Selected Publications

2023

• Zachary Blanchette, Daniel K Schwartz, J Will Medlin. Directing Reaction Pathways on Supported Metal Catalysts with Low-Density Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, 10, 9059–9069.

• Faysal M Al Khulaifi, Yousef A Alsunni, Charles B Musgrave, Adam Holewinski, J Will Medlin. Impact of pretreatment and thiol modifiers on the partial oxidation of glutaraldehyde using Pd/Al2O3. Applied Catalysis A: General, 661, 119229. 

• Benjamin Greydanus, J Will Medlin, Daniel K Schwartz. Elucidating the Influence of Metal Surface Composition on Organic Adsorbate Binding Using Active Particle Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C,127, 2, 1006-1014. 

• Jacob K Kenny, J Will Medlin, Gregg T Beckham. Quantification of Phenolic Hydroxyl Groups in Lignin via ¹⁹F NMR Spectroscopy. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11, 14, 5644-5655. 

• Nathanael C Ramos, J Will Medlin, Adam Holewinski. Electrochemical Stability of Thiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au, Pt, and Cu. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 11, 14470-14480. 

2022

• B Greydanus, M Saleheen, H Wu, A Heyden, JW Medlin, D.K. Schwartz, Probing Surface-Adsorbate Interactions through Active Particle Dynamics, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2022, (in press)

• Ezra A. Baghdady, D. K. Schwartz, JW Medlin. Effects of Surface Hydrophobicity on Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Styrene with Formic Acid in a Biphasic Mixture. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022 (in press)

• Jing Zhang, Chithra Asokan, Gregory Zakem, Phillip Christopher, J Will Medlin. Enhancing sintering resistance of atomically dispersed catalysts in reducing environments with organic monolayers. Green Energy & Environment, 7, 6, 1263-1269. 

• Jacob K Kenny, David G Brandner, Sasha R Neefe, William E Michener, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Gregg T Beckham, J Will Medlin. Catalyst choice impacts aromatic monomer yields and selectivity in hydrogen-free reductive catalytic fractionation. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 7, 12, 2527-2533. 

• Xinpei Zhou, John L Falconer, J Will Medlin. Mechanism of selectivity control for zeolites modified with organic monolayers. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 337, 111913. 

2021

• AH Jenkins, JW Medlin, Controlling heterogeneous catalysis with organic monolayers on metal oxides, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021, 54, 21, 4080-4090

• AH Jenkins, CB Musgrave, JW Medlin, Altering linear scaling relationships on metal catalysts via ligand–adsorbate hydrogen bonding, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 43, 2021, 23791-23802

2020

• B Greydanus, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin, Controlling catalyst-phase selectivity in complex mixtures with amphiphilic Janus particles. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 2338-2345

• MJ Rasmussen, JW Medlin, Role of tungsten modifiers in bimetallic catalysts for enhanced hydrodeoxygenation activity and selectivity, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2020, 10, 2, 414-423

• S Najmi, M Rasmussen, G Innocenti, C Chang, E Stavitski, SR Bare, AJ Medford, JW Medlin, C Sievers, Pretreatment effects on the surface chemistry of small oxygenates on molybdenum trioxide, ACS Catalysis, 2020, 10, 15, 8187-8200.

• J Zhang, S Deo, MJ Janik, JW Medlin, Control of molecular bonding strength on metal catalysts with organic monolayers for CO₂ reduction, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142,11, 5184-5193

2019

• PD Coan, MB Griffin, PN Ciesielski, JW Medlin, Phosphonic acid modifiers for enhancing selective hydrodeoxygenation over Pt catalysts: The role of the catalyst support, Journal of Catalysis, 2019, 372, 311-320

• LD Ellis, J Ballesteros-Soberanas, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin, Effects of metal oxide surface doping with phosphonic acid monolayers on alcohol dehydration activity and selectivity, Applied Catalysis A: General, 2019, 571, 102-106

