48) Clark, C. B.; DeRosa, N. J.; Ahmed, A. A.; Kelleher, S. G.; Swierk, J. R. Mechanistic insights into photocatalytic poly(styrene) degradation and acetyl radical formation enabled by the uranyl cation 2026. DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv.15007190/v1

 

47) Rabbani, S.; Fakhri, M.; Lin, A.; Noble, S.; Swierk, J. R. Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) in Ethaline-like Solvents. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2026, 28 (18), 11315–11326. DOI:10.1039/d5cp04727g

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46) Lee, A. A.; Oo, N. K.; Eaton, H. T.; Fortna, C. R.; Fredin, L. A.; Swierk, J. R. Understanding the Propagation Step in a Photoredox Cycloaddition Chain Reaction. ACS Catalysis 2026, 16 (8), 7367–7375. DOI:10.1021/acscatal.5c08683

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45) Rhames, M. C.; Burnett, N. L.; Lee, A. A.; Clark, C. B.; Tocco, W. C.; Ahmed, A.; Ruhren, A. N.; Besson, C.; Panetier, J. A.; Swierk, J. R.; Arias-Rotondo, D. M. A Low-Spin Manganese(II) Complex with an Emissive Charge-Transfer Excited State. Dalton Trans. 2026, 55 (10), 4097–4101. DOI:10.1039/d5dt02990b.

 

44) Clark, C.B.; Swierk, J.R. Food for Thought: Analysis of Photosynthetic Pigments in the General Chemistry Laboratory. Submitted.  ChemRxiv 2025 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-wrllt

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43) Clark, C.B.; Burnett, N.L.; Ruhren, A.N.; Talbott, E.D.; Eyubova, E.; Besson, C.; Panetier, J.A.; Swierk, J.R. Analyzing the photophysics and photochemistry of [UO2(acetylacetonate)2(L)] complexes. Dalton Trans. 2025, 54, 12667-12677. DOI:  

DOI: 10.1039/D5DT00668F

       

42) Noble, S.; Moseman, K.; Medina, S.; German, G.K.; Swierk, J.R. ​Is Tattooing an Injection? Evaluating the Mechanics of Ink Placement. Acta Biomaterialia 2025, 205, 26-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2025.08.055

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41) Lee, A.A.; Swierk, J.R. Mechanistic Investigation of a Photoredox Cycloaddition Chain Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 34900-34908. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c14255 

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40) Moseman, K.; Noble, S.; Sanders, S.; Guo, H.; Swierk, J.R. Analysis of blue and green REACH compliant tattoo inks. Analyst 2024. 149, 5329-5335. DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00793J

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39) Moseman, K.; Ahmed, A.; Ruhren, A.; Swierk, J.R. What’s in my ink: an analysis of commercial tattoo ink on the US market. Analytical Chemistry 2024, 96, 3906–3913 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05687 

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38)  M. Spicuzza; S.P. Gaikwad; S. Huss; A. Lee; C.V. Craescu; A. Griggs; J. Joseph; M. Puthenpurayil; W. Lin; C. Matarazzo; S. Baldwin; V. Perez; D.A. Rodriguez-Acevedo; J.R. Swierk; E. Elacqua. Visible-Light-Mediated Diels-Alder Reactions Under Single- Chain Polymer Confinement: Investigating the Role of the Crosslinking Moiety on Catalyst Activity. Polymer Chem. 2024, 15, 883. DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00282B

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37) Talbott, E.D.; Burnett, N.L.; Swierk, J.R. Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Visible Light Photoredox Reactions. Chem. Phys. Rev. 2023, 4, 031312. DOI: 10.1063/5.0156850

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36) Kompanijec, V.; Swierk, J.R. Comparison of Anodic Materials in Electrochemical Oxidative Desulfurization. Cell Reports Physical Science 2023, 4,101425. DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101425  

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35) Stevenson, B.G.; Prascsak, A.; Lee, A.; Talbott, E.D.; Fredin, L.A.; Swierk, J.R. Enhanced Basicity of an Electron Donor-Accepor Complex. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 2943-2945. DOI: 10.1039/D2CC05985A

      **Included in the 2023 Emerging Investigators Collection

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34) Stevenson, B.G.; Gironda, C.; Talbott, E.; Prascsak, A.; Burnett, N.L.; Nakhamiyayev, R.V.; Kompanijec, V.; Nakhamiyayev, R.V.; Fredin, L.A.; Swierk, J.R. Photoredox Product Selectivity Controlled by Persistent Radical Stability. J. Org. Chem. 2023, accepted. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00490

       **Featured as one of HepatoChem's Summer 2023 Reading List

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33) Kompanijec, V.; Repa, G.M.; Fredin, LA.; Swierk, J.R. Selective electrochemical oxidation of dibenzothiophene to sufloxide by iron oxide film. Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 9646-9654. DOI: 10.1039/D3DT01074K   

