Author Archives: Karen Mulfort

SECG working at home

Beginning on March 21, in compliance with the State of Illinois’s stay at home order to combat the spread of Covid-19, Argonne is in minimum safe operations mode. Therefore, except for just a few group members who go to the … Read More »

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2020 Metals in Biology GRC

Karen just returned from the 2020 Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference where she presented some of the group’s recent work in a talk titled “Molecular modules for artificial photosynthesis: beyond the first coordination sphere”. It was a great meeting and … Read More »

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2020 Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry

GREAT NEWS! Lin has been recognized by the PHYS division of the American Chemical Society with the 2020 Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry for “fundamental contributions to the elucidation of excited state structures, dynamics and energetics of light harvesting systems through … Read More »

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Photosynthesis Research Special Issue

Check out new the Special Issue of Photosynthesis Research, Photosynthesis-Inspired Biohybrid and Biomimetic Systems guest edited by none other than our very own Dr. Utschig! Lisa wrote a preface to the issue that you can find here, and two new papers … Read More »

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New editor at Chemical Science

Congratulations to Lin, who has recently accepted a post as an Associate Editor at Chemical Science!! See the RSC blog post here.

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Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research

Lisa and her work are featured in a new virtual issue of ACS Energy Letters! The issue is introduced by short personal stories from each of the included women scientists that comment on their inspiration to engage in energy research, … Read More »

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Fall 2019 MRS

Dave and Karen traveled to Boston this week to attend the 2019 National Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society. Karen co-organized the EN06 Symposium: Development in Catalytic Materials for Sustainable Energy—Bridging the Homogeneous/Heterogeneous Divide with Prof. Hailiang Wang (Yale), Prof. … Read More »

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SACLA XFEL trip

Lin, Michael Mara, Sam Xie, Tae Wu Kim, and Darren Hsu (NU student) just returned from a successful beamtime run at the XFEL at SACLA at SPring-8 in Japan! They were using the sub-picosecond pulses to investigate electron and energy … Read More »

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Lin is Highly Cited!

Wow, fantastic work Lin! She has been named to the Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Researchers list for 2019.  The list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and … Read More »

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Best poster!

Congratulations to Udita on her poster at the 2019 Argonne Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium, which took home a Best Poster Award! Her poster, Interprotein Electron Transfer Biohybrid System for Photocatalytic H2 Production, describes some of her very first results … Read More »

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