News

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!!

Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering publish an article highlighting CANELa and Michael Cowan’s recent Frontier Article and cover art in Dalton Transactions.

Graduate student Michael Cowan was selected by the Pittsburgh Foundation to receive a one-year scholarship from the Wellington C. Carl Fund! Excellent work, Michael, and congratulations!!