Practicum Experience(s)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2025)
Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
### Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles ###
M. Vasilev, H. M. Nguyen, S. M. Peyres, L. Das, D. Martin, D. M. Bartels, R. M. Sankaran, and D. B. Go. Catalyst-free plasma electrolysis drives ethylene glycol oxidation mediated by solvated electrons. Submitted (2026)
S. M. Peyres, D. B. Cooney, D. B. Go, R. M. Sankaran, and N. B. Uner. Operating Regimes, Scaling Laws, and Optimization of Selectivity in Plasma-Liquid Reactors. Under review (2026)
A. Jayanarasimhan, R. Pierrard, S. M. Peyres, S. Yatom, D. Curreli, and R. M. Sankaran. Insights into Sustainable Nitrogen Fixation by Gas-phase Spectroscopic Measurements and Global Modeling of Reaction Intermediates in Humid Nitrogen Plasma. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 13(1), 140-150 (2025)
S. M. Peyres, J. Wang, D. W. Hollyfield, N. H. Abuyazid, R. M. Sankaran and N. B. Uner. Application of a Film Model to Mass Transfer and Chemical Reaction at a Plasma-Liquid Interface. Journal of The Electrochemical Society 171, 113502 (2024)
N. H. Abuyazid, N. B. Uner, S. M. Peyres, and R. M. Sankaran. Charge decay in the spatial afterglow of plasmas and its impact on diffusion regimes. Nature Communications 14, 6776 (2023)
### Conference Presentations ###
S. M. Peyres, D. B. Cooney, D. B. Go, R. M. Sankaran, and N. B. Uner. Operational Regimes and Selectivity Scaling Laws of Plasma-Liquid Reactions. 249th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 24 - 28, 2026. [ORAL]
S. M. Peyres, H. M. Nguyen, C. B. Ogueri, N. B. Uner, D. B. Go, and R. M. Sankaran. Reaction and Diffusion of Plasma-Injected Solvated Electrons in Non-Aqueous Solvents. Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Conference, Andover, NH, July 21 - 26, 2024. [POSTER]
S. M. Peyres, J. L. Dinari, M. Koska, J. Stubbins, R. M. Sankaran. Large-Area Plasma-Liquid Reactors for Water Purification in Space. American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, Washington, D.C., November 12 - 15, 2023. [ORAL]
S. M. Peyres, N. B. Uner, N. H. Abuyazid, R. M. Sankaran. Modeling Reaction and Diffusion at a Plasma-Liquid Interface. AVS 69th International Symposium & Exhibition, Portland, OR, November 5 - 10, 2023. [ORAL]
S. M. Peyres, N. B. Uner, N. H. Abuyazid, and R. M. Sankaran. Modeling of Radical-Scavenger Reaction and Diffusion within the Plasma-Liquid Interface. Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 27, 2023. [ORAL]
Awards
### Graduate ###
DOE NNSE Stewardship Science Graduate Fellow, Fall 2024 - Present
### Undergraduate ###
University Dean's List, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Daniel F. Hang Outstanding Senior Design Award, 2023
NPRE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, 2023
Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program Scholar, 2022 - 2023
NPRE Rising Undergraduate Research Award, 2022