Energy & Fuels Preprints Presented at the 246th ACS National Meeting & Exhibition 2013

Division of Energy & Fuels, American Chemical Society

Energy & Fuels Preprints Volume 58 Number 2 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

8-12 September 2013

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Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2634 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com 2nd International Symposium on Graphene for Energy and Fuels

Tailored Assembly of Chemically Modifed Carbon Nanomaterials for Advanced 1 Optoelectronics and Energy Applications Sang Ouk Kim

Chemically modifying graphene for surface functionality 3 Paul Sheehan, Rory Stine, Jeremy Robinson, Sandra Hernández, Keith Whitener, Scott Walton

Hybrid graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes material in supercapacitors, 4 field emitters and microsupercapacitors James Tour

Graphene-Based Membrane and Porous Materials for Gas Separation 5 De-en Jiang

Electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells: a case of graphene-based materials 6 Ladislav Kavan, Jun-Ho Yum, Michael Graetzel

From Graphitization to Graphenization 7 Weijie Lu

Tailoring and integrating graphene into device architectures via chemical 8 modification Mark Hersam

Graphene derived nanocarbon architectures for energy storage 9 Quan-Hong Yang

Rational design of graphene-based nanomaterials and their application in energy 10 Storage devices Bin Luo, Bin Wang, Linjie Zhi

Ambient Fabrication of Large-area Graphene Films via a Synchronous Reduction 12 and Assembly Strategy Xiaodong Chen

Graphitic Carbon Nanomaterials as Metal-Free Catalysts for Energy Conversion 13 Liming Dai

Modifications of Few-layered Graphene Flakes 14 Liangbing Hu

Graphene Aerogels for High-Performance Electrical Energy Storage 15 Peter Pauzauskie, Zach Rousslang, Jennifer Hanson

Three Dimensional Graphene for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells 16 Yun Hu, Hui Wang Porous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

SuperhydrophobicMesoporous Materials with Catalytically Active Sites as Efficient 17 Catalyst for Biomass Conversion Feng-Shou Xiao

Metal Organic Frameworks catalysts in the conversion of CO2 to cyclic carbonates 18 Moises Carreon

Porous metal-organic frameworks: Mechanical stabilities and methane storage 19 applications Wei Zhou

Capacitance Dependence on the Pore Size in Electric Double Layer Capacitors 20 De-en Jiang

Electrically-Regenerated Metal-Organic Frameworks 21 Carlos Fernandez, B. McGrail, Praveen Thallapally

Revisiting the Charge Storage Mechanism of Nano-Structured Li4Ti5O12 23 Zonghai Chen, Yan Qin, Yang Ren, Chengjun Sun, Steve Heald, Ira Bloom

Energy Storage by Conjugated Microporous Polymers 24 Donglin Jiang, Fei Xu, Atsushi Nagai

Understaning nanoporous NiO in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells 25 Yiying Wu

Microporous Cu-CHA materials for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx with 26 NH3: Catalyst structure/function and mechanistic studies Feng Gao, Eric Walter, Nancy Washton, Janos Szanyi, Charles Peden

Energy-Efficient Dehumidification over Mesoporous Metal Carboxylates with 27 Hydrothermal Stability Jong-San Chang, Ji Woong Yoon, You-Kyong Seo, Young Kyu Hwang, U-Hwang Lee, Dong Won Hwang

Methane Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks and Nanoporous Carbons: Current 29 Records, Surprise Findings, and Challenges Taner Yildirim, Yang Peng, Vaiva Krungleviciute, Ibrahim Eryazici, Joseph Hupp, Omar Farha

Surface investigation of ZIF thin films 30 Lauren Benz, Andres Gomez, Amber Mosier

Synthesis-driven structural variation in redox-active mixed-metal MOFs 32 Karen Mulfort, Shenshen Li, Yu-sheng Chen

Selective gas uptake and storage in porous organic framework 33 Ali Kemal Sekizkardes, Mohammad Gulam Rabbani, Zafer Kahveci, Hani El-Kaderi

Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks: Materials design and applications 34 Wonyoung Choe Tailoring mesoporous carbons and related materials for energy applications 35 Sheng Dai

Microalgal biodiesel production via a two-step process with biochar-based acidic 36 catalyst Tao Dong, Difeng Gao, Chao Miao, Shulin Chen

Novel Hierarchically Porous Beta-MCFs Materials and HDS Performance of DBT 37 Xiaofeng Zhou, Huadong Wu, Aijun Duan, Zhen Zhao, Guiyuan Jiang, Jian Liu

Proton-conducting phosphonated frameworks 38 Jennifer Wegener, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Gunnar Glaßer, Robert Graf, Markus Klapper, Klaus Müllen

Nanopore-governed heterogeneous : designing selective reaction cavities 39 on metal surfaces Chia-Kuang Tsung

In-situ FT-IR Investigation of the Decomposition of Nano Zn4O(C8H4O4)3 Metal- 40 Organic Framework Peifu Cheng, Yun Hu

Solar Energy Conversion and Utilization

Earth-abundant cobalt pyrite (CoS2) thin film on glass as a robust, 41 high-performance counter electrode for quantum dot-sensitized solar cells Matthew Faber, Kwangsuk Park, Miguel Cabán-Acevedo, Pralay Santra, Song Jin

Biohybrid electrodes based on Photosystem I for solar energy conversion 48 Gabriel LeBlanc, Evan Gizzie, G. Kane Jennings, David Cliffel

Emergence of Quantum Dot Solar Cells as Next Generation Photovoltaics 51 Prashant Kamat

Programmed Nanomaterials for Solar Driven Water Splitting 52 Xiaodong Chen

Novel porphyrin dyes with enhanced light absorption and binding strength for 53 dye-sensitized solar cells Hongshan He, Liping Si, Zhixin Zhao, Wenhui Li

Solar wastewater purification via photocatalytic black Ti3+ self-doped TiO2 55 oxidized from TiH2 Lauren Grabstanowicz, Tao Xu

Semiconductors, Electrocatalysts, and Interfaces in Solar Water Splitting 57 Shannon Boettcher

Multicomponent Quantum Confined Semiconductor Nanorods: From Charge 59 Separation Dynamics to Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Tianquan Lian, Haiming Zhu, Kaifeng Wu

Interfacial chemistry of III-V semiconductors for photoelectrochemical water 61 splitting Brandon Wood, Eric Schwegler, Woon Ih Choi, Tadashi Ogitsu

Enable Pyrite as a High Performance Solar Material Using Photoelectrochemical 64 and Transport Studies of Pyrite Single Crystals and Nanostructures Song Jin

GATR-FTIR characterization of cobaloxime modified p-type gallium phosphide 65 cathodes Gary Moore, Alexandra Krawicz

Cyclometalated ruthenium sensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells and 67 solar fuels Yiying Wu

Engineering novel cyclometallated dyes for efficient DSSCs: paradigm shift from 68 organic solvents to H2O suraj soman

Catalytic Water Splitting by Metal Complexes Based on Tris(2- 69 pyridylmethyl)amine Derivatives Manohar Vennampalli, Chailu Que, Teera Baine, Min Zhang, John Bollinger, Charles Webster, Xuan Zhao

Water-oxidation catalysis for solar fuel production 70 Gary Brudvig, Robert Crabtree, Victor Batista, Charles Schmuttenmaer

Bismuth Vanadate Photoanodes for Use in Solar Energy Conversion 71 Yiseul Park, Donghyeon Kang, Jason Seabold, Kenneth McDonald, Kyoung-Shin Choi

Enabling Si for Solar Energy Harvesting and Fuel Conversion 73 Ke Sun, Deli Wang

Metal oxide nanostructured electrodes for solar hydrogen generation 74 Yat Li

Metal oxides as effective counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells 77 Hui Wang, Wei Wei, Yun Hu

Efficient ZrN-based counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells 78 Wei Wei, Hui Wang, Yun Hu

Synthesis and Characterization of Bi2Ti2O7 with Fe addition: Examining the 79 effects of Fe on photo driven hydrogen Production Bradley Allured, Steven DelaCruz, Muhammad Huda, Vaidyanathan (Ravi) Subramanian

Advances in Batteries, Capacitors, and Other Energy Storage Devices

Graphene-based composites as electrochemical supercapacitors 83 Zhefei Li, Jian Xie

