We built a strong lab safety culture by adding "safety moments" to the first 5 mins of group meetings. To build a culture of
#equity
and
#inclusion
, we've started Beyond the Bench Moments, highlighting someone you should know about, barriers in stem, & more.
#chemtwitter
Beyond the Bench: a project building an inclusive culture in STEM. Like "safety moments" the idea is to spend the initial 1-5 mins of a talk or lecture highlighting a DEI topic in science. Here's a growing slide deck you can add to, use and be inspired by!
April recrystallizations bring May crystals! 💎🔍
Spring is blooming and postdoc Dr. Justin Lee made some ✨beautiful✨ [Ni(II)(TACN)2](OTf)2 crystals
@YaleChem
In Square Schemes, electrons don't say, "I love you" to protons. Instead they say, "not PT-ET, not ET-PT, but let's do PCET!" And in our lab, we think that's beautiful.
🚨Science Paper Alert🚨
Check out our latest publication on Proton-coupled ENERGY transfer in molecular triads. Congrats to Belinda Pettersson Rimgard, Zhen Tao,
@Gio_A_Parada
, Laura Cotter, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Jim, and
@HammarstromLeif
We love a professor group pic!!! It made our day to have Professor Dey visit
@YaleChem
to talk about his research on multi-proton multi-electron reductions of diatomics
We, at the Mayer lab, would like to ✨formally✨ acknowledge
@HammarstromLeif
with this certificate for showing the first square scheme of the
@4Pcet
conference! Looking forward to more great science talks tomorrow!
A huge congratulations to Jim on his election into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! "Current Academy members represent today’s innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including more than 250 Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners."
@YaleChem
Shoving protons and electrons around is cool, but so is taking time out of lab to appreciate science in the world around us.
#jimisrad
#EclipseSolar2024
☀️
Mastermind (and notable Swiftie) Dr. Laura Cotter has defended her thesis and received her Ph.D.
@YaleChem
today! Her leaving the Mayer lab feels like death by a thousand cuts, but we know all too well that she will go on to show us incredible things.
#Swifties
#jimisrad
The
@4Pcet
conference just finished!!! We enjoyed the wonderful speaker line up, and had great discussions (alongside tapas + wine) with the amazing PCET crew! We can’t wait to see everyone in three years at Göttingen ❤️❤️❤️
Lightning strikes: charges over electric fields! Check out our latest paper in
@InorgChem
, "All Four Atropisomers of Iron Tetra(o-N,N,N-trimethylanilinium)porphyrin in both the Ferric and Ferrous States" by Daniel Martin and Brandon Mercado
@Fullerene
.
Check out our new fantastic publication by Dr. Catherine Wise and Rishi Agarwal, "Determining Proton-Coupled Standard Potentials and X–H Bond Dissociation Free Energies in Nonaqueous Solvents Using Open-Circuit Potential Measurements"
Congratulations to Dr. Abi Heuer, Dr. Scott Coste, Gurjot Singh, et al on their new paper A Guide to Tris(4-Substituted)-triphenylmethyl Radicals published in JOC
@ACSPublications
! We’re ✨thrilled✨ that this article was picked as the ACS Editors’ Choice!
Hey prospective students! We're excited to recruit you this visiting weekend. We love thermodynamics, kinetics, and proton-coupled electron transfer - come chat with us at tomorrow's social hour! 👩🔬🧑🔬
Congratulations to third-year Eleanor Stewart-Jones (pictured here talking almost exclusively with her hands) for being one of six poster presenters selected to give a lightning talk
@4Pcet
#jimisrad
⚡️⚡️⚡️
Congratulations to senior Madison Houck on her senior capstone research presentation
@YaleChem
! After graduation, Madison is heading to
@ChemistryMIT
for graduate school!
#jimisrad
⚗️🧪🥼
We collaborated with
@MayerPCET
&
@jillianldempsey
on using porous Si to support a molecular catalyst that can photoelectrochemically reduce carbon dioxide. It works much better than flat Si! See: ;
@J_A_C_S
. Thanks to
@CHASE_Hub
for support.
In the Mayer lab, we do many ✨different✨ kinds of chemistry. To keep everyone up to date on projects they might not see everyday in lab, every Mayer lab member presented on another’s project! Check out fourth-year Hannah Nedzbala talking about PCEnT work by Dr. Rohit Bhide⚡️⚗️
We are excited and proud to formally announce our brilliant postdoc Dr. Anna Brezny
@BreznyChem
has accepted an assistant professor position at
@SkidmoreCollege
and will be starting in the fall! She'll be teaching organic chemistry and her research will focus on electrocatalysis
Go read our first group publication of 2021 "Multiple selectivity-determining mechanisms of H2O2 formation in iron porphyrin-catalysed oxygen reduction" by
@BreznyChem
and Hannah Nedzbala!
