Calendar

Apr
18
Thu
2013
CCP Meeting
Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm

 

Meeting Program — April 2013

 
John Kitchin
Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing,
Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty

 
Abstract — Elec­tro­chem­i­cal water split­ting may be in inte­gral part of future ener­gy stor­age strate­gies by enabling ener­gy stor­age in chem­i­cal bonds. One of the pri­ma­ry sources of inef­fi­cien­cy in the water split­ting reac­tion is the oxy­gen evo­lu­tion reac­tion, which has high reac­tion bar­ri­ers that require addi­tion­al applied elec­tric poten­tial to dri­ve the reac­tions at prac­ti­cal rates. The most active elec­trode mate­ri­als in acid elec­trolytes include ruthe­ni­um and irid­i­um oxides, which are expen­sive but nec­es­sary for sta­bil­i­ty. In alka­line envi­ron­ments, many base met­al oxides become sta­ble, although they are still less active than Ru and Ir oxides. It has been known that small amounts of Fe can pro­mote the elec­tro­chem­i­cal activ­i­ty of nick­el oxides, mak­ing it almost as active as cobalt oxide. We have inves­ti­gat­ed the mech­a­nisms behind the pro­mo­tion using in situ Raman and syn­chro­tron spec­tro­scopies as well as ex situ char­ac­ter­i­za­tion tech­niques. Inter­est­ing­ly, we found the elec­trode changes under oxy­gen evo­lu­tion con­di­tions, turn­ing from an oxide to an oxy­hy­drox­ide phase. Fur­ther­more, the com­po­si­tion of the elec­trolyte has a sig­nif­i­cant effect on the oxy­gen evo­lu­tion activ­i­ty. We will dis­cuss these results and their impli­ca­tions in find­ing bet­ter oxy­gen evo­lu­tion elec­tro­cat­a­lysts.
 

John Kitchin

John Kitchin

Biog­ra­phy — John Kitchin com­plet­ed his B.S. in Chem­istry at North Car­oli­na State Uni­ver­si­ty. He com­plet­ed a M.S. in Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and a PhD in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware in 2004 under the advise­ment of Dr. Jing­guang Chen and Dr. Mark Barteau. He received an Alexan­der von Hum­boldt post­doc­tor­al fel­low­ship and lived in Berlin, Ger­many for 1 ½ years study­ing alloy seg­re­ga­tion with Karsten Reuter and Matthias Schef­fler in the The­o­ry Depart­ment at the Fritz Haber Insti­tut. Pro­fes­sor Kitchin began a tenure-track fac­ul­ty posi­tion in the Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Depart­ment at Carnegie Mel­lon Uni­ver­si­ty in Jan­u­ary of 2006. He is cur­rent­ly an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor. At CMU, Pro­fes­sor Kitchin is active in a major research effort with­in the Nation­al Ener­gy Tech­nol­o­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry Region­al Uni­ver­si­ty Alliance in CO2 cap­ture, chem­i­cal loop­ing and super­al­loy oxi­da­tion. Pro­fes­sor Kitchin also uses com­pu­ta­tion­al meth­ods to study adsor­­bate-adsor­­bate inter­ac­tions on tran­si­tion met­al sur­faces for appli­ca­tions in catal­y­sis. He was award­ed a DOE Ear­ly Career award in 2010 to inves­ti­gate mul­ti­func­tion­al oxide elec­tro­cat­a­lysts for the oxy­gen evo­lu­tion reac­tion in water split­ting using exper­i­men­tal and com­pu­ta­tion­al meth­ods. He received a Pres­i­den­tial Ear­ly Career Award for Sci­en­tists and Engi­neers in 2011.
Apr
19
Fri
2013
Dead­line for the receipt of CCP Award nom­i­na­tions
Apr 19 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 orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 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 19, 2013. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2011 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cally be con­sid­ered for the 2013 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ter along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com.

