ACS Catalysis Recognizes Team of Scientists with 8th Lectureship

Editorial Cite This: ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 2692−2692

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ACS Catalysis Recognizes Team of Scientists with 8th Lectureship Award and Appoints New Editor

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am pleased to announce that ACS Catalysis and the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology have recognized a team of heterogeneous catalysis researchers from Tufts University as the recipients of the 2019 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science.1 Over the past decade, Professors E. Charles H. Sykes and Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos have worked to develop single-atom alloy (SAA) catalysts, both independently and as a team, and these advances have led to their recognition with the award. The study of a broad class of catalyst materials commonly referred to as “single-atom catalysts” has become quite popular in the heterogeneous catalysis community over the last several years. In such systems, which are now widely studied around the world, an isolated metal atom on or in a support matrix is hypothesized to be an active site for key steps in a catalytic reaction, or an entire catalytic cycle. Within this broad class of catalysts, the SAAs developed by Flytzani-Stephanopoulos and Sykes are a distinct subset, with isolated metal atoms within a secondary metallic matrix taking on reactivity characteristics that differ, sometimes in an advantageous way, from the same bulk metal phases. The contributions of Sykes and FlytzaniStephanopoulos have included methods to synthesize SAAs and characterize their structure and reactivity, while also utilizing them in model reactions, including hydrogen transfer reactions. The contributions of the team to catalysis science will be recognized at a session hosted by the ACS Division of Catalysis Science and Technology at the 258th ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA, this August. This month, ACS Catalysis welcomes our 18th Associate Editor, Professor Feliu Maseras from the Institut Català ́ d’Investigació Quimica (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain. His editorial appointment strengthens our team’s expertise in theoretical and computational molecular catalysis. Feliu is our 5th editor working in Europe, with his appointment further illustrating that ACS Catalysis strives to be a global publication, where 10 of 18 associate editors are currently working outside North America. On behalf of ACS Catalysis, I congratulate our Lectureship award winners and welcome a new editor to the team. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.

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(1) https://axial.acs.org/2019/02/08/professors-maria-flytzanistephanopoulos-and-e-charles-h-sykes-win-2019-acs-catalysislectureship-for-the-advancement-of-catalytic-science/.

Christopher W. Jones, Editor-in-Chief

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Christopher W. Jones: 0000-0003-3255-5791 Notes

Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. © XXXX American Chemical Society

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DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b00662 ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 2692−2692