Pietro Papa Lopes
Electrochemist Scientist
Biography
Pietro Papa Lopes is an electrochemist scientist at the Electrochemical Materials and Interfaces Group in the Materials Science Division. His current research interests focus on understanding interface dynamics phenomena in electrochemical systems, electrochemical conversion processes for water remediation and resources production, materials stability, and in situ synthesis processes for achieving regeneration of electrochemical materials within its operational device. He has received the Early Career Award from the Department of Energy in 2022, the Early Investigator Named Award from the Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate at Argonne in 2021, and has been selected as a Rising Star by the American Chemical Society publication ACS Materials Au in 2022.
Education
- PhD, University of Sao Paulo-Brazil, Chemistry, 2013
- MS, University of Sao Paulo-Brazil, Physical-Chemistry, 2009
- BS, University of Sao Paulo-Brazil, Chemistry, 2006
University Affiliations
Senior Scientist, UChicago CASE
Graduate Faculty Scholar, Northern Illinois University
Relevant Publications
- ACS Cat., 2025 - Messias, I.; Kupferberg, J.; Bielinski, A. R.; Nagao, R.; Martinson, A. B. F.; Lopes, Pietro P.; Quantification of Reactive Oxygen Species Produced from Electrocatalytic Materials. (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscatal.4c06271)
- J. Power Sources, 615, 235100, 2024 - Ferels, C.; Chaudhari, N.; Agyapong-Fordjour, F.; Buchanan, C.; Lopes, Pietro P.; Fundamental benchmarking of the discharge properties of negative electrodes in lead acid batteries. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.235100)
- ACS Mater. Au 3, 1, 8-17, 2022 - Lopes, Pietro P.; A Framework for the Relationships between Stability and Functional Properties of Electrochemical Energy Materials. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialsau.2c00044)
- J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 7, 2741-2750, 2021 - Lopes, Pietro P.; Chung, Dong Young; Rui, Xue, Zheng, Hong, He, Haiying; Farinazzo Bergamo Dias Martins, Pedro; Strmcnik, Dusan; Stamenkovic, Vojislav R.; Zapol, Peter; Mitchell, J. F.; Klie, Robert F.; Markovic, Nenad M.; Dynamically Stable Active Sites from Surface Evolution of Perovskite Materials during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c08959)
- Science, 369 (6506), 923-924, 2020 – Lopes, Pietro P.; Stamenkovic, Vojislav R.; Past, present, and future of lead−acid batteries. (DOI: 10.1126/science.abd3352)
- Nature Materials, 19, 1207-1214, 2020 - Lopes, Pietro P.; Li, Dongguo; Lv, Haifeng; Wang, Chao; Tripkovic, Dusan; Zhu, Yisi; Schimmenti, Roberto; Daimon, Hideo; Kang, Yijin; Snyder, Joshua; Becknell, Nigel; More, Karren L.; Strmcnik, Dusan; Markovic, Nenad M.; Mavrikakis, Manos; Stamenkovic, Vojislav R. Stamenkovic; Eliminating Dissolution of Pt-based Electrocatalysts at the Atomic Scale. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0735-3)
- Nature Energy, 5 (3), 222-230, 2020 - Chung, Dong Y.; Lopes, Pietro P.; Martins, Pedro F.B.D.; He, Haiying; Kawaguchi, Tomoya; Zapol, Peter; You, Hoydoo; Tripkovic, Dusan; Strmcnik, Dusan; Zhu, Yisi; Seifert, Soenke; Lee, Sungsik; Stamenkovic, Vojislav R.; Markovic Nenad M.; Dynamic Stability of Active Sites in Hydr(oxy)oxides for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0576-y)