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Huge congrats to Nik for having his work on non-aqueous GDEs for ammonia synthesis featured as this month's cover @NatureCatalysis! Turns out isolation proved a good time to learn to make 3D illustrations in #blender.
Check out the article here: https://rdcu.be/b3WDe
Thanks to @NatureCatalysis for the News & Views piece discussing our recent paper on GDEs for non-aqueous ammonia synthesis! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-020-0461-x
Chemical engineers at @MIT are working to create ammonia with small-scale, electrochemical reactors – a solution that could equip farmers with fertilizer in remote, rural areas.
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@KManthiram @ManthiramLab @MITChemE @mitenergy @NSF @jwafs_mit
https://bit.ly/3fDfOVj
Do you want to become an excellent graduate student? @IbehOmodolor, Hope Otor & friends have organized a webinar to give you some advice: Saturday, 5/16 at 3 pm (info below). Everyone is welcome to attend! [RT's appreciated] @UToledo @UToledoCoE @NSBE @PhdExhausted @Dissertating
Post Doc Opportunity: Looking for a post doc with experience/interest in electrochemistry, electrochemical energy conversion, storage, membranes, water. Interested applicants please DM me for more information. Please RT #membrane @MembraneSociety @ECSorg
We are looking for new group members: one PhD and one Postdoc!
More info on our website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lnce/openings/
[ASAP] Kinetic Analysis of Electrochemical Lactonization of Ketones Using Water as the Oxygen Atom Source http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c00931 #chemistry #feedly
When it rains, it pours! Check out our new paper by Joseph et al. in @ACSCatalysis! We demonstrate the use of water as an O-atom source in the lactonization of cyclic ketones through #electrocatalysis on Pt. #GoodbyeHarshOxidants #HelloSustainableSynthesis https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.0c00931
Excited by the paper just out by @ManthiramLab. A J-WAFS seed grant helped fuel this work, which points to a possible future where more affordable fertilizer could be made from air, water, and sun. https://twitter.com/MITChemE/status/1257743135456858112
The @ManthiramLab's small-scale reactors could enable cheaper fertilizer production http://ow.ly/L9X450zxAcy
Thanks to @ChemistryWorld for covering our work on #nonaqueous #GDEs for #ammonia synthesis! #eHaberBosch #StillWorkingOnGettingTheHairOutOfTheSoup
At present, ammonia production alone is responsible for around 1.5% of global carbon emissions
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/record-amounts-of-ammonia-produced-from-nitrogen-and-water/4011685.article
Thanks to @physorg_com for covering our recent work on stainless steel cloth #GDEs for #NRR! Link to read: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-020-0455-8
#TinyHaberBosch #WeMeshWithGDEs https://phys.org/news/2020-05-technique-enable-cheaper-fertilizer-production.html
Researchers from @ManthiramLab are working to develop a cleaner, less expensive alternative to traditional fertilizer manufacturing processes. @MITChemE
http://mitener.gy/mjaV50zyW3r
Thanks to @ScienceMagazine for highlighting our new paper on #electrochemical #ammonia synthesis! Happy to be mentioned alongside work from Prof. Wang's group on high-rate #CO2 reduction. Check out both of these articles now in @NatureCatalysis! https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/making-commodity-chemicals-requires-fossil-fuels-new-devices-could-do-it-renewables
The @ManthiramLab's small-scale reactors could enable cheaper fertilizer production http://ow.ly/L9X450zxAcy
Thanks to @MIT News for featuring our new #GDE research for high-rate #electrochemical #HaberBosch! #DistributedFertilizerProduction #OmNomNomElectrons http://news.mit.edu/2020/cheaper-fertilizer-production-0504
Thanks for the share, @BlackPhysicists!
Non-aqueous gas diffusion electrodes for rapid ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and water-splitting-derived hydrogen https://j.mp/2WnHnt2
Thanks for the boost, @ChemistryNews!
