program

The Technical Program for NAM 22 is now available.
 
 

My Schedule

Instructions for Poster Presenters

Plenary Lectures

Eugene Houdry Award of the North American Catalysis Society

James C. Stevens, The Dow Chemical Company
“Teaching Old Polyolefins New Tricks with Modern Catalysts”

 

Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis

Bert M. Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
“Catalysts Live and Up Close: Insights from In-situ Micro- and Nano-Spectroscopy Studies.”

 

Michel Boudart Award for Advances in Catalysis

James A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Routes for Production of Liquid Transportation Fuels by Liquid-phase Catalytic Processing”

 

Keynote Lectures in Topical Program Areas

Environmental Protection: Catalysis, Materials, and Reaction
Engineering

·         Haren Gandhi Memorial Symposium

o   John G. Nunan, Umicore Autocat USA Inc
“Overview of Current Emission Control Strategies for Gasoline Engines”

o   Aleksey Yezerets, Cummins Inc
“Catalysis for Diesel Emissions Control – The Age of Adolescence”

·         Gabriele Centi, Università di Messina
“Opportunities and Gaps in Catalytic Technologies for Converting CO₂ to Fuels and Chemicals”

·         Mike Harold, University of Houston
“Probing and Exploiting Interactions between Storage, Reaction and Transport Processes During       Lean    NOx Reduction”

·         Hong He, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Environmentally-Benign Catalysts for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx”

·         Kim Knudsen, Haldor Topsøe
“Hydrotreating catalysis: From Molecular Understanding of Reaction Pathways and Support Interactions to Improved Industrial Solutions”

·         Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“On the role of Hydrogen in Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions”

 

Industrial Chemicals: Catalysis, Materials, and Reaction Engineering

·         Avelino Corma, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
“From Zeolites to Mesoporous Structured and Layered Compounds as Catalysts for Chemicals and Fine Chemicals Production, Opportunities for Biomass transformation”

·         Bob Davis, University of  Virginia
“Selective Oxidation and Reduction of Glycerol over Supported Metal Catalysts in Liquid Water”

·         Unni Olsbye, University of Oslo
“Oxygenate and Chlorocarbon Conversion to olefins - On the Correlation Between Zeolite Topology and Product Selectivity”

·         Alan Vaughan, ExxonMobil
“Single Site Catalyst Activation in Solution and on Supports for ExxonMobil Polyolefins”

 

Energy and Fuels: Catalysis, Materials, and Reaction
Engineering

·         Radoslav Adzic, Brookhaven National Laboratory
“Recent Developments in Platinum Monolayer Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction and the Electrocatalysts for Ethanol Oxidation to CO₂”

·         Alessandra Beretta, Politecnico di Milano
“Gaining Insight into the Short Contact Time CPO of Light Hydrocarbons Through Advanced Experimental and Modeling Techniques”

·         Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo
“Hydrogen Production from Water on Heterogeneous Photocatalysts”

·         Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University
“Low-temperature Hydrogen Production on Sub-nm Pt-(OH)x and Au-(OH)x Species: Evidence of Single-site Precious Metal Catalysis?”

·         Hans Niemantsverdriet, Eindhoven Technical University
“New Mechanistic Insight in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts from Surface Science, Synchrotron and Computational Studies”

·         Dan Resasco, University of Oklahoma
“Catalytic Upgrade of Pyrolysis Bio-oil Components in Vapor and Liquid Phases”

Emerging Issues: Novel Materials, Theory, and Experimental Methods

·         Wayne Goodman, Texas A&M University
“Insights into Structure-sensitive Reactions using Model Supported Nanoparticles”

·         Enrique Iglesia, University of California - Berkeley
“Consequences of Cluster Size and Surface Coordination in Catalysis: Structure Sensitivity and Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi Relations Revisited”

·         Bengt Kasemo, Chalmers Technical University
“Nanoplasmonic Sensing – Applications for Catalysis, Hydrogen Storage and Nanomaterials”

·         Alex Katz, University of California - Berkeley
“Design of Bioinspired Heterogeneous Catalysts: Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance”

·         Jens Nørskov, Stanford University
“Catalysis for Sustainable Energy”

·         Bala Subramaniam, University of Kansas
“Gas-expanded Liquids: Pressure-Tunable Solvents for Catalysis”

·         Dion Vlachos, University of Delaware
“Advanced Catalytic Reactor Technologies for Energy Applications”

 Don't miss these great events!
 Opening Reception: Sunday June 5, 6:30 pm - 10 pm
   Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn
   (Buses will depart from Detroit Marriott starting at 6pm)

  Conference Reception and Banquet: Thursday, June 9, 6:00 pm
   Renaissance Ballroom 
   Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center