Author Archives: Dang Nguyen

2024 — 2025 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, Sept. 19nd, 2024
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Nav­i­gat­ing the Bound­aries between Fun­da­men­tal and Applied Research in Zeo­lite Catal­y­sis
Prof. Jef­frey D. Rimer, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton
2024–2025 CCP Wel­come Let­ter »
Announce­ment & Abstract »

Stu­dent Speak­er
Mag­ne­sio­ther­mic Reduc­tion of Car­bon Diox­ide in a Porous Mono­lith for Car­bon Diox­ide-Derived Com­pos­ite Mate­ri­als
Hadas Elazar-Mit­tel­man, Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty
Thurs­day, Oct. 17th, 2024
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm
Post­poned		Nov­el Rare Earth Tech­nol­o­gy in Flu­id Cat­alyt­ic Crack­ing
Dr. Yuy­ing Shu, Cat­a­lysts Tech­nolo­gies, W. R. Grace & Co., Colum­bia MD
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Thurs­day, Jan. 16th, 2025
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Design­ing Micro­p­orous Cat­a­lysts to Over­come Mate­r­i­al and Reac­tion Lim­i­ta­tions
Prof. Michele Sarazen, Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Tues­day, Feb. 18th, 2025
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Nov­el Rare Earth Tech­nol­o­gy in Flu­id Cat­alyt­ic Crack­ing
Dr. Yuy­ing Shu, Cat­a­lysts Tech­nolo­gies, W. R. Grace & Co., Colum­bia MD
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Thurs­day, Mar. 20th, 2025
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Intro­duc­tion to Addi­tive Man­u­fac­tur­ing and Ener­gy Appli­ca­tions
Prof. Kelvin Fu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Flash Talk
Improved Struc­tur­ing Tech­nol­o­gy for Sor­bents and Cat­a­lysts
Dr. Bob Gras­so, W.L. Gore & Asso­ciates
Stu­dent Speak­er
Two-Dimen­sion­al MXene Sup­port­ed Met­al Cat­a­lysts for Plas­tic Waste Hydrogenol­y­sis
Ali Kamali, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware

2024–2025 Officers

Chair
Zhuo­nan (Nick) Song
WL Gore
Past Chair
Angela Zheng
John­son Matthey
Chair-Elect
Jin­suo Xu
Dow Chem­i­cal
Trea­sur­er
Steve Hard­wick
W.L. Gore (Retired)
Sec­re­tary
Pey­ton Swan­son
Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Pro­gram Chair
Bran­don Bukows­ki
Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty
Arrange­ments Chair
Pedro Anto­nio Reis Moura
Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Direc­tor Mem­ber­ship
Gagan­deep Dhillon
John­son Matthey
Direc­tor Poster Ses­sion
Jun Hee Jang
Rowan Uni­ver­si­ty
Direc­tor Spon­sor­ship
Feiyang Geng
John­son Matthey
Web­mas­ter
Dang Nguyen
Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to NACS
Michael Smith
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty

2023–2024 Meeting Program

Thurs­day, Sept. 21st, 2023
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Ab ini­tio and machine learn­ing mod­els to infer cat­alyt­ic reac­tion mech­a­nisms
Prof. Srini­vas Ran­gara­jan, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
2023–2024 CCP Wel­come Let­ter »
Announce­ment & Abstract »

Stu­dent Speak­er
Inves­ti­ga­tion of Crys­tal­liza­tion of LTA Zeo­lite Cat­a­lyst Using Raman Spec­tra
Song Luo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Thurs­day, Oct. 19th, 2023
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Active site require­ments for chemos­e­lec­tive hydro­gena­tion with bina­ry and ternary inter­metallics
Prof. Robert Rioux, Penn State Uni­ver­si­ty
Announce­ment & Abstract »

