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Journal Publications

1.     Roh, J.; Park, H.; Kwon, H.; Joo, C.; Moon, ill.; Cho, HT.; Ro, Insoo*, Kim, J. Interpretable machine learning framework for catalyst performance prediction and validation with dry reforming of methane, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volume 343, 2024, 123454, DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123454.

2.     Park, H.; Roh, J.; Cho, H.; Ro, Insoo*.; Kim, J. . Accelerating active catalyst discovery: a probabilistic prediction-based screening methodology with applications in dry reforming of methane. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024,  DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.146076.

3.     Nguyen-Phu, H.; Kwon, T.; Kim, T.; Thi Do, L.; Kang, K. H.; Ro, Insoo*. Investigating the influence of Ru structures and supports on hydrogenolysis of polyethylene plastic waste. Chemical Engineering Journal 2023, 475. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.146076.

4.     Kim, T.; Nguyen-Phu, H.; Kwon, T.; Kang, K. H.; Ro, Insoo*. Investigating the impact of TiO(2) crystalline phases on catalytic properties of Ru/TiO(2) for hydrogenolysis of polyethylene plastic waste. Environ Pollut 2023, 331 (Pt 2), 121876. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121876  From NLM Medline.

5.    Jung, S.; Ro, Insoo. Strategic use of thermo-chemical processes for plastic waste valorization. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 2023, 40 , 693-705. 

6.     Nguyen-Phu, H.; Kim, T.; Kim, Y.; Kang, K. H.; Cho, H.; Kim, J.; Ro, Insoo. Role of phase in NiMgAl mixed oxide catalysts for CO2 dry methane reforming (DRM). Catalysis Today 2023, 411-412. 

7.     Kim, Y.; Kim, T.; Hyuk Kang, K.; Ro, Insoo*. Enhanced Stability of Atomically Dispersed Pd Catalysts via Ionic Liquid Layer Deposition for Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation to Ethylene in Excess Ethylene. ChemCatChem 2023, 15

8.     Jang, J. H.; Hopper, J. T.; Ro, Insoo.; Christopher, P.; Abu-Omar, M. M. One-step production of renewable adipic acid esters from mucic acid over an Ir–ReOx/C catalyst with low Ir loading. Catalysis Science & Technology 2023, 13 (3), 714-725

9.     Ro, Insoo.; Qi, J.; Lee, S.; Xu, M.; Yan, X.; Xie, Z.; Zakem, G.; Morales, A.; Chen, J. G.; Pan, X.; et al. Bifunctional hydroformylation on heterogeneous Rh-WO(x) pair site catalysts. Nature 2022, 609 (7926), 287-292

10.     Zakem, G.; Ro, Insoo.; Finzel, J.; Christopher, P. Support functionalization as an approach for modifying activation entropies of catalytic reactions on atomically dispersed metal sites. Journal of Catalysis 2021, 404, 883-896.

11.    Kang, K. H., N. T. Nguyen, D. V. Pham, P. W. Seo, N. Kang, C. W. Lee, M.-C. Chung, C.-H. Kwak, Ro, Insoo, Y.-P. Jeon and S. Park . "Ligand structure effect in oil-soluble phosphorus-containing molybdenum precursors for slurry-phase hydrocracking of heavy oil." Journal of Catalysis 2021, 402: 194-207.

12.    Ro, Insoo; Xu, M.; Graham, G. W. ; Pan, X.; Christopher, P. Precise Synthesis of Heteroatom RhOx-ReOx Atomically Dispersed Site Pairs and Catalytic Consequences for Ethylene Hydroformylation. ACS Catalysis 2019, 9, 10899-10912. 

13.    DeRita, L.; Resasco, J.; Dai, S.; Boubnov, A.; Thang, H. V.; Hoffman, A. S.; Ro, Insoo; Graham, G.; Bare, S. R.; Pacchioni, G.; Pan, X.; Christopher, P. Structural Evolution of Atomically Dispersed Pt Catalysts Dictates Reactivity. Nature Materials 2019, 18, 746-751.

14.    Ro, Insoo; Resasco, J.; Christopher, P. Approaches for Understanding and Controlling Interfacial Effects in Oxide-Supported Metal Catalysts. ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 7368-7387. 

15.    Ro, Insoo; Arago, I. B.; Brentzel, Z. J.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J. A. Intrinsic Activity of Interfacial Sites for Pt-Fe and Pt-Mo Catalysts in the Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Groups. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2018, 231, 182-190. 

