Calendar

Mar
21
Thu
2019
March 2019 Meeting
Mar 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Apr
18
Thu
2019
April 2019 Meeting — Officer Elections
Apr 18 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
May
14
Tue
2019
2019 Spring Symposium
May 14 all-day
Jul
31
Wed
2019
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Jul 31 @ 7:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Sep
12
Thu
2019
September 2019 Meeting
Sep 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Jun
25
Thu
2020
CCP Webinar — June 25, 2020
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
  • 2019–2020 CCP Award Announce­ment
  • CCP Plat­inum Spon­sor Talk by Michael Ross (Evonik)
  • Talk by Prof. Sheima J. Khat­ib (Texas Tech Uni­ver­si­ty)
    • Enhanc­ing the cat­alyt­ic prop­er­ties of Mo/ZSM-5 cat­a­lysts for methane dehy­droarom­a­ti­za­tion (MDA) by ex situ for­ma­tion of met­al car­bides

June 2020 CCP Webi­nar Reg­is­tra­tion

Aug
13
Thu
2020
CCP Webinar — August 13, 2020
Aug 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
  • 7:00pm:  Wel­come
  • 7:05pm:  CCP Gold Spon­sor Talks by Altami­ra, TCG, PQ/Zeolyst
  • 7:20pm:  Talk by Mr. Boris She­lud­ko (Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty)
    • Sup­port­ed Pin­cer-Irid­i­um Species as Cat­a­lysts for C-H Acti­va­tion Reac­tions: Design, Syn­the­sis, Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion and Kinet­ics

Reg­is­ter by August 12 via link below

August 2020 CCP Webi­nar Reg­is­tra­tion

Sep
17
Thu
2020
CCP Webinar: Robert Farrauto
Sep 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Prof. Robert J. Far­rauto, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
Dual Func­tion Mate­ri­als for the selec­tive cap­ture of CO2 from sim­u­lat­ed flue gas and its cat­alyt­ic con­ver­sion to syn­thet­ic nat­ur­al gas (CH4) by addi­tion of renew­able or waste H2

Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Speak­er: Xinyu Mao, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
“Intel­li­gent” Pt Cat­a­lysts Sup­port­ed on LaFeO3 Films Pre­pared by Atom­ic Lay­er Depo­si­tion

Agen­da:
6:30 PM:  Net­work­ing Time
7:00 PM:  Stu­dent Speak­er
7:20 PM:  Main Speak­er

Reg­is­tra­tion:
The webi­nar will be free of charge to reg­is­tered CCP mem­bers. Please fol­low the steps below to become a CCP mem­ber and reg­is­ter for the webi­nar.

  1. Use this LINK for Mem­ber­ship Reg­is­tra­tion.
  2. Use this LINK for Webi­nar Reg­is­tra­tion.
Oct
15
Thu
2020
CCP Webinar: A.-H. Alissa Park
Oct 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Net­work­ing time
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Heng Dai, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton
    Finned Zeo­lite Cat­a­lysts
  • 7:20pm:  Main Speak­er — Prof. A.-H. Alis­sa Park, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
    Towards Sus­tain­able Ener­gy Mate­ri­als: Car­bon Cap­ture, Uti­liza­tion and Stor­age (CCUS)

CCP mem­bers may reg­is­ter online by Wednes­day, Octo­ber 14th by using this LINK. Meet­ing invite to be sent on Octo­ber 15th to all reg­is­tered atten­dees.

This webi­nar will be free of charge to reg­is­tered CCP mem­bers. Please use this LINK for CCP mem­ber­ship reg­is­tra­tion.

Nov
12
Thu
2020
CCP Webinar: Raul F. Lobo
Nov 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Net­work­ing time
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Yichen Ji, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
    Dehy­­dra-decy­­cliza­­­tion of Tetrahy­dro­fu­ran to 1,3-butadiene over ZrO2
  • 7:20pm:  2020 CCP Awardee TalkProf. Raul F. Lobo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    From C5 Sug­ars to Indus­tri­al Chem­i­cals Through Catal­y­sis

This webi­nar will be free of charge to reg­is­tered CCP mem­bers. Please use this LINK for CCP mem­ber­ship reg­is­tra­tion.

CCP mem­bers may reg­is­ter online by Wednes­day, Novem­ber 11th by using this LINK. Meet­ing invite to be sent on the morn­ing of Thurs­day, Novem­ber 12th to all reg­is­tered atten­dees.

Jan
4
Mon
2021
Call for Nominations — 2021 CCP Award
Jan 4 – Apr 9 all-day

Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty, who has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize.

We appre­ci­ate your help in sub­mit­ting nom­i­na­tions. The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not be more than 10 pages and should include a ½ page ten­ta­tive award announce­ment. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 9, 2021. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2019 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2021 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to jacob.​g.​dickinson@​dupont.​com.