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Martin for giving a wonderful thesis defense on Friday afternoon! He's been an incredible member of the lab and will be greatly missed. In honor of Dr. Martin, go read one of his papers!
🚨New paper alert🚨 Congratulations to fifth-year
@HNedzbala
undergraduate Dalaney Westbroek, and collaborators on their JACS paper! Check out how TiO2 films on silicon can do photoelectrochemical PCET
@CHASE_Hub
🧪⚗️☀️
Summer is here!!!! This means the days are longer, campus is quieter, and the wonderful Mayer lab first-years are digging into their new projects ☀️⚗️🥽 We're excited to see what these three accomplish
@YaleChem
Check out Daniel Martin's newest publication, "Intramolecular Electrostatic Effects on O2, CO2, and Acetate Binding to a Cationic Iron Porphyrin" in
@InorgChem
! with
@Fullerene
& Samantha Johnson and Simone Raugei of
@PNNLab
Read our newest publication, "Base-directed photoredox activation of C–H bonds by PCET," by Maraia Ener, Julia Darcy, and Fabian Menges!
@JOC_OL
#PCET
#photoredox
#MSCPET
Congratulations to Dr. Noreen Gentry on successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!!! We’re excited to see what’s next for Dr. Gentry as she begins her science technology and policy fellowship at the Solar Energy Technologies office.
We were so excited about the
@4Pcet
conference, that we just had to meet up beforehand!!! Yesterday some
@YaleChem
and
@uncchemistry
folks met up for food, wine, and only like ten minutes of talking science (we swear). 🥘🍷
A huge (delayed) congratulations to Dr. Rishi Agarwal
@ChemRishi
for defending his thesis, "Determination and Application of Hydrogen Transfer Thermochemistry: Studies of Molecules, Nanoparticles, and Metallic Electrodes." Wishing you best success in the Kanan lab
@StanfordUChem
We had a special guest in the Mayer lab today!
@cooneycool
from the
@MatsonLab
stopped by to do some stopped-flow experiments with third-year Noah Gibson. They had a feeling they were being watched.....🧐👀
Check out our new paper, "Interfacial Acid–Base Equilibria and Electric Fields Concurrently Probed by In Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy" by
@DelleyMurielle
and
@enicholschem
!
Interfacial acid/base equilibria and electric fields:
@DelleyMurielle
,
@enicholschem
, and
@MayerPCET
probed the two concurrently at functionalized electrodes by surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy
Congratulations to Dr. Abi Heuer!!!! Now that her Ph.D. is successfully completed, she will be heading to the Yale Provost's office as a Swensen Fellow. Good luck Dr. Heuer!!!!
@YaleChem
@AbiHeuer
Aqueous TiO2 Nanoparticles React by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer. Check out our ACS Editor's Choice and
@InorgChem
Featured Article! Congrats to Dr. Jennifer Peper,
@NoreenGenChem
, Benjamin Boudy, and Jim
Tomorrow is a big day! Swing by room 145 at 8:00 am for Professor Mayer’s talk on hydrogen transfers at interfaces, then head over to room 112 for a full day of solar fuels chemistry with third-year Eleanor Stewart-Jones and the
@SolarFuelsNexus
team
#jimisrad
#ACSSpring2023
☀️🧪
Are you as obsessed with square schemes as we are? Check out Jim's new perspective article "Bonds over Electrons: Proton Coupled Electron Transfer at Solid–Solution Interfaces"!
#jimisrad
More congratulations are in order! Dr. Nico Dwarica successfully defended his Ph.D. and will soon start as a Posdoctoral Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Good luck Dr. Dwarica!!!!!
@NREL
@YaleChem
It was a paw-fect day in the Mayer lab!
@HandsomeDanYale
(looking quite ‘fetching’ in a Yale bandana) dropped by to see his ✨biggest fan✨, post doc Dr. Justin Lee, on his birthday. 🐾 ❤️🐶
#jimisrad
Check out our newest paper (the last of 2020!) on the "Different Kinetic Reactivities of Electrons in Distinct TiO2 Nanoparticle Trap States" by Dr. Jennifer Peper,
@NoreenGenChem
,
@BreznyChem
, collab with Mackenzie Field & Prof Mike Green of
@UCIChemistry
Check out Brian Koronkiewicz's recent collaborative publication with Morgan Walker in the Ellman lab and with K. N. Houk, "Highly Diastereoselective Functionalization of Piperidines by Photoredox-Catalyzed α-Amino C–H Arylation and Epimerization."
