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Presentations at ECS Seattle

We’ll be attending the the 233rd meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Seattle this week.  Two of us will be presenting our work: Kanchan Chavan: F02-1336 Nanoconfinement for Multi-Step Reaction Cascade System Yuanchao Liu: L03-2242 Novel Quantification of Cascade Kinetics of Electrostatic Channeling We are … Continue reading

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Buffer Calculator

After a long absence, our buffer calculator has finally returned. This new calculator works for phosphate and citrate buffers and calculates the formulation needed to achieve a given pH. It also provides enhanced information on buffer strength, including a titration … Continue reading

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Summer Poster Session

Congratulations to Beryl Zhang ’18 who presented her poster, on Enzymatic hydrogel thickness measurements by AFM, at the at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE). Beryl helped Alex getting our new AFM-SECM system off the ground, measuring the … Continue reading

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Congratulations Professor Gallaway

Congrats to former group member Josh Gallaway who is starting a new tenure-track position in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University.  Josh’s research in our group was on redox complexes for mediating enzymatic reactions, but his recent studies … Continue reading

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New article on nanofiber bioelectrodes

Former postdoc Cenk Gumeci and Duyen Do have published new work on electrospun nanofiber-based bioelectrodes in Electrocatalysis. Electrospinning allows for the control of fiber diameter and density, and allow for very thin and highly efficient biocatalytic films. Current density reaching … Continue reading

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Intermediate Transport at the Nanoscale

A new paper by Erica Earl is available now in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). In this paper, Erica uses a continuum model to demonstrate the effectiveness of channeling strategies in reaction cascades. She studied proximity, physisorption, and electrostatic interactions, three … Continue reading

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Fall Conference Presentations

This Fall, we’ll be presenting our work at PRiME 2016 in October and the AIChE National Meeting in November.  Here are the details: PRiME 2016 Y. Liu and S. Calabrese Barton, “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Substrate Transport on Alpha-Helix Peptide … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Erica Earl

Erica defended her MS Thesis this Friday and is heading to Ann Arbor to work for Detroit Edison.  Look for a paper based on Erica’s work soon.  Congratulations!

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Dr. Calabrese Barton to Speak At ECS Detroit Section Meeting

Update: Due to weather the meeting is rescheduled to Thursday, March 3, 2016. On Thursday February 25, Dr. Calabrese Barton will present an invited seminar at the ECS Detroit Local Section Meeting.  The talk, entitled “Low-Cost Oxygen Reduction Catalysts Prepared … Continue reading

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Nate Leonard wins Norman Hackerman Young Author Award

Congratulations to Nate Leonard for winning the 2014 Norman Hackerman Young Author Award from the Electrochemical Society. Nate was honored for his paper “Analysis of Adsorption Effects on a Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalyst Using a Rotating Ring-Disk Study” published in the Journal of … Continue reading

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