2026
209) K.M. Mains, C.T. Palumbo, D. Rigo, M.S. Webber, G. Rosetto, S.T. Bao, A.L. Carroll, N.R. Meyer, A.F. Benson, B.A. Boyle, S.J. Haugen, M.A. Ingraham, W.G. Alexander, M. Silberman, L.C. Meyers, K.J. Ramirez, A.M. Guss, D. Salvachua, Y. Román-Leshkov, S.S. Stahl, A.Z. Werner, G.T. Beckham
Lignin to adipic acid in a high-yield chemical and biological redox process
206) X. Wu, R. P. B. Ashok, X. Wang, M. S. Webber, A. E. Brenner, G. Drake, J. Miscall, C. Lincoln, E. V. Roijen, S. J. Haugen, J. S. DesVeaux,
T. Uekert, Y. Shao-Horn, S. S. Stahl, G. T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov
Alcoholysis of nylon 6 waste to ε-caprolactam promoted by phosphoric acid
198) J. He, J. Randianandraina, H. Adamji, V. Chang, Y. Lai, T.N. Nguyen, Y. Román-Leshkov, H.J. Kulik, J-H. Lee, P.J. Milner
Photochemical Fluoroalkylations with Fluorinated Gases Facilitated by a Robust Metal-Organic Framework
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026) 148(1): 1369 [link|pdf]
2025
196) R. Zhu, G. Drake, H.H. Adamji, Z.J. Berkson, J. Zhu, A.R. Head, H.J. Kulik, C. Coperet, Y. Román-Leshkov
Active Site Dynamics in Molybdenum-Based Silica-Supported Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: Site Renewal and Decay Beyond the Chauvin Cycle
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025) 147(47): 43831 [link|pdf]
194) M. S. Webber, A. Puente-Urbina, L. C. Myers, S. P. Woodworth, E. J. Pellerin, J. H. Jang, J. R. Bussard, A. Metzger, B. S. Donohoe, M. L. Stone, D. G. Brandner, G. T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Lignin-Derived Phenolic Compounds and Water Are Effective Cosolvents for Reductive Catalytic Fractionation
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2025) 13(44): 19199 [link|pdf]
192) J. Zhu, M. S. Webber, J. Watson, G. T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Cleavage of C–O and C–C Bonds in Lignin-Derived Compounds to Produce Aromatics Using Molybdenum-Containing MFI Zeolites
191) H. Xu, D. J. Zheng, S. Wang, E. Y. Zheng, Y. Zhang, T. Liu, J. Liu, D. Menga, J. Kim, J.-H. Fang, X. Wang, Z. Zhang, L. Schröck, J. Wang, S. Lee, S. Yu, H. Iriawan, G. Zhu, Y. Román-Leshkov, J. Li, Y. Shao-Horn.
Stable Metal–Organic Electrocatalysts for Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers by Defect Engineering
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025) 147(33): 29838 [link|pdf]
190) D.G. Brandner, J.G. Vitoria, J.K. Kenny, J.R. Bussard, J.H. Jang, S.P. Woodworth, K. Vanbroekhoven, Y. Román-Leshkov, G.T. Beckham.
Lignin Extraction and Condensation as a Function of Temperature, Residence Time, and Solvent System in Flow-through Reactors
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2025) 13(31): 12573 [link|pdf]
189) B. Dinakar, K.S. Westendorff, J.F. Torres, M. Dakhchoune, K. Groenhout, N. Ewell, Y. Surendranath, M. Dincă, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Elucidating Electric Field-Induced Rate Promotion of Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Alcohol Dehydration
188) B. Dinakar, J.J. Oppenheim, M. Vandone, J.F. Torres, A. Iliescu, Z. Yang, Y. Román-Leshkov, M. Dincă.
Asymmetric linker generates intrinsically disordered metal–organic framework with local MOF-74 structure
187) A.E. Brenner, G. Drake, G.T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Methods for Carbon Mass Closure in Polyolefin Hydrocracking
186) D.W. Kastner, C.R. Reinhardt, H. Adamji, T.S. Oscar-Okpala, I. Kevlishivili, Y. Román-Leshkov, H.J. Kulik.
