Dr. Carl Brozek
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Education
- 2015 Ph.D. Chemistry, MIT with Prof. Mircea Dincă
- 2010 B.S. Chemistry, University of Chicago, with Prof. Gregory Hillhouse
Awards & Honors
- 2016 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award
- 2015 Davison Thesis Prize (MIT)
- 2015 Washington Research Foundation Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow in Clean Energy
- 2011-2014 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
- 2007-2009 Beckman Scholar Program Fellow
Publications (Gamelin group and pre-Gamelin group only)
2018
Araujo, J. J.; Brozek, C. K.; Kroupa, D. M.; Gamelin, D. R. "Degenerately n-Doped Colloidal PbSe Quantum Dots: Band Assignments and Electrostatic Effects." Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 3893-3900. (view)
Brozek, C. K.; Zhou, D.; Liu, H.; Li, X.; Kittilstved, K. R.; Gamelin, D. R. "Soluble Supercapacitors: Large and Reversible Charge Storage in Colloidal Iron-Doped ZnO Nanocrystals." Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 3297-3302. (view)
Hartstein, K. H.; Brozek, C. K.; Hinterding, S. O. M.; Gamelin, D. R. "Copper-Coupled Electron Transfer in Colloidal Plasmonic Copper-Sulfide Nanocrystals Probed by in Situ Spectroelectrochemistry." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3434-3442. (view)
2017
Liu, H.; Brozek, C. K.; Sun, S.; Lingerfelt, D. B.; Gamelin, D. R.; Li, X. "A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Model of Electrostatics in Multiply Charged Quantum Dots." J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 26086-26095. (view)
Brozek, C. K.; Ozarowski, A.; Stoian, S. A.; Dincă, M. "Dynamic Structural Flexibility of Fe-MOF-5 Evidenced by 57Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Inorg. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 782-788. (view)
2016
Carroll, G. M.; Tsui, E. Y.; Brozek, C. K.; Gamelin, D. R. "Spectroelectrochemical Measurement of Surface Electrostatic Contributions to Colloidal CdSe Nanocrystal Redox Potentials." Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 7912-7918. (view)
Brozek, C. K.; Hartstein, K. H.; Gamelin, D. R. "Potentiometric Titrations for Measuring the Capacitance of Colloidal Photodoped ZnO Nanocrystals." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 10605-10610. (view)
Carroll, G. M.; Brozek, C. K.; Hartstein, K. H.; Tsui, E. Y.; Gamelin, D. R. "Potentiometric Measurements of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Redox Potentials." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4310-4313. (view)
Akimbekov, Z.; Wu, D.; Brozek, C. K.; Dincă, M.; Navrotsky, A. "Thermodynamics of Solvent Interaction with the Metal-Organic Framework MOF-5." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 1158-1162.
Metzger, E. D.; Brozek, C. K.; Comito, R. J.; Dincă, M. "Selective Dimerization of Ethylene to 1-Butene with a Porous Catalyst." ACS Central Science 2016, 2, in press.
2015
Brozek, C. K.; Dincă, M. "Thermodynamic parameters of cation exchange in MOF-5 and MFU-4l." Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 11780-11782.
Brozek, C. K.; Miller, J. T., Stoian, S. A.; Dincă, M. "Nitric Oxide Disproportionation Promoted by Fe2+-Exchanged MOF-5." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 7495-7501.
Brozek, C. K.; Michaelis, V. K.; Ong, T.-C.; Bellarosa, L.; López, N.; Griffin, R. G.; Dincă, M. "Dynamic DMF binding in MOF-5 enables the formation of metastable cobalt-substituted MOF-5 analogs." ACS Central Science, 2015, 1, 252-260.
2014
Sheberla, D.; Sun, L.; Blood-Forsythe, M. A.; Er, S.; Wade, C. R.; Brozek, C. K.; Aspuru-Guzik, A.; Dincă, M. "High Electrical Conductivity in Ni3(2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene)2, a Semiconducting Metal-Organic Graphene Analogue." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8859.
Brozek, C. K.; Dincă, M. "Cation Exchange at the Secondary Building Units of Metal-organic Frameworks." Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 5456.
Brozek, C. K.; Bellarosa, L.; Soejima, T.; Clark, T. V.; Lopez, N.; Dincă, M. "Solvent-Dependent Cation Exchange in Metal-organic Frameworks." Chem.–Eur. J. 2014, 20, 6871.
Kuppuswamy, S.; Powers, T. M.; Johnson, B. M.; Brozek, C. K.; Krogman, J. P.; Bezpalko, M. W.; Berben, L. A.; Keith, J. M.; Foxman, B. M.; Thomas, C. M. "One-electron Oxidation Chemistry and Subsequent Reactivity of Diiron Imido Complexes." Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 5429.
Cozzolino, A. F.; Brozek, C. K.; Palmer, R. D.; Yano, J.; Li, M.; Dincă, M. "Ligand Redox Non-innocence in the Stiochiometric Oxidation of Mn2(2,5-dioxidoterephthalate) (Mn-MOF-74)." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 3334.
Kuppuswamy, S.; Bezpalko, M. W.; Powers, T. M.; Wilding, M. J. T.; Brozek, C. K.; Foxman, B. M.; Thomas, C. M. "A Series of C3-Symmetric Hetero-bimetallic Cr/M (M = Fe, Co, and Cu) Complexes." Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 1617.
2013
Brozek, C. K.; Dincă, M. "Ti3+-, V2+/3+-, Cr2+/3+-, Mn2+-, and Fe2+-Substituted MOF-5 and Redox Reactivity in Cr- and Fe-MOF-5." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12886.
Brozek, C. K.; Cozzolino, A. F.; Teat, S. J.; Chen, Y.-C.; Dincă, M. "Quantification of Site-Specific Cation Exchange in Metal-organic Frameworks Using Multi-Wavelength Anomalous X-ray Dispersion." Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 2998.
Kuppuswamy, S.; Powers, T. M.; Johnson, B. M.; Bezpalko, M. W.; Brozek, C. K.; Foxman, B. M.; Berben, L. A.; Thomas, C. M. "Metal-Metal Interactions in C3-Symmetric Diiron Imido Complexes Linked by Phosphinoamide Ligands." Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 4802.
2012
Brozek, C. K.; Dincă, M. "Lattice-Imposed Geometry in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Lacunary Zn4O Clusters in MOF-5 Serve as Tripodal Chelating Ligands for Ni2+." Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 2110.
2010
Iluc, V. M.; Laskowski, C. K.; Brozek, C. K.; Harrold, N. D.; Hillhouse, G. L. "Monomeric and Dimeric Disulfide Complexes of Nickel(II)." Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 6817.