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We're "hard at work" @BrookhavenLab - definitely "totally focused on XAS"
Gotta stay awake somehow ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ
#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
๐๏ธ โ๏ธ 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 websiteโs 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 #์ถํํฉ๋๋ค #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 โAdvances in Electrochemistryโ. 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 Savรฉant 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
Itโs #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! RTโs 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 ๐ท:@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
If you're at #ACSSanDiego this week, come hang out with @KManthiram at one of his talks tomorrow! We're on the Electrochemical Epoxidation grind at 13:05, then it's all about Ammonia Synthesis at 15:50. Hope to see you there!
Please RT! Hiring a postdoc to construct gene circuits that track cellular transitions. Requires experience with tissue culture. Cancer biology background is a plus. More info: https://www.kateegalloway.com/contact-1
It's go time! #KarthishGetsHisSaiGal
The group is gearing up for the event of the decade - nay, the century - the Great #SaigalManthiram Wedding! Congrats @KManthiram and @saigal88 - we're so excited to share your special day tomorrow! #KarthishGetsHisSaiGal Below: happy faces & blue teeth at the lab wedding shower.
Zack and Joy had a blast at #NAM26 last week! Thanks to all of the presenters they spoke with, as well as everyone who came to their talks and shared interesting thoughts and ideas! No photos from the conference, but here is the obligatory #ChicagoBean picture:
Our talks are coming up today at 10:30 and 1:30! Come say hi! #NAM26
Our group will be giving 2 talks @NAMcat26 : Joy's on atomically precise active sites for CO2 reduction is this Thursday at 10:30. Zack's talk on electrochemical ammonia oxidation is the same day, Thursday at 1:10 pm. We hope to see you there! #NAM26
Our group will be giving 2 talks @NAMcat26 : Joy's on atomically precise active sites for CO2 reduction is this Thursday at 10:30. Zack's talk on electrochemical ammonia oxidation is the same day, Thursday at 1:10 pm. We hope to see you there! #NAM26
A fantastic article in @cenmag by @LeighJKBoerner on the promise and challenges of renewable nitrogen reduction to ammonia! @MinteerLab @DRMacfarlane @Siemens @ManthiramLab @MITChemE
https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-ammonia-production-emits-CO2/97/i24#
We had lunch yesterday on the rooftop garden in Kendall to celebrate Sierra's graduation! Congrats, Sierra! We know you will do great things as you pursue your PhD @TexasChE! #MIT2019
Our third annual Manthiram Lab Candlepin Bowling Championship was last night - and the victor was Minju!! ๐ณ๐ @KManthiram, meanwhile, is slowly improving, and only a couple of balls in total ended up outside the lane this year. #squad
Congrats to Michaล, whose 10.27 Project Lab team won their team competition! Michaล also won an award for having a top-10 best poster in #SuperUROP. Quite the performance to end the year! ๐๐๐
Check out @KManthiram's panel appearance from @CERAWeek (alongside Bob Armstrong, @CFReinhart, & Kripa Varanasi), in which he discusses our lab's work, @mitenergy's role in facilitating collaborations, and an outlook for the future of energy - https://ondemand.ceraweek.com/detail/video/6018915925001/
Congrats to Manthiram Lab members recognized at the @MITChemE Awards Ceremony this week! UROPs Sierra and Michal + Grad Students Joy, Joseph, and @ReadMeLikeANook are featured. And @KManthiram won the Grad Teaching Award! Preview GSC-X's tribute to him: https://cheme.mit.edu/photo-gallery-post/2019-cheme-department-awards-may-13/
Thanks @tcemagazine for your coverage of our epoxidation efforts!!
Researchers have developed a novel method of epoxide synthesis which could provide a safer and more sustainable alternative
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/novel-epoxide-synthesis/
Lab adventure to @tosci for temperatures passing 20*pi Fahrenheit! Any excuse is sufficient... it's tradition!
