2016 Spring Symposium

8:00 AM	Reg­is­tra­tion / Break­fast
8:50 AM	Open­ing Remarks
9:00 AM	Sci­ence and Serendip­i­ty in Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis Research Ive Her­mans, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin — Madi­son
9:40 AM	Hydro­gen Spillover to Car­bon Sup­ports: Bridg­ing the Gap Between Exper­i­ment and The­o­ry Angela Luek­ing, Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty
10:20 AM	Cof­fee Break
10:40 AM	Design and Syn­the­sis of Nanos­truc­tured Car­bide and Nitride Based Cat­a­lysts Levi Thomp­son, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan — Ann Arbor
11:20 AM	Microlith Coat­ed Mesh Sub­strates for Process Inten­si­fi­ca­tion Jef­frey Weiss­man, Pre­ci­sion Com­bus­tion
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:20 PM	Cat­alyt­ic Con­ver­sion of Sour Nat­ur­al Gas into Val­ue Added Fuels and Chem­i­cals Jonas Bal­tru­saitis, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
2:00 PM	Serendip­i­tous Dis­cov­ery of a Nano-struc­tured Yttri­um Oxy­chlo­ride Cat­a­lyst for the Selec­tive Dehy­dra­tion of Phe­nol David Bar­ton, Dow Chem­i­cal Co.
2:40 PM	Cof­fee Break
3:00 PM	Award Announce­ment
3:20 PM	Sta­bi­liza­tion of Metastable Oxides via Sur­face Mod­i­fi­ca­tion Daniel Gre­go­ry, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
3:40 PM	Con­trol­ling the Al Dis­tri­b­u­tion and Cu Spe­ci­a­tion and Prox­im­i­ty in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeo­lites: Con­se­quences for NOx SCR Catal­y­sis Raj Gounder, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
4:20 PM	Clos­ing Remarks
4:30 PM	Con­fer­ence Adjourns

2015 Spring Symposium

8:00 am	Reg­is­tra­tion — Break­fast
8:40 am	Open­ing Remarks
8:45 am	Wei Fan, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts, Amherst Devel­op­ment of Hier­ar­chi­cal Zeo­lite Cat­a­lysts for Bulky Mol­e­cule Reac­tions
9:25 am	Dion G. Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Renew­able Chem­i­cals and Fuels from Bio­mass
10:05 am	Gra­ham Hib­bert, HEL Group Plat­inum Spon­sor Pre­sen­ta­tion: HEL – Bet­ter Chem­istry – Faster
10:20 am	Cof­fee Break
10:40 am	Steven L. Suib, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut Nov­el Porous Met­al Oxides and Sul­fides and Their Appli­ca­tions in Adsorp­tion, Bat­ter­ies, and Catal­y­sis
11:20 am	Mar­co J. Castal­di, City Col­lege of New York/CUNY The Role of Oxi­da­tion State on Regen­er­a­tion Capac­i­ty When Reform­ing Oxy­genat­ed Fuels With Rh Based Cat­a­lysts
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Robert Far­rauto, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty A Dual Func­tion Mate­r­i­al for Cap­tur­ing and Cat­alyt­i­cal­ly Con­vert­ing CO2 to Syn­thet­ic Nat­ur­al Gas Using Renew­able H2
2:00 pm	Hasan Din­di, DuPont “Design of Bimetal­lic Cat­a­lysts for Use in DuPont’s IsoTherming® Hydropro­cess­ing Reac­tors”
2:40 pm	Bryan Yonemo­to, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Stu­dent Poster Win­ner: “Meso­porous Mate­ri­als for Ener­gy Appli­ca­tions”
3:00 pm	Award Announce­ment
3:15 pm	Cof­fee Break
3:35 pm	Cathy H-Y. Chin, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to Cat­alyt­ic Con­ver­sion of Renew­able Feed­stocks to Val­ue-Added Prod­ucts
4:15 pm	Phillip E. Sav­age, Penn State Advances and Appli­ca­tions of Hydrother­mal Catal­y­sis
4:55 pm	Clos­ing Remarks

