NEWS

Spring 2024. Excited to participate in the UA Engage Program.

I'm excited to announce my participating at the 2024 NSF Eclipse Meeting (https://www.eclipsemeeting.org/) with the talk: Perspectives and Insights on CO2 Plasma Catalysis.

I'm excited to announce my participation at the 2024 Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Conference: Addressing Global Challenges with Plasmas: https://www.grc.org/plasma-processing-science-conference/2024/ with the talk: Electrifying Chemical Processes: Tailored Materials in Plasma Catalysis - Pioneering Research and Practical Advancements.

Serving as PCRF (Princeton Collaborative Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility) User Organization Board: https://pcrf.princeton.edu/personnel-landing/organization/

Our New Publication: CO2 and HDPE Upcycling: A Plasma Catalysis Alternative is now available:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c02403

Our New Publication: Plasma Radicals as Kinetics-Controlling Species during Plasma-Assisted Catalytic NH3 Formation: Support from Microkinetic Modeling is now available:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c03813

Our new publication on Plasma Catalytic conversion of Nitrogen and Hydrogen to ammonia over SAPO zeolites is now available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-023-10397-w

NSF-Career: https://news.uark.edu/articles/66120/chemical-engineering-s-carreon-receives-prestigious-nsf-career-award?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2023-09-12&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=chemical-engineering-s-carreon-receives-prestigious-nsf-career-award

Special Issue to celebrate my dear brother's life and scientific work:

"A Commemorative Special Issue in Honor of Dr. Moises A. Carreon"

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Moises A. Carreon's research focused on the fundamental design of porous crystalline materials for gas separation and catalysis applications. He was convinced (and equally convincing) that nearly any gas mixture could be separated without massive energy inputs from cryogenic distillation. The fundamental strategies for separating gas mixtures over porous crystalline membranes—adsorption, diffusion, and molecular sieving—guided his synthetic designs and resulted in many unique discoveries ranging from inorganic, metal organic, and purely organic membranes. His latest research efforts on process intensification using membrane technology lay the foundation of using these technological applications in industrial gas separations.

This Special Issue aims to provide state-of-the-art contributions on critical gas membrane separations, which were Moises’s main career focus and leading research area. Submissions are not limited to separation applications but can include membrane materials’ design for separation purposes and membrane applications including process intensification.

Moises was a man of great talent and ingenuity. He was held in the highest regard by his peers and known for his kindness, collegiality, grit, creativity, and collaboration. He touched many people’s lives, and he left a lasting positive impact on them. During his research career, Moises inspired, coached, and impacted the careers of many other scientists who have gone on to make great careers and discoveries of their own. He was a person who was so alive in every way. He loved everything he did, whether it was work or personal, and he truly lived his life to the fullest. Though he was very young when he left us, he contributed many teachings and an important legacy to science and engineering. He will be sorely missed by his students, colleagues, friends, and family.

Dr. James M. Crawford
Dr. Jolie M. Lucero
Dr. Maria L. Carreon
Prof. Dr. Miao Yu
Dr. Surendar Reddy Venna
Guest Editors

Details can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/membranes/special_issues/5IEO37BQL3.

I'm happy to announce that I joined the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering as Associate Professor. https://news.uark.edu/articles/64967/maria-carreon-joins-chemical-engineering-faculty?utm_source=arkansas-news&utm_medium=email_2023-08-23&utm_campaign=news_headlines&utm_content=maria-carreon-joins-chemical-engineering-faculty

Gorky receiving the Kokes Award this summer 2023 at NAM28.

Our new publication: Plasma catalytic non-oxidative methane conversion to hydrogen and value-added hydrocarbons on zeolite 13X (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117082)

https://www.uml.edu/news/stories/2023/maria-carreon-nsf-career-award.aspx

NSF Career Award No. 2235247

Our new paper Sustainable ammonia synthesis from nitrogen wet with sea water by single-step plasma catalysis is now available at Catalysis Today: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2023.114141

Group picture Spring 2023.

Our most recent work: Plasma Induced Desorption of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Over Silico Alumino Phosphate (SAPO) zeolites is now available at ACS Applied Energy Materials: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.3c00426

Presenting our work at MIT.

I'm happy to announce that I have received the NSF CAREER Award: Cold plasma intensified perovskite membrane technology for CO2 utilization (Award Abstract # 2235247) A huge milestone for my group. Details at: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235247&HistoricalAwards=false

Nano Image Contest 2022: Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom: http://www.kymultiscale.net/nano-image-contest-2022.

