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Education

BS Physics, American University, 2005
PhD Physics, University of Georgia, 2010

Awards

• Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, University of Colorado Boulder (2022)
• Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured-Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder (2021)
• Research Corporation Scialog Fellow for Negative Emissions (2020 - 2023)
• ERC Starting Grant (2017)
• VIDI (2016)
• VENI (2013)

Selected Publications

• M. Kelly, R.A. Wnuk, R. Kas, G. Teeter, W. A. Smith*, Rapid deactivation convolutes electrochemical CO₂Ìý reduction selectivity measurements on Gold rotating ring disk electrodes, J. Electrochem. Soc.,Ìý172, 046503Ìý(2025)

• S. T. Hamilton, M. Kelly, W. A. Smith*, A.-H. Park*, Electrolyte-electrocatalyst interfacial effects of polymer materials for tandem CO₂Ìýcapture and conversion elucidated using operando electrochemical AFM, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16, 42021 ~ 42033 (2024)

• T. Whittaker, Y. Fishler, J. Clary, P. Brimley, A. Holewinski, C. Musgrave, C. Farberow, W.A. Smith*, D. Vigil-Fowler*, Insights into Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Metallic and Oxidized Tin using Grand-Canonical DFT and in-situ ATR-SEIRA spectroscopyÌýACS Catalysis,Ìý14, 8353~8365 (2024)

• H. M. Almajed, R. Kas, P. Brimley, A. M. Crow, A. Somoza-Tornos, B.-M. Hodge, T. E. Burdyny, W. A. Smith*, Closing the loop: Unexamined performance trad-odds of integrating direct air capture with (bi)carbonate electrolysis, ACS Energy Letters, 9, 2472~2483Ìý(2024)

• H. Simonson, E. W. Klein, D. Henckel, S. Verma, K. C. Neyerlin, W. A. Smith*, Direct measurement of electrochemical selectivity gradients over a 25 cm²Ìýcopper gas diffusion electrode, ACS Energy Letters, 8, 3811~3819Ìý(2023)
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• J. Guo, P. Brimley, M. J. Liu, E. R. Corson, C. Munoz, W.A. Smith, W.A. Tarpeh*, Mass transport modifies the interfacial electrolyte to influence electrochemical nitrate reduction, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11, 7882 ~ 7893(2023)
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• W.A. Smith*, T. Burdyny, D.A. Vermaas, J.C.C. Geerlings, Pathways to industrial-scale fuel out of thin air from CO2 electrolysis, Joule, 3, 1822~1834 (2019)
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• T. Burdyny and W.A. Smith*, CO2 reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes and why catalytic performance must be assessed at commercially relevant conditions, Energy and Environmental Science, 12, 1442~1453 (2019)
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• D. Bohra, I. Ledezma-Yanez, G. Li, W. de Jong, E.A. Pidko, W.A. Smith*, Lateral adsorbate interactions inhibit HCOO- while promoting CO selectivity for CO2 electrocatalysis on Ag, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 1345~1349 (2019)
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• M. Ma, K. Djanashvili, W.A. Smith*, Controllable hydrocarbon formation via electrochemical reduction of CO₂, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 55, 6680~6684 (2016)
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• B.J. Trzesniewski, O. Diaz-Morales, D.A. Vermaas, A. Longo, W. Bras, M.T.M. Koper, W.A. Smith*, In-situ observation of active oxygen species in Fe-containing Ni-based oxygen evolution catalysts: the effect of pH on electrochemical activity, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, 15112~15121 (2015)