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electrochemical science, engineering, and technology research laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
We celebrated my PhD advisor Galen Stucky's career with a new endowed lectureship at UCSB this week. Galen gave the first on his work in blood clotting materials - this led led to products in use today saving lives of our military. give.ucsb.edu/campaigns/66...
October 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We celebrated my PhD advisor Galen Stucky's career with a new endowed lectureship at UCSB this week. Galen gave the first on his work in blood clotting materials - this led led to products in use today saving lives of our military. give.ucsb.edu/campaigns/66...
Leiden is beautiful and with a deep science history, where helium was first liquefied. Also was able to catch alumni Dr Haokun Chen at his job at Brineworks building bipolar membrane electrolyzers!
June 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Leiden is beautiful and with a deep science history, where helium was first liquefied. Also was able to catch alumni Dr Haokun Chen at his job at Brineworks building bipolar membrane electrolyzers!
External "opponent" for PhD defense of Onno van der Heijden promoted by Marc Koper. The Dutch traditions at the defense and ceremony are wonderful. Leiden is a spectacular small city with the intact old architecture still dominating a garden like center built around the canals.
June 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
External "opponent" for PhD defense of Onno van der Heijden promoted by Marc Koper. The Dutch traditions at the defense and ceremony are wonderful. Leiden is a spectacular small city with the intact old architecture still dominating a garden like center built around the canals.
First stop for a quick summer work trip in Europe was at the EMEA conference in Bad Zwischenahn. This is one of the premier gatherings of scientists working on ionomer membranes that are polymer ion conductors for energy conversion devices in electrolysis and fuel cells.
June 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
First stop for a quick summer work trip in Europe was at the EMEA conference in Bad Zwischenahn. This is one of the premier gatherings of scientists working on ionomer membranes that are polymer ion conductors for energy conversion devices in electrolysis and fuel cells.
Wonderful to visit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hosted by An Chu and Chris Hahn. No photo allowed on site, so here is one from lunch. Lots of excellent echem technology work at LLNL. Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory and National Ignition Facility v. impressive.
June 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Wonderful to visit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hosted by An Chu and Chris Hahn. No photo allowed on site, so here is one from lunch. Lots of excellent echem technology work at LLNL. Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory and National Ignition Facility v. impressive.
Proud of the undergraduates earning their degrees. Nadia and Caitlyn are graduating from Honors College, defended outstanding theses on their excellent electrochemistry research, excelled in full suite of OCE graduate courses and are off to internships + a bright future.
May 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Proud of the undergraduates earning their degrees. Nadia and Caitlyn are graduating from Honors College, defended outstanding theses on their excellent electrochemistry research, excelled in full suite of OCE graduate courses and are off to internships + a bright future.
Congratulations to the latest Boettcher PhD - Dr. Olivia Vulpin! Olivia figured out how to make mechanically robust advanced BPMs and has started Nuwohm to manufacture and sell them worldwide!
May 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Congratulations to the latest Boettcher PhD - Dr. Olivia Vulpin! Olivia figured out how to make mechanically robust advanced BPMs and has started Nuwohm to manufacture and sell them worldwide!
Congrats to Dr. Kira Thurman! Kira was joint student with Prof. Paul Kempler who launched a new project on our team looking at interfacial ion transfer kinetics in well-defined model surfaces.
May 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Congrats to Dr. Kira Thurman! Kira was joint student with Prof. Paul Kempler who launched a new project on our team looking at interfacial ion transfer kinetics in well-defined model surfaces.
Berkeley Summer Electrochemistry Academy is open to all qualified people and starts May 27.
April 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Berkeley Summer Electrochemistry Academy is open to all qualified people and starts May 27.
Phenomenal PhD student Minkyoung Kwak defended her thesis last week - incredible work designing electrode anode materials and passivation layers for alkaline membrane electrolysis!
April 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Phenomenal PhD student Minkyoung Kwak defended her thesis last week - incredible work designing electrode anode materials and passivation layers for alkaline membrane electrolysis!
Phenomenal PhD student Minkyoung Kwak defended her thesis last week - incredible work designing electrode anode materials and passivation layers for alkaline membrane electrolysis!
April 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Phenomenal PhD student Minkyoung Kwak defended her thesis last week - incredible work designing electrode anode materials and passivation layers for alkaline membrane electrolysis!
Busy week... great visits to U Chicago and UW Madison where there are just incredible faculty doing important research in electrochemical science and engineering, followed by intense work with our LiSA team at Caltech on a, fingers-crossed, renewal proposal..