16.    Ro, Insoo; Arago, I. B.; Chada, P. J.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R.; Zanchet, D.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. The Role of Pt-FexOy Interfacial Sites for CO Oxidation. Journal of Catalysis 2018, 358, 19-26. (Selected as one of most downloaded articles in Journal of Catalysis in last 90 days as of March-May 2018)

17.    Arago, I. B.; Ro, Insoo; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R.; Catalysts Synthesized by Selective Deposition of Fe onto Pt for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2018, 222, 182-190.

18.    Lee, J.; Ro, Insoo; Kim, H. J.; Kim, Y. T.; Kwon, E. E.; Huber, G. W. Production of renewable C4-C6 monoalcohols from waste biomass-derived carbohydrate via aqueous-phase hydrodeoxygenation over Pt-ReOx/Zr-P. Process Safety and Environmental Protection 2018, 115, 2-7.

19.    Liu, Y.; Gӧeltl, F.; Ro, Insoo; Ball, M. R.; Sener, C.; Arago, I. B.; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G. W.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J. A. Synthesis Gas Conversion over Rh-based Catalysts Promoted by Fe and Mn. ACS Catalysis 2017, 7,4550-4563. 

20.    Ro, Insoo; Sener, C.; Stadelman, T. S.; Ball, M. R.; Venegas, J.M.; Burt, S; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Measurement of Intrinsic Catalytic Activity of Pt monometallic and Pt-MoOx Interfacial Sites over Visible Light Enhanced PtMoOx/SiO2 Catalyst in Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction. Journal of Catalysis 2016, 344, 784-794.

21.    Ro, Insoo; Liu, Y.; Ball, M.; Jackson, D.H.K.; Chada, J. P. ; Sener, C.; Kuech, T.F.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J.A. The Role of the Cu-ZrO2 Interfacial Sites for Ethanol Conversion and Methanol Synthesis from CO2 and H2. ACS Catalysis 2016, 6, 7040-7050. 

22.    Ro, Insoo; Carrasquillo-Flores, R.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Intrinsic Kinetics of Plasmon-enhanced Reverse Water Gas Shift on Au and Au-Mo Interfacial Sites Supported on Silica. Applied Catalysis A: General 2016, 521, 182-189 (Invited article: Special issue on “Recent Developments in Photocatalysis”)

23.    Carrasquillo-Flores, R.; Ro, Insoo; Kumbhalkar, M. D.; Burt, S.; Carrero, C. A.; Alba-Rubio, A. C.; Miller, J. T.; Hermans, I.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J. A. Reverse Water–Gas Shift on Interfacial Sites Formed by Deposition of Oxidized Molybdenum Moieties onto Gold Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 10317-10325.

24.    Lee, J.; Burt, S. P.; Carrero, C. A.; Alba-Rubio, A. C.; Ro, Insoo; O’Neill, B. J.; Kim, H. J.; Jackson, D. H. K.; Kuech, T. F.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Stabilizing Cobalt Catalysts for Aqueous-phase reactions by Strong Metal-support Interaction. Journal of Catalysis 2015, 330, 19-27.

25.    Upadhye, A. A.; Ro, Insoo; Zeng, X.; Kim, H. J.; Tejedor, I.; Anderson, M. A.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Plasmon-enhanced Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction over Oxide Supported Au Catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology 2015, 5, 2590-2601 (Highlighted in front cover page in the printed issue of the journal (November 5, 2015)) 

26.    Kim, H. J.; Lee, S. H.; Upadhye, A. A.; Ro, Insoo.; Tejedor-Tejedor, M. I.; Anderson, M. A.; Kim, W. B.; Huber, G. W. Plasmon-Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Size-Controllable Gold Nanodot Arrays. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 10756-10765

27.    Choi, M. Y.; Choi, D. J.; Ahn, K.O.; Ro, Insoo.; Kim, Y. H.; Suh, S. H. Fabrication of Copper Nanoparticles in a Thick Polyimide Film Cured by Rapid Thermal Annealing. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2012, 12, 3637-3640.

