Shane Ardo
Professor, Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Courtesy Joint Appointment, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Associate Professor, Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
School of Physical Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2010, Chemistry
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2008, Chemistry
M.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005, Nutrition
B.S., Towson University, 1999, Mathematics (emphasis in Computer Programming)
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2008, Chemistry
M.S., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005, Nutrition
B.S., Towson University, 1999, Mathematics (emphasis in Computer Programming)
University of California, Irvine
Integrated Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), Room 5080
(Main Lab Office: ISEB, Room 5300 ((949) 824-1218))
Mail Code: 2025
Irvine, CA 92697
Integrated Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), Room 5080
(Main Lab Office: ISEB, Room 5300 ((949) 824-1218))
Mail Code: 2025
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
solar, photoelectrochemistry, electrochemistry, photochemistry, photophysics, dye-sensitized, membrane, ion-exchange, flow battery, photoacid, materials, inorganic, physical, engineering, physics
Websites
Academic Distinctions
Faculty
NSF CCI Lead for Broadening Participation, Center for Interfacial Ionics (CI2), 2022
DOE EFRC Director, Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN), 2022
UCI Faculty Innovation Fellow, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2021
UCI Beall Innovation Award, Beall Family Foundation, 2020
School of Physical Sciences Nominee for Emerging Innovation / Early Career Innovator of the Year Award, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2019
School of Physical Sciences Nominee for Emerging Innovation / Early Career Innovator of the Year Award, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2018
DOE Early Career Research Award, DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, 2018
Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement Scialog Initiative: Advanced Energy Storage, 2017
Kavli Fellow, The Kavli Foundation, 2017
Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2017
Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2017
Moore Inventor Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2016
UCI Beall Innovation Award, Beall Family Foundation, 2016
Poster Award Talk, Gordon Research Conference, Electron Donor–Acceptor Interactions, 2016
Group Safety Award, UCI Department of Chemistry, 2016
Postdoctoral
Physical Division Postdoctoral Research Award, American Chemical Society, PHYS Division, 2013
Postdoctoral Research Award in Photoelectrochemical H2 Production, Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 2011–2013
Yale Climate & Energy Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, Climate & Energy Institute, 2010 (declined)
Doctoral
Harry and Cleio Greer Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Chemistry Department, 2009–2010
Poster Award Talk, Gordon Research Conference, Electron Donor–Acceptor Interactions, 2010
Poster Award Talk, Molecular Solar Fuels International Conference, 2009
Talk Award, Eaton E. Lattman Graduate Student Community Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
Ernest M. Marks Award, Johns Hopkins University, Chemistry Department, 2005
NSF CCI Lead for Broadening Participation, Center for Interfacial Ionics (CI2), 2022
DOE EFRC Director, Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN), 2022
UCI Faculty Innovation Fellow, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2021
UCI Beall Innovation Award, Beall Family Foundation, 2020
School of Physical Sciences Nominee for Emerging Innovation / Early Career Innovator of the Year Award, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2019
School of Physical Sciences Nominee for Emerging Innovation / Early Career Innovator of the Year Award, UCI Beall Applied Innovation, 2018
DOE Early Career Research Award, DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, 2018
Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement Scialog Initiative: Advanced Energy Storage, 2017
Kavli Fellow, The Kavli Foundation, 2017
Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2017
Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2017
Moore Inventor Fellow, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 2016
UCI Beall Innovation Award, Beall Family Foundation, 2016
Poster Award Talk, Gordon Research Conference, Electron Donor–Acceptor Interactions, 2016
Group Safety Award, UCI Department of Chemistry, 2016
Postdoctoral
Physical Division Postdoctoral Research Award, American Chemical Society, PHYS Division, 2013
Postdoctoral Research Award in Photoelectrochemical H2 Production, Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 2011–2013
Yale Climate & Energy Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, Climate & Energy Institute, 2010 (declined)
Doctoral
Harry and Cleio Greer Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Chemistry Department, 2009–2010
Poster Award Talk, Gordon Research Conference, Electron Donor–Acceptor Interactions, 2010
Poster Award Talk, Molecular Solar Fuels International Conference, 2009
Talk Award, Eaton E. Lattman Graduate Student Community Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
Ernest M. Marks Award, Johns Hopkins University, Chemistry Department, 2005
Appointments
DOE–EERE Postdoctoral Research Awardee, California Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department, Prof. Nathan S. Lewis, 2011–2013
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department, Prof. Nathan S. Lewis, 2010–2011
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Chemistry Department, Prof. Nathan S. Lewis, 2010–2011
Research Abstract
The Ardo Group is a Diverse Team of Innovators and Educators that are Allies for Change. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, research integrity, and dissemination of knowledge. These constitute the foundational guiding principles that underpin our daily actions, and lead to our Team's camaraderie.
In our research, we invent new ways to leverage daily variations in terrestrial photon fluxes between the Sun, the Earth, and the Universe to help close the Water Cycle, the Carbon Cycle, the Hydrogen Cycle, and the Nitrogen Cycle. More specifically, the central aim of our research program is to understand and control dynamics of non-equilibrium processes relevant to photoelectrochemical desalination (Moore Foundation), oceanic carbon capture (DOE ARPA-E), solar photocatalytic H2 production (DOE EPN EFRC & DOE EERE), liquid solar fuels (DOE LiSA Hub), protonic photovoltaics (DOE BES), electrolyzer & fuel cell membranes (DoD ARO), interfacial ion-transfer catalysis (NSF CCI), excited-state proton-transfer dynamics (NSF CSDM-B), and ionic ratchets (UCI Beall Family Foundation).
