Current Position

Dorini Family Chair of Energy Studies and Department Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Concurrent Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, Ohio State University
B.S., Chemistry, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Research Interests

The Schneider group is interested in problems in energy and the environment that benefit from molecular scale, chemical insight. The group uses computationally intensive molecular simulations to understand and predict chemical properties and reactivity from first-principles. Two areas of particular emphasis are heterogeneous catalytic reactions for conversion of energy-related molecules (NO_x conversion to N₂; water-gas shift catalysis; selective oxidations) and the chemistry of CO₂ capture and conversion.

Key Words

Carbon Capture and Conversion, Catalysis

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Paolucci, Christopher, John R. Di Iorio, William F. Schneider, and Rajamani Gounder. "Solvation and mobilization of copper active sites in zeolites by ammonia: consequences for the catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides." Accounts of chemical research 53, no. 9 (2020): 1881-1892.
2. Bajpai, Anshumaan, Kurt Frey, and William F. Schneider. "Comparison of Coverage-Dependent Binding Energy Models for Mean-Field Microkinetic Rate Predictions." Langmuir 36, no. 1 (2019): 465-474.
3. Ma, Hanyu, and William F. Schneider. "DFT and microkinetic comparison of Pt, Pd and Rh-catalyzed ammonia oxidation." Journal of Catalysis 383 (2020): 322-330.
4. Engelmann, Yannick, Prateek Mehta, Erik C. Neyts, William F. Schneider, and Annemie Bogaerts. "Predicted influence of plasma activation on nonoxidative coupling of methane on transition metal catalysts." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8, no. 15 (2020): 6043-6054.
5. Mehta, Prateek, Patrick M. Barboun, Yannick Engelmann, David B. Go, Annemie Bogaerts, William F. Schneider, and Jason C. Hicks. "Plasma-catalytic ammonia synthesis beyond the equilibrium limit." ACS Catalysis 10, no. 12 (2020): 6726-6734.

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