Congrats Thejas S. Wesley on their new paper on ACS Catalysis! They showcase that interfacial polarization alters the degree of organization of species in the electrolyte is the underlying reason for the potential-dependence observed in thermochemical catalysis of nonpolar reactions. #echemsky

Congrats Will Howland, Cole Cadaram, Deiaa Harraz, and our collaborators from Warwick University! By using SECCM to analyze aerobic formic acid aerobic oxidation, we demonstrate that the polycrystalline Pt catalyst acts as an ensemble of cathodes and anodes.

Congrats Vennela Mannava and Joel Gardner! By varying the electron donicity of the peripheral substituents on cobalt phthalocyanine, demonstrated that metal-hydrogen BDFE, rather than catalyst E(1/2), is the primary parameter that governs the HER activity of adsorbed molecular electrocatalysts.

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Congrats Noah Lewis and Joel Gardner! Using GCCs, they show interfacial proton coupled electron trans., often rate limiting in HER & aqueous electrocatalysis, is a multistep reaction wherein mechanistic substeps involving the transit of electrolyte ions into/out of the EDL control overall rates.

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

Congrats Hai-Xu Wang! CO₂ hydrogenation to formate and NAD⁺ hydrogenation to NADH — long considered purely non-electrochemical heterolytic hydrogenations — can actually follow an electrochemical mechanism, coupling oxidative hydrogen oxidation (HOR) and reductive hydrogen reduction reactions (HRR)!

Congratulations to Hye Won Chung and Dr. Hai-Xu Wang! Using hydrogen reduction reaction (HRR), where H2 interconverts w/ hydrides, they developed a potentiometric method to quantify molecular hydricity, applied it to substrates including formate & borohydrides, and investigated solvent-dependence.

Congrats Kunal!

Congrats Dr. Deiaa Harraz!

13/ Come on SpongeBob! You know: I wungsten, you wungsten, he/she/me wungsten... doi.org/10.1128/jb.1... ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

Omnipath H2 aims to revolutionize the midstream hydrogen industry based on a technology developed in the Surendrath group. We congratulate the team for winning 2nd place at this year’s MIT Climate & Energy Prize.

59/ kemistry ⚗️🧪👍

Yogesh Surendranath @ChemistryMIT @interphases.org opens the Spring Meeting #sm25 of @swisschemistry.bsky.social with ‚Using Electrochemistry to Understand and Control Thermochemical Catalysis‘ @unibe.ch

they did oxygen evolution on a hazelnut [to prove the point that it's meaningless it is to interpret electrocatalytic data from poorly defined complex electrode materials] #chemsky ⚗️🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

112/ #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Check out this MIT News page about our recent paper: news.mit.edu/2025/surpris...

Great Perspective from Cathy Tway & Sorin Filip here too www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fascinating chemsky paper in @science.org today from @interphases.org meticulously revealing that vinyl acetate synthesis operates through tandem homogeneous and heterogeneous palladium catalysis 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations our very own Deiaa Harraz, Kunal Lodaya, Bryan Tang for their new paper in Science! Check out our new paper titled Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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[1/2] aromaticity question for #chemsky: consider this annular carbon allotrope C18. let's define p orbitals sigma-bonding tangential to the ring as p_z, those pi-bonding in the plane of the ring to be p_y, and those pi-bonding perpendicular to the plane of the ring to be p_x.

Take a look at our new paper by Neil Razdan and Karl Westendorff as they develop an exciting new method to measure the potential of thermochemical catalysts supported on electrically insulating supports! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky #echem #echemsky

The Mango Industrial Complex, up to their usual tactics I see

85/ is it a literature procedure? #chemsky

I love it that in Australia you don't just buy a mango, but you can choose from about five varieties in any supermarket

Our article with @interphases.org on the role of ion management in enhancing performance for bipolar membranes in forward bias is now #OpenAccess as a part of @natchemeng.bsky.social’s @natureportfolio.bsky.social Anniversary issue! 🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ChemSky #CompChemSky

x.com/meganj6E23/s... 👀👀👀👀 congrats Kenneth and Megan!!

why not join the SURENDRANATH GROUP

Finally cleaned that image of Flasky.

Chemists actually love to do this (e.g. TiCl4→"tickle" or FOOF). The real way to piss off a chemist is to screw up a simple Lewis structure with a Texas carbon. #chemsky ⚗️🧪

(Electro)chemsky! These students are available for hire beginning April or June 2025 and do not have to return to Eugene after completing their internship (electrochemistry.uoregon.edu/masters-inte...) Let us know if you'd like to see some resumes and please share for visibility 🧪⚡

At the end of the day, all chemists are either nuclear chemists or electrochemists. #chemsky

if you're following us, you should be following @annawuttig.bsky.social for more great interfacial electrochemistry! (and check out our 🔋⚡ＥＬＥＣＴＲＯＣＨＥＭＳＫＹ⚡🔋 starter pack for a great collection of echem researchers of all flavors!) go.bsky.app/7BokNKP

My lab's next paper is out in Angewandte Chemie! Disorder activates graphitic carbon for echem rxns—but can we distinguish it in situ? Varying disorder shows different electric-field IR responses! w/ Ry, Ben & calculations from Arpan in Galli Group onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

thinking about one of my favorite Manhattan Project stories, when some klutz spilled ¼ of the world supply of plutonium on a copy of the Chicago Tribune and a team of chemists had to figure out how to get it back out (they digested the newspaper in nitric acid, using a technique called wet ashing)

My final first author paper🧪, a collaborative study with @interphases.org on the importance of ion-management in forward-biased bipolar membranes ➕➖, is now published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Chemical Engineering! Read here: rdcu.be/d4hPk 🧵 below with more detail! #GreenSky #Chemistry

63/ spotted on a campus bulletin board at MIT

Our postdoc HX has achieved rank #201 on Chemdle over the last month, with 19 wins on 34 games played 💅

life hack: it's deliberately hard to find but you can find toggles to disable those bullshit epdf readers. here is the link for Wiley journals: content.readcube.com/html/epdf_se...

Check out our collaboration with the Bullock group at PNNL! Travis, Vennela and Deiaa's exciting new paper on the rate-potential scaling relationships of adsorbed molecular iron macrocycle complexes for aqueous ORR is now online at ACS Catalysis 😎🤿 pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"Yes please i would like a tube of SWAK. Please give me a can of PURE GOOP" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

#chemsky history anecdote: Both spellings were common in the US in 1886 when Charles Hall invented his eponymous process and founded Alcoa. Hall favored "aluminum" over "aluminium" in marketing to evoke associations with nobler metals like platinum, and Americans have used his spelling ever since.

this old meme I made is actually about the mechanism of action of aqua regia dissolution of gold. basically, HNO3 can oxidize gold but can't complex it, so it can only dissolve a bit. HCl can complex gold ions but can't oxidize gold. it takes the two together in a mixture to fully dissolve gold!

*eye twitching* "i don't need a personal rotavap... i DON'T NEED a personal rotavap"

800 °C molten-salt electrolysis of phosphate to white phosphorus, aka "I melted rocks to lava and zapped them with lightning until they caught fire and exploded" pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

We are working on a glossary of electrochemistry terms at the link in our bio. What battery definitions would you like to see?

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36/ when my students ask me why units are important