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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida
Faculty Member UF Department of Chemistry

UF Department of Chemistry

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Andrew D. Pendergast

Assistant Professor

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Research Focus

Research in the Pendergast Group focuses on developing electrochemical methods to quantify and control chemical reactivity at the nanoscale. We are particularly interested in how the structure of interfaces and interphases governs electrochemical charge transfer processes. Our group combines electrochemical scanning probe microscopies, nano- and microfabrication, continuum modeling, and correlated spectroelectrochemical methods to uncover the nanoscale microenvironments that emerge at electrochemical interfaces. Students in the Pendergast Group will gain expertise in both fundamental and applied electrochemistry as we study problems including single-particle phase transformations, electrochemically programmable separations, and multiphase electrosynthesis.

Education and Training

2024–2026: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley (lab of Prof. Shannon W. Boettcher)

2020–2024: Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, University of Utah (lab of Prof. Henry S. White)

2016–2020: B.S. Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (lab of Prof. Jeffrey E. Dick)

Selected Awards

Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship (2026, Declined to Join UF)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021–2024)

Selected Activities

Co-Chair, 2026 Electrochemistry Gordon Research Seminar

Selected Publications

Pendergast, A. D.; Gutiérrez Portocarrero, S.; Noriega, R.; White, H. S. Electrical Double Layer Spillover Drives Coupled Electron- and Phase-Transfer Reactions at Electrode/Toluene/Water Three-Phase Interfaces. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 30464–30473.

Pendergast, A. D.; Gutiérrez Portocarrero, S.; Noriega, R.; White, H. S. Electric Potential Driven Acid/Base Chemistry: Kinetics of Electrochemical Interfacial Proton Transfer and Transport. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2024, 128, 7127–7136.

Pendergast, A. D.; Deng, Z.; Maroun, F.; Renault, C.; Dick, J. E. Revealing Dynamic Rotation of Single Graphene Nanoplatelets on Electrified Microinterfaces. ACS Nano, 2020, 15, 1250–1258.