Azhar Carim

B. S. Chem. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

Ph.D. California Institute of Technology

Email: aic@caltech.edu

1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 139-74
Pasadena, CA 91125

publications

  1. Phototropic and Skototropic Growth in Inorganic Films
    M. C. Meier, W.-H. Cheng, M. R. Richter, J. R. Thompson, A. A. Struzyk, N. A. Batara, S. Yalamanchili, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis, A. I. Carim
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2026, accepted.
  2. In-Situ Analysis of Manganese Antimonate Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts via Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
    J. M. Evans, Z. P. Ifkovits, M. B. Morla, J. A. Dowling, A. I Carim, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2026, 18, 13826–13833.
    10.1021/acsami.5c23862
  3. Mechanism of Mesoscale Woodpile Development via Photoelectrochemical Deposition of Se-Te
    N. D. Reich, N. S. Lewis, A. I Carim
    ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 34869-34879
    10.1021/acsnano.5c10748
  4. Catalysis of the Oxygen-Evolution Reaction in 1.0 M Sulfuric Acid by Manganese Antimonate Films Synthesized via Chemical Vapor Deposition
    J. A. Dowling, Z. P. Ifkovits, A. I. Carim, J. M. Evans, M. C. Swint, A. Z. Ye, M. H. Richter, A. X. Li, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2024, 7, 4288-4293
    10.1021/acsaem.4c00135
  5. Inclination of Polarized Illumination Increases Symmetry of Structures Grown via Inorganic Phototropism
    M. C. Meier, N. S. Lewis, A. I. Carim
    Materials Horizons, 2023, 10, 4251-4255
    10.1039/D3MH00839H
  6. Spontaneous Mesostructure Formation Produces Optically Transmissive Ni-P Films That are Catalytically Active for the Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    Z. P. Ifkovits, J. T. Reed, P. A. Kempler, M. C. Meier, S. T. Byrne, S. Lin, A. Z. Ye, A. I. Carim, N. S. Lewis
    Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2023, 7, 4401-4406
     10.1039/D3SE00378G
  7. Powdered MnySb1-yOx Catalysts for Cerium-Mediated Oxygen Evolution in Acidic Environments
    Z. P. Ifkovits, J. M. Evans, P. A. Kempler, M. B. Morla, K. H. Pham, J. A. Dowling, A. I. Carim, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Energy Letters, 2022, 7, 4258-4264
    10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01754
  8. Demonstration of a Sensitive and Stable Chemical Gas Sensor Based on Covalently Functionalized MoS2
    J. M. Evans, K. S. Lee, A. C. Thompson, M. B. Morla, M. C. Meier, Z. P. Ifkovits, A. I. Carim, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Materials Letters, 2022, 7, 1475-1485
    10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00372
  9. Plastic Morphological Response to Spectral Shifts During Inorganic Phototropic Growth
    K. R. Hamann, M. C. Meier, N. S. Lewis, A. I. Carim
    JACS Au, 2022, 2, 865-874
    10.1021/jacsau.1c00588
  10. Selective-area, Water-Free Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxides on Graphene Defects
    M. F. Mazza, M. Cabán-Acevedo, H. J. Fu, M. C. Meier, A. C. Thompson, Z. P. Ifkovits, A. I. Carim, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Materials Au, 2022, 2, 74-78
    10.1021/acsmaterialsau.1c00049
  11. Assessing Effects of Near-Field Synergistic Light Absorption on Ordered Inorganic Phototropic Growth
    A. I. Carim†, M. C. Meier†, K. M. Kennedy, M. H. Richter, K. R. Hamann, N. S. Lewis
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 3693-3696
    10.1021/jacs.0c13085
  12. Optical and electrochemical effects of H2 and O2 bubbles at upward-facing Si photoelectrodes
    P. A. Kempler, Z. P. Ifkovits, W. Yu, A. I. Carim, N. S. Lewis
    Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 414-423
    10.1039/D0EE02796K
  13. Path-Dependent Morphological Evolution of Se-Te Mesostructures Prepared by Inorganic Phototropic Growth
    K. R. Hamann, A. I. Carim, M. C. Meier, N. S. Lewis
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 19840-19843
    10.1021/jacs.0c09798
  14. Optically Tunable Mesoscale CdSe Morphologies via Inorganic Phototropic Growth
    K. R. Hamann†, A. I. Carim†, M. C. Meier, J. R. Thompson, N. A. Batara, I. S. Yermolenko, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, stream12412-12417
    10.1039/D0TC02126A
  15. Inorganic Phototropism in Electrodeposited Se-Te
    M. C. Meier, W.-H. Cheng, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis, A. I. Carim
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 18658-18661
    10.1021/jacs.9b10579
  16. Template-Free Synthesis of Periodic Three-Dimensional PbSe Nanostructures via Photoelectrodeposition
    A. I. Carim†, K. R. Hamann†, N. A. Batara, J. R. Thompson, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 139, 6536-6539
    10.1021/jacs.8b02931
  17. Operando Spectroscopic Analysis of CoP Films Electrocatalyzing the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction
    F. H. Saadi†, A. I. Carim†, W. S. Drisdell, S. Gul, J. H. Baricuatro, J. Yano, M. P. Soriaga, N. S. Lewis
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 12927-12930
    10.1021/jacs.7b07606
  18. Profiling Photoinduced Carrier Generation in Semiconductor Microwire Arrays via Photoelectrochemical Metal Deposition
    M. Dasog†, A. I. Carim†, S. Yalamanchili, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 5015-5021.
    10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01782
