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Dr. Adams’s research explores new routes of converting oxygen and chemical waste products to value-added chemicals by combining thermal and electrochemical catalysis. Dr. Adams’s lab seeks to disentangle the elementary steps and interconnected reaction networks that determine the rates and selectivities of these transformations. To achieve these aims, Dr. Adam’s group constructs high-throughput flow reactors to characterize reaction kinetics, uses operando spectroscopy to identify proposed reaction intermediates, and develops models that relate material properties to their kinetic and thermodynamic properties to guide the design of new catalysts for sustainable transformations.