-11570
7. Talin Avanesian, Gabriel S. Gusmão, Phillip Christopher*, "Mechanism of CO2 reduction by H2 on Ru(0001) and general selectivity descriptors for late-transition metal catalysts", J. Catalysis, 2016, 343, 86-96.
8. John C. Matsubu, Eric T. Lin, Kyle L. Gunther, Krassimir N. Bozhilov, Yibo Jiang, Phillip Christopher*, "Critical Role of Interfacial Effects on the Reactivity of Semiconductor-Cocatalyst Junctions for Photocatalytic Oxygen Evolution from Water", Catalysis Science and Technology, 2016, 6, 6836-6844.
9. Matthew J. Kale, Phillip Christopher*, "Utilizing quantitative in-situ FTIR spectroscopy to identify well-coordinated Pt atoms as the active site for CO oxidation on Al2O3 supported Pt catalysts", ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6 (8), pp 5599–5609
10. Talin Avanesian, Phillip Christopher*, "Scaled degree of rate control: Identifying elementary steps that control differences in performance of transition metal catalysts", ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6 (8), pp 5268–5272
11. Matthew J. Kale, Phillip Christopher, "Plasmons at the interface", Science 349 (6248): 587-588
12. John C Matsubu, Vanessa N Yang, and Phillip Christopher*, "Isolated metal active site concentration and stability controls catalytic CO2 reduction selectivity". J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (8), pp 3076–3084
13. Talin Avanesian and Phillip Christopher*, "Adsorbate Specificity in hot Electron Driven Photochemistry on Catalytic Metal Surfaces". J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118 (48), pp 28017–28031
14. Gabriel S. Gusmão and Phillip Christopher, "A General and Robust Approach for Defining and Solving Microkinetic Catalytic Systems". AIChE J., 61: 188–199. doi: 10.1002/aic.14627
15. Matthew J. Kale, Talin Avanesian, Hongliang Xin, Jun Yan, and Phillip Christopher*, "Controlling Catalytic Selectivity on Metal Nanoparticles by Direct Photoexcitation of Adosrbate-Metal Bonds". Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (9), pp 5405–5412
16. Matthew J. Kale, Talin Avanesian, and Phillip Christopher*, "Direct photocatalysis by plasmonic nanostructures". ACS Catalysis., 2014, 4 (1), pp 116–128
17. Suljo Linic, Phillip Christopher, Hongliang Xin and Andiappan Marimuthu, “Catalytic and photocatalytic transformations on metal nanoparticles with targeted geometric and plasmonic properties”. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013, 46 (8), pp 1890–1899
18. Phillip Christopher, Hongliang Xin, Andiappan Marimuthu and Suljo Linic, “Singular characteristics and unique chemical bond activation mechanisms of photo-catalytic reactions on plasmonic metal nanostructures”. Nature Materials, 2012, 11, 1044.
19. Andiappan Marimuthu, Phillip Christopher, and Suljo Linic, “Design of Plasmonic Platforms for Selective Molecular Sensing Based on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem C, 2012, 116, 9824.
20. Suljo Linic, Phillip Christopher, David B. Ingram, “Plasmonic metal nanostructures for efficient conversion of solar to chemical energy”. Nature Materials, 2011, 10, 911.
21. David B. Ingram, Phillip Christopher, and Suljo Linic, “Predictive model for the design of plasmonic metal/semiconductor composite photocatalysts”. ACS Catalysis, 2011, 1, 1441.
22. Phillip Christopher, Hongliang Xin Suljo Linic, “Visible light enhanced catalytic oxidation reactions on plasmonic Ag nanostructures”. Nature Chemistry, 2011, 3, 467.
23. Suljo Linic, Phillip Christopher, “Overcoming limitation in the design of selective heterogeneous catalysis by manipulating size and shape: Epoxidation reactions on silver” ChemCatChem, 2010, 2, 1061.
24. Phillip Christopher, David B. Ingram, and Suljo Linic, “Enhancing Photo-chemical activity of semiconductor nanoparticles with optically active Ag nano-structures: Photo-chemistry mediated by Ag surface plasmons”. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2010, 114, 9173
25. Phillip Christopher and Suljo Linic, “Shape and Size Specific Chemistry of Ag Nanoparticles in Catalytic Ethylene Epoxidation”. ChemCatChem, 2010, 2, 78-83 (listed as one of the three most accessed articles from the journal's first year in print).
26. Phillip Christopher and Suljo Linic, “Engineering Selectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Ag Nano-wires as Selective Ethylene Epoxidation Catalysts”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 11264.
Patents
1. Phillip Christopher, David Ingram, Suljo Linic, “Photocatalyst Compositions Containing Plasmon-Resonating Nanoparticles”. US Serial No. 12/498,942 filed for non-provisional patent May, 12 2010.
2. Phillip Christopher, Suljo Linic, “Method and Device using plasmon-resonating nanostructures” US Serial NO. 61/346,771 filed for provisional patent May 20, 2010.
3. Phillip Christopher, Suljo Linic, “Epoxidation Catalyst and Process”. U.S. Patent Number 7,820,840 B2. Accepted on 26 October 2010.
Non-peer Reviewed Publications
1. Phillip Christopher, “Environmentally friendly catalytic processes”, The Catalyst Review: Movers and Shakers Commentary, March 2012 Issue.

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