David Raciti (Fed)

Chemical transformations of organic molecules have a critical presence in the petrochemical, specialty materials, and pharmaceutical sectors, generating nearly $1 trillion in revenue each year. Electrochemistry stands uniquely poised to revolutionize the chemical industry by replacing exhaustible feedstocks, like fossil fuels, with the greenhouse gas, CO₂. For this vision to become reality, explicit understanding of dynamic interactions at sensitive material/catalyst surface sites with reaction intermediates and surrounding molecules must be achieved. Such understanding will permit tuning of chemical reactivity, durability, and selectivity of these materials and maturation of commercial technologies. My research leverages nanotechnology synthesis strategies, novel in-situ spectroscopy, spectrometry, and microscopy to comprehensively study chemical reactions and events at heterogeneous interfaces allowing for a comprehensive understanding of atomic events at interfaces.

Research Interests:

• Functional materials and nanostructures
• Electrodeposition
• Electrocatalysis
• Interfacial chemistry
• Renewable energy
• Operando spectroscopic and spectrometry techniques

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Research Opportunities:  

If you are a postdoctoral candidate, we have openings that are immediately available to all US Citizens through the National Research Council (NRC) Research Associates Program (RAP).

If you are an undergraduate student interested in research experience at a national lab we have openings through the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

If you are a high school student interested in a summer internship please check out the Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP).

Please contact me if any of these programs are of interest to you.