Welcome to Hagelin-Weaver Research Lab

Areas of Interest

• Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Atomic Layer Deposition
• Well-Defined Nanoparticle Oxides
• Surface Characterizations

What We Do

We work on heterogeneous catalyst development in our laboratory and our main objective is to obtain a fundamental understanding of these catalysts at the atomic level. This requires well-defined heterogeneous catalysts and our approach is to use nanoparticle oxides as supports for various active metals in the preparation of our catalysts. In addition to resulting in more well-defined catalysts compared to active metals on more conventional supports, another advantage of using nanoparticle oxides as supports is that the high number of coordinatively unsaturated sites on the surface of the nanoparticles can lead to strong metal-support interactions and unique catalytic properties. We are particularly interested in how the nanoscopic properties of the supports influence the active metals on the surface of these supports.