{"id":1090,"date":"2022-02-07T19:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2024-01-17T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:36:02","slug":"mse-dissertation-work-recognized-through-acs-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/mse-dissertation-work-recognized-through-acs-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"MSE Dissertation Work Recognized through ACS Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1091 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ACSCover_garcianegron_acssustainablechemeng_2022_cover-768x1022-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ACSCover_garcianegron_acssustainablechemeng_2022_cover-768x1022-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/ACSCover_garcianegron_acssustainablechemeng_2022_cover-768x1022-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>An interdisciplinary team literally spanning the University of Tennessee, from the Materials Science &amp; Engineering department in Ferris Hall on the East side of the Knoxville campus to the Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC) in the UT Institute of Agriculture on the west side of campus, have recently published a paper describing the structural evolution of lignin, an abundant renewable feedstock, as it is processed into nanocrystalline graphite, suitable for high-performance battery anodes.\u00a0 Their work is depicted on the cover (shown above) in which the crown of the tree is represented by an atomic model of the carbon-carbon composite with nanographitic crystalline and amorphous domains. At the base of the tree in the grass are molecular representations of lignin structures.<\/p>\n<p>This work was performed as part of the PhD dissertation of Dr. Valerie Garc\u00eda-Negr\u00f3n (class of 2020), co-advised by Prof. David Harper (CRC) and Prof. David Keffer (MSE) and is a collaboration with Prof. Steve Chmely at Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Jan Ilavsky of Argonne National Laboratory.\u00a0 Not only does\u00a0<span data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">Dr. Valerie\u00a0Garc\u00eda-Negr\u00f3n\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0research span institutions, but it also unites research methods, joining experimental synthesis and characterization with computational modeling.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested, the link to the full article is here:<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda-Negr\u00f3n, V., Chmely, S., Ilavsky, J., Keffer, D.J., Harper, D.P., \u201cDevelopment of Nano-crystalline Graphite from Lignin Sources\u201d,\u00a0<i data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.<\/i> <b data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">10<\/b> (5) 2022 pp. 1786-1794,\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssuschemeng.1c05969. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1021%2Facssuschemeng.1c05969&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cedubendo%40utk.edu%7Cda55ae8407d44d09e02c08d9ea364903%7C515813d9717d45dd9eca9aa19c09d6f9%7C0%7C0%7C637798341168398441%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=cAEj%2F66F9H2FhqUsfQOQJe5fWc7rNxI%2BTlkIOyu968k%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"rgb(255, 255, 255)\">doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acssuschemeng.1c05969<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary team literally spanning the University of Tennessee, from the Materials Science &amp; Engineering department in Ferris Hall on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,384,4,12],"tags":[382,378,17,385],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases","category-research","category-students","tag-alumni","tag-faculty","tag-research","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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