Jonathan Gordon

Jonathan Gordon's research focuses on developing catalysts—materials that speed up chemical reactions—for energy technologies such as fuel cells and carbon dioxide conversion. Much of the work explores platinum-free catalysts (using iron, nitrogen, and carbon) as cheaper alternatives to precious-metal catalysts for converting chemical energy to electricity, including in microbial fuel cells that use bacteria to generate power. Other work examines electrochemical conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals like ethylene using copper-based electrodes.

Publication output was concentrated around 2016-2019, with a gap in the early 2020s and a small resurgence in 2025, indicating an overall slowing pace of recorded output in recent years.

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