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  • 2014 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America For the application of electron microscopy to better understand heterogeneous catalysis, especially catalyst preparation, sintering, regeneration, and structure-property correlations related to industrial catalytic processes.

Overview

Abhaya K. Datye is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. Their research focuses on various aspects of catalysis, including materials chemistry, catalytic processes, and renewable energy applications.

Their work covers several subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Main research topics include:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Datye has contributed multiple publications, with frequent appearances in scientific journals such as:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Nature Communications
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Thermally Stable Single-Atom Heterogeneous Catalysts" (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • "Opportunities and challenges in the development of advanced materials for emission control catalysts" (2020, Nature Materials)
  • "Engineering catalyst supports to stabilize PdOx two-dimensional rafts for water-tolerant methane oxidation" (2021, Nature Catalysis)
  • "Tailoring the Local Environment of Platinum in Single-Atom Pt1/CeO2 Catalysts for Robust Low-Temperature CO Oxidation" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Memory-dictated dynamics of single-atom Pt on CeO2 for CO oxidation" (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Datye include:

  • Hien N. Pham
  • Jeffrey T. Miller
  • Yong Wang
  • Andrew DeLaRiva
  • Dong Jiang

Datye was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2014, recognized for work in applying electron microscopy techniques to better understand heterogeneous catalysis processes such as catalyst preparation, sintering, regeneration, and structure-property relationships relevant to industrial catalysts.

Best Publications

  • Thermally stable single-atom platinum-on-ceria catalysts via atom trapping

    John Jones;Haifeng Xiong;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Eric J. Peterson

  • Activation of surface lattice oxygen in single-atom Pt/CeO2 for low-temperature CO oxidation

    Lei Nie;Donghai Mei;Haifeng Xiong;Bo Peng

  • Sintering of Catalytic Nanoparticles: Particle Migration or Ostwald Ripening?

    Thomas Willum Hansen;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Sivakumar R. Challa;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Catalytic combustion of methane over palladium-based catalysts

    Dragos Ciuparu;Maxim R. Lyubovsky;Eric Altman;Lisa D. Pfefferle

  • Low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation catalysed by regenerable atomically dispersed palladium on alumina

    Eric J Peterson;Andrew T DeLaRiva;Sen Lin;Ryan S Johnson

  • Selective hydrogenolysis of polyols and cyclic ethers over bifunctional surface sites on rhodium-rhenium catalysts.

    Mei Chia;Yomaira J. Pagán-Torres;David Hibbitts;Qiaohua Tan

  • Oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural over supported Pt, Pd and Au catalysts

    Sara E. Davis;Levi R. Houk;Erin C. Tamargo;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Tuning Pt-CeO2 interactions by high-temperature vapor-phase synthesis for improved reducibility of lattice oxygen.

    Xavier Isidro Pereira-Hernández;Andrew DeLaRiva;Valery Muravev;Deepak Kunwar

  • Activation of Precipitated Iron Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts

    M.D. Shroff;D.S. Kalakkad;K.E. Coulter;S.D. Kohler

  • Bimetallic palladium-platinum dendrimer-encapsulated catalysts.

    Robert W. J. Scott;and Abhaya K. Datye;Richard M. Crooks

  • Catalyst microstructure and methane oxidation reactivity during the Pd↔PdO transformation on alumina supports

    Abhaya K. Datye;Jaime Bravo;Travis R. Nelson;Paolina Atanasova

  • Particle size distributions in heterogeneous catalysts: What do they tell us about the sintering mechanism?

    Abhaya K. Datye;Qing Xu;Karl C. Kharas;Jon M. McCarty

  • Bimetallic catalysts for hydrogen generation

    Zhehao Wei;Junming Sun;Yan Li;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Phase Transformations in Iron Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts during Temperature-Programmed Reduction

    Yaming Jin;Abhaya K. Datye

  • Thermally Stable and Regenerable Platinum-Tin Clusters for Propane Dehydrogenation Prepared by Atom Trapping on Ceria

    Haifeng Xiong;Sen Lin;Joris Goetze;Paul Pletcher

  • CO oxidation by Pd supported on CeO2(100) and CeO2(111) facets

    Giulia Spezzati;Angelica D. Benavidez;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Yaqiong Su

  • Relating rates of catalyst sintering to the disappearance of individual nanoparticles during Ostwald ripening.

    Sivakumar R. Challa;Andrew T. Delariva;Thomas W. Hansen;Thomas W. Hansen;Stig Helveg

  • Stabilizing High Metal Loadings of Thermally Stable Platinum Single Atoms on an Industrial Catalyst Support

    Deepak Kunwar;Shulan Zhou;Shulan Zhou;Andrew DeLaRiva;Eric J. Peterson

  • Atomically dispersed Pd-O species on CeO2(111) as highly active sites for low-temperature CO oxidation

    Giulia Spezzati;Yaqiong Su;Jan P. Hofmann;Angelica D. Benavidez

  • Design of Effective Catalysts for Selective Alkyne Hydrogenation by Doping of Ceria with a Single-Atom Promotor.

    Christopher Riley;Shulan Zhou;Shulan Zhou;Deepak Kunwar;Andrew De La Riva

  • Carbon deposition as a deactivation mechanism of cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalysts under realistic conditions

    D.J. Moodley;D.J. Moodley;J. van de Loosdrecht;A.M. Saib;M.J. Overett

  • RuSn bimetallic catalysts for selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone

    Stephanie G. Wettstein;Jesse Q. Bond;David Martin Alonso;Hien N. Pham

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Wang
Yong Wang Washington State University
Sen Lin
Sen Lin Fuzhou University
Lawrence F. Allard
Lawrence F. Allard Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hua Guo
Hua Guo University of New Mexico
Plamen Atanassov
Plamen Atanassov University of California, Irvine
Robert J. Davis
Robert J. Davis University of Virginia
Charles H. F. Peden
Charles H. F. Peden Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Johannes Schwank
Johannes Schwank University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Libor Kovarik
Libor Kovarik Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James A. Dumesic
James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin–Madison

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