Author: farnumlab

Congrats to Amanda for publishing her work in ChemElectroChem and being selected for a cover feature! The work details the lithium dependent electrochemistry of CuCrO₂.

Members of the group traveled to the Gordon Research Conference on Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions in Newport, RI. This meeting is a favorite of the group and was the first meeting after 4 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was great to see old friends, former group members, and see the academic family of Jerry Meyer grow.

Congratulations to Amanda Chown for successfully defending her PhD. She is the 3rd PhD student from the group and embark on a journey to New Mexico for a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Lab.

We want to welcome two new undergraduate group members for summer research. Kallan Blakemore is a rising senior at Auburn and Kennedi Banks is an REU student from Case Western Reserve University. Best of luck in your summer research!

In our latest work by Amanda Chown published in Inorganic Chemistry, we show that Cr³⁺ acts as a reductant in the hydrothermal synthesis of CuCrO₂ from Cu²⁺ precursors. This synthesis is widely used in the literature to generate CuCrO₂ nanocrystals, however, the exact role of Cr³⁺ as a reductant had never been identified. The information leads to a new stoichiometric ratio of 4:3 Cr:Cu needed to produce pure CuCrO₂. Deviations from this can result in side product impurities.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00943