The Ellis Lab

Welcome to the Ellis Lab!


The Ellis Lab seeks to develop heterogeneous catalysts and sorbents to help foster a more environmentally sustainable society, especially as it pertains to a more circular economy.  Our group mainly utilizes experimental tools, like custom liquid and vapor-phase reactors, temperature programmed systems, and characterization tools like chemisorption, BET, ICP, XPS,  and modeling, to help elucidate the structure-property relations of our materials. 


Currently much of our research focuses on developing new catalyst systems and reaction engineering concepts to help monetize the reclamation of waste plastics.

 

Ellis Group - Spring 2023

Left to Right: Andrew Tran, Lucas Ellis, Dimitri Gatzios, Jose Naranjo Mendez, Selena Moore, Hannah Frankovic, Andreas Palmateer

Lab Announcements

Henry Seely & Jose Naranjo Mendez showing first year engineering students how to make biodiesel from vegetable oil.  (Not pictured: Hannah Frankovic, Andrew Tran, Lucas Ellis, and Skip Rochefort)

High school students (Engineering Day) working in teams to develop a prototype to separate a mixture for the cheapest price. 

High school students transitioning to university (LSAMP Bridge Program) working in teams to develop a prototype to separate a mixture for the cheapest price. 

Left to Right: Jose Naranjo-Mendez, Jessica Finnie, Amelia Prins, & Andreas Palmateer

Hannah Frankovic @ CUE

Andrew Tran @ CUE

Jose Naranjo Mendez @ CUE