J. Stewart, P. Zayka, G. Carini, T. Folland, A. Paarmann, and T. Cuk, “Surface phonon polaritons of titanium oxides and their coupling to plasma excitations,” 2027, In-preparation.
M. Paolino, I. Vinogradov, and T. Cuk, “Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy of centro-symmetric SrTiO3: a case for its second order polarizability,” 2026, In-preparation.
P. Zayka, J. Stewart, and T. Cuk, “Formation of the titanium oxyl at an electrochemical interface: limiting the role of solvent re-orientation in strong electric fields,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Au,2026, submitted.
R. Soyoung Kim, J. Yano, et. Al. “Understanding the Electronic Structure of Ruthenium Oxides during Redox Cycling with High Energy Resolution X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett.(2026), 17, 9902.
M. Paolino, S. Singh, C. Boyd, M. Lang, and T. Cuk, "Surface Acidity of Oxygen Evolution Intermediates by Excited State Optical Spectroscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc.2025 147, 28474
Chris-Okoro I, Cherono S, Akande W, Nalawade S, Liu M, Martin C, Craciun V, Kim RS, Mahl J, Cuk T, et. al. “Optical and Plasmonic Properties of High-Electron-Density Epitaxial and Oxidative Controlled Titanium Nitride Thin Films.” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2025, 129, 3762.
Sambur JB, Kaufman AJ, Montoya-Castillo A, Kundman A, Nozik AJ, DesCarpentrie AG, Jana A, Tews A, Banik A, Martindale BCM, et. al. “Gerischer Electrochemistry Today,” ACS Energy Letters, 2025 10, 6578.
Mcbride S, Chen W, Cuk T, Hautier G. “Do Small Hole Polarons Form in Bulk Rutile TiO2?” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025 16, 2333.
Cassius Boyd, Shay McBride, Michael Paolino, Moritz Lang, Geoffroy Hautier, and T. Cuk, "Assigning Surface Hole Polaron Configurations of Titanium Oxide Materials to Excited-State Optical Absorptions, " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025 147, 10981
J. Suntivich, G. Hautier, I. Dabo, E. J. Crumlin, D. Kumar & T. Cuk "Probing intermediate configurations of oxygen evolution catalysis across the light spectrum," Nature Energy2024 9, 1191
T. Cuk, X. Chen, S. Singh, M. Paolino, J. Stewart, and I. Vingradov, “Ultrafast electronic and vibrational spectroscopy on a metal-oxide surface during oxygen evolution catalysis,” ACS Catalysis2024 14, 9901
T. Cuk, “The phenomenology of intermediate dynamics at a metal-oxide surface,” Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2024 75,457-481.
J. Stewart, P. Zayka, C. Courter, and T. Cuk, “Formation of the oxyl’s potential energy surface by the spectral kinetics of a vibrational mode,” J. Chem. Phys.2024160, 164202
H. Lyle, S. Singh, E. Magnano, S. Nappini, F. Bondino, S. Yazdi, and T. Cuk, "Assessing and quantifying thermodynamically concomitant and kinetically hindered degradation during oxygen evolution from water on n-SrTiO3," ACS Catalysis2023 13, 8206.
C. Courter, J. Stewart, and T. Cuk "Moderate electron doping assists in dissociating water on a transition metal oxide surface (n-SrTiO3)" J. Phys. Chem. C. 2023 127, 4905.
J. Suntivich and T. Cuk, "Experimental detection of intermediates of the oxygen evolution reaction at aqueous metal-oxide interfaces", Encyclopedia of Solid Liquid Interfaces, Edited by Wandelt and Bussetti 2024, pp. 157-165.
I. Vinogradov, S. Singh, H. Lyle, M. Paolino, A. Mandal*, J. Rossmeisl, and T. Cuk*, "Free energy difference to create the M-OH* intermediate of the oxygen evolution reaction by time-resolved optical spectroscopy," Nature Materials, 2022, 21, 88. (News Article at CU, Featured in DOE News)
S. Singh, H. Lyle, L. D'Amario, E. Magnano, I. Vinogradov*, , and T. Cuk*, "Coherent Acoustic Interferometry during the Photodriven Oxygen Evolution Reaction Associates Strain Fields with the Reactive Oxygen Intermediate (Ti–OH*)", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 39, 15984.
