This is the culmination of many years of effort by Andrew Licini and Jo Melville, opening up a hot new area for us.

Blisteringly hot off the press—800 °C! Jo and Andrew don't just electrolyze molten sodium phosphates to white phosphorus, they demonstrate analytically that oxide (Lux) acidity promotes the reduction just as proton (Brønsted) acidity promotes aqueous HER! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Carbothermal production of white phosphorus underpins the food, herbicide, battery, and computer industries. Molten polyphosphate electrolysis is presented as a greener, highly selective alternative. NEW #ASAP by The Surendranath Group 🥭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ & team Read it here: go.acs.org/4cc

It's no secret that we're electrochemical partisans here in the Surendranath Group, so we're a big fan of @Dereklowe's latest! (of course, it helps that our recent phosphate electrolysis paper got a shout-out ⚡️) science.org/content/blog-p…

Interested in activation of bonds with electrons ? PhD position available Département de Chimie Moléculaire in molecular electrochemistry : dcm.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/sites/dcm/file…

Apply to our postdoc opening for scaling-up of organic electrosynthesis! Very cool project with great collaborators!👍⚗️ Collaboration with Stahl Lab, industry partners! chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/38527/post… Chemjobber

Hydrogen is a well-known reductant, but can H2 itself be further reduced? Our latest in Nature Catalysis on the demonstration of a new electrochemical reaction, the hydrogen reduction reaction (HRR)! Congrats to HX, James and Bryan! nature.com/articles/s4192…

In molecules, we tune hydricity by tuning the structure of the hydride donor. HX taught us that at metal surfaces, the hydricity could be tuned by over 40 kcal/mol by simply varying the applied potential.

Many thanks to the Hammes-Schiffer lab for this fruitful collaboration that reveals the molecular orbital basis for how interfacial polarization drives catalysis.

Efficient CO2 reduction and undesirable electrolyte carbonation are inherently coupled in water. Here, An showed us that these processes can be decoupled in a non-aqueous electrolyte. A first step towards reimagining electrolyte design for CO2-to-fuels catalysis.

Thanks so much, Adam, for this detailed highlight of HX's recent work! nature.com/articles/s4192…

Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4192…

Thanks Curtis P. Berlinguette for this super clear highlight of our work!

Concerted Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to a Graphite Adsorbed Metalloporphyrin Occurs by Band to Bond Electron Redistribution NEW #ASAP by Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Yogi Surendranath, Corey Kaminsky, & team Read it here: go.acs.org/50Y

Hey Electrochemists ECS: The Schreier group has a postdoc opening! If you are passionate about fundamental interfacial dynamics in the electrocatalysis of organic compounds and CO2 reduction, send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]!

Even if we don't attach a wire to a metal catalyst, it can still be charged and display a dramatic change in electrochemical potential. Thanks to Ethan Crumlin for helping us quantify this effect.

Sophia's work teaches us that there is a vast electrolyte design space beyond alkali ions that could be used to promote CO2 reduction catalysis.