Jan
14
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Hai-Ying Chen
Jan 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Net­work­ing time
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Sai Pra­neet Batchu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    Role of Ga in non-oxi­da­­tive dehy­dro­gena­tion of ethane on Ga/Al2O3
  • 7:20pm:  Dr. Hai-Ying Chen, John­son Matthey
    From Atoms to Auto­mo­biles: Exhaust Emis­sion Con­trol Cat­a­lysts

This webi­nar will be free of charge to reg­is­tered CCP mem­bers. Please use this LINK for CCP mem­ber­ship reg­is­tra­tion.

CCP mem­bers may reg­is­ter online by Wednes­day, Jan­u­ary 13th by using this LINK. Meet­ing invite to be sent on the morn­ing of Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 14th to all reg­is­tered atten­dees.

Feb
4
Thu
2021
CCP Annual Poster Session (Virtual)
Feb 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al poster ses­sion will be held vir­tu­al­ly on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th from 6pm-8pm. We have received 25 sub­mis­sions for the ses­sion.

Atten­dance to the ses­sion will be free of charge to reg­is­tered CCP mem­bers. Please fol­low the steps below to become a CCP mem­ber and reg­is­ter for the ses­sion.

  1. Use thisLINK for Mem­ber­ship Reg­is­tra­tion.
  2. Use this LINK for Poster Ses­sion Reg­is­tra­tion.

Reg­is­tra­tion must be com­plete by Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 3rd and a poster ses­sion pro­gram with Zoom links will be sent to the reg­is­trants.

Feb
25
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Fanxing Li
Feb 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Net­work­ing time
  • 7:00pm:  Open­ing remarks
  • 7:05pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Sagar Sourav, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
    Oxida­tive Cou­pling of Methane over Mn-Na2WO4/SiO2 cat­a­lysts
  • 7:20pm:  Prof. Fanx­ing Li, NC State Uni­ver­si­ty
    Tai­lor­ing Met­al Oxide Redox and Sur­face Prop­er­ties for Sus­tain­able Ener­gy Con­ver­sion
Mar
25
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Fuat Celik
Mar 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Net­work­ing time
  • 7:00pm:  Open­ing remarks
  • 7:05pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Lina Lee, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    The­o­ret­i­cal study of eth­yl­ene hydro­formy­la­tion on atom­i­cal­ly dis­persed Rh/Al2O3 cat­a­lysts: Reac­tion mech­a­nism and influ­ence of ReOx pro­mo­tors
  • 7:20pm:  Prof. Fuat Celik, Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty
    Bridg­ing the Gap: Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis by Homo­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts
  • Addi­tion­al Notes:
    • The March meet­ing is also the sec­ond call for Offi­cer nom­i­na­tions, so please con­sid­er becom­ing a CCP Offi­cer. The fol­low­ing posi­tions are open for nom­i­na­tions: chair-elect, trea­sur­er, direc­tor mem­ber­ship, direc­tor spon­sor­ship, and direc­tor stu­dent poster.  More infor­ma­tion about the offi­cer posi­tions can be found on the CCP web­site.
    • Dead­line for 2020–2021 CCP Award Nom­i­na­tions is April 9th. Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to CCP Past-Chair Jacob Dick­in­son.
Apr
22
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Sofía Calero
Apr 22 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm

(Note ear­li­er start­ing time — 3:30 pm)

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • Net­work­ing time
  • Open­ing remarks
  • Stu­dent Speak­er — Julian Paige, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
    Title TBD
  • Prof. Sofía Calero, Eind­hoven Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy
    Title TBD
Sep
23
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Prof. Eranda Nikolla
Sep 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:45 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Wel­come
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Chae Jeong-Pot­ter, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
    Fea­si­bil­i­ty Study of Com­bin­ing Direct Air Cap­ture of CO2 and Metha­na­tion with Dual Func­tion Mate­ri­als (DFM)
  • 7:30pm:  Prof. Eran­da Nikol­la, Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty
    Embrac­ing the Com­plex­i­ty of Cat­alyt­ic Struc­tures: Engi­neer­ing Non­sto­i­chio­met­ric Mixed Met­al Oxides for Oxy­gen Elec­tro­catal­y­sis
Oct
21
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Prof. Yong Wang
Oct 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:45 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Wel­come
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Ren­jing Huang, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
    The effects of SMSI on m-Cresol hydrodeoxy­gena­tion over Pt/Nb2O5 and Pt/TiO2
  • 7:20pm:  Prof. Yong Wang, Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­si­ty and PNNL
    Earth-abun­­dant Fe Cat­a­lysts for the Con­ver­sion of Bio­mass