Selected Honors & Awards

NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (2015-2017)
Robert L. Pigford Teaching Assistant Award, University of Delaware (2012)

Courses

CHE 150 - Green Energy 
CHE 461 - Advanced Kinetics and Reactors Design (Staring Spring 2018)

Research Interests

CO₂ Reduction; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Catalyst Structure-Property Relationships; C₁ Chemistry; Upgrading Light Alkanes

Recent Publications

Juneau, M.; Liu, R.; Peng, Y.; Malge, A.; Ma, Z.; Porosoff, M.D., " Characterization of Metal-elite Composite Catalysts: Determining the Environment of the Active Phase," ChemCatChem, 2020, 12, 1-28. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201902146

Morse, J.R.; Juneau, M.; Baldwin, J.W.; Porosoff, M.D.; Willauer, H.D., "Alkali Promoted Tungsten Carbide as a Selective Catalyst for the Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction," Joural of CO2 Utilization, 2019, 35, 38-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2019.08.024

Ma, Z.; Porosoff, M.D., "Development of Tandem Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation of Olefins," ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 3, 2639-2656.

Dixit, M.; Peng, X.; Porosoff, M.D.; Wilauer, H.D.; Mpourmpakis, G., "Elucidating the role of oxygen coverage in CO2 reduction on Mo2C," Catalysis Science & Techology, 2017, 7, 23, 5521-5529.

Porosoff, M.D.; Baldwin, J.W.; Peng, X.; Mpourmpakis, G.; Willauer, H.D., "Potassium-Promoted Molybdenum Carbide as a Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for CO2 Conversion to CO," Chemsuschem, 2017, 11, 2408-2415.

Porosoff, M.D.; Yan, B.; Chen, J.G.G., "Catalytic Reduction of CO₂ by H₂ for Synthesis of CO, Methanol and Hydrocarbons: Challenges and Opportunities," Energy and Environmental Science, 2016, 9, 1-62-73.

Porosoff, M.D.; Myint, M.N.Z.; Kattel, S.; Xie, Z.; Gomez, E.; Liu, P.; Chen, J.G.G., "Identifying Different Types of Catalysts for CO₂ Reduction by Ethane Through Dry Reforming and Oxidative Dehydrogenation," Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54, 51-15501-15505.

Research Overview

New catalysts for upgrading C₁ and C₂ resources (CO₂, CO, CH₄, C₂H₆) represent significant opportunities for efficient energy storage and low-cost production of plastics, chemicals and fuels.  Understanding the relationships between chemical reactivity and catalyst electronic/structure properties are extremely important for developing catalysts that exploit particular reaction pathways.  This approach requires controlled synthesis of catalysts combined with in situ techniques and theoretical calculations.  In particular, target areas of research are three types of catalytic reactions for improved shale gas utilization and lowering CO₂ emissions: (I) Catalyst development for CO₂  hydrogenation, (II) Selective synthesis of light olefins from CO and H₂ and (III) Catalytic dehydrogenation of light alkanes to olefins by CO₂.  Experimental work combines an mix of catalyst synthesis and characterization, reactor studies and in situ spectroscopy.