Publications

With UB

  1. De Jesús Báez, L. R.*; Rosas, A. S.; Mahale, P.; and Mallouk, T. E.* A chelation-based route to layered transition metal carbides (MXenes), ACS Omega, 2023. (*corresponding author) article link

With Previous Institutions

As first author
  1. De Jesus, L. R., A Puerto Rican Chemist with Coffee, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2020, 92, 12, 2015-2018. (Invited manuscript for the 2020 Diamond Jubilee Issue)
  2. De Jesus, L. R.; Andrews, J. L.; Parija, A.; and Banerjee, S. Defining Diffusion Pathways in Intercalation Cathode Materials: Some Lessons from V2O5 on Directing Cation Traffic, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 915-931.
  3. De Jesus, L. R.; Stein, P.; Andrews, J. L.; Luo, Y.; Xu, B.-X.; and Banerjee, S. Striping Modulations and Strain Gradients within Individual Particles of a Cathode Material upon Lithiation, Materials Horizons 2018, 5, 486-498.
  4. De Jesus, L. R.; Zhao, Y.; Horrocks, G. A.; Andrews, J. L.; Stein, P.; Xu, B.-X.; and Banerjee, S. Lithiation across Interconnected V2O5 Nanoparticle Networks, Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2017, 5, 20141-20152. (selected as cover; Royal Society of Chemistry “Hot Paper”)
  5. Andrews, J. L.*; De Jesus, L. R.*; Tolhurst, T. M.*; Marley, P. M.; Moewes, A.; and Banerjee, S. Intercalation-Induced Exfoliation and Thickness-Modulated Electronic Structure of a Layered Ternary Vanadium Oxide, Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29, 3285– 3294. (*Joint first-author)
  6. De Jesus, L. R.; Horrocks, G. A.; Liang, Y.; Parija, A.; Jaye, C.; Wangoh, L.; Wang, J.; Fischer, D. A.; Piper, L. F. J.; Prendergast, D.; and Banerjee, S. Mapping Polaronic States and Lithiation Gradients in Individual V2O5 Nanowires, Nature Communications 2016, 7:12022, 1-9 (as highlighted in Cantech Letter, SingularityHub, Department of Energy, and Bryan/College Station The Eagle)
  7. De Jesus, L. R.; Dennis, R. V.; Depner, S. W.; Jaye, C.; Fisher, D. A.; and Banerjee, S. Inside and Outside: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Mapping of Chemical Domains in Graphene Oxide, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2013, 4, 3144-3151
As co-author
  1. Andrews, J. L.; Stein, P.; Santos, D. A.; Chalker, C. J.; De Jesus, L. R.; Davidson, R. D.; Gross, M. A.; Pharr, M.; Batteas, J. D.; Xu, B.-X.; Banerjee, S. Curvature-Induced Modification of Mechano-Electrochemical Coupling and Nucleation Kinetics in a Cathode Material, Matter, 2020, 3, 1754-1773
  2. Mahale, P.; Moradifar, P.; Cheng, H. Y; Nova, N.; Grede, A.; Lee, B.; De Jesus L. R.; Wetherington, M.; Giebink, N.; Badding, J.; Alem, N.; and Mallouk, T. E. An Oxide-Free 3- Dimensional Germanium/Silicon Core-Shell Metalattice Made by High Pressure Confined Chemical Vapor Deposition, ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 10, 12810–12818
  3. Sellers, D. G.; Braham, E. J.; Villareal, R.; Zhang, B.; Parija, A.; Brown, T. D.; Alivio, T. E. G.; Clarke, H.; De Jesus, L. R.; Zuin, L.; Prendergast, D.; Qian, X.; Arroyave, R.; Shamberger, P. J.; and Banerjee, S. Atomic Hourglass and Thermometer Based on Diffusion of a Mobile Dopant in VO2. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 36, 15513–15526
  4. Luo, Y.; De Jesus, L. R.; Andrews, J. L.; Parija, A.; Fleer, N.; Robles, D. J.; Mukherjee, P. P.; and Banerjee, S. Roadblocks in Cation Diffusion Pathways: Implications of Phase Boundaries for Li-Ion Diffusivity in an Intercalation Cathode Material. ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 2018, 10, 30901–30911.
  5. Parija, A.; Choi, Y. -H.; Liu, Z.; Andrews, J. L.; De Jesus, L. R.; Fakra, S. C.; Al-Hashimi, M.; Batteas, J. D.; Prendergast, D.; and Banerjee, S., Mapping Catalytically Relevant Edge Electronic States of MoS2, ACS Central Science, 2018, 4, 493-503 (selected as cover)
  6. Horrocks, G. A.; Parija, A.; De Jesus, L. R.; Wangoh, L.; Sallis, S.; Luo, Y.; Andrews, J. L.; Jude, J.; Jaye, C.; Fischer, D. A.; Prendergast, D.; Piper, L. F. J.; and Banerjee, S., Mitigating Cation Diffusion Limitations and Intercalation-Induced Framework Transitions in a 1D Tunnel-Structured Polymorph of V2O5, Chemistry of Materials, 2017, 29, 10386-10397
  7. Zhao, Y.; De Jesus, L. R.; Stein, P.; Horrocks, G. A.; Banerjee, S.; and Xu, B.-X. Modeling of Phase Separation across Interconnected Electrode Particles in Lithium-Ion Batteries, RSC Advances 2017, 7, 41254–41264.
  8. Horrocks, G. A.; De Jesus, L. R.; Andrews, J. L.; and Banerjee, S. X-ray Spectroscopy and Imaging as Multiscale Probes of Intercalation Phenomena in Cathode Materials, JOM: The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society 2017, 69, 1469–1477.
  9. Horrocks, G. A.; Braham, E. J.; Liang, Y.; De Jesus, L. R.; Jude, J.; Velázquez, J. M.; Prendergast, D.; and Banerjee, S. Vanadium K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy as a Probe of the Heterogeneous Lithiation of V2O5: First-Principles Modeling and Principal Component Analysis, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016, 120, 23922–23932.
  10. Cho, J.; Choi, Y. -H.; O’Loughlin, T. E.; De Jesus, L.; and Banerjee, S. Ligand-Mediated Modulation of Layer Thicknesses of Perovskite Methylammonium Lead Bromide Nanoplatelets, Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28, 6909–6916.
  11. Liu, Z.; De Jesus, L. R.; Banerjee, S.; and Mukherjee, P. P. Mechanistic Evaluation of LixOy Formation on δ-MnO2 in Nonaqueous Li–Air Batteries, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 2016, 8, 23028-23036.
  12. Parija, A.; Liang, Y.; Andrews, J. L.; De Jesus, L. R.; Prendergast, D.; and Banerjee, S. Topochemically De-Intercalated Phases of V2O5 as Cathode Materials for Multivalent Intercalation Batteries: A First-Principles Evaluation, Chemistry of Materials 2016, 28, 5611– 5620.
  13. Alivio, T. E. G.; De Jesus, L. R.; Dennis, R. V.; Jia, Y.; Jaye, C.; Fischer, D. A.; Singisetti, U.; Banerjee, S. Atomic Layer Deposition of Hafnium (IV) Oxide on Graphene Oxide: Probing Interfacial Chemistry and Nucleation by using X-ray Absorption and Photoelectron Spectroscopies, ChemPhysChem 2015, 16 (13), 2842–2848.