Patent Application Published (April 2025):
Grant Seuser (formerly of SWRI) and Gary Jacobs (UT San Antonio), “Selective reverse water gas shift: group 1a alkali metal doping of a metal-containing partially reduced metal (IV) oxide,” April, 2025.
Awarded Grants Totaling over $700k:
Dr. Jacobs has been awarded two grants related to CO2 conversion reactions totaling more than $700k.
Dr. Jacobs serving as UGAR since Fall 2024:
Dr. Jacobs has been serving as the Undergraduate Advisor of Record for the Chemical Engineering Program since Fall, 2024.
Dr. Jacobs Received Tenure (2024):
Dr. Jacobs received tenure in Chemical Engineering at UTSA in Fall 2024.
Dr. Jacobs’ Teaching Award:
President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence, UTSA, April, 2024
UTSA and SWRI publish work from the UTSA-SWRI Connect project in Nanomaterials and Applied Catalysis A: General. The Applied Catalysis work involved five UTSA students, including Elijah S. Garcia, Gabriel F. Upton, Martin Ayala, Jesus Villarreal, and Zahra Rajabi. The Nanomaterials work involved four UTSA students, including Raechel Staffel, Yagmur Hocaoglu, Elijah S. Garcia, and Gabriel F. Upton.
Seuser, G.; Staffel, R.; Hocaoglu, Y.; Upton, G.F.; Garcia, E.S.; Cronauer, D.C.; Kropf, A.J.; Martinelli, M.; Jacobs, G., “CO2 hydrogenation: Na doping promotes CO and hydrocarbon formation over Ru/m-ZrO2 at elevated pressures in gas phase media,” Nanomaterials 13 (2023) 1155. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13071155
Seuser, G., Martinelli, M., Garcia, E.S., Upton, G.F., Ayala, M., Villarreal, J., Rajabi, Z., Cronauer, D.C., Kropf, A.J., Jacobs, G., “Reverse water-gas shift: Na doping of m-ZrO2 supported Pt for selectivity control,” Appl. Catal. A: General, 650 (2023) 119000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2022.119000
Yagmur Hocaoglu presented on the UTSA-SWRI Connect project at the 2022 AICHE Fall National Meeting.
Hocaoglu, Y., Staffel, R., Upton, G., Garcia, E.S., Cronauer, D.C., Kropf, A.J., Martinelli, M., Seuser, G., Jacobs, G., “Na-doping promotes CO and hydrocarbon formation over Ru/m-ZrO2 during CO2 hydrogenation at 20 bar,” AICHE Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November 13 – 18, 2022.
Our CO2 conversion to fuels research was highlighted by Argonne National Laboratory in August 2022. The Science Highlight article is titled “A Tuneable Catalyst for Recycling Carbon Dioxide into Synthetic Fuel“
Our group had three presentations at the 27th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society in New-York City, May 2022.
Our group has published a high impact factor journal article on CO2 conversion (May 2022).
Dr. Jacobs received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the UTSA Chemical Engineering Program, May 2022.
Zahra Rajabi receives Kokes Award
Gabe Upton, undergraduate student in chemical engineering in our group, won 1st place at the UTSA Office of Undergraduate Research Spring 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Showcase – April 21, 2021
Dr. Jacobs received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from the UTSA College of Engineering in 2020.
UTSA College of Engineering
We have a book chapter in the Elsevier book entitled “New Dimensions in Production and Utilization of Hydrogen”, which will be published in October 2020.
The book “Iron and Cobalt Catalysts” is being published as a physical book (400 pages). (2020)
Prof. Gary Jacobs is Guest Editor of Catalysts’ Special Issue “Iron and Cobalt Catalysts”( 2018)
The 11th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium, Tromsø, Norway (see page 5)
Prof. Gary Jacobs is a Plenary Lecturer (6/2016)
Coal: Breaking Oil’s Chokehold (Fall 2007)