Nathan Ellebracht

Office: ES&T 2314
Email: nellebracht@gatech.edu

Favorite sports team? Oakland Athletics
Favorite vacation spot? Paris, France

Educational Background

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 2014

Project

Engineered cellulose nanomaterial systems for biomass upgrading catalysis

Developing nanocellulose-based cooperative catalyst materials for transformations of model aldehydes toward higher value chemicals and fuels.

Publications

Holewinski, A.; Sakwa-Novak, M.A.; Carrillo, J-M.Y.; Potter, M.E; Ellebracht, N.C.; Rother, G.; Sumpter, B.G.; Jones, C.W.* Aminopolymer Mobility and Support Interactions in Silica-PEI Composites for CO2 Capture Applications: A Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Study. J Phys Chem B, 2017, 121, 6721–6731.
Collier, V.C.; Ellebracht, N.C.; Lindy, G.I.; Moschetta, E.G.*; Jones, C.W.* Kinetic and Mechanistic Examination of Acid–Base Bifunctional Aminosilica Catalysts in Aldol and Nitroaldol Condensations. ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6(1), 460-468.
van Zoelen, W.; Buss, H.G.; Ellebracht, N.C.; Zuckermann, R.N.*; Segalman, R.A.* Sequence of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Residues in Amphiphilic Polymer Coatings Affects Surface Structure and Marine Antifouling/Fouling Release Properties. ACS Macro Letters, 2014, 3(4), 364–368.

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.