Group News
10/31/2023: Gabe is now also Dr. Phun. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being collaborative, a buffer, and foundational, Gabe!
10/24/2023: Justin is now also Dr. Chen. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being a scholar, gracious, and a deputy (director), Justin!
7/5/2023: Gabe and Rohit's publication titled "Detailed-balance limits for sunlight-to-protonic energy conversion from aqueous photoacids and photobases based on reversible mass-action kinetics" is accepted for publication in the Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Gabe and Rohit!
6/1/2023: Cassidy is now also Dr. Feltenberger. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being cool-calm-collected, agile, and having foresight, Cassidy!
5/19/2023: Dennis successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Dennis!
4/14/2023: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Segev Group at Tel Aviv University titled "Ratchet-Based Ion Pumps for Selective Ion Separations" is accepted for publication in PRX Energy. Congratulations, Alon!
4/13/2023: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Talin Group at Sandia National Laboratories titled "Single-Particle Measurements Reveal the Origin of Low Solar-to-Hydrogen Efficiency of Rh-Doped SrTiO3 Photocatalysts" is accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations, Brian, Justin, Bill, and the rest of the team!
3/16/2023: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Ogitsu Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory titled "Mechanistic Insights on Permeation of Water over Iron Cations in Nanoporous Silicon Oxide Films for Selective H2 and O2 Evolution" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations, Fikret, Justin, and the rest of the team!
2/2/2023: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Atwater Group at Caltech titled "Direct observation of the local microenvironment in inhomogeneous CO2 reduction gas diffusion electrodes via versatile pOH imaging" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Annette, Rohit, Cassidy, and the rest of the team!
1/24/2023: Nate Gomez, Nate Keyes, Brad Layne, Eric Liu, and Adam Sabatose join Team Ardo. Welcome, Nate2, Brad, Eric, and Adam!
11/17/2022: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Esposito Group at Columbia University titled "Quantifying the Influence of Defects on Selectivity of Electrodes Encapsulated by Nanoscopic Silicon Oxide Overlayers" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations, Will and Kelly!
9/19/2022: Munho Yang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Munho!
8/25/2022: The Ardo Group and 16 collaborators from the state of California at UC Irvine (Ge Group, Pan Group, Patterson Group, Yang Group), California Institute of Technology (Cushing Group), California State University Long Beach (Shon Group), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Ogitsu Group), and Sandia National Laboratories (Talin Group); from the state of Colorado at Colorado State University (Sambur Group), Fort Lewis College (Miller Group), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Hurst Group), and the University of Colorado Boulder (Dukovic Group); and from the U.S. Northeast at the City University of New York - Medgar Evers College (Salako Group), Columbia University (Esposito Group), the University of Michigan (Bala Chandran Group), and Yale University (Hu Group) as part of Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN), with Shane as the Director, are awarded one of two UCI-led Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Go Team!
8/2/2022: Rohit's publication titled "Quantification of Excited-State Brønsted–Lowry Acidity of Weak Photoacids Using Steady-State Photoluminescence Spectroscopy and a Driving-Force-Dependent Kinetic Theory" is accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Rohit, Cassidy, Gabe, and Grant!
7/27/2022: The Ardo Group and collaborators from the University of Oregon, MIT, Stanford, Prairie View A&M University, Cal State LA, and UMass Boston as part of the Center for Interfacial Ionics (CI2), with Shannon Boettcher (University of Oregon) as the Director, are awarded one of three Phase I Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Go Team!
6/22/2022: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with Gideon Segev at Tel Aviv University, Roel van de Krol at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, and Frances Houle at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory titled "The 2022 solar fuels roadmap" is accepted for publication in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. Congratulations, Gideon (TAU), Roel (HZB), Frances (LBNL), and the rest of the team!
6/20/2022: Holly Shafer from Mount San Antonio College joins Team Ardo for the summer through the NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program. Welcome, Holly!
6/13/2022: Kaylyn Stewart from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County joins Team Ardo for the summer through the NSF REU Chem-SURF Program. Welcome, Kaylyn!
6/13/2022: Camila Muñetón from the University of Massachusetts Boston joins Team Ardo for the summer through the Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Program. Welcome, Camila!
5/23/2022: Jen's publication titled "Identification of Photoacidic Behavior Using AC and Open-Circuit Photoelectrochemical Techniques" is accepted for publication in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. Congratulations, Jen, Simon, and Tim!
5/12/2022: Shirley Chang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Shirley!
5/5/2022: Rohit is now also Dr. Bhide. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being curious, appreciative, and a (principal) investigator, Roiht!
5/2/2022: Gabe is awarded a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award to perform 10 months of research under Dr. Sergei Tretiak at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, NM. Congratulations, Gabe!
4/26/2022: Ethan successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations, Ethan!
4/22/2022: Captura Corporation, the company spun-out from efforts on our collaborative project with Harry Atwater (Caltech) and CX Xiang (Caltech) and funded by U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) received a Milestone award in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. Congratulations, Captura!
4/19/2022: Enrique Surio from California State University, Los Angeles is awarded an inaugural Cottrell Postbac Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement to continue to perform research in the Ardo Group all next year. Congratulations, Enrique!
4/11/2022: Captura Corporation, the company spun-out from efforts on our collaborative project with Harry Atwater (Caltech) and CX Xiang (Caltech) and funded by U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) named its founding CEO, Steve Oldham. Congratulations, Captura!
2/26/2022: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with Hannes Hempel at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin titled "Predicting Solar Cell Performance from Terahertz and Microwave Spectroscopy" is accepted for publication in Advanced Energy Materials. Congratulations, Hannes (HZB), Simon, Joseph, and the rest of the team!
2/17/2022: Shane hosts Tom Kempa who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic/Physical Seminar Series to talk about lower-dimensional materials with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Tom!
2/4/2022: Dennis Tang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Dennis!
12/21/2021: Leanna is awarded a UPenn Vagelos Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Leanna!
12/4/2021: Ana successfully passes her second-year research report. Congratulations, Ana!
11/24/2021: Leanna is now also Dr. Schulte. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being focussed, approachable, and the sky's the limit, Leanna!
11/18/2021: Shane presents a UCI Solutions that Scale virtual Seminar on the group's efforts in solar H2 production and ocean deacidification. Congratulations, Shane!
11/17/2021: Jen successfully passes her oral exam in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Jen!
11/1/2021: Dr. Tea Yon (Tim) Kim joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Tim!
8/31/2021: Rohit receives a travel grant from UCI Associated Graduate Students (AGS) to defer costs of attending the 30th International Conference on Photochemistry. Congratulations, Rohit!
8/24/2021: Simon is now also Dr. Luo. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being a tinkerer, diligent, and reliable, Simon!
7/21/2021: Simon's publication titled "Clarification of mechanisms of protonic photovoltaic action initiated by photoexcitation of strong photoacids covalently bound to hydrated Nafion cation-exchange membranes wetted by aqueous electrolytes" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science, and is a 2020 Energy and Environmental Science HOT article. Congratulations, Simon, Will, and Joseph!
7/20/2021: Leanna's publication titled "Turning Water into a Protonic Diode and Solar Cell via Doping and Dye Sensitization" is accepted for publication in Joule. Congratulations, Leanna, Will, and Larry!
