Tsilomelekis Research Group
Material Synthesis | Heterogeneous Catalysis | Operando Molecular Spectroscopy
Group Members
George Tsilomelekis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2006
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2011
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 2011
Postdoctoral Research: Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, University of Delaware, USA, 2012-2015
Athanasios Kritikos
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our project involves the study of solvent effects is biomass processing by means of advanced spectroscopic techniques. We are particularly interested in studying the conformational change of sugars in the presence of homogeneous as well as heterogeneous catalytic materials.
Adam Zuber
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our focus is on the preparation of sulfated mixed metal oxides with controlled surface dispersed active species suitable for alkylation reactions. We aim to investigate the molecular structure as well as the catalytic properties of those materials by means of Operando Raman/FTIR spectroscopies.
Trang Tran
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our project involves the preparation of high surface TiO2 by utilizing cheap and renewable templates. We are fully characterizing the new TiO2 with several techniques such as, Raman, FTIR, XRD, SEM and TEM. Specific attention is placed on unraveling the effect of synthesis conditions on the final morphology as well as molecular structure of TiO2 by incorporating vibrational spectroscopy into the individual synthesis steps.
Hedun Wang
Graduate Student (PhD)
Our research focuses on developing novel catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of alkanes using CO2 as mild oxidant. It is of our intent to investigate the molecular structure as well as the catalytic properties of those materials by means of Operando Raman spectroscopy.
Yuanhao Yu
Graduate Student (M.S.)
Junteng Du
Graduate Student (M.S.)
Philip Whong
Undergraduate Student / Rutgers Aresty Program
Justin Marlowe
Undergraduate Student / Rutgers Aresty Program
Ayman Saleh
Undergraduate Student / Rutgers Aresty Program