News and Updates
Proton dissociation in zeolite HZSM-5
Congratulations to John and the whole team on the publication of our new paper in JPC! We studied the protonation state of the important zeolite HZSM-5 as a function of hydration and showed how the number of water molecules around the BAS causes the deprotonation and...
TRVS 2023
Just got back from a fantastic TRVS in Amsterdam. It was a great conference, lots of exciting talks and some great conversations at the poster sessions. I gave a talk on development of 2D IR spectroelectrochemistry and a poster on water vibrational dynamics in...
Big Bear Squatch North 50K
Participated this past weekend in the 50K distance of the Big Bear Squatch North organized by the Sassquad in the Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks in the Hudson River valley. This course was no joke! Coming off a serious foot and ankle injury a few months ago...
F3 Lake Half Marathon
Ran in the 2023 F3 Lake Half Marathon this year - conditions could have been better, but that's part of the fun of running a race in Chicago in January! Finished 43rd overall with a time of 1:26:58.
New Broadband OPA
Congratulations to John on his new paper in Optics Letters! We report the development of a new OPA seeded with a continuum mid-IR source.
There’s no bulk-like water in superconcentrated electrolytes
Check out our new paper in JPCB, we revealed the intricacies of the water hydrogen bonding network in battery-relevant LiTFSI electrolytes all the way from the dilute limit to the superconcentrated solution. Along the way, we elucidated some of the details of...
ACN doesn’t exchange on a ps timescale
Bogdan's paper is out in JACS! In it, we studied the dynamics of acetonitrile-based electrolytes, and found no evidence for ultrafast solvent exchange. Take a look!