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Dear Catal­y­sis Com­mu­ni­ty,

Dur­ing these very uncer­tain times, we remain focused on our objec­tive to find the best way to bring our com­mu­ni­ty safe­ly togeth­er for a suc­cess­ful con­fer­ence.  As we con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor the evolv­ing glob­al sit­u­a­tion, it has become clear an in-per­son con­fer­ence in May 2021 will not be pos­si­ble in the for­mat we know to be for an effec­tive meet­ing.  Work­ing close­ly with our venue, we have agreed to post­pone the con­fer­ence one year to May 22–27, 2022. 

We believe this path will enable us to bring the com­mu­ni­ty togeth­er once again for an in-per­son con­fer­ence allow­ing for the valu­able inter­ac­tions and dis­cus­sions we are used to. In the com­ing weeks, we will con­tin­ue to update our web­site and com­mu­ni­cate any addi­tion­al rel­e­vant details.

We wish every­one a safe and Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing.

With regards,

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee of the 27^th North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Meet­ing

NAM27 Loca­tion
New York Hilton Mid­town
1335 6th Ave
New York, NY 10019

Hotel Accom­mo­da­tions
Hous­ing will be avail­able at a dis­count­ed rate at the New York Hilton Mid­town.  Reser­va­tion infor­ma­tion will be pro­vid­ed soon.

It is my hon­or to announce the 2020 recip­i­ent of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award.  The recip­i­ent must have demon­strat­ed sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­er­ship.  After a thor­ough review of the nom­i­nees for the award, it is my plea­sure to announce Prof. Raul F. Lobo of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware as the 2020 recip­i­ent of the CCP Award!

Prof. Lobo is cur­rent­ly the direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Cat­alyt­ic Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy and the Claire D. LeClaire Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal and Bio­mol­e­c­u­lar Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware. He is rec­og­nized world­wide for his syn­the­sis and appli­ca­tion of micro­p­orous oxides and micro­p­orous cat­a­lysts to het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the areas of acid catal­y­sis for C-C bond form­ing reac­tions, methane acti­va­tion and the mech­a­nisms of selec­tive cat­alyt­ic reduc­tion of NO_x with ammo­nia over Cu-con­tain­ing zeo­lites. He devel­oped struc­ture-prop­er­ty rela­tions of the nitro­gen-selec­tive adsor­bent zeo­lite Li-X, the most wide­ly used zeo­lite adsor­bent for the pro­duc­tion of dioxy­gen from air using pres­sure swing adsorp­tion. His group iden­ti­fied the key site for N₂ adsorp­tion using a com­bi­na­tion of neu­tron dif­frac­tion and NMR spec­troscopy. More recent­ly his group dis­cov­ered a new type of adsorp­tion site for CO₂ in small-pore zeo­lites: they observed a strong affin­i­ty for CO₂ adsorp­tion in the mid­dle of flat 8-ring win­dows due to a sharp elec­tric field gra­di­ent inter­act­ing with the quadru­pole of CO₂, that is selec­tive to CO₂ over water because mol­e­cules with per­ma­nent dipoles are attract­ed to strong elec­tric fields but not field gra­di­ents. Raul’s group also iden­ti­fied Cu-con­tain­ing zeo­lites that have promis­ing adsorp­tion prop­er­ties due to tem­per­a­ture-depen­dent motion of Cu(I) ions in and out of zeo­lite cav­i­ties. His catal­y­sis con­tri­bu­tions entail sev­er­al advances in hydro­car­bon acti­va­tion, NO_x reduc­tion, and bio­mass upgrad­ing.

Please join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing Prof. Lobo on adding anoth­er acco­lade onto a sto­ried career.

Eric Sacia
Past-Chair
Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia

Dear col­leagues,

The COVID 19 virus is spread­ing rapid­ly in our area. Many com­pa­nies are insti­tut­ing trav­el restric­tions and Uni­ver­si­ties are mov­ing to online course­work reduce the virus trans­mis­sion. With this in mind, the CCP will do our part to reduce the virus spread and focus on the health of our mem­bers by can­cel­ing the March 26, 2020 meet­ing.

We will update you at a lat­er date on the sta­tus of the April 30 month­ly meet­ing, and the May 14 Spring Sym­po­sium in about a month.

In the mean­time, please con­sid­er get­ting more involved in the club with an elect­ed or appoint­ed posi­tion. If so, please email Jacob.​g.​dickinson@​dupont.​com.

Elected/Nominated:

• Chair Elect (3 yr)
• Trea­sur­er
• Direc­tor (three posi­tions avail­able)
• Nation­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive (4 yr term)

Appointed:

• Arrange­ments chair
• Sec­re­tary
• Pro­gram chair
• Web­mas­ter

Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port and stay safe,

Jacob Dick­in­son, PhD

Chair- Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia

Dear Col­leagues,

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia (CCP) is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for the Theodore A. Koch Trav­el Award. 

The award is spon­sored in mem­o­ry of T.A Koch in order to rec­og­nize and reward grad­u­ate stu­dent achieve­ments in catal­y­sis research. T.A. Koch (1925–2014) was a chemist who worked at DuPont, and spent his entire career devel­op­ing chem­i­cal process­es and bring­ing them from the bench­top to com­mer­cial­iza­tion with marked cre­ativ­i­ty and tenac­i­ty. The award will pro­vide finan­cial sup­port to a grad­u­ate stu­dent up to the amount of $1000 to attend a con­fer­ence of his or her choice. The amount can be used to cov­er reg­is­tra­tion fees and/or trav­el expens­es.

