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Sep. 2025: Nick, Saba, Patrick, Mariebelle, and Austin's work is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations to all!
Feb. 2025: Jan, Ragaa, and Edwin's work is being published in Nanomaterials. Congratulations!
Feb. 2024: Ragaa completed her thesis defense successfully. Congratulations!
Jun. 2023: Saba successfully defended her thesis and completed all requirements for her M.S. degree. Congrats!
Apr. 2023: Faraz defended his thesis and completed his journey at CSULB! Congratulations!
Mar. 2023: Big congratulations to Jan for successfully defending his thesis!
Feb. 2023: Congratulations to Ragaa for being advanced as a semifinalist to the next phase of the prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program!
Jan. 2023: Edwin and Christos' work is being published in Nanomaterials. Congratulations!
Our catalysis research focuses on three general areas:
1) Green catalysis: Colloidal metal nanoparticles for selective and/or multifunctional chemical transformations in water or greener organic solvents
2) Biocompatible nanocatalysis: Lipid-metal nanoparticle assemblies (LNAs) for biologically relevant reactions under physiological conditions
3) Photocatalysis: Semiconductor-metal or carbon nanoparticle hybrids for photo-enhanced chemical catalysis
(1) Pavlakovich, N.; Dalaub, S.; Nasser, P.; Monroy, M.; Nerhus, A.; Olivas, E. M.; Mulvey, J.; Di Palma, G.; Patterson, J. P.; Shon, Y.-S. Effects of Bilayer Nanoenvironment on the Catalytic Activity of Lipid-Pd-Nanoparticle Assemblies in Water. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2025, in press.
(2) Farag, J. W.; Khalil, R.; Avila, E.; Shon, Y.-S. Catalytic Activity of Water-Soluble Palladium Nanoparticles with Anionic and Cationic Capping Ligands for Reduction, Oxidation, and C-C Coupling Reactions in Water. Nanomaterials 2025,15, 405.
(3) Avila, E.; Nixarlidis, C.; Shon, Y.-S. Water-Soluble Pd Nanoparticles for the Anti-Markovnikov Oxidation of Allyl Benzene in Water. Nanomaterials 2023, 13(2), 348.
(4) Ortega, D.; Pavlakovich, N.; Shon, Y.-S. Effects of Lipid Bilayer Encapsulation and Lipid Composition on the Catalytic Activity and Colloidal Stability of Hydrophobic Palladium Nanoparticles in Water. RSC Adv. 2022, 12, 21866-21874.
(5) Alam, A.-M.; Shon, Y.-S. Water-Soluble Noble Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts Capped with Small Organic Molecules for Organic Transformations in Water. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2021, 4, 3294-3318.
(6) Tieu, P.; Nguyen, V.; Shon, Y.-S. Proximity Effects of Methyl Group on Ligand Steric Interactions and Colloidal Stability of Palladium Nanoparticles. Front. Chem. 2020, 8, 599.
(7) Mahdaly, M. A.; Zhu, J. S.; Nguyen, V.; Shon, Y.-S. Colloidal Palladium Nanoparticles for Selective Hydrogenation of Styrene Derivatives with Reactive Functional Groups. ACS Omega 2019, 4, 20819-20828.
(8) Vargas, K. M.; San, K. A.; Shon, Y.-S. Isolated Effects of Surface Ligand Density on the Catalytic Activity and Selectivity of Palladium Nanoparticles. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2(11), 7188-7196.
(9) Vargas, K. M.; Shon, Y.-S. Hybrid Lipid-Nanoparticle Complexes for Biomedical Applications. J. Mater. Chem. B 2019, 7, 695-708.
(10) Pan, H.; Low, S.; Weerasuriya, N.; Wang, B.; Shon, Y.-S. Morphological Transformation of Gold Nanostructures on Graphene Oxide: Effects of Capping Ligands and Surface Interactions. Nano Converg. 2019, 6, 2.
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