Our group uses heterogeneous catalysis to investigate solutions to some of the important problems facing society. We focus on applying the fundamentals of catalysis to sustainable chemical processing, including research in biofuels and biorenwable chemicals. Below are some of our recent, high-visiblity publications in this area.
Toward biomass-derived renewable plastics: production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid from fructose
Motagamwala, Ali H.; Won, W.; Sener, C.; Alonso, D.M.; Maravelias, C.T.; Dumesic, James A.
Science Advances Vol. 4 No. 1
Increasing the revenue from lignocellulosic biomass: maximizing feedsock utilization
Alonso, David Martin ; Hakim, Sikander H ; Zhou, Shengfei ; Won, Wangyun ; Hosseinaei, Omid ; Tao, Jingming ; Garcia-Negron, Valerie ; Motagamwala, Ali Hussain ; Mellmer, Max A ; Huang, Kefeng ; Houtman, Carl J ; Labbé, Nicole ; Harper, David P ; Maravelias, Christos ; Runge, Troy ; Dumesic, James A
Science Advances Vol. 3 No. 5
Reverse Water-Gas Shift on Interfacial Sites Formed by Deposition of Oxidized Molybdenum Moieties onto Gold Nanoparticles
Carrasquillo-Flores, Ronald ; Ro, Insoo ; Kumbhalkar, Mrunmayi D ; Burt, Samuel ; Carrero, Carlos A ; Alba-Rubio, Ana C ; Miller, Jeffrey T ; Hermans, Ive ; Huber, George W ; Dumesic, James A.
Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 137(32) pp. 10317-25
Synthesis of supported bimetallic nanoparticles with controlled size and composition distributions for active site elucidation
Hakim, Sikander H.; Sener, Canan; Alba-Rubio, Ana C.; Gostanian, Thomas M.; O'Neill, Brandon J.; Ribeiro, Fabio H; Miller, Jeffrey T; Dumesic, James A.
Journal of Catalysis Vol. 328 pp. 75-90
Analysis of reaction schemes using maximum rates of constituent steps
Motagamwala, Ali Hussain ; Dumesic, James A.
Proceedings of the Nation Academy of Sciences Vol. 113(21) pp. E2879-88
Nonenzymatic Sugar Production from Biomass using Biomass-Derived γ-Valerolactone
Jeremy S. Luterbacher, Jacqueline M. Rand, David Martin Alonso, Jeehoon Han, J. Tyler Youngquist, Christos T. Maravelias, Brian F. Pfleger, James A. Dumesic
Science Vol. 343 No. 6168 pp. 277-280
A Tailored Microenvironment for Catalytic Biomass Conversion in Inorganic-Organic Nanoreactors
Ricardo Alamillo, Anthony J. Crisci, Jean Marcel R. Gallo, Susannah L. Scott, James A. Dumesic
Angewandte Chemie, International Ed. Vol. 52 No. 39 pp. 10349-10351 (Featured on the journal cover)
Stabilization of Copper Catalysts for Liquid-Phase Reactions by Atomic Layer Deposition
Brandon J. O'Neill, David H. K. Jackson, Anthony J. Crisci, Carrie A. Farberow, Fengyuan Shi, Ana C. Alba-Rubio, Junling Lu, Paul J. Dietrich, Xiangkui Gu, Christopher L. Marshall, Peter C. Stair, Jeffrey W. Elam, Jeffrey T. Miller, Fabio H. Ribeiro, Paul M. Voyles, Jeffrey Greeley, Manos Mavrikakis, Susannah L. Scott, Thomas F. Kuech, James A. Dumesic
Angewandte Chemie, International Ed. Vol. 52 No. 51 pp. 13808-13812 (Featured on the journal cover)
Solvent Effects in Acid-Catalyzed Biomass Conversion Reactions
Max A. Mellmer, Canan Sener, Jean Marcel R. Gallo, Jeremy S. Luterbacher, David Martin Alonso, James A. Dumesic
Angewandte Chemie, International Ed. Vol 53 No. 44 pp. 11872-11875
Engineering Catalyst Microenvironments for Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Biologically Derived Platform Chemicals
Thomas J. Schwartz, Robert L. Johnson, Javier Cardenas, Adam Okerlund, Nancy A. Da Silva, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, James A. Dumesic
Angewandte Chemie, International Ed. Vol 53 No. 47 pp. 12718-12722 (Featured on the communications section frontispiece)
Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Sintering for Supported Copper Catalysts during Liquid-phase Reaction
Brandon J. O'Neill, Jeffrey T. Miller, Paul J. Dietrich, Fred G. Sollberger, Fabio H. Ribeiro, James A. Dumesic
ChemCatChem Vol. 6 No. 9 pp. 2493-2496 (Featured on the journal cover)
Effects of γ-valerolactone in hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to monosaccharides
Max A. Mellmer, David Martin Alonso, Jeremy S. Luterbacher, Jean Marcel R. Gallo, James A. Dumesic
Green Chemistry Vol. 16 pp. 4659-4662
