Congratulations to Sarah Opoku, who won a Weinberg College Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to work on our joint atmospheric aerosol and cloud formation project with Regan Thomson. Congratulations, Sarah!
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Raiden Speelman wins NU Ryan Fellowship
Congratulations to Raiden on hi Ryan Fellowship, which recognizes and “supports graduate students dedicated to the exploration of fundamental nanoscale science and to advancing this knowledge into practical applications to benefit society”. This major two-year award comes with an additional $10k stipend and $2500 research award per year. Congratulations!
Ezra Marker wins top poster prize at IEEC!
Congratulations to Ezra Marker for winning a top poster presentation prize at the Interfaces for Energy and the Environment Conference! Their work was on operando vibrational SFG spectroscopy of nickel electrodes.
New JACS paper on multiple branching pathways in pinene autoxidation
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.
Amani’s and Nicole’s hydrothermal “Blueprint” paper out in JACS
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!
Our hematite water oxidation work with PNNL and ANL now out at Nature Communications
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.
Raiden and Ezra’s Science Advances paper on water flipping published
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!
Congratulations to Raiden being voted co-Chair of the 2027 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRS
Raiden Speelman will co-chair the 2027 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRCS in Il Ciocco, Italy – strada da percorrere, Raiden!!
Our first e-chem/SHG/SFG paper is now in press at Science Advances
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.
Dark O2 Production at the Abyssal Sea Floor out in Nature Geoscience
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)