Jones Group

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech

Madelyn Ball

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Office: ES&T 2316
Email: mball30@gatech.edu

What is your favorite vacation spot? Anapoima, Colombia
What is your favorite element?Palladium

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, 2014

Project

Development of quaternary ammonium materials for moisture swing adsorption of CO2 from air

Synthesis and characterization of single atom alloy catalysts for hydrogenation chemistry

Publications

    1. De bruyn, M.; Sener, C.; Petrolini, D.D.; McClelland, D.; He, J.; Ball, M.R.; Liu, Y.; Martins, L.; Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W.; Weckhuysen, B.M.; Catalytic Hydrogenation of Dihydrolevoglucosenone to Levoglucosanol with a Hydrotalcite/Mixed Oxide Copper Catalyst. Green Chem. Accepted.
    2. He, J.; Burt, S.P.;Ball, M.R.; Hermans, I., Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W.; Catalytic C-O bond hydrogenolysis of tetrahydrofuran-dimethanol over Metal supported WOx/TiO2 catalysts. Appl. Cat. B Environ. 258, 117945. (2019).
    3. Lee, S.; Lee, S.; Gerceker, D.; Kumbhalkar, M.D.; Wiaderek, K.M.; Ball, M.R.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J.A.; Winans, R.E.; In situ, operando studies on the size and structure of supported Pt catalysts under supercritical conditions by simultaneous synchrotron-based X-ray techniques. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 11740-11747. (2019).
    4. Petrolini, D.D.; Eagan, N.; Ball, M.R.; Burt, S.P.; Hermans, I.; Huber, G.W.; Dumesic, J.A.; Martins, L..; Ethanol condensation at elevated pressure over copper on AlMgO and AlCaO porous mixed-oxide supports. Catal. Sci. Technol. 9, 2032-2042. (2019).
    5. Zhang, L.; Ball, M.R.; Liu, Y.; Kuech, T.F.; Huber, G.W.; Mavrikakis, M.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J.A.; Synthesis Gas Conversion over Rh/Mo Catalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Catal. 9, 1810-1819. (2019).
    6. Ball, M.R.; Rivera-Dones, K.R.; Stangland, E.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J.A. Hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane on Supported AgPd Catalysts. J. Catal. 370, 241-250. (2019).
    7. Liu, Y.; Zhang, L.; Göltl, F.; Ball, M.R.; Kuech, T.F.; Hermans, I.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J.A. Synthesis Gas Conversion over Rh-Mn-WxC/SiO2 Catalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition. ACS Catal. 8, 10707-10720 (2018).
    8. Ball, M.R.*; Wesley, T.S.*; Rivera-Dones, K.R.; Huber, G.W.; Dumesic, J.A. Amination of 1-Hexanol on Bimetallic AuPd/TiO2 Catalysts. Green Chem. 20, 4695-4709 (2018).
    9. Brentzel, Z.J.; Ball, M.R.; Dumesic, J.A. Selective Production of Terminally Unsaturated Methyl Esters from Lactones Over Metal Oxide Catalysts. Catal. Lett. 148, 3072-3081 (2018).
    10. Motagamwala, A.H.*; Ball, M.R.*; Dumesic, J.A. Microkinetic Analysis and Scaling Relations for Catalyst Design. Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. 9, (2018).
    11. Ro, I.; Aragao, I.B.; Brentzel, Z.J.; Liu, Y.; Rivera-Dones, K.R.; Ball, M.R.; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G.W.; Dumesic, J.A. Intrinsic activity of interfacial sites for Pt-Fe and Pt-Mo catalysts in the hydrogenation of carbonyl groups. Appl. Catal. B Environ. 231, 182–190 (2018).
    12. He, J.; Burt, S.P.; Ball, M.R.; Zhao, D.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W. Synthesis of 1,6-Hexanediol from Cellulose Derived Tetrahydrofuran-Dimethanol with Pt-WOx/TiO2 Catalysts. ACS Catal. 8, 1427–1439 (2018).
    13. Ro, I.; Aragao, I.B.; Chada, J.P.; Liu, Y.; Rivera-Dones, K.R.; Ball, M.R.; Zanchet, D.; Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W. The role of Pt-FexOy interfacial sites for CO oxidation. J. Catal. 358, 19–26 (2018).
    14. Aragao, I. B.; Ro, I.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M.R.; Huber, G.W.; Zanchet, D.; Dumesic, J.A. Catalysts synthesized by selective deposition of Fe onto Pt for the water-gas shift reaction. Appl. Catal. B Environ. 222, 182–190 (2018).
    15. Carrero, C. A.; Burt, S. P.; Huang, F.; Venegas, J. M.; Love, A. M.; Mueller, P.; Zhu, H.; Grant, J. T.; Mathison, R.; Hanraham, M. P.; Rossini, A.; Ball, M.R.; Dumesic, J.; Hermans, I. Supported two- and three-dimensional vanadium oxide species on the surface of β-SiC. Catal. Sci. Technol. 7, 3707–3714 (2017).
    16. Garg, A.; Milina, M.; Ball, M.R.; Zanchet, D.; Hunt, S.T.; Dumesic, J.A.; Román-Leshkov, Y. Transition-Metal Nitride Core@Noble-Metal Shell Nanoparticles as Highly CO Tolerant Catalysts. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 56, 8828–8833 (2017).
    17. Liu, Y.; Göeltl, F.; Ro, I.; Ball, M.R.; Sener, C.; Aragão, I.B.; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G.W.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J.A. Synthesis Gas Conversion over Rh-Based Catalysts Promoted by Fe and Mn. ACS Catal. 7, 4550–4563 (2017).
    18. Ro, I.; Sener, C.; Stadelman, T.M.; Ball, M.R.; Venegas, J.M.; Burt, S.P.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W. Measurement of intrinsic catalytic activity of Pt monometallic and Pt-MoOx interfacial sites over visible light enhanced PtMoOx /SiO2 catalyst in reverse water gas shift reaction. J. Catal. 344, 784–794 (2016).
    19. Karanjkar, P.U.; Burt, S.P.; Chen, X.; Barnett, K.J.; Ball, M.R.; Kumbhalkar, M.D.; Wang, X.; Miller, J.B.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J.A.; Huber, G.W. Effect of carbon supports on RhRe bifunctional catalysts for selective hydrogenolysis of tetrahydropyran-2-methanol. Catal. Sci. Technol. 6, 7841–7851 (2016).
    20. Ro, I.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M.R.; Jackson, D.H.K.; Chada, J.P.; Sener, C.; Kuech, T.F.; Madon, R.J.; Huber, G.W.; Dumesic, J.A. Role of the Cu-ZrO2 Interfacial Sites for Conversion of Ethanol to Ethyl Acetate and Synthesis of Methanol from CO2 and H2. ACS Catal. 6, 7040–7050 (2016).
    21. Wu, S.G.; Huang, L.; Head, J.; Ball, M.R.; Tang, Y.J.; Chen, D. Electrospray Facilitates the Germination of Plant Seeds. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 14, 632–641 (2014).