“Imagining, Building, and Understanding the Next Generation Battery” Abstract: Electrochemical energy conversion and storage is critical for vehicle electrification and storing clean energy from intermittent sources (i.e. wind, solar) on the grid. Towards these goals, my group pursues the broad spectrum of stages necessary for technological innovation: (1) developing new tools to discover fundamental understandings, […]
Abstract:The potential to use mechanochemistry, either in isolated polymers or in polymeric materials, to trigger a programmed, desirable covalent molecular response was first revealed only a decade or so ago. Since that time, covalent polymer mechanochemistry has undergone a renaissance in which it has been extensively explored by a number of research groups and for a variety of purposes including (but not limited […]
Matthew Paul Agdanowski Yeates Group “The Development of an Imaging Scaffold for RNA Structural Analysis via Cryo-EM” and Janine Fu Loo Group “Targeting acyl-lysine modifications in the Rhodopseudomonas palustris proteome via diagnostic ions"
“Ambient Electrochemical Functionalization of Methane with d0 early transition metal-oxo species” Abstract: The abundant yet widely distributed methane (CH4) resources demands an efficient conversion of CH4 into liquid chemicals at ambient conditions with minimal infrastructure support. In the existing approaches of metal-catalyzed reactions and catalysis based on free-radical chain mechanism, the reactivities of the former metal species seem insufficient to […]
Abstract: Despite advances in high-throughput screening methods leading to a surge in the discovery of catalytic reactions, our knowledge of the molecular-level interactions in the rate- and selectivity-determining steps of catalytic reactions, especially those involving highly unstable and reactive open-shell intermediates, is rudimentary. These knowledge gaps prevent control, suppression or enhancement, of competing reaction channels that […]
"Computing with Molecules: Storage and Classical Computation Using Small Molecules and Their Reaction Networks"
Kyle Meador Yeates Group “Design and Assembly of 3D Protein Crystals” and Natalie Schibrowsky Rodriguez Group “Biochemical and structural analysis of in vivo Cry11Bs crystalline inclusions”
“Structure and Surfaces at the Nanoscale” Abstract: Liquid-phase and wet-processing techniques offer tremendous opportunities for low-cost manufacturing and enable the concept of large-scale nanotechnology. Today, these approaches have facilitated the massive upscaling of lithium ion battery technology and promise to play a future role in a wide variety of electronic, photonic, and electrochemical systems. Materials and […]
Abstract: Synthetic polymers have permeated nearly every facet of modern life. From the ubiquity of polyolefins to recent advancements in 3-D printing, organic materials continue to shape the world around us. While tremendous accomplishments have been made with relatively few polymer families, the future requires the development of materials with increased control over structure to produce […]
