A paper titled “Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction with Low-Index Cu Single Crystals: Selectivity Trends in Alkaline Solution“, with Hongshan Bi as a co-first author, was published online on Journal of American Chemical Society! In this paper, we collaborated with the group …

Hongshan published a co-first-authored paper about nitrate reduction on Journal of the American Chemical Society! Read more »

Zhou was selected as the recipient of the Fall 2026 OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry from the American Chemical Society to recognize our pioneering contributions to computational spectroscopy. Zhou will give an oral presentation …

Zhou received the OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry! Read more »

Our amazing undergraduate students have won multiple awards! Sophia Perucchi received the  Professor Jack Ragle Research Fellowship and the ACS-Hach Foundation Scholarship; Ella Bilge received the Professor Jack Ragle Research Fellowship; Matthew Skarbek Capra received the ACS Undergraduate Award in …

Sophia, Ella, Matthew, and Nikolaus received awards! Read more »

Hongshan Bi has published a paper titled “Active site design enables industrial scale H2O2 electrosynthesis with metal-free catalysts” on Nature Communications as a co-first author. Please read the online version for details. In this paper, he discovered the effective active …

Hongshan published a co-first-authored paper about oxygen reduction on Nature Communications! Read more »

Zhou was selected as one of the 24 Cottrell Scholar Awardees by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)! The award recognizes our contributions in artificial intelligence, molecular spectroscopy, heterogenous catalysis, astrophysical chemistry, and chemical education. RCSA also issues $120,000 to …

Zhou received the Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement! Read more »

Zhou received a 2026 Flygare Award from the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (ISMS). Awarded biennially to early-career scientists within 10 years of their PhD, the honor recognizes outstanding contributions to molecular spectroscopy. Zhou was recognized for independent work in computational spectroscopy, combining …

Zhou received the Flygare Award from International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy! Read more »