The Role of the Unusual 2-Tyr-1-carboxylate Nonheme Iron Motif in the Mechanism of N,N-Dimethylformamidase
185) H. Xu, Y. J. Park, Z. Ren, D. J. Zheng, D. Menga, H. Jia, C. Duan, G. Zhu, Y. Román-Leshkov, Y. Shao-Horn, J. Li
An actor-critic algorithm to maximize the power delivered from direct methanol fuel cells
184) M.S. Webber, Z. Yang, D.C. Bell, D.G. Brandner, J.R. Bussard, J. Watson, M.L. Stone, X. Wu, Q.S. Neuendorf, L.C. Myers, J.S. Heyne, G.T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Drop-in sustainable aviation fuels enabled by feedstock-agnostic lignin deoxygenation
Cell Reports Physical Science (2025) 6(7): 102687 [link|pdf]
183) D. Zheng, H. Iriawan, R. Pant, H. Xu, J. Peng, C. Arase, I. Takeuchi, Y. Román-Leshkov, Y. Shao-Horn.
In Situ Fluorescence Imaging of Oyxgen Evolution on Epitaxial Perovskite Films with Composition Gradients
182) T. Wang, H. Iriawan, J. Peng, R. R. Rao, B. Huang, D. Zheng, D. Menga, A. Aggarwal, S. Yuan, J. Eom, Y. Zhang, K. McCormack, Y. Román-Leshkov, J. Grossman, Y. Shao-Horn.
Confined Water for Catalysis: Thermodynamic Properties and Reaction Kinetics
2024
181) M.S. Webber, J. Watson, J. Zhu, J. H. Jang, M. ÇaÄŸlayan, J. S. Heyne, G. T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov.
Lignin deoxygenation for the production of sustainable aviation fuel blendstocks
180) C.T. Palumbo, E.T. Ouellette, J. Zhu, Y. Román-Leshkov, S.S. Stahl, G.T. Beckham.
Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon-carbon bond cleavage
179) J. Zhang, M.S. Webber, Y. Pu, Z. Li, X. Meng, M.L. Stone, B. Wei, X. Wang, S. Yuan, B. Klein, B. Seemala, C.E. Wyman, K.K. Ramasamy, M. Thorson, M.H. Langholtz, J.S. Heyne, A. Koishybay, S. Adhikari, S. Cao, A. Sutton, G.A. Tuskan, Y. Román-Leshkov, A.J. Ragauskas, T. Ling, B.H. Davison
Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Biomass and Biowaste via Bio- and Chemo-Catalytic Conversion: Catalysis, Process Challenges, and Opportunities
178) A.A. Khechfe, F.D. Eckstrom, E.R. Chokkapu, L.A. Baston, B. Liu, E.Y.X. Chen, Y. Román-Leshkov
Synthesis of α-methylene-δ-valerolactone and its selective polymerization from a product mixture for concurrent separation and polymer production
177) J.P. Arhancet, C.-Y. Chen, V.J. Cybulskism R. Gounder, S.B. Hong, C.W. Jones, J.H. Kang, Y. Kubota, H. Lee, M. Orazov, Y. Román-Leshkov, J.E. Schmidt
A Career in Catalysis: Mark E. Davis
176) J.H. Jang, J.C. Alvarez, Q.S. Neuendorf, Y. Román-Leshkov, G.T. Beckham
Reducing Solvent Consumption in Reductive Catalytic Fractionation through Lignin Oil Recycling
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2024) 12(34): 12919 [link|pdf]
175) D.J. Zheng, J. Peng, K. McCormack, H. Xu, J.S. Kang, Z. Wang, Z. Ren, J. Li, Y. Román-Leshkov, Y. Shao-Horn
Uniting activity design principles of anode catalysts for direct liquid fuel cells
174) C.R. Reinhardt, M.T. Manetsch, W.-L. Li, Y. Román-Leshkov, T. Head-Gordon, H.J. Kulik
Computational Screening of Putative Catalyst Transition Metal Complexes as Guests in a [Ga4L6]12- Nanocage
