News
January 26, 2024
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on "Developing Mass Balances that Capture Kinetics & Mechanisms for Electrochemical Hydrogenation & Hydrogenolysis of Furfural and Side Reactions in Acidic Electrolytes" at Great Plains Catalysis Club Tutorial Webinar Series (virtual). Monthly webinar speaker
January 17, 2024
Sarvar gave an oral presentation on "Fouling of Copper Electrodes During Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Biomass-Derived Furfural in Highly Acidic Conditions" at Metro New York Catalysis Society (NYCS), January 2024 monthly meeting, student presentation highlight, Princeton, New Jersey.
November 12-16, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on "Ionic liquid mixtures for low temperature lithium containing electrolytes" at Joint Molten Salts Symposium, Kyoto, Japan (in person). Keynote speaker
November 5-10, 2023
Jonah and Professor Biddinger attended the AIChE National Meeting, Orlando, Florida (in person).
Professor Biddinger had the 2023 Catalysis & Reaction Engineering Division of the AIChE Mid-Career Symposium Highlight session given in her honor. She also gave an invited talk in the session on "Electrochemical Reaction Engineering for Green Chemistry and Energy: Electrocatalysis & Electrolytes."
Jonah gave an oral presentation on "Ternary Ionic Liquid Analogues As Electrolytes for Low-Temperature Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries."
Professor Biddinger gave an oral presentation on "Electrification of Furanic Reduction Reactions: Insights into Balancing Desired and Undesired Reactions over Cu in Acid."
November 3-6, 2023
Manushi Samarathunga gave a poster presentation on "Characterization of Carbon Dioxide-Reacted Polypeptide Complex Coacervates" at AIChE National Meeting Student Conference, Orlando, Florida (in person).
October 8-12, 2023
Professor Biddinger attended the 244th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden (in person).
Professor Biddinger gave two oral presentations on "Characterization of Potential Dependent Fouling of Cu Electrode During Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acid" and "Ionic Liquid-Glyme Mixtures to Modify Solvation Chemistry, Electrochemical and Physiochemical Properties in Lithium Containing Electrolytes."
September 21, 2023
Professor Biddinger received a collaborative reseach grant of $425,000 with Srinivas Rangarajan (Lehigh University) as lead, Dharik Mallapragada (NYU), Daniel Resacso (University of Oklahoma), and Steven Crossley (University of Oklahoma) through National Science Foundation Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (NSF ECO-CBET) for project titled "Multi-scale design of liquid hydrogen carriers for spatio-temporal balancing of renewable energy systems."
September 19, 2023
Professor Biddinger and Andrew May published an article titled "Speciation of potential-dependent fouling on copper foil electrodes during electrochemical hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of furfural in strong acid" in Green Chemistry. DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D3GC02222F
September 12-14, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave a poster presentation on "Speciation and Sources of Copper Electrocatalyst Fouling During Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acid" at US Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis PI Meeting, Rockville, Maryland.
September 13, 2023
Professor Biddinger, Moses, and Sarvar attended the Center for Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification - Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (DC-MUSE IUCRSC) Planning Meeting at NYU, New York, NY.
Moses gave a poster presentation on "Utilizing In-situ ATR SEIRAS for investigation of reaction intermediates at electrode interfaces."
Sarvar gave a poster presentation on "Electrochemical reduction of biomass derived furfural: kinetics and strategies for enhanced product selectivity."
September 12, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on “Utilizing Electrochemical Engineering Techniques for Decarbonization and Biomass Utilization” at Columbia University, Department of Chemical Engineering, New York, NY. (In person)
August 25, 2023
Congratulations to Andrew May for successfully completing his PhD in the Biddinger Research Group.
August 22, 2023
Professor Biddinger received a 3-year U.S. Department of Energy research grant of $562,500 through Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative for project titled "Structural influences in electrochemical dehydrogenation of liquid organic hydrogen carriers."
August 13-17, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on “Lithium-Based Ionic Liquid-Tetraglyme Electrolyte Mixtures to Modify Solvation Chemistry, Electrochemical and Physiochemical Properties” at Fall 2023 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo, San Francisco, CA.
July 27, 2023
Andrew presented his PhD thesis defense titled "Understanding the Kinetics and Mechanisms of the Desired and Undesired Reactions during Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Copper in Acidic Media." Congratulations, and good luck with your future endeavors, Andrew!
July 10, 2023
Michael starts his internship at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
June, 2023
Professor Biddinger and Paul Kenis published an article titled "Current and Emerging Electrochemical Approaches for Chemical Manufacturing" in The Electrochemical Society Interface. DOI: 10.1149/2.F08232IF
June 22, 2023
Professor Biddinger, and Andrew May attended the 28th North American Meeting (NAM) of the North American Catalysis Society in Providence, RI.
Andrew presented on "Applied Potential Impacts the Cu catalyst Fouling Mechanism During Electrochemical Reduction of Furfural"
Professor Biddinger gave a workshop on “Considerations for Electrocatalytic Reactions”
June 13-15, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on “Mechanisms of electrochemical hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of furfural on copper in acid” at ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, Long Beach, CA.
June 9-10, 2023
Michael and Elijah attended the Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting (MARM) of the American Chemical Society, New York, NY.
Michael gave a poster presentation on "Pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids to modify the physiochemical and electrochemical properties of lithium-based tertiary solvate ionic liquid mixtures"
Elijah presented on “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries”
June 7, 2023
Welcome Saurabh Singh to the group as a summer intern researcher from KTH The Royal Insititute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
May 31, 2023
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” in the 2023 CUNY-Wide Undergraduate Research Conference at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
May 28-June 1, 2023
Professor Biddinger attended the 243rd Electrochemical Society Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
Professor Biddinger presented on “Mechanistic Changes with Applied Potential in Cu Fouling during Furfural Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis.”
May 26, 2023
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” at the 2023 CUNY Research Scholars Program Undergraduate Research Symposium.
May 26, 2023
Samaneh, Andrew and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Modifying Copper Local Environment with Electrolyte Additives to Alter CO2 Electroreduction vs Hydrogen Evolution" in ACS Catalysis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c00035
May 11, 2023
Sarvar presented "Side Reactions of Biomass Derived Furfural and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Acidic Media during Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis" at the New York Catalysis Society (NYCS) 2023 conference.
May 6, 2023
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” at the 70th American Chemical Society Annual Undergraduate Research Day Poster Session 2023, Laguardia Community College.
May 5, 2023
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Day, Queensborough Community College.
April 21, 2023
Emily Charleson joined the group as a chemistry PhD student. Welcome Emily!
April 14-16, 2023
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” at the 35th Annual Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program Research Symposium at the Sagamore.
