News

New book chapter published soon in the Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources:

Elgrishi, N., Bontempelli, G. and Toniolo, R. (2025) Methods and Instruments | Linear Sweep and Cyclic Voltammetry.
In: Garche, J. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources, 2nd Edition. Vol. 2, pp. 27-41.UK: Elsevier.

(10/07/2024)

Congratulations to Monojit, Sophie, and Natalie! Their work on PFAS removal from water was just published in ChemComm.

(09/11/2024)

Huge congratulations to Vanessa who was selected as one of the only eleven Science Policy Fellows for the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine! Read more about it here.

(09/01/2024)

Welcome to Landry, the newest member of our lab! Landry is a chemistry major LSU undergraduate student with a focus on environmental chemistry and a minor in music.

(08/27/2024)

Noémie was invited to present as part of the Rising Stars Symposium at the 45^th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, this year in Fort Collins, CO.

(07/30/2024)

"A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry," co-authored with Prof. Jillian Dempsey from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in the Journal of Chemical Education from the American Chemical Society, has surpassed 1,000,000 downloads!

We are excited to see the paper reach this huge milestone! 

(07/25/2024)

It’s official: Noémie has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective August 15^th, 2024!

(06/01/2024)

And, last but not least, our final goodbye this semester goes to Dinushini, who is moving on to exciting adventures in Australia! Dinushini has been a critical force in our lab over the last year and a half, and we wish her all the best in her next chapter Down Under!

(05/31/2024)

And we also have to say goodbye to Monojit, the 3rd student to graduate with a PhD from our group!

Monojit will soon start as a Postdoc at VirginiaTech with Dr. Caroline Saouma.

(5/24/2024)

We also say goodbye to Sophie as she has chosen to join the chemistry department at the University of North Texas in Denton for graduate school to study Chemistry Education! All the best!

(5/23/2024)

We say goodbye to Katy as she has chosen to join the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for graduate school! All the best!

(5/23/2024)

Commencement is always bittersweet: huge congratulations to Monojit, Katy, and Sophie on all their achievements!

(05/17/2024)

It was a busy evening for Katy! She first received the LSU Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher designation, followed by a second ceremony organized by the Ogden Honors College where she received College Honors.

(05/16/2024)

Congratulations to Katy who won the Undergraduate Award from the Analytical Division at the 47th Annual
Dean Arthur R. Choppin Honors Ceremony from the College of Science. Read more about it here. She also won a Dr. Linda Allen Excellence in Academics and Research Award as well as a Recognition of Service Award for her role as Student Ambassador for the College of Science.

(04/30/2024)

Malithi

Vanessa

Nathan

JP

New group tradition: we took a group picture during the 2024 CGSC Crawfish Boil!

(04/29/2024)

Noémie Elgrishi received the Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award. The ceremony was held at the Manship Gallery in downtown Baton Rouge.

(04/23/2024)

Katy and Vanessa

Fabiana and Nathan

Carlie and Vanessa

We are lucky to be near a National ACS site! The group was well represented at the spring National ACS in NOLA. Nathan, JP, and Vanessa presented a poster while Monojit and Dinushini gave talks.

Noémie received the ACS WCC Rising Star Award.

Congratulations to Katy who successfully defended her Undergraduate Honors Thesis today!

(03/25/2024)

Congratulations to Monojit who successfully defended his PhD dissertation today!

(03/07/2024)

Had a lot of fun as one of the Featured Scientists at the 2024 Kid's Day at the Museum.

(02/24/2024)

Julie

Natalie

Upeksha

Congratulations to Callie and Malithi: their most recent work on catalytic Cr(VI) reduction is now published in ACS Organic and Inorganic Au! The paper is open access and part of the 2023 Rising Stars Collection.

(11/06/2023)

Congratulations to Vanessa on winning the poster competition at the meeting of the Southwest Section of the American Water Works Association! There will be an article in the Winter issue of their journal, and Vanessa is invited to present her work at the national meeting of the American Water Works Association in 2024.

(10/16/2023)

Our paper "Electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI) in water: lessons learned from fundamental studies and applications" received a Highly Cited Certificate from the RSC. It recognized papers among the top 5% cited in 2022.

(09/27/2023)

Noémie Elgrishi was named a recipient of the WCC Rising Star award from the American Chemical Society. The award will be presented at a special symposium at the spring 2024 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. You can read more about it here.

