Biography
Jill K. Wenderott is an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering who joined the department in March 2023. The Wenderott group aims to realize functional heteroanionic materials and hybrid thin films for use in energy and environmental applications utilizing advanced syntheses and in situ X-ray and microscopy techniques. Jill completed her B.S. in Physics at the University of Kansas before receiving her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. After completing her PhD, she was a postdoc in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and subsequently a postdoctoral appointee at Argonne National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division. Jill was part of an international team awarded the 2020 American Physical Society Innovation Fund to support their organization, Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2). She also served as President of the Association for Women in Science – Chicago Area Chapter (AWIS-CAC) from 2020-2022.
Degrees / Education
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)
B.S., Physics, University of Kansas (2014)
Research Areas
Research Interests
Syntheses of functional inorganic materials including oxynitrides, oxides, nitrides; thin film deposition and processing of inorganic and hybrid materials; in situ X-ray scattering techniques; scanning probe microscopy; (photo)(electro)catalysis; microelectronics
Areas of Study
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- E. A. Goldfine, J. K. Wenderott, M. E. Sweers, S. A. Pandey, L. C. Seitz, M. J. Bedzyk, S. M. Haile. “Molybdenum Oxide Precursors that Promote the Low-Temperature Formation of High-Surface-Area Cubic Molybdenum (Oxy) nitride”, Inorganic Chemistry 2022, 61, 42, 16760-16769.
- J. K. Wenderott, B. X. Dong, P. F. Green. “Morphological design strategies to tailor out-of-plane charge transport in conjugated polymer systems for device applications”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 27076.
- J. K. Wenderott, B. X. Dong, J. A. Amonoo, P. F. Green. “Quantification of Interactions at the Polymer–Substrate Interface: Implications for Nanoscale Behavior”, Macromolecules 2021, 54, 13, 6257-6266.
- B. X. Dong, J. K. Wenderott, P. F. Green. “Charge carrier transport in thin conjugated polymer films: influence of morphology and polymer/substrate interactions”, Colloid and Polymer Science 2021, 299, 439-456.
- S. A. Pandey, C. Zhang, D. H. Ibrahim, E. A. Goldfine, J. K. Wenderott, R. dos Reis, R. L. Paul, I. Spanopoulos, M. Kanatzidis, M. J. Bedzyk, V. P. Dravid, G. B. Gonzalez, S. M. Haile. “Hidden Complexity in the Chemistry of Ammonolysis-Derived “γ-Mo2N”: An Overlooked Oxynitride Hydride”, Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 6671-6684.
- K. V. L. V. Narayanachari, D. B. Buchholz, E. A. Goldfine, J. K. Wenderott, S. M. Haile, M. J. Bedzyk. “Combinatorial Approach for Single-Crystalline TaON Growth: Epitaxial β-TaON (100)/α-Al2O3 (012)”, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2020, 2, 11, 3571–3576.
- J. K. Wenderott, A. Raghav, M. Shtein, P. F. Green, S. Satapathi. “Local Optoelectronic Characterization of Solvent-Annealed, Lead Free, Bismuth-Based Perovskite Films”, Langmuir 2018, 34, 7647−7654.
- J. K. Wenderott, P. F. Green. “Self-Assembled Monolayers at the Conjugated Polymer/Electrode Interface: Implications for Charge Transport and Band-Bending Behavior”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 25, 21458-21465.
- J. K. Wenderott, B. X. Dong, P. F. Green. “Band bending in conjugated polymer films: role of morphology and implications for bulk charge transport characteristics”, J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 7446-7451.