March 26-30, 2023
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk on “Developing Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis Reactions of Furanics for Decarbonization of Chemical Processes,” in “ENFL: Closing the Carbon Cycle,” Spring 2023 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Professor Biddinger gave an invited presentation titled “Ionic organic electrolyte additive and electric field influences on CO2 electroreduction activity and selectivity,” in “CATAL: The Role of Fundamental Interfacial Processes in Electrocatalysis,” Spring 2023 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo, Indianapolis, Indiana.
March 2, 2023
Andrew received a Kokes Travel award for the 28th North American Meeting (NAM) of the North American Catalysis Society in Providence, RI to be held in June 18-23, 2023.
February 13, 2023
Jonah starts his internship at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
January 17, 2023
Professor Biddinger starts working as a guest researcher at Bristol Myers Squibb Chemical Process Development team in New Brunswick, NJ. She is working on flow electro-organic chemistry.
December 1, 2022
Professor Biddinger gave a seminar titled "Electrochemical Engineering for Decarbonization and Biomass Utilization" at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
November 13-18, 2022
Professor Biddinger, Andrew, Jonah, and Nicole attended the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting in Pheonix AZ.
Andrew received a CRE Travel award for the conference
Andrew presented “Insights into the Reaction Schemes of Furfural and 5-Hydroxymethylfufural Reductions in Acidic Media over Copper”
Jonah presented “Ternary Ionic Liquid Analogues for Rechargeable Metal Aluminum Batteries”
Nicole presented a poster titled "Design and Discover of Encapsulated Electrocatalysts for the Electrooxidation of Small Organic Molecules"
November 11, 2022
Professor Biddinger gave a seminar titled "Electrochemical Engineering for Decarbonization and Biomass Utilization" at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
November 1, 2022
Professor Biddinger was appointed as Associate Editor of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.
November 2022
Elijah returns to continue his undergraduate research in the group.
October 26-28, 2022
Michael and Jonah attended the 4th Battery and Energy Storage Conference in New York, New York.
Michael presented a poster titled "Ionic Liquid Co-Solvent System with Methyl Propionate for Improving Physical and Electrochemical Properties fo Lithium Metal Battery Electrolyte"
Jonah presented a poster titled "Ionic Liquid Analogues as Low Temperature Electrolytes for Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries"
October 20, 2022
Hafiz M. Umar Farooq and Moses Chilunda both joined the groups as first years in the Chemical Engineering PhD program!
October 20, 2022
Professor Biddinger was highlighted as a 2022 Energy and Fuels Rising Star. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03140
October 15-20, 2022
Professor Biddinger gave an invited keynote presentation titled "Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Organics" at the 28th Biennial Organic Reactions Catalysis Society Conference in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
October 9-13, 2022
Andrew, Michael, and Professor Biddinger attended the 242nd ECS meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Michael received a Travel award for the conference.
Professor Biddinger presented an invited talk titled “Using Ionic Liquid and Organic Salt Additives to Modify CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity on Copper”
Andrew presented an oral talk titled “Fouling of Cu Catalysts during Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media”
Michael presented an oral talk titled “Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Liquid and Methyl Propionate Co-Solvent Electrolyte”
September 30, 2022
Professor Biddinger received the 2022 Ohio State University Texnikoi Outstanding Alumni Award.
September 26-28, 2022
Professor Biddinger presented virtually “Mechanism and Kinetics of Furfural Electroreduction on Copper” at the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Science PI Annual Meeting
September 17, 2022
Professor Biddinger presented virtually as an invited keynote speaker an oral talk titled “Coupling the Kinetics of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural with its Side Reactions” in the Cutting Edge Electrolysis and Electrochemical Technologies symposium of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE).
September 1, 2022
Professor Biddinger presented an oral talk titled “Electrochemical Engineering for Decarbonization and Biomass Upgrading” at the University of South Carolina.
August 25, 2022
Andrew and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Modeling Competing Kinetics between Electrochemical Reduction of Furfural on Copper and Homogeneous Side Reactions in Acid" into a special issue of Energy & Fuels. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01955
August 25, 2022
Professor Biddinger and colleagues archived the manuscript: D. Mallapragada*, Y. Dvorkin*, M. Modestino*, D. Esposito, W. Smith, B.-M. Hodge, M. Harold, V. Donnelly, A. Nuz, C. Bloomquist, K. Baker, L. Grabow, Y. Yan, N.N. Rajput, R. Hartman, E. Biddinger, E. Aydil, A. Taylor, “Decarbonization of the Chemical Industry through Electrification: Barriers and Opportunities,” ChemRxiv, 2022, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-00gls
August 24, 2022
Michael passed his second exam!
August 23, 2022
Professor Biddinger presented an invited talk titled “Kinetics of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural and its Side reactions in Acidic Electrolytes on Copper Catalysts” virtually at the Fall 2022 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo in Chicago Illinois.
August 12, 2022
Elijah and Emily finish their last days as summer interns.
Aug 7-12, 2022
Michael and Professor Biddinger attended Gordon Conference on Ionic Liquids in Newry, Maine.
Professor Biddinger presented an invited talk titled “Ionic Liquid-Modified Interfaces in CO2 Electroreduction on Copper to Influence Product Selectivity”.
Michael presented a poster titled “Ionic liquid and ester co-solvent system for improving physical and electrochemical properties of lithium metal battery electrolyte”
Michael received a travel award to attend the Gordon conference
July 26, 2022
Jonah passed his second exam!
July 25-August 1, 2022
Elijah presented “Development of Ionic Liquid & Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for low temperature Li-metal batteries” at the 2022 CUNY Research Scholars Program Virtual Symposium.
August 6, 2022
Michael gave a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar titled "Ionic Liquid and Ester Co-Solvent System for Improving Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Lithium Metal Battery Electrolyte"
July 18-20, 2022
Professor Biddinger participated in the Closing the Carbon Cycle Workshop at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
July 8, 2022
Best of luck to Seungmin Oh, who is finishing his last day as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biddinger Research Group to move on to a new position!
June 6, 2022
Welcome Elijah Bernard and Emily Charleson to the group as summer intern researchers!.
June 3, 2022
Congratulations to Seoyeong (Hailey) Lee for graduating with a BE in Chemical Engineering!
June 2022
Professor Biddinger began as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Industrial Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering Division of the Electrochemical Society
May 29-June 2, 2022
Andrew and Professor Biddinger attended the ECS 241 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Professor Biddinger presented an oral talk titled “Influence of the Nature of Ionic Additives in Aqueous Electrolyte on CO2 Electroreduction over Cu Catalysts”.
Andrew presented an oral talk titled “Insights Provided By Modeling of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Cu and Side Reactions in Acidic Media” and a poster titled “Understanding of the Furfural Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis System in a Semi-Batch Reactor”.
