Dr. Alexander Al-Zubeidi

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, 2022, Rice University. View dissertation

Publications

1. 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). View article

2. 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

3. 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). View article

4. 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). View artricle

5. 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). View article

6. 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 . F. Landes Hot Holes Assist Plasmonic Nanoelectrode Dissolution. Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1301 (2019). View article