6/16/2021: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Wickramasinghe Group at UCI titled "Tunneling based ten attomolar specific DNA biosensor" is accepted for publication in AIP Advances. Congratulations, Zahra, Larry, and the rest of the team!
6/14/2021: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Wu Group at UCI titled "Hybrid density functional study of band gap engineering of SrTiO3 photocatalyst via doping for water splitting" is accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials. Congratulations, Yusheng!
6/9/2021: Rohit's abstract was selected for a talk at the 30th International Conference on Photochemistry virtual Meeting. Congratulations, Rohit!
5/26/2021: At the annual Edward K. C. Lee Dinner and Ceremony, Leanna receives an Award for Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA, an award given for exceptional contributions as a teaching assistant by cultivating an excellent rapport with students and going above and beyond what is required for their assignment. Shane was the emcee of the virtual Awards Ceremony and it was well-received. Congratulations, Leanna (and Shane)!
5/17/2021: Joe Gonzales joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Joe!
5/15/2021: Emily Barragan officially accepts an offer to attend graduate school in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. Congratulations, Emily!
5/3/2021: Shane takes part as a discussion panelist during the Henry Samueli School of Engineering Dean's Distinguished Lecture virtual event, which was recorded. Congratulations, Shane!
4/26/2021: The Ardo Group receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanisms B (CSDM-B) Program for "Assessing the applicability of Marcus theory to excited-state proton transfer and protonic photochemical energy conversion." Go Team!
4/26/2021: The Ardo Group's collaborative perspective publication with the Boettcher Group at the University of Oregon titled "Reinvigorating electrochemistry education" is accepted for publication in iScience. Congratulations, Paul (UO)!
2/9/2021: The Ardo Group's leading efforts on a collaborative project from Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Cottrell Scholars Collaborative for "Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the age of COVID-19: A new STEM pipeline model that grows undergraduate research at minority-serving institutions via collaboration, personnel exchange and online training" is publicized by the UCI School of Physical Sciences. Go Team!
1/29/2021: Ana Bender joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Ana!
1/19/2021: The Ardo Group receives funding from UCI Beall Applied Innovation, as Shane is named a Faculty Innovation Fellow in recognition of having an impact on society and being committed to enhancing UCI's culture of innovation, which was publicized by the UCI School of Physical Sciences on 2/1/2021. Go Team!
1/7-8/2021: Team Ardo runs a virtual Trust in the Scientific Method, Ask-a-Scientist event with middle-school students from McFadden Intermediate School. Thank you, Cassidy, Jen, Simon, Leanna, Rohit, Justin, Gabe, Ethan, and Geoff!
12/23/2020: The Ardo Group's collaborative viewpoint publication with the Boettcher Group at the University of Oregon titled "Potentially Confusing: Potentials in Electrochemistry" is accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters. Congratulations, Shannon (UO) and the rest of the team!
11/9/2020: Justin successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Justin!
11/5/2020: Gabe successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Gabe!
11/2/2020: Cassidy successfully passes her oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Cassidy!
10/22/2020: Jen and Geoff successfully pass their preliminary oral exam in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Jen and Geoff!
10/20/2020: The Ardo Group and the Atwater Group and Xiang Group receive collaborative funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) through the Topics Informing New Program Areas (TINA)'s Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Oceanwater (DOC) Topic for "Development of an Off-Shore, Stand-Alone System for Efficient CO2 Removal from Oceanwater." Go Team!
10/2/2020: Ethan successfully passes his preliminary oral exam in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. Congratulations, Ethan!
9/9/2020: At the annual Graduate Student Awards Ceremony, Rohit receives the prestigious Gebel Award, an award given to a chemistry graduate student working in environmental chemistry and who has had a period of work prior to graduate school. Shane was the emcee of the virtual Awards Ceremony and it was well-received. Congratulations, Rohit (and Shane)!
8/31/2020: Rylan is now also Dr. Kautz. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being systematic, genuine, and perseverant, Rylan!
8/13/2020: The Ardo Group, Boettcher Group, Markland Group, Minus Group, Sa Group, Surendranath Group, and Wang Group receive collaborative funding from Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Cottrell Scholars Collaborative for "Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the age of COVID-19: A new STEM pipeline model that grows undergraduate research at minority-serving institutions via collaboration, personnel exchange and online training." Go Team!
8/7/2020: Shane takes part as a discussion panelist during the 2020 Solar Fuels Science Meeting webinar, which was recorded. Congratulations, Shane!
7/29/2020: The Ardo Group, Caltech, LBNL, SLAC, NREL, UC San Diego, and the University of Oregon as part of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), with Harry Atwater (Caltech) as the Director, are awarded one of two Fuels from Sunlight Hubs from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Go Team! And congratulations to Jerry Meyer (UNC) (Shane's Ph.D. Advisor) as the Director of the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE), the other awarded Fuels from Sunlight Hub.
7/28/2020: Emily is awarded an Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry from the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry. Congratulations, Emily!
7/6/2020: Gabryelle McDaniel from Hampton University joins Team Ardo virtually for the summer through the UCI Accelerating Careers in Engineering and Science (ACES) Program. Welcome, Gabryelle!
7/1/2020: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with Muhammed Musthafa. O. T.'s Group at IISER Pune titled "An Electrochemical Neutralization Cell for Spontaneous Water Desalination" is accepted for publication in Joule. Congratulations, Zahid (IISER) and the rest of the team!
5/15/2020: Grant Barton, John Hylak, and Jerome Neal officially accept offers to attend graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at UIUC, the Department of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University, respectively. Congratulations, Grant, John, and Jerome!
4/22/2020: The Ardo Group and the Paddison Group receive collaborative funding from the U.S. Department of Defense's Army Research Office (ARO) through the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory to pursue research toward "Elucidating Design Criteria for Enhancing Rates of Water Dissociation at Bipolar Membrane Interfaces Using Multiscale Modeling and Experiments." Go Team!
4/22/2020: The Liquid Solar Fuels Report (DOI: 10.2172/1615599) and Brochure are available from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences as a BES Workshop Report. Thanks to Bill Tumas (NREL), Jillian Dempsey (UNC), Tom Mallouk (UPenn), Kara Bren (URochester), Andrew Rappe (UPenn), Wendy Shaw (PNNL) and Shane for their hard work in organizing and writing this document. Go Team!
4/13/2020: The second Ardo "Group + Alumni" e-Lunch Gathering was a success. Hang in there, Team!
3/30/2020: The first Ardo Group e-Group Meeting was a success. Hang in there, Team Brady Bunch!
3/24/2020: The first Ardo "Group + Alumni" e-Lunch Gathering was a success. Hang in there, Team!
3/20/2020: Joseph's publication titled "Reconciliation of differences in apparent diffusion coefficients measured for self-exchange electron transfer between molecules anchored to mesoporous titanium dioxide thin films" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations, Joseph, Greg, and the rest of the team!
3/18/2020: Kevin's publication titled "Numerical Monte Carlo Simulations to Evaluate the Influence That Spherical Nanoparticle Size and Arrangement Have on Interparticle Charge Transport across the Surface of Dye- and Cocatalyst-Modified Materials" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations, Kevin!
3/2/2020: An article based on an interview with Sunny Jiang titled "Driven for Desalinization" is published online by UCI Irvine News to highlight the Ardo Group and UCI's involvement in the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Energy-Water Desalination Hub. Go Team!