(09/13/2023)

Welcome to Claire, the latest member of the group! Claire is a very motivated LSU freshman who will be working alongside JP.

(09/07/2023)

Welcome to high school student Aliye Kizilkaya who is joining our lab for the summer!

(06/27/2023)

Congratulations to Nathan! His paper on RFB electrolytes is published! We were surprised to see deleterious reactivity between NBu₄PF₆ and Fe-TPP in DMF.

The paper is part of “Early-Career and Emerging Researchers in Physical Chemistry Volume 2”

(06/01/2023)

Carlie Dutile, who is majoring in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, is joining the lab for a Summer Gulf Impact Project. through the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Scholars Program (GSP). Welcome to the group!

(05/24/2023)

It's commencement day! Congratulations to Ryan on his hard work. He defended his PhD in December and graduated at Spring commencement.

Ryan is interested in patent law and we wish him all the best in his new adventures!

(05/19/2023)

Congratulations to all chemistry graduates, but in particular to Amanda! She contributed to synthetic efforts to make new water denitrification catalysts. 

(05/19/2023)

There was a glorious 15 minutes at the department crawfish boil during which every lab member was present in between final exams! Here is the Spring 2023 Elgrishi Group!

Left to right: Malithi, Katy, Dinushini, JP, Monojit, Noémie, Nathan, Sophie, Vanessa, Fabiana, Amanda

(5/12/2023)

Welcome to Malithi! She joins the group as a first-year analytical graduate student. She will join our water purification projects.

(05/03/2023)

The College of Science awards one Graduate Teaching Award every year during the Choppin Honors Convocation. Read more about it here.

(05/02/2023)

Congratulations to Katy! She was awarded the Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate award from the Inorganic Faculty and sponsored by the Inorganic division of the ACS. The award recognizes her contribution to research in the group and was announced during the Choppin Honors Convocation.

(05/02/2023)

The group was well represented at the inaugural LSU graduate research conference. Nathan, Vanessa, and JP presented posters on their research.

(04/26/2023)

Congratulations to Fabiana! She won an individual presentation award for her excellent poster presentation during LSU Discover day.

(04/25/2023)

All 4 undergraduate students presented their research at LSU Discover Day! Katy gave a talk and Amanda, Sophie and Fabiana presented posters.

(04/21/2023)

We traveled to the Foreign Language Immersion School (FLAIM), a Baton Rouge public magnet school, to do demos on energy storage and electricity alongside demos on hydrophobicity with the lab of Revati Kumar.

(04/05/2023)

We traveled to East Ascension High School for lectures and demos covering sustainability, CO₂, and electrochemistry for students from Heidi Texada.

The students learned about sustainability, electrochemistry and what we do at LSU. All students were invited to participate in the LSU sustainability workshop organized on March 25 and supported by the NSF.

Nonscientific highlights included: first time Noémie sets foot in a US high school, it was Saint Patrick’s Day, it was the day before the high school prom, and the lecture was interrupted by a surprise active shooter lockdown drill.

(03/17/2023)

Undergraduate student Katy traveled to Wisconsin to present her research at the 2023 National Conference on Undergraduate Research!

(04/15/2023)

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) selected 10 Young Observers for the 2023 IUPAC Congress. You can read more about it here.

(02/01/2023)

Welcome to Amanda! She is an undergraduate chemistry major who will work alongside Vanessa on water denitrification.

(01/17/2023)

Excited to start my term on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Coordination Chemistry!

(01/01/2023)

Our lab was awarded an Emerging Research Grant from the LSU Provost's Fund: Faculty Research Grants Program! Great news to finish the year!

(12/22/2022)

We have our first Postdoctoral Scholar in the group: welcome to the lab Dinushini! Her synthesis expertise will help advance our project on the impact of confinement on electron transfer properties.

(12/20/2022)

JP and Monojit represented the lab at the 2022 North American Supramolecular Chemistry meeting. This inaugural meeting was held at Tulane and Loyola University in New Orleans and we hope it will continue in future years!

(12/20/2022)

Congratulations to Devin who graduated with a BSc degree in Chemistry and a minor in French. She graduates with College Honors after completing an honor thesis in the lab, and she also received a medal as the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Award.

(12/16/2022)

Ryan successfully defended his dissertation today! He is set graduate in Spring 2023. Congratulations Ryan!

(12/09/2022)

Congratulations to JP who passed his General Exam! He is now a PhD candidate!

