gounder research group

May 2024: Congratulations to Ricem Diaz Arroyo for graduating with a PhD and starting a new position at Dow!

May 2024: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton for graduating with a PhD and starting a new position at Ecovyst!

May 2024: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele for receiving a Purdue Graduate Teaching Award for his performance as a TA in ChE 348 in spring 2023!

May 2024: Welcome to Victor Lopes Albertini as a new visiting PhD student, and to Nina Borkowski, Talana Small, Kirshaun McGhee, and Victoria Perez as new undergraduate researchers in our group!

Apr. 2024: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa for receiving the ChE Faculty Lectureship Award!

Mar. 2024: Congratulations to Sopuru Ezenwa (and our collaborators) for his paper on how to control the placement of acid sites in MFI zeolites to increase the selectivity of toluene methylation to para-xylene being accepted in JACS!

[100] Synthetic Placement of Active Sites in Zeolites for Selective Toluene Methylation to Para-Xylene, Ezenwa et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146 (2024) 10666-10678

[97] Structure and Reactivity of Binuclear Cu Active Sites in Cu-CHA Zeolites for Stoichiometric Partial Methane Oxidation to Methanol, Wilcox et al., ACS Catalysis, 14 (2024) 3647-3663

[96] Quantification of Extracrystalline Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites after Post-Synthetic Passivation Treatments using Mesitylene Benzylation Kinetics, Ezenwa et al., Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 9 (2024) 1096-1112

[95] Structural Changes to Molybdenum and Brønsted Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites During Methane Dehydroaromatization Reaction-Regeneration Cycles, Santiago-Colón et al., Journal of Catalysis, 430 (2024) 115335