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Eric Borguet

Hazel Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry
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

Identifying UiO-67 Metal-Organic Framework Defects and Binding Sites through Ammonia Adsorption 
Venkata Swaroopa Datta Devulapalli, Ryan McDonnell, Jonathan P. Ruffley, Priyanka B. Shukla, Tian-Yi Luo, Mattheus L. De Souza, Prasenjit Das, Nathaniel L. Rosi, J. Karl Johnson and Eric Borguet
ChemSusChem 15(1), e202102217 (2022)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03889
 
Vibrational Dynamics at Aqueous-Mineral Interfaces
Stefan M. Piontek and Eric Borguet
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(5), 2307–2324 (2022)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c08563 

Superhydrophilicity of α-Alumina Surfaces Results from Tight Binding of Interfacial Waters to Specific Aluminols
Ruiyu Wang, Yunqian Zou, Richard C. Remsing, Naomi O. Ross, Michael L. Klein, Vincenzo Carnevale, and Eric Borguet
Journal of Colloid & Interface Science 628, Part A, 943-954 (2022)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.07.164 
 
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)