CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

DANG NGUYEN

 

Areas of Research

• Heterogeneous Catalysis 
• Ex situ/In situ/Operando Spectroscopy
• Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms
• Structure-Kinetic Correlation 

Dang Nguyen is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at Lehigh University. Dang was originally from Binh Thuan province, Vietnam, and earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2021. At Lehigh, he is working under the supervision of ChBE Prof. Israel Wachs in the Operando Molecular Spectroscopy and Catalysis Research Lab. His primary focus is understanding the fundamental structure-activity/selectivity relationships of heterogenous catalysts using various in situ/Operando spectroscopic techniques and steady-state/transient kinetic methods. His research projects include the selective catalytic reduction of nitric oxide with ammonia by the supported tungsten trioxide-vanadium oxide on titanium dioxide catalysts and oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene by the M1 phase of the unsupported bulk MoVNbTe mixed oxide catalysts.

Publications

• Sun, Z.; Khau, B.; Dong, H.; Takacs, C. J.; Yuan, S.; Sun, M.; Mosevitzky Lis, B.; Nguyen, D.; Reichmanis, E. Carboxyl-Alkyl Functionalized Conjugated Polyelectrolytes for High Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Chemistry of Materials 2023, 35 (21), 9299–9312. DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02103.

Presentations

• The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Spring 2024 Symposium (April 18, 2023): Poster presentation
• The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Virtual Spring 2024 Symposium (March 13, 2024): Poster presentation
• The 10th International Symposium on Group Five Elements (June 25-28, 2023): Oral presentation
• The 28th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (June 18-23, 2023): Poster presentation
• The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Spring 2023 Symposium (May 24, 2023): Poster presentation
• The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Virtual Spring 2023 Symposium (May 11-12, 2023): Oral presentation
• Lehigh Materials Symposium and Open House (May 11, 2023): Poster presentation

Awards

• 2024 Lehigh Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Mohammed El-Asser Travel Award