Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is delighted to announce the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers. These talented researchers, who are in the first 10 years or so of their independent careers, were identified through an open call for nominations, with a focus on researchers in the Americas. The nominations were then reviewed by our global […]
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Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is delighted to announce the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers. These talented researchers, who are in the first 10 years or so of their independent careers, were identified through an open call for nominations, with a focus on researchers in the Americas. The nominations were then reviewed by our global team of editors and advisory board members and selected based on the quality and impact of their research.
This Virtual Special Issue comprises reviews and original research articles invited from this talented group of early-career scientists and engineers. I&EC Research is pleased to showcase these 36 authors and their work. The Influential Researchers are listed below, in alphabetical order by last name, along with their associated research articles.
“I&EC Research has been at the forefront of chemical engineering research since 1909, and we continue today as the largest and most-cited general chemical engineering research journal in the world. We congratulate this 2021 Class of Influential Researchers for being at the forefront today, and we are pleased to highlight their work,” says Phillip E. Savage, Editor-in-Chief, in the Editorial. In parallel with this publication, the 2022 call for nominations to the next Class of Influential Researchers opens for early career researchers located in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Milad Abolhasani
Continuous Ligand-Free Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reactions in a Cartridge Flow Reactor Using a Gel-Supported Catalyst
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Moises Bastos-Neto
LTA Zeolite Characterization Based on Pore Type Distribution
Bryan S. Beckingham
Fabrication and Characterization of Cross-Linked Phenyl-Acrylate-Based Ion Exchange Membranes and Performance in a Direct Urea Fuel Cell
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Sidi A. Bencherif
Avian Egg: A Multifaceted Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering
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Saad Bhamla
Frugal Science Powered by Curiosity
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Jesse Q. Bond
Kinetic and Mechanistic Analysis of the Hydrodeoxygenation of Propanoic Acid on Pt/SiO2
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Marco Caricato
Predicted Properties of Active Catalyst Sites on Amorphous Silica: Impact of Silica Preoptimization Protocol
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Nick J. Carroll
DNA Binding by an Intrinsically Disordered Elastin-like Polypeptide for Assembly of Phase Separated Nucleoprotein Coacervates
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Nagu Daraboina
Particulate Deposition Modeling for Predicting Paraffin Thickness in Flowlines: Application of Data Analytics for Model Parameters
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Brandon J. DeKosky
Optimized Production of Fc Fusion Proteins by Sortase Enzymatic Ligation
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Eno E. Ebong
Regeneration and Assessment of the Endothelial Glycocalyx To Address Cardiovascular Disease
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Ashlee N. Ford Versypt
Mathematical Modeling of the Gut–Bone Axis and Implications of Butyrate Treatment on Osteoimmunology
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Michele Galizia
Evidence for Size-Sieving Driven Vapor Sorption and Diffusion in a Glassy Polybenzoxazole Exhibiting Configurational Free Volume
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Jean Marcel R. Gallo
Isomerization and Epimerization of Glucose Catalyzed by Sn-Containing Mesoporous Silica
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Gaurav Giri
Meniscus Guided Coating and Evaporative Crystallization of UiO-66 Metal Organic Framework Thin Films
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Daniel T. Hallinan Jr.
Polymer Blend Electrolytes for Batteries and Beyond
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Seok Hoon Hong
Establishing Efficient Bisphenol A Degradation by Engineering Shewanella oneidensis
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Gyoung G. Jang
Corrosion Prevention of Additively Manufactured Aluminum Packing Devices Developed for Process Intensification of CO2 Capture by Aqueous Amines
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Ayman M. Karim
Kinetic Synergy between Supported Ir Single Atoms and Nanoparticles during CO Oxidation Light-Off
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Melissa D. Krebs
Photoinduced Gelatin-Methacrylate Scaffolds to Examine the Impact of Extracellular Environment on Trabecular Meshwork Cells
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Li-Chiang Lin
In Silico Screening of Zeolites for the Highly Selective Adsorption of Central C–C Bonds toward More Effective Alkane Cracking
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Jian Liu
Understanding the Adsorption of Noble Gases in Metal–Organic Frameworks Using Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
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Emily B. Pentzer
Capsules of the Poly(α-olefin) PAO432 for Removal of BTEX Contaminants from Water
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William A. Phillip
Staged Diafiltration Cascades Provide Opportunities to Execute Highly Selective Separations
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Toufiq Reza
Pretreatment of Biomass by Selected Type-III Deep Eutectic Solvents and Evaluation of the Pretreatment Effects on Hydrothermal Carbonization
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Fateme Rezaei
Assessment of CO2/CH4 Separation Performance of 3D-Printed Carbon Monoliths in Pressure Swing Adsorption
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Jessica D. Schiffman
Optimizing the Packing Density and Chemistry of Cellulose Nanofilters for High-Efficiency Particulate Removal
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Marc Singer
Improvement to Water Speciation and FeCO3 Precipitation Kinetics in CO2 Environments: Updates in NaCl Concentrated Solutions
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Seyed Mohammad Taghavi
Efficient Displacement of Fluids Using a Viscous Shear-Thinning Spacer
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Joshua A. Thompson
Rate-Based Absorption Modeling for Postcombustion CO2 Capture with Additively Manufactured Structured Packing
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Jesús M. Velázquez
Charge Transport Dynamics in Microwave Synthesized One-Dimensional Molybdenum Chalcogenides
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Bin Wang
First-Principles Study of Interaction between Molecules and Lewis Acid Zeolites Manipulated by Injection of Energized Charge Carriers
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02808
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Richard H. West
Extensive High-Accuracy Thermochemistry and Group Additivity Values for Halocarbon Combustion Modeling
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Interplay between Morphology and Electronic Structure in Emergent Organic and π-d Conjugated Organometal Thin Film Materials
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Di Wu
Formation Energetics and Guest—Host Interactions of Molybdenum Carbide Confined in Zeolite Y
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Dan Xie
Rational Design and Targeted Synthesis of Small-Pore Zeolites with the Assistance of Molecular Modeling, Structural Analysis, and Synthetic Chemistry
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Huiyuan Zhu
Powering the Remediation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction
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