Jason Hicks

Areas of Interest

Our research group is primarily focused on heterogeneous catalysis. We apply concepts from materials science, inorganic chemistry, and chemical reaction engineering to design new catalytic materials for energy applications.

We synthesize and optimize new types of bimetallic catalysts, zeolites, tethered organic/inorganic catalysts, and metal-organic frameworks and classes of catalysts that are industrially relevant or have high potential to enabling new technologies with societal benefit.

We strive to create materials that lead to sustainable energy processes and pathways to produce fuels and chemicals more cleanly than current methods. We also focus on using renewable resources as reactants to produce liquid chemicals or fuels.