James Blakemore ’07, a WSU chemistry graduate who’s now a grad student in electrochemistry at Yale University, has served as catalyst for joint research between the chemistry departments at Yale and Wichita State.
Blakemore and Francis D’Souza, WSU chemistry professor, as well as four other authors, submitted their “Distinguishing Homogeneous from Heterogeneous Catalysis in Electrode-Driven Water Oxidation with Molecular Iridium Complexes” to the Journal of the American Chemical Society earlier this year. JACS published their research June 15.
A member of Yale’s Green Energy Consortium, Blakemore and other group members are working to develop environmentally-sound processes that can help in the sustainable production of chemical fuels. More specifically, he works as a member of a group that uses electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in its research.
At Wichita State, D’Souza specializes in analytical and supramolecular chemistry. He is associate editor of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines and the chairman of the Electro-chemical Society’s Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures Division. He also serves on a number of editorial advisory boards.
About the newly published research article, Blakemore simply describes it as exciting, adding, “We’ll start writing a second one soon, I think.”