173) R.A. Dixon, A. Puente-Urbina, G.T. Beckham, Y. Román-Leshkov
Enabling Lignin Valorization Through Integrated Advances in Plant Biology and Biorefining
172) I. Kevlishvili, R.G. St. Michel, A. Garrison, J. Toney, H. Adamji, H.-J. Jia, Y. Román-Leshkov, H. Kulik
Leveraging natural language processing to curate the tmCAT, tmPHOTO, tmBIO, and tmSCO datasets of functional transition metal complexes
171) H. Xu, D.J. Zheng, H. Iriawan, J-H. Fang, J. Kim, X. Wang, Y. Román-Leshkov, J. Li, Y. Shao-Horn
A Cobalt-Platinum-Ruthenium System for Acidic Methanol Oxidation
170) J.S. Zeng, E.L. Cosner, S.P. Delgado-Kukuczka, C. Jiang, J.S. Adams, Y. Román-Leshkov, Karthish Manthiram
Electrifying Hydroformylation Catalysts Exposes Voltage-Driven C-C Bond Formation
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024) 146(24): 16521 [link|pdf]
169) J.K. Kenny, S.R. Neefe, D.G. Brandner, M.L. Stone, R.M. Happs, I. Kumaniaev, W.P. Mounfield III, A.E. Harman-Ware, K.M. Devos, T.H. Pendergast IV, J. Will Medlin, Y. Román-Leshkov, G.T. Beckham
Design and Validation of a High-Throughput Reductive Catalytic Fractionation Method
168) Z. Wang, J.S. Kang, D. Gohl, P. Paciok, D.S. Goncalves, H.K. Lim, D. Zanchet, M. Heggen, Y. Shao-Horn, M. Ledendecker, Y. Román-Leshkov
Platinum/Tantalum Carbide Core-Shell Nanoparticles with Sub-Monolayer Shells for Methanol and Oxygen Electrocatalysis
167) C.J. Wrasman, A.T. Bell, B.D. Chandler, J.W. Harris, S. Kwon, M.R. Ball, S.H. Krishna, S.J. Khatib, P. Bollini, Y. Román-Leshkov, A.B. Getsoian, R.S. Weber, J.A. Lercher, D. Liu, D.E. Resasco, J.S. Bates, J.N. Hall, E.A. Lebron-Rodriguez, L.P. Herrera, J.M. Notestein, J.A. Schaidle
Recommendations for improving rigor and reproducibility in site specific characterization
166) S. Kwon, E. Bello-Jurado, E. Ikonnikova, H. Lee, D. Schwalbe-Koda, Avelino Corma, T. Willhammar, E.A. Olivetti, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, M. Moliner, Y. Román-Leshkov
One-Pot Synthesis of CHA/ERI-Type Zeolite Intergrowth from a Single Multiselective Organic Structure-Directing Agent
ACS Applied Material Interfaces (2024) 16(12): 14661 [link|pdf]
165) E. Pan, S. Kwon, Z. Jensen, M. Xie, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, M. Moliner, Y. Román-Leshkov, E. Olivetti
ZeoSyn: A Comprehensive Zeolite Synthesis Dataset Enabling Machine-Learning Rationalization of Hydrothermal Parameters
164) K.S. Westendorff, M.J. Hulsey, T.S. Wesley, Y. Román-Leshkov, Y. Surendranath
Electrically driven proton transfer promotes Brønsted acid catalysis by orders of magnitude
163) H. Adamji, I. Kevlishvili, A. Nandy, Y. Román-Leshkov, H.J. Kulik
Large-scale comparison of Fe and Ru polyolefin C-H activation catalysts
162) K.M. Lodaya, B.Y. Tang, R.P. Bisbey, S. Weng, K.S. Westendorff, W.L. Toh, J. Ryu, Y. Román-Leshkov, Y. Surendranath
An electrochemical approach for designing thermochemical bimetallic nitrate hydrogenation catalysts
161) M. Chung, J.H. Maalouf, J.S. Adams, C. Jiang, Y. Román-Leshkov, K. Manthiram
Direct propylene epoxidation via water activation over Pd-Pt electrocatalysts
