Tanmayi defended her dissertation on the dynamic redox properties of bismuth molybdate propylene oxidation catalysts. Congratulations! Looking forward to more great work from you at PNNL!
Scott Svadlenak defended his dissertation on the hydrodechlorination of PVC to high-value hydrocarbon waxes. Congratulations! Scott is taking this project commercial, spinning it out into our startup, Renewcat, INC. He also received the Chain Reaction Innovation Fellowship from DOE/ANL to work on this technology and move our company forward!
Our paper on the fundamental relations that determine C-O bond activation over oxides was just published in Nature Catalysis! This is the successful conclusion of 3 years of hard work by a great group of people. We couldn't have done it without our theorist collaborators, Glen Jenness, now at ERDC and, especially, Alexander Mironenko, now at UChicago, and soon to be assistant professor at UIUC!
Stephen successfully defended his dissertation: "Investigations of catalytic CO oxidation: effects of alloying copper and palladium"! Congratulations! We are looking forward to seeing your research achievements at Idaho Nat'l Lab!