2025

43. Helia Khatami, Shivangi N. Borate, James W. Harris, Daqian Jiang*, "Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Zeolite-BEA Toward Greener Catalyst Production: Insights From Three Distinct Synthesis Routes ." In preparation.

42. Shivangi N. Borate and James W. Harris*, "A Comparative Study of Ethanol Upgrading to Butadiene over Rare-Earth Containing Dealuminated Beta Zeolites." In preparation.

41. Adam T. Twombly and James W. Harris*, "Role of Solvent in the Dehydrogenation of Ammonia Borane over Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles." In preparation.

40. Ethan P. Iaia, Ademola Soyemi, Kayla Wozny, Jason S. Bates, Martin G. Bakker, Tibor Szilvási, James W. Harris*, "Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Fe-N4 Catalysts." Submitted.

39. Young Gul Hur,  Deng Yang Jan, Rajamani Gounder,* James W. Harris*, "Expanding the Phase Space for Crystallization of Boron and Aluminum Containing Beta Zeolites." Submitted.

38. Ali Al Alshaikh, Jaewoo Choi, Jun Wang, Britney Mack, Pravin S. Shinde, James W. Harris, Jason E. Bara*, "Ozonolysis as an Efficient and Rapid Pathway for the Depolymerization and Chemical Recycling of Polyvinyl Chloride." Submitted.

37. Carlos Reynoso*, Nicholas Badger, Mustafa Erguvan, Elyse E. Kimpiab, Adam T. Twombly, James W. Harris, Shahriar Amini*, "Comparative assessment of new oxygen carrier materials for gas switching reforming of natural gas: techno-economics assessment, life cycle analysis, and experimental insights." In revision.

36.  Sydney E. Foster, Jun Wang, Ethan P. Iaia, Young Gul Hur, Sophia Ezendu, Katherine Perkinson,  Tibor Szilvási, Jason E. Bara, James W. Harris*, "Acetalization of symmetric ketones with 1,2-propanediol over amorphous solid Lewis acids." In revision.

35. Junyan Zhang, Stephen C. Purdy, Mingze Zheng, Meijun Li, Nohor "River" Samad, James W. Harris, Kinga A. Unocic, Evan C. Wegener, Shan Jiang, Wenbo Li, Jeffrey T. Miller, Felipe Polo-Garzon, Dongxia Liu, Theodore R. Krause, Zili Wu, Andrew D. Sutton, Pengfei Xie, Yanran Cui, Sheng Dai,* Brandon C. Bukowski,* Zhenglong Li*, "Cu Evolution over Bimetallic Cu-Y/Beta Zeolite Under H2 and Ethanol Atmospheres: Unveiling the Role of Diatomic Metal–Metal Interactions." Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, 2025 e202514920. DOI 

34. Mingze Zheng, Shivangi N. Borate, James W. Harris, Brandon C. Bukowski*, "Exploring the Structure and Function of Rare-Earth Elements Incorporated into Zeolite Catalysts." ACS Catalysis, 15, 2025, 12484-12497. DOI 

33. Alexander P. Minne, Treycen D. Garton,  Ethan P. Iaia, Eli Stavitski, James W. Harris*, "Promoting the Oxidative Coupling of Methanol and Dimethylamine using Group 1 Alkali Metals on Palladium-Gold Nanoparticles." Applied Catalysis B, 378, 2025, 125533. DOI 

32. Ethan P. Iaia,  Miles G. Miller, Ademola Soyemi, Martin G. Bakker, Tibor Szilvási, James W. Harris*, "Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Cyclohexane Oxidation with tert-Butylhydroperoxide over M-N4  Catalysts." Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 10, 2025, 1647-1664. DOI 

31. Adam T. Twombly and James W. Harris*, "Kinetics of Hydrogen Release from Ammonia Borane and Role of the Support for Supported Ru Catalysts in Methanol Solvent." Journal of Catalysis, 445, 2025, 116041. DOI

30.  Shivangi N. Borate^, Alexander P. Minne^, James W. Harris*, "Extracting Value from Transients Observed During Measurement of Steady-State Kinetics." Journal of Catalysis, 443, 2025, 115975. DOI 

2024

29. Alexander P. Minne, Ethan P. Iaia, Eli Stavitski, James W. Harris*, "Impact of Particle Size on the Oxidative Coupling of Methanol and Dimethylamine over Palladium-Gold Nanoparticles." ACS Catalysis, 14, 2024, 17209-17225. DOI 

28.  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*, "Metal Phthalocyanines Encapsulated in Faujasite Zeolites for Gas-Phase CO Oxidation ." ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7, 2024, 18824-18840. DOI 

27.  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." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 63, 2024, 13525-13535. DOI 

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, 433, 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

5.  Deng-Yang Jan, Jaime G. Moscoso, Rajamani Gounder, Young Gul Hur, James W. Shogren-Harris, "Synthesis of Boron-Containing Aluminum Beta Zeolites." U. S. Pat. App. No. 63/860,598, filed August 8, 2025.

4. James W. Shogren-Harris, Steven T. Weinman, Alexander P. Minne, Britney D. Mack, "Process for the degradation of per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) using catalytic ozonolysis." U.S. Pat. App. No 19/078,599, filed March 13, 2025.

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).