News Archive

August 12, 2022. Chris & Ryan win first-year student poster presentation awards at the 2022 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

July 1, 2022. Bart begins serving a four-year term as Chair of the Department of Chemistry.

February 17, 2022. The Board of Regents names Bart an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor for excellent contributions to undergraduate education.

February 7, 2022. Professor Usisipho Felini (University of South Africa) joins the Bartlett Group as an African Scholars Program Research Fellow. Welcome Usisipho!

December 13, 2021. Brad successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect (Photo)electrochemical Alcohol Oxidation Reactions. Congratulations, Dr. Terry!

November 8, 2021. Andy, Li, and Nate's paper on chloride-mediated ethanol oxidation in water is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C;

September 20, 2021. Li's paper on solvent-free chloride-mediated ethanol oxidation is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

August 5, 2021. Kori successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis, Non-Hydrolytic Synthesis of Visible Light Active Stable Metal Oxides and Metal Oxide Coatings for Fuel-Forming Reactions . Congratulations, Dr. McDonald!

July 30, 2021. Li and Brad win travel poster awards at the 2021 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

May 24, 2021. Kori's spinel ferrite photocatalyst paper is accepted in Inorg. Chem.

April 25, 2021. Brad is awarded the Robert W. Parry Summer Fellowship for outstanding research from an inorganic chemistry graduate student. Congratulations!

April 5, 2021. John, Brad, Andy, and Matt's paper on base-assited nitrate-mediated benzyl alcohol oxidation is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

April 1, 2021. Andy and Josh's collaborative paper on chloride oxidation using HxWO3 is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

April 1, 2021. Kori is awarded the Margaret Ayers Host Fellowship! Congratulations!

December 15, 2020. Li advances to candidacy. Congratulations!  

October 7, 2020. Christian advances to candidacy. Congratulations!  

September 9, 2020. Andy successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Influence of Electrolyte on the Stability and Activity of WO3 for Photoelectrochemical Oxidation Reactions. Congratulations, Dr. Breuhaus-Alvarez!  

July 30, 2020. Brad, John D, John C's paper on nitrate-assited benzyl alcohol oxidation on BiVO4 is accepted in ChemElectroChem.  

July 24, 2020. Aaron's paper on hydroxyl radical suppression on WO3|FeOOH electrodes is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

April 15, 2020. Former undergraduate Shobhana Panuganti is awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship.

December 11, 2019. Aaron successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Metal Oxides as Photocatalysts for Selective Oxidations. Congratulations, Dr. Proctor! 

August 30, 2019. Kori's paper on photocatalytic alcohol oxidation on WO3 nanoplatelets is accepted in RSC Advances.

August 8, 2019. Kori wins a travel poster award at the 2019 Karle Symposium. Congratulations! 

July 7, 2019. The Bartlett Group is awarded a grant from the Department of Energy for "Exploring Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Alcohol Oxidations on Semiconductor Nanostructures."

May 17, 2019. Andy is awarded a Robert W. Parry Summer Departmental Fellowship for outstanding research from an inorganic chemistry graduate student. Congratulations!

May 8, 2019. John, Andy, and Siqi's paper on nitrate-mediated photocatalytic alcohol oxidation on CdS is accepted in ACS Catalysis. 

April 23, 2019. Jimmy & Sam's collaborative paper with the Dasgupta group on BiVO4 photoanodes is accepted in Chem. Mater.

March 29, 2019. Brad advances to candidacy. Congratulations! 

December 21, 2018. Andy, John, Josh, and Charles's proton intercalation and kinetics of OER on WO3 paper is accepted in the J. Phys. Chem. C. 

November 14, 2018. Adam successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of Magnesium-Ion Battery Electrolytes. Congratulations, Dr. Crowe!

August 7, 2018. Aaron wins a travel poster award at he 2018 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

June 19, 2018. The Bartlett Group is awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for "Probing the Mechanism and Morphology of Magnesium Deposition from High Anodic Stability, High Solution Conductivity Electrolytes."

May 17, 2018. The U-M Board of Regents promotes Bart to the rank of Professor with tenure, effective September 1, 2018.

March 30, 2018. Sam's anchored [Ru(bpy)3]2+ on TiO2 and WO3 paper is accepted in Langmuir.

February 26, 2018. Adam is awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

February 23, 2018. Sam successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Probing the Chemical Stability and Adsorption Properties of Molecule|Metal Oxide Architectures under Conditions of Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. Congratulations, Dr. Esarey!

January 7, 2018. Aaron and Shobhana's benzylamine photooxidation on CuWO4 paper is accepted in Chem. Comm.

December 7, 2017. Kori advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

August 30, 2017. Jimmy, Aaron, and Shobhana's urea-glass synthesis of TiNbON paper is accepted in Dalton Trans.

August 24, 2017. Adam, John, and Kyle's kinetics of Mg deposition and stripping paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

August 17, 2017. John's benzylamine photooxidation on CdS paper is accepted in Chem. Mater.