Non-aqueous gas diffusion electrodes for rapid ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and water-splitting-derived hydrogen https://go.nature.com/3c0Vawo
Our newest paper is in @NatureCatalysis! Nik et al. overcome transport limitations for #electrochemical #NRR & #HOR by using stainless steel cloths as gas-diffusion electrodes. We demonstrate overall ammonia synth from N2 and H2O w/ 30+% FE at high rates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-020-0455-8
We've had two virtual birthday parties in the last couple of weeks! Good thing @KManthiram brought the candles. #HappyBirthday to Zack and Kindle, our resident April babies! #Zoom #AnotherYearCloserToPhD
We're terrible at tweeting stuff right when it happens, but isolation is an opportune time for #throwback to just a few weeks ago, when we went out and got ice cream to celebrate the temperature passing 20pi Fahrenheit. #SuchSweetTimes #TeaAndCoffeeFlavsForDays
Our latest work is now in @ACSCatalysis! @js_zeng used kinetic modeling approaches from thermal catalysis to study electrocat. CO2 reduction on CoPc. Turns out some pretty neat nonidealities due to bicarb.&mechanism switching can be observed and explained: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscatal.9b05272
Agreed! Prospective students should feel free to reach out to us via email, as can be found on our website: https://manthiramlab.com/
As graduate school visits are made virtual, I want to encourage any prospective students to reach out to current members of groups you're interested in.
We are always open to talking outside of formal visit weekends, and doubly so during this chaotic time.
Our group at Northeastern is looking for a post-doc in the area of solid electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. We're electrochemical engineers who look at cells holistically. If you know anyone who might be interested please pass it on. Thank you!
https://careers.hrm.northeastern.edu/en-us/job/502806/postdoctoral-research-associate
Interesting coincidence if we're reaching for odd holidays to celebrate - Feb 21 was also Warren K. Lewis's half-birthday. #Party #PiBirthday #SquadGoals #AnyExcuseForPizza #3.1415926535897....
Just celebrated our lab's Pi Anniversary - what an exhilarating 3.14 years since the @ManthiramLab started @MIT! How many examples of Pi can you find in this photo? And yes, we got photobombed by Warren K. Lewis. @MITChemE
We're "hard at work" @BrookhavenLab - definitely "totally focused on XAS"
Gotta stay awake somehow 🚲🚲🚲🚲
#StayBetweenTheLines #AvoidTheWhiteLine #XraySafety #WhyArentYouGuysWearingHelmetsTho
Our group also quickly tried to reproduce the Bi #NRR work and also saw zero catalytic activity. Good to see someone taking the time to rigorously reproduce it.
We attempted hard, but Bi is not electrocatalytically active for the reduction of nitrogen to #ammonia.
If you believe you have a genuine #NRR catalyst (Bi or any other) - @DRMacFarlane and I at @ChemistryMonash @ARC_ACES will be happy to test it for you
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Promoting_Nitrogen_Electroreduction_to_Ammonia_with_Bismuth_Nanocrystals_and_Potassium_Cations_in_Water/11768814
How do you electrify and decarbonize the production of chemicals and materials? A big thank you to @johnkwerner for making this @TEDxMIT talk happen! @MIT @MITChemE @mitenergy @MITEngineering @TEDtalks https://www.ted.com/talks/karthish_manthiram_electrification_and_decarbonization_of_chemical_manufacturing?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
🗞️ ☀️ This week in MITEI news: cheaper solar cells + understanding combustion + greener raw materials for consumer products: https://mailchi.mp/mit.edu/152-the-cheaper-solar-cells-edition
@KManthiram @ManthiramLab @MITEnergyConf @ClimateMIT @MITGlobalChange @MITMechE @MITEngineering
*Group chanting* "One of us! One of us!"
Come join the team!
Please RT - looking for talented postdocs!
Interested in electrifying and decarbonizing chemical synthesis? Our team is innovating at the interface of organic synthesis, catalysis, and electrochemistry.
Check out https://manthiramlab.com/join-us to learn more. @MITChemE
Hot & fresh: @adityal's latest paper with @WillardLab! We are glad to have a co-advised theorist in the group who helps us to think about the EDL more deeply.
Check out our latest publication. We use theory to examine interfacial electron transfer within the double layer. Great work Adi! @adityal https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b08438
Excited to roll out our new @manthiramlab website! We spend a lot of time engaged in Socratic dialogue at the whiteboard, which inspired our website’s design. @mitcheme @mitenergy @mit https://manthiramlab.com
My annual announcement:
If you are working alone in the lab over winter break, be safe! There may be times when you are the only person in the building. Let a friend or labmate know what time you plan to be in the lab & what time you plan to be home.
