Publications
2024
29. Junyan Zhang, Stephen C. Purdy, Meijun Li, Nohor "River" Samad, James W. Harris, Kinga Unocic, Evan C. Wegener, Jeffrey T. Miller, Felipe Polo-Garzon, Dongxia Liu, Theodore R. Krause, Zili Wu, Zhenglong Li*, "Unveiling the Role of Metal Interactions in Tuning Ethanol-to-C3+ Olefin Product Distribution over Cu-Y/Beta." In preparation.
28. Sydney E. Foster, Sophia Ezendu, Shuai Qian, Tibor Szilvási, Jason E. Bara, James W. Harris*, "Ether functional groups enable oxidative dehydrogenation of aliphatic secondary alcohols in water." In revision.
27. Ethan P. Iaia, Ganesh Rana, Ademola Soyemi, Ambar Shrestha, Mary Elizabeth S. Martin, Jenna L. Groeber, Charles R. Diemer, Tibor Szilvási, Martin G. Bakker, James W. Harris*, "Synthesis and Characterization of Metal Phthalocyanines Encapsulated in Faujasite Zeolites for Gas-Phase CO Oxidation ." In revision.
26. Shivangi Borate, Nohor "River" Samad, Stephen Purdy, Junyan Zhang, Michael J. Cordon, Meijun Li, Carlos Bornes, Luís Mafra, Andrew D. Sutton, Zhenglong Li, James W. Harris*, "Quantification of Active Sites in Yttrium Containing Dealuminated Beta Zeolites During Conversion of Ethanol and Acetaldehyde to Butadiene." Journal of Catalysis, 433, 2024, 115468. DOI
25. Cody J. Wrasman, Alexis T. Bell, Bert D. Chandler, James W. Harris, Stephanie Kwon, Madelyn R. Ball, Siddarth H. Krishna, Sheima J. Khatib, Praveen Bollini, Yuriy Roman-Leshkov, Andrew "Bean" Getsoian, Robert S. Weber, Johannes A. Lercher, Dongxia Liu, Daniel E. Resasco, Jason S. Bates, Jacklyn N. Hall, Edgard A. Lebron-Rodriguez, Laura Paz Herrera, Justin M. Notestein, Joshua A. Schaidle*, "Recommendations for Improving Rigor and Reproducibility in Site Specific Characterization." Journal of Catalysis, 2024, 115451. DOI
24. Stephen C. Purdy, Gregory Collinge, Junyan Zhang, Shivangi Borate, Kinga Unocic, Qiyuan Wu, Evan Wegener, Jeremy Kropf, River Samad, Simuch Yuk, Susan Habas, Theodore Krause, James Harris, Mal-Soon Lee*, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Roger Rousseau, Andrew Sutton, Zhenglong Li*, "Dynamic copper site redispersion through atom trapping in zeolite defects." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 2024, 8280-8297. DOI
23. Alexander P. Minne, Tristan Maxson, Tibor Szilvási, James W. Harris*, " Selective Vapor-Phase Formation of Dimethylformamide via Oxidative Coupling of Methanol and Dimethylamine over Bimetallic Catalysts." Catalysis Science & Technology, 14, 2024, 1534-1539. DOI
2023
22. Ethan P. Iaia, Ademola Soyemi, Tibor Szilvási,*James W. Harris*, "Zeolite Encapsulated Organometallic Complexes as Model Catalysts." Dalton Transactions, 52, 2023, 16103-16112. DOI
21. Kinga A Unocic,* Stephen C Purdy, Lawrence F Allard, Gregory B Collinge, Junyan Zhang, Shivangi N Borate, Qiyuan Wu, Evan C Wegener, Nohor “River” Samad, Susan Habas, Theodore R Krause, James W Harris, Mal-Soon Lee, Vassiliki A Glezakou, Roger Rousseau, Andrew D Sutton, Zhenglong Li, "Investigation of Cu Species in Dealuminated Beta Zeolite Studied by Operando Closed-Cell Gas Reaction STEM." Microscopy and Microanalysis, 29, 2023, 1614–1615. DOI