  19. Influence of Redox-Inactive Cations on the Structure and Electrochemical Reactivity of Synthetic Birnessite, a Heterogenous Analog for the Oxygen-Evolving Complex
    J. H. Baricuatro, F. H. Saadi, A. I. Carim, J. M. Velazquez, Y.-G. Kim, M. P. Soriaga
    J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 15618-15631
    10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07028
  20. Morphological Expression of the Coherence and Relative Phase of Optical Inputs to the Photoelectrodeposition of Se-Te Films
    A. I. Carim, N. A. Batara, A. Premkumar, R. May, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 2963-2968
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04999
  21. Polarization Control of Morphological Pattern Orientation During Light-Mediated Synthesis of Nanostructured Se-Te Films
    A. I. Carim, N. A. Batara, A. Premkumar, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 102-111
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b05119
  22. Self-Optimizing Photoelectrochemical Growth of Nanopatterned Se-Te Films in Response to the Spectral Distribution of Incident Illumination
    A. I. Carim, N. A. Batara, A. Premkumar, H. A. Atwater, N. S. Lewis
    Nano Letters, 2015, 15, 7071-7076
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03137
  23. Protection of inorganic semiconductors for sustained, efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation
    M. F. Lichterman, K. Sun, S. Hu, X. Zhou, M. T. McDowell, M. R. Shaner, M. H. Richter, E. J. Crumlin, A. I. Carim, F. H. Saadi, B. S. Brunschwig, N. S. Lewis
    Catalysis Today, 2015, 262, 11-23
    10.1016/j.cattod.2015.08.017
  24. The Influence of Structure and Processing on the Behavior of TiO2 Protective Layers for Stabilization of n-Si/TiO2/Ni Photoanodes for Water Oxidation
    M. T. McDowell, M. F. Lichterman, A. I. Carim, R. Liu, S. Hu, B. S. Brunschwig, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7, 15189-15199
    10.1021/acsami.5b00379
  25. Electrochemical Surface Science Twenty Years Later: Expeditions into the Electrocatalysis of Reactions at the Core of Artificial Photosynthesis
    M. P. Soriaga, J. H. Baricautro, K. D. Cummins, Y.-G. Kim, F. H. Saadi, G. Sun, C. C. L. McCrory, J. R. McKone, J. M. Velazquez, I. M. Ferrer, A. I. Carim, A. Javier, B. Chmielowiec, D. C. Lacy, J. M. Gregoire, J. Sanabria-Chinchilla, X. Amashukeli, W. J. Royea, B. S. Brunschwig, J. C. Hemminger, N. S. Lewis, J. L. Stickney
    Surface Science, 2015, 631, 285-294
    10.1016/j.susc.2014.06.028
  26. CoP as an Acid-Stable Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction: Electrochemical Synthesis, Interfacial Characterization and Performance Evaluation
    F. H. Saadi, A. I. Carim, E. Verlage, J. C. Hemminger, N. S. Lewis, M. P. Soriaga
    J. Phys. Chem. C, 2014, 118, 29294-29300
    10.1021/jp5054452
  27. Stabilization of n-Cadmium Telluride Photoanodes for Water Oxidation to O2(g) in Aqueous Alkaline Electrolytes Using Amorphous TiO2 Films Formed by Atomic-Layer Deposition
    M. F. Lichterman, A. I. Carim, M. T. McDowell, S. Hu, H. B. Gray, B. S. Brunschwig, N. S. Lewis
    Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7, 3334-3337
    10.1039/C4EE01914H
  28. Operando Synthesis of Macroporous Molybdenum Diselenide Films for Electrocatalysis of the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction
    F. H. Saadi, A. I. Carim, J. M. Velazquez, J. H. Baricuatro, C. C. L. McCrory, M. P. Soriaga, N. S. Lewis
    ACS Catalysis, 2014, 4, 2866-2873
    10.1021/cs500412u
  29. Electrocatalysis of the Hydrogen-Evolution Reaction by Electrodeposited Amorphous Cobalt Selenide
    A. I. Carim, F. H. Saadi, M. P. Soriaga, N. S. Lewis
    J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 13835-13839
    10.1039/c4ta02611j
  30. Template-Free Preparation of Crystalline Ge Nanowire Film Electrodes via an Electrochemical Liquid-Liquid-Solid Process in Water at Ambient Pressure and Temperature for Energy Storage
    J. Gu, S. M. Collins, A. I. Carim, X. Hao, B. M. Bartlett, S. Maldonado
    Nano Lett., 2012, 12, 4617-4623
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl301912f
  31. Wet Chemical Functionalization of III-V Semiconductor Surfaces: Alkylation of Gallium Arsenide and Gallium Nitride by a Grignard Reaction Sequence
    S. L. Peczonczyk, J. Mukherjee, A. I. Carim, S. Maldonado
    Langmuir, 2012, 28, 4672-4682
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/la204698a
  32. Preparation of Photoactive ZnGeP2 nanowire films
    S. M. Collins, J. M. Hankett, A. I. Carim, S. Maldonado
    J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 6613-6622
    http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/JM/C2JM16453A
  33. Structural and Photoelectrochemical Properties of GaP Nanowires Annealed in NH3
    W. Wen, A. I. Carim, S. M. Collins, M. J. Price, S. L. Peczonczyk, S. Maldonado
    J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115, 22652-22661
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp208058h
  34. Benchtop Electrochemical Liquid-Liquid-Solid Growth of Nanostructured Crystalline Germanium
    A. I. Carim, S. M. Collins, J. M. Foley, S. Maldonado
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 13292-13295
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja205299w
  35. Overlayer SERS Enhancement for Studying the Electrodeposition and Interfacial Electrochemistry of Ultra Thin Ge on a Nanostructured Support
    A. I. Carim, J. Gu, S. Maldonado
    ACS Nano, 2011, 5, 1818-1830
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn102555u