gounder research group

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 describing how diffusion limitations within MFI zeolites govern ethene oligomerization catalysis being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

March 2026: Congratulations to Andrew Norfleet and Bereket Bekele for their paper on using SDAs to control trivalent heteroatom siting in MFI zeolites being accepted in JACS Au!

March 2026: Congratulations to Tania Class-Martínez for her paper on quantifying dealumination kinetics on CHA zeolites being accepted in Journal of Catalysis!

March 2026: Congratulations to Jason Bates for receiving an NSF Career Award!

[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 (2026) in press

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

[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

[123] Polymethylated Aromatics Deactivate Intracrystalline Acid Sites in MFI Zeolites during Low-Temperature Toluene Methylation, Ezenwa, Norfleet, et al., Journal of Catalysis, 454 (2026) 166653