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2014 Spring Symposium

8:15 am	Reg­is­tra­tion — Break­fast
8:55 am	Open­ing Remarks
9:00 am	Explor­ing the Cat­alyt­ic Prop­er­ties of Cu/SSZ-13 using NO Oxi­da­tion and Stan­dard Selec­tive Reduc­tion of NO with NH3 Fabio H. Ribeiro, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
9:45 am	Life Cycle of Cat­alyt­ic Diesel Emis­sion Con­trol Sys­tems Alex­ey Yez­erets, Cum­mins Inc Abstract »
10:30 am	Wel­come to HEL – Bet­ter Chem­istry – Faster Harold O’Grady, HEL Inc. — Plat­inum spon­sor pre­sen­ta­tion Abstract »
10:45 am	Cof­fee Break
11:05 am	Analy­sis of the Mech­a­nism of Elec­tro­chem­i­cal Oxy­gen Reduc­tion and Devel­op­ment of Ag- and Pt-alloy Cat­a­lysts for Low Tem­per­a­ture Fuel Cells Suljo Lin­ic, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan Abstract »
11:50 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Alkene Metathe­sis for Propy­lene Pro­duc­tion over W-based Cat­a­lysts: Insights from Mul­ti-Func­tion­al Cat­a­lysts and Met­al­la­cy­clobu­tanes Chris Nicholas, UOP Abstract »
2:00 pm	Syn­the­sis and direct­ed self-assem­bly of monodis­perse nanocrys­tals as a route to engi­neer­ing nanoscale cat­alyt­ic con­tacts in mod­el sup­port­ed cat­a­lysts Chris Mur­ray, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Abstract »
2:45 pm	Zn Mod­i­fi­ca­tion of Pt(111) for the Hydrodeoxy­gena­tion of Aldos­es Jesse McManus, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia — Win­ner of grad­u­ate stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion Abstract »
3:05 pm	Announce­ment of 2014 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Win­ner
3:10 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Sur­face Reac­tions of Bio­mass-Derived Poly­ols on Met­al Oxides and Sup­port­ed Met­al Cat­a­lysts Carsten Siev­ers, Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy Abstract »
4:15 pm	Nanoporous Mate­ri­als for Solar Fuel Pro­duc­tion Feng Jiao, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »
5:00 pm	Clos­ing Remarks

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2013 Spring Symposium

8:00 am	Reg­is­tra­tion and Con­ti­nen­tal Break­fast
8:55 am	Open­ing Remarks
9:00 am	New Insights into the Syn­the­sis of Methanol on Cop­per Charles H. F. Peden, Pacif­ic North­west Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry Abstract »
9:50 am	A First Prin­ci­ples View of Reac­tiv­i­ty Trends in Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis and Elec­tro­catal­y­sis Jef­frey Gree­ley, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
10:40 am	Cof­fee Break
11:00 am	Sup­port­ed Cat­a­lysts: Does Sur­face Rough­ness Mat­ter? A Case Study With VOx-SBA-15 Michael A. Smith, Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
11:50 am	Non­aque­ous Strate­gies to Manip­u­late the Mor­phol­o­gy, Phase, and Pho­to­cat­alyt­ic Activ­i­ty of Monodis­perse TiO2 Nanocrys­tals Thomas R. Gor­don, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia — CCP Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion win­ner Abstract »
12:10 pm	Lunch Buf­fet
1:10 pm	Catal­y­sis in a Pock­et: The MCM-22 Sto­ry Thomas F. Deg­nan, Jr., Exxon­Mo­bil — 2012 Cia­pet­ta Award Lec­ture Abstract »
2:10 pm	Cat­alyt­ic Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of Hier­ar­chi­cal Meso-/mi­cro­p­orous Lamel­lar Zeo­lite Cat­a­lysts Dongx­ia Liu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land — Col­lege Park Abstract »
3:00 pm	Announce­ment of 2013 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Win­ner
3:05 pm	Cof­fee Break
3:20 pm	Soft­ware Tools for the Con­struc­tion of Detailed Kinet­ic Mod­els Michael T. Klein, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »
4:10 pm	Polar sub­strates and non­sto­i­chio­met­ric sur­faces: new routes to active and con­trol­lable het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts Andrew M. Rappe, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Abstract »
5:00 pm	Clos­ing Remarks

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2012 Spring Symposium

8:00 am	Reg­is­tra­tion and Con­ti­nen­tal Break­fast
8:55 am	Open­ing Remarks
9:00 am	Engi­neer­ing Mol­e­c­u­lar Trans­for­ma­tion over Sup­port­ed Cat­a­lysts for Sus­tain­able Ener­gy Con­ver­sion Matt Neu­rock, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia Abstract »
9:50 am	Selec­tive Hydrodeoxy­gena­tion of m-cresol over Bifunc­tion­al Met­al-Acid Cat­a­lysts Raul Lobo, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »
10:30 am	Cof­fee Break
10:50 am	Com­mer­cial­iza­tion of a Nov­el Methyl Methacry­late Process — Cat­a­lyst Design and Devel­op­ment David John­son, Lucite Inter­na­tion­al Abstract »
11:30 am	Effi­cient and Selec­tive Mul­ti­func­tion­al Nanocat­a­lysts: New Syn­thet­ic Strate­gies and Poten­tial Appli­ca­tions Tewodros Ase­fa, Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
12:10 pm	Formic Acid Decom­po­si­tion on Bulk Met­al Cat­a­lysts Yadan Tang, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty (run­ner-up in CCP stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion) Abstract »
12:30 pm	Lunch Buf­fet
1:40 pm	Con­se­quences of Acid Strength and Con­fine­ment in Cat­alyt­ic Reac­tions Medi­at­ed by Ion-pair Tran­si­tion States Enrique Igle­sia, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley Abstract »
2:30 pm	Desk­top Mol­e­c­u­lar Mod­el­ing Help in Clar­i­fy­ing Odd Exper­i­men­tal Obser­va­tions on Zeo­lites and Sil­i­ca Gels Ist­van Halasz, PQ Cor­po­ra­tion Abstract »
3:10 pm	Announce­ment of 2012 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Win­ner
3:20 pm	Cof­fee Break
3:40 pm	Den­si­ty Func­tion­al The­o­ry Stud­ies of Elec­tro­catal­y­sis Michael Janik, Penn State Abstract »
4:20 pm	Catal­y­sis Chal­lenges in Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Process Devel­op­ment Alan All­geier, DuPont (for­mer­ly Amgen Inc.) Abstract »
5:00 pm	Clos­ing Remarks

