November, 2024
Aswathi visited Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) measurements on her epitaxial catalysts. She enjoyed the sunny clear California sky. The first step towards a synchrotron nerd!
November, 2024. Linxiao was invited to present at the Central Regional Meeting of ACS.
October, 2024. Linxiao attended and gave to talks at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting. Fun time in San Diego!
October, 2024. Linxiao was invited to visit and give a seminar talk at Cleveland State University. Great to know the Chemical Engineering community in NEO!
September, 2024. Linxiao was invited to present at the Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Symposium (PCCS). Thanks for the welcome to the local catalysis community!
September, 2024
Uchenna presented the first student poster from the group at the Tri-State Catalysis Club Symposium (TCCS) in Columbus, OH. Great job!
September, 2024
We celebrated new group members and new semester with a Labor Day grill party. Hope that we will be cooking with fire in the lab (figuratively, not literally) too!
August, 2024. Undergraduate Students Alaina Bachmann, Kenny Seeber, and Kamryn Culp have joined the group. Welcome!
August, 2024. Graduate Students Aswathi Rajeevan and Nadiira Hassan have joined the group. Welcome!
August, 2024. Linxiao was invited to visit his alma mater, Indiana University, and give a keynote talk at the Department of Chemistry Career Developmeng Symposium. Great to see IU chemistry blossoming as always. Bloomington is forever home!
August, 2024
Matt visited Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) with Linxiao to conducted X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) measurements. He enjoyed the foodie trip in the Bay Area had a lot of fun at the beamline!
July, 2024
We thank National Science Foundation (NSF) for sponsoring our research on using epitaxial growth to study catalyst structure-function relationship in thermal catalysis, under the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) - Catalysis Program :)
June, 2024. Linxiao attended GRC Catalysis and presented the group's research with a poster. It is fun to see old and new friends at the "catalysis summer camp" in the mountains of New Hampshire!
May, 2024
We thank the Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe) for partnering with us to study the production of renewable styrene from biomass sources :)
April, 2024. Incoming Undergraduate Kamryn was chosen to receive Ohio Space Grant Consortium 2024-2025 Undergraduate STEM Scholarship to sponsor her research in sustainable aviation fuels. Congrats!
March, 2024
We thank the Faculty Research Committee of UAkron for sponsoring our research on hydrogen carrier with 2024 Research Felowship :)
January, 2024. Graduate Student Uchenna Nwachukwu has joined the group. Welcome!
January, 2024. Undergraduate Student Matt Moegling has joined the group. Welcome!
October, 2023
We thank Alicat Scientific for sponsoring our research on polymer upcycling with the University Research Grant :)
August, 2023. Our Catalysis Lab has officially opened at UAkron. Way to go!