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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:

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:

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