The Surendranath Group 🥭

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.

reddit /r/chemistry post: Can isotopes of the same element bind together? For example, can an O2 compound be composed of an oxygen-14 atom and an oxygen-16 atom? Top reply from /u/Tortenn: Yes, but one half weighs more so it will tip over

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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

Electrocatalysis Goes Nuts While searching for new nanoelectrocatalysts with outstanding performance, researchers often disregard the complexity and true usability of such materials. Here, it is argued that the chemical and str...

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]

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Organic chemists when they see a coloured solution in the lab: :0

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Surprise discovery could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions Upending a long-held supposition, MIT researchers discovered that a common catalyst works by cycling between two different forms. The finding could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions.

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/...

#chemsky #echemsky #electrochemistry #chemistry

@science.org

Thank you!

Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis Presently, mechanistic paradigms in catalysis generally posit that the active species remains either homogeneous or heterogeneous throughout the reaction. In this work, we show that a prominent indust...

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/...

Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis Presently, mechanistic paradigms in catalysis generally posit that the active species remains either homogeneous or heterogeneous throughout the reaction. In this work, we show that a prominent indust...

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/...

We have a new LinkedIn page! Check it out here www.linkedin.com/company/sure...

molecular C18 ring with alternating C-C single and triple bonds

[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.

Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis - Nature Catalysis Interfacial polarization influences catalytic reactions occurring at solid–liquid interfaces, but its measurement was previously limited to conductive materials. Now redox-active molecules enable elec...

Using low concentrations of redox active molecules, they established a wireless connection to metals like Pt on different supports, and used this new tool to uncover the elusive role of electrochemical polarization on dispersed catalysts and its impact on thermochemical catalysis!

Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis - Nature Catalysis Interfacial polarization influences catalytic reactions occurring at solid–liquid interfaces, but its measurement was previously limited to conductive materials. Now redox-active molecules enable elec...

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

Ion-specific phenomena limit energy recovery in forward-biased bipolar membranes - Nature Chemical Engineering Forward-biased bipolar membranes (FB-BPMs), which recover potential from pH gradients through ion–ion recombination, show promise for application in sustainable devices. The authors use physics-based ...

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

A wide-eyed anthropomorphic conical or Erlenmeyer flask, in the style of the much maligned M S Office Clippy. The pale yellow speech bubble above asks "Looks like you're trying some meta-free synthesis. You gonna clean that fucking stirrer bar? Yes, No."

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.

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(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.

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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/...