• Education
    2012 - Sc.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    2006 - B.A./B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University
Biography

Professor Jin Suntivich is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. He obtained his undergraduate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and Integrated Science from Northwestern University, followed by a doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, Jin embarked on his independent career as an assistant professor at Cornell. During this time, he has dedicated his efforts to comprehending the fundamental mechanisms of electrocatalysis and exploring the structure-property relationship at solid-liquid interfaces. His research interest spans a range of topics, including the measurement of surface thermochemistry, the development of in-situ tools for probing bond-forming events, and identifying mechanism-driven strategies for designing materials for energy and separation applications.

Research

Our core interest is in materials sustainability. Current efforts include materials for energy storage and conversion technologies, mitigation strategies for materials corrosions in harsh environments, in-situ tools for probing interface dynamics, and novel methods for separation applications.

Publications
Austin J. Reese, Jin Suntivich
Methodology of Atomic Force Microscopy Visualization of Electrode–Electrolyte Interfaces
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 129 (2025)
Chia-Yi Lin, Héctor D. Abruña, Jin Suntivich
Cations Affect Water Activation on Pt(111) in Alkaline Media
Journal of The Electrochemical Society 172 (2025)
Austin J. Reese, Simon Gelin, Maria Maalouf, Neha Wadehra, Lei Zhang, Geoffroy Hautier, Darrell G. Schlom, Ismaila Dabo, Jin Suntivich
Tracking Water Dissociation on RuO2(110) Using Atomic Force Microscopy and First-Principles Simulations
Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (2024)
Abigail K. Nason, Wisarttra Phamonpon, Tristan A. Pitt, Ronald T. Jerozal, Phillip J. Milner, Nadnudda Rodthongkum, Jin Suntivich
Reactive Depolymerization of Polyethylene Terephthalate Textiles into Metal–Organic Framework Intermediates Produces Additive-Free Monomers
Chemistry of Materials 36 (2024)
Jin Suntivich, Geoffroy Hautier, Ismaila Dabo, Ethan J. Crumlin, Dhananjay Kumar, Tanja Cuk
Probing intermediate configurations of oxygen evolution catalysis across the light spectrum
Nature Energy 9 (2024)
Benjamin J.G. Rousseau, Xinyao Lu, Alexander V. Soudackov, Jin Suntivich, Hector Abruña, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Theoretical Analysis of Hydrogen Underpotential Deposition on Pt(111) Under Alkaline Conditions
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (2024)
Pengtao Xu, Ruiyu Wang, Haojian Zhang, Vincenzo Carnevale, Eric Borguet, Jin Suntivich
Cation Modifies Interfacial Water Structures on Platinum during Alkaline Hydrogen Electrocatalysis
Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (2024)
Pengtao Xu, Alexander D. von Rueden, Roberto Schimmenti, Manos Mavrikakis, Jin Suntivich
Optical method for quantifying the potential of zero charge at the platinum–water electrochemical interface
Nature Materials 22 (2023)
Abigail K. Nason, Ronald T. Jerozal, Phillip J. Milner, Jin Suntivich
Reactive Crystallization via Metal–Organic-Framework Formation Enables Separation of Terephthalic Acid from Textile Impurities
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11 (2022)
Pengtao Xu, Jin Suntivich
Time-Resolved Monitoring of Electrochemical Reactions Using In Situ Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11 (2022)
Ding-Yuan Kuo, Xinyao Lu, Bintao Hu, Héctor D. Abruña, Jin Suntivich
Rate and Mechanism of Electrochemical Formation of Surface-Bound Hydrogen on Pt(111) Single Crystals
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13 (2022)
Yao Yang, Rui Zeng, Hanjong Paik, Ding-Yuan Kuo, Darrell G. Schlom, Francis J. DiSalvo, David A. Muller, Jin Suntivich, Héctor D. Abruña
Epitaxial Thin-Film Spinel Oxides as Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts in Alkaline Media
Chemistry of Materials 33 (2021)
Zhichu Tang, Emily Nishiwaki, Kevin E. Fritz, Tobias Hanrath, Jin Suntivich
Cu(I) Reducibility Controls Ethylene vs Ethanol Selectivity on (100)-Textured Copper during Pulsed CO2 Reduction
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (2021)
Sarah A. Hesse, Kevin E. Fritz, Peter A. Beaucage, R. Paxton Thedford, Fei Yu, Francis J. DiSalvo, Jin Suntivich, Ulrich Wiesner
Materials Combining Asymmetric Pore Structures with Well-Defined Mesoporosity for Energy Storage and Conversion