August 6, 2017. Adam wins a travel poster award at the 2017 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

June 30, 2017. The Bartlett Group is awarded a grant from the Department of Energy for “Exploring Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Oxidations on Semiconductor Nanostructures.”

May 18, 2017. Adam is awarded an Eastman Chemical Company summer research fellowship. Congratulations!

May 17, 2017. Jimmy's collaborative paper on photocatalytic oxidation of tolene on TiNbON materials is accepted in Appl. Catal. B: Environ.

April 13, 2017. Jimmy successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Compositionally Complex Titanium Niobium Oxynitride Materials for Solar-Driven Photochemistry. Congratualtions, Dr. Brancho!

March 14, 2017. Adam, Kyle, and John's paper on adsorption of polyaromatics on electrodes from phenyl-containing Mg electrolytes is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

January 2, 2017. After 8.5 years of unwavering service to the University of Michigan, Bart is taking a sabbatical to do research as the Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. He will return June 1, 2017.

December 27, 2016. Adam’s collaborative paper on germanium microwire films anodes is accepted in ACS Energy Letters.

December 12, 2016. Andy advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

December 6, 2016. Charles successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Kinetics of Competing Reactions on Metal Oxide Semiconductors During the Course of Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. Congratulations, Dr. Lhermitte!

October 16, 2016. Sam and Joel's fate of a non-heme iron water oxidation catalyst is accepted in Inorg. Chem.

September 16, 2016. Adam and Emily's collaborative paper on Mg film microstructure is accepted in J. Electrochem. Soc.

August 31, 2016. Aaron advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

August 15, 2016. Adam and Kyle's fluorinated alkoxide Mg electrolyte article is accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

July 25, 2016. Charles (1st place talk) and Adam (poster) win travel awards at the 2016 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

June 3, 2016. Charles is awarded a Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations!

May 16, 2016. Charles's chemistry of CuWO4 article is accepted in Acc. Chem. Res.

May 4, 2016. Adam is awarded a Robert W. Parry Summer Departmental Fellowship for outstanding research from an inorganic chemistry graduate student. Congratulations!

April 8, 2016. Adam's short review on Mg-ion cathodes is accepted in J. Solid State Chem.

March 31, 2016. Our collaborative paper on the spectroelecrochemistry of metal acac complexes is accepted in J. Electrochem. Soc.

December 7, 2015. Adam advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

November 26, 2015. Adam's steric bulk and oxidative stability of phenolate-based Mg electrolytes paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A.

November 6, 2015. Emily's collaborative Mg/O2 reaction pathway paper is accepted in Chem. Mater.

October 8, 2015. Jimmy's challenges in co-alloying TiO2 perspective is accepted in Chem. Mater.

August 25, 2015. Charles and Garret's FeOOH catalyst on WO3 stability paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A.

August 7, 2015. Adam, Charles, and Jimmy win poster travel awards at the 2015 Karle Symposium. Congratulations!

April 27, 2015. Kayla successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis, Metal Oxide Semiconductor Materials for Photooxidation of Water and Organic Amine Groups. Congratulations, Dr. Pyper!

April 13, 2015. Sam advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

March 19, 2015. Ben successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Solar Activation of Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts Using Semiconductors. Congratulations, Dr. Klepser!

February 26, 2015. Emily successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis, Understanding Magnesium-ion Electrochemistry through Modification of Lewis Acid/Base Pairs. Congraulations, Dr. Nelson!

January 31, 2015. Kayla and Taylor's SnWO4 thin film synthesis paper is accepted in the University of Michigan edition of Chin. Chem. Lett.

September 23, 2014. Emily and Scott's Mg electrolyte showing enhanced stability with stainless steel paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A.

August 22, 2014. Xiaoguang's collaborative high-power, water-free TiO2-B paper is accepted in Adv. Mater.

July 30, 2014. Emily, Jimmy, and Sam win travel awards at the 2014 Vaughan Symposium. Congratulations!

June 23, 2014. Bart is awarded an LSA Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award.

June 18, 2014. Profs. Bart Bartlett and Stephen Maldonado are awarded a U-M Energy Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Grant for "Synthesis, Modeling and Lab Testing of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Materials for High Efficiency Solar-to-Electrical Energy Conversion."

June 12, 2014. The Bartlett Group is awarded a grant from the Department of Energy for "Chemoselective Oxidations Using Visible-Light Responsive Semiconducting Oxides."

May 15, 2014. The U-M Board of Regents promotes Assistant Professor Bart M. Bartlett to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective September 1, 2014.

May 8, 2014. Xiaoguang's LMO fracture paper is accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

April 24, 2014. Josh Kurtz is awarded the Jerome and Isabella Karle Physical Sciences Goldstein Honors Prize. Congrats.

April 23, 2014. Taylor Evans and Josh Kurtz are presented with the ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award and theWalter Yates Undergraduate Award, respectively at the Chemistry Undergraduate Awards Recognition Program. Congrats!