May 31, 2022
Seungmin, Michael, and Professor Biddinger published an article titled “Physical and Electrochemical Properties of Ionic-Liquid- and Ester-Based Cosolvent Mixtures with Lithium Salts” accepted into a special edition of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00498
May 22-27, 2022
Professor Biddinger and Andrew attended NAM27 in New York, NY.
Andrew received a Kokes award
Professor Biddinger presented “Mechanistic Study of Furfural Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis over Cu Catalyst in Sulfuric Acid.”
Andrew presented “Fouling of Cu Catalysts during Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media.”
Professor Biddinger was a part of the NAM27 organizing committee and served as a Kokes awards Co-chair
March 22, 2022
Professor Biddinger presented “Decarbonization of Chemical Processes through Electrification: Electroreduction of Furanics” at the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting in the symposium to honor the 2021 Energy & Fuels Division Distinguished Researcher Awardee Prof. L.S. Fan of Ohio State.
March 16, 2022
Sarvar Talipov, a first year PhD student in chemical engineering joined the group.
February 28, 2022
Samaneh presented her thesis defense titled "Designing the electrode geometry and electrolyte to enhance the product selectivity and activity in carbon dioxide electroreduction." Congratulations, Samaneh!
February 1, 2022
Sachin Ramdin, a masters student in chemical engineering joined the group.
February 1, 2022
Seoyeong (Hailey) Lee, a senior in the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program joined the group.
January 7, 2022
Professor Biddinger's work funded by the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship was recently highlighted by Physics World, which can be read in more detail from the link below!
Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation – Physics World
December 6, 2021
Professor Biddinger served as one of eight experts interviewed in the C&E News Discovery Report Q4 “Beating the Heat: How Chemistry can Decarbonize the Economy and Stall Global Warming.”
November 29-December 2, 2021
Professor Biddinger presented an invited talk “Modifying the Electrolyte in CO2 Electroreduction with Additives to Influence Product Selectivity,” in the EN11: Electrocatalytic Materials to Sustainably Convert Atmospheric C, H, O and N into Fuels and Chemicals,” symposium at the Fall 2021 Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston.
November 22-26, 2021
Professor Biddinger participated virtually in the Lorentz Center Workshop “Electrifying Chemistry: from Fundamentals to Industrial Applications” that was held in Leiden, The Netherlands. She presented the invited talk “Reaction Engineering of Electrochemical Reduction of Furanics.”
November 7-12, 2021
Professor Biddinger presented at the 2021 AIChE Annual meeting in Boston on the biomass project titled "Competing Kinetics Between Electrochemical Reduction of Furfural and non-Electrochemical Homogeneous Side Reactions".
October 10-14, 2021
Andrew, Samaneh, and Seungmin all got travel awards to the ECS 240 conference.
Dr. Biddinger gave an invited talk titled "Process Intensification through the Electrochemical Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Species for Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels."
Andrew, Samaneh, Steve, and Seungmin presented the following oral and poster talks:
Seungmin oral: Mixture of Ionic Liquid with Ester Based Organic Solvents for Low Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries
Samaneh oral: Influence of the Electrolyte for CO2 electroreduction on Cu Catalysts
Samaneh poster: Effect of Cations and Anions in the Electrolyte on CO2 electroreduction over Cu Catalysts
Steve oral: Reaction Pathways of the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furanic Species
Steve poster: Uncovering Insights to the Reaction Mechanism of the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furanic Species
Andrew oral: Tafel Analyses of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Cu in Acidic Media
Andrew poster: Comparison between Experimental Results and Models for Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Cu in Acidic Media
Andrew recieved an award for 2nd place in the General Student Poster Competition.
August 29 – September 3, 2021
Prof. Biddinger presented the invited talk “Electrochemical Conversion of Furanics for Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels,” in the “Electrochemical Technology for Process Intensification and Sustainability” symposia of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (virtual presentation, also broadcast in Jeju, South Korea).
August 22-26, 2021
Samaneh and Prof. Biddinger participated in the American Chemical Society Fall National meeting virtually.
Samaneh gave the talk “Anion and Cation-Dependent Selectivity and Activity in CO2 Electroreduction on Cu Catalysts.”
Prof. Biddinger gave the invited talk “Electroreduction of Furanics on Copper in Acidic Electrolytes for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals” in the “ENFL: Electrochemistry-Enable Catalysis for Energy, Chemicals & Materials” symposia.
August 16, 2021
Andrew, Steven, and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Kinetics of furfural electrochemical hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis in acidic media on copper" into Reaction Chemistry and Engineering
August 13, 2021
Yeojin, Samaneh, Tai-De, Professor Biddinger, Professor Tu and Professor Chen had their paper titled "Tuning water-responsiveness with Bombyx mori silk-silica nanoparticle composites" accepted into Soft Matter. DOI: 10.1039/D1SM00794G
August 11, 2021
Steven passed his second exam!
August 5, 2021
Jordan Smith departs the group after his internship ended
July 8, 2021
Samaneh and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Effect of additives in aqueous electrolytes on CO2 electroreduction." into Chemical Engineering Journal. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.131303
June 28, 2021
Sloan foundation will be funding the DC-MUSE project for The Center for Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification, of which Professor Biddinger is the Deputy Director.
June 1, 2021
Jordan Smith, an undergraduate from Howard University joined the group as an REU summer intern! Welcome Jordan Smith to the group!
May 30 - June 3, 2021
Andrew and Samaneh presented (Online) for the ECS 239 conference with the following oral presentations:
Samaneh oral talk: Effect of electrolyte composition on CO2 Electroreduction over Cu Electrodes
Andrew oral talk: Determination of Rate Equation for the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media over Copper
April 12, 2021
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk titled "Effect of Electrolyte Additives on CO2 Electroreduction over Cu Electrodes" in American Chemical Society Spring 2021 Virtual Meeting.
March 30, 2021
Andrew, Samaneh and Steven presented (Online) at the Metro NY Catalysis Society meeting with the following poster presentations:
Samaneh poster: Impact of Anions and Cations in Aqueous Electrolytes on Product Selectivity and Activity of Cu in CO2 Electroreduction
Andrew poster: Temperature Effects in the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media over Copper
Steven poster: Effect of pH on Reaction Efficiency and Initial Rate of the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Copper
March 22, 2021
Sungyup, Showmik, Josephine, and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Structure-Property Relationships of Silylamine-Type Reversible Ionic Liquids for Use as a Switchable Electrolyte" into Journal of The Electrochemical Society
January, 2021
Jonah Wang, a first year PhD student in chemical engineering joined the lab group co-advised by Professor Messinger and will be working on the NASA project
Michael Keating joined the lab group fully and will be working on the NASA project
Tahsin Suba, a senior student in Chemical Engineering joined the lab group and will be doing an honors research project on CO2 electroreduction
November 16-20, 2020
Andrew and Samaneh presented (Online) for the AIChE Fall 2020 conference with the following oral presentations:
Samaneh oral talk: CO2 Electroreduction in Ionic Liquid/Buffer Electrolytes over Cu Electrodes
Andrew oral talk: Impact of Fouling on Kinetics of the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media over Copper
October, 2020
Welcome Michael Keating, a first year chemistry PhD student doing a rotation to the group.
