News

James Dean successfully defended his PhD titled: Computational Design of Optimal Bimetallic Nanoparticles: Bridging Stability with Adsorption. Congratulations Dr. Dean!

Kaylen Ocampo joined our lab as a graduate student researcher, co-advised by Prof. Mohammad Masnadi! Welcome to CANELa, Kaylen!!

Julia McKay won an award for her poster presentation in 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting (section Materials Engineering & Sciences).

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan has been selected to receive a PQI poster award due to his outstanding poster presentation at PQI Quantum2020 Remote Poster Session.

PhD candidate James Dean has been selected to receive a travel award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division to attend the 2020 AIChE annual meeting. Congratulations James!!

Michael Cowan successfully defended his PhD Proposal titled: Structure-property Relationships of Ligand-protected Metal Nanoclusters. Congratulations Michael!

Anantha Venkataraman Nagarajan publishes a new paper titled “Mono-Palladium Substitution in Gold Nanoclusters Enhances CO₂ Electroreduction Activity and Selectivity” in the ACS Catalysis journal. Great job Anantha!

Evan Miu publishes a new paper titled “Predicting the Energetics of Hydrogen Intercalation in Metal Oxides Using Acid-Base Properties” in the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces journal. Great job Evan!

Mona Abdelgaid (along with James Dean) publishes her first article, titled “Improving Alkane Dehydrogenation Activity on γ-Al₂O₃ through Ga Doping” in Catalysis Science & Technology! Congratulations, Mona!!!

CANELa alumn, Dr. Michael Taylor, publishes an article titled “Heteroatom Tracing Reveals the 30-Atom Au-Ag Bimetallic anoclusters as a Dimeric Structure” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Great work, Dr. Taylor!!