Kevin Kittilstved

  1. Professor
Email Addresskevin.kittilstved@wsu.edu
LocationTroy 230
Phone509-335-4309

Biography

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Education

Post-Doctoral Study, Chemistry, 2010
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Post-Doctoral Study, Chimie Physique, 2006-2010
Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

PhD Chemistry, 2006
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

BS Chemistry, 2001
Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Research

Professor Kittilstved’s research focuses on understanding how to chemically control the properties of inorganic materials. This research is enabled developing colloidal synthetic methods to prepare inorganic materials at the nanometer scale. The main class of materials we study are primarily inorganic semiconductors and related molecular clusters with unique electronic structures that are responsive to external perturbations. We use sophisticated spectroscopic techniques including electronic absorption, steady-state and time-resolved luminescence, electron paramagnetic resonance, and magneto-optical spectroscopies to investigate these electronic structures.

Typical skills learned by my students include traditional and sophisticated X-ray diffraction techniques and advanced spectroscopies as those mentioned above. Students also learn modern inorganic synthetic techniques including air-free methods. Former graduates have successfully gone on from the Kittilstved lab to become post-docs, teachers/lecturers, and engineers employed across a range of industrial jobs.

Publications

  • van Embden, J.; Gross, S.; Kittilstved, K. R.; *Della Gaspera, E. “Colloidal Approaches to Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals” Chem. Rev., 2023, 123, 271-326.
  • Abdullah, M.; Nelson, R. J.; *Kittilstved, K. R.; “Sub-bandgap trap sites for high-density photochemical electron storage in colloidal SrTiO3 nanocrystals” Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 11835-11838.
  • Denhardt, J. E.; *Kittilstved, K. R.; “Core-Doped [(Cd1−xCox)10S4(SPh)16]4− Clusters from a Self-Assembly Route” Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 15270-15277.
  • Abdullah, M.; Nelson, R. J.; *Kittilstved, K. R.; “Tunable Redox Activity at Fe3+ Centers in Colloidal ATiO3 (A = Sr and Ba) Nanocrystals” Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 4196-4203.
  • Buz, E.; Zhou, D.; *Kittilstved, K. R. “Air-stable n-type Fe-doped ZnO Colloidal Nanocrystals” J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 151, 134702.