Group News

Kolby Preskitt has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher for Spring 2026. He will be working with Musharraf on nickel diphosphine complexes.

Byron, Maksuda, Smriti, and Megan participated in the Destination STEM outreach event at Auburn University on October 15, 2025. Over 1000 middle school students from across Alabama visited Auburn and learned about fundamental science at interactive booths. Our booth covered combustion reactions and the conservation of mass using molecular puzzles.

Tumisang Lekgetho has joined the group for 9 months as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from South Africa. He will be working with Megan on metal oxide synthesis and pursuing his own research on heterojunction materials.

Emma Hataway has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher for Fall 2025. She will be working alongside Maksuda on electrocatalytic oxygen reduction.

Our latest work on CuGaO₂ was published in ACS Appl. Energy Mater.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaem.5c01851

This work shows that synthesis of CuGaO₂ nanocrystals at pH 5 vs pH 9 produces distinct differences in morphology and hole density, resulting in different electrochemical properties.