Congratulations to graduate student Yuying Song, who was selected by the International Precious Metal Institute (IPMI) as the winner of the 2016 Colt Refining Student Award!! This award honors Yuying’s contributions to the computational design of bimetallic catalysts for new applications in the areas of low temperature emission control and biomass upgrade. Notably, Yuying has shown that Copper in a Palladium/Copper alloy shows increased reactivity for the dehydrogenation of alcohols to aldehydes, while maintaining little (or no) activity for the undesired decarbonylation side reaction. These findings were included in a recent JACS publication from our group. Her current work focuses on the design of coinage metal alloys for low temperature oxidation catalysts. More…
