Nicholas A. Brunelli

Nicholas A. Brunelli's research focuses on designing zeolite and mesoporous silica catalysts—including tin-containing zeolites (Sn-Beta)—for converting biomass-derived molecules like fructose and furfural into useful chemicals, as well as developing scalable flow-based methods for making nanoparticle catalysts. This work sits at the intersection of catalysis, materials synthesis, and chemical engineering, with applications in sustainable fuel and chemical production. Prospective students would likely engage with experimental catalyst synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and reaction engineering techniques.

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade with a dip around 2020 and 2023, but has remained active with a recent uptick in 2025, averaging just over 3 papers per year over the last five years.

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