October 20, 2020
Professor Biddinger is a co-PI on a DOE-ARPA funded project titled "Gypsum & Clay-Based Additives to municipal solid waste (MSW) for pre-combustion enhancement of syngas and solid residue improvement" for $1 million. Professor Castaldi is the PI and there will be collaboration with University of Maryland, North Carolina State University, Covanta, Innoveering, and SpG Consulting!
October 4-9, 2020
Samaneh was awarded a travel award for the ECS PRiME conference!
Andrew and Samaneh presented (Online) for the ECS PRiME conference with the following oral and poster presentations:
Samaneh oral talk: CO2 electroreduction on Cu Electrodes in Ionic Liquid-Containing Electrolytes
Samaneh poster: Electroreduction of CO2 in Ionic Liquid-Aqueous Mixtures on Cu Catalysts
Andrew oral talk: Mechanism and Kinetics for the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media Over Copper
Andrew Poster: Uncovering the Rate Equation for the Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural in Acidic Media Over Copper
September 25, 2020
Professor Biddinger published an article with Professor Modestino (NYU) in an ECS Interface issue titled "Electro-organic syntheses for green chemical manufacturing"
September, 2020
Welcome Seungmin Oh, a postdoctoral researcher to the group!
August 26, 2020
Professor Biddinger was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor!!
August 17-20, 2020
Professor Biddinger gave an invited talk titled "Electroreduction of CO2 to Value-Added Chemicals and Fuels in Ionic Liquid/Buffer Electrolytes over Cu Catalysts" in the ENFL: Electrochemistry-enabled Catalysis for Energy, Chemicals and Materials symposium for American Chemical Society Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo.
July 29, 2020
Andrew passed his Second Exam.
July 28, 2020
Samaneh and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Effect of anion in diluted imidazolium-based ionic liquid/buffer electrolytes for CO2 electroreduction on copper" into Electrochemica Acta
July, 2020
Welcome Grace O'Dwyer, an undergraduate Co-op student from Northeastern University and Sara Lavelle, an undergrad from CCNY to the group!
May 29, 2020
Karen Li graduated with B.E. in Chemical Engineering!
May 19, 2020
Professor Aydogan (Architecture), Julian Usman (Architecture), Devin, Sungyup, Karen, and Professor Biddinger published an article titled "Golden Pothos viability in engineered mixed bed growth media containing ionic liquids for plant-based building air filtration systems" into the journal Rhizosphere.
May 18, 2020
Professor Elizabeth was interviewed for the ECS Community Adapts and Advances series by the Electrochemical Society, which can be viewed at https://www.electrochem.org/ecs-blog/ecs-adapts-advances-biddinger
February 26, 2020
Professor Biddinger gave a talk titled "Electrosynthesis of Chemicals and Fuels: Electrochemistry at the Biorefinery" for the Philadelphia Catalysis Club in Claymont, Delaware.
February 13-14, 2020
Andrew was granted a travel award to attend the Workshop on Electroorganic Chemistry: from Synthesis to Chemical Manufacturing co-sponsored by NSF, DOE, and DFG in Alexandria, Virginia.
Professor Biddinger gave a talk titled "Emerging Opportunities for the Electrochemical Processing of Value-Added Products" at the Workshop on Electroorganic Chemistry: from Synthesis to Chemical Manufacturing
February 10, 2020
Andrew's and Professor Biddinger's invited Viewpoints paper titled "Strategies to Control Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural and Minimize Undesired Side Reactions" was published in ACS Catalysis.
February 10, 2020
Professor Biddinger gave a talk titled "Electrosynthesis of Chemicals and Fuels: Electrochemistry at the Biorefinery" for the Catalysis Club of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
December 2019
Steven Watt, a first year Chemistry PhD student joins the group!
December 12, 2019
Professor Biddinger received the inaugral Grove School of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence.
November 10 - November 15 2019
Professor Biddinger attended the AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL and gave two presentations:
"Electrochemical reduction of CO2 on Cu catalysts in a diluted ionic liquid/water mixture."
"Effects of temperature on the selectivity of furfural hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis products over copper electrocatalysts."
November 6, 2019
Samaneh presented a poster titled "Effect of ionic liquid additives on the product selectivity and activity in CO2 electroreduction over Cu catalysts" at the Metro NY Catalysis Society and Catalysis Club of Philadelphia joint meeting at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
October 2019
Nicole Donovan, a first year chemical engineering PhD student joins the group!
October 13 - October 17, 2019
Professor Biddinger attended the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Atlanta, GA and gave three presentations:
"Formation of Palladium Nanoparticles through Electrodeposition in Ionic Liquids."
"Effect of Ionic Liquid Additives on the Product Selectivity and Activity in CO2 Electroreduction over Cu Catalysts."
"Effects of Temperature on the Faradaic Efficiency of Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural."
September 2019
Derrick Lawson, a third year chemical engineering undergraduate joins the group!
July 31 - August 2, 2019
Professor Biddinger attended the DOE Catalysis PI meeting from Wednesday July 31 to Friday August 2 and gave a poster presentation titled: "Interplay of Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural on Copper with Undesired Side Reactions."
July 10, 2019
Professors Messinger, Biddinger, Couzis, and Banerjee received a 3 year 3 million dollar grant from NASA for the project titled "NASA-CCNY Center for Advanced Batteries for Space" for the period of October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022.
July 2, 2019
Professor Biddinger and Samaneh recieved a two year funding from the NSF EAGER Proposal for the project titled "Influence of Ionic Liquids on Product Selectivity in CO2 Electroreduction over Copper Catalysts.” This research award is for $150,000 for the period of September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021.
June 23 - June 28, 2019
Samaneh and Professor Biddinder attended the NAM26 conference in Chicago, IL.
Samaneh gave a poster presentation titled "Effect of Electrode Shape on the CO2 Electroreduction Product Selectivity over Ag and Cu Catalysts."
Professor Biddinger had an oral presentation titled "Balancing High Reaction Rates for Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural While Avoiding Unsired Side Reactions."