Joseph Fedeyko
John­son Matthey ECT
436 Devon Park Dri­ve
Wayne, PA 19087
Tel. 610–341‑8218
Fax 610–341‑3495

May
12
Sun
2013
7th International Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis
May 12 @ 1:45 pm – May 15 @ 2:45 pm
Jul
7
Sun
2013
17th International Zeolite Conference
Jul 7 – Jul 13 all-day

Web­site: 17th IZC

Jul
22
Mon
2013
Second International Conference Catalysis for Renewable Sources: Fuel, Energy, Chemicals
Jul 22 – Jul 29 all-day

 
Web­site: http://​conf​.nsc​.ru/​C​R​S-2
 
The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will com­prise ple­nary invit­ed lec­tures, key-note pre­sen­ta­tions, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and posters.

Scientific trends of the conference

  • Cat­alyt­ic process­es for valu­ables pro­duc­tion from bio­mass
  • Cat­a­lyst appli­ca­tion for clean syn-gas and clean hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, pow­er and CHP via bio­mass gasi­fi­ca­tion
  • Catal­y­sis in com­bus­tion and co-com­bus­­tion of renew­able sources
  • Cat­alyt­ic inter­ester­i­fi­ca­tion and hydro­c­rack­ing of lipids to bio­fu­el
  • Cat­alyt­ic approach to pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els via bio­mass pyrol­y­sis
  • Bio­catal­y­sis: Fer­men­ta­tion and enzy­mat­ic process­es for bio­fu­els pro­duc­tion

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee plans to offer the par­tic­i­pants the vis­its to the pow­er plants, as well as the objects on pro­duc­tion and obtain­ing of the bio­log­i­cal mate­ri­als, the prod­ucts of fine and organ­ic syn­the­sis from renew­able raw mate­ri­als dur­ing the con­fer­ence and post-con­fer­­ence peri­od.

The offi­cial lan­guage of the con­fer­ence is Eng­lish.

Sep
1
Sun
2013
EuropaCat — XIth European Congress on Catalysis
Sep 1 – Sep 7 all-day
Sep
16
Mon
2013
Advanced Materials World Congress — AMWC 2013
Sep 16 – Sep 20 all-day

 
Web­site: amw​c2013​.org/​w​e​l​c​o​m​e​—​1​4​.​h​tml
 
The goal of con­gress is to pro­vide a glob­al plat­form for researchers and engi­neers com­ing from acad­e­mia and indus­try to present their research results and activ­i­ties in the field of mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing with a spe­cial atten­tion on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research of advanced mate­ri­als. The con­fer­ence will pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for the del­e­gates to exchange their face-to-face nov­el ideas and expe­ri­ences with the inter­na­tion­al experts dur­ing ple­nary & invit­ed talks, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and poster ses­sions. We will set up ten ses­sions with keynote forum, pan­el dis­cus­sion, project nego­ti­a­tion along with wel­come cock­tail and gala din­ner.

Jun
1
Sun
2014
Seventh Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology — TOCAT7
Jun 1 – Jun 7 all-day

 
First Cir­cu­lar: TOCAT7_1st.pdf
 
Key Dates
Dis­tri­b­u­tion of sec­ond cir­cu­lar: May 2013
Dead­line for extend­ed abstracts: October2013
Notice of accep­tance of papers: Jan­u­ary 2014
Dead­line for advanced reg­is­tra­tion: March 2014
Dead­line for full paper: June 2014
 
Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Japan will orga­nize this meet­ing as a con­tin­u­a­tion of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006) and TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010). The past six TOCAT con­fer­ences have earned a good rep­u­ta­tion as a new series of inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences on catal­y­sis that has sig­nif­i­cant­ly filled the gap between research and tech­nol­o­gy in catal­y­sis.
 
Scope
Stim­u­lat­ing clos­er ties between acad­e­mia and indus­try and encour­ag­ing young researchers in the field of catal­y­sis are the cen­tral con­cept of this con­fer­ence. This con­fer­ence sould great­ly con­tribute to exchang­ing new ideas and tech­nolo­gies and pro­mot­ing devel­op­ments of new out­stand­ing cat­a­lysts and sys­tems under the scope that catal­y­sis is a high­ly and eager­ly demand­ed tech­nol­o­gy in indus­tries and for sus­tain­able soci­ety and dri­ves inno­va­tion in many oth­er fields.

