New paper out in the JACS 📓🇺🇸🧪🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒😎🥳🫡😲🤳👍. Lead by our colleagues at the University of Queensland 👸, composite PbCsI3 - MOF glasses were synthesized for use as stable artificial photosynthesis 🌿🌴catalyst for CO2 conversion. The pervoskite exhibits visible light absorption and charge separation ⚡️, while the Rh catalytic sites in the MOF mimic photosystem I for CO2 fixation. Good stuff 😺👽! Our work used synchrotron facilities at the Aussitron 🦘🇦🇺, ESRF 🥖🇪🇺, and PETRA-III 🍺🇩🇪 that really made our understanding of electron transfer process possible. Great work by all ‼️. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.4c12619 #artificialphotosynthesis #perovskite #mof #leadhalideperovskite #rhodium #zinc #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

New paper out in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 🇺🇸🧪🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒📌🧱🙈🎉👍. In a collaborative effort with our friends at AFRL✈️, a mechanistic study was performed to determine how the chemistry of peptide-functionalized CNTs influence their properties in detecting low concentrations of volatile organic compounds. Using a range of interface characterization techniques, we determine that peptides side chain chemistry and displacement mobility of the peptide at the CNT interface is critical for determining sensing response, even more so than similarities in polarity and dielectric properties 🤓🧐🔬. Cool stuff 😎! Big thanks to the folks at SXR 🦘🕷️for helping with the vapor dosing experiments in particular 🙏. Read the paper here, and happy New Year 🎉🎉: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.4c14021 #peptide #cnt #voc #biosensors #acs #happynewyear #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

See you later 2024 ✋✌️🫡💨. Ended with the Natural Materials and Systems AFOSR review ✨🧱👽, then off to Europe for serve as an examiner for Hippolytes PhD defense 👨‍🎓. Big time congrats to Hippolyte foe getting his PhD 🥳🥳🥳🥳!! And way to be amazing Europe, as always 😎. See you in 2025 ☺️#programreview #naturalmaterials #highentropy #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #whatisthenameofthisstreet #betterinbucharest #densitate? #notoes #phd #phife #betterinBCN #montpellier #cantstopwontstop #seeyouin2025 #dataordie

New paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A 📔🧱🧪🅰️ 👍🎉. Lead by our mates at Johns Hopkins University 👩‍🏫 and in collaboration with the mighty mighty NREL ⚡️, intermetallic bimetallic electrocatalysts were studied for their use in C-N coupling reactions to form urea. By tuning 🔧 catalyst composition, we were able to demonstrate specific binding to NO3/NO2, a critical step in forming urea. Great work by all, and a special thanks to Bruce Ravel for helping out with experiments at NSLS-II🙏. Read the paper here : https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2025/ta/d4ta07268e #sustainability #urea #copper #gold #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

New paper out in Chem 🧪🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬⚗️⚛️👍😁😎. Lead by our colleagues at Griffith University 🦁, amorphous CuSbOx catalyst were developed for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO 😉⚡️💨. Importantly, reaction modeling showcase the important role of of CO2 solubility in overall reactivity. Great work everyone 👍. Read the paper here: https://www.cell.com/chem/abstract/S2451-9294(24)00555-2 #sustainability #co2rr #co2 #copper #antimony #catalyst #collabos #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie

Congrats to @tarencataldo and Jhair for completing their final progress reviews, and Tanveer for passing his PhD confirmation hearing 🎉🍾🌹🥳👯👯‍♀️👯‍♂️. Big accomplishments for all!! #phd #phlife #phdjourney #accomplishments #organophosphates #minoractinide #biomass #nottotallyuseless #dataordie

Thanks to the Thoi group at Johns Hopkins University for hosting @yuweii77vv this week 🦃🍠🥧🧪⚗️. The crew worked on some new catalyst for converting bio acids to fuels 🍜➡️⛽️. Really good looking stuff yall, good collabs, and good times 😎. Keep eye out out for upcoming papers 📝🫵👀. #collabos #sustainability #biomass #electrocatalysis #highentropy #doggos #idontlikedugs #baltimore #johnshopkinsuniversity #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

Big time congrats to @haihackbarth for receiving her PhD in Chemical Engineering 🎉🥳🎈🍾🍾🍾🏖️🏝️☀️🧱🧱🧱🏆🏆🏆. Great work, and great contributions to the field of polymer derived ceramics #phd #phdcomplete #phdlife #accomplishments #missionaccomplished #synchrotronlife #ceramics #dataordie

The team just wrapped up on a weeks worth of experiments at NSLS-II 😎🫡😻⭕️. Up first, in-situ electrocatalytic PDF time, followed up by in-situ electrocatalytic XAS time ⚡️💡🎣🩻. Thanks to @yuweii77vv for leading the charge 🤺, and our friends from Johns Hopkins University 👨‍🏫 and Colorado School of Mines ⛏️👷‍♀️ for the help. Lots of great data taken on a range of projects. More to come 😁. #phd #phdlife #phdresearch #phdstudent #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #electrocatalysis #sustainability #pdf #xas #playingwithlegos #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #collabos #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

Great work by @yuweii77vv and Tanveer at this hearing first annual ARC CoE-CSI meeting 👏👍🌠🌿🍃🦘! Way to represent 🫡, showcasing the groups work in biomass electroprocessing ⚡️🎄. #phd #phdlife #scientificconference #sustainability #biomass #represent #theycantstopwontstop #sorryicouldntmakeit #sorrynotsorry #dataordie

The team just wrapped up on 3 consecutive(ish) experiments 💪🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️at the THZ 📡, SXR 🍦, and MEX-2 ✌️beamlines at the Aussitron 🦘🕷️. Great efforts from @tarencataldo for leading the charge, and @steeephch and others as well 👍👏😸. Results out soon at a paper near you 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #nuclearfuelcycle #ceramics #mofs #phdlife #dataordie