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Taylor Sulmonetti

Ph.D. Candidate, 4th year

Favorite Molecule? Ethanol
Favorite Hobbies? Playing soccer or any other sport for that matter

Educational Background

BS Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University

Project Title

Reduced Mixed Metal Oxide Catalysts for the Hydrogenation, Hydrogenolysis, and Ring-opening of Furanic Compounds

Project Description

 

Publications

  1. Sulmonetti, T. P.; Pang, S.; Taborga, M.; Lee, S.; Cullen, D.; Agrawal, P.; Jones, C. W. “Vapor Phase Hydrogenation of Furfural over Nickel Mixed Metal Oxides” Appl. Cat. A Gen. 2016, 517, 187.
  2. Sulmonetti, T. P.; Bo, H.; Ifkovits, Z.; Lee, S.; Agrawal, P.; Jones, C. W. “Selective Hydrogenolysis of Furanics Utilizing Reduced Cobalt Mixed Metal Oxide Catalysts”ChemCatChem 2017, 9, 1815.
  3. Hu, B.; Kim, W. G.; Sulmonetti, T. P.; Sarazen P. L.; Tan, S.; So, J.; Liu, Y.; Dixit, R. S.; Nair, S.; Jones, C. W. “Mesoporous CoAl2O4 Spinel Catalyst for Non-Oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation” ChemCatChem 2017, Accepted.
  4. Sulmonetti, T. P.; Bo, H.; Lee, S.; Agrawal, P.; Jones, C. W. “Reduced Cu-Co-Al Mixed Metal Oxides for the Ring-Opening of Furanics to Produce Diols” ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2017, Submitted.

Group News

November 2024-

After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Yunseok Lee joined the Samsung Advanced Research Institute.

The group welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers: Dr. Xin Deng, who received her PhD from Nankai University, and Dr. Xiaowei Wu, who received his PhD from the University of Houston.

September 2024-

Dr. Tony Vallace completed his postdoctoral stay and has joined First Light Solutions Inc. as CSO.

Jiaqi Zhang joined the group to work on DAC.  He is co-advised with Prof. Sievers.

August, 2024-

The group’s work on carbon capture was recognized by ACS with the 2025 E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

Dr. Samser Shaikh completed his postdoctoral stay and took a position at National Energy Technology Laboratory.

June, 2024-

Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva passed her Ph.D. proposal and was admitted to Ph.D. candidacy.  Congratulations!

May, 2024-

Dr. Guanhe Rim completed his postdoctoral stay and joined Aramco in Houston, TX.

February, 2024-

Youn Ji Min successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations to Youn Ji, PhD graduate #48.  Dr. Min will work at GT as a postdoc.

The Jones Group also participated in our biennial Birkman Assessment workshop.

January, 2024-

Quinn Yu and Dr. Gaurav Iyer joined the group to work on DAC.  They are both coadvised with Prof. Lively.

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