Monthly Archives: March 2018

Congratulations Mireille!

Mireille has received some great news, the award of a prestigious graduate scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to support her doctoral research in the area of solar fuels. This scholarship recognises the outstanding … Continue reading

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Congratulations Jia Jia!

Jia Jia has just learned she has won the much-coveted “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad” from the China Scholarship Council. This award, founded by the Chinese government in 2003, recognises the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students … Continue reading

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Nitrogen Reduction Reactions – Fact or Artifact

Artifacts that arise from adventitious carbon contamination of catalysts used in the electrochemical, photochemical and thermochemical reduction of CO2 to synthetic chemicals and fuels (www.advancedsciencenews.com), especially at low total conversions and low conversion rates, can only be authenticated through rigorous … Continue reading

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Green Syngas by Solar Dry Reforming – Killing Two Greenhouse Gasses With One Stone

Congratulations Alex Tavasoli on your Commentary in Joule,”Green Syngas by Solar Dry Reforming: Killing Two Greenhouse Gases with One Stone”! A photothermal dry reforming process has been developed that efficiently transforms two potent greenhouse gases, CH4 and CO2, into industrially … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Yuchan and Kulbir!

Congratulations Yuchan Dong and Kulbir Ghuman and Co-Authors on your Advanced Science Paper Entitled Tailoring Surface Frustrated Lewis Pairs of In2O3-x(OH)y for Gas-Phase Heterogeneous CO2 Hydrogenation by Isomorphous Substitution of In3+ with Bi3+ The excited state acidity and basicity of … Continue reading

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