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2016

December 2016

December 2016

How does ice melt? Layer by layer!
Alejandra Sánchez, Marc-Jan van Zadel, Jenée Cyran, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn and Ellen Backus have a paper Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice published in PNAS. It is a collaborative paper with University of Toyama, Tufts University, University of Mainz, FOM Institute AMOLF, Tohoku University, Kyoto University and University of California.
November 2016

November 2016

Chunyan Ma joins the group as a visiting postdoctoral researcher to study the catalytic mechanism of small molecule gas oxidation.
September 2016

September 2016

Prerna Sudera joins the group as a PhD student to study ice interfaces.
August 2016

August 2016

Jenée Cyran has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers on Shedding Light on the Mechanism of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Reactions on Ice Surfaces.
July 2016
Saman Hosseinpour will be awarded The Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award 2016 for the best doctoral thesis in corrosion science and electrochemistry" world-wide at the PRiME2016 meeting on Honolulu in October. more
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