Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis:
Benefits to Industrial Partners

Contacts

JR Regalbuto, Director
Professor of Chemical Engineering
SmartState Chair of Catalysis for Renewable Fuels
Phone: 803-777-5501
regalbuj@cec.sc.edu
Frank Gupton, Co-Director and VCU Site Director
Floyd D. Gottwald, Jr. Chair in Pharmaceutical Engineering
Chair, Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering
Phone: 804-828-4799
bfgupton@vcu.edu
Alex Katz, UC Berkeley Site Director
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Phone: 510-679-7606
askatz@berkeley.edu
Bruce Gates, UC Davis Site Director
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Phone: 530-752-3953
bcgates@ucdavis.edu

Member Benefits

Fantastic funding leverage

- $50,000 is typically leveraged to over $1,000,000 in research (see http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131407&org=CISE)

Opportunities to network and partner with thought leaders in the industry
Access to potential customers: other petroleum and chemical companies and catalyst manufacturers in the business of catalyst development
Early access to technology breakthroughs and potential commercialization through shared IP (see separate IP/Membership Agreement link)
Access to graduate students at the forefront of rational catalyst synthesis and development, trained with an industrial outlook
Direct input into specific research projects via industrial research advisors

- Member companies form an Industrial Advisory Board to direct the research; faculty provide methods, industry provides input and recommends catalyst compositions and reactions