Dr. Lars Grabow, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering

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• Areas of expertise

  • Computational catalysis and interface chemistry
  • Energy production and storage
  • Catalysis
  • Thermodynamics

• Awards

  • UH Excellence in Research, Scholarship or Creative Activity Award, 2017
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2014/2015
  • U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award, 2014
  • Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2014
  • Finalist in the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award Competition, 2013
  • ICC Young Scientist Award, 2012
  • NACS Travel Award for the 15th ICC in Munich, 2012
  • AIChE CRE Division Travel Award, 2006
  • Kokes Travel Award, North American Catalyst Society, 2005
  • Graduation with Distinction Award from the University of Stuttgart, 2003
  • DAAD Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service), 2001

• Publications

  • A. Ghorbanpour, J. D. Rimer, L. C. Grabow*, “Periodic, vdW-corrected density functional theory investigation of the effect of Al siting in H-ZSM-5 on chemisorption properties and site-specific acidity”, Catal. Comm. 52, 98-102 [DOI], 2014
  • J. Saavedra, H. A. Doan, C. J. Pursell, L. C. Grabow*, B. D. Chandler*, "The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation", Science [DOI], 2014 Link to file
  • P. G. Moses, L. C. Grabow, E. M. Fernandez, B. Hinnemann, H. Topsøe, K. G. Knudsen, J. K. Nørskov*, "Trends in hydrodesulfurization catalysis based on realistic surface models”,Catal. Lett. [DOI], 2014
  • H. Zeuthen, W. Kudernatsch, G. Peng, L. R. Merte, L. K. Ono, L. Lammich, Y. Bai, L. C. Grabow, M. Mavrikakis, S. Wendt, F. Besenbacher, “Structure of Stoichiometric and Oxygen-Rich Ultrathin FeO(111) Films Grown on Pd(111)” , J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 15155-15163 [DOI], 2013
  • J. Varley, H. A. Hansen, N. Ammitzbøll, L. C. Grabow, A. A. Peterson, J. Rossmeisl, J. K. Nørskov, “Ni-Fe-S cubanes in CO2 reduction electrocatalysis: A DFT study”, ACS Catal. 3, 2640-2643 [DOI], 2013
  • P. Rubert-Nason, M. Mavrikakis, C. T. Maravelias, L. C. Grabow, L. T. Biegler, “Advanced solution methods for microkinetic models of catalytic reactions: A methanol synthesis case study”, AIChE J. 60, 1336-1346 [DOI], 2013
  • A. A. Peterson, L. C. Grabow, T. P. Brennan, B. Shong, C. Ooi, D. M. Wu, C. W. Li, A. Kushwaha, A. J. Medford, F. Mbuga, L. Li, J. K. Nørskov*, “Finite-size effects in O and CO adsorption for the late transition metals”, Top. Catal. 55, 1276-1282 [DOI], 2012
  • B. D. Chandler*, S. Kendell, H. Doan, R. Korkosz, L. C. Grabow, C. J. Pursell, "NaBr Poisoning of Au/TiO2 Catalysts: Effects on Kinetics, Poisoning Mechanism, and Estimation of the Number of Catalytic Active Sites", ACS Catal. 2​, 684-694 [DOI], 2012
  • L. C. Grabow*, "When Outliers Make All The Difference", ChemCatChem 4, 1887-1888 [DOI], 2012
  • L. C. Grabow*, B. Hvolbæk, H. Falsig, J. K. Nørskov, "Search Directions for Direct H2O2 Synthesis Catalysts Starting from Au12 Nanoclusters", Top. Catal. 55, 336-344 [DOI], 2012

  For more publications, see CV below.

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • $400,000 NSF grant to make heavy water less expensive, 2016
  • 5 year, $500,000 NSF grant for a novel application of hydrogen storage materials for the production of commodity chemicals by methane coupling, 2015
  • $750,000 to research a catalyst that could convert methane to ethylene, 2014

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Not available

• Contact information