Our new paper from @AisuluAitbekova with the Agapie and Peters groups demonstrates how functionalizing metal nanoparticles on p-type gallium nitride with molecular films improves the selectivity of CO2 photoelectrochemical reduction ☀️Liquid Sunlight Alliance pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

It’s been a wonderful time at the Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conferences catching up on the latest science, and catching up with great friends! @ktluedecke Levi Palmer Colton Sheehan Alex King and our non-Twitter folks (An, Kyra, and Jocelyn)

Now online with free access: A Perspective by Samay Garg, Zhenhua Xie & Jingguang Chen discusses tandem catalytic paradigms for sustainable CO2 conversion, offering several 'best practices' and considerations for tandem processes. Columbia Engineering nature.com/articles/s4428…

Happy to share our new work, where we show that acidic electrolyte can help faciliate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 in simulated flue gas to multicarbon products like ethylene. nature.com/articles/s4146…

I'm super excited to share my work on Au-water-support interfaces on the transformation of H2 and O2 to H2O2 with Flaherty_Catalysis! Check it out at ACS Catalysis! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

What happens when you operate a solar fuels device outside for an entire year? In this work with Jaramillo Lab Liquid Sunlight Alliance, we combined experiment and computation to model and predict the output of solar-driven CO2 reduction devices. Out in EES now! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Out in Nature Chemical Engineering now! Our new research article led by Eric Lees on the role of ion, electron, and water transport limitations in CO2 electrolysis in membrane electrode assemblies as revealed by non-equilibrium continuum modeling. nature.com/articles/s4428…

So exciting to see our art on the cover of the fifth issue of Nature Chemical Engineering! Huge shoutout to Francisco Galang for the photography and Samantha Trieu Berkeley Lab for her help with the design of the graphical interface. Another amazing issue with great science! nature.com/natchemeng/vol…

First paper from my postdoc in AdamArkin_Lab up on biorxiv! Here we use barcode DNA sequence and complementation to create a high-throughput protein identification assay. Hopefully useful to others! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Yolanda Huang

Very excited to share that I will be joining NYU Tandon as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, starting August of 2026! 🏙 🥳 Before then, I will be doing my Postdoc with Karthish Manthiram at Caltech! 🦫

Excited to be at #AIChE2024 on the job market and to present my recent work on modeling the double layer during CO2 electrolysis! Meet the industry candidates poster sessions: Exhibit Hall GH | Tues 1-3pm Transport & Energy Processes: Bayfront Hotel Aqua 313 | Thurs 1:35-1:50pm

After over a year and a half in review, our paper on asymmetric, graphene-oxide catalyzed bipolar membranes is now published in ACSEnergyLett! These BPMs are exceptionally active and stable, and will play a key role in electro-catalysis and separations. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

My thesis is now available online! This document contains 5 years of my own learnings regarding the physics of bipolar membranes, made with the help of amazing collaborators. I truly hope that it will be a useful document for studying bipolar membranes! proquest.com/docview/311116…

I'm excited to start 2025 by contributing to Jon-Marc A McGregor's publication in Nature Catalysis guided by Joaquin Resasco studying organic cation effects on non-aqueous CO2 reduction! nature.com/articles/s4192…

I am incredibly honored to have been awarded the Schmidt Science Fellowship for 2025! I will be leveraging this opportunity to pivot to AI and automation to establish automated flow reactors to rapidly optimize and scale medicinally relevant electro organic syntheses.

Super excited to share Alex King and my work on elucidating the role of the double layer in electrochemical CO2 reduction! This work has been years in the making, and excitingly, starts to get to the heart of how cations control rates of CO2R! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Alex King This allows us to really get to the heart of how the double layer structure controls rates in CO2R. Smaller hydrated cations pack more tightly in the EDL, which increases local fields, lowering dielectric permittivity, and correspondingly the solvent reorganization energy.

Alex King Sensitivity analysis on the model reveals the importance of the solvent permittivity, the role of mass transfer, and the importance of each of the non-ideal terms in the excess chemical potential in enabling accurate prediction of rates.

Alex King We even extend the model to explore how it can explain enhancements in CO2R observed upon the use of an inert salt that suppresses dielectric constant. This is a first step into understanding the role of non-standard solvent environments in CO2R and their effects on catalysis.

Alex King Collectively, this work reveals the immense importance of invoking a true multi-scale picture of catalysis when modeling, because mesoscale mass transfer, nanoscale double layer structure, and molecular scale energetics all interplay and have critical, non-intuitive effects!