Guided by results from numerical simulations and processes that occur in Nature, our Team designs and fabricates kinetically asymmetric systems using chemical synthesis and molecular-level engineering of molecule–material structures. Specific tailoring of the mechanisms imparted by these asymmetries allows us to control photo-induced charge separation in solar energy conversion schemes, current rectification using electrochemical ratchets and ionic diodes made from ice or ion-exchange membranes, selective and rapid catalysis of PCET reactions and water dissociation, and local temperature using photonic and heat transfer processes. Results from each study increase fundamental knowledge of transport and transfer phenomena (ion, electron, photon, energy, heat) that dictate the function and effectiveness of technologies for sustainable clean water, carbon capture, and renewable energy.
The Ardo Group is well-suited for students and postdoctoral scholars with various backgrounds and expertise, spanning the disciplines of chemistry, applied physics, chemical engineering, materials science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biophysics.
In our research, we invent new ways to leverage daily variations in terrestrial photon fluxes between the Sun, the Earth, and the Universe to help close the Water Cycle, the Carbon Cycle, the Hydrogen Cycle, and the Nitrogen Cycle. More specifically, the central aim of our research program is to understand and control dynamics of non-equilibrium processes relevant to photoelectrochemical desalination (Moore Foundation), oceanic carbon capture (DOE ARPA-E), solar photocatalytic H2 production (DOE EPN EFRC & DOE EERE), liquid solar fuels (DOE LiSA Hub), protonic photovoltaics (DOE BES), electrolyzer & fuel cell membranes (DoD ARO), interfacial ion-transfer catalysis (NSF CCI), excited-state proton-transfer dynamics (NSF CSDM-B), and ionic ratchets (UCI Beall Family Foundation).
Guided by results from numerical simulations and processes that occur in Nature, our Team designs and fabricates kinetically asymmetric systems using chemical synthesis and molecular-level engineering of molecule–material structures. Specific tailoring of the mechanisms imparted by these asymmetries allows us to control photo-induced charge separation in solar energy conversion schemes, current rectification using electrochemical ratchets and ionic diodes made from ice or ion-exchange membranes, selective and rapid catalysis of PCET reactions and water dissociation, and local temperature using photonic and heat transfer processes. Results from each study increase fundamental knowledge of transport and transfer phenomena (ion, electron, photon, energy, heat) that dictate the function and effectiveness of technologies for sustainable clean water, carbon capture, and renewable energy.
The Ardo Group is well-suited for students and postdoctoral scholars with various backgrounds and expertise, spanning the disciplines of chemistry, applied physics, chemical engineering, materials science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and biophysics.
Available Technologies
Publications
Grants
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, Incubator Program Grant (2015 - 2018; Team Lead)
U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Chemistry, Chemical Catalysis Program Grant (2016 - 2019)
Beall Family Foundation, UCI Beall Innovation Award (2016 - 2017)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Moore Inventor Fellowship (2016 - 2019)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship (2017 - 2019)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Cottrell Scholar Award (2017 - 2020)
UC MEXUS-CONACYT, Collaborative Research Grant (2017 - 2018; Team co-Lead)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Cottrell Scholars Collaborative (2017 - 2019; co-PI)
Nissan Chemical Corporation, Sponsored Research (2017 - 2018)
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE Early Career Research Award (2018 - 2023)
UCI, Office of Research, Research Seed Funding (2019 - 2020; co-PI)
UCI, Office of Research, Research Seed Funding (2019 - 2020; Team Lead)
Nissan Chemical Corporation, Sponsored Research (2019 - 2020)
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, HydroGEN EMN Program Grant (2019 - 2023; Team Lead)
Beall Family Foundation, UCI Beall Innovation Award (2020 - 2021)
U.S. Department of Defense, Army Research Office, Electrochemistry Program Grant (2020 - 2023; co-PI)
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub (2020 - 2025; co-PI)
Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Cottrell Scholars Collaborative (2020 - 2023; Team Lead)
UCI Beall Applied Innovation, UCI Faculty Innovation Fellow (2021 - 2023)
U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Oceanwater Exploratory Topic Grant (2021 - 2023; co-PI)
U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Chemistry, Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanisms B Program Grant (2021 - 2024)
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Center (2022 - 2026; Team Lead / Director)
U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Chemistry, Center for Chemical Innovation Phase I (2022 - 2025; co-PI)
Professional Societies
American Chemical Society (ACS)
U.S. DOE Photoelectrochemical Working Group
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
UCI Chemical, Applied and Materials Physics (ChAMP) Graduate Program
UCI Center for Solar Energy
Other Experience
Software & Quality Assurance Engineer
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. 1993—1996
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. 1993—1996
Information Technology Consultant
Xpedior / Metamor, Inc. 1999—2000
Xpedior / Metamor, Inc. 1999—2000
Software Engineer
Physiome Sciences, Inc. 2001—2001
Physiome Sciences, Inc. 2001—2001
Mathematics & Computer Science Instructor
Community College of Baltimore County 2000—2001
Community College of Baltimore County 2000—2001
Mathematics & Computer Programming Teacher
Baltimore City College High School 2001—2003
Baltimore City College High School 2001—2003
Graduate Programs
Chemistry
Research Centers
Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN), U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Frontier Research Center Program (2022 - present; Director)
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Last updated
11/05/2022
11/05/2022