The Paul H. Emmett Award in Fun­da­men­tal Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by the Grace Davi­son oper­at­ing seg­ment of W.R. Grace & Co. It is admin­is­tered by The Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and is award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in odd num­bered years, gen­er­al­ly at the North Amer­i­can meet­ing of The Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, where the awardee will be asked to give a ple­nary lec­ture. The award con­sists of a plaque and a prize of $5,000. An addi­tion­al $500 is avail­able for oth­er­wise unre­im­bursed trav­el expens­es.

The pur­pose of the Award is to rec­og­nize and encour­age indi­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tions in the field of catal­y­sis with empha­sis on dis­cov­ery and under­stand­ing of cat­alyt­ic phe­nom­e­na, pro­pos­al of cat­alyt­ic reac­tion mech­a­nisms and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of and descrip­tion of cat­alyt­ic sites and species.

Selec­tion of the Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists and engi­neers appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent of The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. Selec­tion shall be made with­out regard for sex, nation­al­i­ty or affi­I­ia­tion. The award win­ner must not have turned 46 on April 1st of the award year, thus nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments should indi­cate the age and birth date of the nom­i­nee. [The next award is the 2013 Award year for this Emmett Award (nom­i­na­tions due by Sep­tem­ber 30, 2012). Thus, nom­i­nees should not yet be 46 on April 1, 2013.) Posthu­mous awards will be made only when knowl­edge of the awardee’s death is received after announce­ment of the Award Committee’s deci­sion. Nom­i­na­tions for the Award should present the nominee’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions, accom­plish­ments, birth­date, and biog­ra­phy. A crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of pub­li­ca­tions and patents should be made as well as a state­ment of the par­tic­u­lar contribution(s) on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments should be sub­mit­ted in one com­plete pack­age to the Pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety along with no more than two sec­ond­ing let­ters.

Selec­tion of the 2013 Emmett Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists and engi­neers appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent of The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. Nom­i­na­tion pack­ages for the Award must be received by 30 Sep­tem­ber 2012.

All nom­i­na­tion pack­ages (one ELECTRONIC COPY) for the Emmett Award should be should be sent to Enrique Igle­sia, Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety; at iglesia@​berkeley.​edu. Receipt of any nom­i­na­tion, will be con­firmed by an email mes­sage sent to any nom­i­na­tor.

 
Weblink: http://​conf​.nsc​.ru/​M​C​R​—​I​X​/​en/

 
(An Award pre­sent­ed joint­ly by the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties)

The Michel Boudart Award for the Advance­ment of Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by the Hal­dor Top­søe Com­pa­ny, and is admin­is­tered joint­ly by the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties. The Award will be pre­sent­ed bien­ni­al­ly in odd num­bered years. The recip­i­ent will give ple­nary lec­tures at the bian­nu­al meet­ings of the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (NAM) and the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties (EFCATS) (EuropaCat). The award con­sists of a plaque or object of art and a prize of $6,000. Up to an addi­tion­al $2,000 will be made avail­able for oth­er­wise non-reim­bursed trav­el expens­es.

The Award rec­og­nizes and encour­ages indi­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tions to the elu­ci­da­tion of the mech­a­nism and active sites involved in cat­alyt­ic phe­nom­e­na and to the devel­op­ment of new meth­ods or con­cepts that advance the under­stand­ing and/or prac­tice of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis. The Award selec­tion process will empha­size accom­plish­ments and con­tri­bu­tions pub­lished with­in the five pre­ced­ing years. Can­di­dates may be nom­i­nat­ed with­out any restric­tion of nation­al ori­gin, thus reflect­ing the inter­na­tion­al scope of the career and con­tri­bu­tions of Michel Boudart.

The recip­i­ent of the Michel Boudart Award will be select­ed by a com­mit­tee of renowned researchers appoint­ed joint­ly by the Pres­i­dents of the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and the Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties. The selec­tion shall be made with­out regard for age, sex, affil­i­a­tion, or nation­al ori­gin. Recip­i­ents of NACS Awards or Lec­ture­ships with­in the last 5 years are eli­gi­ble for the Michel Boudart Award.

Nom­i­na­tions should clear­ly state the qual­i­fi­ca­tions and accom­plish­ments of the nom­i­nee and should also include a CV and no more than two sup­port­ing let­ters. A crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of pub­li­ca­tions and patents should be made, as well as a state­ment of the par­tic­u­lar contribution(s) on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Each nom­i­na­tion is to be sub­mit­ted as one com­plete pack­age (nom­i­na­tion let­ter, CV, 2 sup­port­ing let­ters, and jus­ti­fi­ca­tion).