2/24/2020: Shane hosts David Vermaas who visits UCI for a Special Seminar to talk about ion-exchange membranes and electrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, David!
2/20/2020: Shane and his collaborators present to the California State Legislature in Sacramento on innovations in water research as part of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Energy-Water Desalination Hub. Go Team!
1/29/2020: Geoff McClarin and Jen Urbine join Team Ardo. Welcome, Geoff and Jen!
1/27/2020: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Qureshi Group at IIT Guwahati titled "Low Overpotential and Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Utilizing Doped Perovskite Oxide, La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, Modified by Cobalt Phosphate" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations, Sourav (IIT) and the rest of the team!
1/16/2020: Rohit receives a Young Investigator Grant to defer costs of attending the 2nd Frontiers in Photochemistry Fusion Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas. Congratulations, Rohit!
1/9/2020: The Ardo Group receives funding from the Beall Family Foundation for a Beall Innovation Award to pursue research and development of "A photon-mediated active heat pump to revolutionize ambient thermal energy conversion." Go Team!
1/9/2020: Emily is awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant/Fellowship. Congratulations, Emily!
12/9/2019: Ethan Heffernan joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Ethan!
12/4/2019: Bill is now also Dr. Gaieck. Congratulations, Bill!
11/30/2019: Rohit is awarded a talk at the 2nd Frontiers in Photochemistry Fusion Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas. Congratulations, Rohit!
11/12/2019: Shane hosts Bryce Sadtler who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Bryce!
11/6/2019: Leanna successfully passes her oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Leanna!
10/14/2019: Bill passes his oral thesis examination. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being resourceful, resilient, and worldly, Bill!
10/4/2019: An article based on an interview with Emily titled "Making 'First Choice' Possible" is published online by UCI Irvine News as part of UCI's new Brilliant Future campaign that describes Emily's personal and academic story. Congratulations, Emily!
9/30/2019: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Wang Group at LBNL–ALS titled "Photoacid-Modified Nafion Membrane Morphology Determined by Resonant X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy" is accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters. Congratulations, Greg (ALS), Will, Larry, and the rest of the team!
9/25-29/2019: Emily attended the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM - HENAAC Conference held in Lake Buena Vista, FL through a scholarship from SoCal Edison. Congratulations, Emily!
9/23/2019: The Ardo Group, LBNL, ORNL, NREL, NETL, and 20 universities as part of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), with Peter Fiske (LBNL) as the Director, are awarded the Energy-Water Desalination Hub from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) through the Advanced Manufacturing Office's Energy Innovation Hub Program. Go Team!
9/18/2019: Shane and his Israeli co-organizer, Aharon Blank, finish hosting a very successful and highly appraised session on Single Molecule Spectroscopy at the Israeli–American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium in Jeruselum, Israel. Thank you, Christy, Ariel, and Randall, and congratulations, Shane and Aharon!
9/9/2019: Emily is awarded a merit-based scholarship from the Rose Hills Foundation. Congratulations, Emily!
9/4/2019: Grant Barton joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Grant!
9/2/2019: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "Turning seawater into drinking water" is published online by Irvine Standard that describes the Ardo Group's research and vision for a new technology to desalinate salt water using a novel light-driven ion pumping process. Go Team!
8/25-29/2019: Simon, Rohit, Leanna, Jerome, and Shane each present a nice talk on their research at the 258th American Chemical Society National Meeting held in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Simon, Rohit, Leanna, Jerome, and Shane!
8/15/2019: Emily presents a nice talk on her research at the 2019 UCI Summer Research Symposium. Congratulations, Emily!
8/15/2019: The Ardo Group and collaborators in the Bala Chandran Group and Esposito Group receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) through the Fuel Cell Technologies Office's H2@Scale Program for "Development of Composite Photocatalyst Materials that are Highly Selective for Solar Hydrogen Production and their Evaluation in Z-Scheme Reactor Designs." Go Team!
7/30/2019: Jerome presents a nice talk on his research at the NSF CCI CaSTL UCI-ASU Pathways Program Symposium. Congratulations, Jerome!
7/15/2019: Joseph is now also Dr. Cardon. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being independent, generous, and inventive, Joseph!
7/10/2019: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Furche Group at UCI titled "5-Methoxyquinoline Photobasicity is Mediated by Water Oxidation" is accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Congratulations, Saswata!
7/8-9/2019: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students through the American Association of University Women (AAUW)-CA Tech Trek camps at UCI. Thank you, Cassidy, Simon, Leanna, Rohit, Rylan, and Justin!
7/1/2019: Shane is now officially a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Go Team! Yet again, our hard work and dedication has paid off!
6/21/2019: Joule Advisory Board Member Professor Kazunari Domen, from Shinshu University in Japan, selected Will's publication titled "Conversion of Visible Light into Ionic Power Using Photoacid-Dye-Sensitized Bipolar Ion-Exchange Membranes" as one of a few of his favorite catalysis papers from Joule in their Catalysis for Energy Collection. Professor Domen said that "This research converts visible light energy to ionic power using bipolar ion-exchange membranes. The authors significantly improve on their previous work of photovoltaic action of hydrated ion-exchange membrane by using bipolar membrane structure. Although they suggest application to direct solar desalination of saltwater, the principle also has other potential applications for energy conversion." Congratulations, Will!
6/14/2019: Nazila successfully completes her M.S. Thesis Degree in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations, Nazila!
5/29/2019: Jerome Neal from Albany State University joins Team Ardo for the summer through the NSF CCI CaSTL UCI-ASU Pathways Program. Welcome, Jerome!
5/28/2019: Simon successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Simon!
5/22/2019: At the annual Edward K. C. Lee Dinner and Ceremony, Joseph receives the Departmental Service Award, for extraordinary efforts in departmental service in support of teaching, research, and/or administration; Jen receives the Most Promising Future Chemistry Teacher Award, for outstanding contributions to the undergraduate program during the current academic year; and Will receives the prestigious Joan Rowland Award, which is given to a graduate student exhibiting exceptional scientific promise. Also, Shane was the emcee of the Lee Dinner and Ceremony and it was well-received. Congratulations, Team!
5/21/2019: Gabe is selected to participate in the 2019 Software Summer School of The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, TX, which includes free lodging. Congratulations, Gabe!
5/21/2019: Will is now also Dr. White. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being humble, a leader, and a machine, Will!
5/17/2019: Rohit successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Rohit!
5/17/2019: Jen is now also Dr. Glancy. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being meticulous, strong, and persistent, Jen! Good luck as a Portland Technology Development Lithography Module Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR.
5/1/2019: Kevin is now also Dr. Tkaczibson. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being honest, patient, and thorough, Kevin! Good luck as a Portland Technology Development Lithography Module Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR.
4/24/2019: Chris's publication titled "Interfacial and Nanoconfinement Effects Decrease the Excited-State Acidity of Polymer-Bound Photoacids" is accepted for publication in Chem. Congratulations, Chris!
4/18/2019: Emily is selected to participate in the UC Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (LEADS) Program. Congratulations, Emily!
4/18/2019: Emily Barragan joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Emily!
4/15/2019: Mike Chen, Greg Krueper, Baldwin Liwanag, Margherita Taddei, and Anni Zhang officially accept offers to attend graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA, the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington, and the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at UCLA, respectively. Congratulations, Mike, Greg, Baldwin, Margherita, and Anni!
