Clifford Kubiak

[1] Kubiak has also served on the editorial advisory boards of several publications, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Inorganic Chemistry, and Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing.

[1] The Kubiak Research Group at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering currently studies the reduction of carbon dioxide by means of electrocatalysis and photoelectrocatalysis.

[7] In 2005, J. Catherine Salsman, Tasuku Ito, and Kubiak energetically distinguished the conductive properties of gold nanoclusters and individual molecules by labeling the structures isotopically, and utilized infrared spectroscopy to observe asymmetry.

[9] Such properties depend on the equilibrium Fermi energy and the voltage division factor, Ef and η respectively, as determined by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).

[9] In 2014, Kubiak and his colleagues from the University of California, San Diego determined the efficiency of an alternate ReI(bpy) catalyst complex pathway, an assembled supramolecular system, which can assist in the reduction of CO2.

It was seen that the reduction of byproduct CO2, driven by solar power, wind, or electricity generated by running water, can produce fuels by means of a carbon-neutral energy cycle.

[5] In May 2011, a University of California, San Diego web page attributed to Kubiak was criticized for its use of a racial slur, specifically one targeting people of East Asian descent, as part of a list of “lab rules” supposedly meant to be humorous.