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Juan Jimenez

Research Staff 3 Chemistry, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, Chemistry Division

Juan Jimenez

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

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 | Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights | Awards


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

Assistant Chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, November 2024 - present

Goldhaber Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, August 2021 - August 2024

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

Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chemistry Division, Catalysis: Reactivity and Structure Group, August 2020 - November 2024

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

  • Jiménez JD, Lustemberg PG, Danielis M, et al (2024) From Methane to Methanol: Pd-iC-CeO2 Catalysts Engineered for High Selectivity via Mechanochemical Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c04815
  • 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

Research Highlights

Juan Jimenez Named Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist

Catalyst for 'One-Step' Conversion of Methane to Methanol

TBR News Featured Article on CO2 to plastics

CO2 Conversion Helps Industry, Addresses Climate

CUNY City College of New York Chemical Engineering Newsletter. Alumni Gives Back: Dr. Juan D. Jimenez Teaches ChE 43200 (Reaction Engineering)

Novel Chemical Reaction Supports Carbon-Neutral Industrial Processes

Transforming a Carbon Based Economy

Awards & Recognition

2024 Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist: Chemical Sciences

2023 NAM28 Integrated Syngas Chemistry Session Chair

2021 Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship

2021 ACS Young Chemist Leadership Development Award

2020 UofSC Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Award

2020 UofSC Department of Chemical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Researcher

2019 AIChE 50th Anniversary of ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research Presentation

Outstanding Service Award 2019 UofSC Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Awards

Richard J Kokes Award for the 26th North American Catalysis Society Meeting

2018 Dow Chemical Company Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Recipient

2015 National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow

Juan Jimenez

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

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