Calendar

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
Nov
11
Thu
2021
CCP Webinar: Prof. Bruce Gates
Nov 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:45 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Wel­come
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Bran­don Vance, from Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    Bridg­ing the Gap Between Mod­el Alka­nes and Poly­olefin Hydro­c­rack­ing
  • 7:25pm:  Prof. Bruce Gates, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis
    Atom­i­cal­ly Dis­persed Sup­port­ed Plat­inum Cat­a­lysts: Syn­the­sis, Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, Struc­ture, Sta­bi­liza­tion, and Catal­y­sis of Reac­tions includ­ing CO Oxi­da­tion and Propane Dehy­dro­gena­tion
Jan
20
Thu
2022
CCP Webinar: Dr. Dave Thompsett
Jan 20 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Webi­nar Agen­da:

  • 12:00pm:  Wel­come
  • 12:30pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Bar Mose­vitzky Lis, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
    A Par­a­digm Shift in the Nature of the Active Sur­face of the Bis­muth Molyb­date Cat­a­lyst dur­ing the Selec­tive Oxi­da­tion of Propy­lene
  • 1:00pm:  Dr. Dave Thompsett, John­son Matthey
    Three-way cat­a­lysts: Inno­va­tion with­in a mature tech­nol­o­gy
  • 2:00pm:  Meet­ing adjourns

CCP mem­bers may reg­is­ter for this webi­nar by using this LINK. Meet­ing invite to be sent with con­fir­ma­tion email.

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

Feb
24
Thu
2022
CCP Webinar: Prof. Alan M. Allgeier
Feb 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30pm:  Wel­come
  • 7:00pm:  Stu­dent Speak­er — Kewei Yu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    Ethane Non-oxi­da­­tive Dehy­dro­gena­tion over Co/SiO2 — Pre­treat­ment and Regen­er­a­tion
  • 7:25pm:  Prof. Alan M. All­geier, Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas
    Cat­Bio­Cat: Har­ness­ing the Strengths of Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis and Enzyme
    Catal­y­sis in Bio­mass Val­oriza­tion
  • 8:30pm:  Meet­ing adjourns
Mar
24
Thu
2022
CCP Webinar: Prof. Alexander Orlov
Mar 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30 PM EST: Wel­come
  • 7:00: Stu­dent Speak­er — San­jana Srini­vas, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
    Spin-cross­ing in het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis by atom­i­cal­ly dis­persed tran­si­tion met­als. An exam­ple: Ethane dehy­dro­gena­tion by Co/SiO2
  • 7:25: Prof. Alexan­der Orlov, Stony Brook Uni­ver­si­ty
    Title TBD
  • 8:30: Meet­ing adjourns
Apr
21
Thu
2022
CCP Webinar: Prof. Hongliang Xin
Apr 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Meet­ing Agen­da:

  • 6:30 PM EST: Wel­come
  • 7:00: Stu­dent Speak­er — Christo­pher Rzepa, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
    Infer­ring struc­­ture-entropy cor­re­la­tions of zeo­lite-adsor­­bate inter­ac­tions using Monte-Car­­lo sim­u­la­tions & machine learn­ing
  • 7:25: Prof. Hongliang Xin, Vir­ginia Tech
    Advanc­ing Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als for Ammo­nia Redox Cycling by Machine Learn­ing
  • 8:30: Meet­ing adjourns
May
4
Wed
2022
Voting closes for 2022–2023 CCP officers
May 4 @ 10:00 pm

Dear CCP sup­port­ers,

Thank you for your con­tin­ued engage­ment and mem­ber­ship through the 2021–2022 sea­son.  Please help us pre­pare for the 2022–2023 sea­son by cast­ing your votes for the new offi­cers.  The vot­ing will close May 4, 2022 at 10 PM.  The results will be announced at the Spring Sym­po­sium.

Offi­cer Biogra­phies

Vot­ing link

Best,

Thomas Yeh

CCP Chair

May
27
Fri
2022
Poster Submission Deadline: CCP Student Poster Session
May 27 all-day

This is a call for posters for the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadelphia’s annu­al Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion to be held Wednes­day, June 8th, 2022, at the Inn at Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty, 601 Coun­ty Line Rd, Wayne, PA 19087. To enter, please sub­mit a short abstract using the details pro­vid­ed below:

  • E-mail to weijian.​diao@​villanova.​edu
  • Sub­ject line: CCP Poster Ses­sion 2021–2022 – 1st author’s name
  • Open to under­grad­u­ate, grad­u­ate, and post-doc­­tor­al researchers
  • Any aspect of catal­y­sis sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy
  • Use abstract tem­plate and instruc­tions pro­vid­ed
  • Poster – por­trait for­mat, max­i­mum size = 36” x 48”
  • Dead­line for abstract: May 27th, 2022

Please click on the fol­low­ing links for the announce­ment and tem­plate. Feel free to for­ward this mes­sage to inter­est­ed stu­dents and post­docs in your group and depart­ment. A reg­is­tra­tion link for all stu­dent pre­sen­ters, mem­bers, and non-mem­bers will be avail­able soon.

Jun
8
Wed
2022
CCP Student Poster Session
Jun 8 @ 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia invites you to reg­is­ter for the 2021–2022 Annu­al Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion, which will be held IN-PERSON on the Wednes­day, June 8th, 2022, at the Inn at Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty, 601 Coun­ty Line Rd, Wayne, PA 19087. The Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion will start at 5:30pm and fol­lowed by din­ner at 7pm.

We are excit­ed about back to in-per­­son meet­ing, we have decid­ed to make the sym­po­sium free for all stu­dent mem­ber pre­sen­ters, $15 for all CCP mem­bers and $40 for non-mem­bers (Din­ner includ­ed for all).

To reg­is­ter for Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion, down­load the call for poster, or join the club as a mem­ber, please fol­low the links below:

*** Poster pre­sen­ters do not need to reg­is­ter. Poster sub­mis­sions will serve as reg­is­tra­tion. ***

Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion Reg­is­tra­tion link”,

Call for posters”,

Become a CCP Mem­ber