News Archive
News Archive
2025:
October 2025: Welcome to Terry Idahor, who joined the Warburton Lab as a new PhD student!
October 2025: Congratulations to Zeynep, who passed her Second Proposition candidacy exam!
October 2025: Rob's perspective about coupled ion–electron transfer and the recent article by the Bazant and Shao-Horn groups is published in Science!
September 2025: Saransh, Hasan, and Noah present posters at the Pittsburgh–Cleveland Catalysis Society (PCCS) Symposium at Penn State! Congratulations to Noah, who was awarded runner-up for best student poster at the symposium! Rob also delivers the PCCS Early Career Presentation.
August 2025: Noah's perspective about modeling hydrogen atom rate constants in heterogeneous catalysis is published in ACS Catalysis!
June 2025: Noah presents about modeling hydrogen atom transfer in heterogeneous catalysis at the NAM29 Meeting in Atlanta, GA! Rob also presents about modeling PCET rate constants on metal and metal oxides surfaces.
June 2025: Welcome to Furkan Bas, who joins the Warburton Lab as a high-school student researcher through the ACS Project SEED program at CWRU!
May 2025: JES publishes a CWRU Focus Issue with an introduction by guest editors Bob Savinell, Burcu Gurkan, and Rob!
April 2025: Congratulations to Carlos, who is awarded a SOURCE-STEM award from the CWRU Undergraduate Research Office to support his research over the summer!
March 2025: Congratulations to Noah, who is awarded a Kokes Award to support his travel to the NAM29 Meeting in Atlanta!
March 2025: Rob presents about the effect of electric fields on structure and reactivity of electrochemical interfaces at the ACS Meeting in San Diego!
March 2025: Rob's paper with collaborators at Argonne and UCLA about propane oxidation to propylene oxide is published in ACS Catalysis!
January 2025: Welcome to Sophia Chan, who joined the Warburton Lab as an undergraduate researcher!
2024:
December 2024: Welcome to Saransh Gupta, who joined the Warburton Lab as a Postdoctoral Scholar!
November 2024: Hasan's paper in collaboration with the Baker Lab at OSU about the direct conversion of CO2 capture solutions to methane using single-atom Ni catalysts is published in JACS!
November 2024: Rob presents about the effect of electric fields on structure and reactivity of electrochemical interfaces at the AIChE Meeting in San Diego!
October 2024: Undergraduate researcher Hari Sudhakar's paper about the interplay between interfacial electric fields, cysteine adsorption configurations, and electrolyte structure in the EDL is published in JPC C!
October 2024: Zeynep presents about modeling interfacial PCET involving nonaquous proton donors at the PRiME Meeting in Honolulu, HI! Rob also presents about the effect of electric fields on structure and reactivity of electrochemical interfaces.
September 2024: The Warburton Lab attends the Pittsburgh–Cleveland Catalysis Society Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh! Hasan and Noah present posters about their research projects!
September 2024: Congratulations to Mahmudul Hasan and Noah South, who both passed their First Proposition qualifying exams!
September 2024: The Warburton Lab attends the Tri-State Catalysis Society Symposium at Ohio State! Zeynep, Hasan, and Noah present posters about their research projects!
September 2024: Welcome to Carlos David Escorcia Obando, who joined the Warburton Lab as an undergraduate researcher!
August 2024: Zeynep's paper in collaboration with the Gurkan Lab about the effects of hydrogen bonding and electric fields induced by ionic liquids on CO2 reduction electrocatalysis is published in JACS!
June 2024: Welcome to Jeremiah Russell, who joins the Warburton Lab as a high-school student researcher through the ACS Project SEED program at CWRU!
June 2024: Rob presents on modeling PCET rate constants on metal oxide surfaces at the Metal Oxide/Water Interfaces in Electrochemistry (MOWiiE) workshop in Uppsala!
May 2024: Zeynep presents her first conference talk about modeling interfacial PCET involving nonaquous proton donors at the Spring 2024 ECS Meeting in San Franciso, CA! Rob also presents about modeling PCET on semiconductor surfaces.
May 2024: Congrats to Quincy Spitzer and Brian Wood, who graduated with their B.S. in Chemical Engineering from CWRU! Quincy will be attending UC Irvine and Brian will be attending UIUC, both for their Ph.D.'s in Chemical Engineering!
May 2024: Rob's paper about modeling PCET rate constants on metal oxide surfaces is published in JPC C!
March 2024: Rob presents on modeling PCET on semiconductor surfaces at the Spring 2024 American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA!
2023:
December 2023: Welcome to Quincy Spitzer, who joined the Warburton Lab as an undergraduate researcher! Quincy is also doing experimental electrochemistry research in the Wainright Lab as part of the BEES2 project!