ACS Nano 14 (2020)
Fumiaki Matsuoka, Kevin E Fritz, Peter A Beaucage, Fei Yu, Jin Suntivich, Ulrich Wiesner
Iron and nitrogen-doped double gyroid mesoporous carbons for oxygen reduction in acidic environments
Journal of Physics: Energy 3 (2020)
Pengtao Xu, Alice Huang, Jin Suntivich
Phase-Sensitive Second-Harmonic Generation of Electrochemical Interfaces
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (2020)
Haixiang Han, Yuan Yao, Anuj Bhargava, Zheng Wei, Zhichu Tang, Jin Suntivich, Oleksandr Voznyy, Richard D. Robinson
Tertiary Hierarchical Complexity in Assemblies of Sulfur-Bridged Metal Chiral Clusters
Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (2020)
Kevin E. Fritz, Yichen Yan, Jin Suntivich
Erratum to: Influence of 3d transition-metal substitution on the oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis of ternary nitrides in acid
Nano Research 13 (2020)
Kevin W. Kimura, Rileigh Casebolt, Jessica Cimada DaSilva, Elyse Kauffman, Jiyoon Kim, Tyler A. Dunbar, Christopher J. Pollock, Jin Suntivich, Tobias Hanrath
Selective Electrochemical CO2 Reduction during Pulsed Potential Stems from Dynamic Interface
ACS Catalysis 10 (2020)
Bintao Hu, Ding-Yuan Kuo, Hanjong Paik, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Enthalpy and entropy of oxygen electroadsorption on RuO2(110) in alkaline media
The Journal of Chemical Physics 152 (2020)
Manuel Gliech, Mikaela Görlin, Martin Gocyla, Malte Klingenhof, Arno Bergmann, Sören Selve, Camillo Spöri, Marc Heggen, Rafal E. Dunin‐Borkowski, Jin Suntivich, Peter Strasser
Solute Incorporation at Oxide–Oxide Interfaces Explains How Ternary Mixed‐Metal Oxide Nanocrystals Support Element‐Specific Anisotropic Growth
Advanced Functional Materials 30 (2020)
C. John Eom, Jin Suntivich
In Situ Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Reveals the Phosphate Network in the Amorphous Cobalt Oxide Catalyst and Its Role in the Catalyst Formation
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (2019)
Michael Ashton, Nicole Trometer, Kiran Mathew, Jin Suntivich, Christoph Freysoldt, Susan B. Sinnott, Richard G. Hennig
Correction to “Predicting the Electrochemical Synthesis of 2D Materials from First-Principles”
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (2019)
Ali Raza, Stéphane Clemmen, Pieter Wuytens, Michiel de Goede, Amy S. K. Tong, Nicolas Le Thomas, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich, Andre G. Skirtach, Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Daniel J. Blumenthal, James S. Wilkinson, Roel Baets
High index contrast photonic platforms for on-chip Raman spectroscopy
Optics Express 27 (2019)
Padtaraporn Chanhom, Kevin E. Fritz, Lee A. Burton, Jan Kloppenburg, Yaroslav Filinchuk, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng, Numpon Insin, Jin Suntivich, Geoffroy Hautier
Sr3CrN3: A New Electride with a Partially Filled d-Shell Transition Metal
Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (2019)
Andrew Nelson, Yixu Zong, Kevin E. Fritz, Jin Suntivich, Richard D. Robinson
Assessment of Soft Ligand Removal Strategies: Alkylation as a Promising Alternative to High-Temperature Treatments for Colloidal Nanoparticle Surfaces
ACS Materials Letters 1 (2019)
Kevin E. Fritz, Yichen Yan, Jin Suntivich
Influence of 3d transition-metal substitution on the oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis of ternary nitrides in acid
Nano Research 12 (2019)
Francesco Naccarato, Francesco Ricci, Jin Suntivich, Geoffroy Hautier, Ludger Wirtz, Gian-Marco Rignanese
Searching for materials with high refractive index and wide band gap: A first-principles high-throughput study
Physical Review Materials 3 (2019)
Juan J. de Pablo, Nicholas E. Jackson, Michael A. Webb, Long-Qing Chen, Joel E. Moore, Dane Morgan, Ryan Jacobs, Tresa Pollock, Darrell G. Schlom, Eric S. Toberer, James Analytis, Ismaila Dabo, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Gregory A. Fiete, Gregory M. Grason, Geoffroy Hautier, Yifei Mo, Krishna Rajan, Evan J. Reed, Efrain Rodriguez, Vladan Stevanovic, Jin Suntivich, Katsuyo Thornton, Ji-Cheng Zhao
New frontiers for the materials genome initiative
npj Computational Materials 5 (2019)
Michael Ashton, Nicole Trometer, Kiran Mathew, Jin Suntivich, Christoph Freysoldt, Susan B. Sinnott, Richard G. Hennig
Predicting the Electrochemical Synthesis of 2D Materials from First Principles
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (2019)
Ding-Yuan Kuo, Hanjong Paik, Jocienne N. Nelson, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Chlorine evolution reaction electrocatalysis on RuO2(110) and IrO2(110) grown using molecular-beam epitaxy
The Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (2019)
Yuepeng Guan, Xiaojun Liu, Naseem Akhtar, Anbang Wang, Weikun Wang, Hao Zhang, Jin Suntivich, Yaqin Huang
Cr2O3 Nanoparticle Decorated Carbon Nanofibers Derived from Solid Leather Wastes for High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Battery Separator Coating
Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166 (2019)
Ding-Yuan Kuo, Hanjong Paik, Jan Kloppenburg, Brendan Faeth, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Geoffroy Hautier, Jin Suntivich
Measurements of Oxygen Electroadsorption Energies and Oxygen Evolution Reaction on RuO2(110): A Discussion of the Sabatier Principle and Its Role in Electrocatalysis
Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (2018)
C. John Eom, Ding-Yuan Kuo, Carolina Adamo, Eun Ju Moon, Steve J. May, Ethan J. Crumlin, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Tailoring manganese oxide with atomic precision to increase surface site availability for oxygen reduction catalysis
Nature Communications 9 (2018)
Kevin W. Kimura, Kevin E. Fritz, Jiyoon Kim, Jin Suntivich, Héctor D. Abruña, Tobias Hanrath
Cover Feature: Controlled Selectivity of CO2 Reduction on Copper by Pulsing the Electrochemical Potential (ChemSusChem 11/2018)
ChemSusChem 11 (2018)
Kevin W. Kimura, Kevin E. Fritz, Jiyoon Kim, Jin Suntivich, Héctor D. Abruña, Tobias Hanrath
Controlled Selectivity of CO2 Reduction on Copper by Pulsing the Electrochemical Potential
ChemSusChem 11 (2018)
Ding-Yuan Kuo, C. John Eom, Jason K. Kawasaki, Guido Petretto, Jocienne N. Nelson, Geoffroy Hautier, Ethan J. Crumlin, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Influence of Strain on the Surface–Oxygen Interaction and the Oxygen Evolution Reaction of SrIrO3
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122 (2018)
Ding-Yuan Kuo, Jason K. Kawasaki, Jocienne N. Nelson, Jan Kloppenburg, Geoffroy Hautier, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Influence of Surface Adsorption on the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on IrO2(110)
Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (2017)
Kevin E. Fritz, Peter A. Beaucage, Fumiaki Matsuoka, Ulrich Wiesner, Jin Suntivich
Mesoporous titanium and niobium nitrides as conductive and stable electrocatalyst supports in acid environments
Chemical Communications 53 (2017)
Anielli M. Pasqualeti, Elliot Padgett, Ding-Yuan Kuo, David A. Muller, Fabio H. B. Lima, Jin Suntivich
Influence of Aliovalent Substitutions on Oxygen Reduction on Tantalum Oxynitrides
Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164 (2017)
Christopher C. Evans, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich
TiO2 Nanophotonic Sensors for Efficient Integrated Evanescent Raman Spectroscopy
ACS Photonics 3 (2016)
Runbang Tang, Yuefeng Nie, Jason K. Kawasaki, Ding-Yuan Kuo, Guido Petretto, Geoffroy Hautier, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Kyle M. Shen, Darrell G. Schlom, Jin Suntivich
Oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysis on SrIrO3 grown using molecular beam epitaxy
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4 (2016)
Andrew Nelson, Kevin E. Fritz, Shreyas Honrao, Richard G. Hennig, Richard D. Robinson, Jin Suntivich
Increased activity in hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis for partial anionic substitution in cobalt oxysulfide nanoparticles
Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4 (2016)
Christopher C. Evans, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich
Titanium dioxide enables visible integrated-evanescent Raman sensors
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (2016)
Amit Bhatia, Geoffroy Hautier, Tan Nilgianskul, Anna Miglio, Jingying Sun, Hyung Joon Kim, Kee Hoon Kim, Shuo Chen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Xavier Gonze, Jin Suntivich
High-Mobility Bismuth-based Transparent p-Type Oxide from High-Throughput Material Screening
Chemistry of Materials 28 (2015)
Christopher C. Evans, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich
Low-loss titanium dioxide waveguides and resonators using a dielectric lift-off fabrication process
Optics Express 23 (2015)
Binghong Han, Christopher Earl Carlton, Jin Suntivich, Zhichuan Xu, Yang Shao-Horn
Oxygen Reduction Activity and Stability Trends of Bimetallic Pt0.5M0.5Nanoparticle in Acid
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119 (2015)
Christopher C. Evans, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich
Low-Loss Titanium Dioxide Waveguides for Integrated Evanescent Raman Spectroscopy
