21 August 2023: Congratulations to Hunter for publishing his first PhD work!!
21 June 2023: Congrats to Hussain for co-authoring this system-level perspective!
5 May 2023: Congrats to Paige for contributing to this amazing publication with the Tarpeh group!
28 April 2023: Congratulations to Jesús for receiving the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
12 April 2023: Congrats to Allison, Hunter, and Maria for participating in this short video highlighting the role of the Postdoc and Graduate Student (PDaGS) network at NREL!
17 February 2023: Big congratulations to Hussain for passing his prelim exam this Spring!
18 January 2023: Welcome to our newest undergraduate Electrobuff, Rachel! She is joining the group via the SULI program and will be working with Maria at NREL.
13 January 2023: Welcome to Nithila, a visiting undergraduate student joining the Electrobuffs from the National University of Singapore!
January 2023: Welcome to our newest visiting PhD Electrobuff, Carlos!
5 December 2022: Congratulations to Mark for his recent perspective article, published in ACS Energy Letters! Congrats to Maria for contributing to this fantastic work!
November 2022: Welcome to our newest PhD Electrobuffs, Jason and Jesús!
15 August 2022: Congrats to Paige and Hussain for their recent publication in ACS Catalysis, highlighting the role of applied potential on the reaction energetics of CO2 electrolysis to CO using Grand-Canonical Density Functional Theory (GC-DFT)
1 August 2022: This summer, the Electrobuffs will say goodbye to two of our FANTASTIC postdocs, Nate and Ana. They will be sorely missed by the whole group. Both Nate and Ana found their next career steps in the Netherlands, keeping our group's roots alive! Nate will be an Electrode Development Manager at Battolyser and Ana will start a tenure-track position at TU Delft! Congrats to both!
4 May 2022: Congratulations to Mark for his recent publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials! Congrats to Nate, Recep, and Wilson as well for being co-authors of this work!
29 April 2022: A belated (but enormous) welcome to our newest visiting PhD student, Sara! She is joining us from the Park group at Columbia. Sara will be working along with Nate and Maria at NREL on EC-AFM.
25 April 2022: Congratulations to Recep for his recent publication, sharing some interesting results on what is happening along GDE channels during the bicarbonate reduction reaction.
27 September 2021: We are thrilled to introduce our newest postdoctoral Electrobuff, Yaran! She is joining our group from the Jiao group in Delaware. Yaran will be working on operando spectroscopy to investigate reaction mechanisms.
30 July 2021: Congratulations to Hussain for passing his Master's defense and for getting accepted into the ChemE PhD program at CU Boulder! He will continue working in our lab as a PhD student, and will be co-advised by Dr. Bri-Mathias Hodge.
19 July 2021: Congratulations to Ana for leading our recent review on process modeling, techno-economics, and life-cycle analysis in the CO2 electrolysis field! Also congrats to the Electrobuff co-authors, Allison and Wilson!
8 June 2021: Congratulations to Wilson for being part of this backstory on emerging collaborators in the electrochemical synthesis field.
28 May 2021: Congrats to Nate for his recent perspective on accurate water activity accounting, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
8 April 2021: Congratulations to Hunter for earning an Honorable Mention recognition by the NSF!
8 April 2021: Congratulations to Allison for receiving the NSF-GRFP!
7 April 2021: Congrats to Nate for his recent open-access publication in the Journal of Electrochemical Society!
April 5 2021: Congrats to Maria and Allison for being recognized by NREL for their fantastic research effort!
1 March 2021: Congratulations to Emma for winning the 1st place Chemistry category of the Corden Pharma Science Fair!
12 February 2021: Congratulations to Hunter, Allison, and Yuval for passing their prelim exams this week!
15 January 2021: Congrats to Recep for leading our new work, published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering!
15 January 2021: Welcome to Lauren, a chemical engineering undergraduate joining the Electrobuffs as a YOU'RE@CU undergraduate researcher.
20 December 2020: Welcome to Emma Peters, a high school student joining the Electrobuffs to do some research this year! She will be mentored by Hussain, Paige, and Maria.
18 November 2020: Congrats to Nate for leading our new work, published in ACS Catalysis! And congrats to Hunter, Danielle, and Recep for contributing!
16 November 2020: Congratulations to Maria for winning a GRFP award!
1 November 2020: Welcome to the groups newest member, 1st year graduate student Maria Kelly!
20 October 2020: Congratulations to Paige Brimley on being the first Electrobuff to pass their preliminary exams! One step closer to Ph.D. candidacy.
29 July 2020: Welcome to our new Postdoc, Ana! She will be working on modeling CO2 Reduction at the process scale.
14 July 2020: Congrats to postdoc Danielle Salvatore for being award the Director's Fellowship at NREL!
November 2019: Welcome to Hunter, Allison, Yuval, Paige, and Hussain as the first graduate students in the Electrobuff group, as well as Nate and Recep as the first postdoctoral scholars as well as Mark as the first visiting PhD student of the group!
August 2019: The Electrobuffs are formed when Professor Wilson Smith comes to Colorado for his role as Associate Professor at CU Boulder in Chemical Engineering and Staff Scientist at NREL.