Our review of heterogeneous molecular catalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction is now available in @research_nano! If you want to get up to speed on this exciting field, we recommend the read: https://rdcu.be/bzRAA
MIT Sport Taekwondo won the 2019 National Collegiate Championship - congrats to Joy for helping them to victory!!
https://clubsports.mit.edu/sport-taekwondo-earns-national-title/
Congrats to @KManthiram for winning the @3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award! ๐ย We are super proud of you! #3Mgives
Thanks for the highlight, @cenmag !
"Epoxide synthesis goes green thanks to electrochemistry" ~ A new study from @kmanthiram on olefin epoxidations has been featured in a @cenmag story. Check out the article and the C&EN highlight!
http://acspubs.co/Ng2K30oClsq
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b02345
Check out Zack's paper on the mechanism of Nonaqueous Ammonia Activation, now published in @JPhysChem C! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00669
Our newest paper by @DengtaoYang is now out in @ACSCatalysis! We achieved electrochemical carboxylation of benzylic C-N bonds using CO2: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscatal.9b00818
Thanks to Sharad Maheshwari and Michael Janik for the lovely Perspective of our Nitrogen Reduction work in @Joule_CP ! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119301643
Thanks for the share, @Joule_CP!
Understanding Continuous Lithium-Mediated Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction #ACSOrlando @CellPressNews http://bit.ly/2I8mkVJ
Congratulations to Joseph for being named a 2019 @PDSoros Fellow! https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/joseph-haleem-maalouf
Thanks to @MIT News as well for the press on our new olefin epoxidation paper: http://news.mit.edu/2019/synthesizing-epoxides-0409
Our newest article on electrocatalytic alkene epoxidation is now available in @J_A_C_S !
Alkenes + H2O + electricity = epoxides + H2. Check out the #ASAP article from @ManthiramLab @MITChemE. http://acspubs.co/GRrg30onmFB
A belated congrats to Sierra and Michaล for being inducted into @TauBetaPi! Looking snazzy there next to that Bent!
If you'll be at #ACSOrlando, catch @DengtaoYang's talk on benzylic C-N bond carbonylation with CO2, 3:40 Monday afternoon (ORGN 235). Then @KManthiram's on electrochemical ammonia formation and oxidation is 10:40 Tuesday morning (ENFL 314).
In our newest paper, @ReadMeLikeANook & team investigate what, if any, changes occur in a CO2 reduction system when you add gas-phase impurities (O2) to the feed stream to simulate practical operation. Thanks @SusEnergyRSC for this opportunity! #OpenAccess https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/se/c9se00024k
Belated Pi Day celebration with the crew, featuring both fruit pies and pizza pies. ๐Also board games. But no advisor! ๐ข Hope you feel better soon, @KManthiram!
Awesome! Congrats to all of the participants! Our UROP Michaล is in there being spectacular ๐
We had 8 outstanding TED-style talks tonight at our first annual #ScienceSlam hosted by @MITChemE @MITCommLab.
Congratulations to all our contestants especially Eric Miller from @sikeslab for winning both 1st place and audience vote!
Amazing group at the @GordonConf this week in Galveston! Great science all around. See you all next time! @USCMarinescu @TheWarrenLab @BrenLab @ShafaatLab @jkuooo @jsandersonlab @MartinGroupBU @PanetierBU @BroereDaniel @lucie_nurdin @MayerPCET @ManthiramLab #GRC #RealTimeChem
Nik's Ambient Lithium-Mediated Ammonia Synthesis mechanism is also featured as #MechanismoftheMonth with @TrendsChemistry ! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2019.02.008
Congrats to Michaล for being elected VP of MIT's chapter of @TauBetaPi! Just in time for #PiDay
Congrats to Joy for winning gold in Intermediate Women's Sparring at the 2019 Princeton ECTC Tournament! (Look, we've got killer moves outside of lab too! ๐ฅ๐)
A paper we're v excited to share: Nik investigates lithium-mediated approach to electrochemical nitrogen reduction. Great example of how mechanistic understanding & good controls can lead to amazing things. Thanks @Joule_CP for helping us share this story! https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30052-2
The group had a great time making dumplings together for Lunar New Year recently. Thanks to Zack for organizing and Joy for teaching us this art! Judging by the number of dumplings that unfolded while cooking, we still have a lot to learn...
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