NEWS
A huge congratulations to Zack Schiffer, the Manthiram Lab’s newly minted PhD! 🎓 Dr. Schiffer defended his thesis titled “Kinetic and Thermodynamic Aspects of Voltage as a Driving Force for Ammonia Activation” on Thursday.
Congratulations to Dr. Zack Schiffer on his thesis defense! Zack was a member of our 1st cohort of students - he established a clear vision for electrification of synthesis with a thermodynamic basis and new methods of generating C-N bonds, always blending theory and experiment.
Recently we had our fourth annual Manthiram Lab Candlepin Bowling Championship 🎳. @KManthiram had the high score - clearly he had been practicing at home during the pandemic! Wonderful to be able to restart this tradition in 2021!
Prof Karthish Manthiram named a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar: http://ow.ly/z44c50Fa56G @KManthiram
It is a momentous occasion in the Manthiram Lab! We have minted our first-ever PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Nik Lazouski on successfully defending his thesis, "Development of a Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Process."
Congratulations to Dr. Nik Lazouski on defending his thesis today! Nik, as a member of our 1st cohort of graduate students, established the area of lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction in our group, including achieving record-high rates of ammonia synthesis at ambient conditions.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay from the Manthiram Lab! We're here working toward sustainable chemical synthesis, advancing electrochemical fundamentals, making technoeconomic models, teaching, mentoring, and more, from UROPs all the way through 5th year PhD. #ILookLikeAnEngineer
Opening for a postdoc position (36 months) in our group! We are looking for someone with an electrochemistry/electrochemical engineering background to strengthen our #CO2 reduction efforts, more details in the add. RTs are appreciated! @Chemjobber @ElectrochemJobs @tudelft3mE https://twitter.com/AcademicTrnsfr/status/1364636230663757826
Postdoctoral researcher on electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene and ethanol https://www.academictransfer.com/298191/ @TUDelft
Now that all the dust has settled and everyone has safely returned to campus, we are excited to formally welcome all four of our new first-year grad students: Simar, Sayandeep, Trent, and Fang-Yu! Here's to the start of something great! #NotOurSnowman #ButStillSmiling #MaskedUp
Our paper on applying Bayesian statistics to Tafel data analysis is out in @NatureComms! You can read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20924-y
I’m going to attempt my first paper Tweetorial below: 1/11
Our work on the application of Bayesian statistics to Tafel Analysis in CO2 reduction is now peer-reviewed and in @NatureComms! @adityal crunched the numbers and found no preference for TS cardinality. Maybe you read it as a preprint? If not, check it out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20924-y
Great example of "office musings" yielding useful frameworks - Zack and @adityal take us another step toward understanding chemistry not as "either/or," EChem v. Thermochem, but as universally dependent upon multiple thermo variables. Out now in @Joule_CP! https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30613-9
Online Now: Thermodynamic Discrimination between Energy Sources for Chemical Reactions from @ManthiramLab and @KManthiram http://dlvr.it/RqMYk5 #chemistry #energy #Joule #electrochemistry #thermodynamics
Huge congrats to Katie (@kjsteinb) for passing her thesis proposal! A bright future full of lithium chemistry awaits! #NitrogenReduction #BreakingBonds #TakingNames Pic credit may possibly go to Juniper the cat?? 🐱
We're stoked to welcome 3 new grad students to the team: Sayandeep, Simar, and Trent! Onboarding is not the same right now, but we're looking forward to learning and growing with you, & gradually ramping up research as public health measures allow! #VoltageBoost #LabExcitedState
This one has been a long time coming, but finally in the midst of #AIChE2020 it has arrived! @chung_minju demonstrates chlorine-mediated ethylene epoxidation in saline water. If you love high rates, high FEs, and industrially-relevant EChem, we got you: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acscatal.0c02810
We're at #AIChE2020! Come find us:
Mon: Carboxylation (Nathan)
Tue: O-atom Transfer (@KManthiram )
Wed: Thermodynamics of E Sources (Zack)
Thu: C-H Activation (@ReadMeLikeANook) & Amination (Zack)
Fri: CO2R Modeling (@js_zeng) & Bayesian Tafel Slope Analysis (@adityal)
We are hiring for the position of assistant professor; applications received before Dec. 1, 2020 will be giving priority. Find more info here: http://ow.ly/7LWa50CfXZQ
#Catalysis Club of Chicago 2020-21 Monthly speakers! #Theory and #Experiment, #Organometallics, #MOFs, #Zeolites, #Electrocatalysis—We've got it #all. Join us!
Congrats @ReadMeLikeANook and all of this year's CRE award winners!
We congratulate all twenty CRE Division #AIChE2020 meeting grant #Award winners!
We continue working on confinement to promote catalysis! Here, super talented faculty candidate @DiIorioCatalyst shows how ordered alcohol solvent networks confined in hydrophobic zeolite pores stabilize transition states. #zeolites @J_A_C_S https://twitter.com/DiIorioCatalyst/status/1321444121832267776
Check out our latest paper in @J_A_C_S! We show that hydrophobic zeolites order confined H-bonded alcohol networks and catalyze transfer hydrogenations faster than their hydrophilic counterparts. @Blake_Johnson39 @yuriy_roman http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c09825
Congrats to everyone on AIChE's 35 under 35, including our very own @KManthiram!
