Sashank Kasiraju has been selected as recipient of one of the AIChE CRE travel awards this year. The award includes a $400 check and a ticket to the CRE Division Dinner. Congratulations! Sashank will present his PhD research at this year’s AIChE conference in Salt Lake City in the session “Rational Catalyst Design II” on Thursday, […]
The South Texas Section (STS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) selected our paper “The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation” for the Best Fundamental Paper Award 2014. Hieu Doan and Lars Grabow accepted the award on behalf of all co-authors, which include Johnny Saavedra, Chris Pursell
Our group shows a strong presence at the 2015 Symposium by the Organization of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students (OChEGS) at the University of Houston with a total of 6 presentations and two notable honors. Byeongjin Baek was selected to give the opening presentation on “Experimental and theoretical insights into the hydrogen-efficient direct hydrodeoxygenation mechanism of phenol over Ru/TiO2(110)”.
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Graduate student Byeongjin Baek’s computational work on elucidating the mechanism of direct deoxygenation of phenolic compounds on Ru/TiO2 catalysts has resulted in a new understanding of the roles of the support and the ruthenium metal nanoparticle. We find that for the selective C-OH cleavage to occur, it is necessary that the support can provide a
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Hieu Doan‘s work on understanding the interplay of electronic and geometric effects governing the CO electro-oxidation activity of Pt-decorated Ru nanoclusters makes the cover of Surface Science. The work is a collaborative effort with the experimental group of Stanko Brankovic (ECE@UH) and is published in a special issue titled “Reactivity Concepts at Surfaces: Coupling Theory with
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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.
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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
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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.
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