Stu­dent Speak­er
Under­stand­ing the role of cor­ro­sion and reac­tive oxy­gen species in elec­tro­chem­i­cal ozone pro­duc­tion
Rayan Alaufey, Drex­el uni­ver­si­ty
Wednes­day, Nov. 15th, 2023
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Per­for­mance of Bimetal­lic Hydropro­cess­ing Cat­a­lysts in Liq­uid-Full Reac­tors
Dr. Hasan Din­di, DuPont (Retired)
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Stu­dent Speak­er
Study­ing ZrO2 Active Sites for Bio­mass Upgrad­ing
Mengjie Fan, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Thurs­day, Jan. 18th, 2024
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Design­ing sol­vent microen­vi­ron­ments in zeo­lite cat­a­lysts using atom­istic sim­u­la­tions for sus­tain­able fuels and chem­i­cals
Prof. Bran­don C. Bukows­ki, Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Stu­dent Speak­er
Obser­va­tion of Dual Cat­alyt­ic Sites for Selec­tive Oxi­da­tion of Ethanol over Zeo­lite-Sup­port­ed Gold Cat­a­lysts
Yiteng Zheng, Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty
Thurs­day, Feb. 15th, 2024
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Eth­yl­ene Oxide Cat­a­lyst and Process Inno­va­tions: A Suc­cess­ful Jour­ney Towards a Sus­tain­able Indus­tri­al Process
Dr. Madan M. Bhasin, Inno­v­a­tive Cat­alyt­ic Solu­tions, LLC
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Stu­dent Speak­er
The Role of Site Flex­i­bil­i­ty in the Activ­i­ty of Fe-N-C cat­a­lysts
Piaop­ing Yang, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Thurs­day, Mar. 21st, 2024
In-per­son
5:30pm — 8:45 pm		Mem­brane Reac­tor: Cou­pling Cat­alyt­ic Reac­tion and Sep­a­ra­tion for Dehy­dro­gena­tion of Light Alka­nes
Prof. Dongx­ia Liu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Announce­ment & Abstract »
Sec­ond Speak­er
Fe2(MoO4)3/ZSM-5 cat­a­lysts for methane arom­a­ti­za­tion to ben­zene
Gagan­deep Dhillon, John­son Matthey

2023–2024 Officers

Chair
Angela Zheng
John­son Matthey
Past Chair
Udayshankar Singh
WR Grace & Co
Chair-Elect
Zhuo­nan (Nick) Song
WL Gore
Trea­sur­er
Steve Hard­wick
WL Gore (Retired)
Sec­re­tary
Pey­ton Swan­son
Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Pro­gram Chair
Wei­jian Diao
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
Arrange­ments Chair
Sean Naj­mi
Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Direc­tor Mem­ber­ship
Feiyang Geng
John­son Matthey
Direc­tor Poster Ses­sion
Donghua Zuo
Cov­a­tion Bio­ma­te­ri­als
Direc­tor Spon­sor­ship
Nefe­li Kamarinopoulou
Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Web­mas­ter
Dang Nguyen
Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to NACS
Michael Smith
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty

2023 Spring Symposium and Poster Session

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:00 AMBreak­fast and social hour
9:00 AMOpen­ing remarks
9:10 AMKeynote, Prof. Robert Far­rauto, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
Dual Func­tion Mate­ri­als (DFM) for direct air cap­ture of CO2 and its’ cat­alyt­ic con­ver­sion to CH4: Engi­neer­ing a solu­tion towards mit­i­gat­ing cli­mate change
9:55 AMDr. Haiy­ing Chen, Oak Ridge Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry
Mono­lith Sup­port­ed Mul­ti­func­tion­al Cat­a­lysts for the Direct Con­ver­sion of CO2 to Dimethyl Ether
10:25 AMTea break
10:40 AMProf. Huiyuan Zhu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
Well-Defined, Atom­i­cal­ly Pre­cise Cat­a­lysts for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry
11:10 AMDr. Paula­mi Majum­dar, Dow
Dis­cov­ery of Nov­el Cat­a­lysts for the Selec­tive Vapor-Phase Methoxy­car­bony­la­tion of Eth­yl­ene
11:40 AMLunch (Buf­fet)
13:00 PMAfter­noon pro­gram open­ing remarks
13:05 PMKeynote, Dr. Prof. Dion­i­sios Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Cat­alyt­ic Upcy­cling Tech­nolo­gies for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Cir­cu­lar­i­ty
13:50 PMDr. John R. Lock­e­mey­er, Shell
The Shell Eth­yl­ene Oxide Cat­a­lyst Jour­ney
14:20 PMTea break
14:35 PMDr. Basudeb Saha, Rikar­bon
Recy­cling Plas­tics for a Clean­er Plan­et
15:05 PMStu­dent talk, Kai Shen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Reversible per­ovskite-flu­o­rite phase tran­si­tion in alu­mi­na-sup­port­ed CeFeOx films and their use as Pt sup­port
15:25 PMSym­po­sium clos­ing remarks and Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion intro­duc­tion
15:30 PMStu­dent Poster Ses­sion and social hour
17:00 PMCon­fer­ence clos­ing