Applications of carbide-derived carbon as electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion 84 batteries Sun-Hwa Yeon, Kyu-Nam Jung, Sukeun Yoon, Kyoung-Hee Shin, Jae-Deok Jeon Thermal-induced decomposition roadmap of charged cathode material Li1.2- 85 xNi0.15Co0.1Mn0.55O2 studied by Synchrotron X-ray Techniques Chi-Kai Lin, Zonghai Chen, Ira Bloom, Yang Ren

Semiconductor Nanowire-arrayed Electrodes for Supercapacitors 86 Yat Li

An Enhanced Lithium Ion Battery Via Biological Engeneering 89 Scott Riley

High voltage electrolyte based on fluorinated compounds for 5V Li-ion chemistry 90 Zhengcheng Zhang, Libo Hu, Huiming Wu, Khalil Amine

Toward fully plastic batteries: Electroactive polymer-carbon composite electrode 91 as cathode materıal for rechargeable batteries Burak Esat, Muhammed Aydin

Li intercalation capacity of Fe-Phthalocyanine 94 Ramos-Sanchez Guadalupe, Perla Balbuena

Pseudocapacitive energy storage in 2D Nb2O5-graphene nanocomposites 96 Bruce Dunn, Guillaume Muller, Hyungseok Kim, Xavier Petrissans, Veronica Augustyn

Capturing the interface in Li-ion cells with heavy alkali dopants: Raman and X-ray 98 techniques Christopher Patridge, Corey Love, David Ramaker

Phosphate and diphosphate bimetallic cathode materials 99 Esther Takeuchi, Amy Marschilok, Kenneth Takeuchi

Electrodeposition of metal-air battery cathodes: Fabrication, characterization 100 and electrochemistry Amy Marschilok, Shu Han Lee, Esther Takeuchi, Kenneth Takeuchi

Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries from Oligo(ethylene glycol) Functionalized 101 Cyclophosphazenes and Phosphazene Oligomers Kinkini Roy, Zhengcheng Zhang, Khalil Amine, E Coughlin

Study of Phase changes about LiFePO4 cathode in an 18650 commercial cell: An 103 in situ time-resolved high energy synchrotron XRD study Qi Liu, Yang Ren, Jian Xie

Fundamentals and Structure Designs for Na-ion Battery Anodes 104 Liangbing Hu

PHENOTHIAZINE-BASED REDOX SHUTTLES FOR OVERCHARGE PROTECTION IN 105 LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES Susan Odom, Selin Ergun, Corrine Elliott, Pramod Poudel, Sean Parkin

Mechanism of oxidized redox shuttle reduction at graphite or LTO anodes 107 Mary Patterson

Fast method for screening redox shuttle additives for lithium-ion batteries 108 Pramod Poudel, Selin Ergun, Nelson Ng, Sean Parkin, Susan Odom

Probing Electrochemical Cycling Stability of Oxide Cathode Materials for Li-ion 110 batteries by Advanced Electron Microscopy Miaofang Chi, Danna Qian, Christopher Fell, Shirley Meng

Applied research at the US DOE supporting the development of next-generation 111 batteries for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) Peter Faguy

Low Cost, Abundant, Defective Materials for Large Scale Electrical Energy 112 Storage Dan Steingart

Frontiers in Energy Conversion and Fuel Production

Growth and Characterization of Graphenated Carbon Nanotubes for High Charge 113 Density Applications Akshay Raut, Stephen Ubnoske, Barbara Raynal, Brian Stoner, Charles Parker, Jeffrey Glass

Using sulfur K-edge XANES to better understand of SO2 species on 115 PEMFC catalysts Olga Baturina, Benjamin Gould, Anna Korovina, Paul Northrup, Karen Swider-Lyons

Electricity Storage in Biofuels: Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of Levulinic 117 Acid to Valeric acid or γ-Valerolactone Le Xin, Zhiyong Zhang, Ji Qi, David Chadderdon, Wenzhen Li

Conversion of fat, oil and grease (FOG) in the trap grease into biodiesel 118 Qingshi Tu, Mingming Lu

Dealloyed Nanoporous Metals as unique electrodes for supercapacitor 119 applications Yi Ding, Pengchao Si, Fanhui Meng

Chemical characterization of liquid fuels derived from Northeast-US hardwood 121 for potential application in residential heating Asanga Padmaperuma, Daniel Santosa, Douglas Elliott, Jonathan Male, Alan Zacher, Mariefel Olarte, Leslie Rotness, Gary Neuenschwander, Teresa Lemmon, Sarah Burton, Iva Tews, Corrie Nichol, Tyler Westover, David Muth, Richard Boardman

HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMERIC ELECTROLYTES FOR SAFE LITHIUM-ION 123 BATTERIES katie Zhong, Jianying Ji, Yu Wang, Bin Li

The role of chemistry in the energy challenge 125 Robert Schlögl

Electrical grid energy storage: the key to improving production costs and 127 propelling the growth of renewable electricity Charles Coe

Bridging Cellulosic Biomass and Advanced Biofuels with Catalytic Aqueous Phase 129 Partial Oxidation Hongfei Lin, Ying Liu, Lisha Yang

Structured catalysts for the alkylation of benzene with propylene to cumene 131 Chengna Dai, Zhigang Lei, Biaohua Chen

The effect of the ratio of edge/basal planes on the catalytic activity of graphitic 133 carbon for the oxidative dehydrogenation of isobutane Viviane Schwartz, Yu-Tung Tsai, Wujun Fu, Adam Rondinone, Zili Wu, Steven Overbury, Gopi Dathar, Ye Xu, Chengdu Liang

Fuel reforming using lanthanum zirconate (La2Zr2O7) pyrochlroes 134 James Spivey, Devendra Pakhare, Victor Abdelsayed, Daniel Haynes, Dushyant Shekhawat, Viviane Schwartz, Mark Smith

Phosphonic acid-functionalized polymers vs. phosphonated small molecules 135 David versus Goliath? Markus Klapper, Jennifer Wegener, Lucía Jiménez-García, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Klaus Müllen

Catalyzing sustainable fuel production: Development of Cu-based catalysts for 137 the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol Julia Schumann, Nygil Thomas, Andrey Tarasov, Stefan Zander, Malte Behrens, Robert Schlögl

The power of the oxide/metal interface in catalysis: Unraveling the 138 Intermediates for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction Dario Stacchiola

Simultaneous supercritical deposition: An alternative route for the preparation 139 of supported bimetallic catalysts for energy conversion technologies Can Erkey, Selmi Erim Bozbag, Amir Hossein Habibi, Ayşe Meriç Kartal, Michael A Kurykin

Li-N Materials for Energy 141 Yun Hu

Nanostructured palladium catalysts for carbon dioxide reforming of methane 142 Chunkai Shi, Peng Zhang

CRYSTAL-SIZE's EFFECT ON DEFECT AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE IN NANO- OXIDES 144 OF Ce & Zr Siu-Wai Chan

Features of Nanocomposite Ni-ZrO2 Catalyst for Syngas and Hydrogen Production 147 from Methane Bo-Qing Xu

Direct synthesis of jet fuel range branched alkanes with the platform chemicals 148 from lignocellulose Guangyi Li, Jinfan Yang, Ning Li, Aiqin Wang, Tao Zhang

Catalysis and Catalysts for Energy and Fuels

In situ Raman characterization of benzenethiol electrochemical 150 adsorption/desorption on Pd nanostructures Michael Pomfret, Jeremy Pietron

Conversion of triglycerides and fatty acids to fuel-like hydrocarbons over 152 supported nickel catalysts Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, Tonya Morgan, Mark Crocker

Non-oxidative conversion of methane into aromatic compounds over promoted 154 Zn/HZSM-5 catalysts Victor Abdelsayed, Dushyant Shekhawat, Mark Smith, Sittichai Natesakhawat

In Situ Investigation of α-MnO2 Electrocatalyst during Electrochemical Cycling 155 Probed by High-Energy Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction ZHENZHEN YANG, Lynn Trahey, Maria Chan, Chikai Lin, Michael Thackeray, Yang Ren

Semiconductor Nanowire-Molybdenum Interface for Hydrogen Evolution 156 Ruoxue Yan, Peidong Yang

Precise Control of Ullmann Coupling Reactions at Atomically Flat Surfaces 157 Kai Wu

Nanoscale catalytic materials and their applications in energy and fuels 158 Ryan Richards

CO hydrogenation to higher alcohols over three-dimensionally ordered 159 macroporous Cu-Fe Catalysts Yongwu Lu, Fei Yu, Jin Hu, Peng Zhou