4/4/2019: Leanna receives a travel grant to defer costs of attending the Electrochemistry Society Meeting in Dallas. Congratulations, Leanna!
3/13/2019: Margherita graduated with honors from the University of Bologna. Congratulations on your successful master's thesis defense, Margherita!
3/12/2019: The Ardo Group receives additional funding from Nissan Chemical Corporation as sponsored research to pursue research and development of light-driven ion pumps for solar desalination of salt water. Go Team!
2/22/2019: The Ardo Group and several other UC Irvine collaborators receive collaborative funding from the UC Irvine Research Seed Funding Program aimed to invest in the development of center-scale multidisciplinary convergence research programs for "UCI Initiative in Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering." Go Team!
2/22/2019: The Ardo Group and the Ge Group, Pan Group, and Wu Group receive collaborative funding from the UC Irvine Research Seed Funding Program aimed to invest in the development of center-scale multidisciplinary convergence research programs for "Enabling Next-Generation Solar Energy Storage and a Clean Hydrogen Economy." Go Team!
2/15/2019: Gabe Phun joins Team Ardo and Team Furche. Welcome, Gabe!
2/15/2019: Kevin's publication titled "Numerical Monte Carlo Simulations of Charge Transport across the Surface of Dye and Cocatalyst Modified Spherical Nanoparticles under Conditions of Pulsed or Continuous Illumination" is accepted for publication in Sustainable Energy & Fuels. Congratulations, Kevin!
2/13/2019: Justin Chen joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Justin!
2/6/2019: David's publication titled "Demonstration of photovoltaic action and enhanced stability from a quasi-two-dimensional hybrid organic–inorganic copper–halide material incorporating divalent organic groups" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations, David!
1/29/2019: David's publication titled "Influence of one specific carbon–carbon bond on the quality, stability, and photovoltaic performance of hybrid organic–inorganic bismuth–iodide materials" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations, David!
1/26/2019: The first transient absorption signal that time-resolves regeneration of a photoacid is demonstrated. What a fabulous 2.5-week period as a culmination of several years of very hard and dedicated work by the entire Team! Excellent measurement, Joseph, and thank you for the insightful conversations, Jim Mayer (Yale)!
1/24/2019: The Ardo–Lewis Groups' nanosecond time-resolved radio-frequency (RF) conductivity apparatus gives its first meaningful data! Thank you, Joseph and Simon for your tireless efforts, and thank you for the insightful conversations, Malcolm Forbes (BGSU) and the Lewis Group (Caltech).
1/17/2019: Shane presents his "tenure seminar" in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, followed by an evening out for karaoke. What a nice way to finish off his "tenure tour."
1/10/2019: The Ardo Group's nanosecond time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) apparatus is upgraded to include a reference arm to increase its best-in-class signal-to-noise ratio! Thank you, Joseph, Simon, and David for your tireless efforts, and thank you for the insightful conversations, Obadiah Reid (NREL) and Dennis Friedrich (HZB).
1/2/2019: Cassidy Feltenberger joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Cassidy!
1/2/2019: Rylan Kautz joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Rylan!
12/13/2018: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Eric, Joseph, Kevin, Simon, Rohit, Leanna, Ying, and Rylan!
11/29/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Qureshi Group at IIT Guwahati titled "Combined Experimental and Theoretical Insights into the Synergistic Effect of Cerium Doping and Oxygen Vacancies into BaZrO3–δ Hollow Nanospheres for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production" is accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations, Anindya (IIT), Sam, and the rest of the team!
11/2/2018: Sam is now also Dr. Keene. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being efficient, jovial, and having the Midas Touch, Sam!
10/26/2018: Shane hosts Akihiko Kudo who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Seminar Series to talk about photocatalysis with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Prof. Kudo!
10/16/2018: Sam's publication titled "Calculations of theoretical efficiencies for electrochemically-mediated tandem solar water splitting as a function of bandgap energies and redox shuttle potential" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Sam!
10/2/2018: Shane hosts Dunwei Wang who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about photoelectrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Dunwei!
9/17/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative perspective publication with his Lorentz Center workshop co-organizers (David Fernandez Rivas, Miguel Modestino, and Verena Schulze Greiving) titled "Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies" is awarded the Front Cover Art in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, David (UT), Miguel (NYU), Verena (UT), and the rest of the workshop team!
9/11/2018: Will is awarded a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award to perform 5 months of research under Dr. Todd Deutsch at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO. Congratulations, Will!
7/13/2018: Shane hosts John Rowley who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Life Beyond the Ph.D. Seminar Series to talk about his experiences at a PUI with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, John!
7/9-10/2018: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes and uses electrodialysis to "desalinate" water with middle-school students through the American Association of University Women (AAUW)-CA Tech Trek camps at UCI. Thank you, Eric, Bill, Joseph, Will, Kevin, Simon, Leanna, Rohit, Margherita, Nazila, Garrick, and Cassidy!
7/2/2018: David is now also Dr. Fabian. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being fearless, thoughtful, and cool (even-keeled), David!
6/21/2018: The Ardo Group receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science through the Office of Basic Energy Sciences's Solar Photochemistry Research Area for a DOE Early Career Research Program Award to pursue research toward "Understanding and controlling the fundamental photochemistry of protonic solar energy conversion." Go Team!
6/20/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Loeb Group at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile titled "The role of lithium cations on the photochemistry of ruthenium complexes in dye-sensitized solar cells: A TDDFT study with the BCL model" is accepted for publication in Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A: Chemistry. Congratulations, Mauricio (PUCC)!
6/18/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative perspective publication with his Lorentz Center workshop co-organizers (David Fernandez Rivas, Miguel Modestino, and Verena Schulze Greiving) titled "Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science, and is a 2018 Energy and Environmental Science HOT article. Congratulations, David (UT), Miguel (NYU), Verena (UT), and the rest of the workshop team!
5/30/2018: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with high-school students from Pacifica High School at UCI. Thank you, Eric, Kevin, and Will!
5/29/2018: Shane hosts Tito Abruña who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about in situ and operando electrochemical materials characterization with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Tito!
5/21/2018: Garrick Hogrebe joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Garrick!
5/14/2018: Margherita is awarded a Graduation Scholarship for preparation/in-depth dissertation abroad. Congratulations, Margherita!
4/24/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Photovoltaics Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory titled "Curtailing Perovskite Processing Limitations via Lamination at the Perovskite/Perovskite Interface" is accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters. Congratulations, Sean (NREL), David, and the rest of the team!
4/15/2018: Diana Luong and Andy Trinh officially accept offers to attend graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at UC Riverside. Congratulations, Diana and Andy!
4/10/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Qureshi Group at IIT Guwahati titled "Hybrid of g-C3N4 and MoS2 Integrated onto Cd0.5Zn0.5S: Rational Design with Efficient Charge Transfer for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity" is accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Congratulations, Gaurangi (IIT), Sam, and the rest of the team!
4/6/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Yang Group at UCI titled "Interfacial Electron Transfer of Ferrocene Immobilized onto Indium Tin Oxide through Covalent and Noncovalent Interactions" is accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations, Caitlin (Yang Group) and Chris!
3/13/2018: Shane hosts Nate Lewis who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about ILLUMINATION! and phototropic growth with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Nate!
