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Juan Jimenez

Goldhaber Fellow, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, Chemistry Division

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555, Room 301
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

jjimenez1@bnl.gov

Research Interests

Heterogeneous catalysis, powder catalysts, C1 chemistry, single atom catalysis, in situ/operando characterization (XAFS, DRIFTS, UV/vis, XPS, XRD) for thermal catalysis. Synthesis and chacterization of mixed metal oxides, oxidation catalyst, and general nanomaterials. Design of Experiments (DoE) and high-throughput methodologies for material discovery

Research Activities

Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure

Education

PhD., University of South Carolina (Chemical Engineering), 2020
B.E., CUNY City College of New York (Chemical Engineering), 2015

Professional Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY City College of New York
Department of Chemical Engineering, August 2022 - December 2022

Goldhaber Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, August 2021 - present

Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, August 2020 - present

Visiting Scholar, Hokkaido University
Institute of Catalysis, January 2019 - June 2019

Graduate Research Assistant, University of South Carolina
Chemical Engineering, August 2015 - May 2020

Selected Publications

Li Z, Wang P, Lyu X, et al (2024) Directing CO2 electroreduction pathways for selective C2 product formation using single-site doped copper catalysts. Nature Chemical Engineering 1:159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-023-00018-w
Danielis M, Jiménez JD, Rui N, et al (2023) Tuning the hydrogenation of CO2 to CH4 over mechano-chemically prepared palladium supported on ceria. Applied Catalysis A: General 660:119185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2023.119185
Jiménez JD, Betancourt LE, Danielis M, et al (2022) Identification of Highly Selective Surface Pathways for Methane Dry Reforming Using Mechanochemical Synthesis of Pd–CeO2. ACS Catalysis 12:12809–12822. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c01120
Jimenez JD, Wen C, Royko MM, Kropf AJ, Segre C, Lauterbach J (2019) Influence of Coordination Environment of Anchored Single-Site Cobalt Catalyst on CO 2 Hydrogenation. ChemCatChem 12:846–854. doi: 10.1002/cctc.201901676
Fan M, Jimenez JD, Shirodkar SN, Wu J, Chen S, Song L, Royko MM, Zhang J, Guo H, Cui J, Zuo K, Wang W, Zhang C, Yuan F, Vajtai R, Qian J, Yang J, Yakobson BI, Tour JM, Lauterbach J, Sun D, Ajayan PM (2019) Atomic Ru Immobilized on Porous h-BN through Simple Vacuum Filtration for Highly Active and Selective CO2 Methanation. ACS Catalysis 9:10077–10086. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b02197
Jimenez JD, Wen C, Lauterbach J (2019) Design of highly active cobalt catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation via the tailoring of surface orientation of nanostructures. Catalysis Science & Technology 9:1970–1978. doi: 10.1039/c9cy00402e
Wu J, Wen C, Zou X, Jimenez J, Sun J, Xia Y, Fonseca Rodrigues M-T, Vinod S, Zhong J, Chopra N, Odeh IN, Ding G, Lauterbach J, Ajayan PM (2017) Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation over a Metal-Free Carbon-Based Catalyst. ACS Catalysis 7:4497–4503. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.7b00729