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D-Index
63
Citations
13530
World Ranking
8459
National Ranking
2432

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Franklin Feng Tao is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemical engineering, with significant contributions to the fields of materials chemistry, catalysis, renewable energy, sustainability, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and oxidation reactions, catalysts for methane reforming, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced chemical physics studies, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, and nanoparticle nucleation surface interactions.

Frequent publication venues for Franklin Feng Tao include the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Review of Scientific Instruments, and Angewandte Chemie.

Their recent papers illustrate a breadth of studied subjects and publication outlets:

  • "Reaction product-driven restructuring and assisted stabilization of a highly dispersed Rh-on-ceria catalyst" (2022, Nature Catalysis)
  • "Surface restructuring and predictive design of heterogeneous catalysts" (2024, Science)
  • "Iridium boosts the selectivity and stability of cobalt catalysts for syngas to liquid fuels" (2022, Chem)
  • "Single-Atom High-Temperature Catalysis on a Rh1O5 Cluster for Production of Syngas from Methane" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Atomic-Scale Mechanism of Platinum Catalyst Restructuring under a Pressure of Reactant Gas" (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Franklin Feng Tao include Yu Tang, Yuting Li, Luan Nguyen, Philippe Sautet, and Shiran Zhang.

Franklin Feng Tao has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2017.

Best Publications

  • Size- and shape-dependent catalytic performances of oxidation and reduction reactions on nanocatalysts.

    Shaowen Cao;Shaowen Cao;Franklin Feng Tao;Yu Tang;Yuting Li

  • Shape control of bimetallic nanocatalysts through well-designed colloidal chemistry approaches

    Jun Gu;Ya-Wen Zhang;Franklin Feng Tao

  • Red Emissive Sulfur, Nitrogen Codoped Carbon Dots and Their Application in Ion Detection and Theraonostics

    Xiang Miao;Xinlong Yan;Dan Qu;Dan Qu;Dabing Li

  • 3D Honeycomb‐Like Structured Graphene and Its High Efficiency as a Counter‐Electrode Catalyst for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

    Hui Wang;Kai Sun;Franklin Tao;Dario J. Stacchiola

  • Synergy of Single-Atom Ni1 and Ru1 Sites on CeO2 for Dry Reforming of CH4.

    Yu Tang;Yu Tang;Yuechang Wei;Ziyun Wang;Shiran Zhang

  • In Situ Studies of Chemistry and Structure of Materials in Reactive Environments

    Franklin Feng Tao;Miquel Salmeron

  • Consciously Constructing Heterojunction or Direct Z-Scheme Photocatalysts by Regulating Electron Flow Direction

    Wenshuai Jiang;Xupeng Zong;Li An;Shixin Hua

  • A robust fuel cell operated on nearly dry methane at 500 °C enabled by synergistic thermal catalysis and electrocatalysis

    Yu Chen;Ben deGlee;Yu Tang;Ziyun Wang

  • Atomic-Scale Observations of Catalyst Structures under Reaction Conditions and during Catalysis.

    Franklin Feng Tao;Peter A Crozier

  • Understanding complete oxidation of methane on spinel oxides at a molecular level.

    Franklin Feng Tao;Jun Jun Shan;Luan Nguyen;Ziyun Wang

  • Single rhodium atoms anchored in micropores for efficient transformation of methane under mild conditions.

    Yu Tang;Yuting Li;Victor Fung;De-en Jiang

  • Synthesis and catalysis of chemically reduced metal–metalloid amorphous alloys

    Yan Pei;Gongbing Zhou;Nguyen Luan;Baoning Zong

  • Catalysis on singly dispersed bimetallic sites

    Shiran Zhang;Luan Nguyen;Jin-Xia Liang;Junjun Shan

  • Synthesis, catalysis, surface chemistry and structure of bimetallic nanocatalysts.

    Franklin Feng Tao

  • Low‐Temperature Transformation of Methane to Methanol on Pd1O4 Single Sites Anchored on the Internal Surface of Microporous Silicate

    Weixin Huang;Shiran Zhang;Yu Tang;Yuting Li

  • Room-temperature catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde on catalysts

    Longhui Nie;Longhui Nie;Longhui Nie;Jiaguo Yu;Jiaguo Yu;Mietek Jaroniec;Franklin Feng Tao

  • WGS Catalysis and In Situ Studies of CoO1–x, PtCon/Co3O4, and PtmCom′/CoO1–x Nanorod Catalysts

    Shiran Zhang;Jun-jun Shan;Yuan Zhu;Anatoly I Frenkel

  • Direct Neutron Spectroscopy Observation of Cerium Hydride Species on a Cerium Oxide Catalyst

    Zili Wu;Yongqiang Cheng;Franklin Tao;Luke Daemen

  • Understanding Catalyst Surfaces during Catalysis through Near Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

    Luan Nguyen;Franklin Feng Tao;Franklin Feng Tao;Yu Tang;Yu Tang;Jian Dou

  • Achieving Atomic Dispersion of Highly Loaded Transition Metals in Small-Pore Zeolite SSZ-13: High-Capacity and High-Efficiency Low-Temperature CO and Passive NO x Adsorbers.

    Konstantin Khivantsev;Nicholas R Jaegers;Nicholas R Jaegers;Libor Kovarik;Jonathan C Hanson

  • Catalysis and In Situ Studies of Rh1/Co3O4 Nanorods in Reduction of NO with H2

    Lei Wang;Shiran Zhang;Yuan Zhu;Anitha Patlolla

  • Action of bimetallic nanocatalysts under reaction conditions and during catalysis: evolution of chemistry from high vacuum conditions to reaction conditions.

    Franklin Feng Tao;Shiran Zhang;Luan Nguyen;Xuegiang Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University
Weixin Huang
Weixin Huang University of Notre Dame
De-en Jiang
De-en Jiang Vanderbilt University
Guo Qin Xu
Guo Qin Xu National University of Singapore
Zaicheng Sun
Zaicheng Sun Beijing University of Technology
Wenyu Huang
Wenyu Huang Iowa State University
Ya-Wen Zhang
Ya-Wen Zhang Peking University
Steven L. Bernasek
Steven L. Bernasek Yale-NUS College
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Judith C. Yang
Judith C. Yang Brookhaven National Laboratory

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