Got to spend some time at the University of Utah 🔴⚪️🙌 recently for a summit on regional strategy for future critical material and minerals research ⛏️🪏🧪📄. Great event with a ton of great institutions involved, plus we got snow ☃️🌨️. Lots of new work coming out of this group soon 😁 #criticalminerals #utah #letitsnow❄️❄️ #collabos #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

Just wrapped up on some XAS 🩻 experiments at a snowy ☃️🌨️ Advanced Photon Source 💡. We got a ton of nice data on chemistries 🧪 used in REE separations ⚡️🧲, along with a bunch of new catalyst chemistries as well 🤓. Big thanks to @darastrix354 for all the help with experiments, and the rest of the team for Mines ⛏️ and INL 🥔☢️. Keep an eye out for new papers in the future 😎📝🙊. #aps #xas #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #synchrotronlife #firsttimers #betterinthesnow #whosdinosauristhis #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

I had a great time at the Microelectronics National Security Summit & Workshop 💻📲🗻🛠️, hosted by the Southwest Mission Acceleration Center (SWMAC) and ASU SWAP Hub 🌵🏜️🚀🔫💣☀️🔱🤝. Great to see people from across industries and professions come together to discuss the future of the field. Always nice to be in the desert too (as long as it’s not summer!) #microelectronics #themission #summit #swaphub #asu #thunderbird #cm #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

Big time congrats to Jhair Pena Prada for successfully completing his PhD 🎓👨‍🎓📝📔🧪🥼🥳🎉🙌🍾🍻🎉🎉🥳👏🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴. Dr Jhair’s thesis on understanding toxic chemical degradation pathways in MOFs, and importantly, how MOF structure dictates chemical properties, is a great contribution to the field 👍😊. Special thanks to @ale.fraca and his team for the collaborations with Jhair throughout his journey 🤝🙌🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷. #phd #phdcomplete #graduation #synchrotron #synchrotronlife #mofs #zirconium #organophosphate #missionaccomplished #chapterclosed #ontodisneyworld #dataordie ...

Two big conferences last ✌️. Up first, J-DAMMIT 📢💥in Harrisburg PA, where there was a ton of cool tech and nice discussions on the future of additive manufacturing 🖨️. Definitely going back next year 👍. Followed that up with the Critical Minerals Symposium at the Colorado School Mines ⛏️🪏💎🔮. Awesome group of people and awesome discussion as always, as I’m sure it will be next year 😸. #jdammit2025 #additivemanufacturing #harrisburg #annedoesshots #criticalminerals #golden #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

Awesome time at the CMI meeting this week 🪨⛏️, hosted at INL 🥔🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬. Lots of great discussions on how to solve global issues in critical materials, including resource management and supply chain issue. Tons of awesome work will be coming out of this for sure.👍 #criticalmaterials #mining #separations #rareearth #cobalt #inmybackyard #cantstopwont #dataordie ...

Just wrapped on a great trip to the DC/Baltimore area 🛫🏛️🦀🪖🎖️🛬. First up was the ACS 🇺🇸🧪🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 National Meeting, where I gave an invited talk on our electrocatalysis ⚡️efforts in biomass valorizarion ☘️. Then up to Baltimore to kick off 🦵future efforts with DEVCOM. And to see some furry friends 🐾. Good stuff👍. #dc #acs #invitedtalk #biomass #electrochemistry #collabos #higary #hiblue #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

New paper out in Advanced Functional Materials 🎉🍾👾🚀🧱👍. Led by our colleagues from Griffith University 🦁, a novel Pb/Cr catalyst has been shown to have excellent selectivity to turn CO2 to formate ⚗️, an important electrochemical reaction 🔬⚡️to covert waste gas streams into fuels and chemicals🧪⛽️. Vacancies in the chrome oxide were determined to be the origin of this reactivity, which were discovered using XAS 🩻 . Great work by all. Read: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202515772 #electrochemistry #co2 #formate #chromium #lead #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #surprisepaper #dataordie ...

New paper out in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society 😁😎💪📓🇺🇸🪴🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒‼️❕‼️. In a collaborative effort with our friends at AFRL ✈️🔬, we demonstrated and studied new perceramic macromolecules made via click chemistry 🫰 that incorporated new metallocene monomers consisting of Ti, Hf, and Zr. These materials can be used in additive manufacturing to make custom ceramic performs without the need of complicated powder sintering processes 🖨️😎. We used a suite of synchrotron capabilities at Soleil 🇫🇷ESRF 🇪🇺and APS 🇺🇸to understand how structure and chemistry changes as a function of pyrolysis temperature, which helps us understand properties. Read the paper here: 10.1111/jace.70178 #ceramics #preceramic #clickchemistry #titanium #halfnium #zirconium #carbide #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie ...

New paper out in Advanced Materials 👍👌🤷🔮🧱. In an effort led out of UNSW with significant contributions from Sandia and Brookhaven national labs, it is shown that the position of Pt atoms and clusters in a ruthenium alloy drastically influence the ability to generate H2 from water 💦. Very interesting stuff 🧐. Read the paper here: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202509610 #nano #hydrogen #electrocatalysis #platinum #ruthenium #singleatom #synchrotron #synchrotronscience #dataordie ...

Last week we hosted the inaugural Biomass Valorization through Electro-conversion Reactions workshop at Telluride Science and Innovation Center 🌿😊⚡️🥤⛽️🧪🏔️🚠. It was great to meet so many key researchers in the field, discussions were excellent, and the location could not be beat. Big thanks to ARO for sponsoring and the folks at Telluride Science for their support. See you in 2027 ⛷️! #telluride #telluridescience #biomass #electrochemistry #cantbeattheview #cantstopwontstop #dataordie ...

New paper out in ACS Catalyst 🇺🇸🧪🏘️⚡️😊😎💪👀💁‍♂️🙋🐛. In a collaborative effort 🤝with the University of Montpellier 🇫🇷🍷🧀🥖, anódic ethylene glycol oxidation reactions ⚗️ were studied and coupled to CO2 reduction 🏭 to form sustainable carbon building blocks 🧱 from waste materials 🗑️♻️👍 using significantly less energy. Oxidation reactions implemented a NiFe catalyst while CO2 reduction used Ag 🥈nanoparticles, but extensively studied using XAS and other characterization techniques. Great work all! Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.5c02291. #sustainability #wastetochemicals #co2rr #co2 #ethyleneglycol #nickel #iron #silver #nano #electrocatalysis #synchrotron #synchrotrondata #dataordie ...