Dr. Alexander Al-Zubeidi

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, Rice University (2022)
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2022)
M.S. in Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK (2017)

Research Interests

I’m interested in answering fundamental scientific questions in photonics and material chemistry relevant to energy and environmental challenges. My current research focuses on using electrochemistry and spectroscopy to understand and manipulate light-driven chemical reactions on plasmic nanoparticles.

Dissertation

Plasmonic Hot Carrier-driven Electrochemistry

Publications

  1. B. Ostovar, S. A. Lee, A. Mehmood, K. Farrell, E. K. Searles, B. Bourgeois, W. -Y. Chiang, A. Misiura, N. Gross,  A. Al-Zubeidi, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, M. Zanni, B. G. Levine, and S. Link, The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer, Sci. Adv., 10, eadp3353 (2024).
  2. C. C. Carlin, A. X. Dai, A. Al-Zubeidi, E. M. Simmerman, H. Oh, N. Gross, S. A. Lee, S. Link, C. F. Landes, F. H. da Jornada, J. A. Dionne, Nanoscale and ultrafast in situ techniques to probe plasmon photocatalysis, Chem. Phys. Rev., 4, 041309 (2023). 
  3. A. Al-Zubeidi, Y. Wang, J. Lin, C. Flatebo, C. F. Landes, H. Ren, and and S. Link, d-Band Holes React at the Tips of Gold Nanorods, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 23, 5297–5304 (2023).
  4. A. Al-Zubeidi, B. Ostovar, C. C. Carlin, B. C. Li, S. A. Lee, W,-Y, Chiang, N. Gross, S. Dutta, A. Misiura, E. K. Searles, A. Chakraborty, S. T. Roberts, J. A. Dionne, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons, PNAS, 120 (3) (2023). 
  5. A. Al-Zubeidi, F. Stein, C. Flatebo, C. Rehbock, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, C. F. Landes, S. Barcikowski, and S. Link Single-Particle, Hyperspectral Imaging Reveals Kinetics of Silver Ion Leaching from Alloy Nanoparticles, ACS Nano, 15 (5), 8363 (2021). View article
  6. A. Al-Zubeidi, L. A. McCarthy, A. Rafiei-Miandashti, T. S. Heiderscheit, and S. Link, Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications, Nanophotonics, 10 (6), 1621 (2021). 
  7. T. S. Heiderscheit, M. J. Gallagher, R. Baiyasi, S. S. E. Collins, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, L. Scarabelli, A. Al-Zubeidi, C. Flatebo, W.-Sh. Chang, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Nanoelectrode-emitter spectral overlap amplifies surface enhanced electrogenerated chemiluminescence”, J. Chem. Phys. 151, 144712 (2019). 
  8. Y.-Y. Cai, S. S. E. Collins, M. J. Gallagher, U. Bhattacharjee, R. Zhang, T. H. Chow, A. Ahmadivand, B. Ostovar, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Wang, P. Nordlander, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Single particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes, ACS Energy Letters, 4, 2458 (2019). 
  9. A. Al-Zubeidi, B. S. Hoener, S. S. E. Collins, W. Wang, S. R. Kirchner, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, A. Joplin, W.-S. Chang, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Hot Holes Assist Plasmonic Nanoelectrode Dissolution, Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1301 (2019).