2017–2018 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, Sept. 14th, 2017	Struc­ture Activ­i­ty Rela­tion­ships in Homo­ge­neous Catal­y­sis Thomas Cola­cot, John­son Matthey — 2017 CCP Award Win­ner Abstract »
Thurs­day, Oct. 19th, 2017	Con­vert­ing CO2 via Ther­mo­catal­y­sis and Elec­tro­catal­y­sis Jing­guang Chen, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er Olefin Metathe­sis by Sup­port­ed MoOx/Al2O3 Cat­a­lysts Anisha Chakrabar­ti — Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
Thurs­day, Nov. 16th, 2017	Kinet­ic Pecu­liar­i­ties of Cu-Zeo­lite SCR Cat­a­lysts, and Their Prac­ti­cal Impli­ca­tions Alek­sey Yez­erets, Cum­mins Abstract »
Thurs­day, Jan. 25th, 2018	Siliceous Zeo­lite-sup­port­ed Pal­la­di­um Cat­a­lysts for Methane Oxi­da­tion Jing Lu, John­son Matthey Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er TBA Chen-Yu Chou — Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Thurs­day, Feb. 22nd, 2018	Remem­ber­ing Robert K. Gras­sel­li: Reflec­tions on Three Decades of Col­lab­o­ra­tion on Com­plex Oxides for Selec­tive Oxi­da­tion Dou­glas But­trey, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er Improved methane reform­ing activ­i­ty and cok­ing resis­tance of self-regen­er­at­ing Ni cat­a­lyst by Atom­ic Lay­er Depo­si­tion Chao Lin — Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Abstract »
Thurs­day, Mar. 22nd, 2018	Syn­the­sis of Nano­sized Zeo­lites For Dif­fer­ent Cat­alyt­ic Appli­ca­tions Manuel Molin­er, ITQ Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er Mor­pho­log­i­cal Insta­bil­i­ty in Topo­log­i­cal­ly Com­plex, Three-Dimen­sion­al Elec­tro­cat­alyt­ic Nanos­truc­tures Yawei Li — Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »   Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, Apr. 26th, 2018	Nov­el cat­a­lyst archi­tec­tures for auto­mo­tive emis­sion con­trol Johannes Schwank, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er Spec­tro­scop­ic Tech­nique Devel­op­ment for Under­stand­ing Sol­vent Effects in Liq­uid Phase Reac­tions Nick Gould — Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »   Offi­cer Elec­tions
May 2018	Spring Sym­po­sium

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2016–2017 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, Sept. 15th, 2016	In Sil­i­co Pre­dic­tion of Mate­ri­als for Ener­gy Appli­ca­tions Dion Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware — 2016 CCP Award Win­ner Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, Oct. 27th, 2016	Devel­op­ment of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts for the pro­duc­tion of bio­mass-derived chem­i­cals by selec­tive C-O hydrogenol­y­sis and deoxy­de­hy­dra­tion Kei­ichi Tomishige, Tohoku Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment » Stu­dent Speak­er
Thurs­day, Nov. 10th, 2016	Unrav­el­ing Cat­alyt­ic Mech­a­nisms and Kinet­ics: Lessons from Elec­tri­cal Net­works TBA Ravin­dra Dat­ta, Worces­ter Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute Abstract » | Announce­ment »   Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion
Thurs­day, Jan. 19th, 2017	Cia­pet­ta Award Lec­ture: Nov­el Zeo­lite Cat­a­lysts for Diesel Emis­sion Appli­ca­tions Ahmad Moi­ni, BASF Abstract » | Announce­ment » Stu­dent Speak­er
Thurs­day, Feb. 16th, 2017	Bio­mass and Nat­ur­al Gas Val­oriza­tion by Zeo­lite Catal­y­sis Raul Lobo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract » Stu­dent Speak­er   Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, Mar. 16th, 2017	Par­al­lel between UOP’s Reform­ing and Dehy­dro­gena­tion Tech­nolo­gies and Cat­a­lysts Manuela Ser­ban, Hon­ey­well (UOP) Abstract »   Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, Apr. 20th, 2017	Sol­id Cat­a­lysts Design: From Fun­da­men­tal Knowl­edge To Cat­alyt­ic Appli­ca­tion Aveli­no Cor­ma, Insti­tu­to de Tec­nología Quími­ca Abstract »  |  Announce­ment »   Offi­cer Elec­tions
May 2017	Spring Sym­po­sium

