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IACT NewsIACT's Research Featured on Department of Energy's Bioenery Technologies Office BlogIACT's work to advance the use of biomass as a viable energy resource was featured in an April 15, 2013 post to the U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office's Blog. Poeppelmeier Appointed Director of Northwestern's Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
Nanoscale 'Goldilocks' Phenomenon Could Improve Biofuel Production Greeley Joins Faculty at Purdue University
Selective Oxide Catalyst Research Featured in CEP
Nanobowls Developed by IACT Researchers Featured in Newswise Story
IACT Research Features in Chemical & Engineering News
O'Neill and Dietrich Join DOE EFRC Editorial Board
Huber Joins IACT Staff
IACT Nanobio Catalyst Research in the NewsIACT's research into bimetallic core-shell catalysts is featured in news stories on Phys.Org and Argonne's Advanced Photon Source web site. Kuech Promoted to Chair of University of Wisconsin's Chemical Engineering Department Mavrikakis Named Editor in Chief of Surface Science
Zhang Receives Young Scientist Award
Stair Promoted to Chair of Northwestern's Chemistry Department
Two IACT Research Efforts Featured in Chemical and Engineering NewsThe June 11, 2012 issue of Chemical and Engineering News featured stories about IACT research work. The first story, about work catalyzing the isomerization of sugars via reaction pathways using Lewis acid zeolites, done by IACT researchers Rajeev Assary and Larry Curtiss and researchers from other institutions, appeared at http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i24/Zeolite-Isomerizes-Sugars-Enzymelike-Mechanism.html. The associated journal article about this research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
IACT's Alumina Nanocoatings Research Featured on American Ceramics Society and Chemical and Engineering News Web SitesA recent paper by IACT researchers Junling Lu, Mayfair Kung, Jeffrey Elam, and Peter Stair titled "Coking- and Sintering-Resistant Palladium Catalysts Achieved Through Atomic Layer Deposition" is featured on the American Ceramics Society and Chemical and Engineering News web sites. Harold Kung of Northwestern University, a member of the Center for Electrical Energy Storage staff, was also a contributor. The research, which may contribute to greater chemical manufacturing efficiencies, was reported at the Spring 2012 meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego. IACT's Catalysis Work Featured in Spring 2012 Issue of TransForumIACT's catalysis work is featured in the Spring 2012 issue of TransForum, the news magazine of Argonne's Transportation Technology R&D Center. The story starts on page 9. Profile of Jeff Greeley Featured on Agonne National Laboratory's Web siteIACT research Jeff Greeley, who recently received an Early Career Research Award from the US Department of Energy, is featured in a new profile on Argonne National Laboratory's web site. The profile is also available as a PDF (216 kb). IACT Research Featured in Chemical & Engineering News StoryResearch conducted by researchers within the Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) was featured in a recent story in Chemical & Engineering News (CEN) story about atomic layer deposition (ALD) (August 1, 2011, p 38). The research, conducted by IACT researchers Jeffrey Miller, Jeffrey Elam, Hao Feng, Joseph Libera, and Peter Stair, focused on preparing uniform-sized palladium particles using ALD. It was highlighted as one of the exciting new applications of ALD. The cited research was originally documented in ACS Catalysis 1(6): 665–673 (2011). Natalie Ray Named to DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers Newsletter Editorial Board
First Annual IACT Internal Review Meeting HeldACT held its first annual internal review meeting on January 17th and 18th, 2011, at Argonne National Laboratory. Approximately 60 people attended along with six members of IACT's Advisory Board. Images of the event are presented in the slide show below.
IACT to Host Workshop at Northwestern University on November 22, 2010IACT will host an afternoon workshop on Monday, November 22, at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, during which participants from several universities will gather to share updates on research that is being performed at the Center. The workshop will run from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Allen Center, McCormick Tribune Auditorium, Evanston, IL. A similar workshop hosted by the Center for Electrical Energy Storage at Argonne will be hosted at the same location that morning. See the program flier (PDF, 970kb) for more information, or the registration site to RSVP. Lei Cheng to Collaborate with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Researchers
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IACT team member Kenneth Poeppelmeier (Northwestern University) has been appointed the new director of Northwestern University's 
IACT's nanobowl research is featured in a recent 
IACT researcher Jeffrey Greeley has moved from Argonne National Laboratory to Purdue University, where he serves as Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering. He will continue to serve as a member of the IACT research staff. 
IACT's selective nonporous oxide catalyst research was featured in the Update section of the December 2012 issue of CEP magazine. Developed by Justin Notestein's group at Northwestern University, the IACT method uses atomic layer deposition to add thin, porous layers onto the surface of oxide catalyst particles, controlling which reactants can reach the catalyst. The full story is available to American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) members through the magazine's 
A story about IACT's nanobowl research was featured in 
IACT graduate students Brandon O'Neill (left, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Paul Dietrich (right, Purdue University) have been appointed to the editorial board of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) newsletter. In this capacity, Brandon and Paul are serving as both board reviewers and as advocacy reviewers, working directly with the EFRC Editor, to review all of the articles before they are sent for DOE review.
IACT is pleased to welcome Professor George Huber of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to IACT's research staff. He will be working on Reaction Testing and Mechanisms.
IACT Researcher Thomas Kuech has been promoted to Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin. We wish Tom the best of luck in this position!
IACT researcher Manos Mavrikakis, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surface Science, effective July 1, 2012. He has been a member of the journal's editorial board since 2008 and serves on the editorial boards of four other journals. For more information about Dr. Mavrikakis' appointment, please see 
Jing Zhang, most recently an IACT postdoctoral appointee, received a Young Scientist Award at the International Conference on Catalysis (ICC) held in Munich, Germany July 1-6, 2012. Zhang has completed her appointment at IACT and is now a Professor at the School of Chemistry and Material Sciences Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun, Liaoning, China.
IACT Deputy Director Peter Stair has been promoted to Chair of the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University. We wish Peter the best of luck in this position!
Natalie Ray, an IACT graduate student from Northwestern University who is working with Peter Stair on Synthesis, has been named to the editorial board for the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) electronic newsletter. Board members are responsible for creating a theme for each issue that expresses a point of view in energy research, and for writing and acquiring summaries of recently published research articles and showcasing accomplishments of EFRC members. The appointment lasts for six to nine months.
Dr. Lei Cheng, an IACT postdoctoral associate working with Larry Curtiss, will spend two months (October 1 to November 30) working with Professor Dr. Joachim Sauer's group at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin learning their latest computational treatment/methods (hybrid DFT:MP2) for zeolite catalysis. These techniques can be applied for more accurate computational mechanistic studies of biomass catalytic reactions occurring in zeolites as well as oxide nanobowls, providing valuable information on nature of active sites and predict more efficient catalytic structures and compositions. The collaboration between the German Cluster of Excellence "Unifying Concepts in Catalysis" (Unicat), located in Berlin, Germany, and IACT is the first of a planned series of collaborations aimed at improving the effectiveness of research at both institutions. | U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science | UChicago Argonne LLC |
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