Andrei Draguicevic

I’m a second-year graduate student in the Velian lab, where I’m working on heterogenous single-site catalysts for environmentally relevant reactions. My research is focused on using black phosphorus, a 2D van der Waal material, to support single metal atoms to create distinct and tunable active sites on a heterogenous support. Currently, I am using hydroformylation as a test reaction to probe this system, where Rh atoms are supported onto the black phosphorus surface to catalytically convert olefins into aldehydes.

Advisor: Alexandra Velian – Chemistry