Erin L. Ratcliff

Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professor of the BIO5 Institute
Co-Director of the Institute for Energy Solutions
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Degrees

  • Certificate Entrepreneurship
    • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • PhD Physical Chemistry
    • Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
    • Development of Gradient-Based Surface MethodsAdvisor: Prof. Andrew C. Hillier
  • BA Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics
    • St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.A
    • Determination of the pKa of 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid when tethered to Au(111)Advisor: Prof. Mary Walczak

Work Experience

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2012 - 2014)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2010 - 2012)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2007 - 2010)

Courses

Solid State Chemistry

MSE 110 (Fall 2019)
MSE 110 (Fall 2017)
MSE 110 (Fall 2016)

Independent Study

CHEE 599 (Fall 2020)
MSE 299 (Spring 2020)
MSE 299 (Spring 2017)
MSE 399 (Fall 2018)
MSE 599 (Fall 2018)
PHYS 599 (Fall 2022)

Transport Phen+Kinetic

MSE 415 (Spring 2020)
MSE 415 (Spring 2019)
MSE 415 (Spring 2017)
MSE 415 (Spring 2016)

Org Elec Mat & Dev

MSE 430 (Fall 2020)
MSE 430 (Fall 2018)

Senior Capstone

MSE 498 (Spring 2020)
MSE 498 (Fall 2019)

Honors Thesis

MATH 498H (Spring 2018)
MATH 498H (Fall 2017)

Org Elec Mat & Devices

MSE 530 (Fall 2020)
MSE 530 (Fall 2018)

Spec Tops Mat Sci+Eng

MSE 596A (Spring 2017)

Exchange Chemical Info

CHEM 695B (Spring 2024)
CHEM 695B (Fall 2023)
CHEM 695B (Spring 2023)
CHEM 695B (Fall 2022)
CHEM 695B (Fall 2021)

Research

CHEE 900 (Fall 2022)
CHEE 900 (Fall 2020)
CHEE 900 (Spring 2020)
CHEM 900 (Spring 2024)
CHEM 900 (Fall 2023)
CHEM 900 (Spring 2023)
CHEM 900 (Fall 2022)
CHEM 900 (Spring 2022)
CHEM 900 (Fall 2021)
MSE 900 (Spring 2022)
MSE 900 (Fall 2021)
MSE 900 (Spring 2021)
MSE 900 (Fall 2020)
MSE 900 (Spring 2020)
MSE 900 (Fall 2019)
MSE 900 (Fall 2018)
MSE 900 (Spring 2018)
MSE 900 (Fall 2017)
MSE 900 (Spring 2017)
MSE 900 (Fall 2016)
MSE 900 (Spring 2016)

Thesis

CHEM 910 (Spring 2023)
CHEM 910 (Fall 2022)
MSE 910 (Spring 2019)
MSE 910 (Fall 2018)
MSE 910 (Summer I 2018)
MSE 910 (Spring 2018)
MSE 910 (Fall 2017)
MSE 910 (Spring 2017)
MSE 910 (Fall 2016)
MSE 910 (Spring 2016)

Dissertation

CHEE 920 (Spring 2021)
CHEE 920 (Fall 2020)
CHEE 920 (Spring 2020)
CHEE 920 (Fall 2019)
CHEE 920 (Spring 2019)
CHEE 920 (Fall 2018)
CHEE 920 (Spring 2018)
CHEE 920 (Fall 2017)
CHEM 920 (Spring 2024)
CHEM 920 (Fall 2023)
CHEM 920 (Spring 2023)
CHEM 920 (Fall 2022)
MSE 920 (Spring 2023)
MSE 920 (Fall 2022)
MSE 920 (Spring 2022)
MSE 920 (Fall 2021)
MSE 920 (Fall 2019)
MSE 920 (Spring 2019)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

