Surya Solanki wins 2nd place in visualization contest

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute and UH Libraries virtually hosted Annual Data Visualization Day on 30th April 2021, a data visualization contest aimed to promote research synergy at UH. Our graduate student Surya Pratap Singh Solanki entered with an image illustrating the dynamic evolution of a Palladium active site during Passive NOx Adsorption …

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Melanie Hazlett joins Concordia University

We are thrilled to announce that Melanie Hazlett is now leading her own lab at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada! Click here to read her inspiring story. Congratulations Melanie!

Outstanding Honors Thesis Award presented to Shu Ning Hiew

The catalytic properties of zeolites depend on their silicon to aluminum ratio, and very importantly, on the distribution of Al sites within the zeolite framework. As her Senior Honors Thesis project Shu Ning Hiew developed a Monte Carlo algorithm using a Metropolis decision criterion and predicted temperature-dependent Al distributions for zeolites with the CHA, MFI …

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Xiao wins Poster Award at the 2019 Southwest Catalysis Symposium

We congratulate senior graduate student Xiao Li to winning a Poster Award at the 2019 Southwest Catalysis Symposium Fall Symposium at Baton Rouge, LA! Her project is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and her poster was titled “First-principles Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Water-mediated C-O Bond Cleavage in Phenolic Compounds over Titania Supported …

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Sravan PrOx Talk

Sravan Kumar selected for an oral presentation at the 2019 OChEGS Symposium

Senior graduate student Sravan Kumar presented his research on the role of water on preferential oxidation (PROX) of CO in water-gas shift streams over Au/TiO2 catalyst at the 2019 OChEGS Symposium.  PROX is a cost-effective way to purify H2 streams for industrial applications. The objective of PROX is to eliminate trace amounts of CO in H2 …

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Audrey Wang selected as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Recipient

One of the group’s undergraduate students, Audrey Wang, has won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! The NSF GRFP is known as the gold-standard for STEM fellowships in the US, and Audrey believes that winning the award reflects highly not only on her own work and potential but also on the research and knowledge of the …

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Nitrate Summary Figure

Collaborative work with Rice University on nitrate reduction prominently featured in the news

Sashank Kasiraju’s 2018 ACS Catalysis paper, a joint project with Prof. Michael Wong and Dr. Kimberley Heck at Rice University, and Prof. Jeffrey Miller at Purdue University, has received considerable news coverage. In our article we describe the mechanism for nitrate reduction over bimetallic palladium-indium nanoparticles in aqueous phase. The process is important for water …

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