Professors Jeffery Byers and Dunwei Wang Join NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis

Professors Jeffery Byers and Dunwei Wang join a team of scientists, led by UCLA Professor Paula Diaconescu, to form the NSF Center for Integrated Catalysis. Funded by the NSF Center for Chemical Innovation with a $1.8 million dollar award over a 3-year period to develop chemistry to create “synthetic plastics by using abundant feedstocks in a single reactor using spatially separated and temporally switchable catalysts.”  The expected scientific impact of this project will reach the catalysis community and chemical industry with applications based on a new paradigm in chemical catalysis.  Professors Chong Liu, UCLA, Loi Do, University of Houston, and Alex Miller, UNC Chapel Hill, round out the interdisciplinary team of organometallic chemists and material scientists.