Syntheis of Acidic Ionic Liquids Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Polymer for 161 Efficient, Green and Low Cost Production of Biodiesel from waste brown grease Iman Noshadi, Baishali Kanjilal, Fujian Liu, Richard Parnas

Study on adsorbents for removing thiophene from gasoline 162 Xiangnan Zheng, Yabo Hou, Meihua Tang, Xingliang Huang

Operando XAFS-TEM-Raman methodology for nano-catalysts 164 Yuanyuan Li, Anatoly Frenkel, Philipp Baumann, Ryan Tappero, Dmitri Zakharov, Eric Stach

Highly Active and Stable Supported FeCuK FT Catalyst 165 Kamyar Keyvanloo, William Hecker, Calvin Bartholomew

Anchoring of PtRu particles to Graphitic Carbon Nanofibers studied by density 167 functional theory calculations Andrew Harris, Charles Lukehart, Henrik Grönbeck

Graphene-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to study oxygen reduction in 169 non-precious metal electrocatalysts Justin Oberst, Andrew Gewirth

Catalytic cracking of coybean oil by hierarchical containing mesoporous 171 silica-aluminas using a Curie point pyrolyzer Atsushi Ishihara

Homologation of methanol for production of ethanol using homogeneous 173 catalysis Girish Srinivas, Jeffrey Martin, Steven Gebhard, Michael Mundschau

Platinum-free Catalysts prepared by Carbonization of Polymers 175 Yuta Nabae

Thermally stable core-shell catalysts for high-temperature fuel cells 177 John Vohs, Raymond Gorte, Lawrence Adijanto, Matteo Cargnello

Environmental TEM for quantitative in-situ microscopy in catalyst chemistry at 178 the atomic scale Seiji Takeda, Hideto Yoshida

Complete water splitting on dye modified Photocatalyst; from KTa(Zr)O3 to 179 Ga(Zn)N(O) Tatsumi Ishihara, Hidehisa Hagiwara, Shintaro Ida

Photocatalytic water splitting on GaN:ZnO modified with expanded porphyrin for 181 solar energy harvesting Hidehisa Hagiwara, Chihiro Seto, Shintaro Ida, Tatsumi Ishihara

Propane dehydrogenation by heterogeneous isolated site Fe(II) on silica catalyst 183 Bo Hu, Neil Schweitzer, Michael Lanci, Jeffrey Miller, Adam Hock

Activity relationships between aqueous phase reforming and water gas shift 185 Fred Sollberger, Paul Dietrich, Kaiwalya Sabnis, M. Cem Akatay, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Miller

Steam reforming of glycerol over Ni/γ-Al2O3 for hydrogen production: Effect of 187 catalyst loadindg, calcination and reaction temperature Ahmed Umar, John Irvine

How silica grafting can improve the residue hydroconversion of alumina- 190 aupported NiMo catalysts Guillaume Magendie, Bertrand Guichard, Alexandra Chaumonnot, Didier Espinat

Luminescence Spectroscopy assesses the Composition of the Reaction Medium 192 Neighboring a Catalytic Site Robert Weber, Lelia Cosembescu, Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou, Abhijeet Karkamkar, Birgit Schwenzer, Zheming Wang

Catalysis and mixed reactant fuel cells 193 Ilan Riess

UPGRADING OF PYROLYSIS OIL BY HYDROPROCESSING IN A PACKED BED FLOW 194 REACTOR Divya Parapati, Venkata Penmetsa, Vamshi Guda, Philip Steele

Effect of Different Structural Promoters on Fe/Cu/K Fisher- Tropsch Catalysts 197 Conversion of Biomass-Derived Syngas Pratibha Sharma, Thomas Elder, Les Groom, James Spivey, Khiet Mai

Metal-free Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Isobutane by Functionalized Carbon 198 Gopi Krishna Phani Dathar, Ye Xu, Yu-tung Tsai, Viviane Schwartz, Adam Rondinone, Steve Overbury, Zili Wu, Chengdu Liang

In-situ intermediate-energy X-ray catalysis research at the Advanced Photon 199 Source beamline 9-BM Trudy Bolin, Tianpin Wu, Neil Schweitzer, Rodrigo Lobo-Lapidus, A. Jeremy Kropf, Hui Wang, Yongfeng Hu, Jeffrey Miller, Steven Heald

Catalyst Activity and Deactivation Mechanisms of C1-C4 n-Alcohols over HZSM-5 202 in Producing Fuel Range Hydrocarbon Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Yong Wang

Synthesis and Characterization of Molybdenum Incorporated Mesoporous Silica 204 Catalyst for Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-fuels Sridhar Budhi, Calvin Mukarakate, Pranjal Kalita, Mark Nimlos, Brian Trewyn

Lattice-governed electrochemical catalysis: Pd-Rh nanoboxes synthesized via 206 control of metal migration Chia-Kuang Tsung

Co-processing CH4 and Oxygenates on Mo/H-ZSM-5 Catalysts 207 Jeremy Bedard, Aditya Bhan, Do-Young Hong

NON NOBLE ELECTROCATALYSTS SUPPORTED ON GRAPHENE SHEETS FOR 208 OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION Alessandro Monteverde Videla, Shuai Ban, Lei Zhang, Jiujun Zhang, Stefania Specchia

Biomass and Biotechnologies for Energy

Impact of torrefaction on chemical structure of woody biomass 210 Tooran Khazraie Shoulaifar, Nikolai DeMartini, Maria Zevenhoven, Stefan Willför, Andrey Pranovich, Annika Smeds, Tommi Virtanen, Sirkka-Liisa Maunu, Fred Verhoeff, Jaap Kiel, Mikko Hupa

Experimental and Simulation study of crude glycerol purification from different 211 feed stocks in biodiesel production Yang Xiao, Arvind Varma

Effect of acetate and butyrate cycling on maximizing fermentative production of 212 1,3 propanediol from industrial waste glycerol and soil based bacterial innocula Baishali Kanjilal, Iman Noshadi, Nicholas Intoci, Matthew Dowding, William Hale, Brittany Brendel, Ranjan Srivastava, Richard Parnas

Fast hydropyrolysis of cellulose in a continuous feed millisecond timescale 214 reactor Dhairya Mehta, W. Nicholas Delgass, Rakesh Agrawal, Fabio Ribeiro

Electrocatalytic Upgrading of Bio-oil Model Compounds in a Solid Polymer 215 Electrolyte Electrolyzer (SPEE) Chun Ho Lam, Kelsey Longe, Michaelyn Lux, Christopher Saffron, James Jackson

Renewable energy production through anaerobic codigestion of Hura crepitans 217 leaves with cattle manure Favour Akpa GAS GENERATION IN A MICROREACTOR FROM A RENEWABLE RESOURCE 219 Laura Barrio, U. Izquierdo, J. Requies, M.B. Güemez, J.F. Cambra, P.L. Arias

Modeling biomass-to-fuels processing 221 Brian Moreno, Michael Klein

Scientific and technological aspects of fixed bed biomass gasification 224 Dasappa S

Integrated use of spend coffee grounds in biodiesel production 225 Ming Chai, Qingshi Tu, Mingming Lu

Synthesis and evaluation of catalytic biomass-to-fuels strategies 228 Sercan Sen, David Alonso, Elif Gürbüz, Stephanie Wettstein, James Dumesic, Christos Maravelias

Towards long-term fast pyrolysis oil catalytic upgrading 230 Mariefel Olarte, Douglas Elliott, Gary Neuenschwander, Leslie Rotness, Sarah Burton, Birgit Schwenzer, Asanga Padmaperuma, Alan Zacher

Changes in lignin properties during liquid hot water pretreatment and its role on 232 enzymatic hydrolysis Ja Kyong Ko, Youngmi Kim, Eduardo Ximenes, Michael Ladisch

Quality Characteristics of a Heavy Gasoil – Used Cooking Oil Co-Hydroprocessing 234 Fuel and Its Distillation Cuts Dimitrios Karonis, Despina Chilari, Pantelis Lambrinoudakis

Tetramethylguanidine - Catalyzed Transesterification for Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters 238 (FAEE) Production Despina Chilari, George Anastopoulos, Dimitrios Karonis

Effect of recycle of non-condensable pyrolysis gases on fractional catalytic 242 pyrolysis of biomass Foster Agblevor, Ofei Mante, Ronald McClung, Ted Oyama

