The Center for Electrochemical Dynamics and Reactions on Surfaces (CEDARS) at North Carolina A&T has been named the 2025 Interdisciplinary Team of the Year. The award recognizes research projects that transcend disciplinary boundaries and are supported by external funding.

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CEDARS-NCAT will be well represented at the AVS 71st International Symposium & Exhibition, contributing six posters alongside a week of technical sessions and exhibits.

The CEDARS team actively participated in the U.S. Department of Energy’s EFRC-Hub-CMS-CCS Principal Investigators meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland on August 11–12, 2025. With oral talks, posters, and a team science competition entry, our group highlighted progress on understanding oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions using advanced synthesis and in-situ characterization techniques.

This perspective article, led by RASEI Fellow Tanja Cuk, brings together researchers at six research institutions from across the United States, to describe how advances in spectroscopy and theory can map out the elementary details of the oxygen evolution reaction, a critical reaction to enable the production of fuels from sustainable energy sources.

In August 2022, the DOE awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical (A&T) State University a grant to open an EFRC on its campus. N.C. A&T is the first historically Black college and university (HBCU) to receive this funding from the DOE.

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In Thrust 1, our focus is on understanding how different catalysts affect the process of splitting water. We want to know why some catalysts start the reaction faster than others. By studying metals and metal oxides, we aim to uncover the energy and dynamics involved in breaking apart water molecules. We will use advanced techniques like spectroscopy to observe the structure and changes that occur during the reaction.