Pagán-Torres Lab
Heterogeneous Catalysis for a Sustainable Future
The Pagán-Torres research group focuses on designing catalytic materials for selective activation of functional groups within carbon-based feedstocks, including biomass, carbon dioxide, and waste plastics, to produce chemicals and fuels. Our overarching objective is to advance sustainable catalytic technologies to enable the efficient production of fuels and chemicals while mitigating the environmental impacts associated with fossil fuel use and plastic waste accumulation.
Recent publications
Strategies for Designing the Catalytic Environment Beyond the Active Site of Heterogeneous Supported Metal Catalysts. Samiha Bhat, Yomaira J. Pagán-Torres* and Eranda Nikolla*, Top. Catal., 2023.
Optimizing Sustainable Energy Generation in Ethanol Fuel Cells: An Exploration of Carrageenan with TiO2 Nanoparticles and Ni/CeO2 Composites. Ermides Chavez-Baldovino, Carlos A Malca-Reyes, Roberto Masso, Peter Feng, Adrian Camacho, Janeth Sarmiento, Justin I Borrero Negrón, Yomaira J Pagán-Torres and Liz M Díaz-Vázquez, ACS Omega, 2023.
New Platinum Complexes from Salen- and Hydroxy-Substituted Salpn-Naphthalene Ligands with CO2 Reduction Activity. Javier O Rivera-Reyes, Joesene Soto-Pérez, Miguel Sepulveda-Pagán, Linguo Lu, Justin Borrero-Negrón, Alanys V Luna-Ramírez, Pedro Trinidad-Pérez, Yomaira Pagán-Torres, Zhongfang Chen, Carlos R Cabrera, William C West, John-Paul Jones and Dalice M Piñero Cruz, Catalysts, 2023.