Jason Adams
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Potential projects/topics: This project will focus on fundamental studies of electrolytic H2O2 synthesis. This project utilizes automated flow reactors to extract data at varying reaction conditions to design more efficient materials and conditions for this process.
Potential skills gained: Fundamental Electrochemistry, Reactor Engineering, 3D Printing, Microkinetics
Required qualifications: Little prior background required, but knowledge of chemistry and chemical engineering would be beneficial.
Direct mentor: Graduate Student
Research Areas
Dr. Adams doctoral studies focused on designing reactors, synthesizing nanoparticle catalysts, and understanding mechanistic connections of thermal and electrochemical oxygen reduction and hydrogen oxidation during the formation of hydrogen peroxide. Afterward, he joined the research group of Karthish Manthiram as a postdoctoral research scholar in the division of chemistry and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Here, he developed automated flow reactors and elucidated catalytic mechanisms of electrochemical water oxidation and O-atom transfer to propylene over PdPtOx during the formation of propylene oxide within aqueous electrolytes.