3/13/2018: Diego Solis-Ibarra and Brenda Vargas Rocha from UNAM visit UCI through our 2017 UC MEXUS–CONACYT Collaborative Research Grant. Thanks for visiting, Diego and Brenda!
3/12/2018: Margherita Taddei joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Margherita!
2/26/2018: Greg is awarded a DOE Office of Science Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) to perform 10 weeks of research at the Princeton Physics Laboratory at the Princeton University in Princeton, NJ.
1/26/2018: Shane hosts Sophia Haussener who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar Series to talk about numerical device physics modeling, simulations, and experiments on photoelectrochemical devices with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Sophia!
1/18/2018: Leanna Schulte joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Leanna!
1/18/2018: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Weber Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory titled "Evaluating particle-suspension reactor designs for Z-scheme solar water splitting via transport and kinetic modeling" is awarded the Front Inside Cover Art in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Rohini (LBNL, and now University of Michigan), Sasuke, and Yuanxun!
1/10/2018: Joseph is awarded a talk at the Frontiers in Photochemistry Fusion Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Congratulations, Joseph!
1/8/2018: Nazila Farhang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Nazila!
1/1/2018: Hsiang-Yun and Shane's publication titled "Direct observation of sequential oxidations of a titania-bound molecular proxy catalyst generated through illumination of molecular sensitizers" which reports on the group's seminal work on light-driven charge accumulation is awarded the Front Cover Art in Nature Chemistry. Congratulations, Hsiang-Yun!
12/17/2017: The Ardo Group receives funding from Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. as sponsored research to pursue research and development of light-driven ion pumps for solar desalination of salt water. Go Team!
12/12/2017: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Eric, Larry, Joseph, Will, and Simon!
12/6/2017: Rohit Bhide joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Rohit!
11/28/2017: Chris is now also Dr. Sanborn. Congratulations on your successful thesis defense and thank you for being dedicated, warm-hearted, and dependable, Chris! Good luck as a Portland Technology Development Module and Integration Device Yield Engineer at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR.
11/27/2017: Hsiang-Yun's publication titled "Direct observation of sequential oxidations of a titania-bound molecular proxy catalyst generated through illumination of molecular sensitizers" is accepted for publication in Nature Chemistry, and with an excellent accompanying News and Views article by Anna M. Beiler & Gary F. Moore. Congratulations, Hsiang-Yun!
11/17/2017: Mike Valenzuela joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Mike!
11/15/2017: Will's publication titled "Conversion of Visible Light into Ionic Power Using Photoacid-Dye-Sensitized Bipolar Ion-Exchange Membranes" is accepted for publication in Joule, and publicized via various news outlets: Phys.org, UC Irvine, ScienceDaily, NewsWise, EurekAlert!, and on 11/17/2017: AZoCleantech, and on 12/14/2017: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Congratulations, Will, Chris, and David!
11/3/2017: Shane is named a Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation for Science Advancement for taking part in the Scialog on Advanced Energy Storage.
10/31/2017: Kevin's publication titled "Investigating Saltwater Desalination by Electrodialysis and Curriculum Extensions To Introduce Students to the Chemical Physics of Polymeric Ion-Exchange Membranes" is accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Education, Special Issue: Polymer Concepts across the Curriculum. Congratulations, Kevin, Sam, and Will!
10/24/2017: Shane hosts Frances Houle who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about stochastic simulations of transformations in complex condensed phase systems with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Frances!
10/11/2017: Joseph receives a travel grant to defer costs of attending the Frontiers in Photochemistry Fusion Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Congratulations, Joseph!
10/10/2017: The Ardo Group's collaborative perspective publication with the Boettcher Group at the University of Oregon titled "Ionic Processes in Water Electrolysis: The Role of Ion-Selective Membranes" is accepted for publication in ACS Energy Letters. Congratulations, Sebastian (UO)!
10/6/2017: Shane hosts CX Xiang who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar Series to talk about solar fuels devices and simulations with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, CX!
10/2/2017: Shane presents an invited seminar at the Resnick Institute's Young Investigators Symposium at Caltech in Pasadena, CA. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful time, Jonas!
9/22/2017: The Ardo Group's collaborative publication with the Weber Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory titled "Evaluating particle-suspension reactor designs for Z-scheme solar water splitting via transport and kinetic modeling" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science, and is a 2017 Energy and Environmental Science HOT article. Congratulations, Rohini (LBNL), Sasuke, and Yuanxun!
9/8/2017: Shane presents a seminar at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where Profs. Gratzel, Hagfeldt, Nazeeruddin, Zakeeruddin, Sivula and others attended. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful dinner, Kevin and Jingshan!
9/5/2017: Shane presents two oral presentations at the nanoGe Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, including one in the symposium that Juan Bisquert attended.
8/30/2017: Will and Chris's co-first-author publication titled "Observation of Photovoltaic Action from Photoacid-Modified Nafion Due to Light-Driven Ion Transport" which reports on the group's seminal work on light-driven ion pumps is awarded the Front Cover Art in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Will, Chris, David, and Ron!
8/15/2017: Dave Peterson and Eric Miller from the U.S. Department of Energy visit UCI for our EERE Incubator Program Project's Annual Site Visit. Thanks for visiting, Dave and Eric!
8/14/2017: John Hylak from UC Santa Barbara joins Team Ardo for the summer. Welcome, John!
8/11/2017: The Ardo Group and several other Cottrell Scholar collaborators receive collaborative funding from Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Cottrell Scholars Collaborative for "Training Faculty to Assist Students in Career Planning." Go Team!
7/31/2017: Kevin successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of ChEMS. Congratulations, Kevin!
7/19/2017: Will is invited to present a talk at Pittcon 2018 in a session that highlights young and emerging talent in the field of electrochemistry. Congratulations, Will!
7/18/2017: Jenny Conde from UC Berkeley joins Team Ardo for the summer. Welcome, Jenny!
7/10-11/2017: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes and uses electrodialysis to "desalinate" water with middle-school students through the American Association of University Women (AAUW)-CA Tech Trek camps at UCI. Thank you, Eric, Will, Bill, Chris, David, Joseph, Kevin, Simon, Larry, and Shane!
7/10/2017: Dr. Rohini Bala Chandran joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Rohini!
7/3/2017: The Ardo Group and the Solis-Ibarra Group receive collaborative funding from the 2017 UC MEXUS–CONACYT Collaborative Research Grants competition for "Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Copper Perovskite Solar Cell Materials with Enhanced Stability and Efficiency." Go Team!
6/16/2017: Anni, Mike, and Baldwin are each awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship. Congratulations, Anni, Mike, and Baldwin!
6/13/2017: Dr. Jingyuan Liu joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jingyuan!
6/9/2017: Greg receives the prestigious Michael Gebel Award at the annual Chemistry Department Year-End Reception, an award given to an undergraduate student who is doing an exemplary job in undergraduate research on environmentally related problems. Congratulations, Greg!
6/3/2017: Greg is awarded a scholarship from Tau Beta Pi - The Engineering Honor Society. Congratulations, Greg!
6/1/2017: Eric successfully passes his oral exam and is now in the Ph.D. program in the Department of ChEMS. Congratulations, Eric!
5/20/2017: Greg presents a nice talk on his research at the 2017 UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations, Greg!
5/17/2017: Bill successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of ChEMS. Congratulations, Bill!
