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Introducing Catalysis Science & Technology’s new Editor-in-Chief Bert Weckhuysen

We are delighted to announce that Professor Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief for Catalysis Science & Technology.

Bert Weckhuysen received his Master degree in Chemical & Agricultural Engineering from Leuven University (Belgium) in 1991. After obtaining his PhD degree in Catalysis from Leuven University in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Robert Schoonheydt, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Israel Wachs at Lehigh University (USA) and Prof. Jack Lunsford at Texas A&M University (USA). Bert serves as the Distinguished University Professor in Catalysis, Energy & Sustainability at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and was appointed as the first Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University in 2012. He was a visiting professor at Leuven University (2000-2005), Stanford University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2013-2018), University College London (2014-2017) and ETH Zürich (2022).

The central research theme of the Weckhuysen group is the development of structure-activity relationships and expert systems in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and materials science with special emphasis on the development and use of advanced in situ characterization techniques.

“The rapid development of sustainability in chemistry, energy, and materials science ask for a flagship broad-scope interdisciplinary scientific journal in the field of catalysis that not only fosters fundamental science in the more traditional catalysis fields, but also brings in new, often somewhat more remotely developed methods, materials, and insights that not only inspire, but also continuously rejuvenate the catalysis field.

The introduction of such new developments, often achieved by interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary collaborations, keep catalysis a vibrant field for new scientific discoveries as well as technological breakthroughs, leading to practical in-house as well as large industrial applications.”– Bert Weckhuysen

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our previous Editor-in-Chief Professor Javier Pérez-Ramírez for his service to the journal.

“The last 11 years on the Editorial Board of Catalysis Science & Technology, including 7 years as Associate Editor and 4 years as Editor-in-Chief, have been memorable. I have overseen the journal’s growth into a well-established, respected, diverse, and inclusive journal for practitioners to publish and follow exciting developments in the field of catalysis.

I am delighted that Bert Weckhuysen is taking over the role. Under the leadership of Bert and the editorial team, I am convinced that the journal will reach new heights.– Javier Pérez-Ramírez


Interested to find out more about Bert’s latest research? See his most recent papers published in Catalysis Science & Technology, all available to read Open Access for free:

Alumina binder effects on the hydrothermal stability of shaped zeolite-based catalyst bodies
Nikolaos Nikolopoulos, Abhijit Wickramasinghe, Gareth T. Whiting* and Bert M. Weckhuysen*

New insights into the NH3-selective catalytic reduction of NO over Cu-ZSM-5 as revealed by operando spectroscopy
Xinwei Ye, Ramon Oord, Matteo Monai, Joel E. Schmidt, Tiehong Chen, Florian Meirer and Bert M. Weckhuysen*

New insights into the biphasic “CO-free” Pauson–Khand cyclisation reaction through combined in situ spectroscopy and multiple linear regression modelling
Robert Geitner*, Tianbai Huang, Stephan Kupfer, Stefanie Gräfe, Florian Meirer and Bert M. Weckhuysen*

Early-stage particle fragmentation behavior of a commercial silica-supported metallocene catalyst
Silvia Zanoni, Nikolaos Nikolopoulos, Alexandre Welle, Aurélien Vantomme and Bert M. Weckhuysen*

Probing coke formation during the methanol-to-hydrocarbon reaction on zeolite ZSM-5 catalyst at the nanoscale using tip-enhanced fluorescence microscopy
Siiri Bienz, Sophie H. van Vreeswijk, Yashashwa Pandey, Giovanni Luca Bartolomeo, Bert M. Weckhuysen*, Renato Zenobi* and Naresh Kumar*

Read more of Bert’s RSC journal articles here.

 

Please join us in welcoming Bert as he leads the journal to continued success, as well as in thanking Javier for his many years of service and dedication to Catalysis Science & Technology.

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Catalysis Science & Technology: Editor’s Choice January 2021

Associate Editor Bin Liu has selected some outstanding recent research from Catalysis Science & Technology to share with you. Read now for free until 26th April 2021.

Bin LiuBin received his B.Eng. (1st Class Honours) and M.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2011. Thereafter, he moved to University of California, Berkeley and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Chemistry during 2011 – 2012 before joining School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He is now an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His main research interests are electrocatalysis, photovoltaics and photoelectrochemistry.