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2011 Spring Symposium

8:00 am	Reg­is­tra­tion and Con­ti­nen­tal Break­fast
8:25 am	Wel­come
8:30 am	Catal­y­sis and Ener­gy Inter­linked as Busi­ness­es John Armor, Glob­al Catal­y­sis Abstract »
9:30 am	The Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions of Zeo­lite Struc­ture Analy­sis Lynne McCusker, ETH Zürich, IZA Ambas­sador Abstract »
10:30 am	Cof­fee Break
10:45 am	Fis­ch­er-Trop­sch Catal­y­sis: Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Tech­nol­o­gy Re-invent­ed for the 21st Cen­tu­ry John Cas­ci, John­son Matthey Abstract »
11:30 am	Pho­to­cat­alyt­ic Prod­ucts for De-pol­lu­tion in a Major City Robert McIn­trye, Mil­len­ni­um Inor­gan­ic Chem­i­cals a Cristal Com­pa­ny Abstract »
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:45 pm	Mul­ti func­tion­al Cat­a­lysts and Reac­tors for Lean NOx Reduc­tion Michael Harold, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton Abstract »
2:20 pm	The Roles of Exter­nal and Micro­p­orous Acid­i­ty in Alky­la­tion and Trans Alky­la­tion Deng-Yang Y Jan, UOP Abstract »
2:55 pm	Pre­sen­ta­tion of 2011 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award
3:05 pm	Cof­fee Break
3:25 pm	Reducibil­i­ty of Cobalt Sup­port­ed on SBA-15 and Zir­co­nia for Fis­ch­er-Trop­sch Syn­the­sis Kevin Bakhmut­sky, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia — Stu­dent Poster Award Win­ner Abstract »
3:45 pm	High­er Cat­alyt­ic Rates in Small­er Zeo­lite Chan­nels Aditya Bhan, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »
4:25 pm	Clos­ing

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2010 Spring Symposium

7:45 AM	Reg­is­tra­tion and Break­fast
8:20 AM	Wel­come
8:30 AM	The Out­look for Ener­gy and Tech­nol­o­gy Impli­ca­tions Alessan­dro Fal­di, Exxon­Mo­bil Abstract »
9:15 AM	Hydro­car­bon Fuels from Bio­mass: Catal­y­sis as Impor­tant as Ever! George Antos, NSF/UOP Abstract »
9:55 AM	Break
10:10 AM	Exper­i­men­tal and The­o­ret­i­cal Stud­ies of Nov­el Elec­tro­cat­a­lysts Jing­guang Chen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Abstract »
10:50 AM	Elec­trodes for Sol­id Oxide Fuel Cells and Elec­trolyz­ers Ray­mond J. Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Abstract »
11:20 AM	Cop­per Coor­di­na­tion in Cu-SSZ-13 and Cu-SSZ-16 Inves­ti­gat­ed by Vari­able- Tem­per­a­ture XRDDustin W. Fick­el, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware Win­ner of CCP 2010 Poster Com­pe­ti­tion Abstract »
11:40 AM	Announce­ment of 2010 CCP Award
11:50 AM	Lunch
1:00 PM	Pre­sen­ta­tion: Overview by FreeSlate
1:10 PM	Reac­tive boil­ing of micro­crys­talline cel­lu­lose on high-tem­per­a­ture inor­gan­ic sur­faces for mil­lisec­ond process­es Paul Dauen­hauer, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Amherst Abstract »
1:40 PM	Alter­na­tive Feed­stocks for Olefin Pro­duc­tion: What Role will Ethanol Play? Mark Stew­art, Dow Chem­i­cals Abstract »
2:10 PM	Envi­ron­men­tal Catal­y­sis from First Prin­ci­ples Dr. William F. Schnei­der, Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame Abstract »
2:40 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Hier­ar­chi­cal nano-man­u­fac­tur­ing of mul­ti­scale, porous inor­gan­ic mate­ri­als towards bio­mass pro­cess­ing Mark A. Sny­der, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty Abstract »
3:35/3:45 PM	Clos­ing

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