2018

• LO Mark, AH Jenkins, H Heinz, JW Medlin, Furfuryl alcohol deoxygenation, decarbonylation, and ring-opening on Pt(111), Surface Science, 2018, 677, 333-340
• J Zhang, JW Medlin, Catalyst design using an inverse strategy: From mechanistic studies on inverted model catalysts to applications of oxide-coated metal nanoparticles, Surface Science Reports, 2018, 73 (4), 117-152
• P Hao, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin, Phosphonic acid promotion of supported Pd catalysts for low temperature vanillin hydrodeoxygenation in ethanol, Applied Catalysis A: General, 2018, 561, 1-6
• T Van Cleve, D Underhill, M Viega Rodrigues, C Sievers, JW Medlin. Enhanced Hydrothermal Stability of γ-Al2O3 Catalyst Supports with Alkyl Phosphonate Coatings. Langmuir, 2018, 34 (12), 3619-3625
• P Coan, LD Ellis, MB Griffin, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin, Enhancing Cooperativity in Bifunctional Acid–Pd Catalysts with Carboxylic Acid-Functionalized Organic Monolayers. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018, 122 (12), 6637-6647
• J Zhang, LD Ellis, B Wang, MJ Dzara, C Sievers, S Pylypenko, E Nikolla , JW Medlin, Control of interfacial acid–metal catalysis with organic monolayers, Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1 (2), 148

2017

• LD Ellis, RM Trottier, CB Musgrave, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin. Controlling the Surface Reactivity of Titania via Electronic Tuning of Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS Catalysis, 2017, 7 (12), 8351–8357
• J Zhang, B Wang, E Nikolla, JW Medlin. Directing Reaction Pathways through Controlled Reactant Binding at Pd–TiO2 Interfaces. Angewandte Chemie, 129 (23), 2017, 6694-6698

2016

• P Hao, S Pylypenko, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin. Application of thiolate self-assembled monolayers in selective alcohol oxidation for suppression of Pd catalyst deactivation. Journal of Catalysis, 344, 2016, 722-728
• AM Robinson, L Mark, MJ Rasmussen, JE Hensley, JW Medlin. Surface Chemistry of Aromatic Reactants on Pt-and Mo-Modified Pt Catalysts. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120 (47), 2016, 26824-26833
• MM Montemore, O Andreussi, JW Medlin. Hydrocarbon adsorption in an aqueous environment: A computational study of alkyls on Cu (111). Journal of Chemical Physics, 145 (7), 2016, 74702
• CH Lien, JW Medlin. Control of Pd catalyst selectivity with mixed thiolate monolayers. Journal of Catalysis, 339, 2016, 38-46
• G Kumar, CH Lien, MJ Janik, JW Medlin. Catalyst Site Selection via Control over Noncovalent Interactions in Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS Catalysis, 6 (8), 2016, 5086-5094
• AM Robinson, JE Hensley, JW Medlin. Bifunctional Catalysts for Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Oxygenates: A Review. ACS Catalysis, 6 (8), 2016, 5026-5043
• A Robinson, GA Ferguson, JR Gallagher, S Cheah, GT Beckham, et al. Enhanced hydrodeoxygenation of m-cresol over bimetallic Pt–Mo catalysts through an oxophilic metal-induced tautomerization pathway. ACS Catalysis, 6 (7), 2016, 4356-4368
• LD Ellis, S Pylypenko, SR Ayotte, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin. Trimethylsilyl functionalization of alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3) increases activity for 1, 2-propanediol dehydration. Catalysis Science & Technology, 6 (14), 2016, 5721-5728
• SH Pang, CH Lien, JW Medlin. Control of surface alkyl catalysis with thiolate monolayers. Catalysis Science & Technology, 6 (7), 2016, 2413-2418

2015

• JW Medlin, MM Montemore. Heterogeneous catalysis: Scaling the rough heights. Nature Chemistry, 7 (5), 2015, 378-380
• SH Pang, JW Medlin. Controlling catalytic selectivity via adsorbate orientation on the surface: from furfural deoxygenation to reactions of epoxides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6 (8), 2015, 1348-1356
• TD Gould, MM Montemore, AM Lubers, LD Ellis, AW Weimer, JL Falconer, et al. Enhanced dry reforming of methane on Ni and Ni-Pt catalysts synthesized by atomic layer deposition. Applied Catalysis A: General, 492, 2015, 107-116
• KR Kahsar, DK Schwartz, JW Medlin. Stability of self-assembled monolayer coated Pt/Al₂O₃ catalysts for liquid phase hydrogenation. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 396, 2015, 188-195
• TD Gould, AM Lubers, AR Corpuz, AW Weimer, JL Falconer, JW Medlin. Controlling nanoscale properties of supported platinum catalysts through atomic layer deposition. ACS Catalysis, 5 (2), 2015, 1344-1352

