Conference Proceedings, Abstracts, Presentations, and Poster Sessions

2013

“Oligomer/Polymerization of Furfuryl Alcohol: Reaction Mechanism and Thermodynamic Properties,” Taejin Kim, 23rd North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, June 6, 2013, Louisville, KY.

"Kinetics of Reaction of Fructose to Form 5-(hydroxymethyl) Furfural," Anirban Das, Jing Zhang, and Eric Weitz, North American Catalysis Society 23rd Annual Meeting, June 2013, Lousiville, KY.

"Investigation into the Kinetics of Acid Catalyzed Dehydration of Fructose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural: Effect of Acidity and Temperature," Anirban Das, Jing Zhang, and Eric Weitz, Catalysis Club of Chicago Spring Symposium, May 7, 2013, Naperville, IL.

“Gas Phase Formic Acid Decomposition on Platinum Metal Single Crystal and Polycrystalline Surfaces: Kinetics and Characterization,” Michael Detwiler, Amir Gharachorlou, Anna Nartova, Dmitry Zemylanov, W. Nicholas Delgass, and Fabio Ribeiro, Catalysis Club of Chicago Spring Symposium, May 7, 2013, Naperville, IL.

“Stabilization of Pt Nanocatalyst by ZnO Overcoat: In Situ Small-angle X-ray Scattering/X-ray Absorption Study,” Sungsik Lee, Yu Lei, Christopher Marshall, Jeffrey Elam, and Randall Winans, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, April 7–11, 2013, New Orleans, LA.

“Deactivation Mechanistic Studies of Copper Chromite Catalyst For Selective Hydrogenation of 2-Furfuraldehyde,” Christopher Marshall, Dongxia Liu, Dima Zemylanov, Tianpin Wu, Rodrigo Lobo-Lapidus, James Dumesic, and Jeffrey Miller, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, April 7–11, 2013, New Orleans, LA.

“Production of Furfuryl Alcohol Oligomer/Polymer:Structural Characterizations of Intermediate Species and Thermodynamic Properties,” Taejin Kim, 2013 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan NY, March 20, 2013, Princeton, NJ.

"Kinetics of Reaction of Fructose to Form 5-(hydroxymethyl) Furfural," Anirban Das, Jing Zhang, and Eric Weitz, 5th Annual Midwest Regional Conference, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, January 30, 2013.

2012

“Atomic Layer Deposition for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts,” Jeffrey Elam, AVS 59th International Symposium , October 29, 2012, Tampa, FL.

“POSS Templated Assymetric Molecular Nanocages,” Zhongliang (Ernest) Shen, Jongsik Kim, Christopher M. Downing, Harold H. Kung and Mayfair C. Kung, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Minimizing Humin Formation Via HMF Derivatization,” Justin Notestein, Christian P. Canlas, and Nicolas Grosso-Giordano, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Design of Solid Acid Catalysts for Aqueous Phase Dehydration/Rehydration of Carbohydrates: The Role of Lewis and Brønsted Acid Sites,” Ronen Weingarten, Joungmo Cho, Geoffrey A. Tompsett, Yong Tae Kim, Alejandro Fernández, Kee Sung Han, Edward W. Hagaman, Wm. Curt Conner Jr., James A. Dumesic, and George W. Huber, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Activity Relationships Between Aqueous Phase Reforming and the Water Gas Shift Reaction, Paul J. Dietrich,” Fred G. Sollberger, Mayank Shekhar, W. Damion Williams, Kaiwalya D. Sabnis, Aslihan Sumer, Julius Jellinek, W. Nicholas Delgass, Jeffrey T. Miller, Fabio H. Ribeiro, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Effect of Iron and Titanium Oxide Promoters on Platinum Model Catalysts for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction,” M. Cem Akatay, Jorge Pazmino, Mayank Shekhar, W. Damion Williams, Anil Mane, Eric A. Stach, W. Nicholas Delgass, Jeffrey W. Elam, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Fabio H. Ribeiro, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“An Integrated Approach for Characterization of Pt-based Aqueous Phase Reforming Catalysts,” Paul J. Dietrich, Fred G. Sollberger, Tianpin Wu, Aslihan Sumer, Julius Jellinek, Jeffrey T. Miller, Fabio H. Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Mechanistic Aspects of H₂ Production from HCOOH on Metal Catalysts,” Manos Mavrikakis, Suyash Singh, Jessica Scaranto, Brandon J. O'Neill, Sha Li, Guowen Peng, Ronald Carrasquillo Flores, Jeffrey Herron, Luke Roling, Lars Grabow, and James A. Dumesic, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Lactic Acid Hydrogenation: DFT, Microkinetic Modeling, and Experiments,” Suyash Singh, James A. Dumesic, and Manos Mavrikakis, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Catalytic Armoring by Overcoating of Copper Catalysts via Atomic Layer Deposition for Liquid Phase Furfural Hydrogenation,” Brandon J. O'Neill, David H.K. Jackson, Fengyuan Shi, Paul Voyles, Jeffrey Miller, Thomas Kuech, and James A. Dumesic, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, October 28–November 2, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Atomic Layer Deposition for Catalyst Synthesis,” Jeffrey Elam, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting, October 22, 2012, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

