gounder research group

Nov. 2026: Raj Gounder receives the Shreve undergraduate teaching award from Purdue ChE.

Oct. 2026: Congratulations to Sarah Wagers on receiving the first place poster pitch award at the CISTAR meeting!

Oct. 2026: Congratulations to postdoc alumnus Siddarth Krishna on receiving a DOE Early Career Award!

Sep. 2026: Welcome to Finn Almandmoss as a new undergraduate researcher in the group!

July 2026: Congratulations to Bonn Cao for his paper on how Ca cations in MFI zeolites impose diffusion limitations during ethene oligomerization catalysis being accepted in I&ECR!

July 2026: Congratulations to Elizabeth Bickel Rogers, Songhyun Lee, and Evan Sowinski on a patent for MFI zeolites with stable and tunable product selectivity from alkene oligomerization!

July 2026: Congratulations to Justin Rosa Rojas for his paper on non-oxidative methane conversion on carbon surfaces being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

[130] Kinetics and Site Requirements for Non-Oxidative Coupling of Methane on Carbon Surfaces, Rosa Rojas et al., Journal of Catalysis, 461 (2026) 117052

[129] Proximal Brønsted Acid Sites in Zeolites Cooperate to Stabilize Transition States via Hydrogen Bonding and Multi-Ion-Pair Interactions, Bekele et al., ACS Catalysis, 16 (2026) 12094-12109

[128] Consequences of Diffusion-Enhanced Secondary Reactions on Ethene Oligomerization Rates and Selectivity on H-MFI Zeolites, Cao et al., Journal of Catalysis, 460 (2026) 116962

[127] Controlled Placement of Trivalent Heteroatoms in MFI Zeolite Frameworks Using Structure-Directing Agents, Norfleet, Bekele et al., JACS Au, 6 (2026) 2203-2208

[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