The Scott group conducts both fundamental and applied research in surface chemistry and catalysis. We aim to understand the interactions and transformations of molecules at the gas-solid interface by creating highly uniform active sites. We apply techniques from organometallic and coordination chemistry, surface science, spectroscopy, kinetics, mechanistic analysis and modeling to investigate, design and reengineer heterogeneous catalysts. The group consists of chemical engineering and chemistry students working closely together to solve problems at the interface of chemistry and reaction engineering.




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Visiting RWTH graduate student Anna Kann completed her research project in the Scott group in Dec 2015.
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Visiting RWTH undergraduate student Akash Aryal started his research project in the Scott group in Dec 2015.
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iChem Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Fan Zhang joined the Scott group in Dec 2015.
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CSC visiting graduate student Qunxing Luo was just appointed as a faculty member at Shaanxi Normal University
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Graduate student Zachary Jones was elected as an ACS consultant to the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (CEPA).
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Congratulations Dr. Bethany Wigington on defending your PhD thesis!
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Lab manager Stephanie Goubert-Renaudin won the Catalysis Div. best poster award at the Fall 2014 ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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Graduate student Colin Gardner was awarded Phi Lambda Upsilon for academic achievement.
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Graduate student Bethany Wigington won a Best Student Poster Award at the 25th Organic Reactions Catalysis Society meeting in Tucson, AZ.
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Daniel Coller is selected as the 2014 Air Products Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering
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Graduate student Youhong Wang won a prize for her poster on a model Phillips catalyst at the Asian Polyolefins 2013 meeting in Beijing.
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Susannah Scott is appointed to the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society.
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Susannah Scott joins the U.S. Delegation at the 3rd Chemical Sciences and Society Summit, "Efficient Utilization of Elements", in Tokyo, Japan.
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Professor Xin Liang joins the Scott group from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology for a sabbatical visit.
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Dr. Long Qi joins the Scott group as a postdoctoral scholar from the City University of Hong Kong
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Dr. Zhenhuan Zhou joins the Scott group as a visiting scholar from SINOPEC
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Our collaborative work with the Dumesic group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is featured on the inside cover of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed link
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ACS Catalysis also announces the expansion of the editorial team with the addition of Prof. Susannah Scott, to the editorial ranks ACS Catalyst News
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Dr. Ryan Davis successfully defended his thesis on Nov 9, 2012. He is moving to a position as beam line scientist at SSRL
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National Science Foundation creates a new Center for Chemical Innovation at UCSB: the Center for the Renewable Use of Sustainable Feedstocks (CenSURF)
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Graduate student Ryan Davis invited to give a talk on the use of synchrotron radiation in catalysis research at the 2012 SSRL Users' meeting
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The Scott group traveled to Dalian, Suzhou and Shanghai in September, 2012, for the PIRE-ECCI summer school and annual meeting
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Visiting researcher Dr. Haibo Yu will spend an year with the Scott group, from Sinopec,Beijing
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Visiting scholar Professor Jinghong Zhou from East China University of Science and Technology will spend an year with the Scott group
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Scott Group Research is featured in International Innovation
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Susannah Scott organizing a symposium on sustainable chemical manufacturing at the 2013 AAAS meeting
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PIRE-ECCI summer school on sustainable catalysis in Dalian, China, in September, 2012
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UCSB is hosting the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Catalysis Society in September, 2012
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Ryan Davis and Jason Fendi are spending the summer at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
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Susannah Scott is appointed as a visiting professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for summer, 2012
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Gary Ng and Alessandro Gallo attend the APS/IIT summer XAFS school in IIT, Chicago IL
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Bethany Wigington is working in the laboratory of Prof. Gerhard Erker in Munster, Germany
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Taeho Hwang is spending a summer as an intern with Air Products in Allentown, PA
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New Lab Manager Dr. Stephanie N.S. Goubert-Renaudin joined Scott group from University of Delaware
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Visiting Professor Xijin Song from Zhejiang University will spend the summer with the Scott group
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New postdoc Dr. Alessandro Gallo joined Scott group from CNR-ISTM, Milan, Italy
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Visiting graduate student Mojgan Roushan joins us in February, 2012, from the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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In January, 2012, Susannah Scott chaired the NSF SusChEM workshop in Washington, DC. Graduate students Bethany Wigington, Anthony Crisci and Ryan Davis attended
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New postdoc Dr. Gary Kwanyi Ng joined Scott group from UC Irvine
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Visiting graduate student Julia Rieb joins us in September, 2011, from the Technical University of Munich.
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Taeho Hwang is selected as the 2011 Air Products Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering
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Bethany Wigington and Dan Coller attended the SSRL XAS Summer School June 28-July 1 link
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Graduate student Sam Fleischman's work on GaMe3 grafting on highly dehydroxylated silica is posted on the JACS cover art podcast online. link
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NSF funds an international research program in catalysis and surface science, the IRES-ECCI, for UCSB undergraduates in China. link
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Scott group postdoc Dr. Ming-Yung Lee accepts a position with Formosa Plastics
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Grad student Xiaoying (Richard) Ouyang will join C.Y. Chen at Chevron as a 2011 summer intern, working on hydrocarbon adsorption and reactions in zeolites
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Postdoc Philippe Perrotin joins Boulder Scientific as a research scientist
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Susannah's lecture on sustainability and the US-China PIRE collaboration in catalysis is available as video on the NSF website
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Graduate student Sam Fleischman's work on GaMe3 grafting on highly dehydroxylated silica is featured on the 4/6/2011 cover of JACS
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Our new manuscript, "Reactions of Phosphinites with Oxide Surfaces: A New Method for Anchoring Organic and Organometallic Complexes", has been selected to celebrate International Women’s Day, as it was the first advanced article published today by a female corresponding author. It is currently featured on Royal Society of Chemistry website blog
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Visiting graduate student Sebastian Grundner joins us in March, 2011, from the Lercher group at the Technical University of Munich.
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New graduate student Peng Cheng joins the Scott group in January, 2011, and is coadvised by Michael Doherty.
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Graduate students Anthony Crisci, Bethany Wigington and Joe Sirianni are spending the month of January in Suzhou, China, learning TEM.
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Graduate students Anthony Crisci and Ryan Davis named PIRE-ECCI fellows for 2011.
Graduate students Bethany Wigington and Trenton Tovar named ConvEne IGERT fellows for 2011-2012.
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Visiting researcher Junjiang Zhu joins us in January, 2011, from the Thomas group at the Technical University of Berlin.
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Professor Scott is named Director of the PIRE-ECCI program, for collaborative research between UCSB and China.
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New graduate student Daniel Coller joins the Scott group in January, 2011.
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Graduate students Robert Savinelli and Brian Vicente successfully defend their Ph.D. Theses in December, 2010. Congratulations!
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Graduate student Ying-Jen Wanglee and postdoctoral researcher Jenny McCahill present their work at the Pacifichem meeting (Hawaii) in December, 2010.
 