H. Lyle, S. Singh, M. Paolino, Ilya Vinogradov, and T. Cuk*, "The electron-transfer intermediates of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as polarons by in-situ spectroscopy," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, invited perspective,2021, 23, 24984.(Inside Front Cover)
Xihan Chen* and T. Cuk,"One-Electron Water Oxidation Intermediate on TiO2P25 Probed by Ultrafast Attenuated Total Reflection," J. of Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125, 18204.
D. Aschaffenburg, S. Kawasaki, C.D. Pemmaraju, and T. Cuk,"Accuracy in resolving the first hydration layer on transition metal oxide surface: Experiment (AP-XPS) and Theory." J. of Phys. Chem. C. 2020,124, 21407.
X. Chen, D. Aschaffenburg, and T. Cuk, “Selecting between two transition states by which water oxidation intermediates on an oxide surface decay”, Nature Catalysis,2019, 2, 820.
J. Raberg, J. Vatamanu, S. Harris, C. H. M. van Oversteeg, A. Ramos, O. Borodin and T. Cuk, “Probing Electric Double Layer Composition via in-situ Vibrational Spectroscopy and Molecular Simulations”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2019 10, 3381.
T. Cuk, "Forwarding Molecular Design of Heterogeneous Catalysis," ACS Central Science(First Reactions)2018,4, 1084.
X. Chen*, D. Aschaffenburg*, and T. Cuk, “Faradaic O2 Evolution from n-SrTiO3 using Nano- and Femto-second Pulsed Light Excitation” Chemical Communication (Emerging Investigators) 2017, 53, 7254 (invited). (Featured as HOT article)
X. Chen, D. Aschaffenburg, and T. Cuk, “One-Electron Intermediates of Water Oxidation and the Role of Solvation in their Stability” Journal of Materials Chemistry A2017, 5, 11410 (invited).
K. Pollock, H. Q. Doan, C. Stanton, and T. Cuk, “Detecting the Photo-excited Carrier Distribution across GaAs/Transition Metal Oxide Interfaces by Coherent Longitudinal Acoustic Phonons,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2017, 8, 922.
X. Chen, S. Choing, D. Aschaffenburg, C.D. Pemmaraju, D. Prendergast andT. Cuk, "The Formation Time of Ti-O· and Ti-O·-Ti Radicals at the n-SrTiO3/Aqueous Interface during Photo-catalytic Water Oxidation"J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1830 (Cover Article & JACS Spotlight & DOE Highlight)
C.H.M. van Oversteeg, H.Q. Doan, F.M.F. de Groot, and T. Cuk, "In-Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Based Water Oxidation Catalysts”Chemical Society Reviews2017, 46, 102.
B. Liu, R. Wang, E. Glass, C. Hill, T. Cuk, J. Okamoto, D. Huang, M. van Schooneveld, and F.M.F. de Groot, "Distorted tetrahedral Co(II) in K5H[CoW12O40]H2O probed by 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering" Inorganic Chemistry2016, 55, 10152.
D.M. Herlihy, M.M. Waegele, X. Chen, C.D. Pemmaraju, D. Prendergast andT. Cuk, "Detecting the Oxyl Radical of Photocatalytic Water Oxidation by its Sub-Surface Vibration"Nature Chemistry2016, 8, 549. (Featured in News & Views 8, 527)
H.Q. Doan, K.L. Pollock, andT. Cuk, "Transient Optical Diffraction of an n-GaN/Aqueous interface: interfacial carrier mobility dependent on surface reactivity" Chemical Physics Letters (Frontiers)2016, 649, 1 (Invited). (Cover Article)
N. Tran, A. Singh andT. Cuk, "Highly Reversible Transition Metal Deposition and Oxidation on Symmetric RuO2Electrodes for Battery Applications"J. of Electrochem. Soc.2015, 163, A286.
S.N. Choing, A.J. Francis, G. Clendenning, M.S. Schuurman, R.D. Sommer, I. Tamblyn, W.W. Weare, and T. Cuk, "Long-Lived LMCT in a d0Vanadium (V) Complex by Internal Conversion to a State of 3dxy Character"J. Phys. Chem. C2015, 119, 17029 (Cover article)
A.M. Hibberd, H.Q. Doan, E.N. Glass, F.M.F. de Groot, C.L. Hill, andT. Cuk, "Co Polyoxometalates and a Co3O4Thin Film Investigated by L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"J. Phys. Chem. C2015, 119, 4173.