  • Chen, Z., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2022). Watching Polarons Move in the Energy and Frequency Domains Using Color Impedance Spectroscopy. Chemistry of Materials, 34(23), 10691-10700. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02831
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Anderson, M. A., Farahat, M. E., Martell, M., & Welch, G. C. (2022). New Perylene Diimide Ink for Interlayer Formation in Air-Processed Conventional Organic Photovoltaic Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(38), 43558-43567. doi:10.1021/acsami.2c12281
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Anderson, M. A., Yeager, S. M., Babiak, P., & Larson, B. W. (2022). ColorLab: Visualizing Color from Absorbance Spectra. ChemRxiv. doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-g5v90
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Armstrong, N. R., & De Keersmaecker, M. (2022). How Low Can You Go? Defect Quantification at the 1015 cm–3 Level in Mixed-Cation Perovskites Using Differential Pulse Voltammetry. ACS Energy Letters, 7(11), 4017-4027. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02033
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Armstrong, N. R., Du Hill, L., De Keersmaecker, M., Colbert, A. E., Hill, J. W., Placencia, D., & Boercker, J. E. (2022). Rationalizing energy level alignment by characterizing Lewis acid/base and ionic interactions at printable semiconductor/ionic liquid interfaces. Materials Horizons, 9(1), 471-481. doi:10.1039/d1mh01306h
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Zhu, K., Larson, B. W., Yan, Y., Beard, M. C., Berry, J. J., Loo, Y., Parkin, S., Teeter, G., Schelhas, L. T., Stone, K. H., Mundt, L. E., Wang, X., Chen, X., Hill, L. D., Li, X., Uličná, S., Xiao, C., Dunfield, S. P., , Lu, H., et al. (2022). Metastable Dion-Jacobson 2D structure enables efficient and stable perovskite solar cells. Science, 375(6576), 71-76. doi:10.1126/science.abj2637
  • Anderson, M. A., Larson, B. W., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2021). A Multi-modal Approach to Understanding Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Materials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(37), 44641-44655.
  • Anderson, M. A., Ratcliff, E. L., Welch, G. C., Munir, R., & Cieplechowicz, E. (2021). Zinc Oxide-Perylene Diimide Hybrid Electron Transport Layers for Air-Processed Inverted Organic Photovoltaic Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(41), 49096-49103. doi:10.1021/acsami.1c15251
  • Biegel, C. M., & Kamat, P. V. (2022). Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research: A Virtual Issue, Part 4. ACS Energy Letters, 7(1), 328-342.
  • Cieplechowicz, E., Munir, R., Anderson, M. A., Ratcliff, E. L., & Welch, G. C. (2021). Zinc Oxide-Perylene Diimide Hybrid Electron Transport Layers for Air-Processed Inverted Organic Photovoltaic Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(41), 49096-49103.
  • Colbert, A. E., Placencia, D., Ratcliff, E. L., Boercker, J. E., Lee, P., Aifer, E. H., & Tischler, J. G. (2021). Enhanced Infrared Photodiodes Based on PbS/PbClx Core/Shell Nanocrystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(49), 58916-58926.
  • De, K. M., Armstrong, N. R., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2021). Defect quantification in metal halide perovskites: the solid-state electrochemical alternative. Energy Environ. Sci., 14, 4840-4846.
  • Du, H. L., De, K. M., Colbert, A. E., Hill, J. W., Placencia, D., Boercker, J. E., Armstrong, N. R., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2022). Rationalizing energy level alignment by characterizing Lewis acid/base and ionic interactions at printable semiconductor/ionic liquid interfaces. Mater. Horiz., 9, 471-481.
  • Ratcliff, E. L., & Yu, S. (2021). Tuning Organic Electrochemical Transistor (OECT) Transconductance toward Zero Gate Voltage in the Faradaic Mode. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(42), 50176-50186. doi:10.1021/acsami.1c13009
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Zhu, K., Zhou, Y., Padture, N. P., Berry, J. J., Anderson, M. A., Yang, M., Hao, J., Xiao, C., Wang, S., Dai, Z., Yadavalli, S. K., Hu, M., Gong, J., & Tong, J. (2021). High-performance methylammonium-free ideal-band-gap perovskite solar cells. Matter. doi:10.1016/j.matt.2021.01.003

Proceedings Publications

  • Harris, J., Bickford, J., Cho, P., Coppock, M., Farrell, M., Holthoff, E., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2019, 2019). Approaching single molecule sensing: Predictive sweat sensor design for ultra-low limits of detection. In Approaching single molecule sensing: Predictive sweat sensor design for ultra-low limits of detection, 11010.
  • Rudolph, M., Harris, J. K., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2019, 2019). Predicting limits of detection in real-time sweat-based human performance monitoring. In Predicting limits of detection in real-time sweat-based human performance monitoring, 11020.
  • Rudolph, M., Harris, J. K., & Ratcliff, E. L. (2019, 2019). Printable transistors for wearable sweat sensing. In Printable transistors for wearable sweat sensing, 11020.
  • Ratcliff, E. L., Garcia, A., Cowan, S. R., Meyer, J., Steirer, K. X., Paniagua, S. A., Giordano, A., Marder, S., Armstrong, N. R., Kahn, A., Ginley, D., Olson, D. C., & , . (2012). Understanding Energy Level Alignment in PCDTBT:PC70BM Solar Cells. In 2012 38TH IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE (PVSC), 3377-3379.
  • Jenkins, J. L., Ratcliff, E. L., Shallcross, R. C., Head, J. L., Armstrong, N. R., & Tsakalakos, L. (2008). Photovoltaic devices created from electrodeposited, "nano-textured" poly(thiophene) films. In NANOSCALE PHOTONIC AND CELL TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS, 7047.

Others

  • Gliboff, M., Sang, L., Knesting, K. M., Schalnat, M. C., Mudalige, A., Ratcliff, E. L., Li, H., Sigdel, A. K., Giordano, A. J., Berry, J. J., Nordlund, D., Seidler, G. T., Bredas, J., Marder, S. R., Pemberton, J. E., & Ginger, D. S. (2013, MAR 26). Orientation of Phenylphosphonic Acid Self-Assembled Mono layers on a Transparent Conductive Oxide: A Combined NEXAFS, PM-IRRAS, and DFT Study (vol 29, pg 2166, 2013). LANGMUIR.

Awards

  • Senior Faculty Fellow
    • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Summer I 2021
  • Ten at Ten People of Energy Frontier Research Centers
    • DOE Basic Energy Sciences Ten Year Celebration of EFRCs, Summer I 2019
  • Excellence at the Student Interface – Most Supportive Junior Faculty
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Spring 2019
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