Effect of hot gas filtration (HGF) on catalyst activity during ex-situ catalytic fast 245 pyrolysis of biomass Calvin Mukarakate, Xiaodong Zhang, David Robichaud, Mark Nimlos

Robust Distributed Benthic Microbial Fuel Cell (DBMFC) System to Harvest 247 Electric Energy from Sediment Udayarka Karra, Guoxian Huang, Ridvan Umaz, Christopher Tenaglier, Lei Wang, Xiujun Wang, Baikun Li

Progress towards infrastructure- ready thermochemical biofuels 248 Foster Agblevor, Ofei Mante

Nanotechnology Applications in Energy

Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery 249 Yue Wu

Nanomaterials as Interfacial Modifiers in Advanced Energy Applications 250 Randy Vander Wal

Development of nanoscale electrocatalysts for energy storage and conversion 253 applications Peter Strasser

PbTe nanocrystal coated glass fiber for thermoelectric energy harvesting 254 Scott Finefrock, Daxin Liang, James Ward, Yue Wu, Yan Wang, Haoran Yang, Haiyu Fang, John Fergsuson, Jonathan Pfluger, Douglas Dudis, Xiulin Ruan

Solution phase synthesized dumbbell-like PbTe-Ag2Te heterostructures with 256 enhanced Seebeck coefficient for thermoelectric applications Haoran Yang, Yue Wu

Highly efficient nanoparticle catalyst for fuel cell applications 258 Shouheng Sun

Precision Design of Nanostructures of Catalysts for Energy Applications 259 Hong Yang

Transition Metallic Sulfides/Graphene Composites: Synthesis and High 260 Performance for Lithium Ion Batteries and Oxygen Reduction Reaction Yanglong Hou, Nasir Mahmood, Chenzhen Zhang

Density Functional Theory Study of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Carbon 261 Supported Non-precious Transition Metal-Nitrogen (TM-N/C) Electrocatalysts Guofeng Wang, Shyam Kattel, Kexi Liu

Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of compositional-modulated lead 263 telluride-bismuth telluride nanowire heterostructures Haiyu Fang, Tianli Feng, Haoran Yang, Xiulin Ruan, Yue Wu

Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photocatalysis 265 Yugang Sun

Towards the rational design of nanoparticles for energy applications 267 Tim Mueller

Density Functional Theory Studies of Transition Metal Nanoparticles in Catalysis 269 Jeffrey Greeley, Rees Rankin, Zhenhua Zeng, Hee-Joon Chun, Andre Clayborne, Lin Li, Frank Abild- Pedersen, Jens Norskov, Ask Larsen, Jesper Kleis, Karsten Jacobsen, Nichols Romero

Energetic nanoparticle formation by the thermal decomposition of alanates 270 Brandon Thomas, Paul Jelliss, Steven Buckner

Solution based synthesis of Cu3PS4 from Cu3P for sustainable alternative 272 energy applications Erik Sheets, Rakesh Agrawal

Probing Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic Metal-Semiconductor (Au-TiO2) 274 Heterojunctions Wei David Wei Nanoscale Materials at Electrochemical Interfaces 275 Vojislav Stamenkovic

Nanoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Storage 276 Shengqian Ma

Conducting Polymer Hydrogels as a Unique Material Platform for Advanced 277 Energy Storage Guihua Yu

Platinum-nickel alloy nanoparticle oxygen reduction catalysts from a DMF-based 278 solvothermal synthesis Michael Carpenter, Thomas Moylan, Ratandeep Kukreja, Mohammed Atwan, Misle Tessema

Water-Gas Shift Catalysis over Transition Metals Supported on Molybdenum 280 Carbide Kaiwalya Sabnis, Yanran Cui, Fred Sollberger, M. Cem Akatay, Mayank Shekhar, Wen-Sheng Lee, Jeffrey Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio Ribeiro

Polyelectrolyte Stabilized Nanoparticles for PEM Fuel Cells 282 Nicole Zacharia, Chungyeon Cho

Synthesis and properties of epitaxial PbSe QD-TiO2 nanoscale heterostructures 283 for solar energy conversion Qi Ding, Fei Meng, Tristan Abbott, Song Jin

Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion and Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution 285 Using Earth-Abundant Nanomaterials Song Jin

Metal-organic frameworks as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction 287 Thomas Smith, Paul Barron, Brandon Burnett, Wonyoung Choe, Rebecca Lai

Synchrotron x-ray and neutron studies of nanomaterials and nanocomposites for 288 energy applications Zonghai Zhen, Yang Ren

3-D Nanowire Heterostructures for High-efficiency Solar Energy Harvesting and 289 Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation Ke Sun, Alireza Kargar, Sun Young Noh, Deli Wang

Assembly and processing of bulk 2D nanomaterials for energy applications 290 Jiaxing Huang

The effect of surface lattice strain in electrochemical oxidation catalyzed by 291 Au-PdPt core-shell nanoparticles Chia-Kuang Tsung

Biodiesel production using surface-bound ZnO nanowires 292 Ruya Ozer

In-situ FTIR Investigation on TiO2 reduction 294 Bing Han, Yun Hu Scalable Nanomanufacturing for Energy Storage and Conversion Based on 295 High-Voltage Electrophoretic Deposition Dennis Desheng Meng

Advances in Energy and Fuels Processes, Systems, Materials, and Utilization

Separation of nitrogen via Group V metallic membranes for post-combustion 296 carbon capture Kyoungjin Lee, Ekin Ozdogan, Jennifer Wilcox

The effects of Pr addition on the properties of Ni/Al2O3 catalysts with an 299 application in autothermal reforming of methane Ying Wang, Jun Peng, Shuang Ye, Wei Guo Wang

Influence of Catalyst on the Synthesis of Cationic Alkyl Glucoside 301 Xiqiang Si, Zhonghua Wang, Jun Wei, Jianwu Zhen

Development of Facet-Controlled Pt and Pt Alloy Nanocatalysts for Oxygen 302 Reduction Reaction Xi Yin, Jianbo Wu, Wei Zhou, Tao Yang, Hong Yang

Carbon deposition mechanism and kinetics during thermal cracking of 303 supercritical n-decane Xuqing Wang, Guozhu Liu, Li Wang, Xiangwen Zhang

Synthesis of Tungsten Disulfide on Graphene for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 306 Jieun Yang, Damien Voiry, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Byeong-Hwan Kim, Manish Chhowalla, Hyeon Suk Shin

Preparation of In-rich CuInSe2 photovoltaic films by varying the concentration of 308 sorbitol as the third complexing agent Young-Il Park, Donghwan Kim, Honggon Kim

Electrochemical production of syngas from carbon dioxide and water as an 309 economically competitive source of JP-8 George Leonard, Kunttal Keyshar, Kyle Teamey, Robert Stirling, Zach Detweiler, Maor Baruch, Yong Yan, David Rampulla, Narayanappa Sivasankar, Emily Cole

Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Enhanced Performance of Reverse Osmosis 311 Membranes Sarah Powers, Ryan Davis, Hsiu-chin Huang, Nicole Zacharia

Analysis of slow - pyrolysis bio-oils generated from plant biomass by negative 312 electrospray ionization – high resolution mass spectrometry Birendra Dhungana, Christopher Becker, William Hockaday, C. Chambliss

Synthesis of π-Extended Low Bandgap Polymer Based on Isoindigo and 314 Thienylvinylene for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells Eui Hyuk Jung, Won Ho Jo

Enhanced Performance of Polymer Solar Cells with PSSA-g-PANI/Graphene 316 Oxide as Hole Transport Layer Seunghwan Bae, Heung-su Park, Jae Woong Jung, Jea Uk Lee, Kyung Tae Kim, Won Ho Jo

Towards models of the tri-copper active site of Laccase for fuel cell applications 318 Chun Ming Edmund Tse, Andrew Gewirth, Matthew Thorseth

Poly(vinyl alcohol) filled with poly(dopamine)-treated graphene oxide 320 Dongwoo Kang, Sang-Ha Hwang, Young-Bin Park, Hyeon Suk Shin

Investigating the Li-O2 Battery in an Ether-Based Electrolyte using Differential 322 Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry Christopher Barile, Andrew Gewirth

Novel cyclometallated osmium dyes for dye sensitized solar cells 324 Suraj Soman, Thomas Hamann

Mo-V-O based electrocatalysts for low temperature alcohol oxidation 325 Adele Pacquette, Andrew Gewirth

