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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  

Jinwon wins MRS grad student gold award & best contributed talk at MRS spring 2026!

We are so happy for our recent PhD grad, Dr. Jinwon Oh, for winning the Graduate Student Gold Award and the Best Contributed Talk Award in the EN02 Symposium, both at the MRS Spring 2026 meeting!

Welcoming our new PhD student, Devashish!

We are excited to present our newest PhD student, Devashish, who joined us starting in the 2025/2026 academic year!

Cargnello group at Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center annual meeting

The Cargnello group (Shradha, Daniel, Matteo, Devashish, Alex) attended the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center annual meeting in Denmark to share some of our results for CO2 capture and conversion! We hope to be able to share some exciting results soon!

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

Sam passes her PhD qualifying exam

We are so thrilled to announce that Sam, our second year PhD student, has passed her chemistry PhD qualifying exam! Together with Juan and Daniel, who had their chemical engineering PhD qualifying exam scheduled late last year, the three of them have accomplished so much and we are excited to see what interesting science they… Read more Sam passes her PhD qualifying exam

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