Category: Publications

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

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  

Jinwon's new work on computationally-guided high entropy alloy nanocrystal synthesis

Check out Jinwon’s new work at J. Am. Chem. Soc., where he worked with computational collaborators to develop a seed-mediated synthesis of high entropy alloy nanocrystals using a machine-learning accelerated simulations! Seed-Mediated Colloidal Synthesis of Multimetallic and High-Entropy Alloy Nanocrystal Libraries with Enhanced Catalytic Performance | Journal of the American Chemical Society

Sydney reports how the chemistry of mixed metal oxides renders Pt catalysts more active and stable

In ACS Catalysis, Sydney reports how tuning the chemical composition of an encapsulated metal oxide system where platinum nanoparticles are encapsulated in mixed alumina and manganese oxide layers can provide a synergistic effect in increasing both catalytic activity and stability for carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation. Read the full article here: Eliciting a Synergistic Effect between… Read more Sydney reports how the chemistry of mixed metal oxides renders Pt catalysts more active and stable

Experiment-theory collaboration published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!

In a fantastic three years-long collaborative work between experiments and theory, Angel, Tej and Verena reveal the active site ensemble for propene combustion on Pd/Pt supported catalysts in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! Read it

Jay's work on electrochemical ammonia synthesis makes it to the cover of ChemElectroChem!

Jay’s work on understanding electrochemical ammonia synthesis using lithium surfaces has been published as a cover article and cover profile story in ChemElectroChem! Check it out here

Functional polymer/nanocrystal composite synthesis published in Chemistry of Materials!

Andrew’s work on a versatile synthesis to prepare polymer/nanocrystal composites demonstrating substrate size-selectivity for catalytic transformations is now published in Chemistry of Materials! Read it