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Paper

Bimetallic PtIr nanoalloy on TiO2-based solid solution oxide with enhanced oxygen reduction and ethanol electro-oxidation performance in direct ethanol fuel cells

Tai Thien Huynh, Nam Nguyen Dang &  Hau Quoc Pham

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0CY02056G

 

Mini Review

Selective CO2 reduction towards a single upgraded product: a minireview on multi-elemental copper-free electrocatalysts

Madeleine K. Wilsey, Connor P. Cox, Ryland C. Forsythe, Luke R. McCarney & Astrid M. Müller

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2021, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/D0CY02010A

 

Paper

Silicon microfabricated reactor for operando XAS/DRIFTS studies of heterogeneous catalytic reactions

Venezia, E. Cao, S. K. Matam, C. Waldron, G. Cibin, E. K. Gibson, S. Golunski, P. P. Wells, I. Silverwood, C. R. A. Catlow, G. Sankarh & A. Gavriilidis

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, 10, 7842-7856. DOI: 10.1039/D0CY01608J

 

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Welcoming new Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editors: Xiulian Pan & Ken-ichi Shimizu

We are delighted to welcome Professor Xiulian Pan and Professor Ken-ichi Shimizu as our newest Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editors.

Xiulian Pan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, ChinaXiulian Pan

Xiulian Pan is a full professor and a group leader at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Guoxing Xiong from DICP in 2001. After a postdoctoral research stage at the Fraunhofer Institute of Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Stuttgart, she joined Prof. Xinhe Bao’s team at DICP in 2003.

Her research interests include fundamental studies on confined catalysis within porous materials such as carbon, zeolites and metal oxides in energy conversion related processes focusing on syngas chemistry, catalytic activation and conversion of small molecules e.g. CH4, N2 and CO2. She received a number of awards including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars from the NSFC, the Chinese Chemical Society-BASF Youth Innovation Prize and the Young Woman Scientist Award of China (co-supported by All-China Women’s Federation, China Association for Science and Technology, China National Commission for UNESCO and L’OREAL).

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Xiulian Pan will provide her expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Catalysis in energy conversion processes
  • Catalytic conversion of small molecules

Send your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Professor Pan now: click here to submit.

 

Ken-ichi Shimizu, Hokkaido University, JapanKen-ichi Shimizu

Ken-ichi Shimizu has been a full Professor at Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University, since 2015. He received his Ph.D. degree at Nagoya University in 2000. He began his career as a Research Associate at Niigata University in 2000, moved to Nagoya University in 2004 as an Assistant Professor, and then moved to Hokkaido University in 2010 as an Associate Professor.

His main interest is in heterogeneous catalysis for sustainable chemical transformations and automotive emission control. He also works for in situ spectroscopies and catalysis informatics for molecular level design of heterogeneous catalysis.

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Ken-ichi Shimizu will provide his expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Catalysis in green organic synthesis
  • Characterization of heterogeneous catalysts

Send your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Professor Shimizu now: click here to submit.

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Welcoming Núria López as Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Núria López as our newest Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor.

Núria López, Institut Català d’Investigació Quimíca, Spain

Nuria LopezNúria López graduated in Chemistry (1999) and got her Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, Spain (1995). As a postdoctoral researcher, she joined the Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics led by Prof. Jens K. Nørskov (Denmark). In 2005 she started her independent career at ICIQ. Her research group focuses on the theoretical research in heterogeneous photo-electro-catalysis.

Prof. López has co-authored over 200 scientific publications. In 2010 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2010) and then an ERC Proof-of-concept (2015) by the European Research Council. She was awarded a “Prize for Excellence” by the Real Sociedad Española de Química in 2015. She has collaborated with several industries in Europe to leverage atomistic modelling, participated in 9 EU projects and served in several committees in the European Union, including the most important supercomputing initiatives in Europe (where she was Chair of PRACE‘s Scientific Steering Committee).

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Núria López will provide her expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Theoretical catalysis
  • Computational catalysis
  • Theoretical methods in heterogeneous photo-electro-catalysis

Send your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Professor López now: click here to submit.

 

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Welcoming new Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editors: Bin Liu & Andrew Weller

We are delighted to welcome Professor Bin Liu and Professor Andrew Weller as our newest Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editors.

Bin LiuBin Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Bin received his B.Eng. (1st Class Honours) and M.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2002 and 2004 respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2011. Thereafter, he moved to University of California, Berkeley, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Chemistry during 2011 – 2012, before joining School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He is now an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University.

