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Author:

Held, Jacob T

Title:

Mechanistic Analysis of the Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene Over NiZn Surface

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

DFT
catalysis
NiZn
Hydrogenation
ethylene
polyethylene
acetylene

File:

Download Held_Jacob_SelectiveHydrogenationofAcetylene.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Honors Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Faculty Reader

Author:

Brady, Brian Matthew

Title:

Determining the Electrocatalytic Oxidation Mechanism of 1,2-propanediol Using Density Functional Theory

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Density Functional Theory
catalysis
electrocatalysis
biomass
reaction mechanism

File:

Download Brian_Brady_Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Honors Advisor
Themis Matsoukas, Faculty Reader

Author:

Bernstein, Nicole J

Title:

Density Functional Theory Study of Carbon Dioxide Electrochemical Reduction on the Fe (100) Surface

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

electrochemistry
catalysis
electroreduction
carbon dioxide

File:

Download Bernstein_Nicole_DensityFunctionalTheoryStudyofCarbonDioxideElectrochemicalReductionontheFe_100_Surface.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Honors Advisor
Ali Borhan, Faculty Reader

Author:

Miller, Julie Ann

Title:

Mechanism Determination for the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 1,2-propanediol Over Gold and Platinum

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
1
2-propandiol
electrocatalytic oxidation

File:

Download Miller_Julie_MechanimDeterminationOfOxidationof12Propanediol.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Enrique Daniel Gomez, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

O'Connor, Nolan J

Title:

Trends in single transition metal atom/oxide support interactions from density functional theory

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

DFT
Metal Oxide
Single atom catalyst
catalysis

File:

Download Thesis_final_O_Connor.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Michael John Janik, Thesis Honors Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Faculty Reader

Author:

Weikel, Kelly

Title:

Multicomponent catalysis: Interfacial properties directing furfuryl alcohol hydrodeoxygenation pathways at doped TiO2-Pd core shell catalysts

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

catalysis
hydrodeoxygenation
biomass
furfuryl alcohol
Density Functional Theory
vacancies

File:

Download Kelly_Weikel_thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Michael John Janik, Thesis Supervisor
Michael John Janik, Thesis Honors Advisor
Robert Rioux, Faculty Reader

Author:

Pantelis II, Nicholas

Title:

Performance of Ceria Supported Monometallic and Bimetallic Single-atom Catalysts in Carbon Monoxide Oxidation

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous catalysis
catalysis
single atoms
ceria
palladium
platinum
nickel
adatoms
oxidation
kinetics
bimetallic
monometallic
catalyst
DRIFTS
Arrhenius
Mars van Krevelen
reaction order
ICP
nanoparticles
activity
specific activity

File:

Download Thesis_Pantelis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Robert Rioux, Thesis Supervisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Rys, Ethan

Title:

First Principles Kinetic Modeling and Reactor Simulations for the Efficient Utilization of Stranded Methane Resources

Area of Honors:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

platinum
DFT
computational chemistry
VASP
non-oxidative methane coupling
catalysis

File:

Download Rys_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Thesis Supervisor
Themis Matsoukas, Thesis Honors Advisor