Maria’s long and distinguished career was focused on the development of new heterogeneous catalysts for industrially important reactions, aimed at reducing their environmental burden and maximizing the efficiency of their use of precious metals. Maria is widely recognized for pioneering the field now known as single-site catalysis through her early experiments that identified the catalytic effect of cationic metals, contrary to the accepted wisdom at the time that metal nanoparticles are the active sites. This symposium honors Maria’s scientific legacy and features prominent researchers in many aspects of catalysis at all career stages.
Register today at the appropriate link below. Abstracts for poster presentations are due by Monday, September 11. Submit during registration through the NECS member RSVP link. NECS member registration details also available in the link.
Date: September 29, 2023
Venue: Breed Memorial Hall, 51 Winthrop St, Medford, MA 02155
Schedule
| 9:30a | Check-in |
| 10:00a | Welcome: Charles Sykes, Tufts University Morning session chair: Hyunmin Yi, Tufts University |
| 10:05a | Nathaniel Eagan, Tufts University Leveraging Oxophilic Host Metals in Dilute Alloy Catalysis: The Design of Dilute Palladium-Indium Alloys for the Selective Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol |
| 10:30a | Yogesh Surendranath, MIT (Invited Talk) How Electrical Polarization Influences Thermochemical Catalysis |
| 11:15a | Prashant Deshlahra, Tufts University Single-Atom Alloy Formation via Reaction-Driven Restructuring and its Catalytic Consequences |
| 11:40a | Susannah Scott, UC Santa Barbara (Keynote Lecture) Strategies to Achieve Homogeneity and Origins of Heterogeneity in Single-Site Catalysts Based on Supported Transition Metal Ions |
| 12:30p | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 2:30p | Panel Discussion: Grand Challenges and Emerging Technologies in Heterogeneous Catalysis Omar Abdelrahman, UMass Amherst Liney Árnadóttir, Oregon State University Randall Meyer, ExxonMobil Branko Zugic, Lydian Labs Moderator: Charles Sykes, Tufts University |
| 4:00p | Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Award for Creativity in Catalysis: Eranda Nikolla, University of Michigan Embracing the Complexity of Heterogeneous Catalytic Structures: Electrocatalysis by Nonstoichiometric Mixed Metal Oxides |
| 4:55p | Conclusion |