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Bin Liu will provide his expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Electrocatalysis
  • Energy conversion
  • Operando in situ methods

Send your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Professor Liu now: click here to submit.

 

Andrew Weller, University of York, UK

Andrew Weller is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of York, UK. Prior to this he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford for 13 years. He moved to Oxford in 2007, after starting his independent career at the University Bath in 1999 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is currently a holder of an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship, and was recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Frankland and Dalton Transactions European Lectureship awards.

His research focus is on the organometallic chemistry of the transition metals and homogeneous catalysis. In particular, he develops organometallic complexes that are “operationally unsaturated”, that lead to highly efficient, selective, catalysts for a wide variety of important bond activation processes in both solution and single-crystalline phases.

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Professor Andrew Weller will provide his expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Homogeneous catalysis
  • Organometallic chemistry
  • C–H, B–H and C–C activation

Send your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Professor Weller now: click here to submit.

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Catalysis Science & Technology Editor’s Choice: Yong Cao Selects Outstanding Articles. Read Now for Free

Associate Editor Yong Cao has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Catalysis Science & Technology. Read them now for free until the end of February 2020!

Dr Yong Cao is currently a professor of Chemistry at Fudan University. His main research activities focus on fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis and the development of new sustainable green catalysis by supported metals and related materials. One key activity of the research group is the development of novel catalytic route to renewable chemicals and related energy conversion processes based on small molecule activation.

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Read Yong’s choices for free now:
Paper
Effect of perimeter interface length between 2D WO3 monolayer domain and γ-Al2O3 on selective hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol
Takeshi Aihara, Hiroki Miura and Tetsuya Shishido
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 5359-5367. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY01385G

Paper
Highly selective CO removal by sorption enhanced Boudouard reaction for hydrogen production
Kumar R. Rout, María V. Gil and De Chen
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 4100-4107. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY00851A

Paper
Direct production of aromatics from syngas over a hybrid FeMn Fischer–Tropsch catalyst and HZSM-5 zeolite: local environment effect and mechanism-directed tuning of the aromatic selectivity
Ting Wang, Yuebing Xu, Chengming Shi, Feng Jiang, Bing Liu and Xiaohao Liu
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 3933-3946. DOI: 10.1039/ C9CY00750D

Paper
Engineering of highly active Au/Pd supported on hydrogenated urchin-like yolk@shell TiO2 for visible light photocatalytic Suzuki coupling
Sahar Rohani, Abolfazl Ziarati, Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani, Alireza Badiei and Thomas Burgi
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 3820-3827. DOI: 10.1039/ C9CY00798A

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Editors Choice: Javier Pérez-Ramírez Selects Outstanding Articles. Read Now for Free

Editor-in-Chief Javier Pérez-Ramírez has selected some outstanding research to share with you from Catalysis Science & Technology. Read now for free until the end of November 2019.

Javier has been the Chair of Catalysis Engineering at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich since January 2010. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante and received his PhD degree at Delft University of Technology in 2002. Following a period in industry at Norsk Hydro and Yara International, he joined the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia as an ICREA Professor at ICIQ in Tarragona, Spain where he remained until his move to Zurich in 2010.

His research focuses on the design of catalytic materials tackling current and future energy, resource, and environmental challenges of society. He has been recognized by several awards, most recently the RSC Sustainable Energy Award (2017) and the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis for the North American Catalysis Society (2019). Since 2018, Javier is Isaac Manasseh Meyer Chair Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and directs the NUS Flagship Green Energy program.

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Paper
Heterogeneity of polyoxometalates by confining within ordered mesopores: toward efficient oxidation of benzene to phenol
Yan Leng, Yuchen Jiang, Honggeng Peng, Zihao Zhang, Miaomiao Liu, Kecheng Jie, Pengfei Zhang and Sheng Dai
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 2173-2179. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY00288J

Paper
Hierarchical MFI type zeolites with intracrystalline macropores: the effect of the macropore size on the deactivation behaviour in the MTO reaction
Tobias Weissenberger, Bastian Reiprich, Albert G. F. Machoke, Katharina Klühspies, Jürgen Bauer, Ralf Dotzel, John L. Casci and Wilhelm Schwieger
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 3259-3269. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY00368A