Cu-Catalyzed Reduction of CO2 into formic acid with iron under mild 327 hydrothermal conditions Lin Ma, Xu Zeng, Jun Yun, Fangming Jin, Zhibao Huo

Reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen sulphide as a reductant under 329 hydrothermal conditions baoyun Hu, zhenzi Jing, yuanqing Wang, xu Zeng, fangming Jin

Potentials for GTL derived synthetic jet fuels in the aviation industry 331 Ibrahim Al-Nuaimi, Nimir Elbashir

High performance hydrogen evolution catalysis from layered transition metal 334 dichalcogenide nanostructures Andrew Daniel, Mark Lukowski, Fei Meng, Audrey Forticaux, Linsen Li, Song Jin

Direct chemical vapor deposition synthesis of phase-pure iron pyrite thin films 336 Leith Samad, Miguel Cabán-Acevedo, Song Jin

Azo-functionalized porous membranes for gas separation 338 Chi-Linh Do-Thanh, Xiang Zhu, Sheng Dai

Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Ethane over Au(I) exchanged ZSM-5: A DFT Study 339 Winyoo Sangthong, Michael Probst, Jumras Limtrakul

Aqueous dye sensitized solar cell based on novel cyclometallated ruthenium 342 phosphonic acid dyes Suraj Soman, Thomas Hamann

Capping and stabilization of Zinc nanoparticles producedby electrical explosion 343 of wires using PIERMEN Elseddik Abdelkader, Steven Buckner, Paul Jelliss

Development of Bismuth Sulfide nanostructured materials and nanomaterial 345 assemblies Gayatri Keskar, Rebecca Milot, Daniel Aschaffenburg, Charles Schmuttenmaer, Lisa Pfefferle THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE HREELS OF CO, CH2O AND CH3O ON 346 PD(111) AND PDZN(111) Zhao-Xu Chen

Materials and Technologies for CO2 Capture, Sequestration, and Conversion

Post combustion CO2 capture: rapid temperature swing adsorption/desorption 347 using polymeric supported amine hollow fibers Yanfang Fan, Ryan Lively, Ying Labreche, William Koros, Christopher Jones, Fateme Rezaei

Direct conversion of CO2 into biopolyester with solar energy and water 350 Jian Yu, Allexz Dow

Quantum Chemistry Calculation and Experimental Study of CO2/CH4 and 351 Functional Group Interactions for the Design of Solubility Selective Membrane Materials Decai Yu, Scott Matteucci, Eric Stangland, Edward Calverley, Heidi Wegener, Denise Anaya

In situ Transformation of Carbon Dioxide upon Carbon Capture with 352 Simultaneous Activation Liang-Nian He, Zhen-Zhen Yang, An-Hua Liu

Influence of amine structural characteristics on N-nitrosamine formation 354 potential relevant to post-combustion carbon dioxide capture systems Ning Dai, William Mitch

Potential Impact of Biochar Water-Extractable Substances on 357 Environmental Sustainability Cameron Smith, Eric Buzan, James Lee

Separation of CO2 from flue gas via semi-clathrates formationwith TBAF 358 Qiang Sun, Xuqiang Guo

Reactivity of CO2 and SO2 with diethylenetriamine (DETA) and its salts 359 Jason Clyburne, Kirstin Doyle, Luke Murphy, Katherine Robertson

Structure-property study of the kinetics of reaction between primary and 361 secondary amines and carbon dioxide in water Gabriel Couchaux, Alexandre Fontenay, Danielle Barth, Abdelaziz Faraj, Théodorus De Bruin, Javier Perez-Pellitero, Julien Grandjean

Process and Thermodynamics Considerations of CO2 Capture from 363 Post-Combustion Flue Gases Shiaoguo Chen

Conversion of N-Alkyl Aziridines plus Carbon Dioxide to Oxazolidinones 364 Allan Pinhas

Designing Ultra-High Specific Surface Area Carbon Capture Units - Learning from 366 the Avian Lung Aaron Esser-Kahn, Du Nguyen, Y. T. Leho

Amine adsorbents for CO2 capture from ultra-dilute sources such as ambient air 367 Christopher Jones, Stephanie Didas, Peter Eisenberger

Hydrogeneration of various compounds in the presence of heterogeneous 368 catalysts in scCO2 Hajime Kawanami, Takayuki Ishizaka, Maya Chatterjee

Carbon dioxide capture by reactive absorption – modeling and simulation using 370 rate-based models Michael Wagner, Inga von Harbou, Gerd Maurer, Hans Hasse

Polyallylamine-silica composites for CO2 capture via adsorption 372 Gregory Knowles, Jinyi Zhuang, Carola Stenz, Alan Chaffee

Synthesis and characterization of triazolium-based ionic liquids to verify effect of 374 side groups on properties predicted by molecular simulation Michael Lartey, Fangyon Yan, Erik Albenze, Sage Bowser, Krishnan Damodaran, Jihan Kim, Maciej Haranczyk, Berend Smit, David Luebke, Hunaid Nulwala

Ni-modified molybdenum carbide catalysts effective for Methane Dry Reforming 375 at atmospheric pressure Chuan Shi, Shaohua Zhang, Anjie Zhang, Chaktong Au

Post-Combustion CO2 Capture by Adsorption - a Theoretical Comparison of TSA, 376 VSA and CSA Gerhard Pirngruber, Damien Leinekugel-le-Cocq, Florent Guillou, Adrien Gomez, Alain Favre, Ludovic Raynal

Finding the optimal adsorbent for CO2 separations by PSA 378 Gerhard Pirngruber, Edder Garcia, Javier Perez-Pellitero, Christian Jallut

Soils and the global carbon cycle 379 Rattan Lal

Biomimetic approaches to reversible CO2 capture from air. N-Methylcarbaminic 381 acid formation in Rubisco-inspired models Rainer Glaser, Paula Castello-Blindt, Jian Yin

Novel Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Biomimetic Solid Sorbents and Gas 384 Shale Analysis Jennifer Wilcox, Erik Rupp, Jiajun He

Computational design of ceria-based catalysts for carbon dioxide activation and 387 hydrogenation Zhuo Cheng, Brent Sherman, Cynthia Lo

Absorption Mechanism in CO2 Capture with Amino Acid Ionic Liquids: 389 Experimental and Simulation Studies Huabin Xing, Zhiping Wang, Qiwei Yang, Zongbi Bao, Baogen Su, Zhiguo Zhang, Yiwen Yang, Qilong Ren, Sheng Dai

Highly efficient dissociation of H2O for the reduction of CO2 by solar/renewable 390 energy-driven two-step process Fangming Jin, Xu Zeng, Zhibao Huo, Jun Yun Modeling of CO2 absorption in and stripping from aqueous solutions of amines, 392 amino acids, alkali, inorganic buffers and hydration catalysts, and blends thereof Jerry Meldon, Andrew Fiordalis

The hybrid energy system: a solution to CO2 emission in China? 394 zhiyong TANG, yuhan SUN

ACTIVATION OF THE CO2 MOLECULES, A THEORETICAL STUDY 395 Shin Nakamura, Katsushi Fujii, Koji Ogata, Makoto Hatakeyama, Xu Zeng, Yuanqing Wang, Qi Gao, Fangming Jin

CO2 capture with PEI-functionalized nanocarbons 396 Eoghan Dillon, Enrico Andreoli, Laurie Cullum, Andrew Barron

Reduction of CO2 into formic acid BY Mn under hydrothermal conditions 398 Lingyun Lv, Xu Zeng, Jun Yun, Fangming Jin

International Graduate Symposium on Energy Research

Experimental study on the separation of catalystic pyrolysis dry gas via hydrate 400 formation in TBAB solution Zhixin Liao, Qing Li, Tianxiao Wang, Yiwei Wang, Xuqiang Guo, Qiang Sun

Support materials for catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2 to value 401 added products Sichao Ma, Gaby Perez, Saman Moniri, Paul Kenis

Bismuth oxyhalide visible-light-driven BiOBrxI1-x solid solutions: Essences for 403 the highly efficient photocatalyst LIANG KONG, ZHENG JIANG, HENRY LAI, JOSHUA MAKEPEACE, TIANCUN XIAO, PETER EDWARDS

Hydrothermal deoxygenation of algal bio-oil rich in fatty acid 410 Chao Miao, Moumita Chakraborty, Oscar Marin Flores, Yong Wang, Shulin Chen, Tao Dong

