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

Energetics of Oxygen Adatoms, Hydroxyl Species and Water Dissociation on Pt(111). Eric M. Karp, Charles T. Campbell, Felix Studt, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 25772-25776. 2012. Unifying the 2e- and 4e- Reduction of Oxygen on Metal Surfaces. Venkat Viswanathan, Heine A. Hansen, Jan Rossmeisl, Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 3, 2948-2951. 2012.
Importance of Correlation in Determining Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Activity on Cobalt Oxides. Mónica García-Mota, Michal Bajdich, Venkat Viswanathan, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Alexis T. Bell, Jens K. Nørskov. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 21077-21082. 2012. Identifying active surface phases for metal oxide electrocatalysts: a study of manganese oxide bi-functional catalysts for oxygen reduction and water oxidation catalysis. Hai-Yan Su, Yelena Gorlin, Isabela C. Man, Federico Calle-Vallejo, Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jan Rossmeisl. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14, 14010-14022. 2012.
Modeling van der Waals Interactions in Zeolites with Periodic DFT: Physisorption of n-Alkanes in ZSM-22. Rasmus Brogaard, Poul Georg Moses, Jens K. Nørskov. Catalysis Letters, 142, 1057-1060. 2012. CO hydrogenation to methanol on Cu-Ni catalysts: Theory and experiment. Felix Studt, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Qiongxiao Wu, Anker D. Jensen, Burcin Temel, Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Jens K. Nørskov. Journal of Catalysis, 293, 51-60. 2012.
Evidence of Scrambling over Ruthenium-based Catalysts in Supercritical-water Gasification. Andrew A. Peterson, Marian Dreher, Jörg Wambach, Maarten Nachtegaal, Døren Dahl, Jens K. Nørskov, Frédéric Vogel. ChemCatChem, 4, 1185-1189. 2012. Universality in Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis on Metal Surfaces. Venkat Viswanathan, Heine A. Hansen, Jan Rossmeisl, Jens K. Nørskov. ACS Catalysis, 2, 1654-1660. 2012.
Application of a new informatics tool in heterogeneous catalysis: Analysis of methanol dehydrogenation on transition metal catalysts for the production of anhydrous formaldehyde. Adam C. Lausche, Jens S. Hummelshøj, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Felix Studt, Jens K. Nørskov. Journal of Catalysis, 291, 133-137. 2012. Balance of Nanostructure and Bimetallic Interactions in Pt Model Fuel Cell Catalysts: In Situ XAS and DFT Study. Daniel Friebel, Venkat Viswanathan, Daniel J. Miller, Toyli Anniyev, Hirohito Ogasawara, Ask H. Larsen, Christopher P. O’Grady,, Jens K. Nørskov, Anders Nilsson. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 9664-9671. 2012.