“Siloxane and Carbosilane Structures for Catalysis,” Harold Kung, Mayfair Kung, Zhongliang Shen, and Neema Mashayekhi, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“First-principles Based Mechanistic Study of Catalytic Transformations of Biomass Compound on Transition Metals,” Bin Liu and Jeffrey Greeley, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Synthesis of Nanoscale t-ZrO2 as Highly Stable Catalyst Support,” Hong Xie, Eric Weitz and Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Understanding the Chemistry of H2 Production for 1-Propanol Reforming: Pathway and Support Modification Effects,” Christopher L. Marshall, Rodrigo Lobo, Paul Dietrich, Fabio Ribeiro, Cem Akatay, Eric Stach, Anil Mane, Yu Lei, Jeffrey Elam, and Jeffrey T. Miller, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Bimetallic PtCo Catalyst for Selective Aqueous Phase Reforming of Gycerol,” Fred G. Sollberger, Paul J. Dietrich, Tianpin Wu, M. Cem Akatay, Fabio H. Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, and Jeffrey T. Miller, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Understanding the Electronic and Surface Structure in Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalyst,” Tianpin Wu, David Childers, Carolina Gomez, Ayman Karim, Neil Schweitzer, A. Jeremy Kropf, Hui Wang, Trudy Bolin, Yongfeng Hu, Libor Kovarik, Randall Meyer, and Jeff Miller, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Kinetic and Spectroscopic Analysis of Pt Based Aqueous Phase Reforming Catalysts,” Paul J. Dietrich, Tianpin Wu, Aslihan Sumer, Rodrigo J. Lobo-Lapidus, Neng Guo, Bradley R. Fingland, Julius Jellinek, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Jeffrey T. Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, and James A. Dumesic, American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 17–21, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

“Catalyst Selectivity from Shape Control of Metal Particles on Oxide Supports,” Robert M Kennedy, James Enterkin, Peter C. Stair, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, 2012 International Materials Research Congress, August 13, 2012, Cancun, Mexico.

“Catalyst Selectivity from Shape Control of Metal Particles on Oxide Supports,” Robert M. Kennedy, James Enterkin, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Peter C. Stair, 2012 Solid State Gordon Research Conference, July 22–27, 2012, New London, NH.

“New Approaches to Catalytically and Selectively Activating Difficult Bonds: C-H and C-O,” Tobin J. Marks, Green Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, July 22–27, 2012, Barga, Italy.

“Computational Studies of Pure Pt and Mo and Mixed Pt/Mo Nanocatalysts: Structural, Electronic and Chemical Reactivity Properties,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, CECAM Workshop on Theoretical Challenges in Electronic Structure of Clusters and Nanoparticles, July 4–6, 2012, CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

“Support Effects in the Liquid Phase Reforming of Propanol,” Christopher L. Marshall, R. Lobo, J. Miller, A. Mane, J. Elam, 15th International Congress on Catalysis, July 3, 2012, Munich, Germany.

“In situ Characterization of Catalyst Activity and Selectivity in Energy Systems,” Christopher L. Marshall, Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis, June 28, 2012, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH.

“Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, AVS 12th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition, ALD 2012, June 20, 2012, Dresden, Germany.

