2010–2011 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 23-Sep-20102010 CCP Award Lecture
Struc­tur­al Effects on the Adsorp­tive Prop­er­ties of Mol­e­c­u­lar Sieves
Dr. Charles Coe, Vil­lano­va University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Oct-2010Stu­dent Poster Competition
Thurs­day, 21-Oct-2010Devel­op­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal­ly Benign Ener­gy Technologies
Prof. Mar­co Castal­di, Colum­bia University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Nov-2010Struc­ture Prop­er­ty Rela­tion­ships of Sup­port­ed Pt/3d Bimetal­lic Catalysts
Bill Lon­er­gan, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 18-Nov-2010Self-Mov­ing Cat­alyt­ic Nanomotors
Prof. Ayus­man Sen, Penn­syl­va­nia State University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 20-Jan-2011X‑Ray Spec­troscopy in Catal­y­sis Research: Appli­ca­tion to Au Catalysts
Jef­frey Miller, Argonne Nation­al Laboratory
2010 Ciap­pet­ta Lec­ture­ship Awardee
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Feb-2011Nom­i­na­tion of Offi­cers for the 2011–2012 Season
Thurs­day, 17-Feb-2011Bridg­ing the Gap between Het­ero­ge­neous and Enzyme Catal­y­sis: In Situ Spec­tro­scop­ic Study of Vana­di­um Haloper­ox­i­dase Enzyme Func­tion­al Mimics
Julie E. Moli­nari, Lehigh University
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 17-Feb-2011A the­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive of the effect of the sup­port in het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis: The exam­ple of vana­dia cat­a­lysts for selec­tive oxidation
Dr. Veron­i­ca Gan­duglia-Pirovano, Insti­tute of Catal­y­sis and Petro­le­um Chem­istry, Madrid
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Mar-2011Sys­tem­at­ic Stud­ies of the Cath­ode-Elec­trolyte Inter­face in Sol­id Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes
Rain­er Kun­gas, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 17-Mar-2011Ori­gin of Acid­i­ty of Pt-Re/C Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lyst for the Aque­ous Phase Reform­ing of Glycerol
David L. King, Pacif­ic North­west Nation­al Laboratory
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 14-Apr-2011Elec­tion of New Offi­cers for the 2011–2012 Season
Thurs­day, 14-Apr-2011Com­plex oxides as self-regen­er­at­ing catalysts
Prof. Susan­nah Scott, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San­ta Barbara
Announce­ment »
Mon­day, May-2011Spring Sym­po­sium
Joseph Fedeyko, Orga­niz­er

2009–2010 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 17-Sept-20092009 CCP Award Lecture
New Con­cepts in Cat­alyt­ic Mem­brane Reac­tor Science
Prof. S. Ted Oya­ma, Vir­ginia Poly­tech­nic Institute
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Sept-2009Gas-phase cou­pling behav­ior in sur­face reac­tions stud­ied by in situ sur­face imag­ing and scan­ning mass spectrometry
Daniel Bil­bao, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 22-Oct-2009Restock­ing Burwell’s Organometal­lic Zoo: Sup­port­ed Met­al Com­plex­es and Met­al Clus­ters with Well-Defined Structures
Prof. Bruce Gates, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis
2009 Bur­well Lecturer
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-Oct-2009Con­trol­ling the Bond Scis­sion Sequence of Methanol Decom­po­si­tion on Plat­inum-Mod­i­fied Tung­sten Carbide
Alan L. Stot­tle­my­er, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 19-Nov-2009Green Gaso­line — A Bet­ter Biofuel
Prof. John Regal­b­u­to, Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois at Chicago
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Nov-2009The Influ­ence of Cobalt Load­ing on Oxi­da­tion of Sup­port­ed Cat­a­lysts for Fis­ch­er-Trop­sch Synthesis
Kevin Bakhmut­sky, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 21-Jan-2010Shape effects in Au/Ceria cat­a­lysts for the low-tem­per­a­ture methanol steam reform­ing and water-gas shift reactions
Prof. Maria Fly­tzani-Stephanopou­los, Tufts University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Jan-2010Resolv­ing the Con­tri­bu­tions of Sur­face Lewis and Bron­st­ed Acid Sites dur­ing NOx/NH3 SCR: An Operan­do TP-IR Spec­tro­scop­ic Investigation
Kevin Doura, Lehigh University
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 18-Feb-2010Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts Designed for High Selec­tiv­i­ty using Mol­e­c­u­lar Recognition
Prof. Robert Rioux, Penn­syl­va­nia State University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Feb-2010Nom­i­na­tion of new CCP offi­cers for 2010–2011
Thurs­day, 18-Mar-2010Struc­tur­al, Elec­tron­ic, and Cat­alyt­ic Prop­er­ties of Micel­lar Met­al Nanopar­ti­cles: Size, Shape, Sup­port, and Oxi­da­tion State Effect
Prof. Beat­riz Roldán Cuenya, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cen­tral Florida
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Mar-2010Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Competition
The com­pe­ti­tion starts at 5 PM
Poster abstracts »
Thurs­day, 22-Apr-2010The role of sur­face basal planes of lay­ered mixed met­al oxides in selec­tive trans­for­ma­tion of low­er alka­nes: Propane ammox­i­da­tion over sur­face ab planes of Mo-V-Te-Nb‑O M1 phase
Prof. Vadim V. Guliants, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cincinnati
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-Apr-2010Elec­tion of new offi­cers for the 2010–2011 season
Bio­graph­i­cal sketch­es » of the candidates.
