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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Jonathan P. Mathews is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a concentration in several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanics of Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics notably involving Coal Properties and Utilization, Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Coal and Its By-products, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis, and Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Jonathan P. Mathews has been published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Fuel, Energy & Fuels, Carbon, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.

Some of the recent papers by Jonathan P. Mathews include:

  • "Implications of the in situ stress distribution for coalbed methane zonation and hydraulic fracturing in multiple seams, western Guizhou, China", 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • "Quantifying the Structural Transitions of Chinese Coal to Coal-Derived Natural Graphite by XRD, Raman Spectroscopy, and HRTEM Image Analyses", 2021, Energy & Fuels
  • "A large-scale molecular model of Fenghuangshan anthracite coal", 2021, Fuel
  • "Structure and partial ordering of terrestrial kerogen: Insight from high-resolution transmission electron microscopy", 2020, Fuel
  • "Deformation-related coalification: Significance for deformation within shallow crust", 2022, International Journal of Coal Geology

Frequent co-authors of Jonathan P. Mathews include Yu Song, Ercan Cakmak, Edgar Lara-Curzio, Pilsun Yoo, and Valentina Sierra-Jiménez.

Jonathan P. Mathews was awarded Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The molecular representations of coal – A review

    Jonathan P Mathews;Alan Loyd Chaffee

  • Combustion of an Illinois No. 6 coal char simulated using an atomistic char representation and the ReaxFF reactive force field

    Fidel Castro-Marcano;Amar M. Kamat;Michael F. Russo;Adri C.T. van Duin

  • Chemical–structural properties of South African bituminous coals: insights from wide angle XRD–carbon fraction analysis, ATR–FTIR, solid state 13C NMR, and HRTEM techniques

    Gregory N. Okolo;Hein W.J.P. Neomagus;Raymond C. Everson;Mokone J. Roberts

  • A comparative evaluation of coal specific surface area by CO2 and N2 adsorption and its influence on CH4 adsorption capacity at different pore sizes

    Junlong Zhao;Hao Xu;Dazhen Tang;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • The utility of coal molecular models

    Jonathan P. Mathews;Adri C.T. van Duin;Alan L. Chaffee

  • Molecular representations of Permian-aged vitrinite-rich and inertinite-rich South African coals

    Daniel Van Niekerk;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Permeability evolution in fractured coal — Combining triaxial confinement with X-ray computed tomography, acoustic emission and ultrasonic techniques

    Yidong Cai;Dameng Liu;Jonathan P. Mathews;Zhejun Pan

  • Structural characterization of vitrinite-rich and inertinite-rich Permian-aged South African bituminous coals

    Daniel Van Niekerk;Ronald J. Pugmire;Mark S. Solum;Paul C. Painter

  • A review of the application of X-ray computed tomography to the study of coal

    Jonathan P. Mathews;Quentin P. Campbell;Hao Xu;Phillip Halleck

  • Pyrolysis of a large-scale molecular model for Illinois no. 6 coal using the ReaxFF reactive force field

    Fidel Castro-Marcano;Michael F. Russo;Adri C.T. van Duin;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Molecular Size of Asphaltene Solubility Fractions

    Henning Groenzin;Oliver C. Mullins;Semih Eser;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Sorption Capacity and Sorption Kinetic Measurements of CO2 and CH4 in Confined and Unconfined Bituminous Coal

    J. Denis N. Pone;Phillip M. Halleck;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Dissolution and dispersion of coal in ionic liquids

    Paul Painter;Nuerxida Pulati;Ruveyda Cetiner;Maria Sobkowiak

  • A molecular model for Illinois No. 6 Argonne Premium coal: Moving toward capturing the continuum structure

    Fidel Castro-Marcano;Vladislav V. Lobodin;Ryan P. Rodgers;Amy M. McKenna

  • Inducing fractures and increasing cleat apertures in a bituminous coal under isotropic stress via application of microwave energy

    Hemant Kumar;Edward Lester;Sam Kingman;Richard Bourne

  • Coal seam porosity and fracture heterogeneity of macrolithotypes in the Hancheng Block, eastern margin, Ordos Basin, China

    Junlong Zhao;Hao Xu;Dazhen Tang;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • The structural alignment of coal and the analogous case of Argonne Upper Freeport coal

    Jonathan P. Mathews;Atul Sharma

  • Soot and char molecular representations generated directly from HRTEM lattice fringe images using Fringe3D

    Victor Fernandez-Alos;Justin K. Watson;Randy vander Wal;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Simulation of nanoporous carbons: a chemically constrained structure

    Madhav Acharya;Michael S. Strano;Jonathan P. Mathews;Simon J. L. Billinge

  • Determining the molecular weight distribution of Pocahontas No. 3 low-volatile bituminous coal utilizing HRTEM and laser desorption ionization mass spectra data

    Jonathan P. Mathews;Victor Fernandez-Also;A. Daniel Jones;Harold H. Schobert

  • Influence of maceral composition on the structure, properties and behaviour of chars derived from South African coals

    Mokone J. Roberts;Raymond C. Everson;Hein W.J.P. Neomagus;Daniel Van Niekerk

  • Optimizing enhanced coalbed methane recovery for unhindered production and CO2 injectivity

    Hemant Kumar;Derek Elsworth;Jishan Liu;Denis Pone

  • Permeability evolution in sorbing media: analogies between organic‐rich shale and coal

    H. Kumar;H. Kumar;D. Elsworth;J.P. Mathews;C. Marone

  • 3D characterization of coal strains induced by compression, carbon dioxide sorption, and desorption at in-situ stress conditions

    J. Denis N. Pone;Phillip M. Halleck;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • Molecular dynamic simulation of coal-solvent interactions in Permian-aged South African coals

    Daniel Van Niekerk;Jonathan P. Mathews

  • ReaxFF simulations of petroleum coke sulfur removal mechanisms during pyrolysis and combustion

    Qifan Zhong;Qifan Zhong;Qiuyun Mao;Jin Xiao;Adri C.T. van Duin

  • Molecular exchange of ch4 and co2 in coal: Enhanced coalbed methane on a nanoscale

    Tim J. Tambach;Jonathan P. Mathews;Frank van Bergen

  • High-resolution X-ray computed tomography observations of the thermal drying of lump-sized subbituminous coal

    Jonathan P. Mathews;J. Denis N. Pone;Gareth D. Mitchell;Phillip Halleck

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Elsworth
Derek Elsworth Pennsylvania State University
Hein W.J.P. Neomagus
Hein W.J.P. Neomagus North-West University
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University
Patrick G. Hatcher
Patrick G. Hatcher Old Dominion University
Paul C. Painter
Paul C. Painter Pennsylvania State University
Hao Xu
Hao Xu China University of Geosciences
Dazhen Tang
Dazhen Tang China University of Geosciences
Jishan Liu
Jishan Liu University of Western Australia
Chunshan Song
Chunshan Song Chinese University of Hong Kong
Edward Lester
Edward Lester University of Nottingham

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