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