Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis:
Research Thrusts

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

Thrust 1:
Fundamentals of Metal Deposition. In-Situ spectroscopy and microscopy of metal deposition and nanoparticle formation

Thrust 2:
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solid-Solid Bonding. Experimental and theoretical studies of metal-metal and metal-support bonding in supported nanoparticles.

Thrust 3:
Precision site synthesis for specific reactions. Simple, scalable synthesis of mono- and mulit-metallic catalytic sites in well dispersed supported nanoparticles.