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28/10-17

Paper: Topics in Catalysis

A paper entitled “Catalytic Oxidation of Allylic Alcohols to Methyl Esters” was published in Topics in Catalysis with Agata Gallas-Hulin as first author. Top. Catal., 2017, 60(17), 1380-1386.

23/10-17

Lecture by Professor Will Medlin, University of Colorado, USA.

Professor Will Medlin from University of Colorado, USA gave a lecture about controlling selectivity in heterogeneous catalysis using organic monolayers.

1/9-17

Niklas R. Bennedsen joins the group as Ph.D. student.





1/9-17

Rasmus Lykke Mortensen, Dorotea Gajdek, Máni Dagsson, Daniel Nikolaus Rainer joins the group as master project students.

31/8-17
Søren Kramer wins poster prize at the EuropaCat conference

The poster by Søren Kramers wins prize Among 900 posters at the 13th European Congress on Catalysis. The poster showcased some of the latest research from the group focusing on heterogeneous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals for applications in organic chemistry. The prize is a recognition of the potential in these interdisciplinary efforts toward minimizing the environmental and economic impact of chemical production.

7/7-17

Bachelor project defence by Rasmus Lykke Mortensen and William Gundtorp
Rasmus and William defended with success their Bachelor’s Thesis. Rasmus and William worked on new metal-alloy catalysts. 

7/7-17

Bachelor project defence Troels Kaas Ibsen
Troels defended with success his Bachelor’s Thesis. Troels worked on new bifunctional catalysts for production of methyl isobutyl ketone.

6/7-17
Master project defence by Niklas R. Bennedsen
Niklas R. Bennedsen defended with success his Master’s Thesis. Niklas worked on novel cobalt-nickel catalysts based on MOFs. Niklas will continue as a PhD student in the group.

5/5-2017

PhD Defence by Agata Gallas-Hulin

Agata successfully defended her PhD entitled “Design of sintering-stable heterogeneous catalysts”. The three opponents were Associate Professor Susanne Mossin - DTU Chemistry, Research Scientist Søren Birk Rasmussen - Haldor Topsoe A/S and Assistant Professor Feng Ryan Wang - University College London (UCL).

1/5-2017
David Benjamin Christensen joins the group as Ph.D. student

1/3-17
Simone Louise Zacho joins the group as Ph.D. student





23/2-17
Research Award

Søren has been awarded Sapere Aude DFF-starting Grant (2016). The granted amount by Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) is DKK 6.5 million to cover a research period of four years. Read more (in Danish). 
Read more on the homepage of DFF.

15/2-17
Master project defence by Simone Louise Zacho
Simone Louise Zacho defended with success her Master’s Thesis. Simone worked on novel cobalt catalysts based on MOFs. Simone will continue as a PhD student in the group.

3/2-17
Master project defence by Kasper Buss
Kasper Buss defended with success his Master’s Thesis. Kapser worked on new nickel-cobalt-alloy catalysts. Kasper will continue has career at the Danish catalyst company Haldor Topsøe. 

2/2-17 
PhD Defence by Jacob Abildstrøm
Jacob Abildstrøm successfully defended her PhD entitled “Lignin biomass conversion into chemicals and fuels”. The three opponents were Associate Professor Pernille Harris - DTU Chemistry, Research Engineer Sorin Nedel - Haldor Topsoe A/S and
Staff Researcher Yury Kolenko, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL).
 
1/2-17
Kristoffer H. Rasmussen joins the group as Ph.D. student 




1/2-17
Lecture by Research Yury Kolenko
Staff Researcher Yury Kolenko from International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) gave a lecture about electrocatalysts for water electrolysis.

30/1-17
Troels Kaas Ibsen, Rasmus Lykke Mortensen and William Gundtorp joins the group as bachelor students 

25/1-17
Paper: Journal of Catalysis
A paper entitled “Decomposition of formic acid over silica encapsulated and amine functionalised gold nanoparticles” was published in Journal of Catalysis with Jerrik Mielby as first author. J. Catal: Volume 345, January 2017, Pages 149-156

Highlights:
-Small and uniform gold nanoparticles are encapsulated in amine functionalised silica.
-The catalyst is highly active for vapour phase decomposition of formic acid into H2.
-Kinetic isotope labelling indicates that the formation of H2 is rate-limiting.
-In situ ATR-FTIR indicates that the active site is an amine functionalised Au atom.

Read more on the homepage of Journal of Catalysis.

23/1-17
Fatima Hejjo and Niklas Bennedsen joins the group as Master project students

12/1-17
Master project defence by Kristoffer H. Rasmussen
Kristoffer defended with success his Master’s Thesis. Kristoffer worked on a new route for synthesis zeolites with nanoparticles for automotive. Kristoffer will continue as a PhD student in the group.

1/11-16
Farnoosh joins the group as Ph.D. student 
Farnoosh has previously obtained her Master degree from Materials & Energy Research Center (MERC), Tehran, Iran.

Mayra Melián Rodríguez successfully defended her PhD entitled “Lignin biomass conversion into chemicals and fuels”. The three opponents were Professor Jens Øllgaard Duus – DTU Chemistry, Research Professor Miguel A. Bañares - CSIC - Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry, Spain and Associate Professor Ib Johannsen - Aarhus University, Denmark.