(12/06/2022)

Devin received the 2022 Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry from LSU! Every year the department recognized an outstanding undergraduate analytical chemist in the department. The Award is sponsored by the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry and the journal Analytical Chemistry.

Congratulations Devin!

(11/25/2022)

Congratulations to Devin! She successfully defended her honors thesis and is set to graduate this Fall! She was working on water purification, specifically looking at the effects of the choice of buffer on the electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI).

(11/14/22)

Callie and Devin's paper on the Impact of the choice of buffer on the electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI) in water on carbon electrodes is now published in RSC Advances!

(11/14/22)

Ryan's recent paper is now in print! It is part of the special issue "Emerging Leaders of Coordination Chemistry" of the Journal of Coordination Chemistry.

(10/26/22)

Congratulations to Sophie who is one of 25 students selected nationwide to attend the Graduate School Readiness & Professional Development Boot Camp sponsored by the ACS Bridge Project (ACS-BP), the Genentech Foundation, and the ACS Leadership Institute (ACS-LI).

(10/25/22)

We were finally able to take a new group picture!
Back row: Monojit, Nathan, Ryan, JP.
Front row: Katy, Devin, Sophie, Noémie, Fabiana, Vanessa.

(10/21/22)

The Inorganic Faculty voted to award Sophie the 2022 Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry! Every year the department recognized an outstanding undergraduate inorganic chemist in the department.

The Award is sponsored by the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry.

Congratulations Sophie!

(9/1/2022)

Amazing news! Our MRI proposal MRI: Acquisition of A Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer—Synthesize, Crystallize, Virtualize was funded! 

(8/16/2022)

Congratulations to Dr. Callie M. Stern, the first PhD graduate of the group! Callie's work was on Cr(VI) reduction for water purification. She now works in the Environmental Laboratory at the US Army Research and Development Center.

(08/12/2022)

Ryan's paper "On the synthesis and characterization of two different titanium-based supramolecular structures of identical stoichiometry" is published online in the  Journal of Coordination Chemistry. Congratulations!

(08/10/2022)

Katy and Vanessa

Congratulations to Katy on being selected for the LSU Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program! Katy will have the opportunity to continue her research in our lab starting this summer.

(4/21/2022)

Fabiana is a sophomore chemical engineer. She will join our efforts on CO₂ electrolyzers. Welcome to the group Fabiana! 

(4/6/2022)

A symposium was organized in honor of Dr. Warner to celebrate his career and mark his retirement. Callie volunteered to present a poster to represent our group. First in-person presentation in a while!

(1/14/2022)

Congratulations to Nathan who also successfully passed his General exam, one day after Vanessa! He is the 5^th PhD candidate form our lab.

(11/17/2021)

Congratulations to Vanessa who successfully passed her General exam. She is now a PhD candidate!

(11/16/2021)

Ryan and Monojit traveled to Austin, TX to present their work at the Fall 2021 SWRM conference. Next year the conference is in Baton Rouge!

(11/3/2021)

Our lab received funding to work on CO₂ electrolyzers as part of a large collaborative grant with the department of Chemical Engineering at LSU and with the University of Delaware. Read more about the team and the project in this feature from the department of Chemical Engineering.

(9/28/2021)

Congratulations are in order for Callie who just heard she won the Inorganic award for her presentation at the Fall 2021 NOBCChE Conference!

(10/12/2021)

Strong showing from the Elgrishi group at the Fall 2021 NOBCChE conference. Vanessa, Callie and Ryan all gave talks!

(9/18/2021)

After a Covid-induced hiatus, we are thrilled to welcome new undergraduate students in the lab. Sophie (left) is working on removing PFAS from water with Monojit, Devin (center) is working on Cr(VI) reduction with Callie, and Katy (right) is working on nitrite reduction with Vanessa.

(8/27/2021)

Conferences are starting back up!. Ryan gave his first talk on his PhD work at the 2021 Fall ACS conference.

(8/26/2021)

Temitope Graduated in Summer 2021 with a Thesis Master's in Chemistry for his work on Cr(VI) reduction in non-aqueous solvents.

(8/13/2021)

Nathan's outstanding work as a GenChem lab TA was recognized with a 2021 departmental TA award! Vanessa, who won the award last year, received an honorable mention this year.
Congratulations!

(5/7/2021)

The Notice of Award was received today so it's official! We are thankful for the $685,000 Career Award from the NSF for our project "Confined Nano-Environments for the Stabilization of Molecular Electrocatalysts".

