Jaramillo Research Group

June 14, 2019
Congratulations to Stephanie Nitopi for her successful disseration defense!

June 11, 2019
Congratulations to Zhihua (Bill) Chen for a successful defense of his dissertation!

June 2019
SUNCAT Summer Institute 2019
SUNCAT is once again hosting a summer program on catalysis in an evolving energy landscape from Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16, 2019. For more information or to register, please click here .

May 2019
Science Review: Can we source commodity chemicals from air?
In a review in Science, we explore the prospective challenges and opportunities for manufacturing commodity chemicals such as ethylene and alcohols by direct electrochemical reduction of CO₂. Read the full article here.

March 10, 2019
The Jaramillo group is excited to welcome three new PhD students: Kabir Abiose, Daniel Corral, and Jose Zamora Zeledon!

March 1, 2019
Congratulations to Reuben Britto on his successful dissertation defense!

December 14, 2018
A Perspective on Gas Diffusion Electrodes
The cover article in ACS Energy Letters takes a critical look at the progress in incorporating electrochemical CO₂ reduction catalysts into practical device architectures. Read more about the analysis of gas diffusion electrodes for CO₂ reduction here or see the cover here.

December 2018
We wish Dr. Drew Higgins the best as he transitions from a research scientist in our lab to an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University!

December 7, 2018
Congratulations to Brenna Gibbons for her successful dissertation defense!

November 16, 2018
Congratulations to Alaina Strickler for a successful defense of her dissertation!

October 30, 2018
Gold on Copper for C₂₊ Alcohols
Our paper on a tandem catalyst for CO₂ reduction was highlighted in Nature Reviews Materials. In it, we report the discovery of an electrocatalyst composed of gold nanoparticles on a polycrystalline copper foil that is highly active for CO₂ reduction to alcohols. Read about the synergistic activity and selectivity of this catalyst in Nature Catalysis.

October 26, 2018
We wish Dr. Carlos Gilberto Morales Guio the best as he transitions from a postdoc in our lab to an assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA!

October 4, 2018
Congratulations to Jon Snider for his successful dissertation defense!

September 21, 2018
Congratulations to our second-year students Sarah Blair, Sam Dull, and David Koshy for passing their qualifying exams!

September 18, 2018
The "MIT-Stanford Energy Game Changers Symposium" featured a host of Stanford professors, including our own Professor Thomas Jaramillo, for a day full of ideas with the potential to change the energy landscape. Read the press release or watch the event here.

September 2018
We wish our friend and fellow Jaramillo lab graduate Dr. Linsey Seitz all the best as she embarks on her new position as an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University.

July 30, 2018
Extending the limits of Pt/C catalysts
An improvement to atomic layer deposition allows the deposition of Pt nanoparticles with a more than 40% improvement in Pt surface-to-volume ratio and high Pt mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction. Read the full paper in Nature Catalysis.

June 9, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Marat Orazov, who will be joining the University of Delaware as an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!

March 5, 2018
Ammonia synthesis from N₂ and H₂O
We report a novel ammonia production strategy, exemplified in an electrochemical lithium cycling process, which provides a pathway to sustainable ammonia synthesis via the ability to directly couple to renewable sources of electricity and can facilitate localized production. Read the paper in Energy & Environmental Science or watch a video highlight here.

March 2018
The Jaramillo group is excited to welcome 4 new PhD students: Jaime Aviles Acosta, Sarah Blair, Sam Dull, and David Koshy!

January 15, 2018
Electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide
A pair of recent papers describe the activity trends in electrochemical water oxidation to form hydrogen peroxide (read the Nature Communications paper here) and report a high-efficiency carbon catalyst for the production of H₂O₂ (read the Nature Catalysis paper here). A video highlight on our group's work in H₂O₂ production can be found here.