Bryan Kim completed his Ph. D. in 2001. Bryan introduced the use of quantum chemistry to the group. In his work, he developed a method for generating initial guesses for clusters with multiple iron cations, and he studied possible active sites in iron-exchanged ZSM-5 zeolite catalysts.

“The Effect of NO upon N₂O Decomposition over Fe/ZSM-5 with Low Iron Loading,” C. Sang, B. H. Kim and C. R. F. Lund, J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (6), 2295-2301 (2005). [more info]

“Issues Involved in Using MCSCF to Investigate Catalytic Sites Involving Transition Metals,” B. H. Kim and C. R. F. Lund, J. Molecular Cat. A, 188 (1-2), 173-187 (2002). [more info]

“Redox Cycles over Fe/ZSM-5,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, November 2002.

“Ab-initio modeling of iron dimers in ZSM-5 and other iron clusters,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.

“Activation of Oxygen on Fe/ZSM-5,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 1999.

Bryan Kim, “Methodology for ab initio Calculations of Spin-Coupled Transition Metal Clusters,” PhD Dissertation, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (2001). [more info]