An interesting piece. Agree that the systems level thinking is critical when defining relevant problems and educating students. Getting to this point also requires a disruption of the current resource allocation in chemistry research and making some chem subfields much smaller

Truly honored to receive the 2023 Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis! I am immensely grateful to my former and current students, postdocs, mentors, peers and colleagues. Michigan Chemical Engineering , Michigan Engineering , Linic Lab , ACS Catalysis , ACS CATL Division

We're thrilled to be in beautiful Venice for the first day of our workshop with Center for NanoScience LMU! Today we're looking forward to great talks from Mete Atature, Dmitri K. Efetov, Suljo Linic, Rainer Hillenbrand, Madhavi Krishnan, Richard Warburton, and Dominik Bucher! #NanoMeetsQuantum2022

Our paper on Elucidating the Roles of Local and Nonlocal Rate Enhancement Mechanisms in Plasmonic Catalysis was recently published. Congrats Rachel pubs-acs-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/doi/10.1021/ja…

I'm officially a professor now! Best wishes to everyone starting new positions this year (inside & outside of academia)🙂

A demonstration of using oxidizing species formed and plasma/water interface to drive selective oxidation chemistry - Plasma-Induced Selective Propylene Epoxidation Using Water as the Oxygen Source pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Diversity of mechanisms that we discovered for relatively simple ethylene epoxidation reaction on Ag suggests that the richness and complexity of surface chemistry are likely a rule rather than an exception in heterogeneous catalysis pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

We developed an additive manufacturing approach to co-optimize hierarchical membrane/catalyst systems for oxidative coupling of methane (match the transport and reaction rates). Published in Nature Materials. I hope this free link work rdcu.be/doqnf

Please share broadly: The Chavez lab is recruiting our first PhD students this cycle! Interested students should apply to the CBE graduate program at UCLA (grad.ucla.edu/admissions/adm…). The deadline is Dec 31, 2023. Please see the website for more details. chavezlab.ucla.edu

In this new paper in JACS (with Bryan Goldsmith grp), we report on Bayesian optimization screening of large phase space of oxide electrocatalysts for water oxidation in acid and discuss rigorous ways to experimental test these materials : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…..

New paper on coupling propane dehydrogenation and hydrogen oxidation catalysis through a hydrogen-permeable membrane to exceed thermodynamic limits for propane dehydrogenation and generate heat to drive the endothermic dehydrogenation reaction. | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In a new paper in ACSEnergyLett we discuss how electrocatalyst/semiconductor interface impacts the performance of solar water-splitting photo-electro-catalysts | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our recent publication discussing and quantifying pros and cons of thermal annealing on Metal–Insulator–Semiconductor water splitting photoelectrocatalysts | ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New paper (J. Am. Chem. Soc.) on Probing Spatial Energy Flow in Plasmonic Catalysts from Charge Excitation to Heating: Nonhomogeneous Energy Distribution as a Fundamental Feature of Plasmonic Chemistry | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Enjoyed discussing catalysis with Marc Porosoff, Ezra L Clark and Thomas Senftle on their @podCAT open.spotify.com/episode/6IPkC9…

New paper with colleagues from Michigan Chemical Engineering on Distinctive Kinetic Signatures of Surface Segregation Processes in Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysis describing how kinetic features of a probe reaction change due to the reaction-induced segregation pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New paper in ACS Catalysis on the Use of Large Language Models for Extracting and Analyzing Data from Heterogeneous Catalysis Literature describing an approach to rapidly screen through a large body of literature with the aid of LLM (Michigan Chemical Engineering) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Many desired reactions lack catalytic solutions. Co-optimizing membrane–catalyst functionalities at molecular level could improve performance. New article in Nature Chemical Engineering (Michigan Chemical Engineering) nature.com/articles/s4428… examine the integration strategies, focusing on shale-gas conversion.

Paper J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Michigan Chemical Engineering ) describing how reactive chemical environment controls charge carrier selectivity and photovoltage at electrocatalyst/semiconductor junctions in solar water splitting. Critical for understanding these systems pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New paper (rdcu.be/eIEO3) in Nature Catalysis used first-principles neural network MD and interpretable ML to uncover simple predictive models for the stability of metal nanoparticles on oxide supports. We used the model to identify sinter-resistant supports for Pt.