Contact:rcarrasquill@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-3784
Status: 5th year graduate student
Hometown: Caguas, Puerto Rico
Research Area Catalytic Biomass Conversion, Gold Catalysis
Research Summary:
Catalysis by Gold: My work focuses on identifying and characterizing the reactivity produced by defect and interfacial sites on supported gold catalysts.
Publications:
Singh, S.; Li, S.; Carrasquillo-Flores, R; Alba-Rubio, A.C.; Dumesic, J.A.; Mavrikakis, M. “Formic acid decomposition on Au catalysts: DFT, microkinetic modeling, and reaction kinetics experiments” AIChE Journal, 2014.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.14401
Carrasquillo-Flores, R; Gallo, J.M.R.; Hahn, K.; Dumesic, J.A.; Mavrikakis, M. “Density Functional Theory and Reaction Kinetics Studies of the Water–Gas Shift Reaction on Pt–Re Catalysts” ChemCatChem, 2013.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201300365
Carrasquillo-Flores, R; Käldström, M.; Schüth, F.; Dumesic, J.A.; Rinaldi, R. “MechanocatalyticDepolymerization of Dry (Ligno)cellulose As an Entry Process for High-Yield Production of Furfurals” ACS Catalysis, 2013.http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cs4001333
Azadi, P.; Carrasquillo-Flores, R.; Pagán-Torres, Y.J.; Gürbüz, E.I.; Farnood, R; Dumesic, J.A. “Catalytic conversion of biomass using solvents derived from lignin” Green Chemistry, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2GC35203F