2014

• Simon H. Pang, Carolyn A. Schoenbaum, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Effects of Thiol Modifiers on the Kinetics of Furfural Hydrogenation over Pd Catalysts. ACS Catalysis, 2014, 4, pp 3123–3131
• Tania Tauer, Ryan P. O'Hayre, J. Will Medlin. An ab initio investigation of proton stability at BaZrO₃ interfaces. Chemistry of Materials, 2014, 26 (17), pp 4915–4924
• Troy D. Gould, Alan Izar, Alan W. Weimer, John L. Falconer, J. Will Medlin. Stabilizing Ni Catalysts by Molecular Layer Deposition for Harsh, Dry Reforming Conditions. ACS Catalysis, 2014, 4, pp 2714–2717
• Matthew M. Montemore, J. Will Medlin. A Unified Picture of Adsorption on Transition Metals Through Different Atoms. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136 (26), pp 9272–9275
• Matthew M. Montemore, J. Will Medlin. Scaling relations between adsorption energies for computational screening and design of catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology, 2014, Advance Article
• Rhea M. Williams, J. Will Medlin. Benzyl alcohol oxidation on Pd (111): aromatic binding effects on alcohol reactivity. Langmuir, 2014, 30 (16), pp 4642–4653
• Carolyn A. Schoenbaum, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Controlling the Surface Environment of Heterogeneous Catalysts Using Self-Assembled Monolayers. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014, 47 (4), pp 1438–1445
• Matthew M. Montemore, J. Will Medlin. Predicting and Comparing C–M and O–M Bond Strengths for Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2014, 118 (5), pp 2666–2672
• Karl R. Kahsar, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Control of metal catalyst selectivity through specific noncovalent molecular interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136 (1), pp 520–526
• Rhea M. Williams, Simon H. Pang, J. Will Medlin. O–H versus C–H bond scission sequence in ethanol decomposition on Pd(111). Surface Science, 2014, 619, pp 114-118
• Rhea M. Williams, J. Will Medlin. The influence of oxygen on the surface chemistry of 1,2-propanediol on Pd(111). Surface Science, 2014, 619, pp 30-38

2013

• Allison M. Robinson, Matthew M. Montemore, Samuel A. Tenney, Peter Sutter, J. Will Medlin. Interactions of Hydrogen, CO, Oxygen, and Water with Molybdenum-Modified Pt (111). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117 (50), pp 26716–26724
• Matthew M. Montemore, J. Will Medlin. Site-Specific Scaling Relations for Hydrocarbon Adsorption on Hexagonal Transition Metal Surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013, 117 (39), pp 20078–20088
• Simon H. Pang, Carolyn A. Schoenbaum, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Directing reaction pathways by catalyst active-site selection using self-assembled monolayers. Nature Communications, 2013, 4 pp 92-99
• Karl R. Kahsar, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Selective Hydrogenation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Using Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayer-Coated Pd/Al₂O₃ Catalysts. ACS Catalysis, 2013, 3 (9), pp 2041–2044
• Michael B. Griffin, Abraham A. Rodriguez, Matthew M. Montemore, John R. Monnier, Christopher T. Williams, J. Will Medlin. The selective oxidation of ethylene glycol and 1,2-propanediol on Au, Pd, and Au–Pd bimetallic catalysts. Journal of Catalysis, 2013, 307, pp 111-120
• Troy D. Gould, Alia M. Lubers, Brian T. Neltner, Jacob V. Carrier, Alan W. Weimer, John L. Falconer, J. Will Medlin. Synthesis of supported Ni catalysts by atomic layer deposition. Journal of Catalysis, 2013, 303, pp 9-15
• Carolyn A. Schoenbaum, Daniel K. Schwartz, J. Will Medlin. Controlling surface crowding on a Pd catalyst with thiolate self-assembled monolayers. Journal of Catalysis, 2013, 303, pp 92-99
• Tania Tauer, Ryan O'Hayre, J. Will Medlin. Computational investigation of defect segregation at the (001) surface of BaCeO₃ and BaZrO₃: the role of metal–oxygen bond strength in controlling vacancy segregation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1, pp 2840–2846

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