19/5-16:
Lecture by Research Professor Dr. Miguel A. Bañares

Research Professor Dr. Miguel A. Bañares from CSIC Institute for Catalysis,  Madrid,  Spain, gave a lecture entitled “Assessing structure-performance with operando and real-time spectroscopy during catalysis and hydrogen release, cases that show the potential of Raman spectroscopy”

1/5-16
Rouzana Pulikkal Thumbayil joins the group as Ph.D. student.
Rouzana has previously obtained her Master degree from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.

15/4-16
Søren Kramer joins the group as postdoc.
Søren has previously worked as a postdoc at Aarhus University and at California Institute of Technology, USA.

26/2-16
Bachelor project defence by Clemens Panning
Clemens Panning defended with success his bachelor’s thesis. Clemens worked on production of hydrogen from formic acid.

23/2-16
Master project defence by Zahra Ali
Zahra Ali defended with success her Master’s Thesis. Zahra worked on a new route for synthesis mesoporous zeolites. The project was  performed under supervision of Associate Professor Søren Kegnæs and Research Engineer Uffe Mentzel from Haldor Topsøe A/S.

22/1-16
Research Award
Søren has just been selected as VILLUM Young Investigator. The granted amount by VILLUM FONDEN in The Young Investigators programme is DKK 7 million to cover a research period of four years. Read more (in Danish).
Read more on the homepage of VILLUM FONDEN.

Research Award

Jerrik has just been awarded Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Talent grant by The Danish Council for Independent Research. Read more (in Danish). 

1/1-16
Paper: Microporous and mesoporous Materials

A paper entitled “Synthesis of mesoporous zeolite catalysts by in situ formation of carbon template over nickel nanoparticles” was published in Topics in Catalysis with Jacob Oskar Abildstrøm as first author. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 225 (2016) 232-237. Download!

11/10-15
Paper: Topics in Catalysis
A paper entitled “Aerobic Oxidation of Veratryl Alcohol to Veratraldehyde with Heterogeneous Ruthenium Catalysts” was published in Topics in Catalysis with Mayra Melián Rodríguez as first author. Topics in Catalysis: Volume 58, Issue 14 (2015), Page 1036-1042.

24/9-15
Postdoc grants of 3.9 mio DKK
Jerrik Mielby just received a Postdoc grants of 3.9 mio DKK from the Danish Council for Independent Research - Technology and Production Sciences. The title of the project is “Production of Substitute Natural Gas using Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticle Catalysts”. The project will be a collaboration between DTU Chemistry and partners at Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany and Imperial College London, England. Read more on the Danish Council for Independent Research website and on the DTU Chemistry News (in Danish).

26/6-15
Conference
Zahra Ali and Simone Zacho gave poster presentations in the the student conference "Grøn dyst" 2015 at DTU.

11/6-15
Conference
Jacob Abildstrøm gave an oral presentation at the Danish Chemical Society Annual Meeting 2015, June 11, in Odense.

10/6-15
Conference
Zahra Ali gave an oral presentation at the First Inorganic Graduate Student Seminar, 1st IGSS, June 1, in Odense, organised by The Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Danish Chemical Society (Sektionen for Uorganisk Kemi).

25/3-15
Conference
The group participating with oral and poster presentations in the 2nd Euro-Asia Zeolite Conference, 2015 in Nice, France.

7/11-14
DTU’s Young Researcher Award

Jerrik Mielby receives DTU's Young Researcher Award 2014 for his research during his PhD.

4/9-14
Paper: Angewandte Chemie
A paper entitled “Oxidation of Bioethanol using Zeolite-Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles” was published in Angewandte Chemie with Jerrik Mielby, Jacob Abildstrøm and Søren Kegnæs from CSC as co-authors. Paper was made in a collaboration with the researcher from Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung and from DTU CEN. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, (53), 12513-12516. Read the paper.

1/9-14
New master project student - Jeppe Lunde
Jeppe Lunde Schmidt starts as a master project student at CSC. Jeppe will work on materials for deNOx aftertreatment systems under the supervision of Associate Professor Søren Kegnæs and Associate Professor Susanne Mossin. The project is in collaboration with Haldor Topsøe A/S.

18/8-14
Paper: Angewandte Chemie


A paper entitled “A Polyphenylene Support for Pd Catalysts with Exceptional Catalytic Activity” was published in Angewandte Chemie with Jerrik Mielby and Søren Kegnæs as co-authors. Paper was made in a collaboration between CSC, the group of Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth at Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung and DTU CEN. The paper was selected as a hot paper and can be found at: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53,(33) 8645–8648. Read the paper.

15/8-14
PhD Defence - Jerrik Mielby
Jerrik Mielby defended with success his PhD’s Thesis.
Jerrik will continue as a PostDoc at CSC concerning design of zeolite materials for application in catalysis in a project founded by the Lundbeck foundation.

14/8-14
Lecture by Professor Alexandr Yu. Stakheev
Lecture by Professor Alexandr Yu. Stakheev  from N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry.  The lecture is about materials and catalysts for deNOx.