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2015–2016 Meet­ing Program

Thurs­day, Sept. 17th, 2015	Catal­y­sis – An Indis­pens­able Tool Sourav Sen­gup­ta, DuPont — 2015 CCP Award Win­ner Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, Oct. 15th, 2015	Engi­neer­ing Mol­e­c­u­lar Trans­for­ma­tions over Sup­port­ed Met­al Cat­a­lysts for the Sus­tain­able Con­ver­sion of Bio­mass-Derived Inter­me­di­ates to Chem­i­cals and Fuels Matt Neu­rock, Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Abstract » | Announce­ment » Stu­dent Speak­er Selec­tiv­i­ty Con­trol in the Cat­alyt­ic Dehy­dra­tion of Methyl Lac­tate over Alka­li-Met­al Zeo­lites Bri­an Mur­phy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware |  Abstract »
Thurs­day, Nov. 19th, 2015	Catal­y­sis for renew­able fuels and chem­i­cals: Chal­lenges today and a look into where we are going John Hol­la­day, PNNL Abstract » | Announce­ment »   Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion
Thurs­day, Jan. 28th, 2016	CO2 Con­ver­sion via Catal­y­sis and Elec­tro­catal­y­sis Jing­guang Chen, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment » Stu­dent Speak­er Methanol reac­tiv­i­ty on nanocrys­talline anatase TiO2 thin films David Ben­nett, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia  |  Abstract »
Thurs­day, Feb. 18th, 2016	Acti­va­tion and Self-Ini­ti­a­tion in the Phillips Eth­yl­ene Poly­mer­iza­tion Cat­a­lyst Susan­nah Scott, UCSB Abstract » | Announce­ment » Stu­dent Speak­er Eth­yl­ene Poly­mer­iza­tion by Sup­port­ed CrOx/SiO2 Cat­a­lysts: Active Sites, Sur­face Inter­me­di­ates and Struc­ture-Activ­i­ty Rela­tion­ship Anisha Chakrabar­ti, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty  |  Abstract »   Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, Mar. 24th, 2016	Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Active Sites for Methyl Lac­tate Dehy­dra­tion on Fau­j­a­sites Bingjun Xu, UD Abstract » | Announce­ment »   Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, Apr. 21st, 2016	TBA Rob Rioux, PSU   Offi­cer Elec­tions
Thurs­day, May 12th, 2016	Spring Sym­po­sium

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2014 — 2015 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 18-Sept-2014	Chal­lenges and Solu­tions in Devel­op­ing Zeo­lite Sup­port­ed Tran­si­tion Met­al Cat­a­lysts for Lean-Burn NOx Emis­sion Con­trol Dr. Hai-Ying Chen, John­son Matthey — 2014 CCP Award Win­ner Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 16-Oct-2014	UOP Advanced MTO Tech­nol­o­gy – A New Route for the Pro­duc­tion of Light Olefins Dr. Paul Barg­er, UOP — Cia­pet­ta Award Lec­ture Abstract » | Announce­ment » Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion Poster Com­pe­ti­tion Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 13-Nov-2014	Prof. Xian­qin Wang, New Jer­sey Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy
Thurs­day, 22-Jan-2015	Chal­lenges and Advances in Cat­alyt­ic Fast Pyrol­y­sis of Bio­mass using Zeo­lites Prof. Julia Val­la, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut Abstract » | Announce­ment »     Stu­dent Speak­er Minghui Zhu, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
Thurs­day, 19-Feb-2015	Bridg­ing Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis and Elec­tro-catal­y­sis: Catal­y­sis Reac­tions Involv­ing Oxy­gen Prof. Umit Ozkan, Ohio State Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment »     Stu­dent Speak­er Bahar Ipek, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract » Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, 19-Mar-2015	DFT Inves­ti­ga­tion of Hydro­gena­tion and Dehy­dro­gena­tion Reac­tions on Bina­ry Met­al Alloys: Effect of Sur­face Ensem­bles and Com­po­si­tion Fuat Celik, Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment » Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
Thurs­day, 16-Apr-2015	George Huber, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin, Madi­son Abstract » | Announce­ment »- Offi­cer Elec­tions
Thurs­day, May-2015	Spring Sym­po­sium Announce­ment

