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2024 NEWs

  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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

2023 NEWS

  • Congrats Fanglin’s another new DOE funds on multi-scale and multi-physics of heterogeneous catalysis under electrified heating.

Congrats to Yuting on her first first-authored paper on CO2RR to C3+ product mechanism study published on Cell Reports Physical Science！

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Machine Learning Boosted Catalyst and Operation Design for Clean Energy, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023.
  • F. Che, oral presentation, Organic-Inorganic Interface Enhanced CO2 Capture and Conversion, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023.
  • F. Che, oral presentation, Interfacial Electric Field Modulated Catalysis, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023.
  • S. AhmatIbrahim, oral presentation, Machine Learning Boosted Design of Plasma-Enhanced Catalytic Ammonia Cracking, AICHE, Orlando, 11/2023
  • Y. Xu, oral presentation, Investigation of Liquid Fuel Generation from Carbon Dioxide over Bimetallic Systems, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023.
  • F. Che, oral presentation, Deep Learning Boosted Field-Driven Catalysis, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023
  • (Section and Bin Chair) F. Che, Data Science and Machine Learning Approaches to Catalysis, AICHE. Orlando, 11/2023.
  • Congrats to Mingyu on his co-first authored Nature Communications on PGM-modified Cu for CO2RR!
  • Congrats to Fanglin’s collaborative perspective on “Trends in electrocatalysis: The microenvironment moves to center stage” published on ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8, 9, 3935-3940. 
  • Congrats to Saleh on his two collaborative papers!
  • S. Tiwari†, S. A. Ibrahim†, B. Robinson, S. Brown, Q. Wang, F. Che*, J. Hu*, Post-plasma catalysis: Charge effect on product selectivity in conversion of methane and nitrogen plasma to ethylene and ammonia, Catal. Sci. Technol., 13, 2966, 2023. IF: 6.177

  • S. Brown, S. A. Ibrahim, B. R. Robinson, S. Tiwari, D. Bhattacharyya, Y. Wang, F. Che*, J. Hu*, Ambient carbon-neutral ammonia generation via a cyclic microwave plasma process, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 23255. IF: 10.3

  • Fanglin group has hosted Prof. Hongliang Xin’s visit to Chemical Engineering department. Thank hongliang to give our department a great seminar on catalysis design with interpretable machine learning in 09/2023.
  • Join us in welcoming Pragyansh Singh as the newest PhD student in our group, starting 2023 Fall! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!!
  • Fanglin Group phd students visited SUNCAT workshop in 08/2023. The experience is awesome! 
 
  • Congrats Mingyu’s Recent work with a collaboration with Prof. Ming Yang at Clemson published on Nature Communications, titled with “Atomically Dispersed PGMs Assisted Copper as a Dual-Site Catalyst to Boost Hydrocarbon Formation in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction”
  • Welcome undergraduate students Charles Milhans to join in the lab as a summer intern. We will have fun! 
  • Congrats Saleh Ahmatlbrahim publishing his recent work on post-plasma catalysis on chemical looping of ammonia synthesis on ACS AMI with the collaboration with Prof. John Hu at WVU.

  • Welcome Pragyansh Singh join in our group in Fall 2023! Very excited!

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Interfacial Electric Field Modulated Catalysis, ACS Fall, San Francisco. 08/2023.

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Organic-Inorganic Interface Enhanced CO2 Capture and Conversion, ACS Fall, San Francisco. 08/2023.

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Machine Learning Boosted Design of Plasma-Enhanced Catalytic Ammonia Cracking, ACS Fall, San Francisco. 08/2023

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Deep Learning Boosted Field-Enhanced Catalysis, ACS Fall, San Francisco. 08/2023.

  • F. Che, oral presentation, Enhanced CO2 capture and conversion at organic ligands – inorganic surface interfaces, NAM28. Rhode Island, 06/2023.

  • (Division Organizer) F. Che, CO2 conversion, NAM28. Rhode Island, 06/2023.

  • Congrats Saleh Ahmatlbrahim publishing his recent work on post-plasma catalysis on Catalysis Science and Technology, with the collaboration with Prof. John Hu at WVU. 
  • Congrats Mingyu Wan, Fanglin Che, serve as co-authors for the Nature Catalysis review paper. This work is in collaboration with Prof. Hongliang Xin at VT. 

 

 

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, oral presentation, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Interfaces Drive CO2 Utilization and Storage, NERM 2023. Boston, 06/2023

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, oral presentation, Heterogeneous Catalysts Design for Plasma-Enabled Ammonia Synthesis, NERM 2023. Boston, 06/2023

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, oral presentation, External electric field promotion for heterogeneous catalysis: A combination of DFT calculations and deep learning techniques, ACS Spring. Indianapolis, 03/2023.

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, oral presentation, Hybrid Organic-Inorganic SAM/Cu Drives CO2 Capture and Conversion, ACS Spring. Indianapolis, 03/2023.