2022–2023 Officers

Chair
Udayshankar Singh
WR Grace
Past Chair
Thomas Yeh
Air Prod­ucts
Chair-Elect
Angela Zheng
John­son Matthey
Trea­sur­er
Steve Hard­wick
WL Gore (Retired)
Sec­re­tary
Mengjie Fan
Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Pro­gram Chair
Wei­jian Diao
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
Arrange­ments Chair
Tian Ren
Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Direc­tor Mem­ber­ship
Leo DeRi­ta
John­son Matthey
Direc­tor Poster Ses­sion
Donghua Zuo
Elessent Clean Tech­nolo­gies
Direc­tor Spon­sor­ship
Don­na Liu
John­son Matthey
Web­mas­ter
Dang Nguyen
Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to NACS
Michael Smith
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty

2022 Virtual Spring Symposium

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Thurs, May 5th, 2022

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Keynote, Prof. Raj Gounder, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
Con­se­quences of Cou­pled Reac­tion-Dif­fu­sion Phe­nom­e­na for Alkene Oligomer­iza­tion Catal­y­sis by Bron­st­ed Acid Zeo­lites
9:45Dr. Michael Berg, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Cat­alyt­ic Approach­es and Tools to Val­orize Poly­mer Plas­tics Waste
10:20Ram­chan­dra Gawas, Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty
Ion­ic Liq­uid Com­pos­ite Elec­tro­cat­a­lysts for the Oxy­gen Reduc­tion Reac­tion
10:45Break
11:00Prof. Michele Sarazen, Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty
Reac­tion, Dif­fu­sion, and Deac­ti­va­tion Rates of Aro­mat­ic Alky­la­tion and Alco­hol Ether­i­fi­ca­tion on Hier­ar­chi­cal Zeo­lites
11:30Prof. Bin Liu, Kansas State Uni­ver­si­ty
“1+1>2”: Evi­dence for Pro­mot­ed Cat­alyt­ic Per­for­mance on Bina­ry Cat­a­lysts from Kinet­ic Mod­el­ing
12:05Clos­ing Remarks

Virtual Symposium Agenda
Fri, May 6th, 2022

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Dr. Partha Nan­di, Exxon­Mo­bil
Direct Par­tial Oxi­da­tion of Methane to Methanol: New Learn­ings in an Old Chal­lenge
9:35Prof. Carsten Siev­ers, Geor­gia Tech
Fun­da­men­tals and Appli­ca­tions of Mechanocat­alyt­ic Process­es
10:10Keynote, Prof. Susan­nah Scott, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San­ta Bar­bara
Cat­alyt­ic Upcy­cling of Poly­olefins to Val­ue-added Mol­e­cules by Hydro­gen Redis­tri­b­u­tion
10:55Break
11:05Announce­ments
11:10Dr. George Fort­man, MBA, The Cat­a­lyst Group
Gold Spon­sor Talk
11:20Dr. Fabi­en Rioult, Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al / Ecovyst
Gold Spon­sor Talk
11:30Dr. David West, SABIC
Sur­pris­es and Dis­guis­es in Oxida­tive Cou­pling of Methane
12:05Clos­ing Remarks

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