Tobin Marks

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BIOSKETCH. TOBIN MARKS
Chemistry BS from U. of Maryland, Inorganic Chemistry PhD from MIT. Recognitions: U.S. National Medal of Science, Spanish Asturias Prize, MRS Von Hippel Award, Dreyfus Chemical Sciences Prize, NAS Chemical Sciences Award, ACS Priestley Medal, Israel Harvey Prize, German Chemical Society Ziegler Prize. Fellow: U.S., German, Italian, European, and Indian Academies of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and U.S. National Academy of Inventors. Fellow: U.K. ACS, Chinese, Israel Chemical Societies; MRS Fellow; ACS Section Medals: Willard Gibbs, Linus Pauling, F. Albert Cotton, Theodore Richards, William Nichols, John Bailar, Harry Mosher, Alan McDiarmid; CAS President’s International Distinguished Scientist Award; Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics; ACS National Awards: Organometallic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Somorjai in Creative Catalysis, Organic Chemistry Cope Scholar, Inorganic Chemistry Service; ~250 other awards/recognitions; 1750 peer-reviewed publications; 220 U.S. patents. Honorary Doctorates: HKUST, U. of South Carolina, Ohio State U., Nanjing Institute of Technology, Technical U. Munich. Founded/co-founded 15 start-ups; his technologies generated ~$120 billion in sales.

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• Northwestern University Professor

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Publications (183)

• The Role of Defect Geometry in Localized Emission from Monolayer Tungsten Dichalcogenides
  ACS Nano 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6c05506
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• Waste-minimized upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate to antifungal metal-organic framework
  Chem Circularity 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.checir.2026.100100
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• Mercaptan-Mediated Ethylene Formation in Sulfur Oxidative Ethane Dehydrogenation on Iron Sulfide (FeS2) Catalysts
  ACS Catalysis 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c07402
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• General and selective nickel-electrocatalyzed cross-electrophile C*( sp 2 )–C( sp 2 ) coupling
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2515413123
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• Synthesis of stable Ni catalysts for dry reforming of methane via ABC-type atomic layer deposition
  Catalysis Today 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2025.115609
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• Silylative Amide to Nitrile Conversion Mediated by Simple Lanthanide–Organoamides: Scope and Mechanism
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202513996
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• Silylative Amide to Nitrile Conversion Mediated by Simple Lanthanide–Organoamides: Scope and Mechanism
  Angewandte Chemie 2025 DOI: 10.1002/ange.202513996
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• Enhanced Spectral Purity of WSe2 Quantum Emitters via Conformal Organic Adlayers
  Science Advances 2025 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady7557
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• Correction to “Thermal Stability of Amorphous Metal Oxides: The Interplay of Secondary Cations, Degree of Substitution and Local Structure”
  Chemistry of Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00481
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• Decoding the halogenation cost-performance paradox in organic solar cells
  Nature Reviews Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00804-3
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