2015 in a nutshell for the Kitchin Research Group

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2015 was a busy, productive year for the Kitchin Research group. Here are a few of the highlights!

1 org-ref made it to Melpa

At long last org-ref has made it onto Melpa ! This makes it easy to install for many people. There are (as of this writing) 17 contributors to org-ref, with 677 commits to the repo . Thanks everyone who has reported issues, feature requests, etc. With your help we will make this the best way to write technical papers there is!

2 Student accomplishments

Congratulations to these students who completed their degrees! They do a lot of the hard work in the group, so also, many thanks to them!

Matt Curnan completed his PhD.

Siddharth Deshpande, Hari Thirumalai, Zhaofeng Chen, John Michael and Mehak Chawla completed their M.S. degrees.

Hari will be joining Lars Grabow at the University of Houston for a PhD program.

Nitish Govindarajan (MS 2014) will be leaving Bloom Energy to join the Van't Hoff Institute of Molecular Science (University of Amsterdam) to work on his PhD with funding from the Shell-Computational Sciences for Energy Research program.

Wenqin You (MS 2014) joined the PhD program in the Chemical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech.

John Michael has accepted a position with Eastern Research Group.

We already miss everyone who is leaving. Luckily, six new MS students are joining the group! Welcome to Chen Wang, Akshay Tharval, Teng Ma, Feiyang Geng, Devon Walker, and Tianyu Gao. We will also welcome a new PhD student Elif Erdinc who will be joining us in early 2016.

We also welcomed Kenate Nemera as a visiting Fulbright Scholar from Ethiopia to our group this past year.

3 Publications

We had a great year in publications. We have 5 out for review now, so next year will probably be good too!

Here are this year's papers. These were all written in org-mode!

Metal oxide papers

Oxygen evolution electrocatalysis:

Data sharing papers:

Alloy catalysis/surface science papers:

CO2 capture:

These were collaborative papers, they were not written in org-mode.

Bibliography

Our citation count has continued to rise!

Figure 1: Citation metrics for the Kitchin Research group.

This remarkable paper norskov-2004-origin has a total number of citations that exceeded 1000 this past year!

4 Social media

We had about 94 blog posts this past year. Traffic to our blog did not grow much this year, but it is a little higher than last year.

Figure 2: Web traffic to http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu for 2015.

5 Outlook for 2016

I am planning to continue promoting Emacs + org-mode for technical writing. org-ref is pretty good, and I expect to do mostly do some polishing on it. I will probably try to formalize ox-manuscript, which we use to create our scientific manuscripts. I will also try to formalize org-citeproc, which will let us use citations in non-LaTeX exports.

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New publication in Surface Science

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Some time ago we published this paper on the coverage dependence of the adsorption energies of atomic adsorbates on different sites xu-2014-probin-cover. One of the concerns in that work was whether van der Waal forces were significant for some adsorbates. Well, now we have addressed that concern in a new paper in Surface Science! In this new work we use the BEEF functional to simultaneously access the impact of van der Waal forces on the adsorption energy trends, as well as do some error analysis on the significance of the coverage dependence. I won't ruin the surprise too much; the good news is that yes van der Waals do influence adsorption of atomic adsorbates on metal surfaces, but the trends are mostly the same! See the paper for more details. Congratulations Hari!

@article{thirumalai-2015-pt-pd,
  author =       "Hari Thirumalai and John R. Kitchin",
  title =        {The Role of Vdw Interactions in Coverage Dependent Adsorption
                  Energies of Atomic Adsorbates on Pt(111) and Pd(111)},
  journal =      "Surface Science ",
  pages =        " - ",
  year =         2015,
  doi =          {10.1016/j.susc.2015.10.001},
  url =
                  "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039602815003052",
  issn =         "0039-6028",
}

See it here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039602815003052

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New Publication in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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We have published a new paper on CO2 capture in aqueous amino acid solvents! In this collaborative effort with the Anna Research group and NETL, we show that potassium lysinate solvents show potential for CO2 capture applications using a microfluidic characterization device and a continuously stirred tank reactor. We also examined the aqueous potassium salts of glycine, taurine and proline. Raman spectroscopy was used to characterize the speciation of CO2 in the solvent. Congratulations Alex!

@article{hallenbeck-2015-compar-co2,
  author =       "Alexander P. Hallenbeck and Adefemi Egbebi and Kevin P. Resnik
                  and David Hopkinson and Shelley L. Anna and John R. Kitchin",
  title =        {Comparative Microfluidic Screening of Amino Acid Salt
                  Solutions for Post-Combustion \ce{CO2} Capture},
  journal =      "International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control ",
  volume =       43,
  pages =        "189 - 197",
  year =         2015,
  doi =          {10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.10.026},
  url =
                  "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583615301134",
  issn =         "1750-5836",
}

See it here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583615301134

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The Kitchingroup welcomes Kenate Nemera

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Kenate Nemera is joining us for 9 months on a Fulbright Fellowship! Kenate is an assistant professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Kenate will help us with our recent work in modeling metal oxide polymorphs. Welcome Kenate!

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Publication in PCCP on oxide polymorph reactivty

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We have a new publication in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. on the reactivity of different oxide polymorphs. In this work we examine the reactivity of some common BO2 oxide polymorphs for Ru, Rh, Pt and Ir oxides. These are all normally rutile formers, but it may be possible to synthesize them in other polymorphs as epitaxial films, or under pressure. We examined how the reactivity of the polymorphs would differ from that of the most stable phase, and the impact of those changes on the oxygen evolution reaction. We predict that the reactivity may be improved in some cases. Congratulations Zhongnan!

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/CP/C5CP04840K#!divAbstract

@article{xu-2015-tunin-oxide,
  author =       "Xu, Zhongnan and Kitchin, John R",
  title =        {Tuning Oxide Activity Through Modification of the Crystal and
                  Electronic Structure: From Strain To Potential Polymorphs},
  journal =      "Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.",
  year =         2015,
  doi =          "10.1039/C5CP04840K",
  url =          "https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP04840K",
  publisher =    "The Royal Society of Chemistry",
  abstract =     "Discovering new materials with tailored chemical properties is
                  vital for advancing key technologies in catalysis and energy
                  conversion. One strategy is the modification of a material{'}s
                  crystal structure{,} and new methods allow for the synthesis
                  and stabilization of potential materials in a range of crystal
                  polymorph structures. We assess the potential reactivity of
                  four metastable oxide polymorphs of MO2 (M=Ru{,} Rh{,} Pt{,}
                  Ir) transition metal oxides. In spite of the similar local
                  geometry and coordination between atoms in the metastable
                  polymorphic and stable rutile structure{,} we find that
                  polymorph reactivities cannot be explained by strain alone and
                  offer tunable reactivity and increased stability.
                  Atom-projected density of states reveals that the unique
                  reactivity of polymorphs are caused by a redistribution of
                  energy levels of the t2g-states. This structure-activity
                  relationship is induced by slight distortions to the M-O bonds
                  in polymorphic structures and is unattainable by strain. We
                  predict columbite IrO2 to be more active than rutile IrO2 for
                  oxygen evolution",
}

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