“X-ray Photoelectron SpectroscopicIinvestigation of Pd Nanoparticles Prepared by Atomic Layer dDeposition on TiO2(110),” Amir Gharachorlou, Michael Detwiler, Yu Lei, Junling Lu, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Jeffrey Elam, Fabio Ribeiro, Catalysis Club of Chicago 2012 Spring Symposium, May 15, 2012, BP Research Center, Naperville, IL.

“Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Non-porous Pt/TiO2/Al2O3 and Pt/Fe/Al2O3 Catalyst for Water-Gas Shift Reaction,” M. Cem Akatay, Jorge Pazmino, Mayank Shekhar, W. Damion Williams, Anil Mane, Jeffrey Elam, Eric A. Stach, Dmitry Zemlyanov, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Catalysis Club of Chicago 2012 Spring Symposium, May 15, 2012, BP Research Center, Naperville, IL.

“An Integrated Approach for Characterization of Pt-based Aqueous Phase Reforming Catalysts,” Paul J. Dietrich, Fred G. Sollberger, Tianpin Wu, Aslihan Sumer, Julius Jellinek, Jeffrey T. Miller, Fabio H. Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, Catalysis Club of Chicago 2012 Spring Symposium, May 15, 2012, BP Research Center, Naperville, IL.

“Bimetallic PtCo Catalyst for Selective Aqueous Phase Reforming of Glycerol,” Fred G. Sollberger, Paul J. Dietrich, Tianpin Wu, M. Cem Akatay, Fabio H. Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, Jeffrey T. Miller, Catalysis Club of Chicago 2012 Spring Symposium, May 15, 2012, BP Research Center, Naperville, IL.

“Catalyst Selectivity from Shape Control of Metal Particles on Oxide Supports,” Robert M. Kennedy, James Enterkin, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Peter C. Stair, 2012 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 15, 2012, Chicago, IL.

“Beyond A/B/A/B… Unorthodox Pulse Sequences in Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, TNO4U Seminar, May 10, 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

“Synthesis and Properties of Catalysts with Exceptional Performance and Stability,” presented by Peter Stair at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 26, 2012, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Synthesis and Understanding of Highly Dispersed, Supported Oxides for Selective Oxidation... Much Ado About Very Little (Domains),” Justin Notestein, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 28, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Transition Metal Catalysis: Reaction Mechanisms from First-principles,” Manos Mavrikakis, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, George A. Olah and Gabor A. Somorjai Award Symposium, March 28, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Computational Studies of Structural, Energetic, Electronic and Chemical Reactivity Properties of Pt, Mo and Pt-Mo Nanocatalysts,” Julius Jellinek, Seminar at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, March 26, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany.

“First Principles Studies of Biomass Decomposition and Hydrogenation on Transition Metals,” Jeffrey Greeley and Bin Liu, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 26, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Aldose to Ketose Conversion using Sn/Ti Lewis Acid Models : A Computational Study,” Rajeev S. Assary and Larry A. Curtiss, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 26, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Molecular level insights into the Biomass conversion to Platform Chemicals using Quantum Chemistry,” Rajeev S. Assary and Larry A. Curtiss, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 26, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Discovery and Evaluation of Novel Pathway,” D. Wu, Q. Wang, S. Goel, G. Krilov, and L. J. Broadbelt, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 26, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“POSS-Templated Synthesis of Nanocages for Biphasic Catalysis,” Zhongliang Shen, Jongsik Kim, Christopher M. Downing, Harold H. Kung, and Mayfair C. Kung, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, March 28, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Conversion of Biomass into Transportation Fuels via Hydrogenation,” Christopher L. Marshall, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, session on “Catalysis for Clean Energy Technologies,” March 27, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Conversion of Furfuryl Alcohol into Polyfurfuryl Alcohol: Reaction Mechanism, Thermodynamic Properties, and Solvent Effects,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev S. Assary, Christopher L. Marshall, David J. Gosztola, Larry A. Curtiss, and Peter C. Stair, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, FUEL division, Catalysis for Clean Energy Technologies session, March 27, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Conversion of Furfuryl Alcohol into Polyfurfuryl Alcohol: Reaction Mechanism, Thermodynamic Properties, and Solvent Effects,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev S. Assary, Christopher L. Marshall, David J. Gosztola, Larry A. Curtiss, and Peter C. Stair, American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, FUEL division, Sci-Mix session, March 26, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Support Effects in the Liquid Phase Reforming of Propanol,” Christopher L. Marshall, Rodrigo Lobo, Paul Dietrich, Fabio Ribeiro, Cem Akatay, Eric Stach, Anil Mane, Yu Lei, Jeffrey Elam, and Jeffrey T Miller, presented at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry session, March 28, 2012, San Diego, CA.

