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2024 NEWs

  • 2024 Group Dinner! Forgot to take photo but glad, Pragyansh did one shot. Pragyans, Jiaqi, and my face are missing 😉
  • Great to learn all the catalysis science from DOE BES PI meeting!
  • Very excited reunion with Ted and the Alumni from Ted group at MRS 2024 in Boston!
  • Great week at AICHE 2024! It is always nice to present our recent works, see more of my students involved in the conference, and reunion with my friends!
  • Thank Hongliang for the invitation to this great week! “The AIMED Workshop on Heterogeneous Catalysis was a remarkable success after nearly a year of prep. We couldn’t have picked a better time – the excitement is at an all-time high, with two Nobel Prizes recognizing AI and fueling the momentum for scientific discovery!”
  • Thank ULRI for the invitation to this great symposium! I learned a lot of ULRI vision and material discovery team! Looking forward to the collaboration!
  • Join us in welcoming Dr. Lee Strobel as postdoctoral fellow in our group! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!
  • Congratulations to Fanglin! The Fanglin Research Group received the DOE Fusion Energy Science Single PI award on the topic of non-thermal plasma catalysis!
  • Join us in welcoming Dr. Jiaqi Yang as postdoctoral fellow in our group! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!
  • Congratulations to Fanglin! The Fanglin Research Group, in collaboration with Professor Ramaswamy Nagarajan group, TURI, and Jayant Kumar group at UMass Lowell, has received a DEVCOM award.
  • Congrats to Fanglin to receive 2024 “Global Outstanding Young Female Scientists in Chemistry Award” at GCCES.
  • Congratulations to Fanglin! The Fanglin Research Group, in collaboration with Professor Clark Chen’s group at UMass Amherst, has received a UL Research Institute Award!
  • Congratulations to Fanglin! The Fanglin Research Group, in collaboration with Professor Sara Thoi’s group at JHU, has received an NSF award! Highlighted in the UML news!
  • Congrats to Yuting and Saleh to receive the prestigious ACS CATL student travel award!
  •  Runze, Yuting and Saleh will present their works at ACS FALL meetings!
  • Big Thank You to the invitation from ARPAE on Accelerating Catalysis Community! A Great Workshop – Excited for the Future!
  • Reunion with Renqin and Jean-Sabin at GRC 2024!
  • Join us in welcoming Dr. Yilang Liu as postdoctoral fellow in our group! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!
  • Fanglin Research group attended NECS meeting at Yale University. Congrats to Runze that he has won the second place in the poster presentation!
  • Big Big Congrats to Dr. Mingyu Wan! My first PHD graduated!!!
  • Mingyu will join in Wuhan University of Science and Technol0gy as an Assistant Professor, starting in 2024 Fall. Congrats to Mingyu. He also won the outstanding graduate student award at Chemical Engineering department at UMass Lowell 2024.

Congrats to Jaime winning the DOE Mickey Leeland Energy Fellowship!

  • Fanglin gave an invited talk to 2024 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia (CCP) annual symposium student poster joint conference
  • Fanglin gave 6 invited talks to 3 different divisions at ACS Spring 2024!
  • Congrats to Fanglin to be the finalist of APRA-E IGNIITE!
  • It is great to have Prof. Alyssa Hensley visited us and delivered an excellent seminar at Chemical Engineering department at UMass Lowell.
  • During the fall semester 2023 and spring semester 2024, Fanglin has delivered chemical engineering department seminar talks to New York Universities, UMass Amherst, Auburn University, Syracuse University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of South Florida, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida, Rice University (invited lecture), University of Delaware (invited lecture), Tufts University, and Northeastern University.
  • Join us in welcoming Dr. Qiang Li as research scientist in our group! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!

L. Fang, M. Wan, Y. Liu, B. Reinhart, Z. Jin, M. Yang, F. Che*, T. Li*. Revealing Structural Evolution of Single Atom Catalysts during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, ACS Materials Letters, 2024, 6, 3343. IF: 10.2 


Z. Jin, Y. Xu, M. Chhetri, J. Wood, B. Torreon, F. Che*, M. Yang. Recent Developments of Single Atom Alloy Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation Reactions, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 491, 152072. IF: 16.744 

M. E. King, Y. Xu, N. L. Mason, P. Nagarajan, F. Che*, M. B. Ross*, Leveraging Bismuth Immiscibility to Create Highly Concave Noble Metal Nanoparticles, Chem, 2024, 10, 1-16. IF: 25.832 


X. Yu, Y. Xu, L. Li, M. Zhang, W. Qin, F. Che*, M. Zhong*, Coverage Enhancement Accelerates Acidic CO2 Electrolysis at Ampere-Level Current with High Energy and Carbon Efficiencies, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15 (1), 1711. IF: 16.383 

Y. Xu, F. Che*. Beyond post-C-C coupling in CO2 electroreduction, views and news, Nature Chemical Engineering, 2024, 1(2), 134-135. 

  • Congrats to Runze’s first co-first authored paper on Applied Catalysis B regarding zeolite catalytic NOx reaction!

 Y. Wang, R. Zhao, K. G Rappé, Y. Wang, F. Che*, F. Gao*. Mechanisms and site requirements for NO and NH3 oxidation on Cu/SSZ-13, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Energy, 2024, 346, 123726. IF: 24.319