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Taylor Aubry is a researcher in the Computational Science Center at NLR. She's working on two-dimensional materials as photocatalysts for solar fuel generation, enhancing the photoelectrical performance of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. She is interested in studying and controlling the unique photophysical properties these semiconducting materials exhibit due to quantum confinement effects.
Taylor received her bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry (joint honors) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. From there, her desire to work on renewable energy technology led her to pursue her doctorate at UCLA in Professor Benjamin J. Schwartz’s group. Her graduate work focused on understanding structure and electronic property relationships in conjugated polymers for thermoelectric and photovoltaic devices. In particular, she showed that dodecaborane cluster-based dopants can produce free charge carriers in doped conjugated polymers due to their intrinsic ability to spatially separate the counterion and reduce Coulombic attraction.
Research Interests
Controlling photophysical properties of 2D-materials via morphology, doping, surface functionalization, and heterostructuring
Transition metal dichalcogenides as catalysts for solar fuel production
Carrier transport and optoelectronic properties of thin-film semiconductors
Education/Academic Qualification
Bachelor, Physics and Chemistry, McGill University
PhD, Materials Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles
Master, Materials Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles
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Collaborations and Top Research Areas From the Past 5 Years
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High-Energy Hybridized States Enable Long-Lived Hot Electrons in Cobaloxime-Silicon Nanocrystal System
Le, T., Gish, M., Saund, S., Aubry, T. & Neale, N., 2026, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148, 6, p. 6412-6421 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Interligand Coupling Drives Fast Triplet Energy Transfer Routes in PbS/Tetracene Quantum Dot Hybrids
Feingold, B., Pompetti, N., Martinez, M., Aubry, T., Blackburn, J., Reid, O., Beard, M. & Johnson, J., 2025, In: ACS Nano. 19, 46, p. 40245-40257 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nitrate-To-Ammonia Electroconversion at Neutral pH on Polycrystalline Vanadium Sulfide Derived from Vanadium Disulfide
Wilder, L., Aubry, T., Gerke, C., Carvalho, O. Q., Thurston, J., Toney, M., Smeaton, M., Van De Lagemaat, J. & Miller, E., 2025, In: ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8, 13, p. 9407-9418 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Polaron Delocalization and Transport in Doped Graphene Nanoribbon Thin Films
Hermosilla-Palacios, M. A., Lindenthal, S., Earley, J., Aubry, T., DeLuca, D., Al Khunaizi, H., Spokoyny, A., Zaumseil, J., Ferguson, A. & Blackburn, J., 2025, In: ACS Nano. 19, 28, p. 25732-25743 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activating Nitrogen for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis via an Electrified Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Catalyst
Aubry, T., Clary, J., Miller, E., Vigil-Fowler, D. & van de Lagemaat, J., 2024, In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128, 17, p. 7063-7072 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Scopus Citations
Activities
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American Chemical Society (External organization)
Ginley, D. (Member), Ware, L. (Member), Allen, B. (Fellow), Rumbles, G. (Member), Perkins, C. (Member), Johnson, D. (Member), Ferrell, J. (Member), Arellano Trevino, M. (Member), Neale, N. (Member), Bell, R. (Member), Klein, R. (Member), Aubry, T. (Member), Bharadwaj, V. (Member), Wieliczka, B. (Member), Hermosilla Palacios, A. (Member), Puente-Urbina, A. (Member), Maughan, A. (Member), Wiley, S. (Member), Kluherz, T. (Member), Kurtz, S. (Member), Schichtl, Z. (Member), Dong, Y. (Member), Thodika, M. (Member), Carvalho, Q. (Member), Truong, T. (Member), Clarke, R. (Member), Kiani, D. (Member), Lee, M. (Member), McGeehan, J. (Member), Brady, N. (Member), Yang, B. (Member), Nozik, A. (Member), Pennell, S. (Member), Wu, I. (Member), Lany, S. (Member) & Myers, A. (Member)
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Materials Research Society, MRS (External organization)
Ginley, D. (Member), Rose, A. (Member), Green, P. (Fellow), Roberts, D. (Member), Cordell, J. (Member), Young, J. L. (Member), Jungjohann, K. (Member), Dutta, N. (Member), Smaha, R. (Member), Bell, R. (Member), Aubry, T. (Member), Kang, A. (Member), Egbo, K. (Member), Marder, S. (Fellow), Kluherz, T. (Member), Quadir, S. (Member), Schichtl, Z. (Member), Smeaton, M. (Member), Tellekamp, B. (Member), Spurgeon, S. (Member), Norman, A. (Member), Nozik, A. (Member), Dinh, H. (Member), Lany, S. (Member), Xie, C. (Member), Kocher, J. (Member), Bhardwaj, R. K. (Member) & Harrison, K. (Member)
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