News
07/2023 Congratulations to Yu Yan & Tien Le for being selected to receive a GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award.
06/13/2023 Congratulations to Tien for a successful PhD defense!
06/09/2023 Congratulations to Yu for a successful PhD defense!
06/2023 Thy Thy received funding to attend the 4th iCoMSE School on DFT at Boise State U.
05/2023 Jacob will spend the next three months at LLNL as an intern supported by the LLNL foundation.
04/11/2023 Congratulations to Vy for a successful PhD defense.
04/2023 Tien received a Kokes award to attend NAM.
03/2023 Vy received a GCoE dissertation award.
01/2023 Zaheer joined the group as a postdoc.
10/2022 Quy received a Robberson Travel Grant in support of his travel to attend AICHE annual meeting in Phoenix.
10/2022 Vy received a Marathon Oil scholarship. Congratulations!
04/2022 Yu received a Robberson Travel Grant in support of his travel to attend 2022 NAM in NYC.
04/2022 Taha started his new adventure in Boston as a research scientist in industry.
04/2022 Tien passed her general exam. congratulations.
03/2022 Vy passed her general exam. congratulations.
12/7/2021 Yu passed his general exam.
11/2021 Vy received a Chevon Scholarship, congratulations.
09/2021 Both Tien and Vy received Robberson Travel Grants in support of their travel to attend 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting.
09/2021 Reda accepted an offer to join P66. Congratulations to this career milestone.
09/17/2021 Vy, Yu, and Tien presented at the GPCS 2021 Virtual Symposium.
05/13/2021 Bin gave a keynote talk during the virtual symposium of the Chicago Club of Catalysis. Thanks for the invitation.
04/13/2021 Bin is recognized by the Regents’ Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity & a Vice President for Research and Partnerships Annual Award for Excellence in Research Grants.
04/2021 Bin is recognized as a 2021 Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Influential Researcher.
03/2021 Undergraduate Noel Stanley received the Presidents Award for Outstanding Freshmen.
04/2021 Tien and Yu will deliver 3 talks at ACS Spring Meeting. Bin will give an invited talk on water interaction with zeolite.
09/2020 Tien received a Chevon Scholarship, congratulations.
08/2020 Bin received an ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
06/2020 Bin delivered a webinar on basics of DFT and its application in catalysis for the GPCS webinar series.
04/27/2020 Tong defended her successfully defended her PhD thesis virtually on zoom on photoexcitation and plasmonic catalysis. Congratulations!!
03/2020 Reda received a Travel Award to attend the 17th International Congress on Catalysis.
02/2020 Congratulations to Tong for receiving a GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award.
10/2019 Congratulations to Reda for winning the Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award (for $5,000)!
09/26/2019 Reda successfully defended his PhD thesis on combining computational modeling and experiments to understand solvent effects in heterogeneous catalysis. Congratulations!!
06/2019 Reda received a Kokes award to attend the NAM26 conference and give an oral presentation.
05/2019 Our collaborative work on solvent effects in catalysis has been published in Nature Catalysis. This project is funded by DOE BES.
"Research shows water can aid production of plant-based fuel" reported in OKLAHOMAN - the largest daily newspaper in the state
Research Highlight - OU Engineers Discover Novel Role of Water in Production of Renewable Fuels
Other highlights Phys.org, Science Daily, Green Car Congress, EurekAlert, DOE Office of Science, etc
See "behind the paper" story - To water, or not to water: that is the question
11/09/2018 Isaac, an undergraduate in our group, received an ACS SWRM (Southwest Regional Meeting) Student Presenter Travel Scholarship (as recommended by the Oklahoma Local Section) as well as the OU Funding Award for Student Travel (F.A.S.T.) to present his work the 2018 ACS SWRM meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas.
10/30/2018 Tong presented her talk, as a finalist among seven overall, in the Award Symposium of the Area 8E Electronic and Photonics Materials at the AIChE meeting in Pittsburgh. Her trip was partially funded by the Robberson Conference Presentation & Creative Exhibition Travel Grant.
