gounder research group

July 2026: Best wishes to Tania Class-Martínez on her next position at LNK Energies!

July 2026: Best wishes to Ángel Santiago-Colón on his next position as a postdoc at MIT with Prof. Yuriy Roman!

July 2026: Congratulations to Bonn Cao for his paper on how exchanged 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 being granted 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!

May 2026: Congratulations to Bereket Bekele for his paper describing mechanisms by which proximal acid sites in zeolites increase catalytic turnover rates being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

May 2026: Congratulations to Bonn Cao for his paper on diffusion limitations in MFI zeolites on ethene oligomerization catalysis being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

[131] Consequences of Ca(II) Exchange onto H-MFI Zeolites for Ethene Oligomerization Rates, Selectivity and Deactivation, Cao et al., Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, (2026) in press

[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

[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