Editor’s Note:

One of the great things about being the editor-in-chief of a newsletter is getting to see your writers explain tough topics better than you ever did. I realize that it probably shouldn’t be that way. As a writer, my explanation of quantum materials or free energy landscapes should have to be the best. I remember a stand-up comedian once saying that it should physically hurt when someone tells a better joke. And maybe that’s true for comedians, but it isn’t for me. I’m so delighted to have worked with this team of writers and to see what they could do. Please take a few minutes and read the stories that a group of smart, talented people wrote for you.

Kristin Manke, Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

• Elvis Ebikade, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI)
• Chiung-Wei Huang, Alliance for Molecular PhotoElectrode Design for Solar Fuels (AMPED)
• Sally Jiao, Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (M-WET)
• Evan Lafalce, Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE)
• Rubul Mout, Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS)
• Elizabeth Pogue, Institute of Quantum Matter Energy (IQM)
• David Stewart, Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage (NEES)
• Ben Xinzi Zhang, Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC)