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Dr. N.R. (Shiju Raveendran) Shiju

Faculty of Science
Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences
Photographer: Robert Calderone
Visiting address
  • Science Park 904
  • Room number: C2.220
Postal address
  • Postbus 94157
    1090 GD Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Associate Professor- catalysis engineering

    Van 't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam.

     

    In two new LIFT projects, we will develop graphene based coatings together with Tata Steel-Netherlands and chemical intermediates based on polycyclic aromatics with Reutgers resins:

    Public-private research projects receive LIFT funding
    New grant: TKI-DSM for sustainable cyclohexyl amine synthesis
    New grant: Green plasma chemistry

    New grant!

    We have been awarded funding in the European research project CAPITA (Catalytic Processes for Innovative Technology Application) for developing a catalytic reactor for producing Green Methanol using CO2 as feedstock.

    Other partners in the consortium include the University of Castilla-La-Mancha (UCLM, Spain), the Technological Educational Institute of Sterea Ellada (TEISE, Greece) and the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI, Greece).

    Three companies are involved: Hellenic Petroleum Renewables (HELPE RES, Greece), GRAPHENANO (Spain), and Delft Solid Solutions (Netherlands).

    (January 2014)

    Towards Green Methanol

    Research highlights

    A new catalyst for ammoximation:

    We have discovered a new catalyst for ammoximation.This catalyst contributes to more sustainable processes for making fine chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates and for polymer production. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has transferred the patent and all related intellectual property rights on this catalyst to DSM.

    University of Amsterdam sells patent rights for new catalyst

    Science park new idea prize 2010

    I won the UvA Science Park New Ideas Prize contest 2010, together with Gadi, for the finding of 'A new catalyst for making nylons'. This new catalyst and process gives a straightforward route to making nylons that reduces waste and demands less raw material. The catalyst has also been patented by the University of Amsterdam. We are now in contact with possible industrial partners in an effort to turn the discoveryinto a commercial process.

    Science park new idea prize

     

     

    Our work has been featured by the University of Amsterdam in this video:

    University of Amsterdam & Business and industry

     

    I am also a managing council member of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CM1104 Reducible oxide chemistry, structure and functions.

    COST Action CM1104: Reducible oxide chemistry, structure and functions

     

    Antagonistic Catalysis: Creating a Bifunctional and Tunable Acid-Base Catalyst

    Using a simple and straightforward approach, we have created a bifunctional surface that combines the advantages of bifunctional enzyme-like catalysis with the ease of separation and robustness of traditional heterogeneous catalysis.

    ( Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 9615 -9619)

    BNL highlight

    Renewables to chemicals

    We are also working on various routes for converting renewable feed-stocks (glycerol, lactic acid) to chemicals.

    Check out these publications:

    Glycerol valorization: dehydration to acrolein over silica-supported niobia catalysts. Top. Catal. , 2010, 53, 1217.

     

    Glycerol utilization: solvent-free acetalisation over niobia catalysts

    G. S. Nair, E. Adrijanto, A. Alsalme, I. V. Kozhevnikov, D.J. Cooke, D. R. Brown, N. R. Shiju.
    Catal. Sci. Tech. , 2012 , 2, 1173 (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cy/c2cy00335j).

    ( one of the top ten most accessed articles in Catal. Sci. Technol. in March 2012).

     

    Hemicellulose hydrolysis catalysed by solid acids
    P. D. Carà, M. Pagliaro, A. Elmekawy, D. R. Brown, P. Verschuren, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Catal. Sci. Technol. 2013, in press (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/cy/c3cy20838a)

    Niobia model with glycerol and acetone molecules (from Shiju et al. Catal. Sci. Tech. , 2012 , 2, 1173)
    See: Top ten most accessed articles in March

    Structure-activity relationships

    We also try to understand how a catalyst works for a reaction, using advanced spectroscopy/microscopy techniques such as XAS, XPS, aberration corrected electron microscopy, solid-state NMR and so on. See, e.g., Shiju et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (2008) 5850 (propane ammoxidation to acrylonitrile over mixed oxide catalysts).

    Z-contrast TEM images of Mo-V-Te-Nb-O M1 phase particles after atomic layer deposition of alumina. The second image shows a broken particle, exposing basal planes. Bottom: SEM image of Mo-V-Te-O M1 phase particles (from Shiju et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (2008) 5850)
    Atomic resolution AC-TEM image of a sub-nanometre cluster of faceted and multiply twinned disordered WO3 in tungstated zirconia (shown by white/blue arrow; and magnified in the inset). (111) plane of the cluster is indicated by a black arrow. (From 'Dynamic atomic scale in situ electron microscopy in the development of an efficient heterogeneous catalytic process for pharmaceutical NSAIDS'. Shiju et al. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1, 413–425.

     

    Some invited talks:

    •  Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference, 3 - 6 April 2016 | Intercontinental Hotel, Berlin, Germany, http://www.greensuschemconf.com/
    •  Topics in European Catalysis- a view from Amsterdam. Topics in European Catalysis- 2nd CAPITA meeting on European Catalysis (under EU framework), Brussels, February 2014.http://www.era-capita.eu/calendar/topics-in-european-catalysis 
    •  Heterogeneously catalysed conversion of biomass derivatives to chemicals. 66th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) and joint Indo-US symposium, Mumbai, India, December 2013.

     

    My former institutions:

    PhD in Heterogeneous Catalysis from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

    Previous experience: Research associate at Davy Faraday Research Laboratory (The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London), at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, and at the University of Huddersfield.

    Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry
    National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
    The University of Cincinnati
    Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution
    The University of Huddersfield

    Professional Affiliations

    NIOK
    NRSCC
    Catalysis Society of India

    Contact

    Please check this link for contacting us and visiting address:

    Science Park Amsterdam
  • Publications

    Publications

    • E. S. Gnanakumar, N. Chandran, I. V. Kozhevnikov, A. Grau-Atienza, E.  V. Ramos Fernández, A. Sepulveda-Escribano, N. R. Shiju, Highly efficient nickel-niobia composite catalysts for hydrogenation of CO2 to methane, Chem. Eng. Sci., 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2018.08.038.
    • V. Gitis, S.-H Chung, N. R. Shiju, Conversion of furfuryl alcohol into butyl levulinate with graphite oxide and reduced graphite oxide, FlatChem, 10, 39-44, 2018.
    • D. Y. Zhang, Q. Huang, E. J. Devid, E. Schuler, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, G. van Rooij, R. L. Yang, K. Z. Liu, A. W. Kleyn, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122, 19338-19347, 2018.
    • W. Zhang,  G. Innocenti,  M. Ferbinteanu,  E. V. Ramos Fernandez,  A Sepulveda-Escribano,  Hai-Hong Wu,  F. Cavani,  G. Rothenberg  and  N Raveendran Shiju, Understanding the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate over vanadia/titania catalysts, Catal. Sci. Technol., 8, 3737-3747, 2018.
    • W. Zhang, B. Ensing, G. Rothenberg, and N. R. Shiju, Designing effective solid catalysts for biomass conversion: Aerobic oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate, Green Chem., 20, 1866-1873, 2018.
    • W. Zhang, G. Innocenti, P. Oulego, V. Gitis, Hai-Hong Wu, B. Ensing, F. Cavani, G. Rothenberg, and N. R. Shiju, Highly selective oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate catalysed by mesoporous vanadia–titania, ACS Catal.,  8 (3), 2365–23743, 2018
    • W. Ng, E. S. Gnanakumar, E. Batyrev, H. F. Greer, W. Zhou, R. Sakidja, G. Rothenberg, M. Barsoum and N. R. Shiju, Ti3AlC2 MAX-phase as an efficient catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 57, 1485-1490, 2018.
    • E. S. Gnanakumar, B. Coşkuner, Wesley Ng, G. Rothenberg, S. Wang, H. Xu, L. Pastor-Pérez, M. M. Pastor-Blas, A. Sepúlveda-Escribano, N. Yan, N. R. Shiju, Plasma-assisted synthesis of supported Ru catalysts for efficient organosilane oxidation. ChemCatChem, 9, 4159-4163, 2017 .
    • R. Beerthuis, L. Huang, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, W. Shen and H. Xu, Facile Synthesis of a Novel Hierarchical ZSM-5 Zeolite, a Stable Acid Catalyst for Dehydrating Glycerol to Acrolein, ChemCatChem, 10, 211-221, 2018.
    • B. Coşkuner, A. Martínez-Arias, G. Rothenberg and N. Raveendran Shiju, Highly selective hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone over Ru/ZrO2 catalysts. Catal. Lett., 147, 1744–1753, 2017.
    • K. Dietrich, C. Mejia, P. Verschuren, G. Rothenberg, N. R. Shiju, One-pot Selective Conversion of Hemicellulose to Xylitol, Org. Process Res. Dev. 21 (2), 165–170, 2017.
    • R. Maggi, N. R. Shiju,  V. Santacroce, G. Maestri, F. Bigi, G. Rothenberg, Silica-supported sulfonic acids as recyclable catalyst for esterification of levulinic acid with stoichiometric amounts of alcohols. ‎Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 12, 2173-2180, 2016.
    • C. H. Mejia, E. S. Raja, A. Olivos-Suarez, J. Gascon, H. F Greer, W. Zhou, G. Rothenberg and N. Raveendran Shiju, Ru/TiO2-catalysed hydrogenation of xylose: the role of crystal structure of the support. Catal. Sci. Technol. 6, 577-582, 2016. 
    • N. Madaan, N. R. Shiju and G. Rothenberg, Predicting the performance of oxidation catalysts using descriptor models, Catal. Sci. Technol. 6, 125-133, 2016 .
    • R. Beerthuis, M. Granollers, D. R. Brown, H. J. Salavagione, G. Rothenberg and N. R. Shiju, Catalytic acetoxylation of lactic acid to 2-acetoxypropionic acid, en route to acrylic acid. RSC Adv., 5, 4103-4108, 2015.

    • R. Beerthuis, G. Rothenberg and N. R. Shiju, Catalytic Routes towards Acrylic Acid, Adipic Acid and ε-Caprolactam starting from Biorenewables, Green Chem. 17, 1341-1361, 2015

    • E. V. Ramos-Fernandez, N. J. Geels, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Titania-catalysed oxidative dehydrogenation of ethyl lactate: Effective yet selective free-radical oxidation, Green Chem. 16, 3358-  3363, 2014

    • A. A. Elmekawy, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, D. R. Brown, Environmentally Benign Bifunctional Solid Acid and Base Catalysts, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53, 18722-18728, 2014.

    • V. Gitis, R. Beerthuis, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Organosilane oxidation by water catalysed by Large gold nanoparticles in a membrane reactor, Catal. Sci. Technol., 4, 2156-2160, 2014.

    • E. V. Ramos-Fernandez, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Understanding the solar-driven reduction of CO2 on doped ceria, RSC Adv., 4 (32), 16456–16463, 2014.

    • P. D. Carà, R. Ciriminna, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, M. Pagliaro, Enhanced heterogeneous catalytic  conversion of furfuryl Alcohol into butyl levulinate. ChemSusChem, 7, 835-840, 2014.

    • N. Madaan, R. Haufe, N.R. Shiju and G. Rothenberg, Oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane: activity and kinetics over VOX/Al2O3 catalysts. Top. Catal. 57, 1400-1406, 2014.

    • V.R. Calderone, N.R. Shiju, D. Curulla-Ferré, A. Rose, J. Thiessen, A. Jess, E. van der Roest, B.V. Wiewel and G. Rothenberg, Applying topological and economical principles in catalyst design: New Alumina-Cobalt Core-Shell  Catalysts, Top. Catal., 57, 1419-1424, 2014.

    • P. D. Carà, M. Pagliaro, A. Elmekawy, D. R. Brown, P. Verschuren, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Hemicellulose hydrolysis catalysed by solid acids, Catal. Sci. Technol. 3, 2057-2061, 2013. 

    • J. Dulle, K. Thirunavukkarasu, M.C. Mittelmeijer-Hazeleger, D.V. Andreeva, N.R. Shiju, G.  Rothenberg, Efficient three-component coupling catalysed by mesoporous copper-aluminum based nanocomposites. Green Chem., 15, 1238-1243, 2013.

    • V.R. Calderone, N.R. Shiju, D. Curulla Ferré, S. Chambrey, A. Khodakov, A. Rose, J. Thiessen, A. Jess and  G. Rothenberg, De novo design of nanostructured iron-cobalt Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 4397–4401, 2013 . 

    • L. van Gelderen, G. Rothenberg, V.R. Calderone, K. Wilson and N.R. Shiju, Efficient alkyne   homocoupling catalysed by copper immobilized on functionalized silica., Appl. Organomet. Chem., 27, 23-27, 2013. 

    • E. D. Batyrev, N. R. Shiju and G. Rothenberg, Exploring the Activated State of Cu/ZnO(0001)-Zn, a  Model Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis. J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 19335-19341, 2012.  

    • G. S. Nair, E. Adrijanto, A. Alsalme, I. V. Kozhevnikov, D. J. Cooke, D. R. Brown and N. R. Shiju, Glycerol utilization: solvent-free acetalisation over niobia catalyst. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2, 1173-1179, 2012.

    • Carlos Caro, K. Thirunavukkarasu, M. Anil Kumar, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, Selective auto-oxidation of ethanol over titania supported molybdenum oxide catalysts: Structure and reactivity. Adv. Synth. Catal., 354, 1327-1336, 2012. 

    • N. R. Shiju, A. H. Alberts, S. Khalid, D. R. Brown, G. Rothenberg, Mesoporous silica with site-isolated amine and phosphotungstic acid groups: A solid catalyst with tunable antagonistic functions for one-pot tandem reactions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 9615-9619, 2011.

    • N. R. Shiju, M. Anilkumar, S. P. Gokhale, B. S. Rao, C.V.V. Satyanarayana, Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene using nitrous oxide over vanadia–magnesia catalysts. Catal. Sci. Technol., 1, 1262-1270, 2011. 

    • V. R. Calderone, N. R. Shiju, D. Curulla-Ferre, G. Rothenberg, Bimetallic catalysts for the Fischer–Tropsch reaction. Green Chem., 13, 1950-1959, 2011.  

    •  N. R. Shiju, K. Yoshida, E. D. Boyes, D. R. Brown, P. L. Gai, Dynamic atomic scale in situ electron microscopy in the development of an efficient heterogeneous catalytic process for pharmaceutical NSAIDS. Catal. Sci. Technol., 1, 413-425, 2011. 

    • N. R. Shiju, Size matters: the role of metal-support bonding in controlling the particle size of ceria supported transition metal catalysts. ChemCatChem, 3, 112-114, 2011.         

    • N. R. Shiju, D. R. Brown, K. Wilson, G. Rothenberg, Glycerol valorization: dehydration to acrolein over silica-supported niobia catalysts. Top. Catal., 53, 1217-1223, 2010.

    • M. Bandyopadhyay, N.R. Shiju, D.R. Brown, MCM-48 as a support for sulfonic acid catalysts. Catal. Commun., 11, 660-664, 2010. 

    • N. R. Shiju, K. Yoshida, D. R. Brown, E. D. Boyes, P. L. Gai, Double aberration-corrected TEM/STEM of tungstated zirconia nanocatalysts for the synthesis of acetaminophen/paracetamol. Microsc Microanal., 15, 1268, 2009.

    • N. R. Shiju, M. AnilKumar, W. F. Hoelderich, D. R. Brown., Tungstated zirconia catalysts for liquid-phase Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone Oxime: structure-activity relationship. J. Phys. Chem. C, 113, 7735-7742, 2009.  

    • P. F. Siril, N. R. Shiju, D. R. Brown, K. Wilson. Optimising catalytic properties of supported sulfonic acid catalysts. Appl. Catal. A, 364, 95-100, 2009.

    • N. R. Shiju, H. M. Williams, D. R. Brown, Cs exchanged phosphotungstic acid as an efficient catalyst for liquid-phase Beckmann rearrangement of oximes. Appl. Catal. B, 90, 451-457, 2009.

    • N. R. Shiju, V. V. Guliants, Recent developments in catalysis using nanostructured materials. Appl. Catal. A, 356, 1-17, 2009.

    • W. D. Pyrz, D. A. Blom, N. R. Shiju, V. V. Guliants, T. Vogt, D. J. Buttrey, The effect of Nb or Ta substitution into the M1 phase of the MoV(Nb,Ta)TeO selective oxidation catalyst. Catal. Today, 142, 320-328, 2009.   

    • N. R. Shiju, X. Liang, A. W. Weimer, C. Liang, S. Dai, V. V. Guliants, The role of surface basal planes of layered mixed metal oxides in selective transformation of lower alkanes: propane ammoxidation over surface ab planes of Mo−V−Te−Nb−O M1 phase. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 5850, 2008. 

    • W. D. Pyrz, D. A.  Blom, N. R.  Shiju, V. V. Guliants, T. Vogt, D. J. Buttrey, Using aberration-corrected STEM imaging to explore chemical and structural variations in the M1 phase of the MoVNbTeO oxidation catalyst. J. Phys. Chem. C., 112, 10043-10049, 2008. 

    • G. Sankar, N. R. Shiju, I. D. Watts, S. Nikitenko, W. Bras, Structure of iron and manganese ions substituted in the framework of nanoporous AlPO-5 material. Research on Chemical Intermediates, 34, 649-658, 2008.

    • N. R. Shiju, V. V. Guliants, S. H. Overbury, A. J. Rondinone, Toward environmentally benign oxidations: bulk mixed Mo-V-(Te-Nb)-O M1 Phase catalysts for the selective ammoxidation of propane. ChemSusChem, 1, 519-523, 2008.

    • N. R. Shiju, V. V. Guliants, Mo–V–M–O (M = Te, W, Fe, Ga) catalysts for selective ammoxidation of propane. Catal. Commun., 9, 2253-2256, 2008. 

    • P. Korovchenko, N. R. Shiju, A. K. Dozier, U. M. Graham, M. O. Guerrero-Pérez, V. V. Guliants., M1 to M2 phase transformation and phase cooperation in bulk mixed metal Mo-V-M-O (M= Te, Nb) catalysts for selective ammoxidation of propane. Top. Catal., 50, 43-51, 2008. 

    • N. R. Shiju, A. J. Rondinone, D. Mullins, V. Schwartz, S. Overbury, V. V. Guliants, XANES study of hydrothermal Mo-V based mixed oxide M1 phase catalysts for the (amm)oxidation of propane. Chem. Mater., 20, 6611-6616, 2008. 

    • N. R. Shiju, V. V Guliants, Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of monophasic Mo-V-Te-Nb-O mixed oxide catalyst for the selective ammoxidation of propane. ChemPhysChem, 8, 1615-1617, 2007.   

    • N. R. Shiju, R. R. Kale, S. S Iyer, V. V Guliants, 13C isotope labeling study of propane ammoxidation over M1 phase Mo-V-Te-Nb-O mixed oxide catalyst. J. Phys. Chem. C. 111, 18001-18003, 2007.

    • G. Sankar, N. R. Shiju and A. Welch, Structure of titanium substituted silicates and their catalytic properties. Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 172, 365, 2007. 

    • N. R. Shiju, S. Fiddy, O. Sonntag, M. Stockenhuber, G. Sankar, Selective oxidation of benzene to phenol over Fe-AlPO catalysts using nitrous oxide as oxidant. Chem. Commun., 47, 4955-4957, 2006. 

    • G Nair, J. Garguili, N. R. Shiju, Z. Rong, E. Shapiro, D Drikakis, P. Vadgama, In situ fabrication of crosslinked protein membranes using microfluidics. ChemBioChem, 7, 1683-1689, 2006.

    • A. Welch, N. R. Shiju, I. D. Watts, G. Sankar, S. Nikitenko, W. Bras, Epoxidation of cyclohexene over crystalline and amorphous titanosilicate catalysts. Catal. Lett., 105, 179-182, 2005. 

    • N. R. Shiju, M. Anilkumar, S. P. Mirajkar, C. S. Gopinath, B. S. Rao and C. V. Satyanarayana, Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene over vanadia-alumina catalysts in the presence of nitrous oxide: structure-activity relationship. J. Catal., 230, 484-492, 2005. 

    • T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju, V.V. Bokade, B.S. Rao, C.S. Gopinath, Selective catalytic synthesis of 2-ethyl phenol over Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 – kinetics, catalysis and XPS aspects. Catalysis Letters, 94, 223-236, 2004. 

    • T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju, R. Y. Nimje, P. M. Adkine, B. S. Rao, V. V. Bokade, Thermodynamic study of reaction of phenol with methanol over Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 (x=0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1) spinel system. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 81, 265-270, 2003. 

    • T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju, K. Sreekumar, B. S. Rao and C. S. Gopinath, Cu-Co synergism in Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 - catalysis and XPS aspects. Journal of Catalysis, 210, 405-417, 2002. 

    • T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju, B. B. Tope, S. G. Hegde, B. S. Rao and C. S. Gopinath, Acid-base properties of Cu1-xCoxFe2O4 ferrospinels: FT-IR investigations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 4, 4260-4267, 2002. 

    • Acid-base properties of Cu 1-x Co x Fe 2 O4 ferrospinels: FT-IR investigations. T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju, B. B. Tope, S. G. Hegde, B. S. Rao and C. S. Gopinath, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2002, 4, 4260.

    • Patents

    • N. R. Shiju, Catalytic process for the ammoximation of carbonyl compounds. European patent application, EP10152633.3 (2010). US patent application no. 12/700,280 (2010). PCT/EP2011/051600.

    • V. R. Calderone, N. R. Shiju, G. Rothenberg, D. Curulla-Ferré. Core-shell particles with catalytic
      activity. European patent application EP11305657.6 (2011).

    • B. S.Rao,T. Mathew, N. R. Shiju and R. Vetrivel, A novel catalytic process using mixed metal oxides for the preparation ofa mixture of alkylphenols. Indian patent, Application 1211/ DEL /2000, published 08-12-2006 , filed 26-12-2000, Classification: C07C 37/00.

    Books

    N. R. Shiju , The importance of diffusion in catalytic reactions: A brief introduction, Edited by B. Viswanathan, A.V. Ramaswamy, S. Sivasanker, Catalysis: Principles and Applications, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2002.

    News articles

    One-Pot Tandem Reactions with a Bifunctional Solid Catalyst
    Antagonistic Catalyst TurnsTandem Reaction.
    Nieuwekatalysator heeft twee gezichten.
  • Publications

    2024

    • Boel, M. J., Wang, H., Al Farra, A., Megido, L., González-LaFuente, J. M., & Shiju, N. R. (2024). Hydrothermal liquefaction of plastics: a survey of the effect of reaction conditions on the reaction efficiency. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 9(5), 1014-1031. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2re00510g
    • Chung, S.-H., Demetriou, M., Wang, H., & Shiju, N. R. (2024). Solid acid catalyzed esterification of dicyclopentadiene with organic acids to bio-based functional monomers. Sustainable energy and fuels, 8(8), 1788-1792. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3se01019h

