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Abderrahman Atifi, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist in INL’s Chemical Systems Department

Research Areas:
Electrochemical Processes; Critical Materials; Renewable Energy

Biography:

Dr. Abderrahman Atifi is an electrochemist staff scientist in Idaho National Laboratory’s Chemical Systems Department, researching critical materials, energy and environmental challenges. His areas of expertise include interfacial electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, chemometrics and computational analyses. He holds a doctorate in analytical chemistry from Marquette University and a doctorate in physical chemistry from Hassan 1st University in Morocco, where he also earned his master’s in materials sciences. Before joining INL in 2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Delaware’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. His work at INL includes process optimization and fundamental investigation of electrochemical recovery of critical materials in non-aqueous systems; designing efficient electrocatalytic platforms under ambient conditions; and developing analytical capabilities for interfacial and molecular processes.​

Education:

Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry- Marquette University

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry- Hassan 1st University

​M.S., Materials Sciences- Hassan 1st University

Publications:

Kennalee Orme, Donna L. Baek, Robert V. Fox, Abderrahman Atifi* “Water Interplays during Dysprosium Electrodeposition in Pyrrolidinium Ionic Liquid: Deconvoluting the Pros and Cons for Rare Earth Metallization”, ACS Sustainable. Chem. Eng., 2021.

Thabiso Kunene, Abderrahman Atifi, and Joel Rosenthal “Influence of Surface Composition of AgSn Films on the Selectivity and Electrokinetics of CO2RR in the Presence of Protic Organic [DBU-H]+ Cations”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater.​, 2021.


Md. Hafizur Rahman, Abderrahman Atifi, Joel Rosenthal and Michael D. Ryan “Reversible Proton-Coupled Reduction of an Iron Nitrosyl Porphyrin in [DBU-H]+-based Protic Ionic Liquid Nanodomains”, Inorganic Chemistry 2021.


S. Tcyrulnikov, Q. Cai, J. C Twitty, J. Xu, Abderrahman Atifi, O. P. Bercher, G. P. Yap, J. Rosenthal, M. P Watson, M. C Kozlowski “Dissection of Alkylpyridinium Structures to Understand Deamination Reactions”, ACS Catalysis, 2021.


Abderrahman Atifi*, Donna L. Baek and Robert V. Fox “Electrodeposition of Dysprosium in Pyrrolidinium Triflate Ionic Liquid at Ambient Temperature: Unraveling System Efficiency and Impact of Solvation Interplays on the Reduction Process”, Electrochimica Acta, 2021.


Abderrahman Atifi, Piotr Mak and Michael D. Ryan “Ion Pairing versus Solvation of Dinitrobenzene Anions in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs): Vibrational Signatures of RTIL–Substrate Interactions”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2020.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Voltammetry and Spectroelectrochemistry of TCNQ in Acetonitrile/RTIL Mixtures” Molecules, 2020.


Thabiso Kunene, Abderrahman Atifi, Joel Rosenthal “Selective CO2 Reduction Over Rose’s Metal in the Presence of an Imidazolium Ionic Liquid Electrolyte”, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2019.​


Abderrahman Atifi, T. P. Keane, J. L. DiMeglio, R. C. Pupillo, D. R. Mullins, D. A. Lutterman, J. Rosenthal “Insights into the Composition and Function of a Bismuth Carbon Monoxide Evolving Catalyst (Bi-CMEC) System”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 9087−9095.


Abderrahman Atifi, Piotr J. Mak, Michael D. Ryan “Proton-Coupled Reduction of an Iron Nitrosyl Porphyrin in the Protic Ionic Liquid Nanodomain”, Electrochimica Acta, 2019, 295, 735-741.


Abderrahman Atifi, David W. Boyce, John L. DiMeglio, Joel Rosenthal “Directing the Outcome of CO2 Reduction at Bismuth Cathodes Using Varied Ionic Liquid Promoters”, ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 2857−2863.


J. Medina-Ramos, W. Zhang, K. Yoon, P. Bai, A. Chemburkar, W. Tang, Abderrahman Atifi, S. S. Lee, T. T. Fister, B. J Ingram, J. Rosenthal, M. Neurock, A. CT Van Duin, P. Fenter “Cathodic Corrosion at the Bismuth–Ionic Liquid Electrolyte Interface under Conditions for CO2 Reduction”, Chem. Mater., 2018, 30, 2362-2373.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Altering the Coordination of Iron Porphyrins by Ionic Liquid Nanodomains in Mixed Solvent Systems”, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 1-12.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Influence of RTIL Nano-domains on the Voltammetry and Spectroelectrochemistry of Fullerene C60 in Mixed Benzonitrile/RTIL Mixtures”, Electrochimica Acta, 2016, 191, 567–576.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Spectroscopic Evidence of Nano-domains in THF/RTIL mixtures: Spectroelectrochemical and Voltammetric Study of Nickel Porphyrins”, Anal. Chem., 2015, 87, 12245–12253.


Y. Tang, B. Pattengale, J. Ludwig, Abderrahman Atifi, A. V. Zinovev, B. Dong, Q. Kong, X. Zuo, X. Zhang, J. Huang. “Direct Observation of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Ruthenium Complex/Ni(OH)2 Nanoparticle Hybrid”, Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 18505.

Florentina Tutunea, Abderrahman Atifi, Michael D. Ryan “Visible and infrared spectroelectrochemistry of zinc and manganese porphinones: Metal versus porphyrin reduction”, J. Electroanal. Chem., 2015, 744, 17-24.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of 1,4-dinitrobenzene in acetonitrile and room temperature ionic liquids: Ion-pairing effects in mixed solvents”, Anal. Chem., 2014, 86, 6617-6625.


Hafida Mountacer, Abderrahman Atifi, P. Wong-Wah-Chung, Mohamed Sarakha “Degradation of the pesticide carbofuran on clay and soil surfaces upon sunlight exposure”, Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res., 2014, 21, 3443-3451.


Abderrahman Atifi, K. Czarnecki, H. Mountacer, M. D. Ryan “In-situ study of the photodegradation of carbofuran deposited on TiO2 film under UV-light, using ATR-FTIR coupled to HS-MCR-ALS”, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47, 8650−8657.


Abderrahman Atifi, M. Talipov, H. Mountacer, M. D. Ryan, M. Sarakha “A density functional theory and laser flash photolysis investigation of carbofuran photodegradation in aqueous medium”, J. Photochem. Photobiol., A 2012, 235, 1-6.   

Presentations:

Abderrahman Atifi and Joel Rosenthal “Electrocatalytic plasticity: Switching the outcome of CO2 reduction at post-transition metal cathodes in the presence of room-temperature ionic liquids” MARM 2017, Hershey, PA.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Reactivity and solvation of redox products in mixed molecular-RTILs solvents: Nanodomains partition” ACS 2015, Boston.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Spectroelectrochemistry of Iron fluorinated porphyrin in mixed RTILs/molecular solvents”, Pittcon 2015, New Orleans.


Abderrahman Atifi and Michael D. Ryan “Spectroelectrochemical study of multi-electron transfers in room temperature ionic liquids”, ECS 2013, San Francisco.

Awards:

​2021 R&D 100

Henry and Camille Dreyfus Environmental Fellowship

Schmitt Fellowship for Leadership

Fulbright Scholarship for Research, Educational and Cultural Exchange

Research Interests:

Electrocatalysis

Electrodeposition

Spectroelectrochemistry

Ionic Liquids

Lanthanides

Chemometrics

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