February 2025: Maria Victoria, Kelsey, Arigaa, Jason, and Mohan attended the 2025 Southeastern Catalysis Society conference and presented their research. Congratulations to Mohan and Arigaa for winning Poster Awards!
October 2024: Sugandha Verma, Kelsey Levine, and Asanka Wijerathne attended the 2024 AIChE conference and presented their research. Congratulations to Sugandha Verma for winning the 2024 CRE Travel Award!
October 2024: Jason Lu joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome Jason!
June 2024: Sugandha Verma and Asanka Wijerathne presented their research (titled "Combined Experimental and Microkinetic Analysis for the Low-Temperature Formation of Nitrous Oxide on Pt/Al2O3" and "Effects of Treatment Conditions and Support Properties on the Sintering Kinetics of Palladium Nanoparticles") at the Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations to both for their excellent presentations!
June 2024: Mohan Shankar joins the group as a research assistant. Welcome Mohan!
June 2024: Congratulations to Christopher Paolucci on being promoted to Associate Professor!
April 2024: Congratulations to Anukriti Shrestha, Anna Sviripa and Asanka Wijerathne on successfully defending their PhD!
February 2024: Congratulations to group member Sugandha Verma for winning an oral presentation award and group member Kelsey Levine for winning a poster award Southeastern Catalysis Society Symposium!
November 2023: Anukriti Shrestha and Asanka Wijerathne presented their research at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.
August 2023: Anukriti Shrestha received a ACS CATL-ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Award and presented her research at the Fall ACS Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
C. Chen, A. Sviripa, S. Verma, C. Paolucci, and D. W. Flaherty. "Reactions of Surface Peroxides Contribute to Rates and Selectivities for C2H4 Epoxidation on Silver", ACS Catalysis, (2025) 15, 2, 1387-1398. DOI:10.1021/acscatal.4c06945
L. Warring, K.S. Westendorff, M.T. Bennett, K. Nam, B.M. Stewart, D.A. Dickie, C. Paolucci, T.B. Gunnoe, and R.J. Gilliard. "Carbodicarbene-Stibenium Ion-Mediated Functionalization of C(sp3)–H and C(sp)–H Bonds", Angewandte Chemie, (2024) In Press. DOI:10.1002/anie.202415070
K. Mamedov, A. Shrestha, C.A. Whitcomb, C. Paolucci, and R.J. Davis. "Influence of Domain Size and Support Composition on the Reducibility of SiO2 and TiO2 Supported Tungsten Oxide Clusters", J. Phys. Chem. C, (2024) 128, 33 DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c03652
K. Mandal, P. Rani, Y.R. Chen, A. Wijerathne, K. Nam, K. Meena, D.A. Kiani, R. Daya, W.S. Epling, and C. Paolucci. "Impact of sulfur exposure on high-temperature Cu speciation in SSZ-13 Zeolites", Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, (2024) 358, DOI:10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124361
Jayaraman, A., Wijerathne, A., Mandal, K., Gounder, R., and Paolucci, C. "Thermodynamics and kinetics of interconversion between platinum nanoparticles and cations in zeolites", Journal of Catalysis, (2024) 434, 115507 DOI:10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115507
Whitcomb, C.A., Shrestha, A., Paolucci, C., and Davis, R.J. "Low temperature CO oxidation over Rh supported on N-doped carbon", Catal. Sci. Technol., (2024) 24, 2479-2488 DOI:10.1039/D3CY01518A
A. Wijerathne, A. Sawyer, R. Daya, and C. Paolucci "Competition between Mononuclear and Binuclear Copper Sites across Different Zeolite Topologies", JACS Au, (2024) 4,1, 197-215 DOI:10.1021/jacsau.3c00632
