From the Peter Ferral Cup to switcH2.  The students have officially started their startup company.  Really great stuff!! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.  Learn more about switcH2 here: https://www.switch2engineering.com/

New paper in Advanced Materials!!  In collaboration with Liming Dai’s group and various NASA researchers, we report on a Li-CO2 battery based on graphene materials.  Such materials could pave the way toward new energy storage constructs where atmospheric CO2 can be...

Our students just got back from the SXR beamline at the Aussitron.  They spent the weekend probing the lower energy electronic transitions, including in various catalytic and biosensor systems.  Good job everyone! Thanks to Lar Thomsen for looking over the students!...

Ever wonder how proteins absorb on Au NPs?  Our findings on this topic can be found in our recent paper in Nanoscale.  In collaboration with Alf Garcia-Bennett’s team at Macquarie University, we use a series of techniques to explore how protein absorb on Au surfaces. ...

New paper from PartCat is now out in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.  Here we detail how catalysts manipulation can lead to the selective production of syngas. DOUBLE THUMBS UP EMOJI.  You can find the paper here:...

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how...

Two in a row!! Our latest paper in JACS is in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Chemistry at UNSW and Rob Scott’s group at the University of Saskatchewan.  This paper details the directed disordering of intermetallic Pt3Sn nanocatalysts and how...

Latest paper published in JACS!!  In collaboration with colleagues from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Southern California, we report on a novel synthetic method for generating MoC nanoparticles.  Cool stuff! EXAFS and PDF were used to...

New paper in Nano Letters!  In collaboration with the Kortshagen Group at the University of Minnesota, we investigate the local atomic structure of plasmonic Si nanocrystals using atomic PDF and RMC modeling.  RMC modeling provides a means to track dopant location,...

We are in the Bay!!  Currently performing liquid-cell NEXAFS experiments with the Brian Collins Group at 7.3.3 to study biomolecules at functional abiotic interfaces.  These experiments WERE NOT EASY haha. Thanks to the team at 7.3.3 for being such good hosts. We’ll...