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SUMMARY:Electrify Everything: Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing with Ren
 ewable Hydrogen
LOCATION:Chemistry, A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20220401T160000
UID:2026-05-03-13-40-22@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260503T134022
Description:About the Seminar:\n\nOur research group uses the principles of
  electrochemistry and engineering design to advance new technologies for s
 ustainable energy and chemical production. This presentation will summariz
 e ongoing work in our lab directed at developing technologies that use ren
 ewable electricity to decarbonize chemical manufacturing. First\, I will l
 ay out the enormous challenge of reconfiguring the global chemical industr
 y around the use of renewable resources rather than fossil fuels and the c
 entral role that hydrogen will play in this transformation. Next\, I will 
 focus on the production of hydrogen via water electrolysis and specificall
 y our work to understand the precise\, nanoscale composition of earth-abun
 dant catalysts for next-generation water electrolyzers. Finally\, I will s
 ummarize ongoing efforts to develop catalytic assemblies that use metal ox
 ides to transport hydrogen between completely different reactive environme
 nts\, potentially enabling a new type of highly versatile hydrogenation re
 actor that runs on electricity and seawater.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nDr. 
 James R. McKone is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the U
 niversity of Pittsburgh. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and m
 usic from Saint Olaf College and a PhD in chemistry from the California In
 stitute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at Pitt in 2016\, he w
 as a DOE EERE postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and C
 hemical Biology at Cornell University. Prof. McKone’s research group stu
 dies fundamentals and applications of electrochemistry\, materials chemist
 ry\, and chemical reaction engineering with an eye toward improving enviro
 nmental sustainability in the energy and chemical sectors. In 2013\, he wa
 s the recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Prize for exemplary doct
 oral research\, and in 2017 he was named a Scialog faculty fellow in advan
 ce energy storage by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. In 
 2019 he received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from O
 ak Ridge Associated Universities and his research was featured in the “E
 merging Investigators” special issue of the Journal of Materials Chemist
 ry A. In 2020 McKone was named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold 
 and Mabel Beckman Foundation. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife\, Kirst
 en\, and two children\, Matilda and Eleanor. 4:00 pm
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