At the
@YaleChem
holiday party, students and professors provided some musical ambience, including an inorganic trio with fourth-years Alec Hegg on violin, Eleanor Stewart-Jones on violin, and Juan Serviano on bass 🧪⚗️🎻
If you have ever seen me get all 'riled up about fermi levels, you should read Jennifers newest paper for our perspective of fermi levels and free energies for nanoscale redox reactions
If ✨anyone✨ at
#ACSFall2023
gives Professor Jim Mayer a jar of Sigma chocolates to bring back to his lab, we promise to name one of our glove boxes after that heroic person
#jimisrad
Headed to
#ACSFall2023
? So are we, along with a few friends 👀. Stop by our booth and say hi and you never know what you might walk away with.
@AmerChemSociety
The sun doesn’t need to shine for solar fuels research to progress! It’s raining in New Haven, and CHASE postdoc Dr. Adam Pearce is working hard on collecting spectroelectrochemical data with a
@CHASE_Hub
developed ATR cell from Dr. David Grills
@BNL
☀️🌧️🧑🔬
Nothing says silicon hydrides like HF and lots of PPE! 2nd year grad student Eleanor Stewart-Jones has made the jump from benchtop to cleanroom chemistry
@CHASE_Hub
@JstYale
It’s dangerous to go alone, take this honorable mention! Congrats to third-year Eleanor Stewart-Jones
@YaleChem
for receiving an honorable mention for the Link Foundation Energy Fellowship
#jimisrad
Congratulations to Daniel Martin, Catherine Wise, &
@MichaelPegis
on our Accounts article, "Developing Scaling Relationships for Molecular Electrocatalysis through Studies of Fe-Porphyrin-Catalyzed O2 Reduction." Go check it out!
No better way to end a seminar than with a happy hour at Elm City Social! The inorganic division
@YaleChem
turned out to hear about the amazing MOF work from the
@brozeklab
and celebrated after with Professor Brozek 🧪⚗️🍸
It’s always fun to see a familiar face when traveling!!! Three Mayer lab members met up and had a Nice time square scheming in southern France 🇫🇷⚗️
#jimisrad
Congratulations to second-year Alexa Williams on passing her qualifying exam
@YaleChem
! To celebrate, she is going to see
@taylorswift13
in Philadelphia as a ✨PhD Candidate✨
#jimisrad
'Cause there we are again in the middle of the night
We're dancing 'round the wafer in the illuminating light
Down the pores, I was there
I remember it, all those wells
#TaylorSwift
#alltoowell
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Coste,
@BreznyChem
, & Dr. Brian Koronkiewicz for their recent
@ChemicalScience
paper "C–H oxidation in fluorenyl benzoates does not proceed through a stepwise pathway: revisiting asynchronous proton-coupled electron transfer"
Undergraduate
@dalaneywest
won the first place award for best oral presentation at the 2024 ACS Student Research Symposium! Congratulations Danaley!!!!!
#jimisrad
It's always rad to wear PPE but challenging to do chemistry in mittens – better go with gloves next time! Happy 1 year anniversary to this meme
#Jimisrad
In a shocking turn of events, space dunk oreos won the Mayer Lab
@Oreo
bracket. Now we can go back to drawing square schemes on the white board.
#jimisrad
Check out "Structural and Thermodynamic Effects on the Kinetics of C–H Oxidation by Multisite Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Fluorenyl Benzoates" by Brian Koronkiewicz, Elvira Sayfutyarova, Scott Coste,
@Fullerene
, Sharon Hammes-Sciffer & Jim
@JOC_OL
The Mayer lab is ✨thrilled✨ to have neighbors again!!! First years Kassie Castaldi, Sadie Wolfarth, and Maddie Logelin (pictured here building a rotovap) are starting up their lab and research projects under the direction of
@amymariecium
👩🔬🥽🧪
Excellent work to our undergrad
@ChloePressleySV
for her summer research and final presentation in the Yale STARS program - Science, Technology and Research Scholars👏
Another great visiting day
@YaleChem
! Second-year Noah Gibson and fourth-year Hannah Nedzbala took a break from shoving protons and electrons around to give a lab tour to potential graduate students 🧪👩🔬
How do we decide which Oreo is the ideal lab snack? Post doc Justin Lee has organized a bracket to separate the creme from the cookie. May the best Oreo win, (
@Oreo
please give us money for science ❤️)
Today, we had to say goodbye to visiting professor Dr. Mauricio Cattaneo. We will greatly miss his mentorship, constant optimism, and crucial leadership in organizing a Mayer lab World Cup bracket. We’re wishing him a safe flight to Argentina and missing him already ✈️
#jimisrad
Here's Dr. Daniel Martin's latest publication on "Oriented Electrostatic Effects on O2 and CO2 Reduction by a Polycationic Iron Porphyrin." Read to find out how charge positioning influences O2 and CO2 reduction!