Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Sustainability Metrics for Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Ronan Bellabarba (Johnson Matthey, United Kingdom)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm
John Holladay (LanzaTech, United States)
"New Supply Chains for the Chemical Industry"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
Fabio Ribeiro (Purdue University, United States)
"Challenges and Opportunities for Catalysis in Decarbonization"
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Applications of Data Science to Enhance Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Karsten Reuter (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society, Germany)
"Data-Enhanced Multiscale Modeling for Heterogeneous Catalysis"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Joel Schmidt (Chevron Technical Center, United States)
"Applications-Directed Heterogeneous Catalyst Synthesis: How to Leverage the Past to Become a More Effective Experimentalist"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Toshiaki Taniike (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
"Catalyst Informatics for Discoveries from Scratch"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Hongliang Xin (Virginia Tech, United States)
"Interpretable Machine Learning for Accelerating Catalytic Materials Discovery"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Beata Kilos-Reaume (Dow Inc., United States) and Eranda Nikolla (Wayne State University, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Precision Synthesis of Well-Defined Catalysts
Discussion Leader: Francisco Zaera (University of California, Riverside, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Wenyu Huang (Iowa State University, United States)
"Well-Defined Nanomaterials for Heterogeneous Catalysis: from Atomic- to Meso-Length Scales"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Charles Sykes (Tufts University, United States)
"Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested In Reactors, and Understood In Silico "
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Praveen Bollini (University of Houston, United States)
"Second-Sphere Coordination Effects, and the Limits of Homogeneity in Heterogeneous Redox Catalysis"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Catalysis with Alternative Energy Inputs
Discussion Leader: Eranda Nikolla (Wayne State University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Kyoung-Shin Choi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
"Electrochemical Biomass Conversion"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Suljo Linic (University of Michigan, United States)
"Solar Water Splitting on Semiconductor/Co-Catalyst System"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
William Schneider (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Challenges and Opportunities in Plasma Catalysis"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Ksenija Glusac (University of Illinois Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory, United States)
"Bio-inspired Electrocatalysis: NADH and FADH Analogs in Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Conversions"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Dynamic Catalytic Behavior
Discussion Leader: Beata Kilos-Reaume (Dow Inc., United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Anastassia Alexandrova (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Dynamic Fluxionality and Metastable Nature of Active Sites of Supported Cluster Catalysts"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Norbert Kruse (Washington State University, United States)
"Rate and Selectivity Oscillations in Heterogeneous Catalysis"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Omar Abdelrahman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
"Dynamic Enhancement of Electrocatalytic Hydrocarbon Oxidation"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Insights from Mechanistic Investigations
Discussion Leader: Philippe Sautet (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Rebecca Fushimi (Idaho National Laboratory, United States)
"Time-Resolved Experiments of Fast Intermediates and Their Role in Catalyst Selectivity"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Rachel Getman (Clemson University, United States)
"Tuning Liquid/Solid Catalytic Interfaces to Harness Control over Free Energy Landscapes"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Michael Janik (Pennsylvania State University, United States)
"Combined Experimental, Density Functional Theory, and Microkinetic Modeling for Mechanism Determination on Isolated-Site Catalysts"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Justin Notestein (Northwestern University, United States)
"Learning From and Learning About Selective Oxidation Catalysts"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Operando Characterization of Catalysts
Discussion Leader: Tracy Lohr (Shell, United States)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Juan Bravo-Suarez (The University of Kansas, United States)
"Revamping In Situ Spectroscopy Transients: From Intermediates to Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm
Frédéric MEUNIER (CNRS - Univ Lyon, France)
"Quantitative Operando IR Studies Involving CO and CO2: Matching Surface Intermediates to Reaction Products"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Ambarish Kulkarni (University of California, Davis, United States)
"The Evolving Role of Theory in the XAS Characterization of Atomically-Dispersed Catalysts"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Alternative Feedstocks for Manufacturing
Discussion Leader: Daniel Resasco (University of Oklahoma, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Oliver Gutierrez-Tinoco (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
"Enabling Low-Temperature Polyolefin Upcycling via Cracking and Alkylation in Ionic Liquids"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Sara Thoi (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Upcycling Waste Products: Electrochemical Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Species"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Jeremy Luterbacher (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Controlling the Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass by Engineering Both Substrate and Catalyst"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Karen Wilson (RMIT University, Australia)
"Design of Tailored Porous Materials for Catalytic Biomass Conversion"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Integration of Experiment, Computation and Theory
Discussion Leader: Javier Guzman (ExxonMobil, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:50 pm
Dion Vlachos (University of Delaware, United States)
"Closing the Gap between Experiments and Calculations for Sustainable Catalytic Technologies"
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure