• March 2024: Jason Bates's co-authored article on rigor and reproducibility in site-specific characterization was published in Journal of Catalysis. 

• March 2024: Jason Bates receives a travel award to the 18th International Congress on Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society.

• February 2024: The entire Bates group attended the Southeastern Catalysis Society Annual Symposium and learned about the exciting science happening in the region! Jason Bates was named Social Media Chair for the SECS.

• January 2024: Jason Bates is recognized as a Young Talent by the 18th International Congress on Catalysis.

• January 2024: Jason Bates receives the New Investigator Award of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) to support kinetic and spectroscopic interrogation of electrocatalyst microenvironments.

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• [16] Chemical Kinetic Method for Active-Site Quantification in Fe-N-C Catalysts and Correlation with Molecular Probe and Spectroscopic Site-Counting Methods, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26222–26237 

• [14] Molecular Catalyst Synthesis Strategies to Prepare Atomically Dispersed Fe-N-C Heterogeneous Catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 18797–18802

• [13] Chemical and Electrochemical O2 Reduction on Earth-Abundant M-N-C Catalysts and Implications for Mediated Electrolysis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 922–927

• [7] Structure and Solvation of Confined Water and Water-Ethanol Clusters within Microporous Brønsted Acids and their Effects on Ethanol Dehydration Catalysis, Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 7102–7122

• [5] Distinct Catalytic Reactivity of Sn Substituted in Framework Locations and at Defect Grain Boundaries in Sn-Zeolites, ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 6146–6168

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