Posts published in May, 2026

Aisulu named in C&EN's 2026 talented 12!

We are so excited to see that Aisulu, our former PhD student and now assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has named as part of C&EN’s 2026 edition of the talented 12! Please see her article here: 2026 Talented 12: Aisulu Aitbekova

Sam and Henry share their perspective on methane splitting

Reporting in ACS Catalysis, Sam and Henry share their perspective on methane pyrolysis to produce hydrogen and high value-added carbon materials, check out their perspective here: A Perspective on Supported Catalysts for Methane Pyrolysis: Toward Hydrogen Production and Synthesis of Crystalline Carbon Materials | ACS Catalysis

Jake wins best poster presentation prize @ CARA meeting

At the California research alliance (CARA, by BASF) meeting, Jake was awarded one of the best poster prizes, congratulations!!

Jinwon and Jeesoo show in Science how more is sometimes better in multi-metallic nanocrystal synthesis

Today in Science, our PhD grad Jinwon and visiting student Jeesoo show a very counter-intuitive focusing effect when synthesizing multi-metallic nanocrystals for ammonia decomposition! Check out the paper and news release below. Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea8044 News release: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/05/metals-nanocrystal-clean-hydrogen-energy-research