8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Check in, poster-set up and light breakfast at Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NanoES) Lobby
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM: Welcome remarks, NanoES Room 181
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM: Session 1: Catalyst Characterization and Fundamentals (Invited and Contributed Talks)
9:15 - 10:00: Keynote: Dr. Adam Hoffman, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, "Co-ACCESS’ Adventures in Catalyst Dynamics using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at SSRL"
10:00 - 10:20: Prof. Jean-Sabin McEwen, Washington State University, "Bimetallic Catalysts for Bio-oil Upgrading: A Multi-Scale Modeling Approach"
10:20 - 10:40: Dr. Benjamin Jackson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Catalyst Dynamics of Active Sites, Catalyst Structure, and Reaction Environment"
10:40 - 11:00: Dr. Nick Nelson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Probing the Local Coordination Environment of Mononuclear Pd Ions Supported on Ceria using CO Adsorption Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy"
11:00 AM - 11:10 PM: Break
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM: Session 2: Catalysis for Sustainability (Invited and Contributed Talks)
11:10 - 11:30: Invited Talk: Prof. Lucas Ellis, Oregon State University, "Understanding and Using Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis in Strategies to Upcycle Plastics"
11:30 - 11:50: Dr. Sungmin Kim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Ru/C-catalyzed polymer hydrogenolysis in the presence of solvent"
11:50 - 12:10: Invited Talk: Prof. Kostas Goulas, Oregon State University, "Hydrodechlorination of PVC to value-added waxes"
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch and Poster Session
1:30 PM - 2:50 PM: Session 3: Electrocatalysis and Fundamentals (Invited and Contributed Talks)
1:30 - 1:50: Prof. Zhenxing Feng, Oregon State University, "Surface Restructuring in Metal Chalcogenides as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction to Produce Green Hydrogen"
1:50 - 2:10: Prof. Steven Chavez, University of California, Los Angeles, "Identifying and Mitigating Deactivation Pathways in Highly Active Pt Alloy Hydrocarbon Oxidation Catalysts"
2:10 - 2:30: Invited Talk: Prof. Eric Lees, University of British Columbia, "Continuum modelling of electrochemical systems"
2:30 - 2:50: Invited Talk: Prof. Neil Razdan, University of California, Berkeley, "Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis"
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM: Break
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM: Session 4: Catalysis for Carbon Dioxide and Soot Conversion (Invited and Contributed Talks)
3:00 - 3:20: Invited Talk: Prof. Sami Khan, Simon Fraser University, "Enhancing Soot Oxidation using Microtextured Surfaces"
3:20 - 3:40: Invited Talk: Prof. Chester Upham, University of British Columbia, "CO2-free fuels and chemicals enabled by an emerging class of molten metal catalysts"
3:40 - 4:00: Invited Talk: Dr. Aisulu Aitbekova, Caltech (Incoming Professor at Carnegie Mellon), "Converting CO2, water, and sunlight into liquid fuels: Towards affordable solar fuels and chemicals"
4:00 - 4:20: Dr. Honghong Shi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Formation of (Rh–Fe)–FeOx Complex Sites Enables Methanol Synthesis from CO2"
4:20 PM - 4:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Poster Awards
5:30 PM: Informal Happy Hour (Location TBD)
1: Shradha Sapru, Stanford University. "Elucidating catalyst-adsorbent interactions in dual-function materials for integrated CO2 capture and conversion"
2: Sydney Richardson, Stanford University, "Templated encapsulation of Pt nanoparticles in mixed porous oxides promotes low temperature activity and high temperature stability for emission control catalysts"
3: Maddie Soltani, University of Washington. "Optimization of Ni-Co catalysts supported on zeolite beta to maximize liquid yields for polyethylene hydrocracking"
4: Boda Yang, Pacific Northwest National Lab, "Chloroaluminate ionic liquid catalyzed polymer upcycling for mixed PVC and polyolefin waste"
5: Jiande Mai, Pacific Northwest National Lab, "Unveiling the mechanism behind isopentane disproportionation"
6: Jinwon Oh, Stanford University, "Colloidal Nanocrystals Enable a Fundamental Understanding of the Sintering Mechanism and the Development of Stable and Active Catalysts
7: Carrington Moore, Washington State University, "Deconvoluting the Infrared Spectra for Water and MeOH Co-Adsorption on Anatase TiO2 Nanoshapes"
8: Yinjie Ji, "Pacific Northwest National Lab, "Introducing sulfate and Pt nanoparticles in defective UiO-66 for hydrogenation of ethylene"
9: Sawyer d'Entremont, University of British Columbia, "Pathway of Carbon Fiber Growth During Molten Metal Methane Pyrolysis"
10: Julia de Barros Dias Moreira, Pacific Northwest National Lab, "Negative applied potential promotes non-faradaic benzaldehyde hydrogenation in aqueous phase"
11: Julia Hancock, "University of Washington, "Aluminosilicate catalysts for hydrogen-free depolymerization of model waste plastics under mild conditions"
12: Natascha Miederhoff, University of British Columbia, "Production and Purification of Carbon Fibers using a Molten Cu-In Alloy"
13: Alexander von Rueden, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Impacts of pH and surface charge on oxygen reduction at Au(100)-water interfaces from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations"
14: Anika Jalil, UC Santa Barbara, "Selective NiAg catalysts for ethylene epoxidation"
15: Gennaro Liccardo, Stanford University, "Unveiling the stability of encapsulated Pt catalysts using nanocrystals and atomic layer deposition."
Undergraduate Students
15: Daven Rikhof, University of Washington, "Ruthenium-Catalyzed Depolymerization of Polypropylene-Polyethylene Mixtures under Mild Conditions"
16: Rawad Refai, Simon Fraser University, "Understanding and tuning the timescales of bubbles capture and dissolution in aerophilic surfaces"
Undergraduate students and early-career trainees who register for the PCCS meeting are invited to join us for a free "Catalysis Crash Course" held on the University of Washington Campus the day after the PCCS meeting. This course will be targeted towards students and trainees who have not yet taken graduate level kinetics and catalysis and are interested in learning the basics of kinetic theory, surface science, catalyst characterization, and applications. The program will run from 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM on September 15th in Benson Hall, UW Campus.
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Informal Breakfast and Icebreakers, Benson Hall Room 109
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Introduction to Catalysis and Kinetic Theory
9:50 - 10:05 AM: Activity
10:05 - 10:55 AM: Catalyst Characterization
10:55 - 11:10 AM: Activity
11:10 - 12:00 PM: Mass transfer and product quantification
12:00 - 12:15 PM: Activity
12:15 - 1:00 PM: Lunch (Provided)
1:00 - 2:00 PM: Micromeritics Workshop on Catalyst Characterization