Thurs­day, 13-May-2010Spring Sym­po­sium
Top­ic: Catal­y­sis for Ener­gy, Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Environment
Sym­po­sium program »

2008–2009 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 18-Sept-2008Ben­e­fits of Dif­fu­sion Con­trol in Chem­i­cal Processes
Prof. David Olson, 2008 CCP Award Lecture
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Sept-2008Nanopar­ti­cle pre­cur­sors and phase selec­tiv­i­ty in hydrother­mal syn­the­sis of zeo­lite beta
Nathan Hould, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Wednes­day, 22-Oct-2008Joint meet­ing with AIChE — 2008 CCP Award Lecture
Sup­port­ed Gold Cat­a­lysts for CO Oxi­da­tion: Syn­the­sis, Acti­va­tion, Deac­ti­va­tion, and Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Cat­alyt­i­cal­ly Active Species
Prof. Bruce Gates, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 13-Nov-2008Using Aber­ra­tion-cor­rect­ed STEM Imag­ing to Explore Chem­i­cal and Struc­tur­al Vari­a­tions in the MoVNbTeO Oxi­da­tion Catalyst
Prof. Dou­glas J. But­trey, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 13-Nov-2008The Effect of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ic Prop­er­ties of Zir­co­nia-Sup­port­ed Fe3O4 on Water-Gas Shift Activity
Ivan Baldy­chev, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 22-Jan-2009Cat­alyt­ic Con­ver­sion of Biore­new­able Mol­e­cules to Fuels and Chemicals
Prof. Bob Davis, Uni­ver­si­ty of Virginia
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Feb-2009Hydrodesul­fu­r­iza­tion with clas­sic Ni-MoS2/Al2O3 and new Pt-Pd on meso­porous zeo­lite catalysts
Prof. Roel Prins, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Feb-2009Nom­i­na­tion of new offi­cers for 2009–2010
Thurs­day, 19-Mar-2009Toward the Design of Water Gas Shift Catalysts
Prof. Nicholas Del­gass, Pur­due University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Mar-2009Stu­dent Poster Competition
Pre­sen­ta­tions Start at 5:00 PM
2009 Poster Com­pe­ti­tion Abstracts »
Thurs­day, 16-Apr-2009Nanos­trucutred mate­r­i­al syn­the­sis and catalysis
Prof. May­fair Kung, North­west­ern University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 16-Apr-2009Elec­tion of new offi­cers for the 2009-10 season
Elec­tion Announcements »
Thurs­day, 21-May-20092009 Spring Symposium
Clay­ton Hall Con­fer­ence Cen­ter, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Advance reg­is­tra­tion »

2007–2008 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 20-Sept-2007Mech­a­nis­tic Stud­ies of Hydro­gen Pro­duc­tion from Methanol on PdZn Alloy Catalysts
Prof. John M. Vohs, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
2007 CCP Award Lecture
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 18-Oct-2007Is There a Rela­tion­ship Between the M=O Bond Strength of Bulk Mixed Met­al Oxides and Cat­alyt­ic Activity?
Kamalakan­ta Routray, Lehigh University
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 18-Oct-2007A Sud­den Expan­sion in Mul­ti-dimen­tion­al High Sil­i­ca 10-ring Zeo­lites: Why Now?