After Sep­tem­ber 2012, one com­plete elec­tron­ic copy of the nom­i­na­tion pack­ages for the 2013 Boudart Award should be sent to the Pres­i­dent of The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (Enrique Igle­sia; iglesia@​berkeley.​edu) or the Pres­i­dent of The Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties (Aveli­no Cor­ma; acorma@​itq.​upv.​es) by 1 Novem­ber 2012. Nom­i­na­tors should expect to receive email con­fir­ma­tion of their sub­mis­sion.

 
The F.G. Cia­pet­ta Lec­ture­ship in Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by the Grace Davi­son oper­at­ing seg­ment of W.R. Grace & Co. and The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. The Soci­ety admin­is­ters this Lec­ture­ship. It is to be award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in even num­bered years. The Award con­sists of a plaque and an hon­o­rar­i­um of $5,000. Trav­el expens­es are pro­vid­ed through a trav­el escrow fund, admin­is­tered by the NACS, to be used on a “as need­ed basis” for the recip­i­ents from acad­e­mia or indus­tri­al com­pa­nies (with $100 Mil­lion annu­al sales; up to $3,000. for employ­ees of larg­er com­pa­nies). The Award is giv­en in recog­ni­tion of sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tions to one or more areas in the field of catal­y­sis with empha­sis on indus­tri­al­ly sig­nif­i­cant cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic process­es and the dis­cov­ery of new cat­alyt­ic reac­tions and sys­tems of poten­tial indus­tri­al impor­tance. The awardee will be select­ed on the basis of his/her con­tri­bu­tions to the cat­alyt­ic lit­er­a­ture and the cur­rent time­li­ness of these research con­tri­bu­tions. The recip­i­ent may be invit­ed to vis­it and lec­ture to each of the affil­i­at­ed Clubs/Societies with which mutu­al­ly sat­is­fac­to­ry arrange­ments can be made. Selec­tion of the awardee will be made with­out regard to age, sex, nation­al­i­ty, or affil­i­a­tion. The nom­i­na­tion should con­tain a crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of candidate’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions should be made as well as a state­ment of the par­tic­u­lar contribution(s) on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments (nom­i­na­tion let­ter, CV, jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, and no more than 2 sec­ond­ing let­ters) in one com­plete pack­age should be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cal­ly to the Pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety. Nom­i­na­tions for the Cia­pet­ta Award will close on 1 Novem­ber 2013. All nom­i­na­tion pack­ages for the Cia­pet­ta Award should be should be sent to Enrique Igle­sia, Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety; at iglesia@​berkeley.​edu. Receipt of any nom­i­na­tion, will be con­firmed by an email mes­sage sent to any nom­i­na­tor.

 
Weblink: http://​www​.sci​en​tifi​cup​date​.co​.uk/​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​s​/​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​s​—​s​c​h​e​d​u​l​e​.​h​tml

Web­site:

 
Weblink: http://​www​.zing​con​fer​ences​.com/​i​n​d​e​x​.​c​f​m​?​p​a​g​e​=​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​nce intConferenceID=99&type=conference

 
Meet­ing reg­is­tra­tion and poster set­up will start at 8:30 am.
Web­site: North­east Cor­ri­dor Zeo­lite Asso­ci­a­tion

2012 NECZA Announce­ment

List of Poster Abstracts

 
Weblink: http://​www​.sci​en​tifi​cup​date​.co​.uk/​t​r​a​i​n​i​n​g​/​s​c​h​e​d​u​l​e​d​—​c​o​u​r​s​e​s​.​h​tml

Web­site:

Invited Speakers (alphabetical order)

 
Devel­op­ing HDS under­stand­ing based on real feed-stocks
Tushar V. Choud­hary, Phillips 66, Bartlesville, OK
 
From Hydrodesul­fu­r­iza­tion to Hydrodeoxy­gena­tion: What are the sim­i­lar­i­ties at the atom­­ic-scale?
Lars C. Grabow, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, TX
 
Shell Alter­na­tive Trans­port Fuels,
Kim John­son, Shell Chem­i­cal Co., Hous­ton, TX
 
Advances in Hydropro­cess­ing Cat­a­lyst Tech­nol­o­gy: The Dis­cov­ery of ExxonMobil/Albemarle’s Neb­u­la Cat­a­lyst
Doron Levin, Exxon­Mo­bil, Annan­dale, NJ
 
Nanos­truc­tured Gold Mod­el Cat­a­lysts on Oxy­­gen-free Sub­strates
Li Liu, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty
 
Nat­ur­al Gas to Syn­gas using Rh-sub­­sti­­tut­ed pyrochlore (La₂Zr₂O₇) cat­a­lysts
Jer­ry Spivey (LSU), D. Pakhare (LSU), D. Haynes (DoE/NETL), D. Shekhawat (DoE/NETL), V. Abdel­sayed (DoE/NETL)

 
The Robert Bur­well Lec­ture­ship in Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by John­son Matthey Cat­a­lysts Divi­sion and admin­is­tered by The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. It is to be award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in odd-num­bered years. The award con­sists of a plaque and an hon­o­rar­i­um of $5,000. An addi­tion­al $4,500 is avail­able to cov­er trav­el­ling expens­es in North Amer­i­ca. The awardee is expect­ed to lec­ture at many of the local catal­y­sis clubs.

