Natalia Shustova

Natalia B. Shustova is the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. She develops materials for sustainable energy conversion, including metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks and graphite.

Natalia B. Shustova
Alma materMoscow State University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of South Carolina
Colorado State University
InfluencesMircea Dincă

Research and career

In 2013, Shustova was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. In 2019, she was quickly promoted to the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Associate Professor. Work in her research group is multifaceted, utilizing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), and graphitic hybrid structures to design materials for sustainable energy conversion, as stimuli-responsive sensors and switches, and for nuclear waste sequestration. [1][2][3][4] Shustova is interested in achieving greater morphological control in the active layer of bulk heterojunction solar cells through the design of novel donor-acceptor frameworks. [1] Her work has integrated fulleretic accepting molecules, such as π‐bowls or π‐balls, to tune electronic properties, achieving semiconductive behavior in normally insulating materials. [5]

Shustova has also attempted to design artificial photosynthetic scaffolds for light harvesting. [2] In one case, Shustova and her group utilized a MOF in a multifunctional system for efficient chromophore coupling, facilitating highly efficient energy transfer mimicking the protein beta-barrel structure.[6] Her research group is also interested in tuning rigidity and linker installation in photochromic scaffolds, specifically in spiropyran-based MOF photoswitches, and the control of cycloreversion kinetics. These photo-responsive materials provide fundamental knowledge to monitor changes in material properties such as material aging and structural deterioration over time. [3]

More recently, she has considered MOFs as candidates for nuclear waste administration. These frameworks have the potential to sequester radionuclide waste-form materials, and function as a versatile platform for selective actinide separation, and sensing.[4] She has studied the thermodynamics and electronic structure in actinide containing MOFs, highlighting the solvent-assisted structural dynamism (crystalline-to-amorphous-to-crystalline transformations) unique to these materials. [4] She has further reported the ability to control radionuclide leaching kinetics in MOFs as a function of post-synthetic capping linker installation. [4]

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

  • Hans Fischer Fellowship (2020)[7]
  • Camille Dreyfus Teaching-Scholar Award (2019)[8]
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2017)[9]
  • Cottrell Scholar Award (2017)[10]
  • Breakthrough Research Award (2017)[11]
  • McCausland Fellowship (2019)[12]
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2019) [13]
  • Scialog Fellow (2017)[14]
  • NSF Career Award (2016)[15]
  • ACS PRF (2016)[16]
  • MIT Infinite Kilometer Postdoctoral Award (2013)[17]
  • MIT/Bruker Symposium Poster Award (2013) [18]

Selected publications

Her publications include;

  • Natalia B., Shustova; McCarthy, Brian; Dincă, Mircea (2011-11-22). "Turn-on fluorescence in tetraphenylethylene-based metal–organic frameworks: an alternative to aggregation-induced emission". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133 (50): 20126–20129. doi:10.1021/ja209327q. hdl:1721.1/74562.
  • Natalia B., Shustova; Anthony F., Cozzolino; Dincă, Mircea (2013-08-30). "Selective turn-on ammonia sensing enabled by high-temperature fluorescence in metal–organic frameworks with open metal sites". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (36): 13326–13329. doi:10.1021/ja407778a. PMID 23981174.
  • Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Rice, Allison M.; Shustova, Natalia (2018). "Photochemistry and photophysics of MOFs: steps towards MOF-based sensing enhancements". Chemical Society Reviews. 47 (13): 4710–4728. doi:10.1039/C7CS00861A.

Book chapters
  • Shustova, Natalia (2011). Perfluoroalkylation of Fullerenes. World Scientific. pp. 102–135. ISBN 978-981-4327-82-4.
  • Shustova, Natalia (2013). High-Yield Synthesis of a Single Asymmetric Isomer of C70(CF3)10 by High Temperature Radical Trifluoromethylation. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 447–449. ISBN 1118409442.

She is an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal of Materials Chemistry Frontiers. [19]

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References
  1. Leith, Gabrielle A.; Rice, Allison M.; Yarbrough, Brandon J.; Berseneva, Anna A.; Ly, Richard T.; Buck, Charles N.; Chusov, Denis; Brandt, Amy J.; Chen, Donna A.; Lamm, Benjamin W.; Stefik, Morgan; Stephenson, Kenneth S.; Smith, Mark D.; Vannucci, Aaron K.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Garashchuk, Sophya; Shustova, Natalia B. (2020). "A Dual Threat: Redox-Activity and Electronic Structures of Well-Defined Donor-Acceptor Fulleretic Covalent-Organic Materials". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59 (15): 6000–6006. doi:10.1002/anie.201914233. ISSN 1521-3773.
  2. Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Rice, Allison M.; Smith, Mark D.; Shustova, Natalia B. (2016). "Photophysics, Dynamics, and Energy Transfer in Rigid Mimics of GFP-based Systems". Inorganic Chemistry. 55 (15): 7257–13643. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00835. ISSN 1520-510X.
  3. Williams, Derek E.; Martin, Corey R.; Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Swifton, Anton; Godfrey, Danielle C.; Ejegbavwo, Otega A.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Smith, Mark D.; Shustova, Natalia B. (2018). "Flipping the Switch: Fast Photoisomerization in a Confined Environment". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (24): 7611–7622. doi:10.1002/jacs.8b02994. ISSN 1520-5126.
  4. Berseneva, Anna A.; Martin, Corey R.; Galitskiy, Vladimir A.; Ejegbavwo, Otega A.; Leith, Gabrielle A.; Ly, Richard T.; Rice, Allison M.; Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Smith, Mark D.; zur Loye, Hans-Conrad; DiPrete, David P.; Amoroso, Jake W.; Shustova, Natalia B. (2020). ""Boarding-Up": Radiation Damage and Radionuclide Leaching Kinetics in Linker-Capped Metal-Organic Frameworks". Inorganic Chemistry. 59 (1): 179–183. doi:10.1002/acs.inorgchem.9b01310. ISSN 1520-510X.
  5. Rice, Allison M.; Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Yarbrough, Brandon J.; Leith, Gabrielle A.; Martin, Corey R.; Stephenson, Kenneth S.; Heugh, Rebecca A.; Brandt, Amy J.; Chen, Donna A.; Karakalos, Stavros G.; Smith, Mark D.; Hatzell, Kelsey B.; Pellechia, Perry J.; Garashchuk, Sophya; Shustova, Natalia B. (2018). "Stack the Bowls: Tailoring the Electronic Structure of Corannulene-Integrated Crystalline Materials". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57 (35): 11310–11315. doi:10.1002/anie.201806202. ISSN 1521-3773.
  6. Dolgopolova, Ekaterina A.; Williams, Derek E.; Greytak, Andrew B.; Rice, Allison M.; Smith, Mark D.; Krause, Jeanette A.; Shustova, Natalia B. (2015). "A Bio-inspired Approach for Chromophore Communication: Ligand-to-Ligand and Host-to-Guest Energy Transfer in Hybrid Crystalline Scaffolds". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54 (46): 13639–13643. doi:10.1002/anie.201507400. ISSN 1521-3773.
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