Zeolite particle
Authors: Dr. Jacek Jasinski from UofL Conn Center and Dr. Maria Carreon from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Tool Name: This scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) image was obtained using a Tecnai F20 FEG TEM (FEI, Inc.) equipped with a High-Annular Angle Dark Field (HAADF) detector (E.A. Fischione Instruments, Inc.)
Description: Sample synthesized by Radio Frequency plasma mediated method. This unique porous structure allows the adsorption of ammonia in-situ during its synthesis reaction, protecting this important chemical from decomposition in electron mediated synthesis.

Nanohoneycomb
Authors: Dr. Jacek Jasinski from UofL Conn Center and Dr. Maria Carreon from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Tool Name: This scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) image was obtained using a Tecnai F20 FEG TEM (FEI, Inc.) equipped with a High-Annular Angle Dark Field (HAADF) detector (E.A. Fischione Instruments, Inc.)
Description: The hexagonal structure visible in the background of this image is a highly ordered porous nanostructure synthesized by Radio Frequency plasma mediated method.

2022 Aiche meeting.

New Funding! Project Title: Understanding Boundaries between Regimes during the Plasma Synthesis of Ammonia on Abundant Porous Oxide-based Catalysts through Plasma Diagnostics. Source of Support Department of Energy (DOE), Award No. DE-SC0023261.

Group picture Fall 2022 left to right: Hoang, Gorky and Shelby.

Our current collaborative project with PPPL.

Second interdisciplinary Mexican Colloquium on Challenges in Health, Education and Science, my contribution on September 8, 2022:

At the ACS Fall Meeting 2022 chairing the symposium on Mechanisms & Kinetics of Reactions at Plasma-Catalyst Interfaces with Dr. Diego Gomez-Gualdron.

Presenting our work over the summer at the GRC.

Summer at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

UCEMICH, Mexico interview on my experience as woman in engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJWgped9gM.

Excited that our work has been highlighted at "Recent Advances in Plasma Catalysis." This collection features recent experimental and modeling papers from several ACS journals that describe research ranging from fundamental plasma/surface characterizations to applied research.

An honor to serve as guest editor for the Journal of Energy Chemistry.

Our new paper shows the dual benefit of plasma with a CC3 Porous Organic Cage membrane for the Non-thermal blue ammonia synthesis:

Gorky, F., Nguyen, H. M., Lucero, J. M., Guthrie, S., Crawford, J. M., Carreon, M. A., & Carreon, M. L. (2022). CC3 Porous Organic Cage Crystals and Membranes for the Non-Thermal Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 100340.

Hoang presenting our work on Plasma deconstruction of HDPE to hydrogen and light hydrocarbons at the NECS Symposium in Honor of Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos at TUFTS University.

Read our new contribution in collaboration with Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL) on mesoporous silica (SBA-15) on the understanding of two regimes governing the plasma ammonia synthesis when switching plasma conditions. This added to the protective role of porous materials exemplified in our previous work on Ni-MOF-177.

Gershman, Sophia, Henry Fetsch, Fnu Gorky, and Maria L. Carreon. "Identifying Regimes During Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis." Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing (2022): 1-27.

Shah, J., Wu, T., Lucero, J., Carreon, M. A., & Carreon, M. L. (2018). Nonthermal plasma synthesis of ammonia over Ni-MOF-74. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7(1), 377-383.

PRESENTED AT SOLVAY WORKSHOP, BELGIUM, NOVEMBER 2021

264th ACS National Meeting Symposium on Mechanisms and Kinetics of Reactions at Plasma-Catalysts Interfaces.

I'm honored to participate in the upcoming 2022 Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Conference as discussion leader for the session Plasma and Catalysts. July 24-July 29, 2022 at Proctor Academy, Andover NH: https://www.grc.org/plasma-processing-science-conference/2022/

2021

First International Colloquium for the Chemistry, UMICH, Mexico.

Solvay Pictures at UBL-University libre de Bruxelles.

Art work: the trees of plasma catalysis summarizes the materials we have explored for ammonia synthesis. Materials that range from molten metals to alloys to organic, inorganic and hybrid porous materials. This artwork not only represents our pathway as a team but the knowledge we have gained in terms of the need of new catalysts for plasma catalysis that differ from the ones employed in thermal catalysis. The effect of the metal, the pore size effect, the hydrogen recombination impact in the ammonia yield and the "plasma awaken" properties of materials. A knowledge we aim to generalize for other important environmental challenges.

