Many of you will be in San Diego August 25 to 29 for the ACS National Meeting & Expo. The Institute for Integrated Catalysis (IIC) will be there, as well. We hope to see you at IIC sessions. Also, stop by Booth 2141 to take a virtual reality tour through a catalyst and to learn more about the IIC’s mission:
Providing the insight, the synthetic tools, and the engineering concepts to enable catalyzed chemical and chemical-electrical energy interconversions to minimize the carbon footprint of the global energy system;
Developing experimental and theoretical tools to better understand the structure and properties of working catalysts to be used as guidelines for novel catalyst generations and novel reaction routes; and
Translating fundamental insight into novel and improved catalytic technology.
SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY THE JANUS INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURE
Through a unique combination of experimentation, theory, and modeling, a research team has definitively characterized one of the key reaction intermediates in nitrogenase catalysis. The "Janus intermediate" binds a nitrogen molecule while eliminating hydrogen, opening the gate to produce ammonia. Read More
WORKSHOP: CATALYTIC REACTIVITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
To build dialogue between scientific communities, the IIC brought together scientists across the breadth of catalysis disciplines. A two-day workshop focused on creating novel interfaces, catalysis in condensed phase, and electrocatalytic transformations. The goal was to define challenges and explore potential similarities and dissimilarities across specific disciplines. Read More
While selective catalytic reduction is not new, the underlying chemistry of the metal oxides used in the process remained unknown—until now. A PNNL research team, along with collaborators from multiple universities, has described decisively how the metal oxides are arranged. Read more
IIC SCIENCE AT ACS
If you’re at the ACS National Meeting and Expo August 25 to 29, take time to see IIC research staff present their science. From a “multiscale modeling approach for the electrochemical hydrogenation of organic compounds” to “the role of ligand functionality in phosphine-protected gold clusters using mass spectrometry,” we hope to see you at our sessions. Get a full schedule of IIC presentations and abstracts. And at ACS Expo Booth 2141, stop by to take a virtual reality tour through a catalyst.
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