Group News

2025

    • 2026/01/12 – Welcome to the lab, Farah and Robyn!

    • 2025/11/10 – Avery receives a 2026 Energy Technology Division Graduate Student Award from the Electrochemical Society!

    • 2025/10/27 – Ivan presides over the Advances in Electrochemistry and Bioelectrochemistry session and presents the Lab’s work at SERMACS/SWRM 2025 in Orlando, FL!

    • 2025/10/15 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the 248th ECS Meeting in Chicago, IL!

    • 2025/08/18-20 – Ivan presents the Lab’s work on electrocatalyst design, electroadsorption modeling, and LP-TEM at the 2025 Fall ACS Conference in Washington, DC!

    • 2025/07/30 – Ivan presents the Lab’s work on liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2025!

    • 2025/07/26 – The Moreno-Hernandez Lab beats the heat on a walk around the North Carolina Botanical Garden, followed by delicious gelato!

    • 2025/07/16 – Conner’s work is featured as the front cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Congrats, Conner!

    • 2025/06/29 – The Lab has a summer party; board games and blueberry picking at Ivan’s!

    • 2025/06/18-19 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the Water Electrolysis Gordon Research Conference in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire!

    • 2025/04/26 – The Laboratory goes mini golfing and go-karting!

    • 2025/04/24 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at an invited talk at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina!

    • 2025/04/22 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at an invited talk at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill! Hi neighbors!

    • 2025/04/17 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at an invited talk at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan!

    • 2025/04/14 – Ziqing passed her preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate, congratulations!

    • 2025/04/07 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the Materials Research Society Meeting in Seattle, Washington!

    • 2025/04/04- The lab celebrates Avery’s birthday!

    • 2025/04/04- Conner passed his preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate, congratulations!

    • 2025/04/03- Matteo passed his preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate, congratulations!

    • 2025/04/01- The Moreno-Hernandez Lab hosts Gary Brudvig to give our department seminar!

    • 2025/02/12- Matteo begins to construct the lab’s SECCM!

    • 2025/02/11- The Moreno-Hernandez Lab hosts Joaquín Rodríguez-López for our department seminar!

    • 2025/02/01- The Moreno-Hernandez Lab welcomes Ga-Hyeun Lee as a postdoctoral scholar!

2024

      • 2024/12/10- The Moreno-Hernandez Lab celebrates our NSF CAREER Award!!!

      • 2024/12/07- The Lab celebrates an amazing year at our 2024 holiday party!

      • 2024/11/26 – Matteo’s first article is published in Matter!

      • 2024/11/13 – Avery is featured in the AIF User Spotlight!

      • 2024/11/12 – The Moreno-Hernandez Lab attends the 2024 SERC Conference!

      • 2024/10/11 – The group celebrates Ziqing’s birthday with a surprise birthday cake!

      • 2024/10/10 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work in two invited talks at the PRiME 2024 meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!

      • 2024/10/03 – The group celebrates our first grant from the ACS PRF!

      • 2024/09/13 – The Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory Atomic Layer Deposition System is installed!!

      • 2024/09/04 – Ivan becomes a Scialog Fellow, for the second time, on Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials!

      • 2024/08/28 – The Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory Sputter Deposition System is installed!!

      • 2024/08/20 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Denver, Colorado!

      • 2025/05/31 – The Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory receives a Seed Grant from the Marcil-Monahan Scholar Seed Grant initiative!

      • 2024/04/26 – Ivan is nominated as a finalist for Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year!

      • 2024/04/12 – Another fun day in the lab!

      • 2024/04/10 – Avery’s first article is featured in Duke Today!

      • 2024/04/10 – Avery’s first article, the first for the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory, is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!

      • 2024/04/01 – Avery passes their Preliminary examination, congratulations!!

      • 2024/03/19 – We had a photoshoot at the electron microscope!

      • 2024/03/17 – Avery’s collaboration with the Wiley Lab is published in Advanced Functional Materials!

      • 2024/02/01 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy in Lucca, Italy!

      • 2024/01/11 – Ivan and Avery present the Laboratory’s work at the Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry in Ventura, California!

      • 2024/01/10 – Ivan begins teaching his undergraduate course on Thermodynamics!

2023

      • 2023/12/17 – Heber Ford joins the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory as an undergraduate student, welcome to the group!!

      • 2023/12/12 – The group begins moving into the new Laboratory space!!

      • 2023/12/06 – Conner Soderstedt joins the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory as a graduate student, welcome to the group!!

      • 2023/12/06 – Ziqing Lin joins the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory as a graduate student, welcome to the group!!

      • 2023/12/06 – Matteo Fratarcangeli joins the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory as a graduate student, welcome to the group!!

      • 2023/12/01 – The Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory receives a Seed Grant from the SMIF Voucher Program!!

      • 2023/11/15 – Ivan becomes a Scialog Fellow on Negative Emissions Science!

      • 2023/10/25 – Avery presents their work at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, congrats Avery!!

      • 2023/08/02 – Ivan is featured as a 35 under 35 Materials Scientist by Matter!

      • 2023/04/28 – Avery shares their work with Nate!

      • 2023/04/27 – Nathan S. Lewis, Ivan’s graduate advisor, visits Duke!

      • 2023/03/31 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, his undergraduate institution, and meets with his undergraduate mentors!

      • 2023/03/29 – Avery receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, congratulations Avery!!

      • 2023/03/27 – Ivan presents the Laboratory’s work to the Materials Research Society Student Chapter at Duke!

      • 2023/01/18 – The OneView Camera is installed on the Tecnai microscope at SMIF, enabling us to collect Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy data!!

2022

    • 2022/11/22 – Avery joins the Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory as a graduate student, welcome to the group!!

    • 2022/08/29 – Ivan begins teaching his graduate course on Electrochemistry!

    • 2022/07/01 – Our multi-channel potentiostat arrives!

    • 2022/07/01 – S. Avery Vigil joins the Laboratory as a summer researcher!

    • 2022/07/01 – The Moreno-Hernandez Laboratory officially begins!