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2013–2014 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 19-Sept-2013	Kinet­ics and Mech­a­nisms of C-C Form­ing and C-O Cleav­age Reac­tions of Inter­ests in Bio-oil Upgrad­ing Daniel E. Resas­co, Uni­ver­si­ty of Okla­homa — 2013 CCP Award Lec­ture Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 24-Oct-2013	Poster Ses­sion Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Stu­dents should arrive at 4:30 pm to set up their posters. Poster Com­pe­ti­tion Abstract »
Thurs­day, 24-Oct-2013	Devel­op­ing Ceria-Based Cat­a­lysts Ray­mond J. Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Abstract » | Announce­ment »   Note: The Octo­ber meet­ing will have a buf­fet din­ner.
Thurs­day, 21-Nov-2013	Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics and kinet­ics of ele­men­tary reac­tion steps on late tran­si­tion met­al cat­a­lysts, and using them to search for bet­ter cat­a­lysts Charles T. Camp­bell, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton — Bur­well Lec­ture Abstract »
Thurs­day, 21-Nov-2013	TBA Jing Luo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia — Stu­dent Speak­er
Thurs­day, 23-Jan-2014	TBA Chris Jones, Geor­gia Tech. — Emmett Awardee
Thurs­day, 23-Jan-2014	Renew­able pro­duc­tion of phthal­ic anhy­dride from bio­mass-derived furan and male­ic anhy­dride Eyas Mah­moud, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware — Stu­dent Speak­er Abstract »
Thurs­day, 20-Feb-2014	Nom­i­na­tion of new offi­cers
Thurs­day, 20-Feb-2014	TBA Paul Dauen­hauer, U. Mass.
Thurs­day, 20-Mar-2014	TBA Simon Pod­kolzin, Stevens Inst.
Thurs­day, 20-Mar-2014	TBA Vas­sili Vorot­nikovl, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware — Stu­dent Speak­er
Thurs­day, 10-Apr-2014	Elec­tion of new offi­cers
Thurs­day, 10-Apr-2014	Intrin­sic Deac­ti­va­tion in Cobalt-Cat­alyzed Fis­ch­er-Trop­sch Syn­the­sis Gabor Kiss, Exxon­Mo­bil Res. and Eng. Co., Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, May-2014	Spring Sym­po­sium Vladimiros Niko­lakis, Orga­niz­er