April 15, 2014. Xiaoguang successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Synthesis and Defect Structure Analysis of Complex Oxides for Li-Ion Battery Electrodes. Congraulations, Dr. Hao!

April 1, 2014. Aaron Goodman is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats!

March 21, 2014. Joe successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis, Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Water Oxidation using Metal Oxides. Congratulations, Dr. Yourey!

January 21, 2014. Vinod and Joe's TiO2-B/RGO battery paper is accepted in ACS Nano.

January 17, 2014. Ben's Fe-catalyst on WO3 water oxidation paper is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

November 25, 2013. Emily's non-Grignard Mg electrolyte paper is accepted in Chem. Comm.

October 30, 2013. Emily wins a U-M Energy Institute Symposium Poster Prize. Congratulations!

October 28, 2013. Kayla and Joe's electronic structure of CuWO4 paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

September 6, 2013. Bart is awarded the Seyhan N. Eğe Faculty Development Award.

August 28, 2013. Vinod and Yenting's TiO2-B paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A.

August 9, 2013. Jimmy is awarded a 2013 Vaughan Symposium Poster Prize. Congratulations!

July 17, 2013. Tanya and Jimmy's TiO2:(Nb,N)-25 water oxidation photocatalyst paper is accepted in Inorg. Chem.

June 17, 2013. Bart is awarded a 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

June 7, 2013. The project, "Synthesis, In Situ Characterization, and Full-Cell Testing of Nanoporous Electrodes for Next-Generation High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries" is funded by the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Collaboration on Nanotechnology for Energy and Biomedical Applications.

May 7, 2013. Charles and Jimmy advance to candidacy. Congratulations!

April 11, 2013. Xiaoguang’s titania-coated LNMO paper is accepted in J. Electrochem. Soc.

April 8. 2013. Tanya’s composition-dependence of TiO2:(Nb,N) paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

April 7, 2013. Joe, Kayla, and Josh’s chemical stability of CuWO4 paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C.

March 30, 2013. Josh is awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations!

March 22, 2013. Tanya successfully defends her doctoral dissertation, Complex Metal Oxides for Photocatlytic Applications. Congratulations, Dr. Breault!

January 15, 2013. Xiaoguang’s carbon-templated Li4Ti5O12 nanocrystal synthesis paper is accepted in Adv. Energy Mater.

January 10, 2013. Joe Yourey is awarded a Chemistry Research Excellence Fellowship. Congratulations!

January 10, 2013. Tanya Breault is awarded a Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship. Congratulations.

November 19, 2012. The Bartlett group is awarded an NSF CAREER Award for “Synthesis of Compositionally Complex Oxides for Energy Conversion and Storage.”

September 6, 2012. Kayla advacnes to candidacy. Congratulations!

September 5, 2012. The Bartlett Group is awarded a gold-rating in the University of Michigan Laboratory Sustainability Initiative.

August 30, 2012. Joe's and Josh's Zn1–xCuxWO4 optical properties and magnetism paper is accepted in Inorg. Chem.

August 14, 2012. Xiaoguang's Ge nanowire Li-ion anode paper is accepted in Nano Lett.

August 10, 2012. Ben advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

April 17, 2012. Tanya's Co magnetism paper is accepted in Inorg. Chem.

April 12, 2012. Xiaoguang and Mark’s LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 battery paper is accepted in the New Talent America's special issue of Dalton Trans.

April 2012. Xiaoguang is awarded a Chemistry Research Excellence Fellowship. Congratulations!

February 1, 2012. Tanya's TiO2:(Nb,N) dye degradation paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem C.

January 8, 2012. Joe's and Josh's CuWO4-WO3 water oxidation paper is accepted in J. Phys. Chem C.

November 11, 2011. Xiaoguang and Brendan’s LMO defect structure paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem.

August 2011. Joe wins a Vaughan Symposium Travel Award. Congratulations!

June 30, 2011. The Bartlett Group is awarded a grant from the Department of Energy for “Bridging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis through Ion-Exchangeable Materials.”

June 7, 2011. Emily advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

May 5, 2011. Joe is award a Robert W. Parry Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations!

May 5, 2011. Joe wins a Florence Fenwick Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

April 22, 2011. Xiaoguang advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

April 21, 2011. Brendan advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

April 13, 2011. Joe advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

March 29, 2011. Joe’s CuWO4 synthesis and photoelectrochemistry paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem.

January 20, 2011. Joe is awarded a Dr. Paul I. Murril Memorial Research Scholarship.

November 8, 2010. Joe wins an Aldrich Symposium in Materials Science Poster Award.

August 2010. Joe Yourey wins a Vaughan Symposium Travel Award. Congratulations!

July 14, 2010. Brendan and Sean’s LMO synthesis paper is accepted in Energy Environ. Sci.

June 8, 2010. Tanya advances to candidacy. Congratulations!

October 31, 2008. Bartlett Lab Grand Opening!

July 1, 2008. Bart begins his journey as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.