Welcome to the Kenis Group!

Reactor and reaction engineering for electrochemical manufacturing and nanomaterial discovery

Group News

Check out what our group members have been up to!

  • December 2025
    Katharine concludes her Post-Bacc with us and starts working at Kansas City National Security Campus! Congrats Katharine!
  • December 2025
    The group goes out for a celebratory dinner to mark the end of the semester! Thanks for a great semester everyone!
  • December 2025
    The group wins the ChBE Food Drive Competition. Thanks to everyone who donated!
  • November 2025
    Gènesis joins the group! She will be working on microdroplet chemistry with Vijay. Welcome Gènesis!
  • November 2025
    Alexander joins the group! He will be working on microdroplet chemistry with Vijay. Welcome Alexander!
  • October 2025
    Natalie joins the group! She will be working on autonomous synthesis and microdroplet chemistries. Welcome Natalie!
  • October 2025
    Nistha joins the group! She will be working on CO2 Electrosynthesis. Welcome Nistha!

 

Latest Work

What have we been publishing? See our most recent papers below, or check out our publications for more!

 

Alkaline ammonia electrolysis in a membrane electrode assembly cell: parameter optimization and dynamic operation.

H. Long, C.Y. Sit, P.J.A. Kenis, et al. EES Catal., 2025.

 

General approach for automated purification of quantum dots using size-exclusion chromatography.

R.H.J. Xu, P.J.A. Kenis, et al. React. Chem. Eng., 2025.

 

Electrolysis for Valorization of Industrailly-Sourced Crude Glycerol

R.N. Gaines, A.M. Bradley, V.M. Shah, P.J.A. Kenis, et al. ACS Sustainable Chem Eng., 2025.

 

Inhibition of Nitrogen Poisoning on Pt during Ammonia Oxidation through Early Transition Metal Oxide Supports

H. Long, P.J.A. Kenis, et al. ACS Catalysis., 2025.

Want to know more?

Information on open positions (graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral) can be found on our research page.

A full list of the group's publications can be found on our publications page.

Our lab's resources (instrumentation, code, etc.) can be found on the resources page.

To learn about who we are as a lab, please refer to the fun page.

For inquiries not covered by the information on the website, please email us!