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Multi-Wavelength Raman Experiments for Understanding Vanadia Catalysts
Hack-Sung Kim, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory

Catalytic Activity of Palladium towards CH₄, C₂H₄, CH₃OH
Dmitry Zemlyanov, Purdue University

Metal Catalyzed Copolymerization of Olefins with Polar Vinyl Monomers
Richard F. Jordan, University of Chicago

CO-Induced Lifting of Au(001) Surface Reconstruction
Michael S. Pierce, Argonne National Laboratory

Probing Reaction Pathways on Model Catalyst Surfaces: Vinyl Acetate Synthesis
Wilfred T. Tysoe, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Contribution of HSAB Principle to Activity of Zeolitic Catalysts
Frank S. Modica, UOP LLC

Learning More from UV-Visible Spectroscopy of Selective Oxidation Catalysts & the Role of Defects in Propane Ammoxidation Catalysis
Gerry W. Zajac, Ineos Technologies

Posters

Time-Resolved Ultraviolet Raman Spectroscopy of Coke Formation on H-MFI
Paula M. Allotta and Peter C. Stair

02

Water-Gas Shift Reaction on Metal Oxide Supported Palladium Catalysts
Luis Bollmann, Joshua L. Ratts, W. Damion Williams, Jorge Pazmino, Jeffrey T. Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro

03

 Insight to the Reaction Mechanism of NOx Reduction with BaY Zeolites
Chunyi Sung, Linda J. Broadbelt, Randall Q. Snurr

04

Modeling of Mn-Porphyrin Molecular Square Catalysts for Membrane Reactors
Gloria A. Emberger, Maria C. Curet-Arana, Debarshi Majumder, Randall Q. Snurr and Linda J. Broadbelt

05

Understanding the Effect of Halide Poisoning in CO Oxidation over Au/TiO₂
S.M. Oxford, J.D. Henao, J.H. Yang, M.C. Kung, H.H. Kung

06

Studies on Iron Loading in ZSM-5 Zeolite and Beginning Characterization of the Iron-Oxygen Bonds
Dana Sauter and Peter C. Stair

07

Effect of Oxygen Coverage on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Oxidation Catalysis
Rachel B. Getman and William F. Schneider

08

Surface Poisoning of RuO₂(110) by Formation of Carbonate
Hangyao Wang and William F. Schneider

09

Density Functional Theory Study of Pt and Pd-based Pseudomorphic Monolayer Alloy Catalysts for NOx Storage Reduction Applications
Jelena Jelic and Randall Meyer

 10

Surface Acidity and Properties of TiO₂/SiO₂ Catalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition
Junling Lu, Kathryn M. Kosuda, Richard P. Van Duyne, Peter C. Stair

11

Density Functional Study of the Synthesis of Oxygenated Hydrocarbons
Ivan A. Konstantinov and Linda J. Broadbelt

12

A DFT Study of CO₂ Adsorption and Hydrogenation on γ-Al₂O₃ Supported Fe₂
Yunxiang Pan_, Changjun Liu and Qingfeng Ge

13

Transition Metal Based Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions: Trends and Implications of Large Ground-State Entropies
Elizabeth A. Mader, Virginia W. Manner, Adam Wu, Ernest R. Davidson and James M. Mayer

14

Supported Organoiridium Catalysts for Alkane Dehydrogenation
Neng Guo, Hongbo Li, R. Tom Baker, Christopher L. Marshall and Alfred P. Sattelberger

 15

 Thermodynamics of Oxygen Chemisorption on various Transition Metals
Abhijit Phatak, Rachel Getman, Jessica Nadai and William Schneider

16

Effect of Zn Addition on the Water-Gas Shift Reaction over Supported Palladium Catalysts
Luis Bollmann, Joshua L. Ratts, Ajay M. Joshi, W. Damion Williams, Jorge Pazmino, Yogesh V. Joshi, Jeffrey T. Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro

17

Kinetic Study of CO Preferential Oxidation in H₂:  Application to CO Detection in H2 Fuels
Christopher S. Polster, Chelsey D. Baertsch

18

Epoxidation of Propylene on Alumina Supported Ag3 Clusters
Yu Lei, Sungsik Lee, Byeongdu Lee, Sonke Seifert, Jeff Elam, Michael Pellin, Randall Meyer, Randall Winans and Stefan Vajda

19

Kinetic and Spectroscopic Investigation of the Water-Gas Shift Reaction on Supported Pt Catalysts
Joshua L. Ratts, Luis Bollmann, W. Damion Williams, Jorge Pazmino, Ajay M. Joshi, Jeffrey T. Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro

20

A First-Principles Study on Mechanism of Interaction between Transition Metal and NaAlH₄
Jianjun Liu and Qingfeng Ge

21

Needle in a Haystack Catalysis – An Experimental Study using Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP)
Xiaolin Zheng, John T. Gleaves, Gregory S. Yablonsky, Renato Feres, Thomas Brownscombe

22

Propane Oxidation with Pt/SrTiO₃ Nanocubes
Worajit Setthapun, Federico Rabuffetti, Jeffery W. Elam, Peter C. Stair, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier and Christopher L. Marshall

23

A kinetic and in-situ XPS Study of the NO Oxidation Reaction on the Low Index Faces of Platinum
Andrew D. Smeltz, Shadab Mulla, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Bongjin Simon Mun and Fabio H. Ribeiro

 24

TiAl₃: Structure and its Interaction with Hydrogen
Jiamei Yu, Jianjun Liu and Qingfeng Ge

25

Supported Vanadium Oxides for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation Of Cyclohexane
Staci L. Wegener, Hack-Sung Kim, Tobin J. Marks, Peter C. Stair

26

DFT Simulations of Re₃ Metal Cluster Binding on an Alumina Support in Hydrogen Environments
Wenguang Lin, Shawn Coleman and William F. Schneider

27

Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Olefin Polymerization Properties of CGC-Type Zirconium Mono- and Binuclear Adsorbates on Highly Acidic Sulfated Alumina
 Linda A. Williams and Tobin J. Marks

28

High Throughput of Non-Steady-State Catalytic Activity Characteristics using TAP-Studies
Gregory Yablonsky, John T. Gleaves, Xiaolin Zheng, Renato Feres and Denis Constales

29

Synthesis and Catalytic Reactivity of Phenylene-Bridged Binuclear Organolanthanide Complexes
Holming F. Yuen and Tobin J. Marks

 30

Transmission IR Studies of Sodium Borohydride Dehydrogenation
Panchatapa Jash and Michael Trenary

31

TPD of Species Produced from the Chemisorption of Nitric Acid in the Presence and Absence of CO, on BaNa-Y
Aditya Savara, Alon Danon, Wolfgang M.H. Sachtler and Eric Weitz

32

Dehydrogenation of Light Alkanes in the Presence and Absence of Carbon Dioxide
Xufeng Lin, Eric Weitz, Kenneth. R. Poeppelmeier and Wolfgang M. H. Sachtler

33

Surface Structure – Reactivity Relationships on Metal Oxides
B. R. Quezada, A. E. Becerra-Toledo, D. Kienzle, P. Stair, L. D. Marks

34

Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Based Electrocatalyst for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell
Gabriel Goenaga, Nancy Kariuki, Junbing Yang, Ann Call and Di-Jia Liu