- 08/2025: Eunsoo and Johan's paper on using Antibonding-vacancy coupling to boost the HER activity of the diboride V_1-xMo_xB₂ solid solution has been published in ACS Energy Letters. Great collaboration with the Mentzel group.  Congrats to all. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02211.

- 08/2025: Lingji Jiang has joined the Fokwa lab as a new graduate student (MSE program). Welcome and All the best, Lingji!

- 07/2025: Boniface presented our work (on designing new permanent magnets) as an invited speaker at the NASSCC meeting (ISU, Ames, Iowa).

- 07/2025: Shola attended and presented his work (see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00187) at the NASSCC meeting (ISU, Ames, Iowa).

- 05/2025: Shola attended and presented his work at the 2025 West Coast Theoretical Chemistry meeting in Reno.

- 04/2025: Sang's first paper on V-stabilized MoB nanoparticles for hydrogen evolution at industry-relevant current densities has been published in Small. Congrats to Sang and Johan (DFT) for this ground-breaking work. Check it out here: http://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202412693. 

- 04/2025: Sang and Shola attended and presented their work on electrocatalytic (Sang) and magnetic (Shola) materials at the 2025 TMS conference in Las vegas.

- 03/2025: Michael and Jan's paper on TiMn_1-xOs_2+xB₂ ferrimagnet has been accepted by ZAAC (dedication to Prof. G.J. Miller, 65th birthday). Congrats to all. Check it out here: http://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202500023.

- 03/2025: Shola's first paper on opening of hysteresis in T2-MAB phases has been published in Chemistry of Materials (in memory of Prof. Francis. J. DiSalvo). This was made possible through the collaboration with the Takao group (Tsukuba, Japan). Congrats to all.
Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00187.

- 12/2024: Johan successfully defended his thesis. Congrats for a great achievement and good luck for an exciting future.

- 05/2024: Johan has won the Advancing Faculty Diversity Award 2024! Congratulations on a well-deserved award.

- 05/2024: Diana's work, in collaboration with the group of Prof. Poettgen (Muenster, Germany) on the new high-Tc metamagnetic boride Ti₂FeOs₃B₃, containing Fe-ladders, has been accepted by  Solid State Sciences. Congrats All! 

- 03/2024: Kate, Diana and Paul's work, in collaboration with the group of Prof. Poettgen (Muenster, Germany) on “Computational and Experimental Investigations of Osmium-Rich Borides Hf₂MOs₅B₂ (M = Mn, Fe, Co): From Spin-Glass to Room-Temperature Magnet Behaviors” has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats All! 

- 03/2024: Boniface presented our work, on designing new earth-abundant electrocatalysts, as an invited speaker at the ACS meeting in New Orleans.