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

Honorary Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India.  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

Interplay between Intrinsic Thermal Stability and Expansion Properties of Functionalized UiO-67 Metal–Organic Frameworks
Isabella Goodenough, Venkata Swaroopa Datta Devulapalli, Wenqian Xu, Mikaela C. Boyanich, Tian-Yi Luo, Mattheus De Souza, Mélissandre Richard, Nathaniel L. Rosi, and Eric Borguet
Chemistry of Materials, 33 (3), 910-920 (2021)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03889

Probing Heterogeneous Charge Distributions at the α-Al2O3(0001)/H2O Interface
Stefan M. Piontek, Mark DelloStritto, Bijoya Mandal, Tim Marshall, Michael Klein and Eric Borguet
Journal of the American Chemical Society 142, 28, 12096–12105 (2020)
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01366

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 

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)