Superfund Research Program

Phillip T. Sprunger

Louisiana State University
202 Nicholson Hall
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Phone: 225-578-1254
Email: phils@lsu.edu

Projects

• Louisiana State University: Administrative Core (2011-2025)
• Louisiana State University: Microstructural Pathway of EPFR Formation and Their Decay Mechanisms (2020-2025)
• Louisiana State University: Structure and Properties of Metal Oxide Particle-Adsorbate Systems (2011-2018)

Publications

2024

• Ahmed S, Oumnov RA, Kizilkaya O, Hall RW, Sprunger PT, Cook R. 2024. Role of electronegativity in environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) formation on ZnO. Journal of Physical Chemistry C doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c08231
• Khachatryan L, Rezk M, Nde D, Hasan F, Lomnicki S, Boldor D, Cook R, Sprunger PT, Halland R, Cormier SA. 2024. New features of laboratory-generated EPFRs from 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) and 2-monochlorophenol (MCP). ACS Omega doi:10.1021/acsomega.3c08271

2021

• Sakr NI, Kizilkaya O, Carlson SF, Chan S, Oumnov RA, Catano J, Kurtz RL, Hall RW, Poliakoff ED, Sprunger PT. 2021. Formation of environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) on the phenol-dosed alpha-Fe2O3 (0001) surface. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125(40):21882-21890. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04298 PMID:34992708 PMCID:PMC8725784

2019

• Sakr NI, Patterson MC, Daemen L, Poliakoff ED, Sprunger PT. 2019. Vibrational and structural studies of environmentally persistent free radicals formed by phenol-dosed metal oxide nanoparticles. Langmuir 35:16726-16733. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02948 PMID:31786916

2017

• Patterson MC, DiTusa MF, McFerrin CA, Kurtz RL, Hall RW, Poliakoff ED, Sprunger PT. 2017. Formation of environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) on ZnO at room temperature: Implications for the fundamental model of EPFR generation. Chem Phys Letts 670:5-10. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2016.12.061 PMID:28824195 PMCID:PMC5560487

2015

• Patterson MC, Thibodeaux CA, Kizilkaya O, Kurtz RL, Poliakoff ED, Sprunger PT. 2015. Electronic signatures of a model pollutant-particle system: chemisorbed phenol on TiO₂(110). Langmuir 31(13):3869-3875. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00030 PMID:25774565 PMCID:PMC4407492
• Thibodeaux CA, Poliakoff ED, Kizilkaya O, Patterson MC, DiTusa MF, Kurtz RL, Sprunger PT. 2015. Probing environmentally significant surface radicals: crystallographic and temperature dependent adsorption of phenol on ZnO. Chem Phys Lett 638:56-60. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2015.08.026 PMID:26388650 PMCID:PMC4570833

2013

• Patterson MC, Keilbart ND, Kiruri LW, Thibodeaux CA, Lomnicki S, Kurtz RL, Poliakoff ED, Dellinger B, Sprunger PT. 2013. EPFR formation from phenol adsorption on Al₂O₃ and TiO₂: EPR and EELS studies. Chem Phys 422:277-282. doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2012.12.003 PMID:24443627 PMCID:PMC3891583