10/2018 Very happy to see our comment on "Distributed Biomass Catalysis & UN Sustainable Development Goals" was published in Nature Catalysis.
09/2018 Three new graduate students (Vy, Yu and Isaac) and two visiting professors (Profs. Su and Wen) joined us this month
05/18/2018 Congratulations to Michael Zeets, who successfully defended his master thesis this morning. Thanks to the committee members, Daniel Resasco & Steven Crossley.
05/2018 George's work was published by Journal of Molecular Modeling. This work has been featured on a few public media, including a feature story "Oklahoma High School Student Makes Scientific Discovery By Questioning Common Knowledge" at the STATEIMPACT Oklahoma, Oklahoma Radio NPR, "A High Schooler Has Upended a Fundamental Chemistry Theory" at INVERSE, "A High School Kid From Oklahoma Just Made A Massive Breakthrough In Chemistry" at IFL Science, and a broad discussion on Reddit.
30/04/2018 Congratulations to Darius Aruho, who successfully defended his master thesis this morning. Thanks to the committee members, Daniel Resasco & Lance Lobban. Wish you all the best at Chevron Phillips.
04/27/2018 Tong passed her general exam. Congratulations!
04/18/2018 Bin gave an invited talk at the Great Plains Catalysis Society (GPCS) Spring Symposium held in Manhattan, KS.
04/07/2018 Tong and Steve talked about their research at the NASA symposium held in Oklahoma State University.
03/2018 Congratulations to George for his work being accepted by Journal of Molecular Modeling - a rare and great achievement for a high school student!
03/2018 Michael's paper is published in Catalysis Today.
02/2018
Tong's work on 2D materials is published in ACS Omega.
01/29/2018
Umi was awarded a Phillips 66 Research Scholarship. Congratulations!
01/2018
Tong's Recent work with Dr. Camargo's group at USP Brazil on plasmonic hydrogenation.
01/09/2018
Congratulations to George, an OSSM high school student working in our research group, has been named a top 300 scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, another honor after being selected as a regional finalist (among 101 in US) in the Siemens Competition.
12/2017
Recent work on C-C coupling on single-site Pd catalyst with Tao's group at Kansas.
10/2017
Tong and Reda presented their research at AICHE annual meeting.
10/2017
Tong was awarded the Robberson Conference Presentation & Creative Exhibition Travel Grant to attend the 2017 AICHE annual meeting.
08/2017
Both Umi and Thy were awarded a Phillips 66 Research Scholarship. Congratulations!
07/04/2017
Bin visited Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia (INT) and gave a talk entitled "Selective catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived oxygenates – a combined experimental and computational study". Thanks for the host Dr. Noronha.
07/03/2017
Bin visited Departamento De Engenharia Química - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and gave a seminar entitled "Catalytic conversion of biomass-derived compounds – a combined experimental and computational study" to the students. Thanks for the host Dr. Passos.
06/25/2017
Bin visited Instituto de Química - University of São Paulo (USP) and gave a talk entitled "Probing electrons in energy materials using atomic-scale theory and experiments" to the IQ students. Thanks for the host Dr. Camargo.
05/2017
Tong was awarded a Chevron scholarship. Congratulations!
05/16/2017
See our three recent papers published last week on biomass conversion and optoelectronics.
Photoresponse of Natural van der Waals Heterostructures (ACS Nano)
Enhancing the Acylation Activity of Acetic Acid by Forming an Intermediate Aromatic Ester (ChemSusChem)
The effect and nature of N-H complexes in the control of the dominant photoluminescence transitions in UVhydrogenated GaInNAs (RSC Adv.)
05/2017
Rachel received the 2017 F. Mark Townsend Scholarship from the department.
Thy was awarded a Phillips 66 Research Scholarship.
Congratulations!
04/15/2017
Tong and Reda presented at the NASA symposium for Energy and Nano-Bio Materials held at University of Tulsa.
03/25/2017
Tong, Reda, Michael & George (not pictured) presented their work at the ACS Pentasectional meeting at Cameron University.
03/2017
Reda's work on GVL conversion is published in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., which will be collected in a special issue of this journal for ACS best presentations in Philadelphia 2016.
