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Congratulations to Yuanchao Liu, who on Thursday defended his dissertation titled “Multi-Scale Simulation of Electrostatic Channeling”. Yuanchao is finishing his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, and has lead our group in building capabilities in molecular modeling of bio reaction … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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!

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 →

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 →

Congratulations to Nate Leonard, who on Tuesday defended his dissertation titled “Non-Precious Metal Catalysis for Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”. Nate has done an excellent job on materials characterization and modeling, with two papers published,[1][2] and one more on the way. Great … Continue reading →