Stuart Licht, Professor of Chemistry
Renewable Energy Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry
BA Chemistry & Physics, Wesleyan University (1972)
PhD Chemistry, Weizmann Institute or Science (1986)
Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scientist, MIT (1986-88)
Carlson Chair of Chemistry, Clark University (1988-93)
Professor of Chemistry, Technion Institute (1993-2003)
Chair of Chemistry, UMass Boston (2003-06)
Professor of Chemistry, UMass Boston (2006-present)
Chemistry Department, University of Massachusetts 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02135-3395
Phone: 617-287-6156; email: stuart.licht@umb.edu
Stuart Licht has 250 publications in Renewable Energy Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry and is the recipient of the 2006 Electrochemical Energy Research Award. The Licht research group is dedicated to chemical solutions of renewable energy challenges, which face our global community. Stuart Licht is a pioneer of several fields in solar energy and redox energy storage. He has developed theory and experiment for the highly efficient solar generation of hydrogen fuel (Licht et al., Chem. Comm. 2003, 2005, etc.), introduced the contemporary use of cesium to enhance solar cell voltage (Nature 1987, etc.), and the chemistry of an efficient solar cell that functions day and night (Licht, et al., Nature 1987, App. Phys. Lett. 1999, etc.). He has originated the field of Fe(VI) redox chemistry for charge storage (the "Super-iron" Battery", Science 1999, Chem. Comm. 2004, 2006, etc.), as well as novel sulfur batteries (Science 1993), and a variety of new aluminum electrochemical storage cells. On route to new pathways to utilize renewable energy, the Licht group continues to explore a range of fundamental physical chemical processes ranging from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics of water, hydrogen, halide, chalcogenide and transition metal chemistry (Licht, et. al. J. Phys. Chem., 1986-present), and introduces new analytical methodologies, in dilute, concentrated or molten media, as needed to facilitate the research (Analytical Chem. and J. Electrochem. Soc., 1984-present). Licht has chaired a regional section of the national American Chemical Society, and also founded, and chaired, the New England, and the Israel, Sections of the Electrochemical Society.
Representative Publications
Licht, Yu, Dong, "Cathodic Chemistry of High Performance Zr Coated Alkaline Materials,"
Chem. Comm., 2006, 4341 (2006).
Licht, "Thermochemical Solar Hydrogen Generation,"
Chem. Comm., Feature Article, 2005, 4635 (2005).
Licht, Tel-Vered, "Rechargeable Fe(III/VI) Super-Iron Cathodes,"
Chem. Comm., 2004, 628 (2004).
Licht, Halperin, Kalina, Zidman, Halperin "Electrochemical Potential Tuned Solar Water Splitting,"
Chem. Comm., 2003, 3006 (2003).
Licht, Editor, Author 3 chapters, Semiconductor Electrodes & Photoelectrochemistry,
WILEY-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, (2002).
Licht, Wang, and Ghosh, "Energetic Iron(VI) Chemistry: The Super-Iron Battery,"
Science, 285, 1039 (1999).
Licht, Myung, Sun, "A Light Activated Photoelectrochemical Cyanide Sensor"
Analytical Chemistry, 68, 954 (1996).
Shatkin, Szejnwald Brown, Licht, "Composite Graphite Ion Selective Electrode Array
Potentiometry for the Detection of Mercury," Analytical Chem., 67, 1147 (1995).
Peramunage, Licht, "A Novel Solid Sulfur Cathode for Aqueous Batteries,"
Science, 261, 1029 (1993).
Licht, Peramunage, "Efficiency in a liquid solar cell,"
Nature, 354, 440 (1991).
Licht, Peramunage, "Efficient photoelectrochemical solar cells from electrolyte modification,"
Nature, 345, 330 (1990).
Licht, Cammarata, Wrighton, "Time & Spatial Dependence <105 Microelectrode-Generated Mol.,"
Science, 243, 1176 (1989).
Licht, Hodes, Tenne, Manassen, "A Light Variation Insensitive High Efficiency Solar Cell,"
Nature, 326, 863 (1987).
Licht, "A Description of Energy Conversion in Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells,"
Nature, 330, 148 (1987).
Research in Renewable Energy, Physical & Analytical Chemistry
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Licht - 2006Energy Research Award Address
Chemical Utilization of Solar Energy (& Solar Hydrogen Fuel)
Novel Redox Energy Storage Chemistry (& Super-Iron Batteries)
Water, Physical & Environmental Chemistry
Licht - Selected News & Popular Press [4.4mb PDF]