Current Position

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
B.S., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

The Tsui group focuses on synthesizing molecules and materials relevant to energy-related transformations currently accomplished by bioinorganic active sites and heterogeneous catalysts. The Tsui group works on gaining fundamental mechanistic insight into chemical problems that challenge developing energy technologies, including C-H activation, carbon capture, and water oxidation/dioxygen reduction.

Key Words

Synthesis, Mechanisms, Catalysis, Bioinorganic, Nanomaterials, Organometallic, Electrocatalysis, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Inorganic

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Ballesteros II, Moises, and Emily Y. Tsui. "Sulfur transfer reactions of a zinc tetrasulfanido complex." Dalton Transactions 49, no. 45 (2020): 16305-16311.
2. Lionetti, Davide, Sandy Suseno, Emily Y. Tsui, Luo Lu, Troy A. Stich, Kurtis M. Carsch, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard III, R. David Britt, and Theodor Agapie. "Effects of Lewis Acidic Metal Ions (M) on Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Heterometallic Mn3MO4 Cubane and Fe3MO (OH) and Mn3MO (OH) Clusters." Inorganic chemistry 58, no. 4 (2019): 2336-2345.
3. Ballesteros, Moises, and Emily Y. Tsui. "Reactivity of Zinc Thiolate Bonds: Oxidative Organopolysulfide Formation and S3 Insertion." Inorganic chemistry 58, no. 16 (2019): 10501-10507.
4. Schival, Keith A., Robert R. Gipson, Keaton V. Prather, and Emily Y. Tsui. "Photoinduced Surface Charging in Iron-Carbonyl-Functionalized Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals." Nano letters 19, no. 11 (2019): 7770-7774.
5. Tsui, Emily Y., Gerard M. Carroll, Brigit Miller, Arianna Marchioro, and Daniel R. Gamelin. "Extremely slow spontaneous electron trapping in photodoped n-type CdSe nanocrystals." Chemistry of Materials 29, no. 8 (2017): 3754-3762.

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