Aurora achieves exascale! The Aurora supercomputer at Argonne, built in partnership with Intel and HPE, has officially surpassed the exascale threshold, measuring over a quintillion calculations per second on the new Top500 list - bit.ly/3WGJauc

Since 2020, California has installed more giant batteries than anywhere in the world apart from China. They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use when it gets dark, partially replacing fossil fuels. nyti.ms/3WwABSt

Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results nature.com/articles/d4158…

We spy Anwesa Samanta, from our group, who was an Ambassador last Fall ECS! This is a great program to network during these meetings

The @thisisuic class of 2024 looks like absolute fire here 🤩🎓🔥

Congratulations to all 3,335 of our new graduates! lens.uic.edu/congratulation…

“there is a 70 per cent chance that global emissions will start falling in 2024, making 2023 the year they peaked”

'Thriving in the Modern Scientific World: Perspectives from Early Career Electrochemists' - thoughtful editorial by brilliant early career researchers Mamta Dagar Taylor Teitsworth Sonal Maroo, Jenelle Fortunato, Christopher Woodley, & Miracle Amechi!

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Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions? nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Sales of gasoline-powered cars plummeted to 17.7 million last year from 28.3 million in 2017 […] That drop is equivalent to the entire European Union car market last year, or all of the United States’ annual car and light truck production.” nytimes.com/2024/04/23/bus…

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability, a joint collaboration with University of Illinois Chicago / University of Illinois Chicago - bit.ly/4b4czT3

Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago launch the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability anl.gov/article/argonn…

“Other aspects of a study, such as novelty, potential impact, language and formatting, should be handled by editors, journal staff or even machines” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Today is the first day of the inaugural UIC Research Week!
This event series celebrates the exceptional efforts of faculty, staff, students and research trainees at UIC, Chicago's largest university and its only public Carnegie Research 1 institution.
research.uic.edu/research-week-…

This paper is one that gets the juices of an electrochemist flowing. We thank Glusac Group for bringing us on board (and for the too-kind words!). We are eager to get feedback from the community!

But first, here are three facts about getting a PhD in chemistry I think are important to understand.

The partial eclipse as seen by our solar panels in Golden CO, with its peak at 12:30.

“How much renewable electricity would be needed to produce it from green hydrogen? And how much capital would the world need?” sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/green-steel-…

Happy to share the latest ⁦Advanced Sci News⁩ from our collaborators ⁦University of Illinois Chicago⁩ ⁦Argonne National Lab⁩ on the development of Li-CO2 batteries with fast rates. For once, we left transition metals aside! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ae…