News
January聽1st, 2022
Tharani Rathnayake and Boqiang Chen聽join the research team as graduate students.听Boqiang will be co-advised by Prof. Wang.
December聽28th, 2021
Jingyi publishes her perspective article on water oxidation in聽Current Opinion in Electrochemistry! Check out the article聽.
November 12th, 2021
Vincent defended his thesis - the first "in-person" PhD defense of our team! Congratulations, Dr.听 Ovalle! Fantastic job! Vincent will join Nanoscience Instruments as an Application Scientist.
August聽18th, 2021
Vincent聽publishes his perspective article on pH effects in electrocatalysis in the聽Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Check out the article聽.
May 22nd, 2021
Our team and聽Professor Burch's group聽at 蜜桃传媒 Physics receive a joint internal grant from Boston College's聽Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. The grant will support our project on "Plasmonic Nanoantenna Electrodes for Probing Solar Fuel Catalysis".
April 14th, 2021
Jingyi publishes her collaborative work on water oxidation with Profs. Dunwei Wang, Victor Batista, and Gary Brudvig in聽Chem! Great job everyone. Check out the article聽.
March 25th, 2021
Xiang and Jingyi successfully defended their PhD Theses! Congratulations Dr. Xiang Li and Dr. Jingyi Li! Xiang will assume a postdoctoral position at聽SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory聽and work on X-ray spectroscopy of water oxidation catalysts. Jingyi will join DuPont as a Research Scientist.
January 1st, 2021
Yu-Shen Hsu joins the research team as a graduate student. Hongna Zhang joins the team as a joint postdoctoral scholar with the Wang lab. Welcome Yu-Shen and Hongna!
September 10th, 2020
Charuni successfully defended her PhD Thesis and is ready to assume her new position as a Battery Engineer at Gru Energy Lab in California! Congratulations Dr. Gunathunge!
September 10th, 2020
Charuni, Jingyi , and Xiang publish their Invited Viewpoint article in聽ACS Catalysis! Check it out聽.
August 27th, 2020
Matthias gave a talk as part of the聽. Watch the presentation聽.听
June 12th, 2020
Vincent聽 publishes his work on the effects of anions on CO adsorption on Cu in the聽Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Check out the article聽.听
June 1st, 2020
Xiang and Charuni聽 publish their collaborative work with Prof. Michael Janik's research group in the聽Journal of the Electrochemical Society! Check out the article聽.听
May 26th, 2020
Charuni, Jingyi, Xiang, and Julie publish their manuscript on the determination of the predominant surface facets of rough metal electrodes in聽ACS Catalysis! Check out the article聽.
January 6th, 2020
Xiang, Charuni, and Vincent presented posters on their recent studies at the Electrochemistry Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California. Great job everyone!
January 1st, 2020
Connor joins the research team! Connor will be co-advised by Professor Tsung and will spearhead our collaborative efforts.
December 5th, 2019
Vincent gave a terrific talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Well done, Vincent!
October 29th, 2019
Our invited perspective article on the effects of cations on the electric double layer and the rates and selectivity of electrocatalytic processes is published in the聽Journal Chemical Physics! Check out the article聽.
October 1st, 2019
Our collaborative research with the Wang laboratory on probing water oxidation mechanisms on heterogeneous catalysts with atomically defined structure is funded by the Department of Energy's Solar Photochemistry Program!
September 17th, 2019
Vincent publishes his paper on the effects of pyridinium additives on the catalytic properties of the Cu/electrolyte interface in the聽Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Check out the article聽.
August 22nd, 2019
Our collaborative research with the Wang laboratory on highly selective photocatalysis on titanium dioxide with atomically dispersed active centers is funded by the NSF!
June 10th, 2019
The group receives two out of three poster awards at the New England Energy Research Forum at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute! Congratulations, Vincent and Charuni, for earning the first- and third-place prizes!聽
Jingyi gave an awesome talk about our recent work! Well done!
April 19th, 2019
Jingyi's, Xiang's, and Charuni's article entitled "Hydrogen Bonding Steers the Product Selectivity of Electrocatalytic CO Reduction" is published in the聽Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! Check out the article聽.
February 5th, 2019
Matthias receives an聽NSF CAREER Award! The award will support the team鈥檚 research on how the molecular properties of an electrocatalytic interface control catalytic selectivity. In addition, the award will support related educational efforts. Read the 蜜桃传媒 News article聽here.
December 11th, 2018
Jingchen joins the research team!聽
November 30th, 2018
Charuni gave an awesome talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. Well done, Charuni!
October 29th, 2018
Matthias receives a聽Doctoral New Investigator Award聽from the ACS Petroleum Fund.听 The award will support our mechanistic work on metallaphotocatalysis.
August 25th, 2018
Julie joins the research team!聽
July 6th, 2018
Charuni and Vincent publish their collaborative work with Prof. Michael Janik's research group in聽ACS Catalysis! Check out the article聽.
May 6th, 2018
The group co-hosted an outreach event for 60 high-school students and their parents.
April 26th, 2018
Xiang's and Jingyi's collaborative work with Prof. Dunwei Wang's research group is published in聽ACS Central Science! Read the article聽.
November 6th, 2017
Charuni and Vincent publish their work on cation effects in聽PCCP! Read the article聽.
May 26th, 2017
The team's聽first paper is published聽in the聽Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Read the article聽.
January 1st, 2017
Paul and Vincent join the research team!
May 1st, 2016
First External Funding!聽Matthias receives an NSF grant. The award will support the team鈥檚 research efforts on the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.
January 1st, 2016
The first graduate students join the lab. Welcome Charuni, Jingyi, and Xiang!
July 1st, 2015
Matthias joins Boston College!