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 Welcome! For our research, we develop novel routes to the design and synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts, adsorbents, and other functional materials. We combine techniques for organic, inorganic, organometallic, materials, and polymer synthesis to make solid materials with unusual or unprecedented surface structures or to make known materials more precisely so that they may be better understood. One thing we are always on the lookout for are routes to mimic the structure or function of natural enzymes in solid materials that can be used in large-scale processing.
These atom-precise solid materials (catalysts, adsorbents and other functional materials) are used in the service of understanding and controlling some of the greatest challenges in chemical transformations today. At the end of the day, we want to be able to connect synthesis to structure to function, and we feel that the first connection has long been a limitation in the true design (as opposed to discovery) of new solid catalysts and adsorbents. We are active in all aspects of new materials design and testing including synthesis, advanced spectroscopy in the lab and at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, catalyst and adsorbent testing, and mechanism evaluation.
The research page describes the materials we have developed for work in the broad area of sustainable chemistry, including current projects on:
-highly selective and atom-efficient catalytic oxidations with hydrogen peroxide or oxygen
-catalysis with earth abundant metals
-new catalysts for selective deoxygenation and denitrogenation reactions for conversion of biomass or heavy crudes into more useful fuels or chemicals
-selective separation of alcohol biofuels from water
carbon dioxide capture and photocatalytic conversion into fuels
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NEWS
January 2012
Sara, Alicia, and Christian join the group.
October 2011
Nick and Justin publish articles in JACS and ACS Catalysis.
September 2011
Pria and Justin publish an article in ChemSusChem.
August 2011
Boone and Justin publish an article in Langmuir.
July 2011
Justin receives the DuPont Young Investigator Award
Pria receives the Mirzayan Graduate Policy Fellowship at the National Academies in Washington D.C.
February 2011
Dario and Justin publish an article in Journal of Catalysis.
January 2011
Mark Bachrach and Todd Eaton join the group.
October 2010
Natalia and Justin publish another article in Journal of Catalysis.
September 2010 Justin and Chris publish an article in Chemistry of Materials.
August 2010
Natalia and Justin publish an article in Applied Catalysis A.
April 2010
PhD student Pria Young is selected to attend the National Academy of Engineers summit in Chicago.
Justin Notestein awarded a 3M non-tenured faculty grant.
February 2010
Nick, Andy, and Justin publish an article Chemical Communications.
January 2010
Christian Canlas and Boone Thompson join the group.
August 2009
The Notestein group joins the IACT Energy Frontier Research Center.
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