“Supported Oxide Cluster and Oxide Cavity Catalysts... Much Ado About Very Little,” Justin Notestein, presented at Princeton University, March 7, 2012, Princeton, N.J.

“Synthesis of Nanomaterials Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, NSC/ANL Workshop, January 12, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

2011

“Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, MRS Fall Meeting, November 30, Boston MA.

“Beyond A/B/A/B: Unorthodox Pulse Sequences in Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, IMEC Workshop on Atomic Layer Deposition (Keynote Seminar), November 27, Leuven, Belgium.

“Computational Studies of Pure and Mixed Pt/Mo Nanocatalysts,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, First Meeting of the American Initiative on Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys, November 16–18, 2011, San Antonio, TX.

“Ambient Pressure PES Study of Al2O3 Supported Catalysts for Water Gas Shift Reaction”, M. Cem Akatay, Jorge Pazmino, Mayank Shekhar, W. Damion Williams, Anil Mane, Eric A. Stach, W. Nicholas Delgass, Jeffrey W. Elam, Fabio H. Ribeiro and Dmitry Zemlyanov, 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting, October 30–November 2, 2011, Minneapolis, MN.

“A Computational Approach To Design and Evaluate Enzymatic Reaction Pathways: Application to 1-Butanol Production from Pyruvate,” Di Wu, Qin Wang, Rajeev Assary, Goran Krilov, and Linda J. Broadbelt, 2011 AIChe Annual Meeting, October 30–November 2, 2011, Minneapolis, MN.

“Density Functional Theory Studies of HCOOH Decomposition on Pt and Pd Surfaces,” Jessica Scaranto, Suyash Singh, and Manos Mavrikakis, presented at 20th Anniversary Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry, October 27–29, 2011, Jackson, MS.

“Atomic Layer Deposition for Energy Applications,” Jeffrey Elam, Exxon-Mobil Colloquium, October 20, Annandale, NJ.

“Theoretical Studies of Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Reactivity Properties of Pt, Mo, and Pt/Mo Nanocatalysts,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, COST Meeting on Nanoalloys, October 12-14, 2011, Limerick, Ireland.

“The Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT) — A DOE Energy Frontier Research Center for Controlling Catalyst Activity/Selectivity in Biomass Conversion,” Christopher L. Marshall, U.S. Department of Energy contractors' meeting, October 3, 2011, Annapolis, MD.

“Controlling Catalyst Structures with Oxide Clusters and Oxide Nanocavities,” Justin M. Notestein, U.S. Department of Energy contractors' meeting, October 3, 2011, Annapolis, MD.

"Supported Oxide Cluster and Oxide Cavity Catalysts Inspired by Biology,” Justin Notestein, invited keynote for the International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (ISHHC-XV), September 16, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

“Templated ALD Synthesis of Catalyst Structures,” Natalie Ray, Richard Van Duyne, and Peter Stair, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting, August 22, 2011, Evanston, IL.

“Catalytic Properties of Mo-doped Pt Nanoparticles: A Computational Study,” Aslihan Sumer and Julius Jellinek, XX International Materials Research Congress, August 14–19, 2011, Cancun, Mexico (Highlighted on the MRS Website).

“Synthesis of Oxide Nanobowls for Size- and Shape-selective Photooxidation,” Christian P. Canlas, Natalie Ray, Junling Lu, Sungsik Lee, Randall Winans, Peter Stair, Jeffrey Elam, Justin M. Notestein, 242nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 2011, Denver, CO.

“Kinetics and Mechanistic Analysis of Aqueous Phase Glycerol Reforming over Supported Pt Catalysts,” Christopher L. Marshall, Rodrigo J. Lobo-Lapidus, Paul J. Dietrich, Tianpin Wu, Neng Guo, Fabio H. Ribeiro, James A. Dumesic, and Jeffrey T. Miller, 242nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 2011, Denver, CO.

