Four years of research and interdisciplinary team facilitated through the BP-ICAM has lead to our most recent publication in ACS Energy & Fuels (DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00386). This paper summarizes the impact of surface passivation on mitigating the deposition of S-containing asphaltenes. The lead author, Pralav Shetty, recently graduated, but he spent several years working with students in the Braun group (Runyu Zhang), with several undergraduates in our group (Tiffany Wu and Liam Kenny) and collaborators at the University of Manchester and BP.