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty: Grad­u­ate stu­dents that are mem­bers of the CCP and have paid the annu­al dues ($10).  Selec­tion will be based on poten­tial impact of the trav­el award to the student’s career goals, finan­cial need and over­all mer­it. (The com­plet­ed appli­ca­tion form should not exceed three pages.)

The appli­ca­tion form is due Feb­ru­ary 14th 2020, and the win­ner will be announced at our Feb­ru­ary 27th meet­ing.

Please send your appli­ca­tions to Jacob Dick­in­son (CCP Chair, jacob.g.@dupont.com).

 

Best Regards,

Jacob Dick­in­son

2019–2020 CCP Chair

Dear Col­leagues,

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia (CCP) is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for the Theodore A. Koch Trav­el Award. 

The award is spon­sored in mem­o­ry of T.A Koch in order to rec­og­nize and reward grad­u­ate stu­dent achieve­ments in catal­y­sis research. T.A. Koch (1925–2014) was a chemist who worked at DuPont, and spent his entire career devel­op­ing chem­i­cal process­es and bring­ing them from the bench­top to com­mer­cial­iza­tion with marked cre­ativ­i­ty and tenac­i­ty. The award will pro­vide finan­cial sup­port to a grad­u­ate stu­dent up to the amount of $1000 to attend a con­fer­ence of his or her choice. The amount can be used to cov­er reg­is­tra­tion fees and/or trav­el expens­es.

Eli­gi­bil­i­ty: Grad­u­ate stu­dents that are mem­bers of the CCP and have paid the annu­al dues ($10).  Selec­tion will be based on poten­tial impact of the trav­el award to the student’s career goals, finan­cial need and over­all mer­it. (The com­plet­ed appli­ca­tion form should not exceed three pages.)

The appli­ca­tion form is due Feb­ru­ary 11th 2019, and the win­ner will be announced at our Feb­ru­ary 21st meet­ing.

Please send your appli­ca­tions to Eric Sacia (CCP Chair, eric.​r.​sacia@​dupont.​com).

 

Best Regards,

Eric Sacia

2018–2019 CCP Chair

Despite some unfore­seen and unsafe weath­er con­di­tions that led to can­cel­la­tions, there was still quite an impres­sive turnout lead­ing to anoth­er suc­cess­ful CCP poster ses­sion this year! Some ~19 stu­dents/­post-docs braved the weath­er and pre­sent­ed. For those who were not able to attend due to weath­er, we hope to see you (and bet­ter weath­er) next year. Whether you could attend or not, thanks to every­one for your com­mit­ment to mak­ing this anoth­er fan­tas­tic year for CCP!
Five win­ners were cho­sen based on crowd vot­ing fol­lowed by indi­vid­ual judg­ing by CCP offi­cers. Each win­ner will receive a mon­e­tary reward and the over­all win­ner is invit­ed to give a talk at the annu­al CCP Sym­po­sium in Spring 2019.

2018 CCP Poster Ses­sion Win­ners
Natalia Rodriquez Quiroz
Chao Lin
Elvis Ebikade
Jen­nifer Lee
Yuan Cheng

Left-to-right: Eric Sacia (CCP Chair), Yuan Cheng, Natalia Rodriquez Quiroz, Jen­nifer Lee, Elvis Ebikade, and Chao Lin. Con­grat­u­la­tions to all the win­ners!

Dear Col­leagues,
It is my dis­tinct plea­sure to wel­come all of you to the 2018–19 sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia on behalf of the Club’s Offi­cers. The Club’s pro­gram will kick off this year with a pre­sen­ta­tion by Prof. Alan Gold­man on Sep­tem­ber 27th, 2018. Due to the avail­abil­i­ty of our Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Recip­i­ent, Dr. Car­mo Pereira, the CCP Award lec­ture will be giv­en on Jan­u­ary 17th, 2019. The speak­er sched­ule for the 2018–19 sea­son (put togeth­er under the coor­di­na­tion of Srini­vas Ran­gara­jan from Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty), along with the spe­cial events, is list­ed below. We hope that you’ll join us and that you’ll enjoy the planned talks!

The month­ly meet­ing loca­tion will remain the same and will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Clay­mont, DE (630 Naa­mans Road, Clay­mont, DE 19703). In order to off­set ris­ing cater­ing costs, meet­ing fees have increased to $40.00 for mem­bers, $25.00 for students/retirees, and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. The fees for walk-ins and non-mem­bers will be $45.00. We strong­ly encour­age you to reg­is­ter for the meet­ing using the online reg­is­tra­tion form, a link to which is pro­vid­ed in each meet­ing announce­ment email.
Reser­va­tions can also be made by con­tact­ing our Trea­sur­er (Lifeng.​Wang@​pqcorp.​com) or Chair (Eric.​R.​Sacia@​dupont.​com) direct­ly. Dues for the 2018–19 sea­son will remain at $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents, post­docs and retirees will be $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club).
Our annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion (orga­nized by Nick McNa­ma­ra of John­son Matthey) will be held on Novem­ber 15th, 2018. It pro­vides an impor­tant forum for local stu­dents to dis­sem­i­nate their work and inter­act with fel­low sci­en­tists from indus­try and acad­e­mia. Fur­ther­more, select­ed stu­dents from local uni­ver­si­ties will also be giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to pro­vide a brief pre­sen­ta­tion of their work at cer­tain meet­ings.
Feel free to con­tact either myself or the oth­er offi­cers with any com­ments or ques­tions, and keep check­ing our web­site peri­od­i­cal­ly (www​.catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org) for news or updates. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing all of you this sea­son!

All the best,
Eric Sacia
Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Chair
Eric.​R.​Sacia@​dupont.​com