2025

  • Zhu J, Pedersen A, Kellner S, Hunter RD, Barrio J. Impact of ionomers on porous Fe-NC catalysts for alkaline oxygen reduction in gas diffusion electrodes. Communications Chemistry. 2025;8(1):27. DOI: 10.1038/s42004-025-01422-4 
  • Verdía Barbará P, Choudhary H, Nakasu PS, Al-Ghatta A, Han Y, Hopson C, et al. Recent Advances in the Use of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents for Lignocellulosic Biorefineries and Biobased Chemical and Material Production. Chemical Reviews. 2025;125(12):5461–583. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00754
  • Ballu K, Lim JH, Parton TG, Parker RM, Frka-Petesic B, Lapkin AA, Ogawa Y, Vignolini S. Tailoring the Morphology of Cellulose Nanocrystals via Controlled Aggregation. ACS nano. 2025;19(27):25228-42. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c05548
  • Yang SM, Muazu RI, Tran E, Talbot CB, Shah N, Shaffer MS, et   al. Sustainable low-cost carbon fibres produced by integrating wood fractionation with lignin fibre spinning. RSC Sustainability. 2025;3(9):3972–86. DOI: 10.1039/D5SU00218D 
  • Song J, Parker RM, Frka‐Petesic B, Deng T, Xu L, Deng X, et al. Spray‐Assisted Fabrication of Cellulose Photonic Pigments on Superhydrophobic Surfaces. Advanced Materials. 2025;37(22):2416607. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202416607 
  • Yu H, Marks A, Tuladhar SM, Siemons N, Anderson I, Bidinger S, et al. The Influence of Alkyl Spacers and Molecular Weight on the Charge Transport and Storage Properties of Oxy‐Bithiophene‐Based Conjugated Polymers. Angewandte Chemie. 2025;137(6):e202417897.    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202417897  
  • Ahmad N, Rinaldi A, Setti M, Sidoli M, Scaravonati S, Vezzoni V, et al. Redox-Additive Gel Polymer Electrolyte Based on the Biodegradable Polymer Pectin for Supercapacitors with Enhanced Thermal Stability. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2025;8(13):9391–406. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.5c01039 
  • Nakasu PY, Piccoli V, Ovejero-Perez A, Kumar P, Al-Ghatta A, Melanie S, et al. Fractionation of Squid Pens with Ionic Liquids─ An Upgraded β-Chitin and Shellfish Protein Production. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2025;13(7):2649–60.                                                    DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c04217 
  • Nakasu PY, Hopson C, Ovejero-Pérez A, Costa JM, Hallett JP. Ionic Liquids and Their Role in a Lignocellulosic Biorefinery. In Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Elsevier. 2025;4:125–140. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-15742-4.00082-X
  • Giri D, Saha SK, Anderson I, Chakraborty A, Kala J, Müller JS, et al. Delocalized Polarons in Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Based Conjugated Polymers: Implications for Near‐Infrared Electrochromism and Beyond. Advanced Functional Materials. 2025;35(1):2410815. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202410815
  • Pedersen A, Snitkoff‐Sol RZ, Presman Y, Dubau L, Cai R, Barrio J, et al. Fe‐N‐C in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: Impact of Ionomer Loading on Degradation and Stability. Advanced Energy Materials. 2025;15(25):2403920. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202403920  
  • Luo H, Xu M, Liu S, Tarantino G, Ye H, Yadegari H, et al. Selective glycerol to lactic acid conversion via a tandem effect between platinum and metal oxides with abundant acid groups. Ees Catalysis. 2025;3(1):87–96. DOI: 10.1039/D4EY00236A 
  • Guo Z, Zheng K, Wang M, Huang Y, Zhao Y, Au H, et al. Sustainable Hard Carbon as Anode Materials for Na‐Ion Batteries: From Laboratory to Upscaling. Batteries & Supercaps. 2025;8(2):e202400428. DOI: 10.1002/batt.202400428 
  • Zhang J, Semochkina D, Sugisawa N, Woods DC, Lapkin AA. Multi-objective reaction optimization under uncertainties using expected quantile improvement. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 2025;194:108983. DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2024.108983
  • Dupree P, Cresswell R, Deralia P, Yoshimi Y, Dupree R, Brown S. New insights into the structure of cellulose in plant cell walls.  BioRxiv. 2025. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4970084/v1                 