The award is giv­en in recog­ni­tion of sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tions to one or more areas in the field of catal­y­sis with empha­sis on dis­cov­ery and under­stand­ing of cat­alyt­ic phe­nom­e­na, cat­alyt­ic reac­tion mech­a­nisms and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and descrip­tion of cat­alyt­ic sites and species. The Awardee will be select­ed on the basis of his/her con­tri­bu­tions to the cat­alyt­ic lit­er­a­ture and the cur­rent time­li­ness of these research con­tri­bu­tions. The recip­i­ent may be invit­ed to (1) vis­it and lec­ture to each of the affil­i­at­ed Clubs/Societies with which mutu­al­ly sat­is­fac­to­ry arrange­ments can be made and (2) pre­pare a review paper(s) for pub­li­ca­tion cov­er­ing these lec­tures. Pub­li­ca­tion will be in an appro­pri­ate peri­od­i­cal.

Selec­tion of the Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists and engi­neers appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent of The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. Selec­tion shall be made with­out regard for age, sex, nation­al­i­ty or affil­i­a­tion. Posthu­mous awards will be made only when knowl­edge of the awardee’s death is received after announce­ment of the Award Committee’s deci­sion. Nom­i­na­tion pack­ages should indi­cate the nominee’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions, accom­plish­ments with CV, a nom­i­nat­ing let­ter, no more than two sec­ond­ing let­ters and a biog­ra­phy of the nom­i­nee. A crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of candidate’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions should be made as well as a state­ment of the par­tic­u­lar contribution(s) on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion pack­ages for the Award must be received by 1 April 2013 in one com­plete pack­age.

All nom­i­na­tion pack­ages (one ELECTRONIC COPY) for the Bur­well Award should be sent to Enrique Igle­sia, Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety; at iglesia@​berkeley.​edu. Receipt of any nom­i­na­tion, will be con­firmed by an email mes­sage sent to any nom­i­na­tor.

 
Invi­ta­tion

We invite you to join us at the 23rd North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Meet­ing to be held from June 2–7, 2013 in Louisville, Ken­tucky at the his­toric Halt House Hotel. This meet­ing is the pre­mier sci­en­tif­ic event in the field of catal­y­sis research and devel­op­ment in 2013. Tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenges, break­through dis­cov­er­ies and state-of-the-art aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al research will be fea­tured.

The open­ing recep­tion of the 23rd NAM will take place at Churchill Downs, home of the Ken­tucky Der­by.

Weblink:23 NAM

Formal Invitation from Honorary Chair, Prof. Dr. Robert K. Grasselli

 
As we all know, catal­y­sis has its roots almost 200 years back, dat­ing to Berzel­lius, who first coined the word and intro­duced the con­cept of catal­y­sis in 1821. Much has been accom­plished in the area of catal­y­sis since that ear­ly time, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the past 100 years. In that peri­od, some of the most impor­tant cat­alyt­ic process­es that changed the com­plex­ion of our world to the bet­ter have been dis­cov­ered and com­mer­cial­ized, such as the Haber-Bosch Ammo­nia Syn­the­sis, Reform­ing, Cat­alyt­ic Crack­ing, Acid Catal­y­sis, Selec­tive Ammox­i­da­tion, Selec­tive Oxi­da­tion, and Exhaust Abate­ment Catal­y­sis. In today’s indus­tri­al­ized world, catal­y­sis is ubiq­ui­tous. Vir­tu­al­ly all man­u­fac­tured prod­ucts ben­e­fit by catal­y­sis some­where in the chain of their pro­duc­tion.

Oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis, which is the sub­ject of our 7th WCOC, com­mands a very key role. Name­ly, twen­ty five per­cent of the most impor­tant indus­tri­al organ­ic chem­i­cals and inter­me­di­ates are pro­duced by selec­tive het­ero­ge­neous oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis: these com­prise acrolein, acrylic acid, acry­loni­trile, methacrylic acid, male­ic anhy­dride, phthal­ic anhy­dride, eth­yl­ene oxide and propy­lene oxide.

