Busy week! 😁😎🥸. Up first, a quick stop to the ATL for NAM29 to present research on biomass electroconversion processes 🧪⚡️⚡️🌲😎🦅. Up second, experiments at ALS…. Except not👎🙈. Unfortunately there was an equipment issue and we could not do experiments. These things happen, what can you do ?🤷‍♂️. We’ll take another shot next cycle 👍#nam29 #atl #biomass #catalyst #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

A little bit of a late post… @yuweii77vv and colleagues recently performed in-situ XAS awards at Spring-8 🩻💥⚡️🇯🇵🗾🍣🍱. Work was done one some recently developed catalysts for electrocatalytic chemical processes ⚡️⛽️🐪🫧🧐. Great work all, keep an eye out for the upcoming work 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #catalyst #catalysis #insitu #xas #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

Just wrapped with experiments at BESSY-II 😎🇩🇪🍻🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🐮🐄. Using the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) and the OAESE beamline, we examined metal oxides catalyst under operando conditions during biomass conversion reactions 🤯🙂‍↔️😱😸. Awesome datasets collected for sure, and very supportive staff. We’ll be back 🤖for sure. thanks to @yuweii77vv for the assist and being excellent at opening doors 🙂 #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #bessy #softxrays #copper #cobalt #biomass #carbonnanotubes #cantstopwontstop💪 #dataordie

Feels good to be….😊😁😀☺️😎…after a two year hiatus for upgrades, we just wrapped on XAS experiments at the Advanced Photon Source 🩻⭕️☠️. Lots of great data across a lot of collaborative work. Thanks to @darastrix354 for keeping 10-ID-B pumping 🐈🐈‍⬛, and our collabs from INL 🥔☢️🐈‍⬛⚡️ for the help. Looking forward to more beam time at the APS in the future 🙂😀. #welcomeback #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #criticalmaterials #rareearthelements #nitride #borides #electrocatalysis #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

New paper out in ACS Omega 🇺🇸🧪🏘️♎️. In partnership with the our friends at AFRL🛩️, we examine the local structure of polymer derived SiOC, an industrially relevant material that is poorly understood 😎. Here, we use a range of synchrotron techniques (at APS 🇺🇸, CLS 🇨🇦, and Aussitron 🇦🇺) to show how this material isn’t simply a mix of carbon, oxides, and/or carbides, but demonstrates local Si-O and Si-C coordination in a disordered environment. Cool new insights 👍. Thanks to our colleagues at the synchrotron facilities, and @yuweii77vv @haihackbarth for their efforts. Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c09094 #sioc #carbides #oxides #oxycarbides #polymerderivedceramics #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

Congrats to @gug_rj for receiving his PhD in Chemical Engineering 🍾🙌🎉🥳🎊🥂🕺💃🪩🇧🇷📚😺👍😎🧪⚗️🥼‼️!!! Great work, and some novel approaches for looking at biotic/abiotic interfaces for functional biosensors 🧬🔬🧫🩻. Great accomplishment! #phd #phlife #missionaccomplished✔️ #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #peptides #graphene #sensors #vocs #ontothenextone #dataordie

New paper in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 🇩🇪🧪🌎🗞️😎👍😁🧐! In partnership with @ale.fraca and his team at the Universidad de Cordoba 🇦🇷, metal organic frameworks were used to selectively degrade glyphosate, one of the most commonly used pesticides, to far less harmful chemicals in water 🌱 🌾🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾👨‍🌾💧🦆. The trick is to engineering catalyst sites with liable ligands to form defects. Great work by all, especially Jhair and Tatiana for co-leading the work, @steeephch for helping with data collection, and our mates at the Australian Synchrotron 🇦🇺, Taiwan Photon Source 🇹🇼, and PETRA-III 🇩🇪 for keeping the X-rays humming 🩻🐦‍🔥. Read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.202424540 #pesticidefree #glyphosate #organophosphate #mofs #zirconium #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #collabos #dataordie

The team just wrapped on back to back experiments at MEX-1 and MEX-2 beamlines of the Australian Synchrotron 🦘🐨🕷️🕸️⭕️💪📈📊. Great work by @maryam.jamshidi93 and the rest of the team 👍, where we looked at a range of catalysts, ceramics and sorbent materials ⚡️🧱🧽. Keep an eye out for upcoming papers soon 😎. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #catalyst #ceramics #mofs #rocks #theycantstopwontstop #dataordie

New paper out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A 📓🧱🧪🅰️🧪🇬🇧👍. In collaboration with ANSTO 🦘☢️and CEA 🥖☢️, Zr based sorbent materials for minor actinides were evaluated using a range of analytical techniques to probe their radiation tolerance 🙅🙅‍♀️🙅‍♂️. Great work to all….. read the paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/ta/d4ta08221d/unauth #nuclearfuel #actinides #americium #europium #phosphonates #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie

New paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials 🇺🇸🧪👥⚡️🧱😊🎉. In this work led by our colleagues at the University of Sydney, computational studies 💻🤖were performed on a Na transport on class of borohydrides, important materials for future battery technologies 🔋. These efforts showcase the important in borohydride phase in ion conductivity, and what anion pairing is important for transport. 😎. Read to the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaem.4c02634 #computionalchemistry #sodium #sodiumionbattery #borohydrides #dataordie

Just wrapped on some nice XAS experiments at Diamond 💍💎🔷🔶💠🤓! During this beam time sleepy 🥱 (@yuweii77vv ) go some excellent looking data on a range of new catalysts 🐈‍⬛ and advanced ceramics 🧱. Also, holy HERFD Batman 🔬🦇. We’ll be back for sure 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚀🏊🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️. #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #synchrotronscience #xas #herfd #biomass #catalyst #ceramics #iron #nickel #cobalt #manganese #zirconium #niobium #cantstopwontstop #dataordie

Busy week last week… so busy there arent a lot of photos 🫠. First, I was thrilled to visit INL 🥔☢️ for an invited seminar and to discuss future collaborative efforts 😎. The latter half of the week consisted of coalition building between the DoD labs at Colorado 🏔️research entities. Exciting times again yall 😁 #seminar #famouspotatoes #collabs #newstuffcomingsoon #cantstopwontstop #dataordie