Superfund Research Program

Christopher Muhich

Arizona State University
501 E. Tyler Mall
ERC 257
Tempe, Arizona 85281
Phone: 480-965-2673
Email: christopher.muhich@asu.edu

Projects

• Harvard School of Public Health: Designing the Next Generation of Highly Selective Sorbent Materials for Remediation of Target Inorganic Contaminants in Aqueous Systems (2020-2025)

Publications

2024

• Nwokonkwo O, Muhich C. 2024. Mechanistic insights into the selectivity for arsenic over phosphate adsorption by Fe(3+)-cross-linked chitosan using DFT. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 128(7):1689-1699. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06838 PMID:38353120 PMCID:10901294

2023

• Gupta S, Chismar A, Muhich C. 2023. Understanding the effect of single atom cationic defect sites in an Al2O3 (o12) surface on altering selenate and sulfate adsorption: An Ab Initio Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127(14):6925-6937. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00098 PMID:37521103 PMCID:PMC10373637
• Nwokonkwo O, Pelletier V, Broud M, Muhich C. 2023. Functionalized ferrocene enables selective electrosorption of arsenic oxyanions over phosphate-a DFT examination of the effects of substitutional moieties, pH, and oxidation state. J Phys Chem A 127(37):7727-7738. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.3c03826 PMID:37682592 PMCID:PMC10530435

2022

• Gupta S, Nguyen NA, Muhich C. 2022. Surface water H-bonding network is key controller of selenate adsorption on [012] α-alumina: An Ab-initio study. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 617:136-146. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2022.02.128 PMID:35272167 PMCID:PMC9007919

2020

• Rudel HE, Lane MM, Muhich C, Zimmerman JB. 2020. Toward informed design of nanomaterials: a mechanistic analysis of structure property function relationships for faceted nanoscale metal oxides. ACS Nano 16472-16501. doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c08356