(04/08/2021)

Thank you to the students from Wayne State University for putting together a great Symposium and panel discussion at the spring 2021 ACS.

(04/07/2021)

Congratulations to Callie who won a national travel award from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society for Spring 2021! She will be presenting her work at the upcoming National Spring ACS in April.

(03/12/2021)

ChemSocRev from the Royal Society of Chemistry is featuring our review on Cr(VI) electroreduction as part of the Emerging Investigators issue 2020.

(02/24/2021)

JP is joining us from Auburn where he did undergraduate research with Dr. Anne E. V. Gorden.  Welcome JP!

(01/04/2021)

We made it to end of 2020. The lab was shut down for a while and is now operating at reduced capacity. But  We miss a lot of things like working in groups and conferences, but everyone pushed through and made the best of a bad situation. Let's hope for a better 2021.

(12/31/2020)

Congratulations to Salim on defending his undergraduate Honors Thesis and graduating!

Thesis Committee: Dr. Elgrishi, Dr. Kartika, Dr. Vinyard

(12/18/2020)

Callie, Temitope and Vanessa's review paper "Electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI) in water: lessons learned from fundamental studies and applications" is published online in ChemSocRev. Congratulations!

(12/16/2020)

Our lab has a new PhD candidate! Congratulations Monojit.

(10/30/2020)

Environmental Science Journals from the Royal Society of Chemistry is featuring our work on Cr(VI) reduction recently published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. You can find out more about it on their blog.

(5/12/2020)

Vanessa's efforts as a TA for GenChem labs this year were recognized by a departmental TA award. We look forward to celebrating in due time in the Fall, congratulations!

(5/8/2020)

Congratulations Jonathan on your Second Place at the  2020 AIChE Southern Regional Conference Student Technical Presentation Contest.

(4/30/2020)

Well done Salim! It is not easy to present a poster virtually!

(4/28/2020)

Great choice Darius! All the best in graduate school and beyond!

(4/20/2020)

Congratulations to Jonathan who defended his Honors Thesis today on Zoom in from of his committee and friends and family.

Thesis Committee: Dr. Elgrishi, Dr. Arges, Dr. Flake

(4/17/2020)

Callie, Darius and Lebo's paper "Carbon Electrodes are Effective for the Detection and Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium in Water" is accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. Congratulations!

(3/23/2020)

Congratulations to Callie for all her hard work. She is now a PhD candidate!

(3/9/2020)

Congratulations to Salim who was accepted into the extremely competitive St. Jude Pediatric Oncology Education Program funded by the National Institute of Health and National Cancer Institute.

(3/1/2020)

We led the Chemistry table at the Girls Day at the Museum event organized by the College of Science. It is our third time participating, and this year our demos were focused on energy storage.

Check out this College of Science post on the 2019 event, and this Advocate article on the 2020 event.

Thank you Callie and Vanessa for your help, as well as Fatemeh and Ruchika from the Maverick Lab! (2/29/2020)

Our group set up a demo table on Energy Storage for the girls Do Chemistry event for local Girl Scout troops. The event was organized by the chlorine chapter of ΙΣΠ, the honor society for women in chemistry.

Thank you Vanessa and Callie for your help!

(1/25/2020)

Welcome to Nathan and Vanessa! We had a group party to celebrate and mark the start of the spring semester. 

(1/13/2020)

Congratulations to Darius who graduates with a major in chemistry and a minor in Spanish. 

(12/20/2019)

Callie transformed our student office door into a wonderful gingerbread house and won the door decorating contest for the department's holiday party. 

(12/9/2019)

Ryan successfully passed his general exam and is now a PhD candidate!

(11/22/2019)

Monojit and Ryan's paper "Fighting Deactivation: Classical and Emerging Strategies for Efficient Stabilization of Molecular Electrocatalysts" is accepted for publication in Chemistry a European Journal. Congratulations!

(11/11/2019)

Our lab developed a new Energy Storage table of demos with the Kuroda lab for Super Science Saturday. The event is organized by the local ACS section and the Department of Chemistry and close to a thousand people visit every year.

(11/2/2019)

Darius was selected to presented a poster at the Dean's Circle Event to represent the lab and research in the Chemistry department.

(10/25/2019)

Callie won a travel award to present her research at the South Eastern Regional ACS meeting in Savannah, GA.

