Publications
Brian M. Tackett, Marcel Schreier, Ezra L. Clark, Evan P. Jahrman, Linsey C. Seitz, Adam S. Hoffman, Qiaowan Chang, Simon R. Bare, Jingguang G. Chen,
Matthias M. Waegele, Elizabeth R. Corson, Anthony Shoji Hall, Sungin Kim,
Jiahong Jiang, Yao Yang, and David Raciti; Rigor and Reproducibility in Electrocatalysis: Best Practices for Operando Studies. ChemRxiv Preprint (2026).
Sachinthya T. Rathnayake, Elijah Begin, Ryan H. Riddell, Thusitha Jayasundera, Michelle Foster, Junwei Lucas Bao, and Matthias M. Waegele; Mechanistic Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of Crotonaldehyde on Pd Nanoparticle Electrodes. J. Phys. Chem. C (2026) 130, 6474-6484.
Boqiang Chen, Hongna Zhang, Ruolin Zhang, Tianying Liu, Dongyoon Shin, Dunwei Wang, and Matthias M. Waegele; Investigating the Adsorption–Desorption Kinetics of a Molecular Water Oxidation Catalyst at an Electrode Interface. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2026) 17, 2351-2357.
Boqiang Chen, Milan S. Wijesinghe, Yu-Shen Hsu, Rongyu Zhang, Charuni M. Gunathunge, Alexis Grimaud, and Matthias M Waegele; Avoiding Pitfalls in Probing Interfacial Solvation Structures Using Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C (2026) 130, 5084-5093.
Boqiang Chen, Pengpeng Wang, Dongyoon Shin, Wei Li, Tianying Liu, Matthias M. Waegele, and Dunwei Wang; Effect of Electrolyte Ions on Iridium Oxide-Based Water Oxidation Catalysis. ACS Catal. (2025) 15, 16476-16482.
Boqiang Chen, Dunwei Wang, and Matthias M. Waegele; Effects of Electrolyte Cations on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Curr. Opin. Electrochem. (2025) 51, 101697.
Tae Gyu Yun, Boqiang Chen, Sarah Wells, Younghwan Lim, Jun Seop Kim, Ana Guilherme Buzanich, Martin Radtke, Matthias M. Waegele, Marcel Risch, and Alexis Grimaud; Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors Governing the Electrochemical Oxidation of Propylene in Aqueous Solutions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2025) 147, 12318–12330.
Boqiang Chen, Milan S. Wijesinghe, Alexis Grimaud, and Matthias M. Waegele; Investigating the Electric Double-Layer Structures between a Pt Electrode and Water/Acetonitrile Hybrid Electrolytes. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2025) 16, 1779-1786
Elijah Begin, Sachinthya T. Rathnayake, Yang Wang, Catherine M. Schrader, Mariam N. Ismail, Peter Fox, Sammi Wu, Matthias M. Waegele, and Junwei Lucas Bao; Probing the Structure of the Electrochemical Double Layer at a Platinum Electrode Coated with a Metal−Organic Framework. J. Phys. Chem. C (2025) 129, 2011-2019.
Tianying Liu, Pan Wang, Wei Li, David Z. Wang, Damith D. Lekamge, Boqiang Chen, Frances A. Houle, Matthias M. Waegele, and Dunwei Wang; Temperature-Dependent Water Oxidation Kinetics: Implications and Insights. ACS Cent. Sci. (2025) 11, 91-97.
Yu-Shen Hsu, Sachinthya T. Rathnayake, and Matthias M. Waegele; Cation Effects in Hydrogen Evolution and CO2-to-CO Conversion: A Critical Perspective. J. Chem. Phys. (2024) 160, 160901.
Matthias M. Waegele; Efficient Ethylene Electrosynthesis by Accelerating Water Dissociation. Nat. Syn. (2024) 3, 1068–1069 (News & Views article).
Hongna Zhang, Boqiang Chen, Tianying Liu, Gary W. Brudvig, Dunwei Wang, and Matthias M. Waegele; Infrared Spectroscopic Observation of Oxo- and Superoxo-Intermediates in the Water Oxidation Cycle of a Molecular Ir Catalyst. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2024) 146, 878–883.
Tianying Liu, Dr. Wei Li, David Z. Wang, Tongtong Luo, Muchun Fei, Dongyoon Shin, Matthias M. Waegele, and Dunwei Wang; Low Catalyst Loading Enhances Charge Accumulation for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2023) 62, e202307909.