5/12/2017: Prof. Mohammad Qureshi is promoted to Full Professor at his university in India. Congratulations, Qureshi!
5/8/2017: Dr. Larry Renna joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Larry!
4/27/2017: Will is awarded an Honorable Mention for a Link Foundation Energy Fellowship. Congratulations, Will, and so close!
4/26/2017: Shane presents a Distinctive Voices Lectureship at the UC Irvine Beckman Institute on the group's vision to develop plastic water bottles that use sunlight to desalinate salt water. Congratulations, Shane!
4/17/2017: Will and Chris's co-first-author publication titled "Observation of Photovoltaic Action from Photoacid-Modified Nafion Due to Light-Driven Ion Transport" which reports on the group's seminal work on light-driven ion pumps is accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations, Will, Chris, David, and Ron!
4/6/2017: David is awarded a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award to perform 6 months of research under Dr. Matthew Beard at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO. Congratulations, David!
3/20/2017: Shane presents an invited university seminar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful time, Shelley!
3/9/2017: Eric Schwartz joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Eric!
2/21/2017: The Ardo Group receives funding from Research Corporation for Science Advancement, as Shane is named a Cottrell Scholar to pursue research and development of "Photoacid-Sensitized Polymers as Light-Driven Ion Pumps for Photodialysis of Salt Water and Mapping Functional Neuron Connectivity." Go Team!
2/21/2017: The Ardo Group receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as Shane is named a Sloan Research Fellow to pursue research and development of electrochemical and photophysical processes at the interface of molecules and materials. Go Team!
2/20/2017: Shane presents an invited university seminar in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful time, Rob!
2/15/2017: Shane presents an invited introductory talk on the final day of the Israeli–American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium on Will Solar Cells Ever be Big (Enough)?, at the Beckman Center on the UCI campus. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful symposium, Matt and Aharon!
2/7/2017: Shane hosts Mike Fayer who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about spectroscopy of ionic liquids at interfaces with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Mike!
2/2/2017: Shane hosts Mike Rose who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic Seminar Series to talk about molecular hydride-transfer catalysts and semiconductor photoelectrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Mike!
1/27/2017: Shane presents an invited keynote university seminar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia as part of their annual Research Day. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful time, Roza, Danielle, other members of the Organizing Team, and Curtis!
1/23/2017: Shane and Bill hold their first hands-on discussion section for the graduate-level Electrochemistry course.
1/23/2017: Simon Luo joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Simon!
1/17/2017: Baldwin Liwanag joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Baldwin!
1/17/2017: Prof. Mohammad Qureshi joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Qureshi!
1/9/2017: Mike Chen joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Mike!
12/23/2016: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "What will it take for the new Gates-led clean energy fund to be a breakthrough?" is published online by Devex, because Shane was identified as an expert to comment on Bill Gates' recent announcement of Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1 billion fund that will invest in clean energy innovation.
12/9/2016: Team Ardo uses electrodialysis to "desalinate" water and makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with students from Cornelia Connelly High School at UCI. Thank you, Helen Wagner and Franklin Parmar for bringing your classes, and Kevin, Will, Houman, Chris, Bill, Joseph, and Shane for a fantastic half-day workshop!
12/8/2016: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Will, Kevin, Houman, Chris, Bill, David, Joseph, Shane, Eric, and Anu!
12/6/2016: Shane is the runner-up in the Shark Tank-style Tech Idol Competition at the American Water Summit 2016 in Miami, FL. Congratulations, Shane!
12/1/2016: Sam Keene joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Sam!
11/9/2016: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "A Mission To Invent a Bottle That Takes the Salt Out of Saltwater" is published online by Smithsonian.com that describes the Ardo Group's research and vision for a new technology to desalinate salt water using a novel light-driven ion pumping process. Go Team!
11/2/2016: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "UCI chemist Shane Ardo named one of 5 inaugural Moore Inventor Fellows" is published online by UC Irvine that describes the Ardo Group's research and vision for a new technology to desalinate salt water using a novel light-driven ion pumping process. Go Team!
11/2/2016: The Ardo Group receives funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, as Shane is named a Moore Inventor Fellow to pursue research and development of a "materials invention [that] uses sunlight to drive a novel ion-pumping mechanism." Go Team!
11/1/2016: The Ardo Group receives funding from the Beall Family Foundation for a Beall Innovation Award to pursue research and development of "A safe ion-exchange membrane to revolutionize fuel cells, electrolyzers, and solar desalination." Go Team!
11/1/2016: Shane presents an invited university seminar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, Los Angeles. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful time, Frank and Feimeng!
10/6/2016: Shane presents three oral presentations at the PRiME Meeting in Honolulu, HI, including one in the symposium where Frank Osterloh and Harry Atwater also spoke.
10/6/2016: The Ardo Group's collaborative review publication with members of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis titled "Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices" is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Congratulations, CX (Caltech), Adam (LBNL), and the rest of the team!
9/20/2016: Shane attends the final day of the second workshop on Addressing the Mars ISRU Challenge: Production of Oxygen and Fuel from CO2 using Sunlight, at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on the Caltech campus where he helped identify new concepts in PEC relevant to Mars missions. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful part 2 of the workshop, Harry, Will, and Cliff!
9/7/2016: Stephanie Yeh joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Stephanie!
8/30/2016: Shane hosts Mike Walter who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about exciton diffusion in porphyrin crystals with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Mike, and shame on Shane for forgetting to take a photo!
8/25/2016: David and Rohini (our LBNL collaborator) are notified of acceptance of their abstracts for talks at the 2016 Fall Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting to be held in Boston, MA. Congratulations, David and Rohini!
8/23/2016: Dave Peterson from the U.S. Department of Energy visits UCI for our EERE Incubator Program Project's Annual Site Visit. Thanks for visiting, Dave!
8/19/2016: The Ardo Group receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the Chemical Catalysis Program for "Understanding and controlling photoinduced self-exchange reactions across sensitized mesoporous thin films to drive multiple-electron-transfer catalysis." Go Team!
8/12/2016: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with elementary-school teachers in Orange County through the ESCAPE program at UCI. Thank you, Joseph, Chris, David, Kevin, Arielle, Brenna, Simon, and Vivian!
8/11/2016: Shane presents a poster award talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions in Newport, RI. Congratulations, Shane!
8/1/2016: Kevin, Sam, Andy, and Anni successfully demonstrate our proposed outreach activity by electrodialyzing acid from a central compartment of a three-compartment cell. Go Team!
7/28/2016: William Sheu joins Team Ardo. Welcome, William!
7/15/2016: Richard Eastman joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Richard!
7/15/2016: Jonathan Moon joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jonathan!
7/13/2015: The Ardo Group's review publication with his collaborators (Frances Houle, Kazunari Domen, and Frank Osterloh) titled "Particle suspension reactors and materials for solar-driven water splitting" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, David, Shu (Caltech), Nirala (UCSB), Takashi (UT), and the rest of the team!
7/1/2016: Shane attends the final day of the workshop on Addressing the Mars ISRU Challenge: Production of Oxygen and Fuel from CO2 using Sunlight, at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on the Caltech campus where he presented and helped identify new concepts in PEC relevant to Mars missions. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful part 1 of the workshop, Harry, Will, and Cliff!
6/27/2016: Anni Zhang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Anni!
6/27/2016: San Nitz joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Sam!
