EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Associate, 2005-2008, Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University

Ph.D. 2004, Chemistry, University of Chicago

M.S. 1999, Chemistry, University of Chicago

B.A. 1998, Chemistry, Earlham College, Richmond IN

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Organizing Principles for Clusters
• Catalysis
• Ligand Effects on Nanoparticles

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Superatomic molecules with internal electric fields for light harvesting
   AC Reber, V. Chauhan, D. Bista, SN Khanna.  
   Nanoscale 12, 4736-4742 (2020)
2. Co₆Se₈(PEt₃)₆ superatoms as tunable chemical dopants for two-dimensional semiconductors
   AC Reber, SN Khanna
   npj Computational Materials 4, 33 (2018)
3. More than just a support: Graphene as a solid-state ligand for palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions
   
   Y Yang, AC Reber, SE Gilliland III, CE Castano, BF Gupton, SN Khanna
   Journal of Catalysis 360, 20-26 (2018)
4. Superatoms: electronic and geometric effects on reactivity
   
   AC Reber, SN Khanna
   Accounts of chemical research 50, 255-263 (2017)
5. Initial and Final State Effects in the Ultraviolet and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS and XPS) of Size-Selected Pd_n Clusters Supported on TiO₂(110)
   FS Roberts, SL Anderson, AC Reber, SN Khanna
   The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119, 6033-6046 (2015)
6. Complementary active sites cause size-selective reactivity of aluminum cluster anions with water
   
   PJ Roach, WH Woodward, AW Castleman Jr, AC Reber, SN Khanna
   Science 323, 492-495 (2009)
7. Spin accommodation and reactivity of aluminum based clusters with O₂
   
   AC Reber, SN Khanna, PJ Roach, WH Woodward, AW Castleman Jr
   Journal of the American Chemical Society 129, 16098-16101 (2007)

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