April 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Busy week... great visits to U Chicago and UW Madison where there are just incredible faculty doing important research in electrochemical science and engineering, followed by intense work with our LiSA team at Caltech on a, fingers-crossed, renewal proposal..
My off-grid electric car charging station test is alive. Pretty easy cheap and awesome. I guess tariffs will increase cost now. Need to add a few more LFP batteries. Soon to be solar pergola... anyone can do this.
April 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
My off-grid electric car charging station test is alive. Pretty easy cheap and awesome. I guess tariffs will increase cost now. Need to add a few more LFP batteries. Soon to be solar pergola... anyone can do this.
Delighted to highlight Wenbo Zhang who won a Beckman Fellowship to develop operando analytical techniques for the study of porous electrodes that are central across much of electrochemical technology. beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/...
April 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Delighted to highlight Wenbo Zhang who won a Beckman Fellowship to develop operando analytical techniques for the study of porous electrodes that are central across much of electrochemical technology. beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/...
Visit to Amherst and Alabama Chemical Engineering Departments this week! Thanks to Zhu Chen and Zhongyang Wang for hosting.
April 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Visit to Amherst and Alabama Chemical Engineering Departments this week! Thanks to Zhu Chen and Zhongyang Wang for hosting.
Congratulations again to Kelsey Stoerzinger, collaborator and winner of The Marks-Ipatieff Award in Catalysis recognizing outstanding research by an early-career investigator in the field of catalysis.
March 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Congratulations again to Kelsey Stoerzinger, collaborator and winner of The Marks-Ipatieff Award in Catalysis recognizing outstanding research by an early-career investigator in the field of catalysis.
Ipatieff Award session in honor of Kelsey Stoerzinger staring now in room 25A in ACS San Diego conference center! Tobin Marks kicking off.
March 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ipatieff Award session in honor of Kelsey Stoerzinger staring now in room 25A in ACS San Diego conference center! Tobin Marks kicking off.
Just finished productive couple days at ARPA-e summit with partners from NREL and e-Spin. Tremendous enthusiasm for our new venture led by Olivia Vulpine taking our advanced BPMs to market, a key to unlocking high current low capex next generation electrodialysis.
March 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just finished productive couple days at ARPA-e summit with partners from NREL and e-Spin. Tremendous enthusiasm for our new venture led by Olivia Vulpine taking our advanced BPMs to market, a key to unlocking high current low capex next generation electrodialysis.
PhD Graduations are wonderful events. Aaron Kaufman's work was special blending the physics of selective contacts in semiconductors with photoelectrochemistry and and voltage sensing via ambient pressure XPS.
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
PhD Graduations are wonderful events. Aaron Kaufman's work was special blending the physics of selective contacts in semiconductors with photoelectrochemistry and and voltage sensing via ambient pressure XPS.
guidance for true greatness
March 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
guidance for true greatness
Summer Electrochemistry Academy (SEA) at UC Berkeley... three upper-division undergrad / grad courses in fundamentals, engineering, applied lab projects. *SEA is open to ALL interested and qualified.* shorturl.at/zZsQL
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Summer Electrochemistry Academy (SEA) at UC Berkeley... three upper-division undergrad / grad courses in fundamentals, engineering, applied lab projects. *SEA is open to ALL interested and qualified.* shorturl.at/zZsQL
My colleague Kwabena Bediako was awarded the Philomathia Prize here at UCB and gave a tremendous seminar on his work in 2D quantum materials and related interfacial electrochemical phenomena. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/kwabena...
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My colleague Kwabena Bediako was awarded the Philomathia Prize here at UCB and gave a tremendous seminar on his work in 2D quantum materials and related interfacial electrochemical phenomena. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/kwabena...
Some useful texts I am working through... highly recommend all three for any academic scientist.
January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Some useful texts I am working through... highly recommend all three for any academic scientist.
Adam Weber makes a great elf for the LBL Energy Conversion Group holiday party. Who knew electrochemical modelers were so much fun?
December 17, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Adam Weber makes a great elf for the LBL Energy Conversion Group holiday party. Who knew electrochemical modelers were so much fun?
First lab holiday party in Berkeley with the annual white-elephant gift exchange... a tradition started by my first PhD students.
December 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
First lab holiday party in Berkeley with the annual white-elephant gift exchange... a tradition started by my first PhD students.