Editors’ Choice for Jay, Angel and Alyssa’s paper

September 2024

Jay’s new paper on cation effects for the oxygen reduction reaction is out in ACS Energy Letters! Our undergrads, Angel and Alyssa, are co-authors. We’re honored to be selected as an ACS Editors’ Choice!

Interactive tool for CO2R + preprint

July 2024

Shashwati built an interactive techno-economic assessment for CO2 reduction to guide researchers towards making a real impact. The associated paper is available as a preprint.

Chemical Reviews paper

July 2024

Joaquin’s review on new computational methods for treating electrocatalytic interfaces is out! This collaboration was led by Prof. Yuanyue Liu at UT.

Harrison wins TA of the Year

May 2024

Harrison was awarded TA of the Year for his teaching in the graduate kinetics and undergraduate process design courses. Congratulations Harrison!

Southwest Catalysis Society presentations

April 2024

Joaquin gave a talk and students presented posters at the 2024 Southwest Catalysis Society meeting. Jon-Marc won a poster award!

Chevron fellowships for three students

May 2024

Jay, Harrison and Shashwati were awarded Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships for outstanding innovation in current and future energy systems. Shashwati also won a University Graduate Continuing Fellowship for major accomplishments in the UT Graduate School.

Department Celebration Talks

February 2024

Jay and Shashwati were invited to present our work at our department’s Student Celebration and Recruitment Welcome.

Our newest PhD Candidates

February 2024

Congratulations to Harrison and Akshat for advancing to PhD Candidacy.

Women in Catalysis talk

November 2023

Shashwati was chosen to give a talk at the 2023 Women in Catalysis and Synthetic Chemistry Symposium. She presented on Integrating Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction into Renewable Energy Systems.

Seminar at Texas State by Jay

November 2023

Jay was invited to give a department seminar at Texas State University. He discussed How Electrolyte Composition Influences Electrocatalytic Water Splitting Activity in this seminar through the NSF MRSEC research center.

AIChE, SHPE awards for Joaquin

October 2023

Joaquin won the AIChE 35 Under 35 Award, honoring chemical engineers under 35 for contributions to the field. He also won the Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers recognizing outstanding professionals for their dedication, commitment, and efforts to advance Hispanics in STEM careers.

Shashwati’s CISTAR poster

September 2023

Shashwati won 3rd place for Outstanding Poster, as well as 3rd place for Outstanding Poster Pitch at the 2023 Biannual Meeting for the CISTAR NSF Engineering Research Center.

Nature Communications paper

September 2023

Our latest paper in Nature Communications shows that Maximizing single-pass conversion does not result in practical readiness for CO2 reduction electrolyzers. It has been featured in the Editors’ Highlights for Catalysis, highlighting recent cutting-edge research across the field.

Jay awarded TA of the Year

August 2023

Congratulations to Jay for being awarded Teaching Assistant of the Year in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering! Jay taught Reaction Kinetics.

ChemRxiv preprint

July 2023

Our new work on single-pass conversion as a metric for CO2 electrolyzers is now available as a preprint on ChemRxiv.

NAM28 Conference Presentations

June 2023

Jay gave a talk on understanding cation effects for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Joel, Jon-Marc, and Shashwati presented posters on our research in CO2 reduction.

Jon-Marc at ExxonMobil R&D

May - August 2023

Jon-Marc is interning this summer at ExxonMobil’s Research and Engineering (EMRE) Technology Center in New Jersey working in the Emerging Energy Sciences Division!

Southwest Catalysis Society Symposium Presentation

April 2023

Shashwati presented a poster on her work on mildly acidic electrolytes for CO2 reduction in membrane electrode assemblies.

Spring 2023 updates

Spring 2023

Congratulations to Joel, Jon-Marc and Shashwati on becoming PhD candidates, and to Sean on graduating with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering!

UT Energy Week presentation

April 2023

Akshat gave a talk and a poster on metal oxides for green hydrogen production at UT Energy Week 2023.

Tram is a Senior Scientist!

March 2023

Tram started as Senior Scientist at Kraton Corporation in Houston.

ACS Energy Letters paper

December 2022

Our work on Understanding Cation Effects for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction was published in ACS Energy Letters!

AIChE Conference presentation

November 2022

Jay gave a talk at the AIChE conference about the influence of alkali metal cations on the hydrogen evolution reaction.