gounder research group

December 2025: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele on his paper on the kinetic consequences of extraframework Al species on acid-catalyzed alkane cracking and dehydrogenation reactions being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

November 2025: Congratulations to Bryan Cruz Delgado and our collaborators (Chmelka group and others) for their paper on atomic-scale origins of hydrothermal stability of Cu-CHA zeolites being accepted in JACS!

November 2025: Congratulations to Brandon Bolton and our collaborators (Paolucci, Li groups) for their paper on Pd sintering behavior on alumina accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C!

October 2025: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn and Ángel Santiago-Colón and our collaborators (Schneider group) for their paper on methane oxidation on Cu-zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

October 2025: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet and Sopuru Ezenwa for their paper on SDA-biased Al siting in MFI being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

September 2025: Congratulations to Elizabeth Rogers for starting her new position as an Assistant Professor at Illinois CBE!

[122] Extra-Framework Aluminum Moieties Occluded within Zeolites Micropores Strengthen Dispersive Stabilization of Confined Alkanes and Carbocationic Transition States, Bekele et al., ACS Catalysis (2025) in press

[120] 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

[119] 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

[118] Experimental Assessments and Models of Palladium Nanoparticle Sintering Behavior on Alumina Supports, Bolton, Wijerathne, et al., Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2025) in press

[116] Hydrothermally Stable and Regenerable Molybdenum-Zeolite Catalysts for Non-oxidative Conversion of Methane to Dihydrogen and Ethene, Santiago-Colón, et al., ACS Catalysis, 15 (2025) 17568-17580

[110] Chemical Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalysis: Experimental Research Methodologies and Case Studies of Site-Isolated Materials, Bates et al., Catalysis Reviews, (2025) in press