Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

michael.nigra@utah.edu

Publications

• ENERGY: Sayed A. Sufyan, Brian van Devener, Paulo Perez & Michael M. Nigra (2022). Electronic Tuning of Gold Nanoparticle Active Sites for Reduction Catalysis. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Vol. 15, 1210., 12/29/2022
• ENERGY: Joseph S. Brindle, Patrick S. Nelson, Rashmi P. Charde, Sayed Abu Sufyan & Michael M. Nigra (2022). Catalytic cooperativity between glucose oxidase and gold nanoparticles in the sequential oxidation of glucose to saccharic acid. Green Chemistry., 06/03/2022
• ENERGY: Joe Brindle & Michael M. Nigra (2022). The role of water and copper oxide in methane oxidation using AuPd nanoparticle catalysts. Chem. Eng. J., 05/14/2022
• ENERGY: Joseph S. Brindle, Sayed Abu Sufyan & Michael Nigra (2022). Support, composition, and ligand effects in partial oxidation of benzyl alcohol using gold-copper clusters. Catal. Sci. Technol., 04/30/2022
• ENERGY: Nidhi Kapil, Fabio Cardinale, Tobias Weißenberger, Panagiotis Trogadas, Alexander Nijhuis, Michael Nigra & Marc-Olivier Coppens (2021). Gold nanoparticles with tailored size through ligand modification for catalytic applications. Chemical Communications., 09/24/2021 NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM
• ENERGY: N. Kapil, T. Weissenberger, F. Cardinale, P. Trogadas, T.A. Nijhuis, M.M. Nigra & M.-O. Coppens (2021). Precisely Engineered Supported Gold Clusters as a Stable Catalyst for Propylene Epoxidation. Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed. Vol. 60, 18185., 06/2021 NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM
• ENERGY: S. Agarwal, R.A. Mysko, M.M. Nigra, S. Mohanty & M.P. Hoepfner (2021). Plasmonic photocatalytic enhancement of L-cysteine self-assembled gold nanoparticle clusters for Fenton reaction catalysis. Langmuir. Vol. 37, 3281., 03/2021

Presentations

• ENERGY: Verma, C.; Brindle, J.; Nigra, M.M.; “Cooperative Catalysis for Selective Oxidation with Hybrid Gold Nanoparticle Enzyme Materials” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 11/2019
• ENERGY: Kapil, N.; Nigra, M.M.; Coppens, M.-O.; “Atomically Precise Gold Clusters with Modulated Ligand and Support Environment for Oxidation Catalysis” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 11/2019
• ENERGY: Brindle, J.; Nigra, M.M.; “Gold Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Applications in Selective Oxidation Catalysis” AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 11/2019
• ENERGY: Brindle, J.; Nelson, P.; Verma, C.; Nigra, M.M.; “Cooperative oxidation catalysis with hybrid gold nanoparticle-oxidase materials” 26th North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, Chicago, IL, 06/2019
• ENERGY: Brindle, J.; Nigra, M.M.; “Gold-copper bimetallic clusters for application in selective oxidation” 26th North American Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, Chicago, IL, 06/2019