6/20/2016: Jen is chosen to receive the student sponsorship for the U.S. Women in Nuclear Conference in Charlotte, NC. Congratulations, Jen!
6/17/2016: Shane and his co-organizers (David, Miguel, and Verena) finish hosting a very successful and highly appraised workshop on Pathways to Solar Hydrogen Technologies at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Netherlands. Congratulations, Shane, David, Miguel, and Verena!
6/13/2016: Andy is awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship. Congratulations, Andy!
6/13/2016: Sabeena and Greg are each awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant/Fellowship. Congratulations, Sabeena and Greg!
6/1/2016: At the annual Edward K. C. Lee Dinner and Ceremony, the Ardo Group receives the Departmental Safety Award, for their work in furthering safety best practices in the research laboratory and department; Jen receives the prestigious Gebel Award, an award given to a second-year chemistry graduate student working in environmental chemistry and who has had a period of work prior to graduate school; and Claudia receives the Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA Award, for cultivating an excellent rapport with students and going above and beyond what's required for her TA assignment. Also, Shane was the emcee of the Lee Dinner and Ceremony and it was well-received. Congratulations, Team!
5/24/2016: David and Houman present at the 2016 North American Surface Analysis Users Meeting held in CALIT2 at the University of California, Irvine. Congratulations, David and Houman!
5/20/2016: Will successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Will!
5/20/2016: Joseph successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Joseph!
5/14/2016: Jackie, Diana, and Sabeena each present a nice talk on her research at the 2016 UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations, Jackie, Diana, and Sabeena!
5/12/2016: Shane explains the chemistry behind "popping boba" to undergraduate students at UCI through a Residential Education Board sponsored event.
5/10/2016: Shane hosts Adam Nielander who visits UCI as part of the UCI Solar Lunch Seminar Series to talk about protection of silicon photoanodes from passivation using graphene monolayer materials with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Adam!
4/26/2016: Reg Penner and Yury Gogotsi describe "The Rising and Receding Fortunes of Electrochemists" in their ACS Nano Editorial and use an Ardo Group image as their figure to show a system with rich electrochemistry.
4/20-21/2016: Team Ardo represents the UCI Center for Solar Energy (CfSE) by presenting a poster at the UCI Earth Week 2016 festivities. Thanks, Team!
4/13/2016: Shane hosts Tom Mallouk who visits UCI tomorrow as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic Seminar Series to talk about dye-sensitized photoelectrochemistry and bipolar membranes with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar at UCLA, Tom!
4/11/2016: Bill receives a travel grant from UCI Associated Graduate Students (AGS) to defer costs of attending the 25th Meeting of the Inter–American Photochemical Society in Santiago, Chile. Congratulations, Bill!
4/7/2016: Joseph is awarded a scholarship under the DOD Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program. Congratulations, Joseph!
3/31/2016: David receives a travel grant to defer costs of attending the Electrochemistry Society Meeting in San Diego. Congratulations, David!
3/29/2016: Joseph is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Joseph!
3/24/2016: Shane presents his first invited university seminar in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at California State University, Fullerton. Thanks for the invitation and wonderful dinner, Peter!
3/24/2015: The Ardo Group's collaborative review publication with members of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis titled "Experimental Demonstrations of Spontaneous, Solar-Driven Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science. Congratulations, Joel Ager (LBNL), Matt (Caltech), Karl (LBNL), and Ian (LBNL)!
3/20/2016: Bill and Jen are selected to participate in the NSF-sponsored workshop titled "Photocatalysis, Photoconversion, and Photoelectrochemistry: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications for the 21st Century" and 25th Meeting of the Inter–American Photochemical Society which includes free admission to the workshop. Congratulations, Bill and Jen!
3/1/2016: David's publication titled "Hybrid organic–inorganic solar cells based on bismuth iodide and 1,6-hexanediammonium dication" is accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Emerging Investigators Special Issue and Themed Web Collection. Congratulations, David!
2/23/2016: Shane hosts Chris Chidsey who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about protection of silicon photoanodes for water oxidation with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Chris!
2/9/2016: Houman receives the 2016 Tom Angell Fellowship based on his impressive mentoring history of graduate students. Congratulations, Houman!
2/8/2016: Bill, David, Houman, Rohini (our LBNL collaborator), and Shane are notified of acceptance of their abstracts for talks at the 229th Electrochemical Society National Meeting to be held in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Bill, David, Houman, Rohini, and Shane!
2/4/2016: Shane hosts Amanda Morris who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic Seminar Series to talk about metal–organic frameworks for artificial photosynthesis with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Amanda!
2/3/2016: Greg Krueper joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Greg!
1/13/2016: Jackie, Diana, and Sabeena are each awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant/Fellowship. Congratulations, Jackie, Diana, and Sabeena!
1/12/2016: Bill is selected to participate in the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Training Program on the UCSD campus, which includes free admission. Congratulations, Bill!
1/6/2016: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "Challenging efficiency records of solar hydrogen production" is published online by Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry), because Shane was identified as an expert to comment on an article titled "Challenging efficiency records of solar hydrogen production" that was recently published in EES and authored by the PEC Group at NREL.
1/5/2016: Shane hosts Gordana Dukovic who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about nanoparticle photocatalysis with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Gordana!
1/4/2016: Andy Trinh joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Andy!
12/22/2015: Ron and Will's publication titled "Electrochemical Characterization of Commercial Bipolar Membranes under Electrolyte Conditions Relevant to Solar Fuels Technologies" is accepted for publication in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Focus Issue Honoring Allen J. Bard. Congratulations, Ron and Will!
12/21/2015: Bill is selected to participate in the Student Program at the 2016 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, which includes free admission to the summit. Congratulations, Bill!
12/7/2015: Masih Jorat joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Masih!
12/3/2015: Chris, Claudia, Jen, Jackie, and Shane are notified of acceptance of their abstracts for talks at the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting to be held in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Chris, Claudia, Jen, Jackie, and Shane!
12/3/2015: Joseph and Will successfully pass their second-year research report. Congratulations, Joseph and Will!
12/1/2015: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes, which are then used to photo-generate H2 from water, with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Will, Houman, Claudia, David, Joseph, Kevin, Ardalan, Bill, Shane, and Rohini (our LBNL collaborator)!
11/20/2015: Claudia successfully passes her oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Claudia!
11/9/2015: David successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, David!
11/4/2015: Bill receives a GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to defer costs of attending the Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Electrochemistry. Congratulations, Bill!
10/8/2015: Jen successfully passes her oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Jen!
9/22/2015: Dr. Houman Yaghoubi joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Houman!
9/14/2015: Prof. Zhangjing Zhang joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Zhangjing!
9/4/2015: Team Ardo welcomes its youngest member, Eleanor Grace Ardo, into the world. She's Shane's favorite... Okay, it's a tie for first.
9/2/2015: Shane hosts Shannon Boettcher who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Joint Inorganic/Physical Seminar Series to talk about electrocatalysis and photoelectrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Shannon!
7/13-14/2015: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes, which are then used to photo-generate H2 from water, with middle-school students through the American Association of University Women (AAUW)-CA Tech Trek camps at UCI. Thank you, Will, Bill, David, Joseph, Jackie, Claudia, Ron, Chris, and Shane!