2022
20. Jeremy W. Arvay, Wei Hong, Christina W. Li, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro, James W. Harris*, "Kinetics of propylene epoxidation over extra-crystalline gold active sites on Au/TS-1 catalysts." ACS Catalysis, 12, 2022, 10147-10160. DOI
19. Michael J. Cordon, Junyan Zhang, Nohor "River" Samad, James W. Harris, Meijun Li, Dongxia Liu, Zhenglong Li*, " Ethanol Conversion to C4+ Olefins over Bimetallic Copper- And Lanthanum-Containing Beta Zeolite Catalysts," ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 10, 2022, 5702-5707. DOI
2021
18. Junyan Zhang, Evan C. Wegener, Nohor “River” Samad, James W. Harris, Kinga A. Unocic, Lawrence F. Allard, Stephen Purdy, Shiba Adhikari, Michael J. Cordon, Jeffrey T. Miller, Theodore R. Krause, Sichao Cheng, Dongxia Liu, Meijun Li, Xiao Jiang, Zili Wu, Zhenglong Li*, "Isolated metal sites in Cu-Zn-Y/Beta for direct and selective butene-rich C3+ olefins formation from ethanol." ACS Catalysis, 11, 2021, 9885-9897. DOI
2020
17. James W. Harris*, Jason S. Bates, Brandon C. Bukowski, Jeffrey Greeley, Rajamani Gounder, "Opportunities in Catalysis over Metal-Zeotypes Enabled by Descriptions of Active Centers Beyond their Binding Sites." ACS Catalysis, 10, 2020, 9476-9495. DOI
16. James W. Harris, Anuj A. Verma, Jeremy W. Arvay, Arthur J. Shih, W. Nicholas Delgass*, Fabio H. Ribeiro*, "Consequences of Product Inhibition in the Quantification of Kinetic Parameters." Journal of Catalysis, 389, 2020, 468-475. DOI
2019
15. James W. Harris and Aditya Bhan*, "Kinetics of chlorine deposition and removal over promoted silver catalysts during ethylene epoxidation." Journal of Catalysis, 380, 2019, 318-331. DOI
14. James W. Harris, Le Wang, Joseph DeWilde*, "Kinetic Modeling of Ethylene Epoxidation Kinetics as a Function of Chlorine Coverage over a Highly Promoted Silver Catalyst." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 58, 2019, 19061-19071. DOI
13. James W. Harris, Jeffrey A. Herron, Joseph F. DeWilde, Aditya Bhan*, "Molecular characteristics governing chlorine deposition and removal on promoted Ag catalysts during ethylene epoxidation," Journal of Catalysis, 377, 2019, 378-388. DOI
12. Jason S. Bates, Brandon C. Bukowski, James W. Harris, Jeffrey Greeley, Rajamani Gounder*, "Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites," ACS Catalysis, 9, 2019, 6146-6168. DOI
11. Michael J. Cordon, Jacklyn N. Hall, James W. Harris, Jason S. Bates, Son-Jong Hwang, Rajamani Gounder*, "Deactivation of Sn-Beta Zeolites Caused by Structural Transformation of Hydrophobic to Hydrophilic Micropores During Aqueous-Phase Glucose Isomerization." Catalysis Science & Technology, 9, 2019, 1654-1668. DOI
2018
10. Michael J. Cordon, James W. Harris, Juan C. Vega-Vila, Jason S. Bates, Sukhdeep Kaur, Mohit Gupta, Megan E. Witzke, Evan C. Wegener, Jeffrey T. Miller, David W. Flaherty, David D. Hibbitts, Rajamani Gounder*, "The Dominant Role of Entropy in Stabilizing Sugar Isomerization Transition States within Hydrophobic Zeolite Pores." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140, 2018, 14244-14266. DOI | PDF