May 31, 2019
Yash Patel graduates with B.E. in Chemical Engineering.
John Gonzales graduates with B.E. in Chemical Engineering.
Congratutions to you both!!
May 25 - May 30, 2019
Professor Biddinger attended the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Dallas, TX to give a poster presentation titled: "Effect of the Electrode Shape on CO2 Electroreduction Product Selectivity over Ag and Cu Catalysts."
March 31 - April 4, 2019
Professor Biddinger attended the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, FL.
Professor Biddinger gave the invited talk “Furfural as a Model Reactant in the Electrochemical Conversion of Biomass to Fuels,” in “Sustainable Energy Conversion via Innovative Electrocatalysis & Photocatalysis.”
March 20, 2019
Samaneh gave a poster presentation titled "Electrode shape impacts on the product selectivity and activity in CO2 electroreduction" at the Catalysis Society Metropolitan New York Annual Symposium.
March 14, 2019
Professor Biddinger gave a seminar at College of Staten Island titled “Electrochemical Conversion of Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals.”
February 15, 2019
Catalysis Today “Special Issue Honoring Umit S. Ozkan: 2017 ACS Henry H. Storch Award Winner” guest edited by Professor Biddinger & Nicholas Brunelli was published.
February 2019
Yash Patel, a senior chemical engineering student, joins the group.
January 2019
John Gonzales, a senior chemical engineering student, joins the group.
December 15, 2018
Leo Gordon finishes as a guest researcher in the group.
December 2018
Yash Mamtora graduates with B.E. in Chemical Engineering.
Jose Alejandro Diaz Vincente graduates with M.S. in Chemical Engieering.
November 8, 2018
Adam Chan, a junior chemical engineering student, joins the group.
November 7, 2018
Professor Biddinger gave a seminar at The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL titled “Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals by Electroreduction over Copper Catalysts.”
November 1, 2018
Andrew May joins the group as a PhD student in chemical engineering.
October 26 - November 2, 2018
Samaneh and Professor Biddinger attended the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Professor Biddinger gave the invited presentation “Ionic Liquids as Novel Electrolytes for Energy and Green Chemistry Applications,” in “Tutorial Session on Electrochemical Methods, Systems and Applications”.
Samaneh gave a presentation titled “Micro- to Macro- Scale Morphological Impacts on CO2 Electroreduction Product Selectivity over Cu Catalysts,”
September 30 - October 4, 2018
Professor Biddinger gave a presentation titled "Understanding Ionic Behavior of Silylamine-Type Reversible Ionic Liquids for Use as a Battery Safety Switch" at the Americas International Meeting on Electrochemistry and Solid State Science (AiMES) 2018/234th Electrochemical Society, Cancun, Mexico.
September 2018
The “Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids 21” issue of ECS Transactions was published in which Professor Biddinger was a co-editor.
In this issue the following paper was published:
Biddinger, E. J.; Jung, S.; Podder, S.; Chen, J.: Tunable reversible ionic liquids: Structurally determined property manipulation. ECS Transactions 2018, 86, 133-140.
September 20, 2018
Sungyup's, Alexandros's, and Professor Biddinger's paper titled "Enhanced Activity for Electrochemical Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural to Biofuel using Electrodeposited Cu Catalysts" was accepted for publication by Catalysis Today. Congratulations!
September 7, 2018
Professor Biddinger gave a presentation titled "Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals by Electroreduction over Copper Catalysts" at a seminar held at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.
August 13-17, 2018
Professor Biddinger attended Catalysis East workshop in Hancock, Massachusetts and gave a presentation titled " Electrochemical Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals."
August 6, 2018
Professor Biddinger gave the seminar "Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals by Electroreduction over Copper Catalysts" in Department of Chemistry at Brookhaven National Labs.
July 20, 2018
Sungyup presented his thesis defense titled "Sustainable Processes for Electrochemical Conversion of Biomass and Energy Storage." Congratulations, Sungyup!
June 21, 2018
Professor Biddinger received a 5-year U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award of $750,000 for project titled "Reaction Mechanism and Kinetics for Electrochemical Hydrogenations and Hydrogenolyses of Biomass-Derived Species." Congratulations, Professor Biddinger!
May 24, 2018
Josephine Chen finished her Master's thesis titled "Understanding of Molecular Interactions and Reversibility in Silylamines." Congratulations, Josephine!
May 12-17, 2018
Professor Biddinger attended The Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, Washington and gave a presentation on the project titled "Understanding Ionic Behavior of Silylamine-Type Reversibile Ionic Liquids for Use as a Battery Safety Switch."
May 8, 2018
Alexandros presented his thesis defense titled “Investigation of the Catalytic and Associated Factors that Impact Activity and Selectivity in Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction." Congratulations, Alexandros!
April 6, 2018
Professor Biddinger was the keynote speaker for the Rutgers University Graduate Society of Women Engineers Annual Symposium. She gave a presentation on "Navigating the academic path to becoming a faculty member: An exploration in green chemistry and energy."
March 26, 2018
Professor Biddinger, Sungyup, Alexandros, and Samaneh attended the 2018 MetroNY Catalysis Society Symposium. Sungyup gave a poster presentation on his work, "Electroreduction of Furfural to Biofuel and Its Competitive Side Reactions". Alexandros presented his poster, "Current Density Distribution on Catalytic Surfaces Impact on Selectivity and Activity in CO2 Electroreduction". Samaneh presented her poster, "Cu catalyst electrochemical roughness impacts on product selectivity in CO2 electroreduction."
March 13, 2018
Congrats to Sungyup on getting his paper, "Electrochemical Upgrading of Furfural to Biofuel and Studies of Competitive Side Reactions" published in Energy Technology!
February 1, 2018
Welcome Yash Mamtora, an undergraduate chemical engineering student, to the research group!
January 22, 2018
Professor Biddinger gave a talk to the Department of Physics at Binghamton University in New York, “Utilization of Ionic Liquids as Novel Electrolytes.”
January 2018
Welcome Jose Alejandro Diaz Vicente, a Masters chemical engineering student, to the research group!
December 4, 2017
Professor Biddinger gave a talk to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, “Utilization of Ionic Liquids as Novel Electrolytes.”
November 8, 2017
Professor Biddinger gave a talk to the Department of Chemistry at Lehman College in the Bronx, “Utilization of Ionic Liquids as Novel Electrolytes.”
November 2017
Professor Biddinger attended the fall 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota and gave the presentation “Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid-Functionalized Carbons for Sorption of Gaseous Toxins.”
She also gave the presentation, “Investigation of the Morphological Factors that Drive Selectivity on Polycrystalline Cu during CO2 Electroreduction."
