At the U.S. Department of Energy’s EFRC-Hub-CMS-CCS Principal Investigators meeting in Bethesda, Maryland (August 11–12, 2025), Professor Dhananjay Kumar highlighted CEDARS’ recent progress on understanding oxygen evolution reactions (OER).

Kumar delivered an oral presentation, Conductive ruthenium oxide films with surface orientation control as experimental models for oxygen evolution reaction studies, co-authored with graduate researcher Brady Bruno. He also presented the CEDARS overview poster, outlining the center’s integrated approach across synthesis, spectroscopy, and computational modeling.

His contributions emphasized how controlled thin-film growth techniques, pulsed laser deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, and atomic layer deposition, enable step-by-step insights into transient intermediates of both oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions.

Kumar’s participation at the meeting reflects his ongoing leadership in advancing energy research at the intersection of electrochemistry and materials science.