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James Landon successfully defends PhD dissertation
April 4, 2011 James will be joining the Center for Applied Energy Research in Kentucky this summer. Congratulations!
Four new publications!
We recently published papers in the areas of sufur tolerance, oxygen evolution, adsorption and oxide synthesis.
Spencer Miller successfully defends his PhD dissertation!
Congratulations to Spencer for defending his dissertation entitled "Towards an Understanding of Coverage Dependent Atomic Adsorption on Late Transition Metals". The defense occurred on March 9, 2011.
Nilay Inoglu has successfully defended her PhD dissertation
Congratulations to Nilay for successfully defending her dissertation entitled "Design of Sulfur Tolerant Transition Metal Catalysts and Oxide Based Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts". She defended on March 17, 2011.
Anita Lee successfully defended her PhD proposal!
Anita is combining molecular modeling with systems modeling to identify potential limitations in amine-based CO2 capture technologies. Her proposal was titled "Can we do better than MEA? A Multi-scale Modeling Approach to Designing Novel Amines Solvents for Post Combustion CO2 Capture" and she defended it on March 16, 2011.
Publications 2010 NETL CO2 Capture Technology Meeting
Links to presentations from the 2010 NETL CO2 Capture Technology Meeting
Anita Lee selected for a 2010-2011 Steinbrenner Graduate Fellowship
She was selected for her research on a comprehensive computational approach to evaluating amine based solvents for post combustion CO2 capture.
Prof. Kitchin wins DOE Early Career Award!
The project is entitled "Multifunctional Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst Design and Synthesis".
Nilay Inoglu won an International Research Fellowship
Nilay will visit the Department of Physics at the Denmark Technical University next year to work with Jens Norskov.
Rich Alesi passed his PhD proposal defense
Rich passed his proposal defense on designing amidine-based CO2 sorbents.
Dana Evert-Parise wins IUPN fellowship
Dana won a research fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Program in Nanotechnology-Explore program at CMU to investigate nanoparticle-based electrocatalysts for high temperature fuel cell applications.
Undergraduates working in the Kitchin Lab in F09
Five undergraduates are working in our lab this fall! We have also begun a CO2 capture focus group that will be developing ASPEN models of solvent scrubbing operations.
Correlations in coverage-dependent atomic adsorption energies on Pd(111)
Phys. Rev. B 79, 205412 (2009)
Natalie Brandell won 1st place in the IFYRE poster contest!
Natalie received first place for her poster on "Investigation of Transition Metals as Oxygen Evolution Catalysts in Neutral Solution" at the Meeting of the Minds undergraduate research symposium at CMU.
Josh Bordin joined the Kitchin Research group for the Summer 2009
Josh will investigate the absorption of CO2 in aqueous carbonate solutions and ways to speed up the absorption.
New publication on correlations in adsorption energies in Physical Review B
Phys. Rev. B 79, 205412 (2009)
Rich Alesi wins 2nd place at Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society Meeting
Rich won 2nd place for his talk on "Evaluating the Thermodynamic Properties of Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide on Supported Tertiary Amidines"
James Landon successfully defends PhD dissertation