Haoyi Li, Chuanye Xiong, Muchun Fei, Lu Ma, Hongna Zhang, Xingxu Yan, Peter Tieu, Yucheng Yuan, Yuhan Zhang, James Nyakuchena, Jier Huang, Xiaoqing Pan, Matthias M. Waegele, De-en Jiang, and Dunwei Wang; Selective Formation of Acetic Acid and Methanol by Direct Methane Oxidation Using Rhodium Single-Atom Catalysts. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2023) 145, 11415-11419.
Hongna Zhang, Tianying Liu, Nicholas Dulock, Benjamin P. Williams, Yuanxing Wang, Boqiang Chen, Haden Wikar, David Z. Wang, Gary W. Brudvig, Dunwei Wang, and Matthias M. Waegele ; Atomically Dispersed Ir Catalysts Exhibit Support-Dependent Water Oxidation Kinetics During Photocatalysis. Chem. Sci. (2023) 14, 6601-6607.
Vincent J. Ovalle, Yu-Shen Hsu, Naveen Agrawal, Michael J. Janik and Matthias M. Waegele; Correlating Hydration Free Energy and Specific Adsorption of Alkali Metal Cations During CO2 Electroreduction on Au. Nat. Catal. (2022) 5, 624-632.
Jingyi Li and Matthias M. Waegele; Advances in Understanding the Role of Surface Hole Formation in Heterogeneous Water Oxidation. Curr. Opin. Electrochem. (2022) 33, 100932 (Invited Perspective).
Matthias M. Waegele; Choreographing Water Molecules to Speed Up Hydrogen Production. Nature (2021) 600, 43-44 (News and Views Article). A German translation of the article appeared in the May 2022 issue of the popular science magazine "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" under the title "Booster für die Elektrolyse".
Vincent J. Ovalle and Matthias M. Waegele; Influence of pH and Proton Donor/Acceptor Identity on Electrocatalysis in Aqueous Media. J. Phys. Chem. C (2021) 125, 18567-18578 (Invited Perspective).
Chaochao Lang, Jingyi Li, Ke R. Yang, Da He, James E. Thorne, Seth Croslow, Qi Dong, Yuanxing Wang, Yanyan Zhao, Gabriela Prostko, Gary Brudvig, Victor Batista, Matthias M. Waegele, Dunwei Wang; Observation of a Potential-Dependent Switch of Water Oxidation Mechanism on Co-Oxide-Based Catalysts. Chem (2021) 7, 2101-2117.
Charuni M. Gunathunge, Jingyi Li, Xiang Li, Matthias M. Waegele; Surface-Adsorbed CO as an Infrared Probe of Electrocatalytic Interfaces. ACS Catalysis (2020) 10, 11700-11711 (Invited Viewpoint).
Vincent J. Ovalle and Matthias M. Waegele ; Impact of Electrolyte Anions on the Adsorption of CO on Cu Electrodes. J. Phys. Chem. C (2020) 124, 14713–14721.
Xiang Li, Charuni M. Gunathunge, Naveen Agrawal, Hansel Montalvo-Castro, Jing Jin, Michael J. Janik, and Matthias M. Waegele; Impact of Alkali Metal Cations and Iron Impurities on the Evolution of Hydrogen on Cu Electrodes in Alkaline Electrolytes. J. Electrochem. Soc. (2020) 167, 106505.
Charuni M. Gunathunge, Jingyi Li, Xiang Li, Julie J. Hong, and Matthias M. Waegele; Revealing the Predominant Surface Facets of Rough Cu Electrodes Under Electrochemical Condition. ACS Catal. (2020) 10, 6908–6923.
Matthias M. Waegele, Charuni M. Gunathunge, Jingyi Li, Xiang Li; How Cations Affect the Electric Double Layer and the Rates and Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Processes. (2019) J. Chem. Phys. 151, 160902 (invited perspective).
Vincent J. Ovalle and Matthias M. Waegele; Understanding the Impact of N-Arylpyridinium Ions on the Selectivity of Carbon Dioxide Reduction at the Cu/Electrolyte Interface J. Phys. Chem. C (2019) 123, 24453-24460.
