2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Fundamentals of Catalysis and Surface Science I: Thermal Catalysis

This session broadly focuses on all fundamental aspects of catalysis and reaction engineering, including catalytic kinetics, surface chemistry, and reaction mechanisms. Theoretical and experimental contributions are welcome.

Chair

Joshua Howe, Texas Tech University

Co-Chair

Presentations

03:30 PM

(198a) Effects of Heteroatom Siting in MFI Zeolite Channels on Ion-Pair Transition State Stability for Acid Catalysis
Bereket Bekele, Andrew Norfleet, Rajamani Gounder

03:48 PM

(198b) Unraveling Solvent Effects on n-Butane Cracking and Dehydrogenation in H-MFI Zeolites: A Hybrid QM/MM Perspective for Advanced Catalytic Design
Muhammad Zeeshan, Subrata Kumar Kundu, Andreas Heyden

04:24 PM

(198d) Structural Pair Sites for Highly Active Hydrogenation of Nitriles
Xiaocheng Lan

04:42 PM

(198e) Understanding Carbon Nanotube Growth and Soot Formation with Transient Kinetics
Audrey Dannar, Jack Peden, Adam Boies, Christian Reece

05:00 PM

(198f) Dynamics of Catalyst Surface Structure
Franklin Tao

05:36 PM

(198h) Water-Enhanced Bifunctional Catalyst B(OH)3@Ni(111) for C=C Bond Hydrogenation
Bin Wang, Shoutian Sun