January — Our new paper,Unlocking Mesoscopic Disorder in Graphitic Carbon with Spectroelectrochemistry is published in Angewandte Chemie! With Ry Papadopoulos, Ben Masters, alongside theory collaborators in the Galli Group, we demonstrate that mesoscopic disorder in graphitic carbon electrodes exhibit distinguishing electric-field IR responses. We celebrate the beginning of a new year with a holiday party at Anna’s place. We congratulate Caroline Hou for receiving a Quad Grant! Graduate students, Gregory Gorobets, Taemin Kim, Nico Maldonado, and Ye Ji Kim have officially passed their oral exams! Congrats to all!
2024
November — We are excited to welcome Ching-Nung Chen, Jesús Muñoz Castañeda, Becca Hotton, Caroline Hou, and Ashok Tate; they joined our team over the past few months! Also, much earlier this fall, we took a nice group trip — beautiful views, good food, awesome company, and great times.
July — Our new paper, Competitive Valerate Binding Enables RuO2-Mediated Butene Electrosynthesis in Water is published in JACS! Špela Kunstelj, alongside our theory collaborators in the Gagliardi Group, show that valerate interacts with RuO2 anodes, enhancing non-Kolbe selectivity in water! Our new review, Interfacial Science for Electrosynthesis co-authored with Taemin Kim and YeJi Kim, is out in the Current Opinion in Electrochemistry! Congrats to Ry Papadopoulos for receiving a 2024 ACS DIC Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry and Deepak Badgurjar for being a finalist for the Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Award Symposium! We celebrated the group’s 3rd birthday — good food and great times! Congrats to all!
May— Congrats to our graduate students, Gregory Gorobets who received an NDSEG fellowship and Špela Kunstelj who received a departmental travel award to attend the Inorganic GRC! Congrats to our undergraduate students, Madison Huynh who received an NSF GRFP, graduated, and is off to UC Berkeley and Ry Papadopoulos who received a Beckman Scholars Award and the Astronaut Scholarship! Congrats to all!
December — We are excited to officially welcome our new coworkers, Taemin Kim, Gregory Gorobets, Nico Maldonado, YeJi Kim, andRy Papadopoulos! We congratulate Ben Masters for passing his PhD candidacy exam earlier this fall! We congratulate co-workers Deepak Badgurjar (Electrochemistry GRC), Sarah Kress (ACS), Madison Huynh (ACS) on Departmental Travel Awards that will support their participation in various conferences next calendar year! Last but not least, we are super grateful to the NSF for supporting our scientific and educational missions with an NSF CAREER Award! We celebrate another fantastic year full of great science with a holiday party at Anna’s place.
July — We are happy to share our new paper, Non-Covalent Interactions Mimic the Covalent: An Electrode-Orthogonal Self-Assembled Layer, published in JACS. With coworkers, Deepak Badgurjar, Madison Huynh, Ben Masters, we have discovered an electrode-orthogonal synthetic strategy to molecularly define electrified interfaces! On another note, we are very grateful to the NIH for a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award! Our coworkers received awards to support their contributions to the group’s science this summer —Emma Edwards (Quad Grant), Sarah Kress (Norris Grant), Ben Masters (Departmental Fellowship)! Thanks to our safety officer, Deepak Badgurjar, for leading our chemical safety efforts and bringing back a safety award! We welcome our new graduate student rotators! We also celebrated our 2nd lab birthday! Here’s to another great year of scientific discovery together. Congrats to all!
February — We are grateful to the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement for aScialog Negative Emissions Science Award— we look forward to uncovering new science in collaboration with the Holewinski Group at U Colorado Boulder. We congratulate our coworker, Madison Huynh, for receiving the Quad Undergraduate Research Scholar Grant.
2022
December — We congratulate our coworker,Špela Kunstelj, for passing her PhD candidacy exam last month! We congratulate our coworker,Qiu Cheng Chen, who has received a Kharasch Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Award to attend the Inorganic Reactions Mechanisms GRC and present our science in March! We welcome our new coworkers,Ben MastersandEmma Edwards! We celebrate our energy- and discovery-packed year together with a holiday party at Anna’s place. Looking forward to what 2023 will bring.
October — We are grateful to the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator program for funding our group’s science! We had a picnic/bonfire at Promontory Point to welcome the new academic year — getting in some of that nice fall sun before the snow arrives (snow hasn’t arrived yet)!
September — Anna gives a late-breaking topics talk on our group’s work at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, CA! Anna has been selected to be a Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science.
July — We welcome the new first-year graduate student rotators! We celebrate our group’s first birthday at Anna’s place!
May — We congratulate our coworkers who have received awards to support their contributions to our team’s science this summer. Špela Kunstelj has been awarded the Jack Halpern Fellowship and Sarah Kress has been awarded the James Norris Grant. We say farewell to our undergraduate coworker, Rocco Molinelli; thank you for your contributions to the lab!
March— We welcome Sarah Kress to the group! Time to schedule that group outing we have all been waiting for! It’s a bit too warm already for ice skating, so bowling it is.
2021
December — We have moved into our permanent lab space — a great spot next to Anderson, Hopkins, and Yu Labs in the Gordon Center for Integrative Science. We also have some great views of our neighbors in Molecular Engineering. We welcome Špela Kunstelj to the group!
November — We welcome Qiu Cheng Chen to the group!
September — We welcome Deepak Badgurjar and Madison Huynh to the group!
July — Hello! We have started a new research group at the University of Chicago! It is time to unpack, organize, and get new science started! We welcome Rocco Molinelli and Charles Zhang to the group!
