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2017 Winter Journal Club: Photo-electrochemistry

03/01/2017 5pm @ MolES 115

Led by Jon Witt from Chemical Engineering
Two papers are discussed:
1. New insight into the roles of oxygen vacancies in hematite for solar water splitting (Zhao et.al., 2017)
2. Materials for solar fuels and chemicals (Montoya et.al., 2016)
02/15/2017 5pm @ MolES 115
Led by Jerry Chen and Tai-Jin Jang from Chemical Engineering
Topic: Dual band gap solar water splitting cells
02/01/2017 5pm @ MolES 115
Led by Brian Gerwe from Chemical Engineering
Topic: solar water splitting cells
Further information on photoelectrochemistry can be found in Chapter 18.2 of Electrochemical Methods 2nd Edition by Allen J. Bard, and Larry R. Faulkner (or Chapter 14.5 of 1st Edition)
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2016 Fall Education Series: Data Science

11/03/2016, Hands-on Python

Dan Shea and Matt Murbach will be leading a tutorial on data science for electrochemists. We will be starting with a tutorial on using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. Ideally, we’d like you to try to bring a laptop and work through things as we go along. To make this go as smoothly as possible, you will need to install some software ahead of time.

The instructions below are a subset of those from Software Carpentry, here, which is a great starting point with tutorials if you get stuck on anything below.

  1. Install Python with Anaconda (from continuum.io)
    • Anaconda is a package manager for Python specifically meant for scientific computing. It comes with many of the most popular Python packages (including the Jupyter notebook package we will use) and makes installing and managing these packages significantly easier.
    • Download the installer for Python 2.7 (either 2.x or 3.x will work with minor changes, but for this tutorial, we’ll assume we’re working with 2.x) for your OS from https://www.continuum.io/downloads.
    • If you get stuck, here are video tutorials (windows or os x) of this step.
  2. (Optional) Install a text editor like Notepad++ or Atom.io (a great idea even if you just want to take notes/write quickly without the distractions of Word)
  3. (Optional) If you are on Windows, install a bash shell following the Software Carpentry instructions, here. This will bring one of the best parts of an OS X or Linux system to your windows computer.
  4. Invite your friends, lab mates, undergrad researchers, anyone interested in Python + Science (which really should be everyone). Facebook event is here.

12/08/2016, Hands-on Hacking

Neal Dawson-Elli and Matt Murbach will lead the discussion and share their experience. To make this as relevant as possible, please take a few minutes to think about a data analysis process, visualization, tool, etc. you are interested in creating or improving. Huge bonus points if you have a dataset to provide (for use within our ECS group only) for playing around with (visualizing, analyzing, etc.) as well. We will have at least a few of these starting points for people to work on in groups in our meeting.

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2016 Summer Book Series: Electrochemical Methods

As a way to bring students, faculty, and postdocs together to learn more about electrochemistry, ECS@UW has started a summer book reading series. This summer we are meeting at 10 AM at HUB 307 on Thursday’s each week and working our way through Bard and Faulkner‘s Electrochemical Methods. For information on where we will be meeting or what chapter we are on, follow ECS@UW on Twitter or like us on Facebook or email us at essc@uw.edu. Below you can find the notes (and example problems) for each of the chapters as we cover them.

Electrochemical Methods (Bard + Faulkner)

Chapter 2: Potentials and Thermodynamics of Cells