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Michele Sarazen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Office: ES&T 2314
Email: michele.sarazen@chbe.gatech.edu

Favorite molecule? 1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine
Favorite US President? Teddy Roosevelt

Educational Background

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2011
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 2016
– Advised by Dr. Enrique Iglesia

Project

MOF-derived iron carbide catalysts for propane dehydrogenation, Synthesis of aminopolymers for CO2 capture sorbents

These projects involve the synthesis and characterization of materials and their application in catalysis and separations. The reactivity and selectivity of iron carbide catalysts, synthesized by using metal organic frameworks as precursors, for propane dehydrogenation to propene is investigated. Further, the development of novel amino-polymers and their use for amine-oxide composite sorbents for CO2 capture is studied.

Publications

  1. Sarazen, M. L., Doskocil, E. and Iglesia, E. Effects of Void Environment and Acid Strength on Alkene Oligomerization Selectivity. ACS Catalysis, 2016.
  2. Sarazen, M. L., Doskocil, E. and Iglesia, E. Catalysis on Solid Acids: Mechanism and Catalyst Descriptors in Oligomerization Reactions of Light Alkenes, Journal of Catalysis, 2016.
  3. Sarazen, M. L. and Iglesia, E. Stability of Bound Alkoxides during Reactions of Alkenes on Solid Acids, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A., 2017.
  4. Sarazen, M. L. and Iglesia, E. Incorporation of Light Alkanes into Alkene Oligomerization Cycles on Solid Brønsted Acids via Hydrogen Transfer, submitted.
  5. Sarazen, M. L. and Iglesia, E. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Alkene Coupling Reactions: Effects of Size, Shape and Charge, submitted.

Group News

January 2021-

Four new PhD students join the group!  Anu Osibo will work on depolymerization catalysis and Yoseph Guta will study amine adsorbent stability.  Both will be co-advised by Prof. Sievers.  MinGyu Song will study DAC under unconventional conditions, and will be co-advised by Prof. Lively.  Laura Proano will evaluate catalytic sorbents for CO2 capture and conversion in a single, intensified process.

December 2020-

The group welcomes the arrival of new postdoctoral fellow Pranjali Priyadarshini, who recently completed her PhD at the University of Illinois.

October 2020-

We bid farewell to postdoctoral fellow Dharam Kumar and visiting PhD student Wei Zhou.  We welcome the arrival of new postdoctoral Fellow Gabriel Short, who recently completed his PhD in chemistry at the University of Florida.

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