Over the past fifty years great efforts have been expand­ed, by indus­tri­al, as well as, aca­d­e­m­ic researchers, to make selec­tive oxi­da­tion process­es and their cat­a­lysts ever more effi­cient and envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­lier. The very term “selec­tive oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis” implies effi­cien­cy, preser­va­tion of mat­ter and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty. The recent­ly coined term “green chem­istry” has already been prac­ticed for the past fifty years by researchers active in the area of selec­tive oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis, and that with ever-greater prowess, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing of cat­a­lyst behav­ior on an atom­ic and mol­e­c­u­lar lev­el has con­tin­u­ous­ly improved and been refined; through the aid of sophis­ti­cat­ed spec­tro­scop­ic tech­niques.

In our upcom­ing 7th WCOC we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of the ear­li­er World Oxi­da­tion Con­gress­es by aim­ing to fur­ther expand the fun­da­men­tal knowl­edge, as well as, tech­no­log­i­cal progress achieved in the field of oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis in gen­er­al, and selec­tive oxi­da­tion in par­tic­u­lar, and to help lay the foun­da­tion for new research and imple­men­ta­tion in our cho­sen dis­ci­pline. The over­all theme of our con­gress is “From Fun­da­men­tals to Appli­ca­tions”.

We cor­dial­ly invite you to active­ly par­tic­i­pate in our meet­ing in St. Louis, the Gate­way to the West, in order to make our Con­gress anoth­er WCOC suc­cess!

High Sensitivity — Low Energy Ion Scattering (HS-LEI S)

[Ion-TOF Qtac 100]

 
The world’s most sen­si­tive spec­trom­e­ter for iden­ti­fy­ing sur­face atoms (top­most lay­er ~0.3nm), offer­ing a 3,000-fold improve­ment in sen­si­tiv­i­ty over con­ven­tion­al spec­trom­e­ters allow­ing for ele­men­tal 2-D sur­face map­ping and depth pro­fil­ing.

High Resolution — X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HR-XPS)

[Scienta ESCA 300]

 
One of the world’s most pow­er­ful XPS sys­tems allow­ing for chem­i­cal analy­sis of the top 10–20 atom­ic lay­ers (~1–3nm).

These two sur­face ana­lyt­i­cal tech­niques com­ple­ment each oth­er well and the com­bi­na­tion of these two tech­niques allow for a very com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of a material’s sur­face com­po­si­tion and chem­i­cal state, which is of par­tic­u­lar inter­est for cat­a­lysts, fuel cells, semi­con­duc­tors, LEDs, ceram­ics, etc.

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

[NT-MD T Solver NE XT]

 
In addi­tion to stan­dard sur­face topol­o­gy, the elec­tri­cal and mag­net­ic prop­er­ties can also be detailed with respect to a material’s sur­face.

Special Introductory Offer

 
One sam­ple will be accept­ed per com­pa­ny for a free explorato­ry analy­sis on the instru­ment of your choice and the data will be avail­able for dis­cus­sion dur­ing the sym­po­sium on June 20, 2013. Con­tact Dr. Robert Pafchek at pafchek@​lehigh.​edu to sub­mit your sam­ple in advance of the sym­po­sium.

Web­site: 17th IZC

 
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.

 
Weblink: http://​www​.europacat​ly​on2013​.fr/

 
Dear col­leagues, it is our plea­sure to announce the 1^st Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Meso­porous Zeo­lites (ISMZ) to be held in the 246^th ACS Nation­al Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion, Sep­tem­ber 8–12, 2013, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana, USA.

The sym­po­sium is intend­ed for build­ing a com­mu­ni­ty for the sci­en­tists and engi­neers involved in research, devel­op­ment, and uti­liza­tion of meso­porous zeo­lites, hier­ar­chi­cal zeo­lites, nano-zeo­lites, etc., from both acad­e­mia and indus­tries, to pro­mote open shar­ing inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly with the broad­er sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty. The two-day pro­gram (exact date to be deter­mined) will be host­ed with­in the sem­i­nar ses­sions of the Divi­sion of Ener­gy and Fuels, which includes oral pre­sen­ta­tions (30–40 min for keynote speak­ers and 20–30 min for the rest) on any or all of the area involv­ing the prepa­ra­tion, char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and appli­ca­tions of such mate­ri­als.

Abstract sub­mis­sion will be open between Feb. 1- Apr. 1, 2013 through abstracts​.acs​.org. Instruc­tions on how to sub­mit abstracts can be found here and the pre-print tem­plate here. Trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www​.acs​.org.

If you have any ques­tion, please con­tact the sym­po­sium orga­niz­ers: ISMZ-Online, Prof. Javier Gar­­cia-Mar­tinez, or Dr. Kun­hao (Eric) Li. We sin­cere­ly wel­come you and look for­ward to meet­ing you this Fall.