SEMINAR

 

 Rapid Oxygen Ion Diffusion and Surface Exchange Kinetics in Oxides with Perovskite Related Structure and Ordered A Cations

  

Speaker

                                    Professor Allan J. Jacobson

    Director, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Director, Center for Materials Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

  

时 间：2007.11.21 （周三） 上午 9：00

 地 点：2号楼607会议室

 联系人：赵景泰  52412073   

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Allan J. Jacobson

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2005-			Director,TexasCenterfor Superconductivity,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
2002-			Director, Center for Materials Chemistry,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
1991-			Robert A. Welch Chair of Science, Professor of Chemistry,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
2001-2002			Interim Director,TexasCenterfor Superconductivity,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
1997-2002			Director, NSF Materials Research Science andEngineeringCenter,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
1992-2001			Associate Director,TexasCenterfor Superconductivity,UniversityofHouston,Houston,Texas.
1976-1991			Senior Research Associate, Corporate Research Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company,Annandale,New Jersey.
1970-1976			Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry,KebleCollege,Oxford.
1970-1976			Departmental Demonstrator in Inorganic Chemistry,OxfordUniversity.
1969-1970			Post-Doctoral Research, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory,Oxford.
1968-1970			Stone-Platt Research Fellow, New College,Oxford
JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS:
2005-	Associate Editor						SolidStateIonics
1999-2004	US Editor						SolidStateIonics
1985-1999	Associate Editor						SolidStateIonics
1993-	Associate Editor						Materials Research Bulletin
1985-	Editorial Advisory Board						Progress inSolidStateChemistry
1986-1990	Editorial Advisory Board						Chemistry of Materials
1993-	Editorial Advisory Board						Journal ofSolidStateChemistry
1999-	Editorial Advisory Board						SolidStateScience

 

Overview of the Research Accomplishments of Allan J. Jacobson

 

The overriding research interest of Allan Jacobson has been in the understanding of the relationship between composition, structure, and physical properties in a host of materials from transition metal oxides, transition metal phosphates and silicates, catalytic materials, mixed conductors, and extending to intercalation chemistry of layered materials where he has done pioneering studies on the reactivity of solids.  Not only has Dr. Jacobson worked in these fields; his contributions have often been seminal and crucial to our understanding.

 

Synthesis and intercalation chemistry of mixed metal oxides

-          Definitive X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction studies of many important oxide phases.

-          The synthesis and reactions of a unique series of layered oxides known as the Dion–Jacobson series.

Synthesis and intercalation chemistry of transition metal phosphates

-          Discovery of novel intercalation chemistry in vanadium phosphates.

-          The first syntheses of a new class of hybrid inorganic-organic layered compounds, the vanadium organophosphonates.

-          Pioneered the application of hydrothermal synthesis to vanadium phosphates

Synthesis of open framework and microporous transition metal silicates

-          The synthesis and reactions of a unique series of porous oxides.

-          Developed a new structural principle for designing solid structures.

Metal Oxide Organic Frameworks and Coordination Polymers

-          The synthesis and reactions of a unique series of cyanide bridged coordination polymers.

-          Discovered vanadium borophosphate cluster ions and their assembly into frameworks

-          Developed a new approach for designing homochiral porous solids.

Catalytic materials

-          Discovered a novel class of transition metal sulfide hydrotreating catalysts.

-          Discovered a novel class of catalysts for methane oxidative coupling.

-          Discovered a new electro-catalyst with comparable activity to platinum for hydrogen oxidation

Mixed electronic and ionic conducting oxides

-          Major contributions in materials, high temperature transport properties, and in oxidation catalysis in ion transport membranes

-          Pioneered the use of thin film hetero-structures for the study of surface properties of oxides.

            -      First to experimentally demonstrate the effect of surface reactions on

                  oxygen permeation kinetics in mixed conducting membranes.