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Green group alumnus David J. Couling PhD ‘12 of Corteva Agriscience has won the 2025 AIChE Industrial Progress Award, “for consistently coupling exceptional technical innovation with exemplary collaboration to develop sustainable processes crucial to the successful launch of new agricultural products with global impact.” The award ceremony will be at the AIChE National Meeting on Sunday Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. at the Hynes Convention Center, Ballroom A.

Jonathan Zheng has won one of the 7 Open Data awards, for his work with Prof. Ivo Leito (Tartu, Estonia) and Prof. Green identifying a major problem in many pKa databases.

Jackson Burns has won one of the 7 Open Data awards, for his work with Lucas Attia, Prof. Doyle, and Prof. Green to develop a data-driven predictor of the solubility of organic molecules in organic solvents, which reaches the aleatoric limit (i.e the model predictions are as good as typical experimental solubility data).

The award ceremony will be Tues Oct 21 at 3 p.m. in Hayden Library.

The paper “A Comprehensive Costing and Emissions Analysis of Blue, Green, and Combined Blue-Green Ammonia Production” by Sayandeep Biswas, Angiras Menon, Randall Field, Guiyan Zang and Prof. Green, published in Energy & Fuels, is an ACS Editors’ Choice paper, and also one of the most downloaded Energy & Fuels papers this year.

Alexis will use this funding to push the LOHC-powered engine towards commercialization.

The article “Revisiting a Large and Diverse Data Set for Barrier Heights and Reaction Energies: Best Practices in Density Functional Theory Calculations for Chemical Kinetics”, https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D5CP01181G , has been selected as a 2025 HOT PCCP article.

Jonathan was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2025 SERC Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize contest. His essay discussed the importance & societal impacts of autonomous chemistry labs.

The article “Automated reaction kinetics and network exploration (Arkane): A statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, transition state theory, and master equation software” has been named a “Top Viewed Article” by the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.

The article was added to a specially curated collection that highlights some of the most popular articles from 2024 in the fields of physical, theoretical and computational, and biophysical chemistry.

Jonathan Zheng’s work, which uncovered incorrect pKa values in chemical databases, was featured in the Chemistry World article titled “Incorrect pKa values have slipped into chemical databases and could distort drug design”.

The article, which will be published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, was selected for this honor based on its potential for broad public interest. As part of the ACS Editors’ Choice program, the article will be freely available for a promotional period of six months.