Robust Iron Pincer Complexes for Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Ammonia-Borane 411 Papri Bhattacharya, Jeanette Krause, Hairong Guan

Effect of Hydrogen Sulfide in Landfill Gas on Anode Poisoning of Solid Oxide Fuel 412 Cells feroze khan

Unusual fragmentation patterns of lignin model compounds with α-O-4 linkages 414 in (+)-ESI/tandem mass spectrometry Huaming Sheng, Weijuan Tang, Hilkka Kenttämaa

Hydrothermal liquefaction of waste water algae mixtures into biocrude oil 416 Wan-Ting Chen, Yuanhui Zhang, Jixiang Zhang, Peng Zhang

X-ray absorption study on nucleation of SnO2 thin films grown by Atomic Layer 418 Deposition Matthew Weimer, Bo Hu, Steven Kraft, Carlo Segre, Adam Hock

Optimization-based assessment framework for biomass-to-fuel conversion 420 strategies Sercan Sen, Jiyong Kim, Christos Maravelias

Structural Comparison of Asphaltenes of Different Origins by Using Tandem Mass 422 Spectrometry Weijuan Tang, Matthew Hurt, Huaming Sheng, James Riedeman, David Borton, Hilkka Kenttämaa

Thermochemical modeling of the U1-yGdyO2±x phase 424 Jake McMurray

Photoconductive atomic force microscopy of a conjugated polyelectrolyte/multi- 426 walled carbon nanotube hybrid Kin Cheung Lo, Wai Kin Chan, Sheung Yin Li

DNA aptamers for redox cofactors as possible catalysts for biofuel cells 428 Ismaila Emahi, Derek Sonnenberg, Dana Baum

Composite Carbon Nanotube and Titania Supports for Resilent Oxidation 430 Electrocatalysts in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells William Rigdon, Diana Larrabee, Xinyu Huang

Graphene nanoflakes carbon nanotubes hybrid as highly robust catalyst support 431 in proton exchange membrane fuel cells Kien-Cuong Pham, Daniel Chua, David McPhail, Andrew Wee

Density Functional Theory study of the structural and thermodynamical 433 properties of hydrogen vacancies in PdH0.7 Kay Rigby, Ricardo Grau-Crespo, Nora de Leeuw

Hydrogen Energy

Geometrical Effect Study in Mg-Based BCC Structure Nano-materials 436 Huaiyu Shao, Etsuo Akiba

Towards sustainable energy: Hydrogen production from biomass 438 Martin Nielsen, Matthias Beller

Development of High-pressure hydrogen and oxygen production from PEMWE 439 stack xinrong zhang

Immobilization of Zn(1-x)CdxS (x=0.2-0.5) on MAO TiO2 film and the 441 photocalytic property for H2 production xiaoliang mo, yajun zhang, lei wang, bin chen, zhaohua jiang, zhongping yao

Simple Approach of Layer-by-Layer of Proton Donor and Accepter for Effective 444 and Efficient Proton Transfer System in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) Chalanda Meemuk, Suwabun Chirachanchai

Steam Reforming of Hydrogen Sulfide to Enable a New Thermochemical Cycle for 445 Hydrogen Production Alex Yokochi, Nick AuYeung, Kevin Caple Development of an on-board H2 storage and recovery system based on lithium 447 borohydride Clovis Linkous

Direct Doping of Pd Nanocatalysts in Metal Complex for Enhanced Hydriding 449 Kinetics Tao Xu

High performance solid oxide fuel cells utilizing two-dimensional oxide 451 membranes Kian Kerman, Shriram Ramanathan

First and second law thermodynamic analysis of biomass gasification 453 Dasappa S, Sandeep Kumar

Hydrogen and Oxygen coadsorption on Iron surface. Insights from theory 454 Aleksandar Staykov, Junichiro Yamabe, Brian Somerday

Insight into the hydrogen generation from formic acid in the presence of 456 Ru-phosphine complexes Miklos Czaun, Alain Goeppert, Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Robert May, J. K. Surya Prakash, George Olah

Integrated micro PEM fuel cell with self-regulated hydrogen generation from 457 ammonia borane Mahmoud Reza Zamani Farahani, Arash Edalatnoor, Nate Kroodsma, Dennis Meng, Likun Zhu

1st International Symposium on Mesoporous

Mesoporous Zeolite Templated from Cationic Polymers 459 Feng-Shou Xiao

Catalytic fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass by MFI zeolites with small 460 intracrystal mesopores and interparticle meso/macropores Konstantinos Triantafyllidis, Stamatia Karakoulia, Konstantinos Kalogiannis, Angelos Lappas, Thomas Pinnavaia

Mesostructured Zeolites: Surfactant-Templated Hierarchical Zeolites Used at 462 Refinery Scale Javier Garcia-Martinez, Kunhao Li, Barry Speronello

Transport properties of mesoporous zeolites: Towards intelligent structure 464 design Rustem Valiullin

Self-pillared zeolite nanosheets 466 Michael Tsapatsis

Confined synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered mesoporous-imprinted 467 zeolites with tunable morphology and Si/Al ratio Wei Fan, Zhuopeng Wang, Chang Chun-Chih

Probing 3D pore structure in zeolites by electron microscopy 469 Xiaodong Zou, Tom Willhammar, Daliang Zhang, Wei Wan, Changhong Xiao, Junliang Sun

Effects of steam-assisted crystallization synthesis conditions on the mesopore 471 properties of hierarchical ZSM-5 Gregory Neumann, Brian Pimentel, Quan Do, Jason Hicks

Synthesized and Catalytic Performance of Composite Micro/Mesporous Material 473 L-SBA-15 for FCC Gasoline Hydro-upgrading Tianshu Li, Huan Niu, Aijun Duan, Zhen Zhao, Guiyuan Jiang, Jian Liu, Yuechang Wei, Huifang Hui, Baijun Liu

Growth of Vertical Mesoporous Silica Channels via Cooperative Assemblies at 474 Interfaces Kun-Che Kao, Cheng-Han Lin, Yi-Hsin Liu, Chung-Yuan Mou

The Role of Oxides in Catalysis: Structure, Selectivity and Stability

From oxide film supported nanoparticles to two-dimensional zeolite films 476 Hajo Freund

Oxidation catalysis by doped oxides 477 Horia Metiu, Eric McFarland

THE UNUSUAL CHEMISTRY OF OXIDES AT THE NANOSCALE 478 Gianfranco Pacchioni, Livia Giordano, Hsin-Yi Tiffany Chen, Stefano Prada

In situ, real-time, spatially resolved, 3D and total-reflection XAFS for the 479 rational design and characterization of surfaces and properties of well-defined and nanoparticle catalysts Yasuhiro Iwasawa

Surface segregation in bi-cationic oxides is crucial for selective oxidation 480 catalysis Michael Bowker

Enhancing the reducibility of CeO2: The role of divalent dopants 481 Aoife Kehoe, Graeme Watson, David Scanlon

Determination of Effect of the Oxide Support for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction 484 over Supported Au and Pt Nanoparticles Kaiwalya Sabnis, Yanran Cui, Mayank Shekhar, W. Damion Williams, Wen-Sheng Lee, M. Cem Akatay, Jeffrey Miller, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio Ribeiro

Coupled proton and polaron kinetics on reduced rutile (110) TiO2 surface 485 Yeohoon Yoon, Christopher Mundy, Joost VandeVondele, Roger Rousseau

Investigations of reactions over inverse CeOx-CuyO/Cu(111) and 486 TiO2-CuyO/Cu(111) model catalysts Kumudu Mudiyanselage, Sanjaya Senanayake, Ashleigh Baber, Shankhamala Kundu, Dario Stacchiola

Cubic Ce2O3 phase studied by photoelectron spectroscopy and photoelectron 489 diffraction Tomáš Duchoň, Marie Aulická, Kateřina Veltruská, Vladimír Matolín Theoretical insights into metal oxide nanocatalysts 491 Ping Liu

Structure and Properties of Metal Dopant/Ceria Mixed Oxide Interfaces 492 Jing Zhou, Elfrida Ginting, Yinghui Zhou

Role of the surface oxygen vacancies in CO oxidation catalyzed by gold 495 supported on yttrium modified anatase Javier Fdez Sanz, J. J. Plata, A. Márquez, F. Romero-Sarria, O.H. Laguna, M.A. Centeno, J.A. Odriozola

Structure Dependence in Acetaldehyde reactions on CeO2 Studied Using 496 Monolithic and Nanoscopic Single Crystal Surfaces Zili Wu, Steven Overbury, Amanda Peterson-Mann, Florencia Calaza, David Mullins, Peter Albrecht, Ye Xu, Meijun Li

Electronic metal-oxide support interactions and the production of hydrogen 498 through the water-gas shift reaction Jose Rodriguez, Sanjaya Senanayake, Dario Stacchiola, Ping Liu

Structure, Selectivity and Stability of Rh substituted pyrochlroes for dry (CO2) 499 reforming of CH4 James Spivey, Devendra Pakhare, Viviane Schwartz, Victor Abdelsayed, Daniel Haynes, Dushyant Shekhawat

Functions of transition metal oxides in renewable energy and fuel production 500 Xianqin Wang, Zhong He

A DFT Study of Formaldehyde Bonding on TiO2(110) and SnO2(110) 501 Miru Tang, Qingfeng Ge

Advances in Analytical Methods in Petroleum Upstream Applications

Surrounding and solving analytical problems with Data Fusion 502 Thomas Dearing, Brian Marquardt, Rachel Mohler, Carl Rechsteiner Jr.

