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2025

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Emiel J. M. Hensen is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on materials science, chemical engineering, and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of materials chemistry, catalysis, renewable energy, sustainability, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, including catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and oxidation reactions, catalysts for methane reforming, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts.

Frequent co-authors include Nikolay Kosinov, Ivo A. W. Filot, Valery Muravev, Jan P. Hofmann, and Alexander Parastaev. These collaborators have contributed extensively alongside Emiel J. M. Hensen throughout many publications.

Emiel J. M. Hensen has published numerous articles in several leading scientific journals. The most common venues for their publications are:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • Journal of Catalysis
  • ChemCatChem
  • Catalysis Science & Technology
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Selected recent papers by Emiel J. M. Hensen include:

  • Boosting CO2 hydrogenation via size-dependent metal-support interactions in cobalt/ceria-based catalysts, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Interface dynamics of Pd-CeO2 single-atom catalysts during CO oxidation, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • Size of cerium dioxide support nanocrystals dictates reactivity of highly dispersed palladium catalysts, 2023, Science
  • Mechanism and Nature of Active Sites for Methanol Synthesis from CO/CO2 on Cu/CeO2, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • A Tensile-Strained Pt-Rh Single-Atom Alloy Remarkably Boosts Ethanol Oxidation, 2021, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells

    Xinlong Tian;Xinlong Tian;Xiao Zhao;Ya-Qiong Su;Lijuan Wang

  • Single-site trinuclear copper oxygen clusters in mordenite for selective conversion of methane to methanol.

    Sebastian Grundner;Monica A.C. Markovits;Guanna Li;Moniek Tromp

  • Highly Efficient and Robust Au/MgCuCr2O4 Catalyst for Gas-Phase Oxidation of Ethanol to Acetaldehyde

    P Peng Liu;Emiel Emiel Hensen

  • Catalytic (de)hydrogenation promoted by non-precious metals – Co, Fe and Mn: recent advances in an emerging field

    Georgy A. Filonenko;Georgy A. Filonenko;Robbert van Putten;Robbert van Putten;Emiel J. M. Hensen;Evgeny A. Pidko;Evgeny A. Pidko

  • Recent developments in zeolite membranes for gas separation

    Nikolay Kosinov;Jorge Gascon;Freek Kapteijn;Emiel J.M. Hensen

  • Strategies for the direct catalytic valorization of methane using heterogeneous catalysis:challenges and opportunities

    AI Olivos-Suarez;A Agnes Szecsenyi;A Agnes Szecsenyi;Emiel Emiel Hensen;J Javier Ruiz-Martínez;J Javier Ruiz-Martínez

  • Boosting CO2 hydrogenation via size-dependent metal-support interactions in cobalt-ceria-based catalysts

    Alexander Parastaev;Valerii Muravev;E. Huertas Osta;Arno J.F. van Hoof

  • Heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis for the hydrogenation of carboxylic acid derivatives: history, advances and future directions

    James Pritchard;Georgy A. Filonenko;Robbert van Putten;Emiel J. M. Hensen

  • Interface dynamics of Pd–CeO2 single-atom catalysts during CO oxidation

    Valery Muravev;Giulia Spezzati;Ya Qiong Su;Alexander Parastaev

  • Why clays swell

    Emiel J. M. Hensen;Berend Smit

  • Tuning Pt-CeO2 interactions by high-temperature vapor-phase synthesis for improved reducibility of lattice oxygen.

    Xavier Isidro Pereira-Hernández;Andrew DeLaRiva;Valery Muravev;Deepak Kunwar

  • Catalytic Depolymerization of Lignin in Supercritical Ethanol

    X Xiaoming Huang;TI Tamás Korányi;Michael Boot;Emiel Emiel Hensen

  • Highly Efficient Reversible Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formates Using a Ruthenium PNP‐Pincer Catalyst

    Georgy A. Filonenko;Robbert van Putten;Erik N. Schulpen;Emiel J. M. Hensen

  • Evaluating the Stability of Co2P Electrocatalysts in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction for Both Acidic and Alkaline Electrolytes.

    Yue Zhang;Lu Gao;Emiel J. M. Hensen;Jan P. Hofmann

  • The optimally performing Fischer-Tropsch catalyst.

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  • Ethanol as capping agent and formaldehyde scavenger for efficient depolymerization of lignin to aromatics

    X Xiaoming Huang;TI Tamás Korányi;Michael Boot;Emiel Emiel Hensen

  • Complexity behind CO2 Capture on NH2-MIL-53(Al)

    Eli Stavitski;Evgeny A. Pidko;Sarah Couck;Tom Remy

  • CO oxidation by Pd supported on CeO2(100) and CeO2(111) facets

    Giulia Spezzati;Angelica D. Benavidez;Andrew T. DeLaRiva;Yaqiong Su

  • Mechanism and microkinetics of the Fischer–Tropsch reaction

    R. A. Van Santen;A. J. Markvoort;I. A W Filot;Minhaj Ghouri

  • Understanding the anomalous alkane selectivity of ZIF-7 in the separation of light alkane/alkene mixtures.

    Johan van den Bergh;Canan Gücüyener;Evgeny A. Pidko;Emiel J. M. Hensen

  • Mechanism of Brønsted acid-catalyzed conversion of carbohydrates

    Gang Yang;Evgeny A. Pidko;Emiel J.M. Hensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Evgeny A. Pidko
Evgeny A. Pidko Delft University of Technology
Jan P. Hofmann
Jan P. Hofmann Eindhoven University of Technology
Jorge Gascon
Jorge Gascon King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Freek Kapteijn
Freek Kapteijn Delft University of Technology
Guanna Li
Guanna Li Wageningen University & Research
Xiaoming Huang
Xiaoming Huang Southeast University
Bert M. Weckhuysen
Bert M. Weckhuysen Utrecht University
Nora H. de Leeuw
Nora H. de Leeuw University of Leeds
JC Jaap Schouten
JC Jaap Schouten Eindhoven University of Technology
Can Li
Can Li Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

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