gounder research group

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

October 2025: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet and Sopuru Ezenwa for their paper on how pentaerythritol SDAs bias Al siting in MFI channel voids being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

October 2025: Raj Gounder receives the Philip C. Wankat Award for Graduate Teaching in ChE from Purdue.

September 2025: Congratulations to Ángel Santiago-Colón and our collaborators (Hibbitts and Datye groups) for their paper on methane dehydroaromatization on stable and regenerable Mo-CHA zeolites being accepted in ACS Catalysis!

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

August 2025: Congratulations to Lauren Kilburn for receiving an AIChE CRE Division Travel Award!

July 2025: Raj Gounder receives the Young Researcher Award from the International Zeolite Association.

[119] 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, (2025) in press

[117] 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 (2025) 116470

[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

[115] Contribution of Brønsted Acid Sites to N2O Generation During NOx Reduction Over H-SSZ-13 Zeolite Catalysts, Saxena, Cruz Delgado, et al., Energy & Fuels, 39 (2025) 14664-14675

[113] Assessing the Influence of Void Environment in MFI Zeolites on Propene Oligomerization Kinetics Using a Combined Computational and Experimental Approach, Kilburn, Salome Rivera, et al., ACS Catalysis, 15 (2025) 7121-7137

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