Professors Khaled Belkacemi and Safia Hammoudi from Laval University joined the Scott group in September, 2010, for a year's sabbatical.
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Visiting graduate student Lei Zhong from East China University of Science and Technology joined the Scott group in September, 2010, to work on Phillips' catalysts.

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Graduate student Robert Savinelli presented his recent EXAFS work at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, in September 2010, with a talk entitled "Elucidation of Catalytic Sties using Wavelet Transform EXAFS."
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Graduate student Sam Fleischman worked at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in Dalian, China for the months of April-May, 2010.
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Graduate student Bethany Wigington spent the months of April-June, 2010 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborating with Dr. Susan Hansen.
Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ryan Nelson obtained a position at Argonne National Laboratory in April, 2010.
Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Ming-Yung Lee, graduate student Brian Vicente attended the ACS Spring 2010 National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
Graduate students Anthony Crisci, Bethany Wigington attended the 23rd ORCS Conference in March, 2010, Monterey, CA.
Graduate students Joseph Sirianni (Syracuse University), Trenton Tovar (North Carolina State University), Bethany Wigington (University of Georgia, Athens), and postdoctorial researcher, Dr. Haian Xia (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China) joined the group in the fall of 2010.
Graduate student S. Michael Stewart attended the Lindau meeting of Chemistry Nobel Laureates, June 28 - July 3, 2009, in Lindau, Germany.
Undergraduate student Marissa Jaffe (University of Colorado, Boulder) returned to the group as a summer intern in July, 2009.
Visiting graduate student Kiwamu Tonosaki (Terano group, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) conducted research on supported chromium catalysts for olefin polymerization in the fall of 2009.
Graduate student Anthony Crisci spent two months in the summer of 2009 at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on supported vanadium catalysts for carbohydrate disassembly, with Susan Hansen and Dave Thorn.
Graduate students Sam Fleischman, Anthony Crisci and Kim-Lien Dinh and postdoc Ming-Yung Lee attended the 2nd US-China Partnership Workshop on Heterogeneous Catalysis in Dalian, China from June 14-19, 2009.
Graduate student Bryanna Kunkel participated in a Chinese Technology Transfer Study Tour, visiting companies in Shanghai, Wuxi and Hangzhou, from June 20-26, 2009.
Graduate student Ryan Davis finished an industrial internship with Catalytic Solutions, Inc, in the summer of 2009. Davis studied catalytic converter technologies.
Postdoc Jenny McCahill was awarded the NSF's American Competitiveness in Chemistry Fellowship for 2009-2011. She has collaborated with Jeff Miller at Argonne National Laboratory on the synthesis and characterization of sub-nanometer metal particles.
Graduate student Xiaoying (Richard) Ouyang won the Air Products fellowship at UCSB for 2009-10.
Graduate student Ryan Davis received a 2-year IGERT fellowship from the ConvEne program for 2008-10.
Visiting graduate student Jing Huang, from Nanjing University, had a one-year fellowship from the China Scholarship Council for PhD work at UCSB on supported metal catalysts for emissions control.
Former Scott group undergraduate researcher Justin Butler started MIT business school in the Fall of 2009.
Phillip Mania, graduate student from ETH-Zurich, spent 4 months with the Scott group in 2009.
Ricardo Alamillo, a UCSB Chemical Engineering junior, received a CENTC undergraduate research award to conduct a summer project in our group in 2009
Scott group graduate students Robert Savinelli and S. Michael Stewart presented their work at the 21st North American Catalysis Society Meeting in San Francisco in June, 2009 .
Scott group graduate student Ryan Davis received the MRL diversity award in May 2009.
In February 2009, Susannah Scott was elected to be an AAAS fellow.