I'm very excited to announce my participation at the Solvay Workshop on "Plasma Technology and Other Green Methods for Nitrogen Fixation: with the invited talk: Cold plasma ammonia synthesis: the search for a suitable catalyst.

We welcome Jaimiely from University of Puerto Rico this summer. Jaimiely will be working in the lab on the plasma catalytic methane activation as part of the Plasma Fusion Undergraduate Research Opportunities (PFURO), a DOE program.

At SD Mines we are teaching the new generation of chemical engineers the basics of Plasma Catalysis.

2020

At SD Mines we keep working following all the necessary protocols.

October 1, 2020 " Nano-motivacional": Seminar Talk at UCM, Mexico to discuss my experience as researcher in the US with the talk entitled: "Inspiring the new generation of women in engineering: my experience as researcher abroad".

New Funding! From the Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), U.S. Department of Energy under the FES Plasma Science Frontier Award No. DE-SC0021309 and user grant for the Fall 2020 at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

April 16, 2020 Online Workshop on Plasma Chemistry and Catalysis:

Our latest contribution at I&EC in the cover!

2019

New Funding! NSF-CBET Award grant No. 1947303 on Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis using molten metals and their alloys.

Fall 2019 Research Group Picture at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Summer Institute at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Javishk Shah successfully defended his PhD thesis this summer 2019. Congratulations Dr. Shah!

Sara Gutierrez won 1st place in the category of research intensive University at the Capitol's research day for undergraduates.

2018

Fall 2018. STEM cafe at Union High School.

The Shark Tank Kick Start project: "Plasma Synthesis of Graphene from Pectin-rich Biomass" was selected for funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4sxqIF9E0

An undergraduate student, Sarah Gutierrez got selected for participation in the Research Day at the Capitol, on 25th March, 2019 at Oklahoma City, OK.

A grant of $500 approved by Office of Sponsored and Research Program, for the project 'Ammonia Synthesis via Plasma Catalysis' as a part of Student Research Projects Grants, Javishk Shah.

Phillips 66 Fellowship, Javishk Shah.

Summer 2018. Girls Scouts Beyond Bars Summer Camp.

University of Tulsa Faculty Development Summer Fellowship Program, Maria Carreon.

2017

University of Tulsa Faculty Development Summer Fellowship Program, Maria Carreon.

National Researchers System, Level 1 (SNI-1). CONACYT, Mexico, Maria Carreon.

AISES ASSIST/LEVERAGE NSF-Funded Program Award, AISES National Conference, Denver Colorado, Maria Carreon .

A grant of $450 approved by Office of Sponsored and Research Program, for the project 'Ammonia Synthesis via Plasma Catalysis' as a part of Student Research Projects Grants, Javishk Shah.

2014

Academic Scholarship, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Foundation,Maria Carreon.

Tuition Award, University of Louisville School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, Maria Carreon.

Hispanic Engineer Graduate Student Ambassador, SHPE-UofL, Maria Carreon.

SHPE-UofL Chapter, Vice President, Maria Carreon.

2013

Conn Center Fellowship, Maria Carreon.

2012

RE3 Renewable Energy Club Communications Officer, Maria Carreon

2011

Recognition for Outstanding Academic Accomplishment, U of L Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Foundation, Maria Carreon.

Kokes Award, 22nd North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Detroit, MI, Maria Carreon.

2009

Kokes Award, 21st North American Catalysis Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Maria Carreon.

NEWS

Nano Image Contest 2022: Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom: http://www.kymultiscale.net/nano-image-contest-2022.

2022 Aiche meeting.​

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New Funding! Project Title: Understanding Boundaries between Regimes during the Plasma Synthesis of Ammonia on Abundant Porous Oxide-based Catalysts through Plasma Diagnostics. Source of Support Department of Energy (DOE), Award No. DE-SC0023261.

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Group picture Fall 2022 left to right: Hoang, Gorky and Shelby.

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Our current collaborative project with PPPL.

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Second interdisciplinary Mexican Colloquium on Challenges in Health, Education and Science, my contribution on September 8, 2022:

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At the ACS Fall Meeting 2022 chairing the symposium on Mechanisms & Kinetics of Reactions at Plasma-Catalyst Interfaces with Dr. Diego Gomez-Gualdron.

