Projects

Current Projects 2026-2027

THRUST 1
Fundamentals of Metal Deposition
 

THRUST 2
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solid-Solid Bonding
 

THRUST 3
Precision site synthesis for specific reactions
 

 

Project 84

Synthesis of Monolayer Metal Rafts on Powder and Formed Supports using Atomic Layer Deposition Williams(USC), A. Vannucci (USC)        

Project 89

Theory- and AI/ML-Guided Design of Promoted Industrial Catalysts   Kulkarni (UCD)

Project 95

Understanding humid CO2 selectivity of zeolite Cs-PAU Katz (UCB), Zones (UCB), Tengco (USC)

Project 85

Strictly anhydrous syntheses of P-modified HZSM-5 catalysts Katz (UCB), Kronawitter (UCD), Runnebaum (UCD), Gates (UCD)

Project 90

Nitrogen-Functionalized Activated Carbon as Economical and Robust Palladium Supports for Low-Leaching Continuous flow Suzuki Catalysis Gupton (VCU), Reber (VCU), Regalbuto (USC)

Project 96

Understanding how light alkane aromatization is promoted by co-conversion of carbon dioxide Kronawitter (UCD), Runnebaum (UCD), Gates (UCB)

Project 86

Stabilization of Pd/Graphene Oxide Catalysts on Oxide Supports via Controlled Interfacial Functionalization  Carpenter (VCU), Gutpon (VCU)

Project 91

Alkali Promoter Effects on Metal Dispersion and Reactivity in Chloride-Derived Catalysts  Qazi (USC), Razdan (UCB), Lauterbach (USC)

 

Project 87

A Comparison of Thin Silica-Grafted and Bulk Crosslinked Polymers for Immobilizing Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalysis   Gupton (VCU), Katz (UCB)

Project 92

Elucidating the Role of Oxophilicity, Atomic Mobility, and Zeolite Pore Size on the Morphology of Bimetallic Clusters under Hydrogen    Jean-Sabin McEwen (WSU), Kronawitter (UCD)

 

Project 88

The Effect of Metal Addition on Support Acidity   Regalbuto (USC), Lauterbach (USC), Qazi (USC), Tengco (USC)

Project 93

Study of platinum migration between zeolite pores and alumina binders through thermal redox cycling and its impact on bifunctional catalysis AND Establishing the impact of treatment and operating conditions on platinum particle nuclearity, location in zeolite pores, and reversibility through aggregation-dispersion cycles  Kronawitter (UCD), Runnebaum (UCD), Gates (UCD)

 
 

Project 94

Operando electroanalytical quantification of metal utilization in porous catalysts Razdan (UCB), Regalbuto (USC), Williams (USC)

 

 

Concluding Projects 2025-2026

Project 71
Charge Enhanced Dry Impregnation (CEDI) of Formed Catalyst Supports AND Influence of Drying Parameters on Metal Dispersion of Electrostatically Adsorbed Precursors (Extension of Project 60) C. Williams (USC), J.R. Regalbuto (USC)

Project 77
Catalytic benefits of selective interior P placement in P-modified HZSM-5 catalysts A. Katz (UCB), C. Kronawitter (UCD), R. Runnebaum (USC), B. Gates (UCD)

Project 82
Optimizing zinc-modified zeolite catalysts for aromatization of light alkane feeds and probing the opportunity to incorporate carbon from CO2 C. Kronawitter (UCD), R. Runnebaum (USC), S. Bare (SLAC), A. Katz (UCB), B. Gates (UCD)

Project 72
Amorphous Carbon (Norit-ROX 0.8) as an Inexpensive, Effective Substitute for Graphene B.F. Gupton (VCU), J.R. Regalbuto (USC)

Project 78
Establishing the influence of medium-pore zeolite micropore environments on the redox chemistry and associated locations and states of Pt and catalytic activity C. Kronawitter (UCD), R. Runnebaum (USC), S. Bare (SLAC), A. Katz (UCB), B. Gates (UCD)

Project 83
Synthesis of zeolites for selective humid CO2 adsorption: towards 100 % relative humidity A. Katz (UCB), J.M. Tengco (USC)

Project 73
Machine-Learning Guided Multi-Objective Catalyst Synthesis Optimization Applied to Methylcyclohexane Dehydrogenation J. Lauterbach (USC), C. McGill (VCU)

Project 79
Understanding Pt environment by quantitative characterization of Pt modified by promoters on alumina supports C. Kronawitter (UCD), R. Runnebaum (USC), S. Bare (SLAC), A. Katz (UCB), B. Gates (UCD)


 

Project 74 
Synthetic design of hydrogen spillover in bimetallic catalysts N. Razdan (UCB), J.R. Regalbuto (USC), Rahat Qazi (USC)

Project 80
Bimetallic Pt-Cu sites in MFI micropores: Stabilization, local chemical environments, and associated alkane dehydrogenation activities C. Kronawitter (UCD), R. Runnebaum (USC), S. Bare (SLAC), A. Katz (UCB), B. Gates (UCD)


 

Project 75
Support effect of Pd catalysts for high activity and durability J.R. Regalbuto (USC), B.F. Gupton (VCU)

Project 81
Modeling Diffusion Coupled with Electrostatic Adsorption on Formed Supports J.R. Regalbuto (USC), S. Shimpalee (USC)


 

Project 76
Synthesis of robust oxygen evolution electrocatalysts from calixarene-templated nanoporous IrOx A. Katz (UCB), S. Boettcher (UCB), W.E. Mustain (USC)

 
 
 
 

Concluded Projects

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