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Miguel was featured in the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Blog of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Check out the blog post.
March 3, 2023

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Miguel and Ricardo were featured in an article about their collaboration with Air Company​.
March 2, 2023

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Miguel was cited in a PolitiFact article. Check it out.
February 8, 2023

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Check out this article on our newly published Nature paper, a collaboration led by our colleagues in NYU Tandon Chemical Engineering.
June 4th, 2021

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Congratulations to Dr. Adlai Katzenberg for successfully defending his Ph.D.! He will be continuing his research career at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. 
December 19, 2020

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Our work on redox-mediated energy storage and hydrogen production devices was previewed in Joule.
December 19, 2020

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Check out this highlight on our multi-institutional collaboration around "Decarbonizing Chemical Manufacturing Using Sustainable Electrification", or DC-MUSE. 
December 19, 2020

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Alumni News: Congratulations to Daniela for being awarded a spot in the MIT Tech Review Innovators Under 35: Latin America! Congratulations to Daniela and Myriam, and their company Sunthetics, for being selected as members of the Forbes 30 Under 30! 
December 19, 2020

Miguel will be presenting at MIT Technology Review's EmTech 2020 Virtual Conference this week. Above is a short explainer video of his talk.
October 19, 2020

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Daniel will be presenting a poster this week at the 2nd Annual AIChE Battery & Energy Storage Conference.
October 19, 2020

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Congratulations to Miguel for being selected as an Innovator under 35 by the MIT Technology Review!
June 18, 2020

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Congratulations to Rhea for being awarded both the Sidney Savitt Award for having the highest GPA in the ChemE graduating class and the Edward A. McNelis Thesis Prize in Chemistry for her thesis work on nitrobenzene electroreduction!
May 20, 2020

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Congratulations to Daniela for being awarded both the Turner Alfrey Prize for her papers on electrosynthesis and the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her innovative work as a graduate student!
May 20, 2020

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Congratulations to Xinshu for successfully defending her Master's thesis in April! 
April 17, 2020

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Congratulations to Daniel for receiving a DOE Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program award, which will be participated in at NREL. A NYU Tandon news article about the award can be viewed here.
April 17, 2020

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Congratulations to Adlai for receiving a Zuckerman Fellowship, which will be supporting his post-doc work!
April 17, 2020

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Congratulations to Toshi and Kaylee for being granted NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GFRP) awards! Amazing achievement!
April 17, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Daniela Blanco for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis in March!   
April 17, 2020

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Adlai's recent publication on highly permeable perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomers was featured by the U.S. Department of Energy on its University and Stakeholder News page.
February 27, 2020

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The University of Twente wrote an article about our recent review article on the effect of bubbles on electrochemical reactors.
February 5, 2020

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Check out this article from NYU Tandon about Adlai's recent publication on highly permeable perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomers. 
January 30, 2020

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Check out this article from MIT Technology Review profiling Daniela and her entrepreneurial journey.
January 22, 2020

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Congratulations to Miguel for winning the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and check out this article about the award. 
January 13, 2020

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Congrats to Adlai and his team for publishing their paper on photocatalytic hydrogels in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering.
December 20, 2019

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The Modestino Group was featured by Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) for their "Year in Chemistry 2019".
December 15, 2019

Miguel spoke at the Advances, Challenges, and Long-Term Opportunities of Electrochemistry: Addressing Societal Needs Workshop at the National Academy of Sciences. 
December 15, 2019

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Daniela, representing Sunthetics, won the Challenging Minds Start-up Competition at the Minds&Tech Conference in Toulouse.
December 15, 2019

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Check out this article from Chemical and Engineering News about Daniela, Bryan, and Dr. Modestino's work on using AI to improve electrochemical reactions. 
September 6, 2019

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Check out these articles from -- ScienceDaily, Fortune, Futurity, and India Times -- about our new publication by Daniela Blanco, Bryan Lee, and Dr. Modestino.
August 26, 2019

Daniela had the opportunity to give a talk at the United Nations for the International Entrepreneurship Summit for the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
July 11, 2019

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Check out this article in the Wall Street Journal in which Miguel discusses the impact of LEGO's initiative to switch to production processes that use only plant-based raw materials.
June 21, 2019

Congratulations to all of our graduates this year! Nicole graduated with her Master's and Aaliyah, Tana, and Bryan graduated with their Bachelor's. Good luck on your next challenge!
June 5, 2019

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Congratulations to Aaliyah for winning the Sidney A. Savitt Award which is given to the undergraduate senior who has the highest GPA in Chemical Engineering.
June 5, 2019

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Congratulations to React Power for making it to the finals of the NYU $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge and winning Best Pitch in the Technology Venture Competition.
May 13, 2019