M.M. Waegele, X. Chen, D.M. Herlihy, andT. Cuk, "How Surface Potential Determines the Kinetics of the First Hole Transfer of Photo-catalytic Water Oxidation"J. Am. Chem. Soc.2014, 136, 10632.
M. Waegele, H. Doan, and T. Cuk, “Long-lived photoexcited carrier dynamics of d-d excitations in spinel ordered Co3O4,” J. Phys. Chem. C.2014, 118, 3426.
T. Cuk, W.W.Weare, and H. Frei, “Unusually long lifetime of excited charge transfer state in all inorganic, oxo-bridged binuclear units” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2010 114, 9167
H.Y. Liu, …, T. Cuk, R. Merlin, and A. Cavalleri, “Possible observation of parametrically amplified coherent phasons in K0.3MoO3 using time-resolved extreme-ultraviolet angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy” Phys. Rev. B.2013, 88, 045104
C. R. Rotundu, T. Cuk, R. L. Greene, Z.-X. Shen, R. J. Hemley, and V.V. Struzhkin, “High-pressure resistivity technique for quasi-hydrostatic compression experiments,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84 2013, 063903
T. Cuket al., “Signatures of pressure-induced superconductivity in insulating Bi2212,” Phys. Rev. B. 2010, 81, 184509
T. Cuket al., “Uncovering a pressure-tuned electronic transition in Bi1.98Sr2.06Y0.68Cu2O8 using Raman scattering and x-ray diffraction” Phys. Rev. Lett.2008, 100, 217003
X. J. Zhou, T. Cuk, T. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, and Z.-X. Shen, “Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy on Electronic Structure and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Cuprate Superconductors” Treatise on High-Temperature Superconductivity, edited by R. Schrieffer (2005-2006)
W. Meevasana, N.J.C. Ingle, D.H. Lu, J.R. Shi, F. Baumberger, K.M. Shen, W.S. Lee, T.Cuk, H. Eisaki, T.P. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, J. Zaanen, and Z.-X. Shen "Doping dependence of the coupling of electrons to the bosonic modes in the single layer high-temperature Bi2Sr2CuO6 superconductor" Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006,96, 157003
X. J. Zhou, Junren Shi, T. Yoshida, T. Cuk, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, J. Nakamura, N. Mannella, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, F. Zhou, W. X. Ti, J. W. Xiong, Z. X. Zhao, T. Sasagawa, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Zhenyu Zhang, E. W. Plummer, R. B. Laughlin, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, “Multiple Bosonic Mode Coupling in the Electron Self-Energy of La2-xSrxCuO4” Phys. Rev. Lett.2005, 95, 117001
T. Cuk et al., “Coupling of the B1g Phonon to the Antinodal Electronic States of Bi2Sr2Ca0.92Y0.08Cu2O8” Phys. Rev. Lett.2004, 93, 117003
T.P. Devereaux, T. Cuk, Z.-X. Shen, and N. Nagaosa, “Anisotropic Electron-Phonon Interaction in the Cuprates” Phys. Rev. Lett.2004, 93, 117004
T. Cuk, D.H. Lu, X.J. Zhou, Z.-X. Shen, T.P. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, “A review of electron-phonon coupling seen in the high-Tc superconductors by angle-resolved photoemission studies (ARPES)” Physica Status Solidi (b) 2004,242, 11 (Cover Article)
T. Cuk, Z.-X. Shen, A. D. Gromko, Z. Sun, D. S. Dessau, “Copper oxide superconductors: Sharp-mode coupling in high-Tc ܱDzԻܳٴǰ” Nature 2004,432 Brief Communications (18 Nov 2004)
T. Cuk, S. M. Troian, C. M. Hong, S. Wagner, “Using convective flow splitting for the direct printing of fine copper lines” Appl. Phys. Lett.2000,77, 2063 (2000) (Work also appeared in “Direct Printing of Fine Copper Lines by Self-Organized Convective Flow”, Materials Development for Direct Write Technologies, Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, PA, 624 p. 267 (2001))
