Group News and Notes
June 2026
We are excited to share that our latest collaborative research has been published. Louise Oldham, Daniele Benetti, Tianying Liu, Dunwei Wang, James Durrant, 鈥淥perando spectroscopic analysis of photovoltage generation in hematite photoanodes,鈥� J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, published online https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.6c04274
June is always a bittersweet time in the group as we celebrate accomplishments while saying farewell to members embarking on new adventures. This year, we congratulate three outstanding graduate students:
Jamie will be joining Time Tech Spectra, where he will focus on expanding the company's operations across the United States and Europe.
Boqiang will continue his scientific career as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Aisulu Aitbekova, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Brooke will begin a postdoctoral appointment with the MIT Mobility Initiative, where she will collaborate across disciplines and continue exploring impactful solutions that help close the loop on clean energy technologies.
We thank Jamie, Boqiang, and Brooke for their many contributions to the group and for helping create a supportive, collaborative, and intellectually vibrant environment. While we will miss having them in the lab, we are proud of all they have accomplished and excited to see what they achieve next.
February 2026
Congratulations to Boqiang on his latest publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.!
January 2026
Dunwei is named the interim Seidner Family Executive Director for the Schiller Institute of Integrated Science and Society鈥�, please see details here.
We wish everyone a Happy New Year! Our group celebrated the holiday season with a fun outing at a bowling alley.
We are also excited to share two pieces of good news. Our paper on plastic recycling has been accepted for publication in JACS. In addition, Dunwei has begun his term as an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Energy Materials.
December 2025
We are thrilled to welcome Ahlam Imbaby (first year graduate student) to our team!
Yuhan's work on propane oxidation has been just accepted to Chem Catalysis. Congradulations!
August 2025
A big congrats to Brooke on the first publication of her work on听sustainable Li-ion battery recycling听using a modified biohydrometallurgy approach.听https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00259
Our manuscript on anion effect for water oxidation has been just accepted to ACS Catalysis. Congradulations, Boqiang!
This year we had our group retreat event in听Mystic village in Connecticut!
July 2025
Farewell and best of luck to Dr. Yucheng Yuan
Congratulations to Yucheng on starting her new role as an Assistant Professor! We are proud of the hard work she has accomplished here.听We wish her every success in her academic career!
Congrats to Dr. Tianying Liu and Dr. Mu Yu
Tianying and Yu have both successfully defended their PhD dissertations! We are excited for them and wish them lots of success and happiness in the new chapter.
Congrats to Muchun Fei for a JACS paper
A big congrats to Muchun on his recent publication in JACS:听https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c07634
闯补苍耻补谤测听2025
Check out our new publication: Yin鈥怭ok Wong, Shiyun Lin, Hyuk鈥怞oon Jung, Matthew A. Shammami, Hootan Roshandel, Henry M. Dodge, Scott M. Chapp, Lorenzo C. Ruiz De Castilla, Dunwei Wang, Loi H. Do, Chong Liu, Alexander J. M. Miller, Paula L. Diaconescu, 鈥淯sing Classifiers to Predict Catalyst Design for Polyketone Microstructure,鈥澨齁. Am. Chem. Soc.听2025,听published online听doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c11666
August 2024
Our group have a great retreat event in听Castle Hill on the Crane Estate!
July 2024