#chemtwitter #chemsafety
At our annual All-You-Can-Eat Sushi outing, we welcomed Katie to the team! You know what they say: labs that eat together publish well-written, reproducible, fundamentally sound science together! #DoTheySayThat #WeDontCare #WeTryItAnyway #DelishFish #AndFriedRiceForNateDogg
https://cen.acs.org/content/cen/articles/97/i48/CENs-Year-Chemistry-2019.html via @cenmag features work from @KManthiram lab @ManthiramLab
Another well-earned doctoral candidacy was won today, by our very own Minju! Congrats on passing your thesis proposal! #JustInTimeForTheParty #축하합니다 #BossLady
We have another Ph.D. Candidate in the group! Congrats to Adi for successfully proposing his thesis work. #HappyTypingNoises #TheoristLyfe
Insightful seminar @MITChemE today by @SmithElectroLab who shared exciting work from the nanometer to kilometer scale for electrolysis! #electronsFTW @CUBoulder @NREL @tudelft
Thanks to Nancy Stauffer of @mitenergy for covering our epoxidation work so nicely! And to Stuart Darsch for the excellent photography. #WearingSuitsInLab #TechnicallyImproperPPE #ButWeLookFlyAnyway @MITChemE
http://energy.mit.edu/news/manufacturing-consumer-products/
What an awesome talk from @KManthiram @ManthiramLab to end the NAS two-day workshop on “Advances in Electrochemistry”. He talked on the use of N2, H2O, and CO2 as the building blocks for chemicals we want and need!
Michal, a star UROP in our lab, took home 1st place at the @aiche_cre Division IV poster session! Congrats, Michal! #AIChEAnnual @MITChemE
October is over & everyone has moved on to AIChE fun, so here are our October travel highlights. #WeAreBadAtTwitter We have O-subgroup on our first group beamline trip @BerkeleyLab; Zack with Prof. em. Jean-Michel Savéant for #CVIS @ParisDiderot; and our jaunt to #ECS236!
Congrats again Zack for your travel award! See everyone around at #AIChE2019
Congratulations to all our @aiche_cre travel award winners! You are the future of our division. Keep up the good work, enjoy the dinner and the @ChEnected #AIChEAnnual meeting in Orlando, Fl!
Congrats to Zack! And to all other recipients of the CRE Travel Award. See you guys at AIChE!
1/2 We congratulate all students selected for a CRE Travel Award to attend the upcoming AIChE Meeting: Lea Winter, Andrew Tricker, Matthew Jouny, Sravan Kumar, Patrick Barboun, Phil Kester, Tianjun Xie, Zheng Li, Zack Schiffer @Jiao_Lab @TheGrabowGroup
It’s #PostdocAppreciationWeek! Thanks to our amazing postdocs for all they do. Check out the posts in our #WhiteheadPostdocProfiles series to meet some of them, learn about their research, and hear how they balance a full life with their science. #NPAW #NPAW2019
New PhD position
Looking for an enthousiastic student for a PhD project on carbon catalysts for electrocatalysis: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/285798/phd-carbon-electrocatalysts-c-is-for-catalyst/
If you know/are a motivated candidate, please apply or contact me! RT’s are appreciated!
#chemjobs #echem #tudelft #phd #vacancy
@TuftsEngineer @TuftsUniversity @KWhiteheadLab Next, @KManthiram taught us about "electrifying chemical synthesis," in his words. It will be exciting to see what opportunities electrochemistry opens up for greener chemical processes--a little potential seems to go a long way. How well will it scale? Time will tell.
@ManthiramLab kicking off Fall semester with a hike at the Middlesex Fells Reservation! @MITChemE 📷:@saigal88
We're an indecisive group sometimes, but there's an app for that. #HandsInTeam #PowerRangersMoment #Chwazi
Congrats to Joy on being selected for the @MathWorks Engineering #Fellowship! She has done a lot of great modeling work in her research using @MATLAB. A well-deserved honor! @MITChemE #SoManyPlots
Lithium-mediated electrochemical reduction of nitrogen http://bit.ly/2NBqVCU @MIT @MITChemE @Manthiramlab @KManthiram #ACSSANDIEGO
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