   2024

  • Jerez S, Pedersen A, Ventura M, Mazzoli L, Pariente MI, Titirici M, et al. FeN doped carbon materials from oily sludge as electrocatalysts for alkaline oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochimica Acta. 2024;483:144045. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2024.144045 
  • Parton TG, Parker RM, Osbild S, Vignolini S, Frka-Petesic B. Angle-resolved optical spectroscopy of photonic cellulose nanocrystal films reveals the influence of additives on the mechanism of kinetic arrest. Soft Matter. 2024;20(17):3695–707. DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00155A 
  • Li Q, Xu Y, Pedersen A, Wang M, Zhang M, Feng J, et al. Investigating the Role of Fe‐Pyrrolic N4 Configuration in the Oxygen Reduction Reaction via Covalently Bound Porphyrin Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes. Advanced functional materials. 2024;34(16):2311086. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202311086 
  • Ovejero-Pérez A, Nakasu PY, Hopson C, Costa JM, Hallett JP. Challenges and opportunities on the utilisation of ionic liquid for biomass pretreatment and valorisation. npj Materials Sustainability. 2024;2(1):7.  DOI: 10.1038/s44296-024-00015-x 
  • Wang M, Zhang J, Kellner S, Stephens IE, Titirici M-M. Enhanced ORR performance with biomass-derived freestanding catalyst layers: advancing mass transport in gas diffusion electrodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2024;12(37):24878–85.          DOI: 10.1039/D4TA03864A 
  • Luo H, Tyrrell H, Bai J, Muazu RI, Long X. Fundamental, technical and environmental overviews of plastic chemical recycling. Green Chemistry. 2024;26(23):11444–67.   DOI: 10.1039/D4GC03127J 
  • Pedersen A, Snitkoff-Sol RZ, Presman Y, Barrio J, Cai R, Suter T, et al. Optimisation and effect of ionomer loading on porous Fe–N–C-based proton exchange membrane fuel cells probed by emerging electrochemical methods. Journal of Power Sources. 2024;609:234683. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.234683
  • Favero S, Titirici M, Stephens IE. Toward photovalorization of waste at scale?. Joule. 2024;8(7):1880-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.06.014
  • Mazzoli L, Pedersen A, Kellner S, Hunter RD, Cai R, Wang M, Sivula K, Haigh J, Barrio J. Inducing porosity in xylose-derived FeNC electrocatalysts for alkaline oxygen reduction. Green Chemistry. 2024;26(6):3271–80. DOI:10.1039/d3gc04645a 
  • Williams CA, Parker RM, Kyriacou A, Murace M, Vignolini S. Inkjet printed photonic cellulose nanocrystal patterns. Advanced Materials. 2024;36(1):2307563. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307563 
  • Muazu RI, Yaseneva P, Shah N, Titirici M-M. Life cycle sustainability assessment of bioderived advanced materials: A state-of-the-art Review. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 2024;12(6):114387. DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2024.114387 
  • Mukadam Z, Scott SB, Titirici MM, Stephens IE. An alternative to petrochemicals: biomass electrovalorization. Philosophical Transactions A. 2024;382(2282):20230262. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0262 
  • Wang M, Zhang J, Favero S, Higgins LJ, Luo H, Stephens IE, et al. Resolving optimal ionomer interaction in fuel cell electrodes via operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 2024;15(1):9390. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53823-z

2023

  • Hongrutai N, Sarma SC, Zhou Y, Kellner S, Pedersen A, Adourian K, et al. Sequential deposition of FeNC–Cu tandem CO2 reduction electrocatalysts towards the low overpotential production of C2+ alcohols. Journal of Physics: Materials. 2023;7(1):015007. DOI: 10.1088/2515-7639/ad0d7c 

  • Hao Z, Hamad WY, Yaseneva P. Understanding the environmental impacts of large-scale cellulose nanocrystals production: Case studies in regions dependent on renewable and fossil fuel energy sources. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2023;478:147160. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.147160

  • Pedersen A, Bagger A, Barrio J, Maillard F, Stephens IE, Titirici M-M. Atomic metal coordinated to nitrogen-doped carbon electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: a perspective on progress, pitfalls and prospectives. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2023;11(43):23211–22. DOI: 10.1039/D3TA04711C 

  • Pedersen A, Pandya J, Leonzio G, Serov A, Bernardi A, Stephens IE, et al. Comparative techno-economic and life-cycle analysis of precious versus non-precious metal electrocatalysts: the case of PEM fuel cell cathodes. Green Chemistry. 2023;25(24):10458–71. DOI: 10.1039/D3GC03206J 

  • Sarma SC, Barrio J, Gong M, Pedersen A, Kucernak A, Titirici M, et al. Atomically Dispersed Fe in a C2N-Derived Matrix for the Reduction of CO2 to CO. Electrochimica Acta. 2023;463:142855. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142855 

  • Siemons N, Pearce D, Yu H, Tuladhar SM, LeCroy GS, Sheelamanthula R, et al. Controlling swelling in mixed transport polymers through alkyl side-chain physical cross-linking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023;120(35):e2306272120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2306272120 

  • Glatthaar C, Wang M, Wagner LQ, Breckwoldt F, Guo Z, Zheng K, Kriechbaum M, Amenitsch H, Titirici MM, Smarsly BM. Lignin-derived mesoporous carbon for sodium-ion batteries: block copolymer soft templating and carbon microstructure analysis. Chemistry of Materials. 2023;35(24):10416-33. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01520
  • Frka-Petesic B, Parton TG, Honorato-Rios C, Narkevicius A, Ballu K, Shen Q, Lu Z, Ogawa Y, Haataja JS, Droguet BE, Parker RM. Structural color from cellulose nanocrystals or chitin nanocrystals: self-assembly, optics, and applications. Chemical Reviews. 2023;123(23):12595-756. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00836
  • Giri D, Saha SK, Siemons N, Anderson I, Yu H, Nelson J, Canjeevaram Balasubramanyam RK, Patil S. Ion size-dependent electrochromism in air-stable napthalenediimide-based conjugated polymers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2023;15(14):17767-78. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c21394
  • Barrio J, Li J, Shalom M. Carbon Nitrides from Supramolecular Crystals: From Single Atoms to Heterojunctions and Advanced Photoelectrodes. Chemistry–A European Journal. 2023;29(62):e202302377. DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302377
  • Frka-Petesic B, Jean B, Heux L. Electrohydrodynamic convection instabilities observed in suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals. Cellulose. 2023;30(13):8311-23. DOI: 10.1007/s10570-023-05391-6