I know a lot of folks are currently looking for jobs, so this is a timely new position w/@ucanr.bsky.social & UCSD! General role is environment-focused data science, but specific topical focus could be anything from sustainable ag to wildfire risk. More details: recruit.ucanr.edu/JP...
Berkeley Social! Great to get the team out 🥳
Congratulations to the ABPDU's Chang Dou, PhD who received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' 2025 Shining Star Award! Dou was recognized for his long-term volunteerism in the AIChE community and will be honored at AIChE’s Annual Meeting this November.
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Enhanced rock weathering friends! 🪨
We're wrapping up our meta-analysis data-aggregation — is your paper in there?
📚 Check: tinyurl.com/ERWlit
📥 Add: tinyurl.com/ERWmorelit
Really excited to get started on some exciting analyses soon! 🔬🌍
Thank you Dr. Magda Titirici and @rsc.org !
#ACSSprin2025!
At 11:30 am PST
✍️🏅WRITING #COMPETITION ALERT: The Sabin Center and the New York Sea Grant is holding a writing competition for law #students interested in writing on legal and policy issues associated with marine #CDR. More details, (eligibility criteria & submission guidelines) are available here:
First team dinner of 2025!
If you have expertise in any of the areas below, reach out as we're hiring!
- GHG measurement across supply chains
- Satellite GHG observations
- MRV in hydrogen, carbon removal systems
- measurement informed LCA, TEA
- Energy systems modeling (w/ focus on carbon management)
www.ceesa.utexas.edu
AGU stands with federal scientists. Read more on fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...
The paper highlights the innovation behind Calectra . I can't wait to see how this system launches other key energy technologies.
This includes scalable manufacturing, safety, stable rapid heating, and cycleability. We characterize bricks made of TiO2, MgO, and SiC and conduct techno-economic analysis to model power-to-heat and power-to-power systems.
We achieved this by targeting a technical performance space where other storage systems and thermal storage systems fall short. We tackle key material performance requirements and show they can be addressed with cheap carbon ceramic bricks.
We made an energy storage material that can meet the Earthshot target of 5¢/kWh long duration energy storage.
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
My first PhD student Stephanie Collins just passed her qualifying exam in the same room where I passed mine 🥹. McLaughlin Hall 4ever.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
It is high time we all reconsidered the exclusive focus on nth plant TEAs. Lead author Tuhin Poddar does a great job outlining the options for TEA that's more relevant to near-term scale-up of bioprocesses in our new COBIOT article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Funding from HFTO Department of Energy
Cheers to Peng Peng for conceptualizing and supervising the work and to Xinyi Wang for leading the method development and analysis.
Now time to see the power of the Department of Energy HyMARC program in action as computational scientists and experimentalists review which to target for synthesis and activation validation! Thanks to Hiroyasu Furukawa and the Jeff Long Group for providing guidance on next steps.
We found 96 structures that could store hydrogen more cheaply than 350 bar compressed gas tanks, even at higher material price. That's pretty cool given we were only aware of two experimentally known materials that could pull this off.
We made a really cool flashlight to explore massive material structures databases. So, what happened when we applied it to 9720 metal organic frameworks structures?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Something to really be proud of. People worked so damn hard to make this happen and see it through.
Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research: ParT7
Thanks to all researchers who shared their personal inspiring stories. Read the collection of articles at ACS Energy Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Breunig research group on hike, standing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Photo by Dr. Damien Jullié
So happy my team, our work, and I got featured in @acs.org Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research for 2024, now published!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Research can take you in unexpected directions. When Tao Dai joined my group, we were working on CDR. That led to DACS. Which led to the question: where can you put DACS paired w/ BTM wind power and can you pair it with farms? Now we have better answers... authors.elsevier.com/c/1kPcl4s9Hw...
This is not surprising. Our work showed that coal-to-gas transition is unlikely to be replicated in other countries because of (i) high LNG prices, (ii) lack of gas/pipeline infrastructure, and (iii) national security concerns. DoE's analysis reaffirms that conclusion. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our newest postdoc Tanumoy is a rockstar btw. Learn more about why #hydrogen #embrittlement happens in alloys!
www.linkedin.com/posts/tanumoy-banerjee-4199a9137_hydrogen-diffusion-embritlement-activity-7273074242039033857-0d-F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Boston U workshop series on carbon conversion
www.linkedin.com/posts/bu-ins...