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    2012

    • Batyrev, E. D., Shiju, N. R., & Rothenberg, G. (2012). Exploring the activated state of Cu/ZnO(0001)-Zn, a model catalyst for methanol synthesis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, 116(36), 19335-19341. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp3051438 [details]
    • Caro, C., Thirunavukkarasu, K., Anilkumar, M., Shiju, N. R., & Rothenberg, G. (2012). Selective autooxidation of ethanol over titania-supported molybdenum oxide catalysts: structure and reactivity. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 354(7), 1327-1336. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201000841 [details]
    • Nair, G. S., Adrijanto, E., Alsalme, A., Kozhevnikov, I. V., Cooke, D. J., Brown, D. R., & Shiju, N. R. (2012). Glycerol utilization: solvent-free acetalisation over niobia catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology, 2(6), 1173-1179. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cy00335j [details]
    • Shiju, N. R., Alberts, A. H., Khalid, S., Brown, D. R., & Rothenberg, G. (2012). Erratum: Mesoporous silica with site-isolated amine and phosphotungstic acid groups: A solid catalyst with tunable antagonistic functions for one-pot tandem reactions (Angewandte Chemie - International Edition (2011) (50)). Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 51(6), 1298. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201109094

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    2011

    • Shiju, N. R., Anilkumar, M., Gokhale, S. P., Rao, B. S., & Satyanarayana, C. V. V. (2011). Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene using nitrous oxide over vanadia-magnesia catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology, 1(7), 1262-1270. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cy00168j [details]
    • Shiju, N. R., Yoshida, K., Boyes, E. D., Brown, D. R., & Gai, P. L. (2011). Dynamic atomic scale in situ electron microscopy in the development of an efficient heterogeneous catalytic process for pharmaceutical NSAIDS. Catalysis Science & Technology, 1(3), 413-425. https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cy00063a [details]

    2015

    2014

    • Calderone, V. R., Shiju, N. R., Rothenberg, G., & Curulla Ferre, D. (2014). Core-​shell particles with catalytic activity.

    2011

    • Calderone, V. R., Shiju, N. R., Rothenberg, G., & Curulla-Ferré, D. (2011). Core-shell particles with catalytic activity.

    2010

    • Shiju, N. R. (2010). Catalytic process for the ammoximation of carbonyl compounds.

    Prize / grant

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Shiju, S. (speaker) (23-12-2020). Development of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Processes, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
    • Shiju, S. (speaker) (17-10-2020). Catalysis Engineering in Amsterdam: an overview, Vaibhav Summit organised by Government of India.
    • Shiju, S. (speaker) (16-9-2020). Catalysis in action: a few short stories, International webinar series on Advanced Topics in Chemistry-2020, Calicut.
    • Shiju, S. (speaker) (9-2020). Development of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Chemical Processes, National webinar on sustainable chemistry: challenges and opportunities, India.
    • Shiju, S. (speaker) (1-2020). MAX phases and MXenes in heterogeneous catalysis, UK Catalysis Conference 2020, Loughborough.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (28-10-2016). Catalysis engineering for sustainable chemical processes, CTCE-2016, Pune.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (10-2016). Metal oxide catalysed selective oxidations-probing the structure-activity relationships, SABIC Bangalore.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (10-2016). Catalysis in action: a few short stories, M.G. University, Kottayam.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (4-2016). Tuning selectivity in oxidation of lower alkanes, 1st Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference, Berlin.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (3-2016). Break the bark: New catalytic routes from biomass to chemicals, 26th ORCS Conference, Miami.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (2-2016). Catalysis in action: from nylon to paracetamol, Neste, Espoo.
    • Shiju, N. R. (speaker) (1-2016). Designing heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable chemical processes, DSM.

    Others

    • Shiju, S. (other) & Ronda Lloret, M. (other) (21-4-2021). Outreach:Visiting high school students win two profielwerkstuk prizes as a result of their research at HIMS (other).
    • Shiju, S. (visiting researcher) (2-2020). Arcelor Mittal Global R&D Asturias (visiting an external institution).
    • Shiju, N. R. (host) (18-10-2018). Vivek Ranade (hosting a visitor).
    • Petrignani, A. (participant), van Maarseveen, J. (participant), Shiju, S. (participant) & Ensing, B. (participant) (6-7-2018). Chemie in Amsterdam. Chemie in Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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