9. James W. Harris and Aditya Bhan*, "Moderation of chlorine coverage and ethylene epoxidation kinetics via ethane oxychlorination over promoted Ag/α-Al2O3." Journal of Catalysis, 367, 2018, 62-71. DOI | PDF
8. James W. Harris, Jeremy W. Arvay, Garrett Mitchell, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro*, "Propylene Oxide Inhibits Propylene Epoxidation over Au/TS-1." Journal of Catalysis, 365, 2018, 105-114. DOI
7. Cha-Jung Chen, James W. Harris, Aditya Bhan*, "Kinetics of ethylene epoxidation on a promoted Ag/α-Al2O3 catalyst - the effects of product and chloride co-feeds on rates and selectivity." Chemistry A European Journal, 24, 2018, 12405-12415. DOI | PDF
2017
6. James W. Harris, Wei-Chih Liao, John R. Di Iorio, Alisa M. Henry, Ta-Chung Ong, Aleix Comas-Vives, Christophe Copéret, Rajamani Gounder*, “Molecular Structure and Confining Environment of Sn Sites in Single-Site Chabazite Zeolites.” Chemistry of Materials, 29, 2017, 8824-8837. DOI
2016
5. Viktor J. Cybulskis, James W. Harris, Yury Zvinevich, Rajamani Gounder, Fabio H. Ribeiro*, “A Transmission Infrared Cell Design for Temperature-Controlled Adsorption Studies on Heterogeneous Catalysts.” Reviews of Scientific Instruments, 87, 2016, 103101. DOI
4. Juan C. Vega-Vila, James W. Harris, Rajamani Gounder*, “Controlled Insertion of Tin Atoms into Zeolitic Framework Vacancies and Consequences for Glucose Isomerization Catalysis.” Journal of Catalysis, 344, 2016, 108-120. DOI
3. Patrick Wolf, Wei-Chih Liao, Ta Chung Ong, Maxence Valla, James W. Harris, Rajamani Gounder, William N.P. van der Graaff, Evgeny A. Pidko, Emiel J. M. Hensen, Jan Dijkmans, Bert Sels, Ive Hermans, Aaron J. Rossini, Anne Lesage, Lyndon Emsley, Christophe Copèret*, “Identifying Sn site heterogeneities prevalent among Sn-Beta zeolites”, Helvetica Chimica Acta, 99, 2016, 916-927. DOI
2. Zhenwei Wu, Evan C. Wegener, Han-Ting Tseng, James R. Gallagher, James W. Harris, Rosa E. Diaz, Yang Ren, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Jeffrey T. Miller*, “Pd-In intermetallic alloy nanoparticles: highly selective ethane dehydrogenation catalysts.” Catalysis Science & Technology, 6, 2016, 6965-6976. DOI
1. James W. Harris, Michael J. Cordon, John R. Di Iorio, Juan Carlos Vega-Vila, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Rajamani Gounder*, “Titration and Quantification of Open and Closed Lewis Acid Sites in Sn-Beta Zeolites that Catalyze Glucose Isomerization.” Journal of Catalysis, 335, 2016, 141-154. DOI
Patents
3. James W. Shogren-Harris and Alexander P. Minne, "Gas-phase oxidative coupling of alcohols and amines using heterogeneous catalysts." U.S. Pat. App. No 18/505,797, filed November 9, 2023.
2. McAteer, C. H., Baig, M.S., Powell, K. L., Harris, J. W., Gounder, R., “Zeolite Catalyst.” US. Patent Application No. 62/580,514 ; WIPO PCT Application No. WO/2019/089920 Filed: Nov. 2, 2017.
1. Gounder, R., Vega-Vila, J. C., Harris, J. W., “Processes for Producing Materials Having a Zeolite-Type Framework with Heteroatoms Incorporated Therein.” U.S. Patent No. 20180057364A1 (2019).