Publications

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Patents

1.    Ro, Insoo; Xu, M.; Graham, G. W. ; Pan, X.; Christopher, P. Precise Synthesis of Heteroatom RhOx-ReOx Atomically Dispersed Site Pairs and Catalytic Consequences for Ethylene Hydroformylation. ACS Catalysis 2019, 9, 10899-10912.  
2.    DeRita, L.; Resasco, J.; Dai, S.; Boubnov, A.; Thang, H. V.; Hoffman, A. S.; Ro, Insoo; Graham, G.; Bare, S. R.; Pacchioni, G.; Pan, X.; Christopher, P. Structural Evolution of Atomically Dispersed Pt Catalysts Dictates Reactivity. Nature Materials 2019, 18, 746-751.
3.    Ro, Insoo; Resasco, J.; Christopher, P. Approaches for Understanding and Controlling Interfacial Effects in Oxide-Supported Metal Catalysts. ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 7368-7387.
4.    Ro, Insoo; Arago, I. B.; Brentzel, Z. J.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J. A. Intrinsic Activity of Interfacial Sites for Pt-Fe and Pt-Mo Catalysts in the Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Groups. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2018, 231, 182-190. 
5.    Ro, Insoo; Arago, I. B.; Chada, P. J.; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R.; Zanchet, D.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. The Role of Pt-FexOy Interfacial Sites for CO Oxidation. Journal of Catalysis 2018, 358, 19-26. (Selected as one of most downloaded articles in Journal of Catalysis in last 90 days as of March-May 2018)
6.    Arago, I. B.; Ro, Insoo; Liu, Y.; Ball, M. R.; Catalysts Synthesized by Selective Deposition of Fe onto Pt for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2018, 222, 182-190.
7.    Lee, J.; Ro, Insoo; Kim, H. J.; Kim, Y. T.; Kwon, E. E.; Huber, G. W. Production of renewable C4-C6 monoalcohols from waste biomass-derived carbohydrate via aqueous-phase hydrodeoxygenation over Pt-ReOx/Zr-P. Process Safety and Environmental Protection 2018, 115, 2-7.
8.    Liu, Y.; Gӧeltl, F.; Ro, Insoo; Ball, M. R.; Sener, C.; Arago, I. B.; Zanchet, D.; Huber, G. W.; Mavrikakis, M.; Dumesic, J. A. Synthesis Gas Conversion over Rh-based Catalysts Promoted by Fe and Mn. ACS Catalysis 2017, 7,4550-4563.
9.    Ro, Insoo; Sener, C.; Stadelman, T. S.; Ball, M. R.; Venegas, J.M.; Burt, S; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Measurement of Intrinsic Catalytic Activity of Pt monometallic and Pt-MoOx Interfacial Sites over Visible Light Enhanced PtMoOx/SiO2 Catalyst in Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction. Journal of Catalysis 2016, 344, 784-794.
10.    Ro, Insoo; Liu, Y.; Ball, M.; Jackson, D.H.K.; Chada, J. P. ; Sener, C.; Kuech, T.F.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J.A. The Role of the Cu-ZrO2 Interfacial Sites for Ethanol Conversion and Methanol Synthesis from CO2 and H2. ACS Catalysis 2016, 6, 7040-7050. 
11.    Ro, Insoo; Carrasquillo-Flores, R.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Intrinsic Kinetics of Plasmon-enhanced Reverse Water Gas Shift on Au and Au-Mo Interfacial Sites Supported on Silica. Applied Catalysis A: General 2016, 521, 182-189 (Invited article: Special issue on “Recent Developments in Photocatalysis”)
12.    Carrasquillo-Flores, R.; Ro, Insoo; Kumbhalkar, M. D.; Burt, S.; Carrero, C. A.; Alba-Rubio, A. C.; Miller, J. T.; Hermans, I.; Huber, G. W.; Dumesic, J. A. Reverse Water–Gas Shift on Interfacial Sites Formed by Deposition of Oxidized Molybdenum Moieties onto Gold Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 10317-10325.
13.    Lee, J.; Burt, S. P.; Carrero, C. A.; Alba-Rubio, A. C.; Ro, Insoo; O’Neill, B. J.; Kim, H. J.; Jackson, D. H. K.; Kuech, T. F.; Hermans, I.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Stabilizing Cobalt Catalysts for Aqueous-phase reactions by Strong Metal-support Interaction. Journal of Catalysis 2015, 330, 19-27.
14.    Upadhye, A. A.; Ro, Insoo; Zeng, X.; Kim, H. J.; Tejedor, I.; Anderson, M. A.; Dumesic, J. A.; Huber, G. W. Plasmon-enhanced Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction over Oxide Supported Au Catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology 2015, 5, 2590-2601 (Highlighted in front cover page in the printed issue of the journal (November 5, 2015)) 
15.    Kim, H. J.; Lee, S. H.; Upadhye, A. A.; Ro, Insoo.; Tejedor-Tejedor, M. I.; Anderson, M. A.; Kim, W. B.; Huber, G. W. Plasmon-Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Size-Controllable Gold Nanodot Arrays. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 10756-10765
16.    Choi, M. Y.; Choi, D. J.; Ahn, K.O.; Ro, Insoo.; Kim, Y. H.; Suh, S. H. Fabrication of Copper     Nanoparticles in a Thick Polyimide Film Cured by Rapid Thermal Annealing. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2012, 12, 3637-3640.

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