News

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!!

Dr. Dylan Bayerl (along with CANELa alumn Dr. Mudit Dixit) publishes his first CANELa article in Energy & Environmental Science, titled “Assessing the viability of K-Mo₂C for reverse water–gas shift scale-up: molecular to laboratory to pilot scale”. Great job, Dylan and Mudit!!!

Michael Cowan has his Frontier article, titled “Towards elucidating structure of ligand-protected nanoclusters”, highlighted on the cover of Dalton Transactions. Great work, Michael!

James Dean and Michael Cowan (along with undergraduate student Jonathan Estes and REU Fellow Mahmoud Ramadan) publish a new article, titled “Rapid Prediction of Bimetallic Mixing Behavior at the Nanoscale”, in ACS Nano. Great work everyone!!

Raffaele Chuela, visiting scholar from Politecnico di Milano, has his article, titled “Modeling Morphology and Catalytic Activity of Nanoparticle Ensembles Under Reaction Conditions” highlighted on the cover of ACS Catalysis! Great work, Raffaele!!!

Michael Cowan publishes an article, titled “Heterometal-Doped M₂₃ (M = Au/Ag/Cd) Nanoclusters with Large Dipole Moments”, in ACS Nano. Nice job, Michael!!

Dr. Rosalba Juarez-Mosqueda publishes her third CANELa article, titled “Ligand Exchange on Au₃₈(SR)₂₄: Substituent Site Effects of Aromatic Thiols” in Nanoscale! Great work, Rosalba!!!

Anantha Nagarajan (along with Dr. Rosalba Juarez-Mosqueda and Michael Cowan) publishes his first article, titled “Elucidating the stability of ligand-protected Au nanoclusters under electrochemical reduction of CO₂” in SN Applied Sciences! Congratulations, Anantha!!!

James Dean wins the Pitt ChemE Fall 2019 outstanding PhD paper! Congratulations James!!