Fanglin Che

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
Congrats PhD student Saleh win the AICHE Catalysis Reaction Engineering CRE travel award.

Congrats PhD student Saleh win the AICHE Catalysis Reaction Engineering CRE travel award.
Fanglin group has hosted Prof. Bill Schneider’s visit in 10/2023. It was a great to get feedbacks and comments from Bill on our group projects. We learned a lot from Bill’s seminar on plasma catalysis 😉

Congrats Fanglin’s recent collaborative perspective on “Trends in electrocatalysis: The microenvironment moves to center stage” published on ACS Energy Letter.
Fanglin group has hosted Prof. Feng Jiao’s visit in 10/2023. It was a great pleasure to host Feng to visit my group and UMass Lowell. We learned a lot from Feng’s seminar on scale-up process of carbon and nitrogen fixation. Looking forward to the future collaboration 😉

Congrats Zhengyang’s first authored paper, titled “
CO2RR-to-CO Enhanced by Self-Assembled Monolayer and Ag Catalytic Interface” published on JPCC.
Fanglin gave a seminar talk at Tufts University 09/2023.
Fanglin and her group: Yuting, Saleh, Runze, Pragyansh and Charles, have visited Tufts and gave poster presentations at Maria’s Symposium in 09/2023.

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, Yuting, Saleh, and Runze, 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.