Henry S. White

Electrochemistry

Distinguished Professor

B.S., University of North Carolina, 1978
Ph.D., University of Texas, 1983
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983-84

Phone: (801) 585-6256
Office: B423 TBBC
Email: white@chem.utah.edu
White Research Group

Collaborations

Interfacial and Bioanalytical Chemistry (IBAC)

CCI Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry

Activities & Awards

• Robert W. Parry Teaching Award, University of Utah, 2022
• Utah Academy of Engineering and Science, 2021
• John A. Widstoe Presidential Endowed Professor of Chemistry, 2019
• Allen J. Bard Award, The Electrochemical Society, 2015
• Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology, 2014
• Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2012
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2011
• Carl Wagner Award, The Electrochemical Society, 2010
• American Chemical Society Utah Award, 2008
• W.W. Epstein Outstanding Educator Award, U of Utah, 2007
• David Grahame Award, The Electrochemical Society, 2005
• President, Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2003-2005
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society
• ACS Analytical Division Award in Electrochemistry, 2004
• University of Utah Distinguished Research Award, 2004
• Students Choice Teaching Award, Associated Students of the U of Utah, 2003
• Faraday Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, Electrochemical Section, London, 2002
• Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry, 2002
• Charles N. Reilley Award, The Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2000

Research Interests

My colleagues and I are engaged in both experimental and theoretical aspects of electrochemistry, with diverse connections to analytical, biological, physical, and materials chemistry. Please see our group website for fuller project descriptions and links to recent publications.

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Selected Publications:

Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition

Allen J. Bard, Larry R. Faulkner, Henry S. White, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, New York, 2022

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• Investigation of the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Peroxydisulfate Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
  Hosseini, S., Solymosi, G.T. and White, H.S.,
  Anal. Chem., 2024, 96(21), 8424–8431
  
• Electric Potential-Driven Acid/Base Chemistry: Kinetics of Electrochemical Interfacial Proton Transfer and Transport
  Pendergast, A.D., Levey, K.J., Macpherson, J.V., Edwards, M.A. and White, H.S.,
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024, 128(17), 7127-7136.
  
• Simultaneous Multipass Resistive-Pulse Sensing and Fluorescence Imaging of Liposomes
  Schmeltzer, A.J., Peterson, E.M., Harris, J.M., Lathrop, D.K., German, S.R. and White, H.S.,
  ACS nano, 2024, 18(9), 7241-7252.
  
• Electrocatalytic Reduction of Benzyl Bromide during Single Ag Nanoparticle Collisions
  Vitti, N.J. and White, H.S.,
  Langmuir, 2024, 40(6), 3053-3062.
  
• Unraveling hydrogen atom transfer mechanisms with voltammetry: oxidative formation and reactivity of cobalt hydride
  Boucher, D.G., Pendergast, A.D., Wu, X., Nguyen, Z.A., Jadhav, R.G., Lin, S., White, H.S. and Minteer, S.D.,
  Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145(32), 17665-17677.
  
• Double-Layer Inhibition of Peroxydisulfate Reduction at Mercury Ultramicroelectrodes. A Quantitative Analysis of the Frumkin Effect Including Molecular Transport and Long-Range Electron Transfer
  Pendergast, A.D. and White, H.S.,
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127(23), 11283-11297.
  
• Single-Molecule Electrical Currents Associated with Valinomycin Transport of K⁺
  Schmeltzer, A.J., Harris, J.M. and White, H.S.,
  ACS nano, 2023, 17(9), 8829-8836.
  
• Critical Nucleus Size and Activation Energy of Ag Nucleation by Electrochemical Observation of Isolated Nucleation Events
  Vitti, N.J., Majumdar, P. and White, H.S.,
  Langmuir, 2023, 39(3), 1173-1180.
• Electroorganic synthesis in aqueous solution via generation of strongly oxidizing and reducing intermediates
  Hosseini, S., Beeler, J.A., Sanford, M.S. and White, H.S.,
  Faraday Discussions, 2023, 247, 192-205.
• Simulation of the cyclic voltammetric response of an outer-sphere redox species with inclusion of electrical double layer structure and ohmic potential drop
  Levey, K.J., Edwards, M.A., White, H.S. and Macpherson, J.V.,
  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023, 25(11), 7832-7846.
  
• Self-Terminating Redox-Reactivity and Vacancy-Induced Void Formation during Electrochemical Collision Synthesis of Hollow Ag/Ag₂S Nanoparticles
  Zahra, U., Robinson, D.A. and White, H.S.,
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, 126(43), 18343-18350.
  
• Finite element modeling of the combined faradaic and electrostatic contributions to the voltammetric response of monolayer redox films
  Levey, K.J., Edwards, M.A., White, H.S. and Macpherson, J.V.,
  Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94(37), 12673-12682.
  
• Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition
  Bard, Allen J., Larry R. Faulkner, and Henry S. White. Electrochemical methods: fundamentals and applications. John Wiley & Sons, 2022
• Effect of Non-Specific Ion Adsorption and Parallel Faradaic Reactions on the Nucleation of H₂ Nanobubbles
  P. Majumdar, Y. Qiu and H. S. White
  J. Electrochem. Soc. 2022, 169, 106515
• Oxidation by Reduction: Efficient and Selective Oxidation of Alcohols by the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Peroxydisulfate
  S. Hosseini, J. N. Janusz, M. Tanwar, A. D. Pendergast, M. Neurock, and H. S. White
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144(46), 21103–21115
• Self-Terminating Redox-Reactivity and Vacancy-Induced Void Formation during Electrochemical Collision Synthesis of Hollow Ag/Ag₂S Nanoparticles
  U. Zahra, D. A. Robinson, and H. S. White
  J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126(43), 18343–18350
• Finite Element Modeling of the Combined Faradaic and Electrostatic Contributions to the Voltammetric Response of Monolayer Redox Films
  K. J. Levey, M. A. Edwards, H. S. White, and J. V. Macpherson
  Anal. Chem. 2022, 94(37), 12673-12682
• Electroprecipitation of Nanometer-Thick Films of Ln(OH)₃ [Ln = La, Ce, and Lu] at Pt Microelectrodes and Their Effect on Electron-Transfer Reactions
  P. Majumdar, R. Gao, and H. S. White
  Langmuir 2022, 38(26), 8125–8134
• Effect of Nonuniform Mass Transport on Nanobubble Nucleation at Individual Pt Nanoparticles
  N. S. Georgescu, D. A. Robinson, and H. S. White
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125(36), 19724–19732
• A High-Pressure System for Studying Oxygen Reduction During Pt Nanoparticle Collisions
  Y. Zhang, D. A. Robinson, K. McKelvey, H. Ren, H. S. White, and M. A. Edwards
  J. Electrochem. Soc. 2020, 167, 166507
• 3D Architectures for Batteries and Electrodes
  J. W. Long, B. Dunn, D. R. Rolison, and H. S. White
  Adv. Energy Mater. 2020, 10, 2002457
• High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery with Mixed 2D and 3D Electrodes
  D. S. Ashby, C. S. Choi, M. A. Edwards, A. A. Talin, H. S. White, and B. S. Dunn
  ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3(9), 8402–8409 
  
• Shot Noise Sets the Limit of Quantification in Electrochemical Measurements
  R. Gao, M. A. Edwards, J. M. Harris, H. S. White
  Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2020, 22, 170–177
  
• Visualization and Quantification of Electrochemical H₂ Bubble Nucleation at Pt, Au, and MoS₂ Substrates
  Y. Liu, C. Jin, Y. Liu, K. H. Ruiz, H. Ren, Y. Fan, H. S. White, and Q. Chen
  ACS Sens. 2020, 6(2), 355–363
• Electrochemical Generation of Individual Nanobubbles Comprising H₂, D₂, and HD
  Y. Qiu, H. Ren, M. A. Edwards, R. Gao, K. Barman, and H. S. White
  Langmuir 2020, 36(22), 6073–6078
• Visualization of Hydrogen Evolution at Individual Platinum Nanoparticles at a Buried Interface
  R. Gao, M. A. Edwards, Y. Qiu, K. Barman, and H. S. White
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142(19), 8890–8896
  
• Nitrogen Bubbles at Pt Nanoelectrodes in Non-Aqueous Medium-Oscillating Behavior and Geometry of Critical Nuclei
  Q. Chen, Y. Liu, M. A. Edwards, Y. Liu, and H. S. White
  Anal. Chem. 2020, 92(9), 6408-6414
  
• Single-Entity Electrochemistry at Confined Sensing Interfaces
  Y. Ying, J. Wang, A. R Leach,  Y. Jiang, R. Gao, C. Xu, M. A. Edwards, A. D. Pendergast,H.  Ren, C. K. Weatherly, W. Wang, P. Actis, L. Mao, H. S. White, and Y. Long
  SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry, 2020, 63(5), 589-618

• Effect of Viscosity on the Collision Dynamics and Oxidation of Individual Ag Nanoparticles
  D. A. Robinson, M. A. Edwards, Y. Liu, H. Ren. H. S. White
  J. Phys. Chem.  2020, 124(16), 9068-9076

• Electrochemical Reduction of [Ni(Mebpy)3]2+. Elucidation of the Redox Mechanism by Cyclic Voltammetry and Steady-State Voltammetry in Low Ionic Strength Solutions.
  K. Barman, M. A. Edwards, D. P. Hickey, C. Sandford, Y. Qiu, R. Gao, S. D. Minteer, H. S. White
  ChemElectroChem, 2020, 7(6), 1473-1479
• Electrochemically Controlled Nucleation of Single CO₂ Nanobubbles via Formate Oxidation at Pt Nanoelectrodes
  H. Ren, M. A. Edwards, Y. Wang, H. S. White 
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2020, 11(4), 1291-1296