gounder research group

Jul. 2024: Congratulations to Ricem Diaz Arroyo and Young Gul Hur on their paper on Al-enriched egg-shell MFI catalysts for alkene oligomerization!

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 Albertini as a new visiting PhD student, and Nina Borkowski and Kirshaun McGhee 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!

[104] Influence of Aluminum Zoning Toward External Surfaces in MFI Zeolites on Propene Oligomerization Catalysis, Diaz Arroyo, Hur et al., Dalton Transactions, (2024)

[100] Synthetic Placement of Active Sites in Zeolites for Selective Toluene Methylation to Para-Xylene, Ezenwa et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 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