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2012–2013 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 20-Sep-2012	Water Gas Shift over Indus­tri­al Cu Cat­a­lysts: A Mech­a­nis­tic and Micro­ki­net­ic Inves­ti­ga­tion Ros­tam J. Madon, BASF Cor­po­ra­tion — 2012 CCP Award Lec­ture Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Oct-2012	Poster Ses­sion Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Poster abstracts »
Thurs­day, 18-Oct-2012	Per­va­sive­ness of Sur­face Met­al Oxide Phas­es In Mixed Oxide Cat­a­lysts Israel E. Wachs, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty, Beth­le­hem, PA Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 15-Nov-2012	A DFT study of the acid-cat­alyzed con­ver­sion of 2,5-dimethylfuran and eth­yl­ene to p-xylene Nima Nikbin, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware — Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Abstract »
Thurs­day, 15-Nov-2012	Design­ing and Prob­ing Pho­to­volta­ic and Pho­to­cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als Jason B. Bax­ter, Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Jan-2013	Sup­port­ed Met­al Cat­a­lysts — Issues and Oppor­tu­ni­ties Stu­art Soled, Exxon­Mo­bile Research and Engi­neer­ing Co. Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Feb-2013	Nom­i­na­tion of new offi­cers
Thurs­day, 21-Feb-2013	Oxida­tive Dehy­dro­gena­tion of Ethane to Eth­yl­ene Anne Gaffney, AMG Catal­y­sis and Chem­istry Con­sult­ing, LLC Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Mar-2013	Sul­fur-Resis­tant Pd- Alloy Mem­branes for H2 Purifi­ca­tion James B. Miller, Carnegie Mel­lon Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Mar-2013	Nature of Cat­alytic Active Sur­face Sites on Semi­con­duc­tor Photo­cat­a­lysts for Split­ting of Water Som­phonh Peter Phivi­lay, Lehigh Uni­ver­sity — Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Abstract »
Thurs­day, 18-Apr-2013	Elec­tion of new offi­cers Can­di­dates Biogra­phies & By-law Amend­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Apr-2013	In Situ Spec­tro­scop­ic Stud­ies of Met­al Oxide Elec­trodes Dur­ing Water Oxi­da­tion John Kitchin, Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract » | Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 9-May-2013	Spring Sym­po­sium Carl Men­ning, Orga­niz­er Dou­ble­tree Hotel in Wilm­ing­ton, DE Online Sym­po­sium Reg­is­tra­tion »

2011–2012 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 22-Sep-2011	Oxy­gen-enhanced Water Gas Shift over Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lysts for More Effi­cient Hydro­gen Pro­duc­tion Prof. Chun­shan Song, Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty — 2011 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Lec­ture Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 13-Oct-2011	Time­ly 21st Cen­tu­ry Chal­lenges: New Small Mol­e­cules Chemistries Prof. Roy A. Peri­ana, The Scripps Research Insti­tute Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Nov-2011	Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion Poster Ses­sion starts at 5 PM
Thurs­day, 17-Nov-2011	Sol­id Oxide Fuel Cells — Mov­ing to Pro­ton Con­duc­tion and Mate­r­i­al Insights by Neu­tron Dif­frac­tion Steven McIn­tosh, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Jan-2012	Con­duc­tive ceram­ic anodes for SOFCs based on Infil­tra­tion Lawrence Adi­jan­to, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion
Thurs­day, 19-Jan-2012	Elec­tro­catal­y­sis: The next fron­tier in catal­y­sis for ener­gy con­ver­sion and stor­age Yushan Yan, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 16-Feb-2012	Nom­i­na­tion of Offi­cers for the 2012–2013 Sea­son
Thurs­day, 16-Feb-2012	Fun­da­men­tal Stud­ies on the Water-gas Shift Reac­tion on Metal/Oxide Cat­a­lysts: Active Sites and Reac­tion Mech­a­nism José A. Rodriguez, Brookhaven Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-Mar-2012	New Insights into the Water-Gas Shift Reac­tion over Bulk Cr2O3*Fe2O3 Mixed Oxide Cat­a­lysts: A Com­bined Operan­do Raman-IR-XAS-MS Inves­ti­ga­tion Christo­pher J. Ketu­rakis, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion
Thurs­day, 22-Mar-2012	Quan­ti­fy­ing the Redox Prop­er­ties of Met­al-Oxide Cat­a­lysts and Their Rela­tion­ship to Cat­alyt­ic Activ­i­ty Prof. John M. Vohs, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Apr-2012	Elec­tion of New Offi­cers for the 2012–2013 Sea­son
Thurs­day, 19-Apr-2012	2011 Bur­well Lec­ture: Spon­sored by John­son Matthey From Bio­mass to Tai­lored Fuels via Selec­tive Catal­y­sis Johannes A. Lercher, Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität München Announce­ment »
Mon­day, May-2012	Spring Sym­po­sium Bjorn Mod­en, Orga­niz­er