Raymond Unocic

Associate Professor

Dr. Raymond Unocic earned his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2008, and a master’s in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in 2003. Since 2009, Dr. Unocic has been an Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow, Senior R&D Staff Scientist, and Group Leader for the Materials MicroÅnalysis Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored four book chapters, and holds five U.S. Patents. His awards include the National Collegiate Inventors Award, the MicroAnalysis Society’s Birks Award, two R&D 100 awards, and several ORNL-UT Battelle Research Team Awards.

Dr. Unocic’s research expertise lies in aberration-corrected, analytical, cryo, and in situ/operando scanning transmission electron microscopy. His research program is dedicated to pioneering novel microscopy-based characterization methods for nanoscience research to probe atomic-scaled structure, chemistry, and dynamic behavior of materials to establish structure-property-function correlations.

Areas of Research:

  • Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials
  • Energy Materials
  • Catalysis
  • Materials Characterization
  • Nanomaterials
  • Structural Materials

Publications

Direct Fabrication of Atomically Defined Pores in MXenes Using Feedback‐Driven STEM
Boebinger, M. G., Yilmaz, D. E., Ghosh, A., Misra, S., Mathis, T. S., Kalinin, S. V., … Unocic, R. R. (2024), Small Methods, 5. https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202400203
Double Hydroxide Nanocatalysts for Urea Electrooxidation Engineered toward Environmentally Benign Products
Yang, Y., Yuwono, J. A., Whittaker, T., Ibáñez, M. M., Wang, B., Kim, C., … Bedford, N. M. (2024), Advanced Materials, 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202403187
In Situ Liquid Electron Microscope Cells Strongly Attenuate Electrochemical Behavior
Wittman, R. M., Sacci, R. L., Unocic, R. R., & Zawodzinski, T. A. (2024), JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 171(12). https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad963a
Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene‐Like Carbon Intercalated MXene Heterostructure Electrodes for Enhanced Sodium‐ and Lithium‐Ion Storage
Liang, K., Wu, T., Misra, S., Dun, C., Husmann, S., Prenger, K., … Naguib, M. (2024), Advanced Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202402708
Selected Area Manipulation of MoS2 via Focused Electron Beam-Induced Etching for Nanoscale Device Editing
Lasseter, J., Gellerup, S., Ghosh, S., Yun, S. J., Vasudevan, R., Unocic, R. R., … Rack, P. D. (2024), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(7), 9144–9154. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c17182
Tutorial on In Situ and Operando (Scanning) Transmission Electron Microscopy for Analysis of Nanoscale Structure–Property Relationships
Smeaton, M. A., Abellan, P., Spurgeon, S. R., Unocic, R. R., & Jungjohann, K. L. (2024), ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c09256
Width-Dependent Growth of Atomically Thin Quantum Nanoribbons
Harutyunyan, A., Li, X., Wyss, S., Yanev, E., Li, Q.-J., Wu, S., … Schuck, P. J. (2024, May 23). , . https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4419911/v1
Width-dependent continuous growth of atomically thin quantum nanoribbons from nanoalloy seeds in chalcogen vapor
Li, X., Wyss, S., Yanev, E., Li, Q.-J., Wu, S., Sun, Y., … Harutyunyan, A. R. (2024), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54413-9
Armor for Steel: Facile Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Films on Various Substrates
Vlassiouk, I., Smirnov, S., Puretzky, A., Olunloyo, O., Geohegan, D. B., Dyck, O., … Ivanov, I. (2023), Advanced Materials Interfaces, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300704
Armoring of MgO by a Passivation Layer Impedes Direct Air Capture of CO2
Weber, J., Starchenko, V., Yuan, K., Anovitz, L. M., Ievlev, A. V., Unocic, R. R., … Stack, A. G. (2023), Environmental Science & Technology, 57(40), 14929–14937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04690

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Raymond Unocic