Kenta and Xavier presenting at the Undergrad Research Symposium

Congratulations to Kenta Moore and Xavier Garcia for their successful presentations at the UCI Summer Undergrad Research Symposium! They joined our lab through NSF REU Programs (Kenta – Decarbonization and Xaiver – MRSEC CCAM) to carry out research in the CeMi lab this summer. Kenta investigated the effect of ceramic oxides on metal catalysts for hydrogenolysis reactions. Xavier developed a Python interface for carrying out enhanced sampling with ab initio molecular dynamics with VASP.