Determination of naphthenic acids partitioning in water-crude oil systems 505 through 1-D high-field NMR spectroscopy Teresa Lehmann, Mehrnoosh Moradi, Elena Topchiy, Vladimir Alvarado

Olefin content estimation in heavy oil, bitumen and their upgraded products 507 Lante Carbognani, Francisco Lopez-Linares, Marianna Trujillo, Qiao Wu, Josune Carbognani, Pedro Pereira-Almao

Asphaltene Adsorption on Iron Oxide Surfaces 509 Estrella Rogel, Michael Roye

Molecular Properties of Virgin and Converted Arabian Light Vacuum Residue: 512 Implications on Adsorption and Catalysis Francisco Lopez-Linares, Mazin Fathi, Lante Carbognani Ortega, Pedro Pereira-Almao, Estrella Rogel, Cesar Ovalles, Ajit Pradhan, John Zintsmaster

On Column Filtration Asphaltene Characterization Methods for the Analysis of 516 Produced Crude Oils and Deposits from Upstream Operations Estrella Rogel, Cesar Ovalles, Michael Moir

Comparative Compositional Analysis of Untreated and Hydrotreated Oils by 15T 519 Ultrahigh Resolution Atmospheric Pressure Photo Ionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (APPI FT-ICR MS) Jorge Orrego-Ruiz, Andrea Gomez-Escudero, Martin Mojica-Alarcon, Beatriz Murcia-Celis

Expanding GC Use in Petroleum and Petrochemical Applications 521 Carl Rechsteiner, John Crandall, Ned Roques

Application of NMR Technology in Petroleum Exploration and Characterization 523 Ajit Pradhan, Boqin Sun, Zheng (Elton) Yang, John Zintsmaster

UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE INFRARED 525 SPECTRA OF COLOMBIAN VACUUM RESIDUA BY CHEMOMETRICS Jorge Orrego-Ruiz, Alexander Guzman, Enrique Mejia-Ospino, Daniel Molina

:Evaluation of Atmospheric Pressure Tandem Mass 528 Spectrometry (APGC/MS/MS) for Petroleum Biomarkers Analysis Chang Hsu, Quan Shi, Douglas Stevens

Advances in field-deployable NMR instruments for laboratory and process 529 applications in the petroleum and petrochemical industries – chemometrics, direct measurements, and data fusion John Edwards, Paul Giammatteo, Tal Cohen

Hydrocarbon Resources

Hydrocarbon-Pool Route to Conversion of Biomass Derived Ethanol to 532 Hydrocarbon Blend-Stock Erik Casbeer, Robert Geiger, Brian Davison, James Szybist, Martin Keller, Chaitanya Narula*

Evaluation of catalyst loading profiles for residue hydrodesulfurization by high 534 throughput experimentation Kazuhiko Hagiwara, Ryuzo Tanaka, Ryuichiro Iwamoto, Jochen Berg

Design and Testing of a Disclosable Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid 536 Jeremy Holtsclaw, Andrew Jarratt, Mike McCabe

Molecular modeling for hydrodesulfurization and hydrogenation of light gas oil 537 Shogo Teratani, Kazuhiko Hagiwara, Ryuzo Tanaka, Zhen Hou, Craig Bennet, Micheal Klein

Application of the hyphenated technique, Size Exclusion Chromatography - 539 Induced Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (SEC-ICP/MS), for the size distribution characterization of nickel and vanadium compounds in heavy oil fractions Jérémie Barbier, Charles-Philippe Lienemann, Joao Marques, Isabelle Merdrignac, Agnès Le Masle, Didier Espinat

Potentialities of Pulsed EPR spectroscopy in the identification of Vanadyl 541 complexes in asphaltene molecules Olivier Delpoux, Jérémie Barbier, Karima Ben Tayeb-Meziane, Joao Marques, Jan Verstraete, Herve Vezin

Detailed compositions and molecular structures analysis using FT-ICR-MS related 544 to slurry phase hydrocracking for heavy oil Iwane Shiozaki, Ryuzo Tanaka, Teruo Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Hazama, Keita Katano, Shigetaka Fujii, Motoharu Yasumuro

Theory and Simulation in Energy Production, Storage, and Utilization

Tungsten Oxide in Catalysis and Photocatalysis: Hints from DFT 546 Gianfranco Pacchioni, Cristiana Di Valentin, Fenggong Wang

Reliable Modeling of Bonding for Complex Interfaces with Applications in 547 Catalysis, Molecular Electronics, and Photovoltaics Alexandre Tkatchenko

PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DYE SENSISTIZED SOLAR CELLS 548 Wei-Qiao Deng, Lei Sun, Lei Jiang, Bi-Feng He

Fundamental research on catalytic SCW-coal gasification 549 You Han, Xiaoxia Weng, Zhenghua He, Jinli Zhang, Wei Li

Towards realistic first-principles modeling of nanostructures in catalysis and 550 energy technologies Konstantin Neyman

Doping CeO2 with trivalent cations: Defect structures and reducibility 551 Jeremy Allen, Patrick Keating, David Scanlon, Graeme Watson

Effects of O and C on the adsorption of methanol steam reforming intermediates 554 on PdZn (100) Rern Jern Lim, Xiang Li, Kok Hwa Lim

Ni/CeO2: A promising catalyst for water-gas shift 556 M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano, Javier Carrasco, David López-Durán, Laura Barrio, Ping Liu, José Rodriguez

Theoretical Understanding of Pd@Pt core-shell nanoparticles 557 Wei An, Ping Liu

Catalytic activity of precious metal clusters: a few good examples 558 Yi Luo

The conversion of CO2 and C2H6 to propanoic acid over the Au-exchanged 559 MCM-22 zeolite Winyoo Sangthong, Bundet Boekfa, Jumras Limtrakul

Theoretical investigation of tungsten oxide bronzes as hydrodeoxygenation 562 catalyts Francois Amar, Brian Frederick, Timothy Thibodeau, Christopher Goodwin, Daniel Moberg

Computational Studies of Organic Electronic Materials with Density Functional 563 Theory Methods Qin Wu

GROTTHUSS VS NON-GROTTHUSS CHARGE TRANSPORT IN POLY-IMIDAZOLE 564 MEMBRANES Carlo Adamo

In Silico Design and Characterization of Dye Sensitizers for Solar Cells 565 Lichang Wang

How well can we do computational heterogeneous catalysis ? - A Caveat ! 566 Xin Xu

Reforming or defunctionalizing of biomass. A DFT study on reactions of model 567 alcohols over platinum Notker Roesch, Duygu Başaran, Cheng-Chau Chiu, Alexander Genest

9th Symposium on Hydrotreating/Hydrocracking Technologies

Numerical simulations of the slurry bed reactors for residue hydrotreating 568 process Zhenxing Zhu, Xiaojin Tang, Shuandi Hou

Adsorptive removal of dimethyldisulfide in simulated oil with zeolite adsorbents 569 Yabo Hou, Xingliang Huang

Adsorptive denitrogenation of liquid hydrocarbons on carbon-based adsorbents 571 for ultra-clean fuels: a study on adsorptive selectivity and mechanism Masoud Almarri, Xiaoliang Ma

