gounder research group

March 2026: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet and Bereket Bekele for their paper on using SDAs to control trivalent heteroatom siting in MFI zeolites being accepted in JACS Au!

March 2026: Congratulations to Tania Class-Martínez for her paper on quantifying dealumination kinetics on CHA zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

March 2026: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving an NSF Career Award!

March 2026: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele for graduating with his PhD! We wish him all the best in his postdoctoral position at Brown with Prof. Joy Zeng!

March 2026: Congratulations to Sarah Gustafson Wagers for receiving the ChE Outstanding Service Award!

March 2026: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving the ChE citation award for his 2024 JACS paper!

February 2026: Congratulations to Tania Class-Martínez and our collaborators (Schneider and Chmelka groups, BASF) for their paper on Ba cation titration of Al-Al pair sites in CHA zeolites being accepted in Chemistry of Materials!

[127] Controlled Placement of Trivalent Heteroatoms in MFI Zeolite Frameworks Using Structure-Directing Agents, Norfleet, Bekele et al., JACS Au (2026) DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.6c00222

[126] Consequences of Non-Mean-Field Transport and Agglomeration of Extra-framework Aluminum Moieties on CHA Zeolite Dealumination Rates, Class-Martínez et al., Journal of Catalysis, 458 (2026) 116848

[125] Ba2+ Complements Co2+ Exchange as a Reporter of Al Proximity in CHA Zeolites, Ge, Class-Martínez, Rebolledo-Oyarce, et al., Chemistry of Materials, 38 (2026) 2797-2807

[123] Polymethylated Aromatics Deactivate Intracrystalline Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites during Low-Temperature Toluene Methylation, Ezenwa, Norfleet, et al., Journal of Catalysis, 454 (2026) 166653

[122] Quantification of Cu Site Contributions to Partial and Over-Oxidation Reaction of Methane During Stoichiometric Cycles on Cu-CHA Zeolites, Kilburn, Santiago-Colón, et al., Journal of Catalysis, 453 (2026) 116507

[121] Pentaerythritol Structure-Directing Agents Bias Aluminum Siting in MFI Zeolites to Increase Para-Xylene Selectivity during Toluene Methylation, Norfleet, Ezenwa, et al., Journal of Catalysis, 453 (2026) 116470