News
2026
Feb.
The Muhich lab develops a new method for AI guided data collection through AT-Bagging
2025
December
Prof. Muhich awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
September
June
- Dr. Muhich releases a new youtube series on chemical engineering fundamentals
May
- Matthew Park joins the lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome!
April
- Jayni Hashimoto successfully defended her dissertation! Congratulations!
- Obinna Nwokonkwo successfully defended his dissertation! Congratulations!
March
- Tanner Yorgason successfully defended his dissertation! Congratulations!
Jan
- Deep Patel and Pouya Zakerabbasi joins the Muhich as Ph.D. students. Welcome!
2024
Oct
- Lauren Serio joins the Muhich and D’Arcy lab as a co-advised Ph.D. student. Welcome!
- Congratulations to Daniel and the Rice team on the acceptance of the paper “Nickel Enhances InPd-Catalyzed Nitrate Reduction Activity and N2 Selectivity”
Sept
- Congratulations to Steve on the acceptance of his paper “Extracting Metal Oxide Redox Thermodynamics from TGA Measurements Requires Moving Beyond the Linearized Van ‘t Hoff Approach”
Aug
- Congratulations to Vedant on successfully passing his Quals exam.
July
- Dr. Muhich named intirm graduate program chair of the ChemE program for Fall 2024
May
- Dr. Muhich was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure starting Fall 2024
- Congratulations to Steve on the acceptance of his paper “A Bayesian Method for Selecting Data Points for Thermodynamic Modeling of Off-Stoichiometric Metal Oxides”
- Congratulations to Amogh on successfully completing his applied project and graduating with his Master’s!
April
- Congratulations to Dr. Wilson on successfully defending his Dissertation!
- Congratulations to Timothy on being named a Goldwater Scholarship for Excellence in STEM Research
- Congrats to Jayni, Daniel, and Harsheen on the granting of their Patent: “Magnesium Manganate Doped with Transition Metals for Application as a High Temperature Thermochemical Reactive Material”
March
- Dr. Muhich gives invited talk at the Rocky Mountain Catalysis Society
- Congratulations to Daniel and team on their paper on MoS2 based catalyst for nitrate reduction.
Jan.
- Congratulations to Obi on the acceptance of his paper in J. Phys. Chem. B on polymeric removal of As from water
2023
Dec.
- Congratulations to Obi on passing his comprehensive exam!!!!
- Welcome Vedant, a new Ph.D. Student!
- Congratulations to Matthew P., Laura, Tomoki and Timothy on their successful FURI proposals
- Congratulations to Daniel on being the runner up for Surface Science Young Investigator Best Paper Award
Nov.
- Congratulations to Tanner and Jayni on passing their Comprehensive exams!
- Muhich lab part of team awarded DOE project to study sustainable steal production.
Oct.
- Muhich lab awarded DOE grant investigating inverse perovskite design for renewable H2 production. Congrats!
- Prof. Muhich quoted in MIT News
Sep.
- Dr. Muhich gives invited seminar talk at NC State
Aug.
- Congratulations to Obi and Vivienne on their paper’s acceptance in Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Congratulations to Srishti and Daniel on their paper’s acceptance in ACS Energy Science & Technology Engineering
- Congratulations to Ankush on passing his Quals exam!
June
- Welcome Jimmy and Gokhan, summer REU students
- Muhich lab & Lin labs awarded a DOE project on Li ion transport
May
- Muhich lab awarded a DOE project on perovskite materials design
April
- Congratulations to Srishti and Adam on their paper on Pd Single Atom Catalysts published in ACS Catalysis!
- Dr. Muhich gave invited talk at MRS Spring Meeting
- Matt passed his honors thesis defense, Congratulations!
- Congratulations Dr. Srishti Gupta on successfully defending your Ph.D. Dissertation!!!
- Daniel’s paper on the use of electric fields to prevent H2S surface poisoning was accepted in Surface Science!
March
- Ashely passed her honors thesis defense, Congratulations!
- Srishti’s paper on the impacts of cations substitutions on oxoanion adsorption was accepted in J. Phys. Chem C.!
- Amogh passed his honors thesis defense, Congratulations!
- Jayni’s paper on Fe substitutions into MgMnO3 is published; Congratulations!
January
- Steve passed his comprehensive exam! Congratulations!
- Steve’s article is accepted in Solid State Ionics. Congratulations!
2022
November
- Ankush joins the Muhich lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
- Srishti, Jayni, Steve, Daniel and Obi present at AIChE.
October
- Srishti won the Outstanding mentorship Award from GPSA! Congratulations
- Dr. Muhich gives invited seminar at the University of Oklahoma
September
- Dr. Muhich gives an invited seminar at the Colorado School of Mines
July
- Congratulations to Steve on the acceptance of his paper on the ASAP surface generator!
June
- Welcome to REU Michael
- Good Luck Steve at his internship at PNNL
May
- Congratulations to Srishti on a great presentation at NAM
April
- Congratulations to Olivia on Graduating with her BSE!
- Congratulations to Adam on accepting an offer for a PhD program at Ohio State. Good luck!
- Congratulations to Enosh on successfully defending his Honor’s thesis
March
- Congratulations to Srishti, Daniel and the Rice Team on the paper accepted in Nature Nanotechnology
- Congratulations to Srishti for her paper published in the Journal of Colloids and Interfaces
February
- Congratulations to Olivia on winning a Gore Supplement to support her FURI work
2021
December
- Congratulations to Srishti for passing her comprehensive exam
November
- Vivienne Pelletier joins the Muhich Lab as a PhD student working on the STEPS program. Welcome!
