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Chemistry and Biochemistry Labs
Stowers Lab

Publications

2021

Regalado Vera, C. Y.; Manavi, N.; Zhou, Z.; Wang, L.-C.; Diao, W.; Karakalos, S.; Liu, B.; Stowers, K. J.; Zhou, M.; Luo, H.; Ding. D. “Mechanistic Understanding of Support Effect on the Activity and Selectivity of Indium Oxide Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation” Chem. Eng. Journal 2021, 426, 131767.

2020

Nguyen-Sorenson, A. H. T.; Wu, Y.; Orcutt, E. K.; Kent, R. V.; Anderson, H. C.; Matzger, A. J.; Stowers, K. J.* Energetic decomposition yields efficient bimetallic Cu MOF-derived catalysts. J. Mater. Chem. A, accepted

Li, M.; Hua, B.; Wang, L.-C.; Zhou, Z.; Stowers, K. J.; Ding, D. "Discovery of Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts for CO2-to-Methanol Reaction by Density Functional Theory Calculations." Catalysis Today 2020, in-press.

Johnson, B. I.; Avval, T. G.; Wheeler, J.; Anderson, H. C.; Diwan, A.; Stowers, K. J.; Ess, D. H.; Linford, M. R. "Semiempirical Peak Fitting Guided by ab Initio Calculations of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Narrow Scans of Chemisorbed, Fluorinated Silanes." Langmuir. 2020, 36, 1878-1886.

2019

Park, J. L.; Canizales, K. A.; Argyle, M. A.; Woodfield, B. F.; Stowers, K. J.* "The effects of doping alumina with silica in alumina-supported NiO catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane." Micro. Meso. Mater. 2019, 293. 109799.

Zhou, Z.; Orcutt, E. K.; Anderson, H. A.; Stowers, K. J.* "H2 surface modification of a carbon nanotube catalyst for the improvement of ethane oxidative dehydrogenation" Carbon 2019, 152. 924-931.

Nguyen-Sorenson, A. H. T.; Anderson, C. M.; Balijepalli, S. K.; McDonald, K. A.; Matzger, A. J.; Stowers, K. J.* "Highly active copper catalyst obtained through rapid MOF decomposition" Inorg. Chem. Front. 2019, 6, 521-526.

2018

Zhou, Z.; Balijepalli, S. K.; Nguyen-Sorenson, A.; Anderson, C. M.; Park, J. L.; Stowers, K. J.* "Steam stable covalently-bonded polyethyleneimine modified multiwall carbon nanotubes for carbon dioxide capture" Energy Fuels 2018, 32, 11701-11709.

Shen, T.C.; Zhou, Z.; Anderson, C. M.; Thompson, S. K.; Whitty, K. J.; Stowers, K. J.* Synthesis of high-specific volume carbon nanotube structures for gas-phase applications Diam. Relat. Mater, 2018, 88, 230-236

Park, J. L.; Balijepalli, S. K.; Argyle, M. A.; Stowers, K. J.* Low Temperature Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane by Ce-Modified NiNb Catalysts Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57, 5234-5240 (Invited article)

2017

Zhou, Z.; Anderson, C. M.; Butler, S. K.; Thompson, S. K.; Whitty, K. J.; Shen, T.-C.; Stowers, K. J.* Stability and efficiency of CO2 capture using linear amine polymer modified carbon nanotubes. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 10486-10494

Previous Publications

Zugic, B.; Karakalos, S.; Stowers, K. J.; Biener, M.M.; Biener J.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J. Continuous Catalytic Producation of Methyl Acrylates from Unsaturated Alcohols by Gold: The Strong Effect of C=C Unsaturation on Reaction Selectivity. ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 1833-1839.

Karakalos, S.; Zugic, B.; Stowers, K. J.; Biener, M.M.; Biener J.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J. Catalytic production of methyl acrylates by gold-mediated cross coupling of unsaturated aldehydes with methanol. Surf. Sci., 2016, 652, 58-66.

Stowers, K. J.; Biener, M.M.; Biener J.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J. Facile Ester Synthesis on Ag-Modified Nanoporous Au: Oxidative Coupling of Ethanol and 1-Butanol under UHV Conditions. Cat. Lett., 2015, 6, 1217-1223.

Wang, L.C.; Stowers, K. J.; Zugic, B.; Personick, M. J.; Biener, M.M.; Biener J.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J. Exploiting basic principles to control the selectivity of the vapor phase catalytic oxidative cross-coupling of primary alcohols over nanoporous gold catalysts. J. Catal., 2015, 329, 78-86.

Wang, L.C.; Stowers, K. J.; Zugic, B.; Baumer, M.; Biener, M.M.; Biener J.; Friend, C. M.; Madix, R. J. Methyl ester synthesis catalyzed by nanoporous gold: from 10-9 Torr to 1 atm Cat. Sci. Tech., 2015, 5, 1299-1306.

Stowers, K. J.; Madix, R. J.; Friend, C. M. From model studies on Au(111) to working conditions with unsupported nanoporous gold catalysts: Oxygen-assisted coupling reactions. J. Catal. 2013, 308, 131-141.

Stowers, K. J.; Kubota,; A. Sanford, M. S. Nitrate as a redox co-catalyst for the aerobic Pd-catalyzed oxidation of unactivated sp3-C-H bonds. Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 3192-3195.

Stowers, K. J.; Fortner, K. F.; Sanford, M. S. Aerobic Pd-Catalyzed sp3 C-H Olefination: A Route to Both N-Heterocyclic Scaffolds and Alkenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 6541-6544.

Stowers, K. J.; Sanford, M. S. Mechanistic Comparison Between Pd-Catalyzed Ligand Directed C–H Chlorination and C–H Acetoxylation. Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 4584-4587.

Desai, L. V.; Stowers, K. J.; Sanford, M. S. Insights into Directing Group Ability in Palladium-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 13285-13293.

Balija, A. M.; Stowers, K. J.; Schultz, M. J.; Sigman, M. S. Pd(II)-Catalyzed Conversion of Styrene Derivatives to Acetals: Impact of (−)-Sparteine on Regioselectivity. Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 1121-1124.