Undergraduate student Charlie Chirino was named a 2015-16 William A. Brookshire IMPACT scholar by the University of Houston Foundation. Dr. William A. Brookshire received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1957. He then enrolled in graduate program at LSU, where he earned his Masters of Science and […]
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Congratulations to Yuying and Melanie for winning best poster awards at the 2015 Spring Symposium of the Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS)! Yuying and Melanie both work on a NSF/DOE sponsored team project to improve catalyst composition and architecture for emissions control from advanced low temperature combustion engines. Read the full story here.
Yuying Song and Melanie Hazlett win SWCS Poster Awards Read More »
Congratulations to Hung Tran Vu for winning the 2015 Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Organic Chemistry Award from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Houston. Hung joined our group early 2015 and is complementing his Ph.D. thesis with a computational project on methane activation.
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Hieu has been selected as one of the 2015 Kokes Travel Award recipients to attend NAM24. The award covers the registration fee and all travel expenses. His poster is titled Mechanism of Water-assisted CO Oxidation over Au/TiO2 Catalysts and will be presented during the poster session on Monday, July 15, 5:30 – 8:00 pm in
Hieu Doan wins 2015 Kokes Award to attend NAM24 in Pittsburgh, PA Read More »
The UH Cullen College of Engineering awarded Lars Grabow one of two Junior Faculty Research Excellence Awards. The award was announced at the annual faculty and staff meeting on May 5, 2015.
Lars Grabow wins College Research Excellence Award Read More »
Our group’s research was featured on the cover of the April 2015 issue of the Center for Advanced Computing & Data Systems (CACDS) Digest. The article highlights our work on the role of water for CO oxidation over Au/TiO2 catalysts. Graduate student Hieu Doan developed a comprehensive model of the catalytically active site and reported
Research group featured on the cover of the CACDS Digest, April 2015 Read More »
Congratulations to Arian for his first author paper in ACS Nano on the growth of ZSM-5@Silicalite-1 core-shell zeolites. Read the paper here.
New Publication in ACS Nano Read More »
What do Lars Grabow and methane have in common? They are both very happy! 🙂 And Lars Grabow will be even happier, when he finally succeeds in making methane less happy, by selectively activating only its first C-H bond without overoxidizing it to CO2 and H2O. Read the full story in the UH Cullen College of
Lars Grabow receives NSF CAREER Award 2015 Read More »
Hieu’s poster The Critical Role of Water in Catalytic CO oxidation over Au/TiO2 Catalysts was selected for an oral presentation at the 2015 GRC on Chemical Reactions at Surfaces in Ventura, CA. The talk will be given on Thursday, Feb. 12, in the session “Late-Breaking Topics in Surface Chemical Reactions”. UH Cullen College of Engineering News
Hieu to deliver a Hot Topic Talk at the 2015 GRC Read More »
Quan Do joins us from Notre Dame and will be working on alkane dehydration and methane coupling using hydrogen storage materials. His work is supported by a NSF CAREER Award.
We welcome Quan Do to the group Read More »