The 2019 Hope College Schaap Symposium was a huge two-day success and we were very honored to be a part of it. Our group presented six posters and enjoyed many of the posters and presentations. More information on the posters and research that was presented to come.
Thank you once again to New Holland for treating us to a tour of their brewery and distillery. Our tour guide Shawn did a great job. Considering “Brewmaster” for my next career title.
Tom Guarr, Anthony Porath and Andrew Rajewski traveled to Dallas to present two posters at the Electrochemical Society conference. They ran into a former intern, Nora Shaheen, who is currently completing her PhD at Case Western.
Here is a link to the TEDx talk that Tom Guarr recently performed. Give it a listen to hear about the future of energy storage. We are developing batteries that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy for applications that can range from large utilities to single family dwellings.
Some of the members of our lab are attending the American Chemical Society Great Lakes Regional meeting in Lisle, Il.
Anthony Porath is presenting “Multi-electron covalently linked donor/acceptor sytems for organic redox flow batteries”
Andrew Rajewski is presenting “Alkyl-linked heterocyclic donor / imide acceptor systems for symmetric nonaqueous redox flow battery applications”
Tom, Anthony and Andy also had the pleasure of meeting Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry…
Tulip time will be here soon and that means… internships are starting!
The following students are joining us at the Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute Organic Energy Storage Laboratory for the summer of 2019:
Michael Giurini – Biochemical Engineering student at Hope College
Zachary Lincoln – Graduating with a Chemistry degree from Alma College
Tara Vogel – Physics student at University of Chicago
Isabelle Zelaya – Chemistry student at University of Michigan
Welcome to all of our new researchers. We are very excited about the summer!
Senator Gary Peters visited Michigan State University Bioeconomy Institute and toured our lab on Monday, February 18, 2019. We appreciate his interest in next generation redox flow batteries and lithium battery additives to prevent overcharging.
We are very happy to welcome Kassia Symstad to our lab. She actually joined us in November 2018 and I am very late in updating our website. Kassia is a University of Chicago grad with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. She plans to continue her education next year and we are excited about her pending electrochemical contributions to the OESL.
OESLab wishes you Happy Holidays and all the best for 2019!!!!
Also Congratulations to the 2018 Reindeer Games Champions, Amber Dood and Jason Gillmore!
Addison Duda has joined our group. He is a full-time Hope College student studying Chemistry and a part-time huge help to our lab.
Welcome Addison!