Jens K. Nørskov

Leland T. Edwards Professor of Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Photon Science

Director of SUNCAT
Research Interests: 

Sustainable energy and chemical processes; Electronic structure theory; Materials informatics; Surface reactivity; Heterogeneous catalysis; Electro and photo catalysis; Battery chemistry; Enzyme function

Theory PIs: 

Publications

Exploring the limits: A low-pressure, low-temperature Haber-Bosch process. Aleksandra Vojvodic, Andrew James Medford, Felix Studt, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Thomas Bligaard, Jens K. Nørskov. Chemical Physics Letters, 598, 108-112. 2014. Reactivity Descriptor in Solid Acid Catalysis: Predicting Turnover Frequencies for Propene Methylation in Zeotypes. Chuan-Ming Wang, Rasmus Y. Brogaard, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Jens K. Nørskov, Felix Studt. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5, 1516-1521. 2014.
Theoretical Analysis of Transition-Metal Catalysts for Formic Acid Decomposition. Jong Suk Yoo, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jens K. Nørskov, Felix Studt. ACS Catalysis, 4, 1226-1233. 2014. Unifying Kinetic and Thermodynamic Analysis of 2e- and 4e- Reduction of Oxygen on Metal Surfaces. Heine A. Hansen, Venkat Viswanathan, Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118, 6706-6718. 2014.
Effects of d-band shape on the surface reactivity of transition-metal alloys. Hongliang Xin, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Johannes Voss, Jens K. Nørskov, Frank Abild-Pedersen. Physical Review B, 89, 115114-. 2014. Tuning the MoS2 Edge-Site Activity for Hydrogen Evolution via Support Interactions. Charlie Tsai , Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jens K. Nørskov. Nano letters, 14, 1381-1387. 2014.
Discovery of a Ni-Ga catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to methanol. Felix Studt, Irek Sharafutdinov, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Christian F. Elkjær, Jens S. Hummelshøj, Søren Dahl, Ib Chorkendorff, Jens K. Nørskov. Nature Chemistry, 6, 320-324. 2014. Thermochemistry and micro-kinetic analysis of methanol synthesis on ZnO (0001). Andrew J. Medford, Jens Sehested, Jan Rossmeisl, Ib Chorkendorff, Felix Studt, Jens K. Nørskov, Poul Georg Moses. Journal of Catalysis, 309, 397-407. 2014.
Electronic Structure Effects in Transition Metal Surface Chemistry. Aleksandra Vojvodic, Jens K. Nørskov, Frank Abild-Pedersen. Topics in Catalysis, 57, 25-32. 2014. Trends in electrochemical CO2 reduction activity for open and close-packed metal surfaces. Chuan Shi, Heine A. Hansen, Adam C. Lausche, Jens K. Nørskov. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16, 4720-4727. 2014.