News

PhD candidates Natalie Austin and Pavlo Kostetskyy publish the article “Design of highly selective ethanol dehydration nanocatalysts for ethylene production” in Nanoscale. Excellent job you two!

PhD candidate Pavlo Kostetskyy publishes new article “Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass-Derived Furan and Ethanol to Ethylbenzene” in ACS Catalysis. Well done Pavlo!

Postdoc Mudit Dixit and Peter Tancini (previous undergraduate student in the Mpourmpakis lab, now graduated) publish the article “Mechanistic Studies on the Michael Addition of Amines and Hydrazines To Nitrostyrenes: Nitroalkane Elimination via a Retro-aza-Henry-Type Process” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congrats to you both!

Undergraduate student Julia McKay joins the lab. Welcome Julia!

PhD candidate Natalie Austin receives the James M. Coull Memorial Fellowship Award for outstanding PhD student in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at Pitt. Congrats Natalie!

Graduate student Michael Cowan joins the lab. Welcome Michael!!

PhD student Michael Taylor publishes new article “Reconstructing the Surface of Gold Nanoclusters by Cadmium Doping” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Great job Michael!!

Postdoc Mudit Dixit’s article “Elucidating the Role of Oxygen Coverage in CO2 Reduction on Mo2C” has been selected as hot article for 2017 and featured in the front cover of Catalysis Science and Technology Congrats again Mudit!

Masters student Robin Tan joins our lab. Welcome Robin!

Postdoc Mudit Dixit publishes first article in our lab entitled “Elucidating the Role of Oxygen Coverage in CO2 Reduction on Mo2C” in the Catalysis Science and Technology journal. Congrats Mudit!