Paper
Iron carbide or iron carbide/cobalt nanoparticles for magnetically-induced CO2 hydrogenation over Ni/SiRAlOx catalysts
Sumeet S. Kale, Juan M. Asensio, Marta Estrader, Mayke Werner, Alexis Bordet, Deliang Yi, Julien Marbaix, Pier-Francesco Fazzini, Katerina Soulantica and Bruno Chaudret
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 2601-2607. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY00437H

Paper
Mechanistic role of water in HSSZ-13 catalyzed methanol-to-olefins conversion
Praveen Bollini, Thomas T. Chen, Matthew Neurock and Aditya Bhan
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C9CY01015G

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Congratulations to Piet van Leeuwen on being awarded the Alwin Mittasch Prize 2019

Piet was the founding Editor of Catalysis Science & Technology and is now a member of the Advisory Board.  Catalysis Science and Technology would like to congratulate Piet van Leeuwen on being awarded the Alwin Mittasch Prize 2019.

The prize ceremony will take place at EuropaCat 2019 on 23 August 2019 in Aachen, Germany.

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Introducing Catalysis Science & Technology’s new Editor-in-Chief Javier Pérez-Ramírez

Javier Pérez-Ramírez, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 
“I became an Associate Editor of Catalysis Science & Technology in 2011, shortly after its birth, and have greatly enjoyed witnessing the development of the journal to its well-established position today.
 
“Catalysis was instrumental to the stark societal and economic development of the 20th century and plays a pivotal role in solving the energy, resource, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
 
“Catalysis Science & Technology publishes cutting-edge developments across the catalysis science community embracing all disciplines and approaches that enable discovery and understanding of catalytic phenomena.
 
“I feel very privileged and proud to succeed Piet van Leuween as the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology and strive to continue shaping the journal to achieve greater heights.”

Submit your best catalysis research to Javier today.

Javier’s research pursues the design of heterogeneous catalysts and reactor concepts devoted to sustainable technologies. Find out more about Javier here or read his recent articles:  

Paper 
Halogen type as a selectivity switch in catalysed alkane oxyhalogenation
Guido Zichittella, Begoña Puértolas, Vladimir Paunović, Theresa Block, Rainer Pöttgen and Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 2231-2243. DOI: 10.1039/C8CY00122G

Paper 
Carbon nanofibres-supported KCoMo catalysts for syngas conversion into higher alcohols
Ho Ting Luk, Tim Forster, Cecilia Mondelli, Sebastian Siol, Daniel Curulla-Ferré, Joseph A. Stewart and Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 187-200. DOI: 10.1039/C7CY01908D

 

Javier has selected some of the most outstanding catalysis work from the past year to share with you. Read them now for free until the end of March 2019:

Communication 
Methane activation over a boron nitride catalyst driven by in situ formed molecular water
Yang Wang, Liyang Zhao, Lei Shi, Jian Sheng, Weiping Zhang, Xiao-Ming Cao, Peijun Hu and An-Hui Lu
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 2051-2055. DOI: 10.1039/C8CY00163D
 
Paper 
Operando micro-spectroscopy on ZSM-5 containing extrudates during the oligomerization of 1-hexene
Suzanna P. Verkleij, Gareth T. Whiting, Sonia Parres Esclapez, Machteld M. Mertens, Anton-Jan Bons, Martijn Burgers and Bert M. Weckhuysen
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 2175-2185. DOI: 10.1039/C7CY02460F
 
Paper 
Oxygenate formation over K/β-Mo2C catalysts in the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis
Wijnand Marquart, David J. Morgan, Graham J. Hutchings, Michael Claeys and Nico Fischer
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018, 8, 3806-3817. DOI: 10.1039/C8CY01181H

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New Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor: Yong Cao

We are delighted to welcome Dr Yong Cao as our newest Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor.

Yong Cao, Fudan University, China

ORCiD orcid.org/0000-0002-8333-0181

Dr Yong Cao is currently a professor of Chemistry at Fudan University. His main research activities focus on fundamental aspects of heterogeneous catalysis and the development of new sustainable green catalysis by supported metals and related materials. One key activity of the research group is the development of novel catalytic route to renewable chemicals and related energy conversion processes based on small molecule activation.

As a Catalysis Science & Technology Associate Editor, Dr Yong Cao will provide his expertise in particular in the fields of:

  • Biomass conversion
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Nano-catalysis
  • Supported catalysis

Submit your best catalysis science and technology work in these areas to Dr Yong Cao now.

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