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32) Swierk, J.R. The cost of quantum yield. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2023, 27, 1411-1419. DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.3c00167

       **Featured by "In the Pipeline" (Science)

       **Highlighted as one of 23 publications in HepatoChem's "Photochemistry Year in Review 2023"

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31) Soto, X; Swierk, J.R. Using Lifetime and Quenching Rate Constant to Determine Quencher Concentration. ACS Omega 2022, 7, 25532-25536. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.2c02638

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30) Y. Liu,; D. Ni; B.G. Stevenson; V. Tripathy; K. Raghavachari; J.R. Swierk; M.K. Brown. Photosensitized [2+2] Cycloaddition of Alkenylboronates and Alkenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200725 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202200725  

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29) E.H. Spielvogel**, B.G. Stevenson, M.J. Stringer**, J.R. Swierk. Insights into the Mechanism of an Allylic Arylation Reaction via Photoredox Coupled Hydrogen Atom Transfer. J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 223-230. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02235

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28) V. Kompanijec, J.R. Swierk. Comparison of Material Activity and Selectivity in the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Dibenzothiophene. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2021, 168, 116515.DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac3a2a

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27) J.R. Swierk, Blocking Layers for Directional Charge Transport. In Ultrathin Oxide Layers for Solar, Electrocatalytic, and Thermal Catalytic Systems; Esposito, D., Frei, H. Eds.; Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry. London, 2022; 70-102.

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26) B.G. Stevenson, E.H. Spielvogel**, E.A. Loiaconi**, V. Wambua, R.V. Nakhamiyayev**, J.R. Swierk*, Mechanistic investigations of an α-Amino Arylation Photoredox Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8878-8885. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03693

      **Featured in Nature Rev. Chem. 2021, 5, 444. DOI: 10.1038/s41570-021-00305-1

      **Featured as one of HepatoChem's "21 Must -Read Photochemistry Papers of 2021" 

      **One JACS most cited publications from 2020-21

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Papers from before Binghamton University

25) ) Spies, J.A.; Swierk, J.R.; Kelly, H.R.; Capobianco, M.D.; Regan, K.P.; Batista, V.S.; Brudvig, G.W.; Schmuttenmaer, C.A. Tuning the Conduction Band for Interfacial Electron Transfer: Dye-Sensitized SnxTi1-xO2 Photoanodes for Water Splitting. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, 4, 4695-4703. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c00305

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24) B. Koronkiewicz, J.R. Swierk, K.P. Regan, J. Mayer, "Shallow Distance Dependence for Proton-Coupled Tyrosine Oxidation in Oligoproline Peptides," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 142, 12106-12118. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01429

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23) J. Spies, M. Hilibrand, J. Neu, S. Ostresh, J.R. Swierk, C.A. Schmuttenmaer, "Suspensions of Semiconducting Nanoparticles in Nafion for Transient Spectroscopy and Terahertz Photoconductivity Measurements," Anal. Chem., 2020, 92, 4187-4192. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05723

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22) J. Neu, K.P. Regan, J.R. Swierk, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, "Applicability of the Thin-film Approximation in Terahertz Photoconductivity Measurement," Appl. Phys. Lett., 2018, 113, 233901. DOI: 10.1063/1.5052232

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21) Jiang, A.J. Matula, J.R. Swierk, N. Romano, Y. Wu, V.S. Batista*, R.H. Crabtree*, J.S. Lindsey*, H. Wang*,  G.W. Brudvig*, "Unusual Stability of a Bacteriochlorin Electrocatalyst under Reductive Conditions. A Case Study on CO2 Conversion to CO," ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 10131-10136. DOI:10.1021/acscatal.8b02991

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20) C.T. Nemes, J.R. Swierk, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, “A Terahertz-Transparent Electrochemical Cell for In Situ THz Spectroelectrochemistry,” Anal. Chem., 2018, 90, 4389–4396. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04204

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19) J. Jiang, J. Spies, J.R. Swierk, A.J. Matula, K.P. Regan, N. Romano, B.J. Brennan, R.H. Crabtree*, V.S. Batista*, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, G.W. Brudvig*, “Direct Interfacial Electron Transfer High-Potential Porphyrins into Semiconductor Surfaces: A Comparison of Linker and Anchoring Groups,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122, 13529-13539. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12405

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17) J.R. Swierk*, N.S. McCool, S. Hëdstrom, S.J. Konezny*, C.T. Nemes, P. Xu, V.S. Batista*, T.E. Mallouk*, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, “Acid-Induced Mixed Electron and Proton Conduction in Thin ZrO2 Films,” Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 7971-7974. DOI: 10.1039/C8CC04189J​

 

