A profile of Prof. Cynthia Friend accompanied her inaugural article in PNAS as a member of the National Academy of Science in September. The profile follows Friend from cow-pasture golf and car repair in her early life in southern Nebraska, through her education, and up to her current catalysis research, which has implications to improve the sustainability of chemistry on an industrial scale.  The inaugural article is about palladium/... Read more about Profile and inaugural article for Prof. Friend in PNAS

U.S. funds innovative Harvard-based efforts to reduce consumption.

Professor Cynthia Friend heads an effort to develop new methods to reduce energy consumption in the production of industrial chemicals, which now accounts for an astounding 25 percent of the world’s energy consumption....

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Chemistry Views article Understanding Noble Metal Catalysis highlights our recent article Ag/Au Mixed Sites Promote Oxidative Coupling of Methanol on the Alloy Surface.

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Friend Group Alum Young Shin Jun has been named Director of Graduate Studies at the Washington University Department of Engineering.

Check out her group page here: http://encl.engineering.wustl.edu/

Take a video tour of her group here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze-p6Mirwls

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