7/3/2015: Shane hosts Sophia Haussener who visits UCI as part of the UCI Solar Lunch Seminar Series to talk about numerical device physics modeling and simulations of photoelectrochemical devices with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Sophia!
6/23/2015: Connie Loo joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Connie!
6/22/2015: Sabeena Sebastian joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Sabeena!
6/17/2015: Yuanxun Shao joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Yuanxun!
6/5/2015: Jackie receives the prestigious Michael Gebel Award at the annual Chemistry Department Year-End Reception, an award given to an undergraduate student who is doing an exemplary job in undergraduate research on environmentally related problems. Congratulations, Jackie!
6/5/2015: Claudia receives a Pedagogical Fellowship at the annual Chemistry Department Year-End Reception, which goes to an outstanding graduate student who will help with the TA Trainer program for the upcoming year. Congratulations, Claudia!
6/2/2015: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with students from Mendez Middle School through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Will, Bill, Chris, David, Ron, Joseph, Kevin, and Shane!
5/27/2015: Shane presents his first, and second, invited oral presentation on the group's artificial proton pumps research in Session L10: Photocatalysts, Photoelectrochemical Cells and Solar Fuels 5 at the 227th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Chicago.
5/22/2015: Chris successfully passes his oral exam and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations, Chris!
5/21/2015: Claudia receives the prestigious Gebel Award at the annual Edward K. C. Lee Dinner and Ceremony, an award given to a second-year chemistry graduate student working in environmental chemistry and who has had a period of work prior to graduate school. Shane was the emcee of the Lee Dinner and Ceremony and it was well-received. Congratulations, Claudia (and Shane)!
5/16/2015: Tabitha and Jackie each present a nice talk on her research at the 2015 UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations, Tabitha and Jackie!
5/1/2015: Kevin Tkacz joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Kevin!
4/20/2015: Diana Luong joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Diana!
4/15/2015: Sasuke Breen and Tabitha Miller officially accept offers to attend graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at UC Irvine and the Department of Chemistry at UC Riverside, respectively. Congratulations, Sasuke and Tabitha!
4/2/2015: Ardalan Fathabadi joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Ardalan!
3/28/2015: Tabitha and Jackie are each invited to present a talk on her research at the 2015 ACS Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry (SCURC). Congratulations, Tabitha and Jackie!
3/19/2015: Shane hosts Tom Meyer who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Inorganic Seminar Series to talk about dye-sensitized photoelectrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Tom!
3/11/2015: Claudia successfully passes her second-year oral exam. Congratulations, Claudia!
2/25/2015: The Ardo Group receives its first federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) through the Fuel Cell Technologies Office's Incubator Program for "Tandem particle-slurry batch reactors for solar water splitting." Go Team!
2/12/2015: Jen Logan joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jen!
1/27/2015: Shane hosts Bruce Parkinson who visits UCI as part of the UCI Department of Chemistry Physical Seminar Series to talk about photoelectrochemistry with the Ardo Group and others. Thanks for the great visit and thought-provoking seminar, Bruce!
1/16/2015: Vijay Weerasinghe and Jerry Siu join Team Ardo. Welcome, Vijay and Jerry!
1/9/2015: Tabitha, Jackie, and Nancy are each awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant/Fellowship. Congratulations, Tabitha, Jackie, and Nancy!
12/16/2014: Jennifer McCleary joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jennifer!
12/9/2014: Joseph Cardon, Morgan Kramer, and Will White join Team Ardo. Welcome, Joseph, Morgan, and Will!
12/5/2014: Bill successfully passes his oral exam and is now in the Ph.D. program in the Department of ChEMS. Congratulations, Bill!
12/1/2014: Bill's review publication titled "Challenges and Opportunities for Ion-Exchange Membranes in Solar Fuels Devices" is accepted for publication in Reviews in Advanced Sciences and Engineering. Congratulations, Bill!
11/3/2014: Jingshu Ma joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jingshu!
11/3/2014: Nancy is invited to present a poster on her research at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, CA. Congratulations, Nancy!
10/15/2014: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Bill, Claudia, David, Ron, Shane, Alana, Brandon, and Ryan!
8/22/2014: Sasuke Breen joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Sasuke!
8/15/2014: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with elementary-school teachers in Orange County through the ESCAPE program at UCI. Thank you, Bill, Chris, Claudia, David, Ron, Jackie, Shane, Will, and Erik!
7/29/2014: Shane presents his first contributed oral presentation on the group's artificial proton pumps research in Session B1: Biomimetics at the 20th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS20) in Berlin, Germany.
7/28/2014: Shane presents his first contributed oral presentation on the group's sunlight-driven charge accumulation research in Session D1: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells at the 20th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS20) in Berlin, Germany.
6/19/2014: Tabitha is awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant/Fellowship. Congratulations, again, Tabitha!
6/19/2014: Katie Bui joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Katie!
6/16/2014: Tabitha is awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowship. Congratulations, Tabitha!
6/9/2014: Nancy Estrada joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Nancy!
6/9/2014: Jackie Angsono joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jackie!
5/30/2014: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with students from Mendez Middle School through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Bill, Claudia, David, Ron, Shane, Aida, and Debashree!
4/24/2014: Shane presents his first invited oral presentation, and is a section chair, in Symposium A: Film-Silicon Science and Technology at the 2014 Spring Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting in San Francisco.
4/18/2014: Jeff Che joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Jeff!
4/1/2014: David is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, David!
3/31/2014: Shane delivers his first undergraduate lecture for the Majors/Honors Quantitative Analytical General Chemistry Laboratory course.
3/14/2014: An article based on an interview with Shane titled "Shining Stars of Solar: Meet Three SunShot Postdoctoral Award Recipients Who Are Making a Difference" is published online by the Department of Energy about his experience as a DOE–EERE Postdoctoral Research Awardee.
3/10/2014: Victor's abstract is accepted for a presentation at the 2014 ACS Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Congratulations, Victor!
 | 2/22/2014: One of the Ardo Group's primary target compounds is synthesized. Excellent work, Chris! |
2/7/2014: Ron Reiter joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Ron!
2/4/2014: Tabitha Miller joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Tabitha!
1/15/2014: David Fabian joins Team Ardo. Welcome, David!
12/18/2013: The upgrade to the LSF's nanosecond transient absorption and photoluminescence system is complete, tested, and ready for action! Thank you, Dima and Hsiang-Yun, for your tireless efforts.
12/11/2013: Victor Macedonio joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Victor!
12/11/2013: Claudia Ramirez joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Claudia!
11/22/2013: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with middle-school students from Sierra Preparatory Academy through the LEAPS program at UCI. Thank you, Hsiang-Yun, Bill, Shane, and Millie!
10/25/2013: Bill Gaieck joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Bill!
10/16/2013: Team Ardo welcomes its youngest member, Ryan Nicholas Ardo, into the world. He's Shane's favorite.
10/6/2013: Team Ardo makes dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes with attendees at the 2013 DOE Solar Decathlon. Thank you, Hsiang-Yun, Chris, and Shane!
9/26/2013: Shane delivers his first lecture for the graduate-level Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics course.
9/15/2013: The Ardo Group is now officially at UCI!
7/1/2013: Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen officially joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Hsiang-Yun!
4/25/2013: The Ardo Group exists! Chris Sanborn joins Team Ardo. Welcome, Chris!