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Presenting our work over the summer at the GRC.

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Summer at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.

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UCEMICH, Mexico interview on my experience as woman in engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJWgped9gM.

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Excited that our work has been highlighted at "Recent Advances in Plasma Catalysis." This collection features recent experimental and modeling papers from several ACS journals that describe research ranging from fundamental plasma/surface characterizations to applied research. ​​

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An honor to serve as guest editor for the Journal of Energy Chemistry.

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Our new paper shows the dual benefit of plasma with a CC3 Porous Organic Cage membrane for the Non-thermal blue ammonia synthesis:

​ Gorky, F., Nguyen, H. M., Lucero, J. M., Guthrie, S., Crawford, J. M., Carreon, M. A., & Carreon, M. L. (2022). CC3 Porous Organic Cage Crystals and Membranes for the Non-Thermal Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 100340.

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Hoang presenting our work on Plasma deconstruction of HDPE to hydrogen and light hydrocarbons at the NECS Symposium in Honor of Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos at TUFTS University.

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​ Gershman, Sophia, Henry Fetsch, Fnu Gorky, and Maria L. Carreon. "Identifying Regimes During Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis." Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing (2022): 1-27.

Shah, J., Wu, T., Lucero, J., Carreon, M. A., & Carreon, M. L. (2018). Nonthermal plasma synthesis of ammonia over Ni-MOF-74. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7(1), 377-383.

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PRESENTED AT SOLVAY WORKSHOP, BELGIUM, NOVEMBER 2021

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264th ACS National Meeting Symposium on Mechanisms and Kinetics of Reactions at Plasma-Catalysts Interfaces.

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I'm honored to participate in the upcoming 2022 Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Conference as discussion leader for the session Plasma and Catalysts. July 24-July 29, 2022 at Proctor Academy, Andover NH: https://www.grc.org/plasma-processing-science-conference/2022/

2021​​

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First International Colloquium for the Chemistry, UMICH, Mexico.

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Solvay Pictures at UBL-University libre de Bruxelles.

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I'm very excited to announce my participation at the Solvay Workshop on "Plasma Technology and Other Green Methods for Nitrogen Fixation: with the invited talk: Cold plasma ammonia synthesis: the search for a suitable catalyst.

​​​

We welcome Jaimiely from University of Puerto Rico this summer. Jaimiely will be working in the lab on the plasma catalytic methane activation as part of the Plasma Fusion Undergraduate Research Opportunities (PFURO), a DOE program.

​​​

At SD Mines we are teaching the new generation of chemical engineers the basics of Plasma Catalysis.

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2020​

At SD Mines we keep working following all the necessary protocols.

​​​

October 1, 2020 " Nano-motivacional": Seminar Talk at UCM, Mexico to discuss my experience as researcher in the US with the talk entitled: "Inspiring the new generation of women in engineering: my experience as researcher abroad".

​​​

New Funding! From the Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), U.S. Department of Energy under the FES Plasma Science Frontier Award No. DE-SC0021309 and user grant for the Fall 2020 at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

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April 16, 2020 Online Workshop on Plasma Chemistry and Catalysis:

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Our latest contribution at I&EC in the cover!

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2019​

New Funding! NSF-CBET Award grant No. 1947303 on Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis using molten metals and their alloys.

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Fall 2019 Research Group Picture at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

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Summer Institute at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

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Javishk Shah successfully defended his PhD thesis this summer 2019. Congratulations Dr. Shah!

Sara Gutierrez won 1st place in the category of research intensive University at the Capitol's research day for undergraduates.

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2022 Aiche meeting.

Excited that our work has been highlighted at "Recent Advances in Plasma Catalysis." This collection features recent experimental and modeling papers from several ACS journals that describe research ranging from fundamental plasma/surface characterizations to applied research.

Gorky, F., Nguyen, H. M., Lucero, J. M., Guthrie, S., Crawford, J. M., Carreon, M. A., & Carreon, M. L. (2022). CC3 Porous Organic Cage Crystals and Membranes for the Non-Thermal Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 100340.

Gershman, Sophia, Henry Fetsch, Fnu Gorky, and Maria L. Carreon. "Identifying Regimes During Plasma Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis." Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing (2022): 1-27.

2021

2020

2019

Fall 2018. STEM cafe at Union High School.

The Shark Tank Kick Start project: "Plasma Synthesis of Graphene from Pectin-rich Biomass" was selected for funding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4sxqIF9E0