October
- Muhich lab selected for funding for a DOE-SETO project
- Muhich lab selected for funding for a National Alliance for Water Innovation project
September
- Congratulations to Srishti for winning the GSA Travel Grant
- Congratulations to Alicia for accepting a Tenure Track position in Spain!
- The Muhich lab is very excited to be part of the newly announced STEPS Center, an NSF Science Technology Center, focused on Phosphorus.
August
- Congratulations to Srishti on her work on Single Atom Catalysis for dehalogenation and the Kim Lab at Yale for their recent paper in Nature Communications
July
- Congratulations to Yuxia, Srishti and the team on their paper on MOF alloys being accepted in Applied Physics Reviews
June
- Congratulations to Adam on being named the best undergrad TA in the 2020/2021 school year!
- Congratulations to Justin on his paper on phase stability of perovskites being accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
May
- Congratulations to Alicia on her paper on Solar thermochemical gas splitting thermodynamics being accepted!
- Congratulations to Matt on being accepted into the FURI program!
- Congratulations to Bennett on successfully completing his Master’s project and Graduating. Good luck!!
April
- Congratulations to Steve on winning the prestigious DOE CSGF fellowship!
March
- Dr. Muhich published an article on solar thermochemical water splitting thermodynamics with the Lipinski group from ANU
February
- Congratulations to Srishti on being awarded the “GPSA Innovation Fellowship Volunteer Award” for her strong commitment to student engagement and outreach during the pandemic.
January
- Muhich lab in conjunction with the Jankowski Lab (Boise State) publish on Fullerene stabilization in water
2020
December
- Congratulations to Steve on his publication in J. Phys. Chem. C on Substituted Zeolites for O2 adsorption
- Congratulations to Jayni on passing her qualification exam!
November
- Dr. Muhich published a paper in ACS Nano with collaborators from Yale on the Surface-Property-Function relationship of faceted metal oxides.
- Jayni and Srishti present at AIChE.
October
- Obinna Nwokonkwo joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
- Daniel officially becomes a PhD student in the group! Welcome!
- Congratulations to Srishti and Jayni on receiving the WIC travel grant to AIChE.
September
- Welcome to Alicia, a new Research Scientist in the Muhich Lab!
August
- Congratulations to Steve for receiving the ASU graduate student travel grant.
July
- Congratulations to Yi and our collaborators in the Green lab on the publication of an article on poly-condensation reactions.
June
- Congratulations to Srishti on her recent review article on toxic oxoanion removal!
May
- Steve officially switches from an Undergrad to a PhD student in the group!
- Congratulations to the Muhich Lab Graduating Seniors: Harsheen, Steve, & Bennett!
- Congratulations to Steve, Harsheen and Daniel on their acceptance to PhD programs and Bennett to the 5+1 Program
- The Muhich lab, in conjunction with the Solanki Lab published a work in Phys Rev B on Magnetic Flux Trapping
April
- Steve is named best UGTA in the Chemical Engineering program for 2020, congratulations
- The Muhich lab in conjunction with LightWorks team is awarded a DOE SETO project
March
- Congratulations to Srishti Gupta on her first paper, published in PNAS on photocatalysis.
- The Muhich lab and their collaborators at Yale and Harvard receive NIH Superfund Site project
January
- The Muhich lab was awarded a DARPA project as part of the MACH program “Thermochemical Leading-Edge Stabilization with
Fuel Co-Production (THELES)” in conjunction with Michigan State
2019
December
- Congratulations to Srishti for passing her Quals exam!
November
- Congratulations to Steve and Bennett for publishing their first paper in I. J. Hydrogen Energy.
- Jayni Hashimoto joins the Muhich lab as a ChemE PhD student. Welcome!
- Congratulations to Bennett for successfully defending his honors thesis!
August
- Congratulations to Srashta for earning her MS in Chemical Engineering. Good Luck in the future!
- Tanner Yorgason joins the Muhich lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
July
- Muhich lab is awarded funding for examining single atom catalysts for environmental remediation through the NEWT Center
June
- Adrian Damian joins the group as a Summer Undergrad Research Intern, Welcome!
May
- Dr. Muhich gives invited seminar talk at ETH Switzerland on using metal oxides in renewable energy generation
January
- The Muhich lab’s DOE’s ARPA-E project begins on Long Term Energy Storage (DAYS)
2018
November
- Dr. Muhich gives a seminar at the University of Michigan.
October
- The Muhich lab received funding through ACS’s PRF program looking at poison resistant membranes.
September
- The Muhich lab, as a partner with Michigan State University, was awarded an ARPA-E project studying long term energy storage as part of the DAYS program.
- Our work on comparing material thermodynamics to solar thermochemical fuel production efficiency is published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Congratulations!
August
- Srishti joins the lab as a PhD student, Welcome!
- Bennett, Harsheen, Kori, and Ryan join the lab as undergrad student researchers. Welcome all.
- Congratulations to Srashta on passing her quals exam!
- Dr. Muhich’s paper on efficiency analysis has been published. Congratulations!
June
- Dr. Muhich presented and chaired sessions at the ASME Power & Energy Conference in Orlando Florida
May
- Dr. Muhich presents his invited talk on solar thermal water splitting materials at EPFL in Lusanne Switzerland.
January
- Srashta join the lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
- Max, Steve, and Taylor join the lab as undergrad student researchers. Welcome all!
- The Muhich Lab officially opens.