News

Sai named in Stanford's 2026 Rising Environmental Leaders Program (RELP) cohort

Congratulations to our PhD student, Sai Varanasi, for being named in the 2026 Rising Environmental Leaders Program (RELP) cohort! https://woods.stanford.edu/news/meet-2026-rising-environmental-leaders

Genni's 3 minute (PhD) thesis makes receives an honorable mention

Congratulations to our PhD student, Genni Liccardo, for receiving an honorable mention at Stanford’s 2026 3 minute thesis competition! https://vpge.stanford.edu/student-programs/3-minute-thesis/meet-2026-3mt-finalists

Celebrating Makenna's wedding!

Our lab showed up in full force to celebrate Makenna’s wedding! Congratulations, Makenna!

Farewell, Dr. Oh & Dr. Pennel!

Recently, we said our goodbyes to our two newly minted Cargnello group Ph.D. graduates, Dr. Jinwon Oh and Dr. Makenna Pennel! Our group wishes them all the best for their next steps and we will share them once they are official!  

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

Jinwon wins MRS fall 2025 best oral presentation award!

At MRS fall 2025 in Boston, our recent Cargnello group Ph.D. graduate, Jinwon, presented his work and has been awarded the best oral presentation award for his symposium!!

Cargnello group year-end winter party

The Cargnello group celebrated a year of awesome science, good food, and great company with our annual year-end winter party!

Cargnello group @ MRS fall 2025

The Cargnello group will be attending and presenting at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston!  Jinwon Oh (our recent PhD graduate): Synthesis of Colloidal High Entropy Alloy and Multimetallic Nanocrystals for Catalytic Applications; Session: SF03.09 Location: Sheraton, 3rd floor, Fairfax B Date/time: Thursday, December 4 2025, 3:00-3:15 pm

Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel

The Cargnello group is beyond thrilled and proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel! Makenna, a Stanford Chemistry PhD graduate, worked on plastics upcycling and recycling, an emerging yet (extremely) challenging research field. In her dissertation, she developed well-defined colloidal catalysts to probe fundamental plastics degradation processes while discovering new processes to… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Makenna Pennel

Jinwon & Pin-Hung win joint-1st place presentation prize @ CARA meeting

At the California research alliance (CARA, by BASF) meeting, Jinwon and Pin-Hung were named joint 1st place winners for best presentation. From co-authors to now co-winners!