(10/23/2019)

We went to Crestworth Elementary in the north of Baton Rouge to perform energy demos for STEAM night. The event had about a dozen booths for various Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math hands-on demonstrations.

(9/26/2019)

The Analytical Faculty voted and awarded Darius the 2019 Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry! Every year the department recognized an outstanding undergraduate analytical chemist in the department. Darius in being recognized for his contributions to research in the Elgrishi group.

The Award is sponsored by the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry and the journal Analytical Chemistry, and is in its 52nd year.

Congratulations Darius!

(8/5/2019)

We are thrilled to have Lebo, Darius and Jonathan back in lab for the summer! Lebo (left) and Darius (center) will work with Callie on the water purification project. Jonathan (right) will synthesize and characterize new manganese catalysts.

(7/5/2019)

The Elgrishi Group was awarded a Research Competitiveness Subprogram award from the Louisiana Board of Regents! This 3-year award will allow our group to study new methods to remove hexavalent chromium from water. We will develop electrochemical methods and develop catalysts for an energy efficient reduction of Cr(VI) for water purification.

Thank you to the Louisiana Board of Regents!

(6/1/2019)

Congratulations to Autumn Webb who won one of the 2019 departmental TA awards! Autumn successfully defended her Coursework Master’s Degree and graduated from LSU at the Spring 2019 commencement ceremony. She will join The University of Southern Mississippi as GenChem lab coordinator. Best of luck for the future Autumn!

(5/15/2019)

April 9th was the 6th annual LSU Discover Day! Undergraduate students from all across LSU participated in the event. Lebo and Jonathan did a fantastic job presenting posters on their work in the Elgrishi Group! A big thanks to their Mentors Callie and Ryan!

(4/10/2019)

Callie’s NSF GRFP application was recognized with an honorable mention! Way to go!

(4/10/2019)

New overdue group picture this spring in front of the blooming Azaleas bushes! Monojit and Temitope joined the lab this semester and are finishing their CUMES and classes as they start working in the lab.

In the picture:
Back row, left to right: Lebo, Ryan, Autumn, Temitope, Monojit
Front row, left to right: Callie, Noémie, Jonathan, Salim
Not pictured: Darius who was hard at work.

(3/25/2019)

Darius presented a poster on his research at the 10th annual LSU Undergraduate Research Conference. The theme this year was “Inspiring Curiosity: Celebrating 10 years of Excite, Explore, Experiment.”

This is the first research poster presentation out of the Elgrishi Group! Well done Darius! And many thanks to Callie for mentoring him through the process. (10/26/2018)

Autumn was selected as an ACS Science Coach. She will work closely with Elizabeth Kimball from Plaquemine High School, in Plaquemine, Louisiana to help develop their science program. Autumn first went to Plaquemine High School in Fall 2017 to perform ChemDemos. (9/20/2018)

All our new LSU Chemistry Nomex lab coats have arrived! Callie, Autumn and Ryan are celebrating during their electrochemistry training. (6/28/2018)

The Elgrishi Group at the 2018 Crawfish boil organized by the Chemistry Graduate Student Council. Congratulations to Callie and Ryan, they have been elected to the CGSC board as secretary and committee chair!

(5/9/2018)

Congratulations are in order for Ryan who passed all 6 of his Cumulative Examinations in record time! This completes the first part of his Degree Candidacy Exam and Ryan is now an Applicant for the Ph.D. degree! Congratulations Ryan!

(3/16/2018)

Noémie was invited to present the research of the Elgrishi Group by the LSU student chapter of the Electrochemical Society in the Chemical Engineering department.

(3/9/2018)

Salim tested our new UV-vis spectrophotometer!

(3/7/2018)

Our lab’s first cyclic voltammetry electrochemistry experiment, setup by Darius! Darius is using one of our Bio-Logic potentiostats and N₂ lines to take CVs in the absence of O₂.

(2/15/2018)

New paper is finally out, and in open access! Check out this Practical Beginner’s Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry: J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (2), pp 197–206.

(2/13/2018)

Ryan’s first reaction involved a Dean-Stark setup to remove water formed during the reaction. And in the back a Soxhlet extractor setup to purify the product. Way to go!

(2/7/2018)

Welcome to the group Callie and Ryan!

(1/8/2018)

We are ever so close to running our first reaction! A lot of unboxing and organizing and we should be ready to roll!

(9/4/2017)

Autumn Webb joins us as a second year student and is ready to help the lab get started! Welcome Autumn!

(8/31/2017)