Welcome to the Bates Research Group at the University of Virginia!
News
October 2024: Welcome to Daniel Sabbah as a new first-year graduate student in our group! Daniel received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
October 2024: Welcome to Jaxon Boudreau as a new first-year graduate student in our group! Jaxon received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.
October 2024: Welcome to Zayan Akmal as a new first-year graduate student in our group! Zayan received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University.
September 2024: Welcome to Olivia Coleman as a new undergraduate researcher in the group!
January 2024: Jason Bates receives the New Investigator Award of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) to support kinetic and spectroscopic interrogation of electrocatalyst microenvironments.
Selected Publications
[16] Chemical Kinetic Method for Active-Site Quantification in Fe-N-C Catalysts and Correlation with Molecular Probe and Spectroscopic Site-Counting Methods, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26222–26237
[14] Molecular Catalyst Synthesis Strategies to Prepare Atomically Dispersed Fe-N-C Heterogeneous Catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 18797–18802
[13] Chemical and Electrochemical O2 Reduction on Earth-Abundant M-N-C Catalysts and Implications for Mediated Electrolysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 922–927
[7] Structure and Solvation of Confined Water and Water-Ethanol Clusters within Microporous Brønsted Acids and their Effects on Ethanol Dehydration Catalysis, Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 7102–7122
[5] Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites, ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 6146–6168