Guest Speaker: Shane G. Telfer
Massey University, New Zealand
"Creating Nothing out of Something:
Thermolabile Groups in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)"

Guest Speaker: Charlie Campbell (Ipatieff Lecturer)
University of Washington
"Thermodynamics and kinetics of elementary reaction steps on late transition metal catalysts, and in their sintering"

Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
Annual Scientific Meeting
Topic: Catalytic Supports

Guest Speaker: Professor Gregory Yablonsky
Parks College, Department of Chemistry
Saint Louis University
Topic: Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions: Decoding Complexity

Speaker: Natalie Ann Ray
Graduate Student (Stair & Van Duyne Research Group)
Northwestern University
Topic: Methods for Developing Sinter-resistant Supported
Catalysts using Atomic Layer Deposition

No Seminar Today. Happy Holidays!

Speaker: Justin Notestein
Northwestern University
Chemical and Biological Engineering

Guest Speaker: Bert Weckhuysen (Ipatieff Lecturer)
Utrecht University, Netherlands
"In-situ Spectroscopy of Catalytic Solids at the Single Particle Level"

Guest Speaker: Aditya Bhan
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Minnesota
Topic: Catalytic Routes for the Conversion of C1 Feedstock

Speaker: Martin McBriarty, Graduate Student, NU
Don Ellis & Mike Bedzyk Research Groups
Topic: Catalysis across materials (and oceans):
Substrate effects on the structure and reactivity of metal-supported ultrathin ZnO films as part of the NU - UniCat exchange

Guest Speaker: Jason Bray, Graduate Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Speaker: John Galloway
Graduate student (Notestein Group)
Topic: Novel Catalytic Materials with Tunable Functional Group Pairings

Speaker: Dario Prieto-Centurion
Graduate Student (Notestein Research Group)
Northwestern University
Topic: Oxidations and reductions over heterogenous Fe catalysts from chelating precursors