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Phil Pham advances to candidacy!! Congrats!!!

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Electricity Generates Reactive Carbon Radicals, Paper Out in OBC!

Check out our latest paper on electrochemically-generated carbon radicals out in OBC and available here. Congratulations to Phil, Haley and Jackie!

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Jackie is awarded a UROP Fellowship for 2022-2023! Congratulations!

A link to the CU Boulder UROP program: https://www.colorado.edu/urop/

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RIO SEED Funds the Electrochemical Recycling on Ester Polymers!

Excited to work with the great Adam Holewinski @ Chemical Engineering tackling some big challenges! Thank you RIO for your support!

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Our work on the electrochemical conversion of nitrogen to ammonia is awarded a RASEI SEED! Excited to work with Elisa Miller @ NREL on solving some mind-bending mechanistic puzzles!

Thank you to @RASEI and to the kind sponsors!

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Oana’s comments on carbon capture and the latest IPCC Report featured in CU Boulder Today article!

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/04/06/report-highlights-affordable-available-ways-mitigate-climate-change-now For additional information about global warming: https://www.vox.com/2014/10/22/18093054/global-warming-explained

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Our Work on the Electrochemical Capture of Carbon Dioxide is Featured in CU Boulder Today!

Congratulations to team CO2: Haley, Aziz, Taylor and Chloe! https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/03/16/new-method-could-lead-cheaper-more-efficient-ways-capture-carbon

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Paper on the Energetic Tuning of Nucleophiles for the Electrochemical Capture of Carbon Dioxide is out in iScience! Congrats Haley, Aziz, Taylor and Chloe!

Check out the excellent paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422200267X

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Jackie is Awarded a Summer SULI Fellowship 2022!

Jackie is awarded a SULI Fellowship for work on a collaborative project with Elisa Miller @ NREL and more! Team ammonia for the win!

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Haley is Awarded an American Crystallographic Association Scholarship !

Haley will be attending the ACA Summer School in Indiana this summer! Congratulations !

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The Luca Research Lab

at the University of Colorado


We are an interdisciplinary research group that aims to solve problems related to catalysis, energy sciences and sustainable chemical transformations.

We harness the power of electrons and holes as reagents in complex multi-step chemical transformations. At the same time, we use a variety of analytical tools to monitor the transformations in real time to inform reaction optimization and gain mechanistic understanding of processes we are studying.