18) J.R. Swierk* and T.D. Tilley*, “Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Single Site and Small Nuclearity Clusters of Cobalt,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 2018, 165, H3028-H3033. DOI: 10.1149/2.0041804jes

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16) K.P. Regan, J.R. Swierk, J. Neu, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, "Frequency-Dependent Terahertz Transient Photoconductivity of Mesoporous SnO2 Films," J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121, 15949.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02318

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15) J. Jiang, J.R. Swierk, K.L. Materna, S. Hëdstrom, S.-H. Lee, R.H. Crabtree, C.A. Schmuttenmaer, V.S. Batista, G.W. Brudvig, “SnO2- and TiO2-Supported High Redox Potential Porphyrins for Photoelectrochemical Applications,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 120, 28971-28982. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b10350

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14) J.R. Swierk*, K.P. Regan, J. Jiang, G.W. Brudvig, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, "Rutile TiO2 as an Anode Material for Water-Splitting Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells" ACS Energ. Lett., 2016, 1, 603-606.  DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00279

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13) B.P. Stephenson*, N. Ihasz, D.C. Byrd, J.R. Swierk, L. Swierk, “Assessment of temperature-dependent color change in male and female Eastern Fence Lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) using spectroradiometry,” Biol. J. Linnean Soc., 2017, 120, 396-409. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12870

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12) N.S. McCool, J.R. Swierk, C.T. Nemes, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, T. E. Mallouk*, "Dynamics of Electron Injection in SnO2-TiO2 Core-Shell Electrodes for Water-splitting Dye-sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2016, 7, 2930-2934. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01528

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11) J. Jiang, J.R. Swierk, S. Hëdstrom, A.J. Matula, R.H. Crabtree*, V.S. Batista*, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, G.W. Brudvig*, “Molecular Design of Light-Harvesting Photosensitizers: Effect of Varied Linker Conjugation on Interfacial Electron Transfer,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 18678-18682. DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04377a

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10) N.S. McCool, J.R. Swierk, C.T. Nemes, C.A. Schmuttenmaer*, T. E. Mallouk*, "Proton-Induced Trap States, Injection and Recombination Dynamics in Water-Splitting Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 16727-16735.  DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05362 

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9)  J.R. Swierk, N.S. McCool, C.T. Nemes, T. E. Mallouk*, C. A. Schumttenmaer*, "Ultrafast Electron Injection Dynamics of Photoanodes for Water-Splitting Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells ”  J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 5940-5948.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00749

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8) J.R. Swierk*, S. Klaus, L. Trotochaud, A.T. Bell, T.D. Tilley*, "An electrochemical study of the energetics of the oxygen evolution reaction at nickel iron (oxy)hydroxide catalysts," J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 19022-19029.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05861

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7) Y. Zhao, N.M. Vargas-Barbosa, M.E. Strayer, N.S. McCool, M-E Pandelia, T.P. Saunders**, J.R. Swierk, J. Callejas, L. Jensen, T. E. Mallouk*, “The role of iridium hydroxides in the synthesis and properties of iridium oxide nanoparticles,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 8749-8757. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03470

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6)  J.R. Swierk, N.S. McCool, T. E. Mallouk*, “Dynamics of electron recombination and transport in water-splitting dye-sensitized photoanodes,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 13858-13867. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01442

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5)  J.R. Swierk, D.D. Méndez-Hernádez, N.S. McCool, P. Liddell, Y. Terazono, I. Pahk,  J.J. Tomlin, N.V. Oster, T.A. Moore, A.L. Moore, D. Gust, T.E. Mallouk*, “Metal-free organic sensitizers for use in water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2015, 112, 1681-1686. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414901112

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4) J.R. Swierk, N.S. McCool, T.P. Saunders**, G.D. Barber, T.E. Mallouk*, “Effects of electron trapping and protonation on the efficiency of water-splitting dye-sensitized solar cells,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 131, 10974-10982. DOI: 10.1021/ja5040705

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3) J.R. Swierk, N.S. McCool, T.P. Saunders**, G.D. Barber, M.E. Strayer, N.M. Vargas-Barbosa, T. E. Mallouk*, “Photovoltage effects of sintered IrO2 nanoparticle catalysts in water-splitting dye- sensitized photoelectrochemical cells”J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 17046-17053 DOI: 10.1021/jp500589n

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2) J.R. Swierk and T. E. Mallouk*, "Design and development of photoanodes for water-splitting dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells," Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2357-2387.  DOI: 10.1039/c2cs35246j

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1) Y. Zhao, J.R. Swierk, J. D. Megiatto, Jr., B. Sherman, W. J. Youngblood, D. D. Qin, D. M. Lentz, A. L. Moore, T. A. Moore, D. Gust, and T. E. Mallouk*, "Improving the efficiency of water splitting in dye-sensitized solar cells by using a biomimetic electron transfer mediator," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2012, 109, 15612-15615.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118339109   

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