October 16, 2017
Professor Biddinger gave a talk at the University of Calgary concerning the copper catalysis work in relation to chemical synthesis: E.J. Biddinger, “Electrochemical Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals over Copper Catalysts,” University of Calgary, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 16, 2017.
October 2017
Professor Biddinger, Alexandros, and Sungyup attended the 232nd Electrochemical Society Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. Alexandros gave the talk, “Controllable Product Selectivity on Polycrystalline Cu through Tunable Surface Morphology.” Sungyup gave the talk, “Electrochemical Upgrading of Furfural and Competitive Side Reactions on Copper Electrode."
Additionally, Alexandros presented a poster on the “Evaluation of Morphology Related Factors that Influence the Product Selectivity on Polycrystalline Cu” and Sungyup presented a poster on “Effects of Reaction Conditions on Electroreduction of Biomass-Derived Furfural and Its Side Reactions in Acidic Electrolyte."
Congrats to Sungyup on winning 2nd Place, Student Poster Award, Electrochemical Society National Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, October 2017!
September 13, 2017
Professor Biddinger presented “Electrochemical Safety Switch Using Switchable Electrolytes,” at Toyota in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
August 29, 2017
Welcome Karen Li, an undergraduate chemical engineering student, to the research group!
August 21, 2017
Professor Biddinger attended the 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C. and gave the talk, “Copper Electrocatalysis for Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals.”
August 16, 2017
Professor Biddinger gave the talk, “Green Syntheses and Separations Using Electrochemistry," at BASF in Tarrytown, New York.
August 2017
Congratulations to Sungyup on receiving the Industrial Electrochemistry & Electrochemical Engineering Division of The Electrochemical Society Travel Award to Attend ECS National Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, Fall 2017.
August 2017
Congratulations to Alexandros on receiving the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division of The Electrochemical Society Travel Award to attend the Electrochemical Society Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, Fall 2017.
July 19, 2017
Professor Biddinger appeared on The Electrochemical Society Podcast regarding green energy technology: “Elizabeth Biddinger on Green Energy Technology,” The Electrochemical Society Podcast, July 19, 2017,http://ecs.podbean.com/e/elizabeth-biddinger-on-green-energy-technology/, highlighting ECS-Toyota Fellowship and ongoing research activities.
July 2017
Congrats to Josephine on being named Acrivos scholar!
June 28, 2017
Professor Biddinger and Professor Ahu Aydogan Akseli were awarded the CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant (IRG) for the project “Plant-Based Air Filtration using Engineered Growth Media: Formaldehyde Adsorption Dynamics.” This research award is for $40,000 for the period of July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018.
June 21, 2017
Professor Biddinger was interviewed by Advanced Science News concerning her work on CO2 Electroreduction on copper-based catalysts.
June 20, 2017
Professor Biddinger co-authored a new paper that just got accepted! Groveman, S.; Peng, J.; Itin, B.; Diallo, I.; Pratt, L. M.; Greer, A.; Biddinger, E. J.; Greenbaum, S. G.; Drain, C. M.; Francesconi, L.; Vittadello, M. "The role of ozone in the formation and structural evolution of graphene oxide obtained from nanographite." Carbon, Accepted.
June 17, 2017
Professor Biddinger served as a guest editor on a Special Issue publication. “Special Issue: Carbon Dioxide Utilization,” Special Issue of Energy Technology. Guest Editors: H. Lin, E.J. Biddinger, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2017, pages 769-961.
June 12, 2017
Jonas Garemark from KTH Royal Institute of Technology joins the research group for the summer.
June 2017
Sungyup attended the 25th North American Meeting (NAM25) of the North American Catalysis Society in Denver, Colorado. Congrats to Sungyup on winning the Kokes Travel Award from NAM25! He presented “Selective formation of 2-methyl furan from electrochemical hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of furfural on copper in NAM25.”
May/June 2017
Professor Biddinger attended the 231st Electrochemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, where she gave the award talk: E.J. Biddinger, S. Jung, S. Podder, “ECS-Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Address: Structure-Property Relationships of Silylamine Switchable Electrolytes as a Thermally Controlled Safety Switch."
May 2017
Congrats to Sungyup on receiving the KSEA-KUSCO Scholarship! The KSEA-KUSCO Scholarship for Graduate Students in the US is awarded in recognition of excellent academic achievement and community service towards the goal of furthering STEM collaborations between the U.S. and Korea.
May 2017
Congratulations to Devin Peck and Showmik Podder on graduating with their masters in chemical engineering and Miyan Nagib on graduating with his bachelors in chemical engineering! Best of luck!
May 2017
Samaneh Sharifi Golru joins the group as a PhD student from the CUNY Graduate Center.
April 17, 2017
Professor Biddinger gave a talk to the Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology on “Electroreduction over Copper Electrodes for Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals.”
April 2017
Krishnakoli Adhikary joins the group as a PhD student from the CUNY Graduate Center.
March 25, 2017
Professor Biddinger and Charme attended the AIChE Regional Meeting at Rowan University. Charme gave the talk: C. Mitchell, S. Shrestha, E.J. Biddinger, “Pd Nanoparticle Formation in Ionic Liquid 1-Butyl-1-Methylpyrrolidinium dicyanamide during Constant Potential Electrodeposition,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic Student Regional Conference, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, March 2017.
March 22, 2017
Professor Biddinger, Sungyup and Alexandros attended the 2017 Annual Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Symposium at ExxonMobil in Clinton, NJ. Sungyup presented his poster “Competition between 2-methyl furan and side reactions from electrochemical hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis of furfural on copper electrocatalysts.”
March 2017
Congrats to Alexandros on winning 4th place, Poster Award, Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Clinton, New Jersey, March 2017.
February 2017
Josephine Chen joins the group as a Masters student. We also look forward to the collaborations with the Messinger group, as Josephine will be co-advised by Prof. Robert J. Messinger.
January 6, 2017
Welcome Nima Sherpa, an undergraduate chemical engineering student, to the research group!
December 7, 2016
Professor Biddinger gives the seminar, “Electroreduction over Copper Electrodes for Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals,” in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
December 5, 2016
Welcome Bracha Korenblit, an undergraduate chemical engineering student, to the research group!
November 16, 2016
Congrats to Alexandros for getting his first paper accepted! Karaiskakis, A. N.; Biddinger, E. J. “Evaluation of the impact of surface reconstruction on rough electrodeposited copper-based catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction,” Energy Technology 2016, DOI: 10.1002/ente.201600583.
November 2016
Professor Biddinger, Sungyup and Alexandros attend the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting in San Francisco, California. Sungyup presented “Supported Cu Electrocatalysts for Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural.” Alexandros presented “Investigation of the Main Factor that Drives Selectivity on Rough Cu-Based Catalysts for CO2 Electroreduction.”
