Huge congratulations to Jon Witt for successfully defending his PhD thesis to a packed (virtual) room. His thesis title is: Frequency Resolved Mass Spectrometry for Co-electrolysis of Carbon Dioxide and Steam in High Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells

Congratulations to Brian Gerwe for successfully defended his PhD thesis: Operando Imaging Techniques for Probing Local Electrochemical Response in Solids

Stu was featured in a Zdnet article about the storage challenge facing data center in going green. Read the article to find out more about green data center!

Last week our department announced winners of the annual “Science & Engineering as Art Competition”. The competition was established to highlight the beauty we encounter everyday in our research. Two SSEEL members, (Jon and Brian), submitted entries for the competition highlighting core technologies used in their respective projects. Against a field of eight total entries, Jon emerged victorious, securing 1st place with his entry “Light at the End of the Tunnel”. Congratulations Jon!

Check out the full article to see Jon’s comments about the winning entries, and the other beautiful competition entries.

Stu was featured in a ChemE department article about teaching the introductory thermodynamics class as a “flipped classroom”. Read the article to find out more about active learning styles used in the UW ChemE department.

PI placements for first-year students were just announced and we are pleased to welcome Maria Politi to our team! She will be co-advised with Chemical Engineering professor Lilo Pozzo to study deep eutectic ionic liquid electrolytes with high-throughput electrochemical characterization.

We are happy to announce Zang Le has joined our team! She will be working on predicting failure modes in SOFC stacks with a combination of nonlinear-EIS measurements and mathematical modeling.

Brian and Jon traveled to National Harbor, MD (just outside Washington DC) to attend the 232nd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, their first conference in graduate school. Jon gave a talk on predicted non-linear electrochemical impedance spectra (NLEIS) of CO_2 electrolysis on gadolinia-doped ceria, and Brian presented on using strain-based scanning probe techniques to detect space charge regions in samarium-doped ceria.