Group News
Mar 10, 2023
AIChE's Catalysis & Reaction Engineering Division highlights Prof. Susannah Scott, who is a well-renowned leader in sustainable catalysis.
Nov 19, 2022
Year-end group party at Prof. Scott's house. We deeply appreciate Dr. Hyunjin Moon for his dedication here over the past 6 years as a very productive researcher, and we are really happy to see that he is now a postdoc in National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Oct 14, 2022
Waste plastics unzipped into useful pieces.
Find more details at: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/waste-plastics-unzipped-into-useful-pieces/4016369.article
Oct 7, 2022
Dr. Hyunjin Moon, Dr. Nick Maciulis, Samantha Ausman, and Cheng-Hsun Chuang attended UCSB IRES Fellow Program 2022. The workshops were held in Bochum (September 9, 2022) and Göttingen (September 12-15, 2022) in Germany.
Research exchange visit in the Wodtke group
Research exchange visit in the Bennati group
Dinner in Göttingen
Oct 02, 2022
Scientists from UCSB, UIUC, and Dow develop a method of recycling plastic into high-value plastic molecules. The news is included in UCSB The Current:
Find more details at: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020730/plastics-recycling-breakthrough
Sept 28, 2022
Garrett's work on upcycling polyethylene waste into propylene has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c07781
Sept 12, 2022
Prof. Susannah Scott attended UCSB IRES Program 2022 and gave a talk on operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy insight into Ga-based propane dehydrogenation catalysts in Göttingen workshop.
June 09, 2022
Congratulations! Chemistry PhD student Yuquan Zhao has been selected as a recipient of the Phi Lambda Upsilon Award from Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry!
May 22, 2022
Congratulations! Chemistry PhD student Jiakai Sun received Richard J.Kokes Award at the NAM 27th, New York.
May 22, 2022
Dr. Hyunjin Moon attended the 27th NAM conference and presented his work on the surface hydrophobicity effect on heterogeneous catalysis.
May 22, 2022
Dr. Lijun Gao attended the 27th NAM conference and gave a talk about the role of support acidity in activation and deactivation of Re-based catalysts for olefin metathesis.
Recent Notable Publications
Current Initiatives
Mellichamp Initiative in Sustainability
Sustainable Materials and Product Design
In 2014, Susannah Scott created the interdisciplinary Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainable Materials and Product Design, in order to integrate broader sustainability considerations into research in the chemical sciences
and engineering. UC Santa Barbara provided the Initiative with a cluster of
four endowed Chairs. The Initiative’s scope includes assessment/minimization
of environmental impact and assessment/optimization of economic feasibility, cultivation of public awareness, and social acceptance of sustainability goals. Susannah Scott currently holds the Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalytic Processing.
ESTEEM
Enhancing Success in Transfer Education for Engineering Majors
ESTEEM is an NSF-funded S-STEM scholarship program for academically-talented, low-income undergraduate students in Engineering. Led by Susannah Scott, the project is a partnership with Professor Mike Gerber in UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, and collaborators in four of our regional California Community Colleges (CCCs): Allan Hancock College, Oxnard College, Santa Barbara City College, and Ventura College. The goal is to facilitate transfer of engineering students between community college and four-year universities, understand barriers, promote their academic and professional success, and strengthen ties between CCC and UC faculty.