October 2023: Welcome to Mahmudul Hasan and Noah South, who joined the Warburton Lab as new PhD students!
October 2023: Rob presents on modeling PCET on semiconductor surfaces at the Fall 2023 Electrochemical Society Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden!
September 2023: Congratulations to Zeynep, who passed her First Proposition qualifying exam!
September 2023: Welcome to Brian Wood and Ryan Calvache, who joined the Warburton Lab as undergraduate researchers!
June 2023: Rob is awarded an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator award to develop theoretical models for C–H bond activation in thermal heterogeneous catalysis!
June 2023: Our paper in collaboration with the Skinner and Bazant groups about PCET in solid oxide fuel cells is published in JCP!
May 2023: Zeynep and Rob attended the Pittsburgh–Cleveland Catalysis Society (PCCS) symposium at Penn State, where Zeynep presented a poster about PCET reactions involving imidazoles!
May 2023: Welcome to James Telzrow and Hari Sudhakar who joined the Warburton Lab as undergraduate researchers!
May 2023: Rob is awarded a Glennan Fellowship from UCITE at CWRU to develop educational tools in computational chemistry!
March 2023: Rob presents on modeling interfacial PCET on metal oxides at the 2023 ACS Spring Meeting in Indianapolis, IN!
March 2023: Rob's paper in collaboration with the Dawlaty group about Lewis adducts at electrochemical interfaces is published in JACS!
January 2023: Welcome to Sohum Mehta and Antania Orr who joined the Warburton Lab as undergraduate researchers!
2022:
November 2022: Phillips's paper about doping effects on the PCET thermodynamics of graphite-conjugated catalysts in published in JPC Letters!
November 2022: Rob presents on modeling interfacial PCET on metal oxides at the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ!
September 2022: Welcome to Zeynep Bagbudar, the first PhD student to join the Warburton Lab!
August 2022: The Warburton Lab is excited to participate in BEES2, a $12M DOE EFRC led by Bob Savinell at CWRU ChemE! Learn more about BEES2 at its website and in this write-up from CWRU's The Daily!
August 2022: Phillips's paper with PNNL collaborators Peter Rice and Simone Raguei about the role of axial ligands on the ORR catalysis of Fe–N–C materials is published in JACS!
August 2022: Rob attends chemical engineering education workshops with other junior ChE faculty at the ASEE/AIChE Chemical Engineering Summer School in Golden, CO!
July 2022: The Warburton Lab is established in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Case Western Reserve University!
May 2022: Rob presents his postdoc work on modeling effects of electric fields on electrochemical PCET at NAM27 in New York, NY!
March 2022: Rob accepts position as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, effective August 2022!
March 2022: Rob, Alexander, and Sharon's review on theoretical modeling of electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer is published in Chemical Reviews!
January 2022: Our CEES EFRC paper led by Jason Howard on Ti–Mn intermixing at cathode–electrolyte interfaces is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
2021:
December 2021: Our collaborative paper on electrochemical alcohol and aldehyde oxidation with Kyoung-Shin Choi's group is published in ACS Catalysis!
October 2021: Rob's paper with collaborators in the CEES EFRC on interfacial reactivity in solid-state lithium-ion batteries is published in Chemistry of Materials!
October 2021: Our collaborative paper with Jim Mayer's group on O–H BDFEs on TiO2 surfaces is published in JPC Letters!
September 2021: Phillips's paper on modeling PCET thermodynamics at constant potentials is published in JPC C!
June 2021: Rob was awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Fellowship in Chemical Sciences! Check out the press release here.
May 2021: William and Rob's paper with the Dawlaty group on using vibrational probes to monitor interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer is out in JACS!
2020:
November 2020: Rob's paper with the Surendranath group on field-driven proton-coupled electron transfer at graphite-conjugated acids is published in JACS!
September 2020: Rob's paper on stress-driven LiMn2O4 particle fracture with the Gewirth and Dravid groups is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
June 2020: Rob was selected to present in the Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar series at the University of Washington! He will give this research seminar to the Chemical Engineering and Molecular Sciences & Engineering departments on July 13.
March 2020: Our collaborative paper on TMDC electrocatalysts for Li-O2 batteries with Amin Salehi-Khojin's group is published in Chemistry of Materials!
February 2020: Rob's paper with Jeff Elam's group on computational descriptors for atomic layer deposition is published in Chemistry of Materials!
2019:
December 2019: Rob joined the Hammes-Schiffer group at Yale University as a postdoctoral associate.
November 2019: Rob defended his dissertation, entitled "Interfacial Reactivity Studies of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials from First Principles"