IMASC Senior Investigators Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos and Charlie Sykes have been awarded the ACS Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science. The award is given annually to recognize significant contributions by an individual or team to the understanding or practice of catalysis, as explained in the ACS announcement. According to the announcement, “This collaboration between a surface scientist and a chemical engineer…demonstrates how new discoveries emerge from the combination of complimentary sets of expertise,” a collaborative goal shared by our EFRC. The ACS award focuses on their achievements over the last 7 years, specifically highlighting a recent paper (partially-supported by IMASC and written in collaboration with IMASC member Michail Stamatakis) that demonstrates the effectiveness of single-atom alloys for C-H activation with tolerance to coking. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos is the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability at Tufts University, and Sykes is Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry at Tufts University.
February 7, 2019