Two of our group members - Farzaneh Farzinpour and Morgan McKee - took part in the Electrochemical Society (ESC) conference in Montreal together with Prof Kornienko and gave presentations there. Farzaneh: Molecular cages accelerate electrocatalytic NO3- reduction to NH3 Morgan: Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas-liquid-solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation Nick: Heterogeneous Electrosynthesis of C–N, C–S and C–P Products Using CO2 as a Building Block

Shuai Chen's paper has been published in the journal Chem in March 2025. Shuai Chen was supported by Farzaneh Farzinpour and Nikolay Kornienko. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102575

Congratulations to our PhD student Morgan McKee, who has been accepted to participate in the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry). What an honour! Morgan successfully went through a complex selection process: Prof Kornienko had proposed him to the University as a potential candidate for the meeting. The University as Academic Partner agreed and nominated him in turn for participation in the Lindau Meeting. It followed a fairly extended online application over several weeks and finally an evaluation process by a scientific committee of the Lindau Meeting. And YAY, he has been selected!

A collaborative paper with Yang Wang and Nick Kornienko's contribution has been published in Chinese Chemical Letters in February 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2025.110988

A collaborative paper with Shuai Chen's and Shuai Yan's contribution has been published in Nature Communications in February 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57563-6

We had a group of future chemists visiting our laboratory. A daycare centre sent the best of the best. They were able to experience the potential energy of gummy bears, floating soap bubbles and oxygen-cooled ice cream.

A collaborative paper with Hossein Bemana's and Nick Kornienko's contribution has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in December 2024. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.4c13187

Dr Yang Wang, a Postdoc in the research group of Prof Dr Nikolay Kornienko at the University of Bonn, was awarded an Argelander Starter-Kit Grant.