News
Group potluck
by krglim on October 29, 2025 5:41 am
We’re kicking off the new academic year with a group potluck party! We cook good science and good food!
Two new PhD candidates from our group
by krglim on October 16, 2025 1:03 am
We are so incredibly proud of Daniel (left) and Juan (right), who have both passed their ChemE PhD qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy!
Cargnello group @ AiChE 2025, with two CRE travel award winners!
by krglim on October 9, 2025 8:38 pm
The Cargnello group will be attending and presenting at the 2025 AiChE Annual Meeting in Boston! Jake Heinlein (postdoc): 459f Investigation into the Structural Sensitivity of the Deactivation Mechanism for Rhodium Nanoparticles on TiO2 for the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction Kang Rui Garrick Lim (new postdoc, presenting his PhD work): 252e – Raspberry-Colloid-Templating As a Model Thermocatalytic Platform… Read more Cargnello group @ AiChE 2025, with two CRE travel award winners!
Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Jinwon Oh
by krglim on June 23, 2025 4:01 am
The Cargnello group is extremely proud to present our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Jinwon Oh! Jinwon, a Stanford Materials Science & Engineering PhD graduate, worked on developing active and stable catalysts for a range of industrially relevant catalytic reactions, such as for automobile emissions control. In his dissertation, Jinwon presents his mastery of colloidal nanocrystal… Read more Presenting our newest PhD graduate: Dr. Jinwon Oh
Eric unveils the details of SEI layers that are relevant for ammonia e-synthesis
by mcargn on September 8, 2023 11:01 pm
Eric led a collaboration that investigated the Solid-Electrolyte Interphase in Ammonia Electrosynthesis and revealed its importance to produce ammonia from nitrogen reduction using electrons and was published in ACS Energy Letters! Read the work here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01534
Steven is a JEDI champion!
by mcargn on August 22, 2023 3:31 am
Steven is awarded the Postdoc JEDI Award from Stanford! This Award is a recognition of current Stanford University postdoctoral scholars who have championed initiatives, activities, or efforts that advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at Stanford and beyond. We are so proud of him! Read more at https://postdocs.stanford.edu/current-postdocs/jedi-champion-awards/2023
New publication from the group on plastics upcycling!
by mcargn on August 3, 2023 11:30 pm
Makenna’s hard work in converting plastics into alkylaromatics that can be used as sustainable lubricants has just been accepted for publication in ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. journal! She worked hard to show that silica-alumina can be used rather than Pt to upcycle plastics. Great collaboration with colleagues at SLAC!
Welcome Henry, Alex, Sydney!
by mcargn on March 27, 2023 10:09 pm
The group welcomes three new members: PhD students Henry and Alex (Chemical Engineering) and Sydney (Mechanical Engineering).
Matteo receives ACS Catalysis Division Early Career in Catalysis Award!
by mcargn on February 28, 2022 5:48 am
The group’s work led to the Award, which recognizes independence and creativity of the researcher in the early stages of their career https://www.acs-catalysis.org/copy-of-exceptional-achievements-in
Andrew publishes his work on using sulfur-treated titania for alcohol dehydration in Nanoscale!
by mcargn on February 28, 2022 5:44 am
Andrew published his latest work in the group demonstrating how a specific treatment to add sulfur to titania converts this oxide into an active and selective catalyst for alcohol dehydration! See his paper in Nanoscale
