Frederick Baddour
Researcher IV-Chemistry
Frederick.Baddour@nrel.gov
303-384-6703
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5837-5804
Research Interests
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Inorganic synthesis and catalysis
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Design, synthesis, and characterization of nanomaterials
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Controlling surface chemistry for selective catalysis
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Economic modeling of pre-commercial catalyst scale-up
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Conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals
Affiliated Research Programs
Education
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Ph.D., Chemistry, Boston University, 2013
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B.S., Chemistry, Boston College, 2008
Professional Experience
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Staff Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Bioenergy Center (NBC), 2016–present
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Postdoctoral Researcher, NREL, Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, 2014–2016
Patents
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"Metal phosphide catalysts and methods for making the same and uses thereof," U.S. Patent Application No. 62/170,906 (2015)
Featured Work
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"Late-Transition-Metal-Modified β‐Mo2C Catalysts for Enhanced Hydrogenation during Guaiacol Deoxygenation," ACS Sus. Chem. Eng. (2017)
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"Synthesis of α-MoC1-x nanoparticles using a surface-modified SBA-15 hard template and determination of structure-function relationships in acetic acid deoxygenation," Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2016)
- "A facile molecular precursor route to metal phosphide nanoparticles and their evaluation
as hydrodeoxygenation catalysts," Chemistry of Materials (2016)
Additional Publications
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"An investigation into support cooperativity for the deoxygenation of guaiacol over nanoparticle Ni and Rh2P," Cat. Sci. Tech. (2017)
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"High-Throughput Continuous Flow Synthesis of Nickel Nanoparticles for the Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Guaiacol," ACS Sus. Chem. Eng. (2017)
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"Transitioning rationally designed catalytic materials to real 'working' catalysts produced at commercial scale: Nanoparticle materials," Catalysis (2017)
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"Pt–Mg, Pt–Ca, and Pt–Zn Lantern Complexes and Metal-Only Donor–Acceptor Interactions," Inorg. Chem. (2017)
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"Femtosecond Measurements of Size-Dependent Spin Crossover in FeII(pyz)Pt(CN)4 Nanocrystals," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (2016)
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"Evaluation of silica-supported metal and metal phosphide nanoparticle catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation of guaiacol under ex situ catalytic fast pyrolysis conditions," Top. Catal. (2015)
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"Conceptual Process Design and Techno-Economic Assessment of Ex Situ Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass: A Fixed Bed Reactor Implementation Scenario for Future Feasibility," Top. Catal. (2015)
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"Pt…Pt vs. Pt…S Contacts Between Pt-Containing Heterobimetallic Lantern Complexes," Inorg. Chem. (2013)
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"Heterobimetallic lantern complexes that couple antiferromagnetically through non-covalent Pt…Pt interactions," Inorg. Chem. (2013)
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"Antiferromagnetic coupling across a tetrametallic unit through noncovalent interactions," Chem. Sci. (2012)
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"Platinum(IV)-κ3-terpyridine complexes: synthesis with spectroscopic and structural characterization," Chem. Commun. (2010)
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