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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Israel E. Wachs is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. Their research focuses on areas such as Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, and Catalysts for Methane Reforming.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming
  • Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

Wachs' subfields of expertise span Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, Mechanical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues, frequently contributing to:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • Catalysis Today
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Journal of Catalysis
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Israel E. Wachs are:

  • Induced activation of the commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol (2022), Nature Catalysis
  • Methane activation by ZSM-5-supported transition metal centers (2020), Chemical Society Reviews
  • Structure-Activity Relationships of Copper- and Potassium-Modified Iron Oxide Catalysts during Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction (2021), ACS Catalysis
  • New Mechanistic and Reaction Pathway Insights for Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) over Supported Na2WO4/SiO2 Catalysts (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dependency of CO2 methanation on the strong metal-support interaction for supported Ni/CeO2 catalysts (2022), Journal of Catalysis

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Bar Mosevitzky Lis
  • Michael E. Ford
  • Minghui Zhu
  • Sagar Sourav
  • Daniyal Kiani

Israel E. Wachs has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2011 and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Raman and IR studies of surface metal oxide species on oxide supports: Supported metal oxide catalysts

    Israel E. Wachs

  • Surface Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Chromium in Inorganic Oxides.

    Bert M. Weckhuysen;Israel E. Wachs;Robert A. Schoonheydt

  • Titania-silica as catalysts : molecular structural characteristics and physico-chemical properties

    Xingtao Gao;Israel E Wachs

  • Structure and reactivity of surface vanadium oxide species on oxide supports

    Israel E. Wachs;Bert M. Weckhuysen

  • Structural chemistry and Raman spectra of niobium oxides

    Jih Mirn Jehng;Israel E. Wachs

  • Recent conceptual advances in the catalysis science of mixed metal oxide catalytic materials

    Israel E. Wachs

  • Reactivity of supported vanadium oxide catalysts: The partial oxidation of methanol

    Goutam Deo;I. E. Wachs

  • Determination of vanadium-oxygen bond distances and bond orders by Raman spectroscopy

    Franklin D. Hardcastle;Israel E. Wachs

  • The selective oxidation of CH3OH to H2CO on a copper(110) catalyst

    Israel E. Wachs;Robert J. Madix

  • Critical Literature Review of the Kinetics for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Well-Defined Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts

    C. A. Carrero;C. A. Carrero;R. Schloegl;R. Schloegl;I. E. Wachs;R. Schomaecker

  • Induced activation of the commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol

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  • Alumina-Supported Manganese Oxide Catalysts: I. Characterization: Effect of Precursor and Loading

    F. Kapteijn;A.D. Vanlangeveld;J.A. Moulijn;A. Andreini

  • Spectroscopic Characterization of Mixed Fe–Ni Oxide Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Electrolytes

    James Landon;Ethan Demeter;Nilay İnoğlu;Chris Keturakis

  • Solid-state vanadium-51 NMR structural studies on supported vanadium(V) oxide catalysts: vanadium oxide surface layers on alumina and titania supports

    Hellmut Eckert;Israel E. Wachs

  • The oxidation of methanol on a silver (110) catalyst

    Israel E. Wachs;Robert J. Madix

  • Structural determination of bulk and surface tungsten oxides with UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and raman spectroscopy

    Elizabeth I. Ross-Medgaarden and;Israel E. Wachs

  • A Perspective on the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NO with NH3 by Supported V2O5–WO3/TiO2 Catalysts

    Jun-Kun Lai;Israel E. Wachs

  • In Situ Raman Spectroscopy of Alumina-Supported Metal Oxide Catalysts

    Michael A. Vuurman;Israel E. Wachs

  • Surface Structures of Supported Molybdenum Oxide Catalysts: Characterization by Raman and Mo L3-Edge XANES

    Hangchun Hu;Israel E. Wachs;Simon R. Bare

  • Molecular structures of supported metal oxide catalysts under different environments

    M. A. Bañares;I. E. Wachs

  • In Situ Spectroscopic Investigation of Molecular Structures of Highly Dispersed Vanadium Oxide on Silica under Various Conditions

    Xingtao Gao;Simon R. Bare;Bert M. Weckhuysen;Israel E. Wachs

  • Investigation of Surface Structures of Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts by UV−vis−NIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy

    Xingtao Gao;Israel E. Wachs

Frequent Co-Authors

Goutam Deo
Goutam Deo Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Bert M. Weckhuysen
Bert M. Weckhuysen Utrecht University
Miguel A. Bañares
Miguel A. Bañares Spanish National Research Council
Wu Zhou
Wu Zhou University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christopher J. Kiely
Christopher J. Kiely Lehigh University
Robert J. Madix
Robert J. Madix Harvard University
Jay Burton Benziger
Jay Burton Benziger Princeton University
José Luis García Fierro
José Luis García Fierro Spanish National Research Council
Hellmut Eckert
Hellmut Eckert Universidade de São Paulo
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University

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