Dr. Stacey I. Zones, Research Fel­low, Chevron Ener­gy and Tech­nol­o­gy Company
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 15-Nov-2007Joint meet­ing with the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York
Selec­tive oxi­da­tion using sup­port­ed gold and gold pal­la­di­um nanoparticles
Prof. Gra­ham Hutch­ings, Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty, UK 
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 17-Jan-2008Gen­er­al Trends in the Sta­bil­i­ty of Mono­lay­er Bimetal­lic Surfaces
Carl A. Men­ning, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 17-Jan-2008New Oppor­tu­ni­ties for Catal­y­sis: Bio­mass to Renew­able Fuels and Chemicals
Dr. Leo E. Manz­er, Pres­i­dent, Cat­alyt­ic Insights LLC
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 21-Feb-2008Nom­i­na­tion of new offi­cers for 2008–2009
Thurs­day, 21-Feb-2008Car­bon Diox­ide Reduc­tion in a Sol­id Oxide Electrolyzer
Fred Bidrawn, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 21-Feb-2008Struc­ture Sen­si­tiv­i­ty of Styrene Epox­i­da­tion on Sil­ver: Mech­a­nis­tic Origins
Prof. Robert J. Madix, Stan­ford University
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 13-Mar-2008Stu­dent Poster Competition
Pre­sen­ta­tions Start at 5:00 PM
Poster Abstracts »
Thurs­day, 13-Mar-2008Hydro­gen Stor­age and Deliv­ery Using Liq­uid Carriers
Dr. Gui­do Pez, Air Prod­ucts and Chemicals
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 24-Apr-2008Elec­tion of new officers
Can­di­dates short biographies »
Thurs­day, 24-Apr-2008In situ Struc­tur­al and Mech­a­nis­tic Inves­ti­ga­tion of the Cat­alyt­ic Prop­er­ties of Sil­ver and Gold Nanoclusters
Prof. Rob­bie Burch, Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty, Belfast
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-May-2008Spring Sym­po­sium
Clay­ton Hall Con­fer­ence Cen­ter, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware

2006–2007 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 28-Sept-2006High through­put exper­i­men­ta­tion and its appli­ca­tions to NOX stor­age and reduc­tion (NSR) catalysts
Rohit Vijay, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Thurs­day, 28-Sept-20062006 CCP Award Lecture
Cat­alyt­ic Pro­duc­tion of Liq­uid Fuels and Chem­i­cals from Bio­mass-derived Oxy­genat­ed Hydrocarbons
Prof. James Dumesic, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin-Madison
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Oct-2006Redox Prop­er­ties of Sup­port­ed Vana­di­um Systems
Parag R. Shah, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 19-Oct-2006Exper­i­men­tal and Com­pu­ta­tion­al Stud­ies of Reac­tion Path­ways and Size Depen­dence in Au Catalysis
Dr. Steven H. Over­bury, Oak Ridge Nation­al Laboratory
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 9‑Nov-2006 Joint meet­ing with the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York
Sup­port­ed Met­al Cat­a­lysts: Some Inter­est­ing New Leads In An Old Field And Use Of Zeta Poten­tial Mea­sure­ments In Cat­a­lyst Characterization
Dr. Stu­art Soled, Exxon­Mo­bil — 2006 Cia­pet­ta Lecturer
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 25-Jan-2007New Insights into the Sol­id Acid­i­ty of Sup­port­ed WO3/ZrO2 Catalysts
E. I. Ross, Lehigh University
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 25-Jan-2007Hydro­gen from Renew­able Fuels in Mil­lisec­ond Reactors
Prof. Lan­ny Schmidt, Uni­ver­si­ty of Minnesota
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-Feb-2007Nom­i­na­tion of new offi­cers for 2007–2008
Thurs­day, 22-Feb-2007The Organ­ic-Inor­gan­ic Inter­face in Syn­the­sis and Catalysis
Prof. Galen Stucky, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at San­ta Barbara