Jingyi Li, Xiang Li, Charuni M. Gunathunge, and Matthias M. Waegele; Hydrogen Bonding Steers the Product Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO Reduction Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2019) 116, 9220-9229.
Charuni M. Gunathunge, Vincent J. Ovalle, Yawei Li, Michael J. Janik, and Matthias M. Waegele; Existence of an Electrochemically Inert CO Population on Cu Electrodes in Alkaline pH. ACS Catal. (2018) 8, 7507-7516.
Wei Li, Da He, Guoxiang Hu, Xiang Li, Gourab Banerjee, Jingyi Li, Shin Hee Lee, Qi Dong, Tianyue Gao, Gary W. Brudvig, Matthias M. Waegele, De-en Jiang, and Dunwei Wang; Selective CO Production by Photoelectrochemical Methane Oxidation on TiO2. ACS Cent. Sci. (2018) 4, 631-637.
Charuni M. Gunathunge, Vincent J. Ovalle , and Matthias M. Waegele; Probing Promoting Effects of Alkali Cations on the Reduction of CO at the Aqueous Electrolyte/Copper Interface. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (2017) 19, 30166-30172.
Charuni M. Gunathunge, Xiang Li, Jingyi Li, Robert P. Hicks, Vincent J. Ovalle , and Matthias M. Waegele; Spectroscopic Observation of Reversible Surface Reconstruction of Copper Electrodes under CO2 Reduction. J. Phys. Chem. C (2017) 121, 12337-12344.
Dr. Matthias Waegele’s Previous Work:
- D.M. Herlihy, M.M. Waegele, X. Chen, C. D. Pemmaraju, D. Prendergast, T. Cuk; Detecting the Oxyl Radical of Photocatalytic Water Oxidation at an n-SrTiO3/Aqueous Interface Through its Subsurface Vibration. Nat. Chem. (2016) 8, 549-555.
- M.M. Waegele, X. Chen, D. Herlihy, T. Cuk; How Surface Potential Determines the Kinetics of the First Hole Transfer of Photocatalytic Water Oxidation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2014) 136, 10632-10639.
- M.M. Waegele, H.Q. Doan, T. Cuk; Long-Lived Photoexcited Carrier Dynamics of d-d Excitations in Spinel Ordered Co3O4. J. Phys. Chem. C (2014) 118, 3426-3432.
- A.L. Serrano, M.M. Waegele, F. Gai; Spectroscopic Studies of Protein Folding: Linear and Nonlinear Methods. Protein Sci. (2012) 21, 157-170.
- M.M. Waegele, R.M. Culik, F. Gai; Site-Specic Spectroscopic Reporters of the Local Electric Field, Hydration, Structure, and Dynamics of Biomolecules. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2011) 2, 2598-2609.
- M.M. Waegele, F. Gai; Power-Law Dependence of the Melting Temperature of Ubiquitin on the Volume Fraction of Macromolecular Crowders. J. Chem. Phys. (2011) 134, 095104-6.
- M.M. Waegele, F. Gai; Infrared Study of the Folding Mechanism of a Helical Hairpin: Porcine PYY. Biochemistry (2010) 49, 7659-7664.
- G. Montalvo, M.M. Waegele, S. Shandler, F. Gai, W.F. DeGrado; Infrared Signature and Folding Dynamics of a Helical beta-Peptide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2010) 132, 5616-5618.
- M.M. Waegele, F. Gai; Computational Modeling of the Nitrile Stretching Vibration of 5-Cyanoindole in Water. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2010) 1, 781-786.
- M.M. Waegele, M. J. Tucker, F. Gai; 5-Cyanotryptophan as an Infrared Probe of Local Hydration Status. Chem. Phys. Lett. (2009) 478, 259-253.
- S. Mukherjee, M.M. Waegele, P. Chowdhury, L. Guo, F. Gai; Eect of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Folding at the Secondary Structure Level. J. Mol. Biol. (2009) 393, 227-236.
- T.-D. Onuta, M. Waegele, C.C. DuFort, W.L. Schaich, B. Dragnea; Optical Field Enhancement at Cusps between Adjacent Nanoapertures. Nano Lett. (2007) 7, 557-564.
- V. Dragnea, M. Waegele, S. Balascuta, C. Bauer, B. Dragnea; Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of the AppA Blue-Light Receptor BLUF Domain from Rhodobacter Sphaeroides. Biochemistry (2005) 44, 15978-15985.