Steven Huss
B.S. in Chemistry: West Chester University, 2018
Steven was born in West Chester, PA and travelled far from home for his BS at West Chester University. There, Steven worked under Dr. Mark Shuman using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography to quantify capsaicinoids in hot peppers, while assisting in redesigning some experiments for the undergraduate organic chemistry lab. He also explored the photoluminescence quenching of silicon nanopores with Kurt Kolasinski. Steven started an internship at Sartomer (Arkema Group) during from the spring of 2017 until the summer of 2018. He then continued his great hike 'across' the state in fall 2018 to start the Ph.D. program here at PSU, joining the Badding Group shortly thereafter. In the fall of 2019, he joined the Elacqua Group and continued his work on reducing the pressure requirement for synthesizing carbon nanothreads, while being integrated into photoredox catalysis projects. In his spare time, Steven enjoys listening to podcasts, hiking, and drinking coffee.
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Publications
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M. Spicuzza, S. P. Gaikwad, S. Huss, A. A. Lee, C. V. Craescu, A. Griggs, J. Joseph, M. Puthenpurayil, W. Lin, C. Matarazzo, S. Baldwin, V. Perez, D. A. Rodriguez-Acevedo, J. R. Swierk, and E. Elacqua. Visible-Light-Mediated Diels-Alder Reactions Under Single-Chain Polymer Confinement: Investigating the Role of the Crosslinking Moiety on Catalyst Activity, Polym. Chem., 2024, 15, 1833-1838.
S. Huss, A. R. Walsh, A. Griggs, D. A. Rodriguez-Acevedo, D. M. Arias-Rotondo, and E. Elacqua. Synthesis and Characterization of a Ruthenium-Containing Copolymer for Use as a Photoredox Catalyst, Polym. Chem., 2023, 14, 4560-4568.
S. M. Oburn, S. Huss, J. Cox, M. C. Gerthoffer, S. Wu, A. Biswas, M. Murphy, V. H. Crespi, J. V. Badding, S. A. Lopez, and E. Elacqua. Photochemically-Mediated Polymerization of Molecular Furan and Pyridine: Synthesis of Nanothreads at Reduced Pressures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 22026-22034.
M. C. Gerthoffer, B. Xu, S. Wu, J. Cox, S. Huss, S. M. Oburn, S. A. Lopez, V. H. Crespi, J. V. Badding, and E. Elacqua. Mechanistic Insights into the Pressure-Induced Polymerization of Aryl/Perfluoroaryl Co-Crystals, Polym. Chem, 2022, 13, 1359-1368.
J. J. Piane, S. Huss, L. T. Alameda, S. J. Koehler, L. E. Chamberlain, M. J. Schubach, A. C. Hoover, E. Elacqua. Single-Chain Polymers as Homogenenous Oxidative Photoredox Catalysts. J. Polym Sci. 2021, 59, 2865-2875
C. V. Craescu, M. J. Schubach, S. Huss, and E. Elacqua. Metal-Free Photocatalytic C(Sp3)—H Bond Activation. Trends Chem., 2021, 3, 686-687.
B. Matsuura, S. Huss, Z. Zheng, S. Yuan, T. Wang, B. Chen, J. V. Badding, D. Trauner, E. Elacqua, A. C. Van Duin, V. H. Crespi, K. Schmidt-Rohr. Perfect and Defective Furan Nanothreads from High-Pressure Synthesis Detected by 13C NMR, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 9529-9542.
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S. Huss, S. Wu, B. Chen, T. Wang, M. C. Gerthoffer, D. J. Ryan, S. E. Smith, V. H. Crespi, J. V. Badding, E. Elacqua. Scalable Synthesis of Crystalline One-Dimensional Carbon Nanothreads through Modest-Pressure Polymerization of Furan, ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 4134.
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J. J. Piane, L. Chamberlain, S. Huss, L. T. Alameda, A. Hoover, E. Elacqua. Organic Photoredox-Catalyzed Cycloadditions Under Polymer Confinement. ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 13251.
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M. C. Gerthoffer, S. Wu, B. Chen, T. Wang, S. Huss, V. H. Crespi, J. V. Badding, E. Elacqua. ‘Sacrificial’ Supramolecular Assembly and Pressure-Induced Polymerization: Toward Sequence-Defined Functionalized Nanothreads, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 11419.