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Aditya Bhan is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their work focuses on a range of topics within catalysis and materials science. Key themes include catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and oxidation reactions, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, catalysts for methane reforming, metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion.

Aditya Bhan has published multiple research papers in several well-regarded scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Beyond Radical Rebound: Methane Oxidation to Methanol Catalyzed by Iron Species in Metal-Organic Framework Nodes," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Influence of First and Second Coordination Environment on Structural Fe(II) Sites in MIL-101 for C-H Bond Activation in Methane," 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • "Methanol-to-Olefins Catalysis on HSSZ-13 and HSAPO-34 and Its Relationship to Acid Strength," 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • "Carbidic Mo is the sole kinetically-relevant active site for catalytic methane dehydroaromatization on Mo/H-ZSM-5," 2020, Journal of Catalysis
  • "Kinetic Evaluation of Deactivation Pathways in Methanol-to-Hydrocarbon Catalysis on HZSM-5 with Formaldehyde, Olefinic, Dieneic, and Aromatic Co-Feeds," 2021, ACS Catalysis

Frequent coauthors with whom Aditya Bhan has collaborated include:

  • Laura Gagliardi
  • Connie C. Lu
  • Jenny G. Vitillo
  • Zhichen Shi
  • Adam S. Hoffman

The majority of Aditya Bhan's publications have appeared in several core scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Catalysis
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of self-pillared zeolite nanosheets by repetitive branching.

    Xueyi Y Zhang;Dongxia X Liu;Dandan D Xu;Shunsuke Asahina

  • Mechanism of the Catalytic Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons

    Samia Ilias;Aditya Bhan

  • Selective Carbonylation of Dimethyl Ether to Methyl Acetate Catalyzed by Acidic Zeolites

    Patricia Cheung;Aditya Bhan;Glenn J. Sunley;Enrique Iglesia

  • Specificity of Sites within Eight-Membered Ring Zeolite Channels for Carbonylation of Methyls to Acetyls

    Aditya Bhan;Ayman D. Allian;Glenn J. Sunley;David J. Law

  • Site requirements and elementary steps in dimethyl ether carbonylation catalyzed by acidic zeolites

    Patricia Cheung;Aditya Bhan;Glenn J. Sunley;David J. Law

  • Propane Aromatization over HZSM‐5 and Ga/HZSM‐5 Catalysts

    Aditya Bhan;W. Nicholas Delgass

  • A link between reactivity and local structure in acid catalysis on zeolites.

    Aditya Bhan;Enrique Iglesia

  • Selective vapor-phase hydrodeoxygenation of anisole to benzene on molybdenum carbide catalysts

    Wen Sheng Lee;Zhenshu Wang;Ryan J. Wu;Aditya Bhan

  • Mechanistic Study of Alcohol Dehydration on γ-Al2O3

    Sounak Roy;Giannis Mpourmpakis;Do Young Hong;Do Young Hong;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • Catalytic consequences of hydroxyl group location on the rate and mechanism of parallel dehydration reactions of ethanol over acidic zeolites

    Hsu Chiang;Aditya Bhan

  • Tuning the selectivity of methanol-to-hydrocarbons conversion on H-ZSM-5 by co-processing olefin or aromatic compounds

    Samia Ilias;Aditya Bhan

  • Kinetics and Mechanism of Ethanol Dehydration on γ-Al2O3: The Critical Role of Dimer Inhibition

    Joseph F. DeWilde;Hsu Chiang;Daniel A. Hickman;Christopher R. Ho

  • A mechanistic basis for the effects of crystallite size on light olefin selectivity in methanol-to-hydrocarbons conversion on MFI

    Rachit Khare;Dean Millar;Aditya Bhan

  • A descriptor for the relative propagation of the aromatic- and olefin-based cycles in methanol-to-hydrocarbons conversion on H-ZSM-5

    Samia Ilias;Rachit Khare;Andre Malek;Aditya Bhan

  • A hybrid genetic algorithm for efficient parameter estimation of large kinetic models

    Santhoji Katare;Aditya Bhan;James M. Caruthers;W. Nicholas Delgass

  • Vapor phase hydrodeoxygenation of furfural to 2-methylfuran on molybdenum carbide catalysts

    Wen Sheng Lee;Zhenshu Wang;Weiqing Zheng;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • Lifetime improvement in methanol-to-olefins catalysis over chabazite materials by high-pressure H2 co-feeds

    Sukaran S. Arora;Davy L. S. Nieskens;Andrzej Malek;Aditya Bhan

  • Ethanol Dehydration and Dehydrogenation on γ-Al2O3: Mechanism of Acetaldehyde Formation

    Joseph F. DeWilde;Christopher J. Czopinski;Aditya Bhan

  • Catalytic deoxygenation on transition metal carbide catalysts

    Mark M. Sullivan;Cha Jung Chen;Aditya Bhan

  • Catalytic Behavior of Brønsted Acid Sites in MWW and MFI Zeolites with Dual Meso- and Microporosity

    Dongxia Liu;Aditya Bhan;Michael Tsapatsis;Saleh Al Hashimi

  • DFT Investigation of alkoxide formation from olefins in H-ZSM-5

    Aditya Bhan;Yogesh V. Joshi;W. Nicholas Delgass;Kendall T. Thomson

  • Catalyst design: knowledge extraction from high-throughput experimentation

    J. M. Caruthers;J. A. Lauterbach;J. A. Lauterbach;K. T. Thomson;V. Venkatasubramanian

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tsapatsis
Michael Tsapatsis Johns Hopkins University
Lanny D. Schmidt
Lanny D. Schmidt University of Minnesota
Enrique Iglesia
Enrique Iglesia University of California, Berkeley
Prodromos Daoutidis
Prodromos Daoutidis University of Minnesota
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi University of Chicago
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Venkat Venkatasubramanian Columbia University
Jenny G. Vitillo
Jenny G. Vitillo University of Insubria
W. Nicholas Delgass
W. Nicholas Delgass Purdue University West Lafayette
Christopher J. Cramer
Christopher J. Cramer UL Research Institutes
Paul J. Dauenhauer
Paul J. Dauenhauer University of Minnesota

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