Purdue Catalysis Center

Congratulations to @ashub1212 and @AshmitaBiswas9 for publishing a perspective titled “Electrocatalytic Transformations of C2 and C3 Hydrocarbons: Bridging from the Past to the Future” in ACS Catalysis. Here is a link to this publication pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to @Kaustubh_Savant and Junxian Gao (PCC alumni) for publishing “Tuning surface chemistry of inverse catalysts ZnOxHy/Pt(111) without site blocking” in Chem Catalysis. Here is a link to this publication sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Congratulations to @Kaustubh_Savant (PCC alumnus) for publishing “Disproportionation chemistry in K2PtCl4 visualized at atomic resolution using scanning transmission electron microscopy” in Science Advances. Here is a link to this publication science.org/doi/10.1126/sc….

Congratulations to Kaustubh (@Kaustubh_Savant) for publishing his recent work on visualizing the disproportionation chemistry in K2PtCl4 using scanning transmission electron microscopy in @ScienceAdvances. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón for publishing “Structural changes to molybdenum and Brønsted acid sites in MFI zeolites during methane dehydroaromatization reaction-regeneration cycles” in Journal of Catalysis. See publication here sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Congratulations to Sopuruchukwu Ezenwa for publishing “Quantification of extracrystalline acid sites in MFI zeolites after post-synthetic passivation treatments using mesitylene benzylation kinetics” in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art….

Congratulations to Abhijit Talpade @abhijittalpade (PCC alumnus) for publishing “Catalytic reactivity of Pt sites for non-oxidative coupling of methane (NOCM)” in Chemical Engineering Journal. Here is a link to this publication sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Congratulations to Hee-Joon Chun and Ankita Morankar for publishing “Solvation Enthalpy Determination for Aqueous-Phase Reaction Adsorbates Using Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics-Based Structure Sampling” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Hee-Joon and Ankita (@Ankita_Morankar) for their latest work in @JPhysChem on developing a theory for the solvation of aqueous-phase reaction intermediates based on structure sampling facilitated by ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to @Kaustubh_Savant (PCC member) for publishing “Origin of Stability and Activity Enhancements in Pt-based Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts via Defect-Mediated Dopant Adsorption” in Angewandte Chemie. Here is a link to this publication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an….

Thrilled to share our recent work in Angewandte Chemie (@angew_chem) by Kaustubh (@Kaustubh_Savant) on uncovering the origin of stability and activity improvements in Pt-based ORR catalysts due to defect-mediated dopant adsorption. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to share our latest work on the computational investigation of the potential-dependent structural evolution of active sites in Fe-N-C catalysts for electrochemical oxygen reduction in PNAS (@PNASNews) by Ankita (@Ankita_Morankar). pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Tomorrow, November 29, 2023 at 2:00 pm, Brandon Bolton will defend his thesis on Influence of Metal Speciation and Support Properties for Ammonia Oxidation and Other Automotive Exhaust Catalytic Applications. The defense will take place in PHYS 333.

Tomorrow, November 27, 2023 at 1:00 pm, Sopuruchukwu Ezenwa will defend his thesis on CATALYTIC CONSEQUENCES OF ACTIVE SITE ENVIRONMENTS IN BRØNSTED ACID ALUMINOSILICATES ON TOLUENE METHYLATION. The defense will take place in PHYS 331.

Tomorrow, November 15, 2023 at 2:00 pm, Andrew Mikes will defend his thesis on INFLUENCE OF CHABAZITE ZEOLITE MATERIAL PROPERTIES ON METAL-OXO ACTIVE SITE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR PARTIAL METHANE OXIDATION. The defense will take place in HAMP 1252.

Tomorrow, August 29, 2023 at 1:30 pm, @Kaustubh_Savant will defend his thesis on Elucidation of Metal-Metal Oxide Interfaces for Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electrocatalysis. The defense will take place in PHYS 331.

Congratulations to Elizabeth E. Bickel (PCC alumna) for publishing “Synthetic Methods to Vary Crystallite Properties of TON Zeolites and Their Consequences for Brønsted-Acid Catalyzed Propene Oligomerization” in the Journal of Catalysis. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very proud to announce that our long awaited workshop report, Addressing Rigor and Reproducibility in Thermal, Heterogeneous Catalysis, is now publicly available! You can access a copy through our site: CatalysisRR.org

Tomorrow, May 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm, Christopher (Kurt) Russell will defend his thesis on Impact of Catalyst Composition on Olefin Aromatization in Presence and Absence of Hydrogen. The defense will take place in FRNY B124.

Tomorrow, May 4, 2023 at 3:00 pm, David Dean will defend his thesis on Advanced X-ray Characterization Techniques to Improve the Stability of Dehydrogenation Catalysts. The defense will take place in FRNY B124.