January 2024: Jason Bates receives the New Investigator Award of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) to support kinetic and spectroscopic interrogation of electrocatalyst microenvironments.

November 2023: Jason Bates's manuscript with the Stahl group on active-site quantification in Fe-N-C catalysts is published in JACS! Thank you to our outstanding collaborators Plamen Atanassov, Frédéric Jaouen, Peter Strasser, Tim-Patrick Fellinger, and Gang Wu!

October 2023: We welcome Kayla Wozny as part of the first incoming graduate student class to join the group! Kayla completed her undergraduate studies at Lafayette College in 2023. 

October 2023: We welcome Ethan Fortuna as part of the first incoming graduate student class to join the group! Ethan completed his undergraduate studies at Penn State University in 2023. 

October 2023: We welcome Isaac Boateng as part of the first incoming graduate student class to join the group! Isaac completed his undergraduate studies at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2021. 

[16] Chemical Kinetic Method for Active-Site Quantification in Fe-N-C Catalysts and Correlation with Molecular Probe and Spectroscopic Site-Counting Methods, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08790

[14] Molecular Catalyst Synthesis Strategies to Prepare Atomically Dispersed Fe-N-C Heterogeneous Catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 18797–18802

[13] Chemical and Electrochemical O2 Reduction on Earth-Abundant M-N-C Catalysts and Implications for Mediated Electrolysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 922–927

[7] Structure and Solvation of Confined Water and Water-Ethanol Clusters within Microporous Brønsted Acids and their Effects on Ethanol Dehydration Catalysis, Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 7102–7122

[5] Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites, ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 6146–6168