Papers on the fol­low­ing top­ics are wel­come.
Gen­er­al Ses­sion

  • New con­cepts for catal­y­sis
  • Advanced mate­ri­als for catal­y­sis
  • Fun­da­men­tals and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion
  • Green and sus­tain­able catal­y­sis
  • Envi­ron­men­tal catal­y­sis
  • Catal­y­sis in ener­gy con­ver­sion
  • Bio­catal­y­sis
  • Pho­to­catal­y­sis
  • Sol­id acids and bases
  • Selec­tive oxi­da­tion
  • Organometal­lic catal­y­sis
  • Reac­tor engi­neer­ing

 
Indus­tri­al Ses­sion

  • Intro­duc­tion of recent­ly devel­oped and/or com­mer­cial­ized indus­tri­al cat­a­lysts and process­es
  • Emis­sion con­trol
  • Green and sus­tain­able process­es
  • Petro­le­um refin­ing and petro­chem­i­cals
  • Fine and chi­ral syn­the­sis
  • Poly­mer­iza­tion
Jul
6
Sun
2014
11th International Symposium: Scientific Bases for the Preparation of Heterogeneous Catalysts — PREPA11
Jul 6 – Jul 11 all-day

 
Web­site: 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium: PREPA 11
 
It has become a tra­di­tion that every four years, the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain and the Katholieke Uni­ver­siteit Leu­ven joint­ly orga­nize a sym­po­sium devot­ed to the sci­en­tif­ic bases for the prepa­ra­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. These meet­ings bring togeth­er researchers from acad­e­mia and indus­try and offer a forum for dis­cus­sions on the chem­istry involved in the prepa­ra­tion of indus­tri­al het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts.
We cor­dial­ly invite all sci­en­tists active in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis to par­tic­i­pate in the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Sci­en­tif­ic Bases for the Prepa­ra­tion of Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts.

The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will con­sist of invit­ed lec­tures, oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions.

Con­tri­bu­tions are solicit­ed that focus on the aspects of cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion. Reports on physi­­co-chem­i­­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic per­for­mances should be lim­it­ed to cor­re­la­tions with the prepa­ra­tion para­me­ters.

Papers will be select­ed by a sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee, con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from indus­try of catal­y­sis (man­u­fac­tur­ers and users), based on the sci­en­tif­ic val­ue of the abstract, nov­el­ty and the com­pli­ance of the sub­ject to the sym­po­sium top­ics.

Main Topics

  • Inno­v­a­tive approach­es in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion for spe­cif­ic per­for­mances and pur­pos­es
  • Advanced prepa­ra­tions of cat­a­lysts and sup­ports
  • Key con­cepts and tools in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion
Sep
17
Thu
2015
CCP Monthly Meeting
Sep 17 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
Catal­y­sis – An Indis­pens­able Tool
Sourav Sen­gupta, DuPont — 2015 CCP Award Win­ner

Oct
15
Thu
2015
CCP Monthly Meeting
Oct 15 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA
Prof. Matthew Neu­rock, Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta — Twin Cities

Nov
19
Thu
2015
CCP Poster Sesion
Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

CCP Monthly Meeting
Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA
John Hol­la­day, PNNL

Jan
21
Thu
2016
CCP Monthly Meeting
Jan 21 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA
Jing­guang Chen, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty

Feb
18
Thu
2016
CCP Monthly Meeting
Feb 18 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA
Susan­nah Scott, UCSB

Mar
24
Thu
2016
CCP Monthly Meeting
Mar 24 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA

Apr
21
Thu
2016
CCP Election of New Officers
Apr 21 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
CCP Monthly Meeting
Apr 21 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 
TBA
Rob Rioux, PSU

Sep
27
Thu
2018
Monthly Meeting
Sep 27 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Main Speak­er: Prof. Alan S. Gold­man, Rut­gers — The State Uni­ver­si­ty of New Jer­sey,
Catal­y­sis by Pin­cer-Irid­i­um Com­plex­es. Break­ing C-H Bonds, Mak­ing C-C Bonds, and Var­i­ous Com­bi­na­tions There­of

Stu­dent Speak­er Dr. Ozgen Yal­cin
Bridg­ing the Gap between Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts and Bioinor­gan­ic Enzymes