Group News
Sept, 2023: Sruthy and Scott's paper "Strucutral Dependence of CO2 Reduction Electrocatalyzed by Metal-Nanographene Complexes: A Computational Study" was published in J. Phys. Chem. A for the Raghavacahri Festschrift. Good job, Sruthy and Scott! And congratulations to Prof. Raghavachari for his scientific achievements! July, 2023: Graduate student Cameron Grant won the Dennis G. Peters Associate Instructor Award. Congratulations, Cameron! July, 2023: Graduate student Scott Bowers won the Kratz Fellowship and the Felix Haurowitz Award. Congratulations, Scott! June, 2023: Minyang and Scott's paper "Selective Electrocatalyzed Reduction of CO2 to Formate by Mononuclear Mo(Diimine)(CO)4 Complexes" was published in ChemCatChem.. Good job, Minyang and Scott! We also thank our collaborators Sruthy and Prof. Raghavachari! Mar, 2023: Graduate students Minyang Yin and Scott Bowers give talks on their research at the ACS National Meeting. Good work, Minyang and Scott! Mar, 2023: Graduate student Brianna Jepsen is awarded the NSF Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Brianna! Mar, 2023: Graduate student Cameron Grant passes his qualification exam. Congratulations, Cameron! Jan, 2023: Undergraduate student Bill Frost joins our group. Welcome! Dec, 2022: Scott and Minyang's paper "Proton-Coupled, Low-Energy Pathway for Eletrocatalytic CO2 Reduction at Re(Diimine) Complexes with A Conjugated Pyrazinly Moiety" was published in Inorg. Chem.. It explores the catalytic mechanism of nanographene-Re complexes for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Good job, Scott and Minyang! We also thank our collaborators Sruthy and Prof. Raghavachari!
Nov, 2022: Graduate student Scott Bowers passes his qualification exam. Congratulations, Scott! Nov, 2022: Undergraduate student Ryan Snyder joined our group. Welcome! Dec, 2021: Graduate student Brianna Jepsen joined our group. Welcome! Dec, 2020: Graduate students Scott Bowers and Cameron Grant joined our group. Welcome, Scott and Cameron! Dec, 2019: Graduate student Joe Pavarttikaran Jose joined our group. Welcome, Joe! Nov, 2019: Graduate student Lu Liu passed her qualification exam. Congratulations! June, 2019: Carli received a scholarship to attend a 10-week Summer School on Radiation Biology in Brookhaven National Lab. Congratulations! May, 2019: Nigel Brooks from Texas A&M University, Prairie View joined group again for summer research. Welcome! Dec, 2018: Yuhan Lv, an undergraduate researcher, successfully defended her thesis and graduated with a Bachelor degree. Congratulations! Sept, 2018: Carli King joined our group to conduct undergraduate research on photochemical cancer therapy. Welcome! Aug, 2018: Raksha and Nigel finished their summer research in our group and returned to their home institutions. Good luck, Raksha and Nigel! Aug, 2018: Richard's paper "Redox 'Innocence' of Re(I) in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Catalyzed by Nanographene�Re Complexes" was published in Inorg. Chem.. It explores the catalytic mechanism of nanographene-Re complexes for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Good job, Richard! May, 2018: Raksha Jain from IIT, Bombay and Nigel Brooks from Texas A&M University, Prairie View joined group for summer research. Welcome! May, 2018: Yi Jun and Ben's paper "Reductive defluorination of graphite monofluoride by weak, non-nucleophilic reductants reveals low-lying electron-accepting sites" was published in PCCP. Good job, Yijun and Ben! We also thank our collaborators, Dr. Allen Siedle, Professors Raghavachari and Fu, and their students. Oct, 2017: Lu Liu
and Minyang Yin joined group as graduate students. Welcome!