November 1, 2016
Professor Biddinger visits Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and gives the seminar “Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Applications,” in their Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
October 24, 2016
Professor Biddinger gives the seminar “Electrodeposition for Electrocatalysis and Nanoparticle Synthesis,” in the CCNY Chemistry Department.
October 5, 2016
Congratulations to Sungyup for “Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Furfural and the Impact of Homogeneous Side Reactions of Furanic Compounds in Acidic Electrolytes,” being accepted into ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
October 2016
Professorr Biddinger attends the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Annual conference in Washington, DC.
October 2016
Professorr Biddinger co-organized the symposium “Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts XX” at the Pacific Rim Meeting of Electrochemical and Solid-State Science (PRIME)/230th Electrochemical Society Meeting, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also gave the talk “Pd Nanoparticle Formation during Constant Potential Electrodepositions in Ionic Liquids.” This talk was also reported in ECS Transactions, 75 (15), (2016), 649-655
September 2016
The project on use of ionic liquid-functionalized carbons for adsorption of warfare agents supported through the MSRDC and the Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center was extended for year 2.
September 2016
Congratulations to Sungyup for receiving the AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Student Travel Award to attend the annual AIChE Meeting in San Francisco in November.
September 2016
Congratulations to Charme for being selected to be part of the CUNY Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program to continue her research in the group.
August 2016
Professor Biddinger attended the Gordon Conference on Ionic Liquids in Newry, Maine. She presented the poster “Characterization of Palladium Electrodeposits in Ionic Liquids”
July 15, 2016
Congratulations to Professor Biddinger for receiving the 2016-2017 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship! Three awards were made this second year of the program. The award comes with $57,319 in support for the project “Electrochemical Safety Switch Using Switchable Electrolytes” for the period September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017.
July 2016
Professor Biddinger and Professor Aydogan Akseli attend the international conference Indoor Air 2016 in Ghent, Belgium. Prof. Biddinger gave the poster and mini talk “Ionic Liquids for the Purification of Air Intakes for Military Applications.” Prof. Aydogan Akseli gave the poster and mini talk “Granulation of Growth Media for Indoor Air Purification Utilizing Botanically-Based Systems.”
June 20, 2016
Malin Stauber Alfredsson from KTH Royal Institute of Technology joins the research group for the summer.
June 13, 2016
Charme Mitchell joins the research group as part of the CUNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program (C-SURP) sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. She just finished at CityTech and will be starting at CCNY in chemical engineering in the fall.
June 13, 2016
The project “A High-Efficiency Process for CO2 Conversion to Hydrocarbon Fuels” started. The PI on the project is Hui Xu, Giner, Inc. Prof. Biddinger serves as the subawardee on the projected. The project is a US Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (DOE-SBIR) grant. CCNY will receive $35,000 towards research. The project will run until March 13, 2017.
June 2016
The project “Development of an A.A.S. Degree Program in Chemical and BioEnergy Technology for Sustainability (CBETS) at Bronx Community College, City University of New York” started. The PI on the project is Prof. Aaron Socha, Department of Chemistry, Bronx Community College and the co-PIs are Prof. Amanda Simson, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Haven, and Prof. Biddinger.
June 2016
Professor Biddinger attended the 229th Electrochemical Society Meeting in San Diego, California. She gave the presentation “Electrocatalytic Upgrading of Furfural to Produce Biofuels and Fine Chemicals.”
May 24, 2016
Welcome masters student Showmik Podder to the group!
March 2016
Professor Biddinger attended the 251st American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, California. She co-organized a 3-day symposia on CO2 utilization and presented “Importance of Substrate Metals in Cu Nanoparticle-Based Catalysts for CO2 Electroreduction.”
February 18, 2016
The project “Adsorbents for use in building-integrated plant-based dynamic filtration media for removing chemical warfare agents” supported by the US Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center (ECBC) through the Minority Serving Institutions Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Research and Development Consortium (MSRDC) started. Professor Biddinger is serving as the PI and Professor Ahu Aydogan Akseli, CCNY Architecture, is serving as the co-PI. The project award is $103,106 and runs until September 30, 2016.
February 2016
Congratulations to Adam Tchorzewski on graduating with his masters in chemical engineering! Best of luck Adam!
January 27, 2016
Welcome to the group chemical engineering undergraduate researcher Tiffany Harden.
December 30, 2015
Best of luck to Sujan Shrestha on his last day as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biddinger Research Group!
Thank you for all of your contributions and best of luck in your new position.
December 19, 2015
Congratulations to Sujan Shrestha and Miyan Nagib for publishing their work “Size-Controlled Synthesis of Palladium Nanospheres by Pulse Electrodeposition in 1-Butyl-3-MethylImidazolium Chloride Ionic Liquid” in Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
November 2015
Alexandros Karaiskakis, Sungyup Jung, Sujan Shrestha and Prof. Biddinger attended the Annual American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) national meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sujan presented “Electrochemical Recovery of Fission Platinoids in 1-Butyl,1-Methylpyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Ionic Liquid” and gave a poster presentation at the Meet the Faculty Candidate poster session. Alexandros presented "Importance of Substrate Metals in Cu-Based Catalysts for Electroreduction of CO2.” Sunyup presented "Sustainable Product Separation from a Silylamine-Type Switchable Electrolyte in Electrochemical Reactions," and also gave a poster presentation on furfural electroreduction.
October 2015
Professor Biddinger and Sujan Shrestha attend the 228th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Sujan presented “Effect of 1-Butyl-1-Methylpyrrolidinium Dicyanamide on the Structure of Pd Electrodeposits.” Prof. Biddinger presented "Characterization of Solvent Effects on Electrochemical Properties of Silylamine-Type Reversible Ionic Liquids."
September 2015
Welcome to the group chemical engineering undergraduate researchers Nick Randazzo and Reuven Lehman.
August 2015
Congratualtions to both Alexandros and Sungyup for passing their second exams!
August 2015
A Hiden HPR-20 Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA) mass spectrometer was installed in the lab. This will be used to analyze product gases coming off of catalyst surfaces.
July 7, 2015
Two Inficon Fusion microGCs are installed in the lab. Their primary use will be for gas-phase product analysis from CO2 electroreduction.
July 2015
Welcome Jasmine Hatcher to the Biddinger Research Group! Jasmine is a guest researcher in the group for the summer to do collaborative work on rhenium electrochemistry in ionic liquids. Jasmine is a CUNY Graduate Center PhD student mentored by Lynn Francesconi at Hunter College.
