Helms Research Group
@GroupHelms
We solve problems in energy and sustainability with better materials.
We are excited to share our most recent publication in @ScienceMagazine in collaboration with the Pinnau group at KAUST: “Microporous polyimine membranes for efficient separation of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
We're hiring a postdoc to join our @BerkeleyLab @molecularfndry plastics recycling team. Scope will include developing new reactions for selective functionalization of polyolefins, assessing properties and recyclability. phxc1b.rfer.us/LBLHM2EPD
With ~180K materials and millions of calculated properties, the Materials Project enables inverse design, synthesis screening, and discovery. Examples include phosphors, thermoelectrics, electrides, and battery electrolytes. Horton et al, Nature Materials doi.org/10.1038/s41563…
Saddened to hear of the passing of luminary scientist, Gabor Somorjai. With Gabor, @BerkeleyLab has led the way in understanding materials through their surfaces, be that structure, dynamics, sorption, and transformations relevant to energy applications. He will be missed.
Just out in @ACSEnergyLett! We demosntrate electrochemical Li+ enrichment in mixed-cation brines with antiselective cation-exchange PIM membranes. Collab with Mike Baird, Ryan Kingsbury, Gan Chen, Mike Whittaker @molecularfndry @advlightsource @Princeton pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…
The call will close soon! 4 PhD Positions in Nanoscience at IIT-UniGe Italy!
4 PhD Positions in Nanosciences!!! Please retweet!!! academicpositions.de/ad/istituto-it…
MLIP evaluation: Matbench Discovery focuses on predicting stability; universal interatomic potentials (UIPs) are top performers w/ ~5X improvement in discovery efficiency. Regression accuracy not the same as discovery! @jrib_ et al., Nat. Mach. Intell. doi.org/10.1038/s42256…
Electrochemical PVC borylation is now online! Great job materials team! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
🎉 Congrats to Cyclotron Road on 10 years of hard-tech innovation! As @ENERGY's longest-running Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP), CR has shown what's possible when we unite science entrepreneurs with the resources of our national labs. 🙌🏽 vimeo.com/1085173853
You're looking at the future of #electrochemistry, the class of #NGenE2025. We conclude an intense week of discussions, networking and gelling of ideas. They're ready to reach and conquer the frontiers. We can't wait to see what they do next!
Thanks @steingart @GroupHelms #UNIGRID and Toyota Research for the wonderful panel discussion on the future of Na and Zn #Electrochemistry!
Backbone editing and deconstruction of polyethylene by Beckmann rearrangement and hydrogenolysis pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…
The Open Molecules 2025 dataset is out! With >100M gold-standard ωB97M-V/def2-TZVPD calcs of biomolecules, electrolytes, metal complexes, and small molecules, OMol is by far the largest, most diverse, and highest quality molecular DFT dataset for training MLIPs ever made 1/N
Excited to have Linda Nazar on campus @UCBerkeley College of Chemistry for @BASF lecture.
They’re burning 1000 lbs of fuel to get our flight off the ground, because we’re overweight. @united being unfriendly to skies #ghg
Blending polyolefins has never been as fun as this. Our latest collab with @LeibfarthGroup @ElizaNeidhart @Frank_Leibfarth Stephanie Ribet, Colin Ophus, Mutian Hua, as well as the Atkin and Alexanian groups at UNC.
Check out our newest preprint featuring polyolefin blend compatibilization with an interdisciplinary group of collaborators — the Helms and Ophus groups at LBNL and the Atkin and Alexanian groups at UNC. @ElizaNeidhart @GroupHelms @AlexanianLab chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…
Happy #NationalBatteryDay 😁! Wonderful time at #NattBatt conference in Orlando - seeing the real numbers of global EV sales. Retweet if you are celebrating 🎉 the battery day like us !!!