CLEO: 2015 (2015)
Wesley T. Hong, Marcel Risch, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Alexis Grimaud, Jin Suntivich, Yang Shao-Horn
Toward the rational design of non-precious transition metal oxides for oxygen electrocatalysis
Energy & Environmental Science 8 (2015)
Christopher C. Evans, Emily Hsu, Michelle Ji, Chengyu Liu, Jin Suntivich
Optical Waveguides from a Lithographically-Defined Wetting of a High-Index Liquid
CLEO: 2015 (2015)
Jin Suntivich, Wesley T. Hong, Yueh-Lin Lee, James M. Rondinelli, Wanli Yang, John B. Goodenough, Bogdan Dabrowski, John W. Freeland, Yang Shao-Horn
Estimating Hybridization of Transition Metal and Oxygen States in Perovskites from O K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 (2014)
Jin Suntivich, Yang Shao-Horn
Trend in Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Transition Metal Oxide Surfaces
ECS Transactions 58 (2013)
Tian Ming, Jin Suntivich, Kevin J. May, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Dong Ha Kim, Yang Shao-Horn
Visible Light Photo-oxidation in Au Nanoparticle Sensitized SrTiO3:Nb Photoanode
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117 (2013)
Jin Suntivich, Zhichuan Xu, Christopher E. Carlton, Junhyung Kim, Binghong Han, Seung Woo Lee, Nicéphore Bonnet, Nicola Marzari, Lawrence F. Allard, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Yang Shao-Horn
Surface Composition Tuning of Au–Pt Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Carbon Monoxide and Methanol Electro-oxidation
Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (2013)
Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Marcel Risch, Jin Suntivich, W. M. Lü, Jigang Zhou, Michael D. Biegalski, Hans M. Christen, T. Venkatesan, Yang Shao-Horn
Oxygen electrocatalysis on (001)-oriented manganese perovskite films: Mn valency and charge transfer at the nanoscale
Energy & Environmental Science 6 (2013)
Jin Suntivich, Erin E. Perry, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Yang Shao-Horn
The Influence of the Cation on the Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Activities of Oxide Surfaces in Alkaline Electrolyte
Electrocatalysis 4 (2012)
Kevin J. May, Christopher E. Carlton, Kelsey A. Stoerzinger, Marcel Risch, Jin Suntivich, Yueh-Lin Lee, Alexis Grimaud, Yang Shao-Horn
Influence of Oxygen Evolution during Water Oxidation on the Surface of Perovskite Oxide Catalysts
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 3 (2012)
Youngmin Lee, Jin Suntivich, Kevin J. May, Erin E. Perry, Yang Shao-Horn
Synthesis and Activities of Rutile IrO2 and RuO2 Nanoparticles for Oxygen Evolution in Acid and Alkaline Solutions
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 3 (2012)
Jin Suntivich, Kevin J. May, Hubert A. Gasteiger, John B. Goodenough, Yang Shao-Horn
A Perovskite Oxide Optimized for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis from Molecular Orbital Principles
Science 334 (2011)
Jin Suntivich, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Haruyuki Nakanishi, John B. Goodenough, Yang Shao-Horn
Erratum: Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries
Nature Chemistry 3 (2011)
Hye Ryung Byon, Jin Suntivich, Yang Shao-Horn
Graphene-Based Non-Noble-Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid
Chemistry of Materials 23 (2011)
Jin Suntivich, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Haruyuki Nakanishi, John B. Goodenough, Yang Shao-Horn
Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries
Nature Chemistry 3 (2011)
Hye Ryung Byon, Jin Suntivich, Ethan J. Crumlin, Yang Shao-Horn
Fe–N-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction in acid
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (2011)
Seung Woo Lee, Shuo Chen, Jin Suntivich, Kotaro Sasaki, Radoslav R. Adzic, Yang Shao-Horn
Role of Surface Steps of Pt Nanoparticles on the Electrochemical Activity for Oxygen Reduction
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1 (2010)
Jin Suntivich, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Yang Shao-Horn
Electrocatalytic Measurement Methodology of Oxide Catalysts Using a Thin-Film Rotating Disk Electrode
Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157 (2010)
Robert McGuire Jr., Dilek K. Dogutan, Thomas S. Teets, Jin Suntivich, Yang Shao-Horn, Daniel G. Nocera
Oxygen reduction reactivity of cobalt(ii) hangman porphyrins
Chemical Science 1 (2010)
Michael S. Arnold, Jin Suntivich, Samuel I. Stupp, Mark C. Hersam
Hydrodynamic Characterization of Surfactant Encapsulated Carbon Nanotubes Using an Analytical Ultracentrifuge
ACS Nano 2 (2008)