Publications

Stephanie Pazos. Psychological safety and invisible labor: A first‑year chemistry professor’s postpartum journey. Am. J. STEM Educ. 2026.

Featured guest/podcaster, Science with Impact podcast (“Insights from 15 Scientists Who Are Changing the Game”; “Curiosity as a Compass”). 2025-2026.

Xueying Chang, Maher El-Kady, Cheng-Wei Lin, Stephanie Aguilar, Mackenzie Anderson, Richard B. Kaner. “Three-dimensional Graphene Network with Covalently-grafted Aniline Tetramer for Ultralong-life Supercapacitors” Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, (32), 2102397.

Stephanie Aguilar, “Perfluorophenylazide Photochemistry for Modification of Materials”, University of California Los Angeles, 2020.

Stephanie Aguilar, Steven Bustillos, Shuangmei Xue, Wai H. Mak, Chen-Hao Ji, Ethan Rao, Abdulaziz Alturki, Brian T. McVerry, Erika Callagon La Plante, Aziz Alturki, Dante Simonetti, Gaurav Sant, Richard B. Kaner. “Enhancing polyvalent cation rejection using perflorophenylazide-grafted-copolymers membrane coatings” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12,37, 42030-42040.

Cheng-Wei Lin, Wai Mak, Dayong Chen, Haosen Wang, Stephanie Aguilar, Richard B. Kaner. “Catalytic Effects of Aniline Polymerization Assisted by Oligomers” ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 6596-6606.

Cheng-Wei Linǂ, Stephanie Aguilarǂ, Ethan Rao, Wai H. Ma, Xinwei Huang, Na He, Dayong Chen, Dukwoo Jun, Paige Curson, Brian T. McVerry, Eric M. V. Hoek, Shu-Chuan Huang and Richard B. Kaner. “Direct grafting of tetraaniline via perfluorophenylazide photochemistry to create antifouling, low bio-adhesion surfaces” Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 4445-4457.

Michelle Kroc, Aditi Patil, Josiah Ballentine, Anthony Carlos, Stephanie Aguilar, Daniel Mueller, Laura Anderson. “Synthesis of Synthesis of α-oxygenated ketones and substituted catechols via the rearrangement of N-enoxy- and N-aryloxyphthalimides" Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 4125-4137. Invited contribution to a special issue on New Advances in Pericyclic Reactions.

Grace Caldara-Festin, David Jackson, Jesus Barajas, Timothy R. Valentic, Stephanie Aguilar, MyChi Nguyen, Michael Vo, Avinash Khanna, Eita Sasaki, Hung-wen Lui, Shiou-Chuan Tsai. “Structural and functional analysis of two di-domain aromatase/cyclases from type II polypeptide synthases”. PNAS, 2015, 112, 50, E6844-E6851. 

ǂ These two authors contribute equally to this work.