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Congratulations to Nicole and Adlai for winning 1st prize at the NYU Tandon Research Expo for their hydrogel-photocatalyst reactor for the cleaning of wastewater.
May 6, 2019

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Rhea had received a scholarship from Societe de Chimie Industrielle last summer and recently presented her research at their luncheon.
April 30, 2019

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Congratulations to Sunthetics for being awarded funding from PowerBridge NY!
April 30, 2019


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Check out Kern's Process Heat Transfer (2nd Edition) which was co-authored by Toshi. Congrats on the publication!
April 18, 2019


Congratulations to Daniela for winning the title of the 2019 EO GSEA Global Champion!
April 12, 2019

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Congratulations to Daniela for being selected as one of seven finalists for the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA)!
April 11, 2019


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Congratulations to Nicole for accepting a position to work as an Engineer at Johnson & Johnson!
April 9, 2019


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Congratulations to Thomas, Daniel, Rhea, and Brian for reaching the $300K Entrepreneur's Challenge Technology Venture track finals with their startup, React Power!
April 6, 2019


Watch Daniela's presentation in front of NYU's best at the Tandon Tomorrow event.
April 4, 2019


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Congratulations to Nicole for winning 1st place in the Advanced Round of the Scientista Symposium Pitch Competition!
April 1, 2019


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Adlai presenting at the Gordon Research Conference on Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology.
Feb. 26, 2019

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Our work on organic electrosynthesis for chemical manufacturing has been featured by NYU Tandon!
Feb. 20, 2019

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Our article on electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies got highlighted in the 2018 HOT articles collection on Energy and Environmental Science! 
Feb. 7, 2019  

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Congratulations to Nicole for defending her Master's thesis last month to receive her degree in Biomedical Engineering in the Biomaterials track. 
Jan. 24, 2019  

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Congratulations to Daniela for winning the Global Student Entrepreneur Award - US Region in Denver last week! 
Jan. 22, 2019  

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Our paper on Enhancing Selectivity and Efficiency in the Electrochemical Synthesis of Adiponitrile is being featured on the cover of Reaction Chemistry & Engineering

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Congratulations to Daniela and Myriam, co-founders of Sunthetics, who took home the top prize in the Greentech category at the University Startup WorldCup in Denmark! 

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Our paper on Solar-Hydrogen Pathways is being featured on the cover of Energy and Environmental Science

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​Check out this awesome profile on Daniela regarding her entrepreneurial success with Sunthetics

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​Congratulations to Sunthetics for winning a  $20,000 grant through the VentureWell E-team Grant Program!

​Watch this great video profiling Myriam and her fantastic NYU career

​Congratulations to all of our lab members who graduated this week! Alex, Nicole, and Myriam, who was the valedictorian, earned their B.S. and George, Adlai, Daniela, and Cesar received their M.S. degrees.

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​NYU Tandon wrote a piece recognizing Adlai for being selected for the DOE fellowship at Berkeley National Lab

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Congratulations to Sunthetics for winning the Innovention competition and the $300K Challenge! 

Aaliyah and Nicole recently presented their research at the Scientista Symposium. Keep up the good work!

Our article on inertial manipulation of bubbles in microfluidics was featured on the cover of Lab on a Chip

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Congratulations to Adlai for receiving a fellowship through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research program for his work on novel catalyst binder materials

Daniela and Myriam are now finalists for the Innovention Competition. Great job!

Congratulations to Myriam, who won the ACS Chemical Technology Student Award (2018) for her work on Sunthetics! 

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Congratulations! Daniela and Myriam are semi-finalists for the $300K Entrepreneurs Challenge and Innovention Competition for their startup, Sunthetics

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Miguel named among Top Latin American Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review

We are named among Latin American engineers that contribute to the NYU Tandon community.

Miguel featured among top scientist in Venezuela by "Diario 2001" newspaper.

Our group wins the 2016 Global Change Award for SolarTextiles. Read more from the media coverage at Tandon Newsroom, Washington Square News, NYU Alumni Newsletter, EPFL STI News, Brooklyn Eagle, Forbes or Vogue.
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Read our new perspective article on Microfluidic energy conversion devices, just published in Energy and Environmental Science

Our work on high efficiency solar-hydrogen generators featured by EPFL, NZZ, Arcinfo, ECS, EurekaNews, Opli, RTS . 14.2% Solar to Hydrogen efficiency with earth-abundant components! 

Miguel wins the 2015 Energy and Environmental Science Readers's Choice Lectureship award

Our analysis on Solar-Hydrogen Generators within the most read articles at E&ES

Our new Solar-Fuels paper feature as weekly HOT article at E&ES

Our Microfluidic test-bed paper named among the top-ten scoring PCCP papers according to Altmetrics

Our artificial photosynthesis work in NPR

Microfluidic test-bed device featured by LBNL press
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