June 2015
Alexandros Karaiskakis, Sungyup Jung and Prof. Biddinger attend the 24th North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society in Pittsburgh, PA. Alexandros
gave the poster presentation "Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide by Cu, Cu/Cu, Cu/Ti and Cu/Ni Flag Electrodes in Aqueous Media," and Sungyup gave the poster presentation “Effects of Electrolytes and Electrocatalysts on Electrochemical Hydrogenation of Furfural.”
June 2015
Welcome Botond Csontos to the Biddinger Research Group! Botond is a visiting masters student from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 1, 2015
Congratulations to Sujan for his publication
"Palladium Electrodeposition in 1-Butyl-1-Methylpyrrolidinium Dicyanamide Ionic Liquid" in Electrochimica Acta!
May 29, 2015
Congratulations to Juan Jimenez and Eriugen Gjoka on graduating from CCNY with their BE degrees in Chemical Engineering!
May 25, 2015
Professor Biddinger gives the presentation "Electrochemical Nuclear Waste Management Using Ionic Liquids: Controlled Electrodeposition of Fission Platinoids,” at the 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
May 15, 2015
Professor Biddinger is awarded the
Cycle 46 Profession Staff Congress of the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award for $11,996.96 for the project "Designing Copper Nanoparticle-Based Electrodes for CO2 Electroreduction." The grant period will be July 1, 2015-June 30, 2016.
April 20, 2015
Ohio State Professor Umit Ozkan
gives a department seminar and visits the Biddinger Group Lab. Professor Ozkan was Professor Biddinger's PhD advisor.
March 31, 2015
Congratulations to Juan Jimenez and Sungyup Jung for getting the first official publication from the Biddinger Group at CCNY accepted to the Journal of The Electrochemical Society!
March 18, 2015
Alexandros Karaiskakis gives the poster "Construction of Cu Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction" at the Metro New York Catalysis Society Annual Symposium at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
March 2015
Michael D'Ambrose joins the group as a PhD student researcher for the spring and summer.
February 2015
Adam Tchorzewski joins the group as a masters researcher. Miyan Nagib joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
November 2014
Sujan Shrestha receives the CUNY Post-doctoral Fellow Travel Award to attend the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Sujan presented a poster in the Meet the Faculty Candidate Poster Session titled "Electrodeposition and Activity of Catalysts in Ionic Liquids." He gave a talk titled “Electrodeposition of Fission Platinoids in Ionic Liquids for Nuclear Waste Management.” Professor Biddinger gave a talk titled "Electrocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction in Ionic Liquids." Eriugen Gjoka gave the poster "Electrodeposition of Palladium in Ionic Liquids from Extracted Nuclear Waste." Juan Jimenez gave the poster "Ionicity of Silylamine Reversible Ionic Liquids."
November 7, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the seminar "Investigating Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Applications” in the Department of Chemistry, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York.
October 2014
Sujan Shrestha and Professor Biddinger both receive travel awards from the Ionic Liquids and Molten Salts Symposium at the 226th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society in Cancun, Mexico. Sujan presented “Electrodeposition of Palladium in 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride and 1-Butyl-3-Methylimidazolium Dicynamide Ionic Liquids,” and Professor Biddinger presented “Silylamine Reversible Ionic Liquids as Reversible Electrolytes.”
September 24, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the seminar “Investigating Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Applications” in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology,Chicago, Illinois.
September 10, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the seminar “Green Chemistry & Energy through Catalysis, Electrochemistry & Alternative Solvents” in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
August 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the poster presentation
"Utilizing Ionic Liquids in Electrochemical Applications” at the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids in Newry, Maine.
August 10, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the presentation “Electrochemical Behavior of Palladium in Ionic Liquids” at the 248th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco, California.
June 9, 2014
Sara Starrsjo from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, joins the group for the summer as a visiting masters researcher.
May 27, 2014
Devindra Ramadhar joins the research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
May 21, 2014
The Thermo Scientific HPLC is installed.
May 13, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the presenation "Electrodeposition in Ionic Liquids for Fission Product Recovery" at the 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Orlando, Florida.
May 9, 2014
Alexandros Karaiskakis receives graduate study award from the Gerondelis Foundation.
May 6, 2014
The
Shimadzu Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) is installed.
April 30, 2014
The glovebox install marks the opening of our new 1200 sq. ft. laboratory space!
March 30, 2014
Juan Jimenez and Eriugen Gjoka attend the AIChE Regional Student Meeting at University of Virginia and participated in the Student Paper Competition. Juan presented "Electrochemical Properties of Silylamine Reversible Ionic Liquids." Eriugen presented "Recovery of Palladium from Extracted Nuclear Waste in Ionic Liquids." Eriugen took second in the competition.
March 12, 2014
Professor Biddinger gives the talk "Electrocatalysis for Energy Applications" at the Metro New York Catalysis Society Annual Symposium at Lehigh University.
March 4, 2014
Professor Biddinger receives the 2014 City University of New York Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering (CUNY JFRASE). She was one of four faculty members receiving the award in the
CUNY system. It will provide $50,000 in research support for one year. The award is supported by the Sloan Foundation.
February 7, 2014
PhD students Randall Callender, Sungyup Jung and Alexandros Karaiskakis join the research group.
November 13, 2013
Professor Biddinger gives a seminar at Lehman College.
November 11, 2013
Sujan Shrestha joins the research group as a post-doctoral fellow.
November 3, 2013
Professor Biddinger gives the talk "Noble Metal Fission Product Recovery by Electrodeposition in Ionic Liquids" at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers national meeting in San Francisco.
October 28, 2013
Professor Biddinger gives the talk "Silylamine Reversible Ionic Liquids as Electrochemical Solvents" at the 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting in San Francisco.
August 30, 2013
Amani Ebrahim joins the research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
August 28, 2013
Kata Kozma joins the research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
August 14, 2013
Katia Ascue finishes her summer exchange visit in the group. Best wishes back home in Sweden at KTH!
July 8, 2013
Juan Jimenez joins the research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
June 11, 2013
Samhita Kattakola joins the research group as an undergraduate research assistant.
June 5, 2013
Katia Ascue, visiting masters student from KTH (Sweden), joins the Green Chemistry & Energy Laboratory for the summer.
June 3, 2013
Professor Biddinger gives a poster "Electrocatalysis of Furfural Reduction" at the 23rd North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society in Louisville, KY.
February 19, 2013
Professor Biddinger is named the senior personnel on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Faculty Development Grant "Electrochemical Recovery of Fission Products for Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Waste Management."
February 5, 2013
Eriugen Gjoka and Tyrone Kirk Shillingford join the Green Chemistry & Energy Laboratory as undergraduate research assistants.
January 28, 2013
Professor Biddinger gives a seminar at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
August 27, 2012
Professor Elizabeth J. Biddinger joins the Department of Chemical Engineering at City College of New York.