2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: In Honor of Michael Smith's 60th Birthday II (Invited Talks)

This session is in honor of Michael Smith's 60th birthday celebrating his achievement and contributions to the field of chemical reaction engineering. Submissions are by invitation only.

Chair

Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston

Co-Chairs

Phillip Christopher, University of California-Riverside
Michael Smith, Villanova University
Alexander Zoelle, Booz Allen Hamilton

Presentations

12:30 PM

(158a) Catalytic C-C Bond Forming Reactions for the Transformation of Biomass to Commodity Chemicals
Raul Lobo

12:50 PM

(158b) Evidence for Tunable Electronic Metal-Support Interactions in Carbon-Supported Palladium Catalysts
Radhika Rao, Raoul Blume, Kathleen Dreyer, Thomas W. Hansen, David Hibbitts, Robert Schlogl, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier

01:10 PM

(158c) Fabrication of Nano-Structured Catalyst Supports By ALD
Raymond Gorte

01:30 PM

(158d) Template-Mediated Tunability of Pores, Polymorphism, and Function in Nanostructured Materials
Mark Snyder

01:50 PM

(158e) Unconventional Pathways for Unconventional Feedstock: The Importance of Simultaneous Optimization of Catalytically Active Sites and Their Environment
Lars Grabow

02:10 PM

(158f) Leveraging DFT with Machine Learning: Applications in Catalysis
John Kitchin

02:30 PM

(158g) Exploiting Mesoporosity for the Design of Novel Materials
Jeffrey Rimer

02:45 PM

(158h) Lithium Silicates for High Temperature CO2 Capture
Michael Smith