Juan M. D. Tascon

Professor Juan M. D. Tascon

PERSONAL DATA

Date of birth: September 21, 1954.

Nationality: Spanish.

 

PRESENT POSITION AND CONTACT DATA

Research Professor.

Instituto Nacional del Carbón, INCAR-CSIC.

Address: F. PIntado Fe 26, 33011 Oviedo, Spain.

Phone: +34 985 119 090. Fax number: +34 985 297 662.

E-mail address: tascon@incar.csic.es                                               

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

  • B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain (1976).
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry from Complutense University, Madrid, Spain (1981). Thesis title: “Adsorption of CO, O2 and CO2 and catalytic oxidation of CO on LaMeO3 oxides”. Thesis promoter: Dr. L. González Tejuca.

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD

  • Predoctoral Fellow, Institute of Catalysis and Petroleum Chemistry, CSIC, Madrid, Spain (1977-80).

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1980-82).
  • Assistant Research Scientist, New York University, New York, USA (1982-83).
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Catalysis and Petroleum Chemistry, Madrid, Spain (1983-85).
  • Tenured Scientist (1985-87), Research Scientist (1987-2002) and Research Professor (since 2002) at National Carbon Institute, CSIC, Oviedo, Spain.
  • Head of Department of Coal Preparation and Characterization, National Carbon Institute, CSIC, Oviedo, Spain (1992-2001).
  • Director, National Carbon Institute, CSIC, Oviedo, Spain (2011-15).

 

SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

  • 5 edited books
  • 310 papers in refereed journals
  • 17 book chapters
  • 400 communications presented at conferences
  • 40 research projects as principal investigator
  • 2 patents
  • 13 doctoral theses supervised
  • Hirsch factor, h=66

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • Editor of Carbon (since 2012).
  • Associate Editor of Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry (since 2015)
  • Member of the International Editorial Board of journal Fuel (since 1996).
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Carbon (2002-12).
  • Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society (since 2002).
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of journal Recent Patents on Materials Science (2008-14).
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry, Physics and Technology of Surface (since 2017).
  • Member of the Editorial Board of C – Journal of Carbon Research (since
    2021).

 

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

Spanish, French and English.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. J.I. Paredes, S. Villar-Rodil, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. Graphene oxide dispersions in organic solvents. Langmuir 2008, 24, 10560-10564. https://doi.org/10.1021/la801744a

2. M.J. Fernández-Merino, L. Guardia, J.I. Paredes, S. Villar-Rodil, P. Solís-Fernández, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. Vitamin C is an ideal substitute for hydrazine in the reduction of Graphene oxide suspensions. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114, 6426-6432. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp100603h

3. A. Cuesta, P. Dhamelincourt, J. Laureyns, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. Raman microprobe studies on carbon materials. Carbon 1994, 32, 1523-1532. https://doi.org/10.1016/0008-6223(94)90148-1

4. L.G. Tejuca, J.L.G. Fierro, J.M.D. Tascón. Structure and reactivity of perovskite-type oxides. Advances in Catalysis 1989, 36, 237-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0360-0564(08)60019-X

5. A. Bianco, H.M. Cheng, T. Enoki, Y. Gogotsi, R.H. Hurt, N. Koratkar, T. Kyotani, M. Monthioux, C.R. Park, J.M.D. Tascón, J. Zhang. All in the Graphene family – A recommended nomenclature for twodimensional carbon materials. Carbon 2013, 65, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2013.08.038

6. J.I. Paredes, S. Villar-Rodil, P. Solís-Fernández, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. Atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of graphene nanosheets derived from graphite oxide. Langmuir 2009, 25, 5026-5027. https://doi.org/10.1021/la804216z

7. D. Hulicova-Jurcakova, A.M. Puziy, O.I. Poddubnaya, F. SuárezGarcía, J.M.D. Tascón, G.Q. Lu. Highly stable performance of supercapacitors from phosphorus-enriched carbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, 5026. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja809265m

8. A.M. Puziy, O.I. Poddubnaya, A. Martínez-Alonso, F. Suárez-García, J.M.D. Tascón. Synthetic carbons activated with phosphoric acid: I. Surface chemistry and ion binding properties. Carbon 2002, 40, 1493- 1505. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0008-6223(01)00317-7

9. L. Guardia, M.J. Fernández-Merino, J.I. Paredes, P. Solís-Fernández, S. Villar-Rodil, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. A direct route to activated two-dimensional cobalt oxide nanosheets for electrochemical energy storage, catalytic and environmental applications. Carbon 2011, 49, 1653-1662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2010.12.049

10. A. Cuesta, P. Dhamelincourt, J. Laureyns, A. Martínez-Alonso, J.M.D. Tascón. Comparative performance of X-ray diffraction and Raman microprobe techniques for the study of carbon materials Journal of Materials Chemistry 1998, 8, 2875-2879. https://doi.org/10.1039/a805841e