“Density Functional Theory Studies of Pure and Mixed Pt/Mo Nanocatalysts,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, The Fifth International Symposium on Atomic Cluster Collisions (ISACC-2011), July 20–25, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

“Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Reactivity Properties of Pt, Mo, and Pt/Mo Clusters - A DFT Study,” Julius Jellinek, Seminar, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, July 6, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

“Atomic Layer Deposition of Aluminum Phosphate and Titanium Phosphate on Silica Nanoparticles,” Monika K. Wiedmann, Yomaira J. Pagan-Torres, James A. Dumesic, and Thomas F. Kuech, ALD 2011 (11th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition), June 26–29, 2011, Cambridge, MA.

“Catalytic Palladium-based Nanobowls Synthesized Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Natalie A. Ray, Richard P. Van Duyne, and Peter C. Stair, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“DFT Investigations of the Conversion of Biomass-derived Compounds into Fuels and Chemicals by Noble Metal Catalysis,” Bin Liu and Jeffrey P. Greeley, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Combined Raman Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigation of the Five-membered Ring Molecules and Levulinic Acid: Uncatalyzed and Acid-Catalyzed Reaction,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev A. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, Christopher L. Marshall, and Peter C. Stair, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Combined SAXS and XAS Approach: Nanostructure Characterization for Single Site Heterogeneous Catalyst Templates,” Sungsik Lee, Abraham M. Shultz, Christian Canlas, Sonbinh T. Nguyen, Justin M. Notestein, Jeffrey W. Elam and Randall E. Winans, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Formic Acid Decomposition on Pt and Pd: Trends through Density Functional Theory Studies,” Jessica Scaranto, Jeffrey A, Herron, and Manos Mavrikakis, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Genesis and Evolution of Surface Species during Pt Atomic Layer Deposition on Oxide Supports Characterized by in Situ XAFS Analysis,” Worajit Setthapun, W. Damion Williams, Seung Min Kim, Hao Feng, Jeffrey W. Elam, Federico A. Rabuffetti, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, Peter C. Stair, Eric A. Stach, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Christopher L. Marshall, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Kinetic and Mechanistic Analysis of Aqueous Phase Glycerol Reforming over Supported Pt Catalysts,” Paul J. Dietrich, Rodrigo J. Lobo, Neng Guo, Tianpin Wu, Bradley R. Fingland, Fabio H. Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, Jeffrey T. MIller, and James A. Dumesic, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Performance Testing of TiO₂ and CeO₂ Coated Al₂O₃ as Supports for Platinum Catalysts for 1-Propanol Conversion,” Rodrigo J. Lobo-Lapidus, Anil U. Mane, Jeffrey W. Elam, and Christopher L. Marshall, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Synthesis of Bimetallic Pt-Pd Nanostructures via Atomic Layer Deposition,” Yu Lei, Junling Lu, Rodrigo Lobo, Tianpin Wu, Anil U. Mane, Hao Feng, Joseph A. Libera, Christopher L. Marshall, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Jeffrey W. Elam, 22nd Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, June 5–10, 2011, Detroit, MI.

“Perovskite Oxide Supports,” Robert M. Kennedy, James A. Enterkin, Federico A. Rabuffetti, Jeffery W. Elam, Hacksung Kim, Laurence D. Marks, Kenneth R. Poeppelemeier, Peter C. Stair, 2011 North American Solid State Chemical Conference, June 1–4, 2011, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

“Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina on Catalytic Pd Nanoparticles: Growth Mechanism and Stabilization,” Junling Lu, Hao Feng, Zhenxing Feng, Bin Liu, Michael J. Bedzyk, Jeffrey P. Greeley, Peter C. Stair, and Jeffrey W. Elam, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Bridging the Materials Gap between Model Catalyst and Practical Catalyst: Supported Ultrafine Pt-Pd Nanoparticles Synthesized by Atomic Layer Deposition,” Yu Lei, Junling Lu, Rodrigo Lobo, Tianpin Wu, Anil U. Mane, Joseph A. Libera, Jeremy A. Kropf, Christopher L. Marshall, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Jeffrey W. Elam, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Catalytic Polymerization of Furfuryl Alcohol: Combined Raman Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigation,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev S. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, Christopher L. Marshall, and Peter C. Stair, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Formic Acid Decomposition on Pt and Pd: Trends through Density Functional Theory Studies,” Jessica Scaranto, Jeffrey A. Herron, and Manos Mavrikakis, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Hydrogenation of Lactic Acid to Propylene Glycol and Propanoic Acid: A Selectivity Challenge,” Suyash Singh and Manos Mavrikakis, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Perovskite Nanocuboid Particles for Catalytic Supports from Microwave Hydrothermal Synthesis,” Robert M. Kennedy, Kenneth Poeppelmeier, Peter Stair, and James Enterkin, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural for Production of Liquid Transportation Biofuels from Cellulosic Biomass,” Dongxia Liu, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Size, Structure, and Composition Effects in Pure and Mo-Doped Pt Nanocatalysts: A Computational Study,” Aslihan Sumer and Julius Jellinek, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Small Angle X-ray Scattering Characterization of Nanostructured Catalysts,” Sungsik Lee, Abraham M. Shultz, Christian P. Canlas, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Justin M. Notestein, Yu Lei, Jeffrey W. Elam, and Randall E. Winans, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Synthesis and Characterization of ZrO₂ and Pt/ZrO₂ Catalytic Nanocomposites,” Hong Xie, Eric Weitz, and Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Synthesis of Oxide ‘Nanobowls’ for Size-Selective Catalysis,” Christian P. Canlas, Natalie Ray, Junling Lu, Sungsik Lee, Randall Winans, Jeffrey Elam, Peter C. Stair, and Justin M. Notestein, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Synthesis Strategy for Protected Catalytic Palladium Nanoparticles,” Natalie Ray, Richard Van Duyne, and Peter Stair, 2011 Spring Symposium of the Catalysis Club of Chicago, May 19, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“The Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT): A DOE Energy Frontier Research Center,” Christopher L. Marshall, presented to workshop on Chemically Synthesized Nanoparticles and Catalysis at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, May 13, 2011.

“Bridging the Materials Gap between Model Catalyst and Practical Catalyst: An X-ray Adsorption Study on Supported Ultrafine Pt-Pd Nanoparticles Synthesized by Atomic Layer Deposition,” Yu Lei, Junling Lu, Rodrigo Lobo, Tianpin Wu, Anil U. Mane, Joseph A. Libera, Christopher L. Marshall, Jeffrey T. Miller, and Jeffrey W. Elam, 2011 APS/CNM/EMC Users Meeting, May 2–5, 2011, Chicago, IL

“Combined SAXS and XAS Approach: Nanostructure Characterization for Single Site Heterogeneous Catalyst Templates,” Sungsik Lee, Abraham M. Shultz, Christian Canlas, Sonbinh T. Nguyen, Justin M. Notestein, Jeffrey W. Elam, and Randall E. Winans, 2011 APS/CNM/EMC Users Meeting, May 2–5, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Small Angle X-ray Scattering Characterization of Nanostructured Catalysts,” Sungsik Lee, 2011 APS/CNM/EMC Users Meeting, workshop on Synchrotron-based SAS in the Era of Complex Energy-related Materials, May 2–5, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts Using Atomic Layer Deposition,” Jeffrey Elam, Korean ALD Workshop 2011, April 28, Seoul, Korea.

“Computational Studies of Pure and Mo-doped Pt Nanocatalysts: Effects of Size, Structure, and Composition,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, Workshop on Chemically Synthesized Nanoparticles and Catalysis, Argonne National Laboratory, April 28–29, 2011, Argonne, IL.

“Nanocavity Oxide Catalysts,” Justin M. Notestein and Christian Canlas, Materials Research Society 2011 Spring Meeting, April 25–29, San Francisco, CA.

“Atomic Layer Deposition for Improved Stability of Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Chemicals and Fuels,” Monika K. Wiedmann, Yomaira J. Pagan-Torres, Mark H. Tucker, James A. Dumesic, and Thomas F. Kuech, Materials Research Society Spring 2011 Meeting, April 25–29, 2011, San Francisco, CA.

“Atomic Layer Deposition Research at Argonne,” Jeffrey Elam, Cambridge NanoTech ALD Spring Retreat 2011, March 15, 2011, Stanford, CA.