Learn about the work and lives of these 35 high-achieving chemical and biological engineers https://bit.ly/3iOyLpk #AIChE35Under35
Please RT. We are looking for #postdocs, who are interested in synthetic chemistry, #maingroupchemistry and luminescent materials. Email me （dtyang@nwpu.edu.cn) if interested.
pls RT: Registration is now open for the MIT ACCESS Program, a weekend-long symposium aimed to expose underrepresented minority students to the benefits of a graduate education in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science! http://access.mit.edu/
Honoured to be chairing the 1st @ChemPhysChem virtual symposium on CO2 reduction, on 29 September, especially with such an exciting lineup. Please sign up! @MariaEscEsc @KManthiram @fhi_mpg_de https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/event/11257056/1st_ChemPhysChem_Virtual_Symposium_on_CO2_Reduction.html
Our first ever preprint is now up on @ChemRxiv! @adityal re-examined several Tafel datasets from the CO2 reduction literature using Bayesian data analysis. Our takeaway: let's rethink how we use Tafel data in electrochemical mechanistic analysis! https://chemrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Bayesian_Data_Analysis_Reveals_No_Preference_for_Cardinal_Tafel_Slopes_in_CO2_Reduction_Electrocatalysis/12844715
Join our team! Interested in batteries for EVs and aircraft? Our @ARPAE IONICS battery postdoc position description and application portal is now live. Awardees include @24M_Tech @venkvis and @SepionTech https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=90919
We have 10 postdoctoral positions immediately available in multiple sites @NSF_CSOE https://cci.utah.edu.
Please share to anyone interested in highly collaborative research in synthetic organic electrochemistry.
Two postdoc openings in my group @NTUsg are now online! Come join us in Singapore! #compchem
We use a suite of computational modelling methods to understand and engineer catalysts at the atomic scale.
RTs are appreciated.
1. http://tiny.cc/17rksz
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Join our team! We have postdoc positions open for electrochemists to further develop these lithium metal batteries for EVs and eVTOL with @venkvis @24M_Tech @ARPAE . Battery and electrolyte expertise required. DM me if interested. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/07/20/battery-electric-planes-cars/
🎉Congratulations to J-WAFS PI @KManthiram of @MITChemE who has been selected for the Department of @ENERGY's 2020 Early Career Research Program! His research will find more #sustainable methods for chemical #synthesis of everyday materials. @ManthiramLab https://bit.ly/394C2N6
Prospective PhD students, I have an exciting vacancy on green ammnonia electrosynthesis @ImpMaterials, funded by @ERC_Research with @HallettGroup and @titiricigroup as cosupervisors (fully funded for UK and EU students). Please retweet https://www.imperial.ac.uk/materials/study/phdlist/phdcdt-research-projects-available/
New content online: In situ electrochemical generation of nitric oxide for neuronal modulation http://dlvr.it/RZgtKs
Thanks to @MIT News for covering our recent collaboration with @AnikeevaLab! To quote Prof. Anikeeva summarizing a reviewer comment: "Electrolysis in a biological system has never [before] been leveraged to control biological function." http://news.mit.edu/2020/nitric-oxide-messenger-molecule-inside-body-demand-0629
Was amazing to be a part of this exciting work, led by Jimin Park & @ksjinerg where we integrate electrocatalysts and multifunctional fibers to create implantable devices for in-situ production and on-demand release of gaseous NO in deep brain circuits !
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0701-x
Our collaboration with @ManthiramLab was published today in @NatureNano. Congratulations to co-first authors Jimin and Kyoungsuk, and the rest of the team.
In situ electrochemical generation of nitric oxide for neuronal modulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0701-x.epdf?sharing_token=EMTngzknuWd0cDXhnnM9WNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0ONDGnhr26oSifJNhyiSAO29BLaI5zpEh6Sv_sslhm8YNmiU1bihHLeyQFSJvLa0RqUK5K0JEMiHQ3AbFfyZN4fBwAYR2Sdn7xAnm0kOkXqfhgmHsZP5i1X78p8n0DGAkU%3D
Excited to share our new collaborative work with @AnikeevaLab: in situ generation of NO as a neuronal signalling molecule in mouse brains. @ksjinerg as co-first author contributed to both the electrocatalysis and the mouse model work!🐭Now in @NatureNano: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0701-x
Thanks to @tcemagazine for highlighting our ammonia synthesis work!
A team of MIT chemical engineers has developed an electrochemical process for producing ammonia that reduces emissions and could allow decentralised production of ammonia in remote areas.
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/producing-ammonia-with-small-scale-electrochemical-reactors/
Non-aqueous gas diffusion electrodes for rapid ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and water-splitting-derived hydrogen
https://go.nature.com/3dD8R5g ($)
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.
Read more 👇
@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
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