Notable Events
Congratulations to Kayla and Zayne for receiving the ACS CATL – ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Award for the 2024 ACS Fall National Meeting in Denver!
Our newest perspective paper, A US Perspective on Closing the Carbon Cycle to Defossilize Difficult-to-Electrify Segments of our Economy, has been published in Nature Reviews in collaboration with many other talented scientist!
Our newest paper, Direct Determination of High-Affinity Binding Constants by Continuous Injection Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B!
Our newest paper, The Role of Surface Hydroxyls in the Entropy-Driven Adsorption and Spillover of H2 on Au/TiO2 Catalysts, has been published in Nature Catalysis!
The Rioux lab welcomes two new post docs, Jeonghwan Lee and Nilanjan Roy! Jeonghwan received his Ph.D. from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea and will be investigating solvent effects on zeolite catalysis. Nilanjan recently received his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur and will be joining on going intermentallic and single atom catalysis research. Welcome to the Rioux Lab!
Our newest paper, Active-site Isolation in Intermetallics Enables Precise Identification of Elementary Reaction Kinetics During Olefin Hydrogenation, has been published in Nature Catalysis! Highlighting the work by our Post Doc Griffin Canning and Michael Janik’s group at Penn State.
Kathryn Macintosh is our new post doc from Scotland and will be working on liquid metal catalyst! Mustafa Mahmoud Basuni Eid is our new Ph.D. graduate student from Egypt and will be working on intermetallic catalysts. Welcome to the Rioux group!
Our newest publications, Emergent Behavior in Oxidation Catalysis over Single-atom Pd on a Reducible CeO2 Support via Mixed Redox Cycles has been published in ACS Catalysis!
Our new paper, Synthesis and Characterization of Magnesium/Boron Solid Solutions for Energetic Applications,in collaboration with the Matsoukas group has been published in ACS Applied Energy Materials (DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.2c00312)
Posted on 5/27/2022
Our newest publication, Atomic control of active-site ensembles in ordered alloys to enhance hydrogenation selectivity has been published in Nature Chemistry.
In Nature Chemistry issue 14, pp. 483-485, a News & Views article, Catalytic site seeing by Mortensen and Laursen from the University of Tennessee on our paper is included.
The work has been highlighted by the American Chemical Society and Phys.org.
C&E News (February 27, 2020) — Customizing alloy catalysts for hydrogenation
Phys.org (April 26, 2022) — Tuning exact ratios of two metals in a catalyst may enable new directions in catalysis science
Posted on 5/14/2022
Rob Rioux and Mike Janik along with their students and collaborators have been featured in Penn State Today for their recent publication in Nature Catalysis!