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 22-Mar-2007Stu­dent Poster Competition
Pre­sen­ta­tions Start at 5:00 PM
Thurs­day, 22-Mar-2007From Pho­to­catal­y­sis to Selec­tive Hydro­gena­tion on Micro­p­orous Silicas
Prof. Raul F. Lobo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Announce­ment »
Thurs­day, 19-Apr-2007Elec­tion of new officers
Thurs­day, 19-Apr-2007A “Chem­i­cal Plant” in the Tailpipe: NOx Adsor­ber Cat­a­lysts for Diesel NOx Emis­sion Control
Dr. Hai-Ying Chen, John­son Matthey Inc., Emis­sion Con­trol Technologies
View abstract »
Mon­day, 14-May-2007Spring Sym­po­sium
Hol­i­day Inn Select Hotel
Naa­mans Road and I‑95
Clay­mont, DE

2005–2006 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 15-Sept-2005Com­put­er Mod­el­ing of Cat­alyt­ic Systems
Prof. Matthew Neu­rock, Uni­ver­si­ty of Virginia
Thurs­day, 15-Sept-2005Car­bides and Alter­na­tive Electrocatalysts
Mike Zell­ner, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 20-Oct-2005Mol­e­c­u­lar Char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion of Cat­a­lysts under Reac­tion Conditions
Prof. Israel Wachs, Lehigh University
Thurs­day, 20-Oct-2005Tun­ing the Elec­tron­ic and Mol­e­c­u­lar Struc­tures of Cat­alyt­ic Active Sites with
Oxide Nanoligands
Eliz­a­beth I. Ross, Lehigh University
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 17-Nov-2005Joint meet­ing with the NY Club
Struc­tur­al Require­ments and Reac­tion Path­ways in Methane Reac­tions Cat­alyzed by Sup­port­ed Met­al Clusters
Prof. Enrique Igle­sia — Bur­well Lec­ture, UC Berkeley
Thurs­day, 19-Jan-2006Envi­ron­men­tal Catal­y­sis for Mobile Lean Exhaust Emis­sions- Cur­rent Sta­tus and Challenges
Dr. Alek­sey Yez­erets, Cum­mins Inc.
Thurs­day, 19-Jan-2006Stu­dent Poster Competition
Thurs­day, 16-Feb-2006Ceria Based Catal­y­sis from Auto­mo­tive to Water gas Shift
Prof. Ray­mond Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Thurs­day, 16-Feb-2006An Inves­ti­ga­tion of NOx Stor­age on Pt-BaO-Al2O3
Gong Zhou, Uni­ver­si­ty of Pennsylvania
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 16-Mar-2006Nanos­truc­ture of a High-Per­me­abil­i­ty, Hydro­gen-Selec­tive Inor­gan­ic Membrane
Prof. Ted Oya­ma, Vir­ginia Tech
Thurs­day, 16-Mar-2006Sil­i­ca-Alu­mi­na Inter­ac­tions in Pre­cur­sor Zeo­lite Solutions
Joe Fedeyko, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Stu­dent Presentation
Thurs­day, 20-Apr-2006Mol­e­c­u­lar Selec­tiv­i­ty of Shape Selec­tive Heavy Paraf­fin Hydroisomerization
Dr. Bruce R. Cook, Exxon­Mo­bil
Thurs­day, 18-May-2006Spring Sym­po­sium
Roger Grey, Orga­niz­er

2004–2005 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, 23-Sept-2004Mech­a­nism of NOx reduc­tion with oxy­genates over BaY: New insights into cri­te­ria for the reduc­tion of diesel emis­sions at low temperature
Wolf­gang Sachtler and Eric Weitz, North­west­ern University
Thurs­day, 21-Oct-2004New Insights into the Nov­el Prop­er­ties of Bimetal­lic Catalysts
Jing­guang Chen — 2004 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Lec­ture, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Wednes­day, 17-Nov-2004Cat­alyt­ic Pro­duc­tion of Fuels from Bio­mass-Derived Oxy­genat­ed Hydrocarbons
James Dumesic, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin
Thurs­day, 20-Jan-2005What Makes Gold an Active Catalyst?
Harold Kung, North­west­ern University
Thurs­day, 17-Feb-2005Coat­ed Bifunc­tion­al Cat­a­lysts for NOx SCR with Hydrocarbons
Christo­pher Mar­shall, Argonne Nation­al Laboratory
Wednes­day, 23-Mar-2005The Fun­da­men­tals behind Cat­a­lyst Man­u­fac­tur­ing Processes
Arthur Chester, Rut­gers University
Wednes­day, 27-Apr-2005Title TBA
Mark Davis, Cal­i­for­nia Insti­tute of Technology
22 to 27-May-200519th North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Meeting
Philadel­phia, PA