Specialties

Eric Borguet

Professor
Physical/Analytical
Office: Beury 252
Phone: 215-204-9696
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Biography

1993-1996

1993

1986

Selected Awards
Postdoctoral researcher, Columbia University

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

B.S. Université de Paris-Sud (XI-Orsay) France

Morino Lectureship.  Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.  American Physical Society, Fellow. American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section Award. Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. NSF-CAREER Award.

Interests

Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Processes at Interfaces, Plasmonics, Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Dynamics, Environmental Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Sensors for Biological and Chemical Agents. 

Select Publications

First Principles Calculation of Water pKa Using the Newly Developed SCAN Functional
Ruiyu Wang, Vincenzo Carnevale, Michael Klein and Eric Borguet
​The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 54-59 (2020)
​DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02913 

​Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Sorption of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants
Jonathan Ruffley, Isabella Goodenough, Tianyi Luo, Melissandre Richard, Eric Borguet, Nathaniel L. Rosi and J. Karl Johnson
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (32) 19748-19758 (2019)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05574  

Anisotropic conductivity at the single molecule scale
Sepideh Afsari, Parisa Yasini, Haowei Peng, John Perdew and Eric Borguet
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (40), 14275-14280 (2019)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903898  (featured on Angewandte Chemie International Edition cover)

Potential-induced high-conductance transport pathways through single-molecule junctions
Parisa Yasini, Sepideh Afsari, Haowei Peng, Piret Pikma, John Perdew, Eric Borguet
The Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, 10109-10116 (2019)
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05448   (featured on JACS cover)

Sodium Halide Adsorption and Water Structure at the α-Alumina(0001)/Water Interface
Ruiyu Wang, Mark DelloStritto, Richard Remsing, Vincenzo Carnevale, Michael Klein, Eric Borguet
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123 (25), 15618-15628 (2019)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b03054