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Welcome to
The Slowing Group
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at Iowa State University
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and the Ames Laboratory
7/1/22 OK, we skipped a bunch of news, and here comes the very last one: Igor is retiring from active research. Thanks to all the team members for this wonderful adventure we shared over all these years!
8/29/20 Sebastián's and Cindy's work on controlling catalytic activity by 3D printing is out in Applied Catalysis A: General. Free to download for 50 days using this code: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bf1l,L4mbKDm0
7/3/20 Hui's work on hydrolyzing waste Kraft lignin (massive waste of paper industry) to give guaiacol and hydrotreating it under mild conditions to KA oil (precursor of high demand nylon) is now online in Green Chemistry. A promising approach to valorize an underutilized renewable resource.
6/24/20 Our collaborative work with Venditti group on studying the dynamics of binding of phenolics onto Pd/CeO2 nanocubes is now online in ChemCatChem. Interesting observations on molecular adsorption, mobility and their correlation to reactivity.
5/29/20 Sebastián and Cindy's work on studying the kinetics of organosilane grafting is online and free to download using this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1b8mR4xQ95wYx7 Great work with the help of Pranjali and collaboration with Kobayashi and Evans groups. Congrats!
15/5/20 Our work was featured in the Great Plains Catalysis Society inaugural webinarseries, you can watch our webinar in this website.
4/8/20 Hui's paper on low pressure guaiacol hydrodeoxygenation in Appl Cat B: Environmental is online and free to access for 50 days using this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1asqd3Id%7EswpdC. Only caveat: even after sending revisions to the galley proofs table 3 had bad mistakes, so here is the correct version.
1/16/20 Dilini's latest paper is now online at The Journal of Chemical Physics, and it is an Editor's Pick! Congratulations! She shows in this paper that the pH at the silica-water interface is different from that of the bulk solvent, and uses surface functionalization to adjust the interfacial pH to target values. Differences with the pH of the bulk as large as 3 pH units.
1/14/20 Welcome to Dr. Shaojiang Chen as a new postdoctoral researcher in our lab. He will be working in a joint project with the Huang and Sadow labs for developing materials for polymer upcycling. Excited to have his talent in the lab.
12/31/2019 Dilini presenting her contribution to the group's gallery to complete this sage of her journey. She is joining now Marit Nielsen-Hamilton's group for a postdoctoral position in molecular biology. All the best!
12/20/2019 Dilini is now Dr. Dilini! Congratulations on becoming our first female PhD! Great work over these years and much more things are sure to come in her career. Again: congratulations!
10/15/2019 New paper accepted, Sebastián and Cindy's work on developing a high throughput adpator for SLA 3D printer enabled producing three dimensional catalytic architectures with controlled hydrophobicities and to exploit the synergy between metal sites and hydrophobic environments in complex topologies to maximize the performance of oxidation catalysis. Well done! Paper in ACS Appl. Polym. Mater.
10/09/2019 After one year with us, Wei heads back to China. Hope he had a great time here. We enjoyed his company and work. Here is his contribution to the group's gallery.
5/29/2019 Welcome to our Summer interns Abigail Carlin (Western Illinois University), Kevin Stewart (University of North Texas) and Zachery Deal (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology). Hoping they have an exciting, fun and fruitful summer with the group!
5/22/2019 Dilini's new paper on enhancing catalyst performance by combining a controlled interfacial polarity with water is out in ACS Catalysis. Well done!
5/10/2019 Cindy is done with her B.S. and leaving ISU. We had a great couple of years enjoying her being part of the group. Wish her all the best, and here is her good bye painting for our group gallery.
4/24/2019 Welcome to Dr. J. Eliseo de León. Eliseo is Adjunct Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition and serves in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion of Iowa State University. He is joining us to develop novel libraries of monomers, crosslinkers and photoinitiators for 3D printing of ploymers. This is based on his expertise in polymers during his PhD on Materials Science. Welcome on board!
4/21/2019 Dilini gets a Teaching Excellence Award and Cindy the Undergraduate Research Award from the department of chemistry! Congratulations!!! Great job!
3/12/2019 Dilini and Cindy presenting our work at the chemistry department open house.
Principal Investigator: Igor Slowing
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