  • (Invited Talks) F. Che, Symposium host, Interfacial electric field driven electrocatalysis, ACS Spring. Indianapolis, 03/2023.

  • (Symposium Organizer) F. Che, The role of fundamental interfacial processes in electrocatalysis, ACS Spring. Indianapolis, 03/2023.

2022 news

 

  • (Section Chair) F. Che, Data Science and Machine learning Approaches to Catalysis, AICHE. Phoenix, 11/2022.

  • F. Che, oral talk, Data-Driven Simulations of Non-Conventional Catalysis, AICHE. Phoenix, 11/2022.

 

  • 09/21/2022, Fanglin will give a a presentation in the Chemical Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series at Northeastern University. Very Excited!
  • Group dinner in the beginning of the semester.

 

 
  • Fanglin Group (Mingyu, Saleh, Fanglin) has attended NECS symposium to memorize great Distinguished Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos

 

  • 05/22/2022, Mingyu gave an oral presentation at 27th NAM on the topic of ‘CO2rr-to-C2 Enhanced By Confined Organic-Inorganic Interface’ 
  • 05/22/2022, Zhengyang gave a poster presentation at 27th NAM on the topic of ‘ Self-Assembled Monolayers for Electrocatalysis: A Theoretical Study of CO2 ‘.
  • 05/22/2022, Fanglin gave an oral presentation at 27th NAM on the topic of ‘Electric Fields Accelerated Ammonia Synthesis: A Combination of Multi-Scale Simulation and Deep Learning Study’.
  • 04/01/2022, Big congrats to Mingyu Wan, Jaime Notarangel on publishing ‘Deep Learning Assisted Investigation of Electric Field-Dipole Effects on Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis’ on JACS Au and featured as Front Cover and ACS Editor’s Choice!
  • 03/07/2022, Big congrats to our PhD student Mingyu Wan, who received the precious Kokes Award from 27th NAM!
  • 03/11/2022, Fanglin will give an invited guest lecture on ‘Computational modeling for electrochemical process’ in Prof. Feng Jiao’s course at University of Delaware.
  • 01/26/2022, Fanglin gave an invited talk on “CO2RR Driven by Confined Organic-Inorganic Interfaces” at Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. 

2021 news

  • 11/29/2021, Fanglin gave an invited talk on “The Transition from Graduate Student to Assistant Professor in Computational Catalysis” at Washington State University. 
  • Join us in welcoming Yuting Xu as the newest PhD student in our group, starting 2022 Fall! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!
  • Join us in welcoming Saleh AhmatIbrahim as the newest PhD student in our group, starting 2022 Spring! We look forward to a successful and collaborative journey together!
  • 11/10/2021, Fanglin gave her talk of ‘Electric Fields Accelerated Ammonia Synthesis’ and chaired two sections of electrocatalysis and photocatalysis at AICHE
  • 11/08/2021, Mingyu gave his first in-person oral presentation of ‘CO2RR-to-C2 Enhanced by Confined Organic-Inorganic Interface’ on AICHE.
  • 11/08/2021, Congrats Mingyu Wan on his new publication of ‘Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Heterogeneous Interfaces Modulated Electrocatalysis: A Theoretical Study of CO2 Reduction to C2‘ on ChemCatChem. Featured on the Front Cover
  • 09/22/2021, Great News to share! Thanks to ONR, our group received two awards to study Electrocatalysis and Plasma Catalysis. This work will collaborate with Prof. Michael Ross, Prof. Hsiwu Wong, and Prof. Juan Pablo Trelles group at Umass Lowell.
  • 05/07/2021, Dr. Fanglin Che received 2021 Teaching Excellence Award.
  • 03/30/2021, Congrats Mingyu for his co-first author, Dr. Fanglin Che as co-responding author paper accepted by Nature Communications.
  • 03/02/2021, Great News to share! Thanks to NSF CBET Catalysis Program, our group received the first NSF award to study Electrocatalysis Modulated by Bifunctional Organic Monolayer. This work will collaborate with Prof. Zhiyong Gu group at Umass Lowell

2020 news

2019 News

  • 12/06/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che served as Science & Engineering Communication Fellowship at Discovery Museum, MA
  • 11/18-19/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che attended Fall 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference, Boston, MA, US. Supported from UML internal funds ($500) for this grant conference.
  • 11/14/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che served as section chair for Fundamentals of Catalysis and Surface Science at AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
  • 11/11/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che gave an oral presentation at AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
  • 11/10/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che attended Computational Catalysis Workshop, November 10, 2019, Orlando, Florida
  • 10/25/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che served as an Organizer, COMSOL Engineering Introduction Workshop, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA.
  • 09/01/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che joined in University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Fanglin Che’s group research interests focuse on multi-scale modeling of field-induced heterogeneous catalysis.
  • Invited Talk 05/04/2019, Dr. Fanglin Che is invited to give a talk at Boston College, Chemistry Department, Newton, Massachusett
Fanglin serves as Science & Engineering Communication Fellowship at Discovery Museum
Chemical Engineering Department Holiday Lunch