News

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

 

  • (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. 
  • 11/29/2021, Fanglin gave an invited talk on The Transition from Graduate Student to Assistant Professor in Computational Catalysis” at Washington State University. 
  • Welcome YuTing Xu to join in our research lab in August 2022 Fall.
  • Welcome Saleh Ahmat Ibrahim to join in our research lab in January 2022 Spring.
  • 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 ChemCatChemFeatured 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
  •  12/18/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che received Allocations from National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and NTI Computational Cluster at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 11/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che gives two Iposters (CO2 electrocatalysis and microwave catalysis) and serves section chair during AICHE meetings
  • 10/26/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che gives an invited talk in Chemistry department at Washington State University. 
  • 09/17/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che received XSEDE Resource Allocations.
  • 09/01/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che open a YouTube education channel for computational catalysis, including math methods for engineers, multi-scale and multi-physics simulations. 
  • 07/13-07/15, the group has participated a three-day online workshop Theory, Applications, and Tools for Multiscale Kinetic Modeling”
  • 07/13-07/14, the group has attended a two-day virtual workshop ‘Molecular Simulation with Machine Learning
  • 07/09/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che gave a live webinar to Research Cloud regarding multi-scale simulation of field-induced heterogeneous catalysis.
  • 06/28/2020 – 07/03/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che will give a Poster Presentation at Catalysis Gordon Research Conference, New London, NH.
  • 03/22/2020 – 03/26/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che will give three oral presentations at ACS Spring 2020 National Meeting & Expo, Philadelphia, PA.
  • 03/16/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che received computational allocations from theta at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

  • Invited Talk 03/17/2020, Dr. Fanglin Che is invited to give a talk at Catalysis Society of Metropolitan NY Spring Symposium, New Jersey Institute of Technology Campus Center Ballroom A/B, Newark, NJ.
  • Welcome Mingyu Wan join in the group as a Ph.D student!!!
  • Check out our new paper that has been published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental Journal (impact factor of 14). Here we developed a fuel cell with an internal Ni-Mo based catalyst layer to directly convert the liquid fuel into electrical power for transportation applications.
  • Dr. Fanglin Che Seminar Speaker Recruiter for 2020 Spring.
  • 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