Converting a two stage hydrocracker to single stage unit 573 Omar AlZuwaidi, Stanley Gustas III

A High-Energy-Efficiency Hydrocracking Technology and Commercial Application 574 Yanze Du

kinetic Models for assessment of the reaction network in Hydrodesulfurization of 576 Polyaromatic Sulfur-Containing Compounds Hamdy Farag, Masahiro Kishida

Hydrocracking of Soybean Oil Using Zeolite-Alumina Composite Supported NiMo 579 Catalysts Atsushi Ishihara, Naoya Fukui, Tadanori Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Nasu

Hydrocracking of Vacuum Gas Oils - Recent Trends in Catalyst Development 581 Gerhard Pirngruber, Lapisardi Gregory, Jeremy Francis, Susana Lopes-Silva, Laurent Simon, Emmanuelle Guillon

Criterion DC-2635 CoMo CENTERA®: Substantial Activity Improvements Over 583 Broad Application Ranges Through Formulation & Manuafacturing Advancements Lawrence (Larry) Kraus, John Smegal, Karl Kruger

Kinetic studies and evaluation of nanoporous carbon for desulfurization of fuels 588 coupled with GC- SCD detection method Khalid Alhooshani, Abdullah Al Swat, Tawfik Saleh, Mohammad Siddiqui

Synthesis of aluminum-modified 3D mesoporous TUD-1 materials and catalytic 590 performance for hydrodesulfurization of FCC diesel Yunchuan Deng, Aijun Duan, Zhen Zhao, Jian Liu, Guiyuan Jiang, Yuechang Wei, Daowei Gao

Synthesis and application of zeolite W in the catalyst for the hydro-upgrading of 591 FCC gasoline Huan Niu, Aijun Duan, Zhen Zhao

Synthesis of Zr-Incorporated Beta/SBA-15 Micro-Mesoporous Materials with 592 Platelet Morphology and its Performance for the HDS of FCC Gasoline Daowei Gao, Aijun Duan, Zhen Zhao, jian Liu, Guiyuan Jiang, Yuechang Wei, Yunchuan Deng, Tianshu Li, Chao Liu

Hydrotreating of Jatropha Oil on Reduced Nickel-Molybdenum Catalysts 593 Eika Qian, Ning Chen, Shaofeng Gong

Advancement and Economics of CEP Re-refining Technology improved with 596 sophisticated Hydrotreating Technology Louis Magnabosco, Joshua Park

Storch Award: Symposium in Honor of A. C. Buchanan, III

Surface dependent reactions of C1 and C2-alcohols on ceria nanocrystals with 600 define surface facets Zili Wu, Meijun Li, Amanda Mann, David Mullins, Steven Overbury

Computational Investigation of the Pyrolysis of Oxygen-Substituted Phenethyl 602 Phenyl Ethers Ariana Beste, Archibald Buchanan

Mechanistic Modeling of the Decomposition of Glucose-Based Carbohydrates: 605 Effect of Sodium Ion Linda Broadbelt, Xiaowei Zhou, Heather Mayes

PyrolysisKinetics of Anisole and other Simple Lignin Model Compounds 607 Yogesh Koirala, Stephanie Villano, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen, Anthony Dean

High temperature chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons 609 Lawrence Scott

Catalysts targeting the deoxygenation of lignin for the production of fuels 612 Jason Hicks, Gregory Neumann, Brian Pimentel, Dallas Rensel, Megan Gin

Catalysis of routes from lignin to hydrocarbons in water 614 Donald Camaioni, Johannes Lercher, Chen Zhao, John Fulton, Jianzhi Hu, Donghai Mei

Thermal Decomposition of Biomass Model Compounds in Microtubular Reactors 617 Mark Nimlos, Adam Scheer, David Robichaud, Mark Jarvis, Calvin Mukarakate, Angayle Vasiliou, Kimberly Urness, Musahid Ahmed, John Stanton, John Daily, Donald David, G. Ellison

Molecular dynamics in mesoporous substrates: lessons from simulation 619 Alan Chaffee, My-Huong Nguyen, Bandar Fadhel

Unraveling complex pyrolysis pathways of lignin model compounds 621 A.C. Buchanan III, Michelle Kidder, Ariana Beste, Phillip Britt

Formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the pyrolysis of plant 624 steroids: The role of steroid structure Phillip Britt, Michelle Kidder, A. C. Buchanan III

In Situ Calalysis Studies with Small Angle X-ray Scattering 627 Randall Winans, Sungsik Lee, Tao LI, Byeongdu Lee, Soenke Seifert, Justin Notestein, Christian Canlas

Use of Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry in the Characterization of 629 Hydrocarbon Materials and Fuel Pyrolysis Kinetics Andrew Herring, Robert Evans, Matthew Liberatore, J. McKinnon

Fuels, Chemicals, Materials, and Energy from Coal, Natural Gas, Oil Shale, and Other Natural Resources

METHANE REACTS WITH HETEROPOLYACIDS CHEMISORBED ON SILICA TO 631 PRODUCE ACETIC ACID UNDER SOFT CONDITIONS Miao Sun, Jizhe Zhang, Jean-Marie Basset

Characterization of Coal Liquids for Refining to Transportation Fuels 633 TOLUWANISE ADESANWO, Moshfiqur Rahman, Arno Klerk, Rajender Gupta

Visbreaking oil sands bitumen at 400 °C 635 Lin Wang, Shaofeng Yang, Vinay Prasad, Arno de Klerk

Systematic advanced NMR techniques for characterizing oil shale, its isolates, 638 and residues after retorting Jingdong Mao, Xiaoyan Cao, Justin Birdwell

Tortuous migration pathway and gas production behavior of Barnett shale 641 Qinhong Hu, Zhiye Gao, Robert Ewing

Production of high-grade carbonaceous materials and fuel having similar 643 chemical and physical properties from low grade carbonaceous resources by degradtive solvent eatraction Kouichi Miura, Ryuichi Ashida, Janewit Wannapeera, Nakorn Worasuwannarak

FAST PYROLYSIS OF NINGGUO WALNUT SHELL: EFFECTS OF PYROLYSIS 645 TEMPERATURE AND REACTION TIME Yixin Chen, Xifeng Zhu

Combined steam and carbon dioxide reforming of methane and natural gas at 647 high pressures: Bi-reforming Alain Goeppert, Miklos Czaun, Robert May, Surya Prakash, George Olah

Continuous and Prolonged Oxidation of Bitumen for Upgrading by Microbial 649 Digestion Muhammad Siddiquee, Arno de Klerk Effect of ytria addition to alumina supported rhodium catalysts on the partial 652 oxidation and autothermal reforming of methane. Fabio Passos, Vanessa Ribeiro, Maisa Cunha, Ana Coutinho

Gd promoted Ni-ZSM-5 catalyst for carbon dioxide reforming of methane 654 Rajaram Bal

Molecular weight parameters of oil shale pyrolysis products 656 Vahur Oja

Geochemistry of Coalbed Methane Natural Gas Produced Water 658 K.J. Reddy

Solution combustion synthesized catalytic materials for oxidative coupling of 660 methane Ranjita Ghose, Hyun Tae Hwang, Arvind Varma

Promotion effect of Ce on Ni/SiO2 catalysts in the autothermal reforming of 662 methane with CO2 and O2 Baitao LI, Shuyi Zhang, Xiujun Wang

Dynamic separation of ultradilute CO2 with a nanoporous amine-based sorbent 664 Leilei He, Maohong Fan, Bryce Dutchera, Sheng Cuib, Xiao-dong Shen, Yong Kong, Armistead G. Russell, Patrick McCurdy, Yulong Zhang

Synthetic Fuels Production with Compact Heat Exchange Reactors 665 Yulong Zhang, Vijay Sethi

Kerogen Locking in Oil Shale 666 Kalpana S. Katti, Dinesh R. Katti, Him Upadhyay

Effects of composite iron-sodium catalysts on coal gasification 667 Rodolfo Monterroso, Maohong Fan, Fan Zhang, Ying Gao, Tiberiu Popa, Morris D. Argyle, Brian Towlera

Review of recent advances in carbon dioxide separation and capture 668 Saeed Danaei Kenarsari, Maohong Fan

Catalytic performances and in-situ surface chemistries of ceria doped with 669 palladium, platinum and rhodium in methane partial oxidation for production of syngas Franklin (Feng) Tao

Recent Progress of Coal Chemical Technologies in China 670 Qi Sun