Publications

Undergraduate co-authors are in bold. Click citation to link.

• Doligon, C.; Rudman, E.; Ehrenberg, N.; Nguyen Dinh Cat, T.; Luo, Q. and Plass, K.E. "Anion Exchange Impedes Subsequent Cation Exchange: Ion Mobility Is Altered by Vacancies and Ion Size." Inorg. Chem. (invited), 2025, 64, 2, 978–985. DOI: /10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c04273 

• Plass, K.E.; Krebs, J.K.; Morford, J.L.; Schaak, R.E.; Stapleton, J.J.; van Duin, A.C.T. "Nanomaterials Research at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution: Transforming Nanorods, Undergraduate Research Communities, and Infrastructure", ACS Nanoscience Au, 2024, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.4c00005

• Daniel, J. E.; Jesby, C. M.; Plass, K. E.; Anderson, M. E. Multinary Tetrahedrite (Cu12–x–yMxNySb4S13) Nanoparticles: Tailoring Thermal and Optical Properties with Copper-Site Dopants. Chem. Mater. 2024, 36 (7), 3246–3258. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03110. 

• Hole, B.; Luo, Q.; Garcia, R.; Xie, W.; Rudman, E.; Dhakal, D.; Nguyen, C. L. T.; Young, H. L.; Thompson, K. L.; Butterfield, A. G.; Schaak, R. E.; Plass, K. E. "Temperature-Dependent Selection of Reaction Pathways, Reactive Species, and Products during Post-Synthetic Selenization of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles." Chem. Mater. 2023. 35(21), 9073–9085 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01772 

• Espinosa, A.R.; Novak, M.; Luo; Q.; Hole, B.; Doligon, C. Prenza Sosa, K.;Gray, J.L.; Rossi, D.P.; Plass, K.E. "Heterostructures of Cu2‑xS/Cu2‑xTe plasmonic semiconductors: Disappearing and reappearing LSPR with anion exchange" Chem. Comm. 2022, 58, 9810 - 9813 DOI: 10.1039/D2CC01859D. 

• Jensen, M. S.; Plass, K. E.; Anderson, M. E. Synthetic Strategies, Thermal Stability, and Optical Properties for Nanostructured Famatinite with Cu-Site Doping. Chem. Mater. 2022, 34 (20), 9086–9097. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01888.

• Hughes, S. M.; Hendricks, M. P.; Mullaugh, K. M.; Anderson, M. E.; Bentley, A. K.; Clar, J. G.; Daly, C. A.; Ellison, M. D.; Feng, Z. V.; Gonzalez-Pech, N. I.; Hamachi, L. S.; Heinecke, C. L.; Keene, J. D.; Maley, A. M.; Munro, A. M.; Njoki, P. N.; Olshansky, J. H.; Plass, K. E.; Riley, K. R.; Sonntag, M. D.; St. Angelo, S. K.; Thompson, L. B.; Tollefson, E. J.; Toote, L. E.; Wheeler, K. E. "The Primarily Undergraduate Nanomaterials Cooperative: A New Model for Supporting Collaborative Research at Small Institutions on a National Scale." ACS Nanosci. Au 2021, 1 (1), 6–14. DOI: 10.1021/acsnanoscienceau.1c00020. 

• Garcia-Herrera, L. F.; McAllister, H. P.; Xiong, H.; Wang, H.; Lord, R. W.; O’Boyle, S. K.; Imamovic, A.; Steimle, B. C.; Schaak, R. E.; Plass, K. E. Multistep Regioselectivity and Non-Kirkendall Anion Exchange of Copper Chalcogenide Nanorods. Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 3841–3850. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01107  

• Miller, N.; Dougherty, M.; Du, R.; Sauers, T.; Yan, C.; Pines, J. E.; Meyers, K. L.; Dang, Y. M.; Nagle, E.; Ni, Z.; Pungsrisai, T.; Wetherington, M. T.; Vorlicek, T. P.; Plass, K. E.; Morford, J. L. Adsorption of Tetrathiomolybdate to Iron Sulfides and Its Impact on Iron Sulfide Transformations. ACS Earth Space Chem. 2020, 4, 2246–2260 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00176.

• Han K.D. Le, Huiyan Xiong, Bonnie A. Page, Luis F. Garcia-Herrera, Haley P. McAllister, Boxi Cameron Li, Haiying Wang, and Katherine E. Plass “Effects of I2 on Cu2-xS nanoparticles: Enabling cation exchange but complicating plasmonics.” ACS Materials Lett. 2020,  2, 140–146 DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00402.

• Georgieva, Z.N.; Tomat, M.A.; Kim, C.; Plass, K.E. “Stabilization of plasmon resonance in Cu2-xS semiconductor nanoparticles” Chem. Comm., 2016, 52, 9082–9085 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc00503a. Featured in Emerging Investigators issue.

• Freymeyer, N. J.; Cunningham, P. D.; Jones, E. C., Golden, B. J.; Wiltrout, A. M.; Plass, K. E. “Influence of solvent reducing ability on copper sulfide crystal phase” Cryst. Growth Des. 2013, 13, 4059-4065.Heller, L. E.; Whitleigh, J.; Roth, D. F.; Oherlein, E. M.; Lucci, F. R.; Kolonko, K. J.; Plass, K. E. “Self-Assembly of Mono-Functionalized Thiophenes” Langmuir, 2012, 28 (42), 14855–14859.

• Machani, T.; Rossi, D. P.; Golden, B. J.; Jones, E. C.; Lotfipour, M.; Plass, K. E. “Synthesis of monoclinic and tetragonal chalcocite nanoparticles by iron-induced stabilization”, Chem. Mater, 2011, 23, 5491-5495.

• Wiltrout, A. M.; Freymeyer, N. J.; Machani, T.; Rossi, D. P.; Plass, K. E. “Phase-Selective Synthesis of Bornite Nanoparticles”, J. Mater. Chem, 2011, 21, 19286-19292.

• Lotfipour, M.; Machani, T.; Rossi, D. P.; Plass, K. E. “α-Chalcocite Nanoparticle Synthesis and Stability”, Chem. Mater., 2011, 23, 3032-3038. (student authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.)