Congratulations to recently minted Dr. Melissa Meder’s lead-author paper on employing autoxidation studies on selectively deuterated alpha-pinene to reveal the importance of multiple branching pathways.

Congratulations to Amani and Nicole, whose paper on the total potential and interfacial structure at silica:water interfaces under hydrothermal conditions was just accepted at JACS – it’s also a blueprint for how to build a phase-resolved SHG spectrometer for under $50k!

We’re on a roll: this is our second e-chem paper, this time on nanolayer hematite semiconductor anodes, showing that water flipping appears to be applicable to more materials classes than just metals – it also makes an important step towards elucidating causality in catalytic efficiency and the net work associated with water flipping.

Congratulations to Raiden and Ezra, who’s water flipping over nickel nanolayers electrodes just got published in Science Advances – well done, and well worth the long haul!

Raiden Speelman will co-chair the 2027 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRCS in Il Ciocco, Italy – strada da percorrere, Raiden!!

Congratulations to Raiden and Ezra on their first e-chem/SHG/SFG paper, which is now in press at Science Advances. Link to paper coming soon.

Lead author Professor Andrew Sweetman and an international team of scientists  report on dark oxygen production at the abyssal sea floor. Please direct press requests to Amanda Morris from NU Media Relations: amandamo@northwestern.edu Photo Credit Camille Bridgewater (2024)

Our team-writing effort on providing a Perspective on Geochemistry is out in Nature Communications – enjoy the read!

Our new JPC A paper counts Stern layer water molecules and quantifies total surface potentials for silica:water interfaces in contact with various alkali earth chlorides and the monovalent surfactants CTAB, PFOA, and PFOS.

Congratulations to Young-Shin Jun and Jim Kubicki from the writing team of our 2023 review for getting us the cover of Chem. Rev!