Welcome to the

Vlachos Research Group

Our research focuses on multiscale reaction engineering to enable a circular economy.

Dion G. Vlachos

Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Director of the Delaware Energy Institute
Director of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation
Focus Area Leader of Intensified Process Fundamentals for the RAPID Manufacturing Institute
Center for Plastics Innovation Research Team

CBE

University of Delaware Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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DEI

Delaware Energy Institute is marshaling science, engineering, industry, and public policy expertise in new and emerging energy technologies

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RAPID

Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute, led by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

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CCEI

Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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CPI

Center for Plastics Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center (ERFC) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences.

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Latest Publications

Featuring a few of our recent publications. Click to read on the journal’s site.

Electronic modulation of metal-support interactions improves polypropylene hydrogenolysis over ruthenium catalysts
Modulating the dynamics of Bronsted acid sites on PtWOx inverse catalyst

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