“Acid-catalyzed Furfuryl Alcohol Polymerization: Mechanism Investigation by the Raman Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Calculation,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev A. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, Christopher L. Marshall, and Peter C. Stair, AIChE 2011 Spring Meeting, March 13–17, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Combined SAXS and XAS Approach: Nanostructure Characterization for Single Site Heterogeneous Catalyst Templates,” Sungsik Lee, Abraham M. Shultz, Christian P. Canlas, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Justin M. Notestein, Jeffrey W. Elam, and Randall E. Winans, AIChE 2011 Spring Meeting, March 13–17, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Atomic Layer Deposition for Catalyst Synthesis,” Jeffrey Elam, Catalysis Club of Chicago Spring Meeting, March 7, 2011, Chicago, IL.

“Computational Descriptions of Catalytic Biomass Conversion,” Jeffrey Greeley, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA.

“Genesis and Evolution of Surface Species during Pt Atomic Layer Deposition on Oxide Supports Characterized by in Situ XAFS Analysis,” Christopher L. Marshall, Worajit Setthapun, W. Damion Williams, Seung Min Kim, Hao Feng, Jeffrey W Elam, Federico A Rabuffetti, Kenneth R Poeppelmeier, Peter C. Stair, Eric A. Stach, Fabio Ribeiro, and Jeffrey T. Miller, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA .

“In-situ Real Time GIXAS/GISAXS Study of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Cyclohexene on Size Selected Sub-nanometer Cobalt Cluster Catalysts,” Sungsik Lee, Byeongdu Lee, Soenke Seifert, Randall E. Winans, Marcel di Vece and Stefan Vajda, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA.

“Glucose to Fructose Isomerization over Solid Oxide Catalysts,” Christian Canlas and Justin Notestein, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA

“Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions in the IACT,” Fabio Ribeiro, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA.

“The Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT); a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center,” Christopher L. Marshall, 241st Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 2011, Anaheim, CA.

“Atomic Layer Deposition Synthesis of Nanostructured Coatings,” Jeffrey Elam, 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 27, 2011, Daytona, FL.

2010

“Pt, Mo, and Pt/Mo Clusters: Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Reactivity Properties - Effects of Size and Composition,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, International Conference "Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale (DySoN-2010)", November 16–20, 2010, Rome, Italy.

“Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Reactivity Properties of Pt, Mo, and Pt/Mo Clusters - a DFT Study,” Julius Jellinek, Seminar, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calabria, November 15, 2010, Cosenza, Italy.

“Systematic Screening of Enzymatic Reaction Pathways and Its Application to Novel Biosynthetic 1-Butanol Production,” Di Wu, Qin Wang, Linda J. Broadbelt, and Goran Krilov, AIChE 2010 Midwest Regional Conference, September 30, 2010, Chicago, IL.

“Properties of Levulinic Acid and Furan Derivatives: Raman Spectroscopic and Theoretical Calculation,” Taejin Kim, Rajeev Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, Christopher L. Marshall, and Peter C. Stair, AIChE 2010 Midwest Regional Conference, September 30, 2010, Chicago, IL.

“Simultaneous Measurement of X-ray Small Angle Scattering, Absorption, and Reactivity: A Continuous Flow Catalysis Reactor,” Sungsik Lee, The 16th Pan-American Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation Conference, September 21–24, 2010, Argonne, IL

“Aqueous Phase Reforming of Glycerol to H₂ by a PtMo/C Catalyst: Operando Characterizations,”  Neng Guo, Paul Dietrich, Brad Fingland, Fabio Ribeiro, Cem Akaty, Eric Stach, Dima Zemlyanov, Jim Dumesic, Aslihan Sumer, Julius Jellinek, Tianpin Wu, Rodrigo Lobo, and Jeffrey T. Miller, TCS 2010, September 21–21, 2010, Ames, IA.

“Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT),” Christopher L. Marshall, Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST), Illinois Institute of Technology, September 21, 2010, Chicago, IL.

“Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Reactivity Properties of Pt, Mo, and Pt/Mo Clusters,” Julius Jellinek and Aslihan Sumer, CECAM Workshop on Nanoscale Alloys: From Experiment to Quantitative Modeling, September 13–16, 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland.

