Professor Lars C. Grabow, University of Houston, TX, USA, joins the editorial team of the flagship journal of Chemistry Europe, ChemistryEurope, starting January 1, 2024. ChemistryEurope is a Gold Open Access journal that disseminates work by international scientists in all areas of chemistry.
Together with Luisa De Cola, Università degli Studi di Milano and Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy, and Ken Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Lars Grabow will lead and develop the journal as Editors-in-Chief. The three are supported by an Editorial Advisory Board and by professional editors located in the Wiley offices.
Lars C. Grabow studied chemical engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 2008. After postdoctoral stays at the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, and Stanford University, CA, USA, he became a Research Associate at Stanford University in 2010. He joined the University of Houston as Assistant Professor in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. Today, he is Dan Luss Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Member of the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) at the University of Houston.
Among other awards, Lars Grabow has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award in 2014, the NSF CAREER Award in 2014/2015, and the Excellence in Research Award at the Assistant Professor level from the University of Houston in 2017. He was elected into the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers by Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (IE&C) Research. Currently, Lars Grabow serves as Editor of Surface Science and on the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemCatChem, among other commitments.
Lars Grabow’s research focuses on the use of computational methods to understand and predict chemical processes that occur on solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces. In particular, his group’s work covers heterogeneously catalyzed reactions relevant for energy production, energy storage, photocatalysis, pollution mitigation, and the production of useful chemicals. Grabow’s current research topics include methane activation and conversion, unifying principles in hydrotreating catalysis, and vehicle emissions control.
Selected Articles
- PdCu Alloy Catalyst for Inhibition‐free, Low‐temperature CO Oxidation,
Yuying Song, Scott Svadlenak, Tanmayi Bathena, Melanie J. Hazlett, William S. Epling, Konstantinos A. Goulas, Lars C. Grabow,
ChemCatChem 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202301024 - The role of surface hydroxyls in the entropy-driven adsorption and spillover of H2 on Au/TiO2 catalysts,
Akbar Mahdavi-Shakib, Todd N. Whittaker, Tae Yong Yun, K. B. Sravan Kumar, Lauren C. Rich, Shengguang Wang, Robert M. Rioux, Lars C. Grabow, Bert D. Chandler,
Nature Catalysis 2023, 6, 710–719.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-023-00996-3 - Impact of medium-pore zeolite topology on para-xylene production from toluene alkylation with methanol,
Deependra Parmar, Seung Hyeok Cha, Chenfeng Huang, Hsu Chiang, Seth Washburn, Lars C. Grabow, Jeffrey D. Rimer,
Catal. Sci. Technol. 2023, 13, 5227–5236.
https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cy00557g - Stabilizing the Interface between Sodium Metal Anode and Sulfide-Based Solid-State Electrolyte with an Electron-Blocking Interlayer,
Pu Hu, Ye Zhang, Xiaowei Chi, Karun Kumar Rao, Fang Hao, Hui Dong, Fangmin Guo, Yang Ren, Lars C. Grabow, Yan Yao,
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2019, 11, 9672–9678.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b19984 - Effects of Catalyst Phase on the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of Water Splitting: Preparation of Phase-Pure Films of FeP, Fe2P, and Fe3P and Their Relative Catalytic Activities,
Desmond E. Schipper, Zhenhuan Zhao, Hari Thirumalai, Andrew P. Leitner, Samantha L. Donaldson, Arvind Kumar, Fan Qin, Zhiming Wang, Lars C. Grabow, Jiming Bao, Kenton H. Whitmire,
Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 3588–3598.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01624 - Vertically Aligned MoS2/Mo2C hybrid Nanosheets Grown on Carbon Paper for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution,
Zhenhuan Zhao, Fan Qin, Sashank Kasiraju, Lixin Xie, Md Kamrul Alam, Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Zhiming Wang, Lars C. Grabow, Jiming Bao,
ACS Catalysis 2017, 7, 7312–7318.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b02885 - Bifunctional metal phosphide FeMnP films from single source metal organic chemical vapor deposition for efficient overall water splitting,
Zhenhuan Zhao, Desmond E. Schipper, Andrew P. Leitner, Hari Thirumalai, Jing-Han Chen, Lixin Xie, Fan Qin, Md Kamrul Alam, Lars C. Grabow, Shuo Chen, Dezhi Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Zhiming Wang, Kenton H. Whitmire, Jiming Bao,
Nano Energy 2017, 39, 444–453.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.07.027 - Interlayer-Expanded Molybdenum Disulfide Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Magnesium Storage,
Yanliang Liang, Hyun Deog Yoo, Yifei Li, Jing Shuai, Hector A. Calderon, Francisco Carlos Robles Hernandez, Lars C. Grabow, Yan Yao,
Nano Letters 2015, 15, 2194–2202.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00388 - The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation,
Johnny Saavedra, Hieu A. Doan, Christopher J. Pursell, Lars C. Grabow, Bert D. Chandler,
Science 2014, 345, 1599–1602.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1256018
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