Publications

2024

Petrolini, D. D.; Lam, H. Y.; Reardon, L.; Hu, E.; Woodard, A.; Deshlahra, P.; Eagan, N. M. Investigating base-catalyzed aldol condensation reactions on alkali-free hydrotalcites and the role of thermal decomposition. Eng. J. 2024, 500, 157061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.157061

2023

Hannagan, R. T.; Lam, H. Y.; Réocreux, R.; Wang, Y.; Dunbar, A.; Lal, V.; Çınar, V.; Chen, Y.; Deshlahra, P.; Stamatakis, M.*; Eagan, N. M.*; Sykes, E. C. H.* Investigating Spillover Energy as a Descriptor for Single-Atom Alloy Catalyst Design. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2023, 10561-10569. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02551 Authors contributed equally. *Corresponding authors.

Alamer, A. M.; Ouyang, M.; Alshafei, F. H.; Nadeem, M. A.; Alsalik, Y.; Miller, J. T.; Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M.; Sykes, E. C. H.; Manousiouthakis, V.; Eagan, N. M. Design of Dilute Palladium–Indium Alloy Catalysts for the Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol. ACS Catal. 2023, 9987-9996. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c01861 

2022

Eagan, N. M.; Luneau, M.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J., Exploiting the Liquid Phase to Enhance the Cross-Coupling of Alcohols over Nanoporous Gold Catalysts. ACS Catal. 2022, 12 (1), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c04383 

2021

Giannakakis, G.;  Kress, P.;  Duanmu, K.;  Ngan, H. T.;  Yan, G.;  Hoffman, A. S.;  Qi, Z.;  Trimpalis, A.;  Annamalai, L.;  Ouyang, M.;  Liu, J.;  Eagan, N.;  Biener, J.;  Sokaras, D.;  Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M.;  Bare, S. R.;  Sautet, P.; Sykes, E. C. H., Mechanistic and Electronic Insights into a Working NiAu Single-Atom Alloy Ethanol Dehydrogenation Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c09274

van der Hoeven, J. E. S.; Ngan, H. T.; Taylor, A.; Eagan, N. M.; Aizenberg, J.; Sautet, P.; Madix, R. J.; Friend, C. M., Entropic Control of HD Exchange Rates over Dilute Pd-in-Au Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts. ACS Catal. 2021, 6971-6981. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c01400

Jonathan, A.; Eagan, N.; Bruns, D. L.; Stahl, S. S.; Lanci, M. P.; Dumesic, J.; Huber, G., Ethylene Oligomerization into Linear Olefins over Cobalt Oxide on Carbon Catalyst. Catal. Sci. Technol. 2021, 11 (10), 3599-3608. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CY00207D

2020

Eagan, N. M.; Lanci, M. P.; Huber, G. W., Kinetic Modeling of Alcohol Oligomerization over Calcium Hydroxyapatite. ACS Catal. 2020, 10 (5), 2978-2989. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b04734

2019

Petrolini†, D. D.; Eagan†, N.; Ball, M. R.; Burt, S. P.; Hermans, I.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J. A.; Martins, L., Ethanol condensation at elevated pressure over copper on AlMgO and AlCaO porous mixed-oxide supports. Catal. Sci. Technol. 2019, 9 (8), 2032-2042. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CY00316A

Eagan, N. M.; Moore, B. M.; McClelland, D. J.; Wittrig, A. M.; Canales, E.; Lanci, M. P.; Huber, G. W., Catalytic synthesis of distillate-range ethers and olefins from ethanol through Guerbet coupling and etherification. Green Chem. 2019, 21 (12), 3300-3318. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9GC01290G

Eagan, N. M.; Kumbhalkar, M. D.; Buchanan, J. S.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W., Chemistries and processes for the conversion of ethanol into middle-distillate fuels. Nature Reviews Chemistry 2019, 3 (4), 223-249. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-019-0084-4

2018

Galebach, P. H.; McClelland, D. J.; Eagan, N. M.; Wittrig, A. M.; Buchanan, J. S.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W., Production of Alcohols from Cellulose by Supercritical Methanol Depolymerization and Hydrodeoxygenation. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2018, 6 (3), 4330-4344. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b04820

2017

Eagan, N. M.; Chada, J. P.; Wittrig, A. M.; Buchanan, J. S.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W., Hydrodeoxygenation of Sorbitol to Monofunctional Fuel Precursors over Co/TiO2. Joule 2017, 1 (1), 178-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2017.07.004

2015

Rieger, K. A.; Eagan, N. M.; Schiffman, J. D., Encapsulation of Cinnamaldehyde into Nanostructured Chitosan Films. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015, 132 (13). https://doi.org/10.1002/app.41739

Bharadwaj, V. S.; Eagan, N. M.; Wang, N. M.; Liberatore, M. W.; Maupin, C. M., Molecular Simulations of Fatty‐Acid Methyl Esters and Representative Biodiesel Mixtures. ChemPhysChem 2015, 16 (13), 2810-2817. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201500453

Patents and Applications

Eagan, N. M.; Lanci, M. P.;  Huber, G. W.;  Cuello Penaloza, P. A.; Buchanan, J. S. Processes for producing ethers and olefins from primary alcohols. US 20210363085 A1. Nov. 25, 2021.

Galebach, P. H.; Lanci, M. P.;  Huber, G. W.;  Wu, W.;  Wittrig, A. M.;  Eagan, N. M.;  Cuello Penaloza, P. A.; Buchanan, J. S. Processes for producing alcohols from biomass and further products derived therefrom. US 20210363080 A1. Nov. 25, 2021.