Small Molecule Systems

Small Molecule Systems This domain includes a wide variety of research areas such as inorganic and biological catalysis. The overarching goal is to develop fundamental understanding of small molecule reactions and synthesis, separations and materials formation in supercritical and near-supercritical CO2-based systems in order to identify sustainable new processes involving small molecules as candidates for further development.

Team Leader:  Professor Keith P. Johnston

Project # Lead PI Project Title Students/Associates Status
1 Berkowitz Structural, dynamic & thermodynamic properties of mutli-component systems involving supercritical CO2 Sanjib Senapati July 02
11 Kropp Surface mediated reactivity various undergrads July 02
27 Fox Synthesis of TiO2 photocatalysts in SCF CO2 by pyrolysis of different CO2-soluble TiO2 precursors Tsutomu Hirakawa
32 Hall Emulsions & microemulsions in CO2/surfactant/water systems Lauriane Fillous Scanu July 02
33 Gubbins Cosolvent & cosurfactant effects for CO2/solute/surfactant systems Naresh Chennamsetty
35 Kelly Strategic biocatalysis in CO2 systems using hyperthermophilic lipases & esterases Sarah Hsu July 02
44 Spivey Activation of CO2 in Catalyic methane-CO2 reactions Esther Wilcox July 02
50 Johnston CO2 Miniemulsions Won Ryoo July 02
56 Webber Novel surfactants for microemulsions of water & CO2 Griffin Smith July 02
58 Adewuyi Development of Zeolite based Friedel-Crafts acylation process in supercritical CO2 Aakash Gupta July 02
59 Kabadi Thermodynmaic data measurements for CO2 systems Rameshwar Yadav
Yugesh Mohanasundaram		 July 02
Korgel CO2-Enabled Pore-Filling & Self Assembly
 
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