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May 12 2017: Dongting wins Best Poster Award for CCC 2017 spring symposium

Submitted by swang595 on Fri, 05/19/2017 - 14:03

Dongting wins Best Poster Award for Catalysis Club of Chicago 2017 spring symposium

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May 10 2017: Professor Ive Hermans receives Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award

Submitted by swang595 on Wed, 05/10/2017 - 10:51

Professor Ive Hermans receives Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award. The Vilas Mid-Career awards are supported by the Vilas Trust to recognize exceptional scholarly accomplishments.

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Apr. 9, 2017: Group Outing, bonfire at Picnic Point

Submitted by swang595 on Thu, 04/13/2017 - 15:10

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Feb 2 2017: Sam's paper accepted in Green Chemistry

Submitted by hermans on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 14:43

Sam's paper " Production of 1,6 Hexanediol from Tetrahydropyran-2-methanol by Dehydration-Hydration and Hydrogenation .

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Dec 10, 2016: Group Outing at Ha Long Bay

Submitted by hermans on Sun, 12/11/2016 - 12:01

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Nov 16, 2016: Paper accepted for publication in Science

Submitted by hermans on Thu, 11/17/2016 - 09:11

Our publication on the discovery of a highly selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane was accepted for publication in Science.

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Sep 5, 2016: Philipp's paper accepted in ACS Catal.

Submitted by hermans on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 22:03

Philipp's paper titled "Mechanistic Study on the Lewis Acid Catalyzed Synthesis of 1,3-Butadiene over Ta-BEA Using Modulated Operando DRIFTS-MS" is published in ACS Catalysis.

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Aug 20-25, 2016: ACS Fall Meeting

Submitted by hermans on Sat, 08/20/2016 - 18:49

The Hermans group is being represented by Florian and Philipp at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society. Florian is talking about "Characterizing Cu-centers in the zeolite SSZ-13" and "Methane to Methanol conversion in the zeolite SSZ-13" and Philipp is talking about "Understanding heterogeneous Lewis acid catalysis using ATR-IR modulation excitation spectroscopy" and "Enhanced two-dimensional dispersion of group V metal oxides on silica".