“Liquid Phase Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS): Glycerol Reforming over a PtMo/C Catalyst,” Bradley R. Fingland, Paul J. Dietrich, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Neng Guo, James A. Dumesic, and Jeffrey T. Miller, American Chemical Society Meeting, August 22–26, 2010, Boston, MA.

“Formic Acid Decomposition on Pt and Pd Surfaces,” Jessica Scaranto and Manos Mavrikakis, Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells, August 1–6, 2010, Smithfield, RI.

“Catalytic Approaches for Biofuels Within the Energy Frontier Research Center at Argonne National Laboratory,” Christopher Marshall, "Biomass '10: Renewable Power Fuels and Chemicals Workshop, July 20, 2010, Grand Forks, ND.

“Pt Nanocatalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition on Spherical Alumina Nanoparticles,” Anil Mane, Jeffrey T. Miller, Jeffrey W. Elam, Eric Stach, and Fabio H. Ribeiro, AVS Topical Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition, ALD2010, June 21–23, 2010, Seoul, Korea.

“A DFT Study of Formic Acid Decomposition on Pt (111) and Pd (111),” Jessica Scaranto and Manos Mavrikakis, 2010 ASME 8th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering, and Technology Conference, June 14–16, 2010, New York, NY.

“Computational Studies of Biomass Conversion at the Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations,” Jeffrey Greeley, Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium, May 24–25, 2010, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

“Liquid Phase Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS):Glycerol Reforming over a Pt-Mo/C Catalyst,”  Bradley R. Fingland, Paul J. Dietrich, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Neng Guo, James A. Dumesic, and Jeffrey T. Miller, Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium May 24–25, 2010, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

“Overview — Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT),” Christopher L. Marshall, Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium May 24–25, 2010, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

“Proven Chemistries in Biomass Conversion,” James Dumesic, Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium, May 24–25, 2010, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

“Discovery and Analysis of Novel Biosynthetic Pathways from Pyruvate to 1-Butanol,” Di Wu, and Linda J Broadbelt, Frontiers in Bioenergy Symposium, May 24–25, 2010, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN.

“Density Functional Studies of Fructose Dehydrogenation on Heterogeneous Catalysts,” Lei Cheng, Larry Curtiss, Rajeev Surendran Assary, and Jeffrey Greeley, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Grafted Calixarene-Ta(V) on Silica: Selective Catalysts for Olefin Epoxidation with H₂O₂,” Justin M. Notestein and Natalia Morlanes, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Liquid Phase Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS): Glycerol Reforming over a Pt-Mo/C Catalyst,”  Bradley R. Fingland, Paul J. Dietrich, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Neng Guo, James A. Dumesic, and Jeffrey T. Miller, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Overview — Institute for Atom-efficient Chemical Transformations (IACT),” Christopher L. Marshall, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Behavior of SiO₂-supported, Well Defined Fe(lII) Centers,” D. Prieto-Centurion and J. Notestein, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Theoretical Studies of the Conversion of Glucose to Levulinic Acid,” Rajeev Assary and Larry Curtiss, Chicago Catalysis Club 2010 Spring Symposium, May 19, 2010, BP Research Campus, Naperville, IL.

“Liquid Phase Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS): Glycerol Reforming over a Pt-Mo/C Catalyst,”  Bradley R. Fingland, Paul J. Dietrich, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Neng Guo, James A. Dumesic, and Jeffrey T. Miller, Michigan Catalysis Society 32nd Annual Spring Symposium, May 13, 2010, Washtenaw Community College, Ypsilanti, MI.

“In situ Characterization of Catalysts Using Synchrotron Radiation,” C. L. Marshall, E. A. Mader, W. Setthapun, and J. T. Miller, University of South Carolina, April 22, 2010, Columbia, SC.

“In situ Characterization of Catalysts Using Synchrotron Radiation,” C. L. Marshall, E. A. Mader, W. Setthapun, and J. T. Miller, Symposium honoring of the work of Professor Peter Stair (George Olah Award In Hydrocarbon Chemistry), American Chemical Society Meeting, March 24, 2010, San Francisco, CA.

“In situ Characterization of Catalysts Using Synchrotron Radiation,” C. L. Marshall, E. A. Mader, W. Setthapun, and J. T. Miller, Illinois Institute of Technology, March 3, 2010, Chicago, IL.

April 2013