01/2017
Recent Work on high performance LiS battery published in JMCA with Dr. Fan at TTU. Tong, good work!
12/2016
Invited review paper on surface chemistry in Mol. Simul.
10/2016
Here is the new website for the Oklahoma PV research institute, including a few groups from OU, TU and OSU.
https://engineering.utulsa.edu/academics/centers-institutes/oklahoma-photovoltaic-research-institute/
10/2016
Recent paper in JPCC on defects in MoS2 and its electronic and optical property, done with Newaz and Pop.
08/16
Bin gave two invited talks at the ACS Fall meeting in Philadelphia. The one on charge screening in catalysis was identified by the session chair Hongliang Xin (Virginia Tech) as the "Best Presentation" of the session. Due to this honor, a paper has been invited to be submitted to I&EC Research. Thanks.
08/2016
New work with Fan's group at TTU on lithium-sulfur battery is published in ACS Energy Lett. Congratulations to Tong for her very first paper. Well done!
06/2016
Tong and Reda presented their work in the PEC conference at the University of Arkansas.
06/2016
A new work with collaborators at TUM, ENS, and Warwick, is published in Chem. Sci. Congratulations to Reda for his very first paper. Well done!
04/27/2016
Congratulations to Reda for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.
From Left to Right in the photo: Brian (Director), Reda and Aaron
04/09/2016
Tong and Reda presented at the ACS Pentasectional Regional Meeting.
03/17/2016
Bin gave an invited talk on "First-principles reaction engineering at the solid-liquid interface" at the ACS Spring meeting in San Diego.
03/2016
New review paper "Zeolite-Catalyzed C-C Bond Forming Reactions for Biomass Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals" is accepted for publication in Catalysis Science and Technology.
02/2016
Bin gave a seminar entitled "Probing electrons in energy materials using atomic-scale theory and experiments” at Texas Tech University.
01/2016
Recent work on type II hot carrier solar cell, in collaboration with Sellers and Santos at OU, has been accepted for publication in Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications
01/2016
Rachel and Joshua are awarded the Program of Excellence (PoE) Scholarship. Congratulations!
01/2016
Rachel and Yupeng join the group. Welcome!
12/2015
Computational allocation has been awarded by DOE NERSC to our project of "First-principles Atomic-level Interfacial Reaction Engineering" (FAIRE).
09/2015
Tong, Joshua and Yanglong join the group. Welcome!
09/03/2015
Reda (with Zheng and Wenhua) presented three posters during the DOE site visit to the Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering (CIRE).
09/01/2015
Bin gave a lecture entitled "Light, Lithium and Water" within the "Morning with the Professor" program at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). About 40 students age 50+ enrolled in this lecture. We appreciate their attendance and impressive questions during/after the lecture.
08/19/2015
Reda presented his recent results on biomass catalytic upgrading during the 250th ACS National Meeting in Boston. Link to the abstract.
This research has been performed in collaboration with Dr. Resasco's group (Zheng and Adam) at OU and supported by DOE through the Center for Interfacial Reaction Engineering (CIRE).
08/13/2015
Congratulations to Lauren for successfully defending her Master thesis! Well Done!
Lauren will pursue a Ph.D. at UT Austin. We wish you the best luck and success!
08/2015
Our new paper "Reaction of Phthalocyanines with Graphene on Ir(111)" has been selected for JACS Spotlights.
04/29/2015
Madison got the outstanding junior research award from the CBME department. Congratulations!
04/18/2015
Madison presented her poster during the undergraduate research day.
02/2015
Bin presented at the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University
01/2015
Madison join the group to do undergraduate research. Welcome!
12/2014
Bin gave presentations at the School of Energy Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC);
College of Chemical Engineering at Sichuan University;
School of Chemical Engineering at the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST);
Department of Chemistry at the East China Normal University (ECNU).
11/2014
Bin gave two presentations on VO2 and Li-S battery during the AICHE meeting in Atlanta.
09/23/2014
Bin gave a presentation at the oklahoma supercomputing symposium. The slides are available at the symposium website.
09/2014
