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Linxiao Chen

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Chemistry

College: College of Science

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Scheduled Teaching

CHEM 1420.004General Chemistry II for Science MajorsFall 2025 Syllabus
CHEM 1420.204General Chemistry II for Science MajorsFall 2025
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Previous Scheduled Teaching

No previous courses scheduled.

Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Chen, L. Photooxidation-Pyrolysis Coupling: A Breakthrough for Sustainable Recycling of Photocured Waste with Reduced Toxicity.
  • Chen, L. Tuning Catalytic Reactivity via Wetting Control Though Oxygen Vacancies: Ru Clusters on Anatase TiO2 and CeO2 Supports.
  • Chen, L. Insights into Dopant Mediated Tuning of Silica-Supported Mo Metal Centers for Enhanced Olefin Metathesis.
  • Chen, L. Room-Temperature *H Spillover Regulating C=C Hydrogenation over Minority Rh1 Active Sites on TiO2.
  • Chen, L. Dynamic Evolution of Pd Single Atoms on Anatase TiO2 Support Determining the Reverse Water-Gas Shift (rWGS) Activity.
  • Chen, L. Efficient and Selective Dual-Pathway Polyolefin Hydro-Conversion over Unexpectedly Bifunctional M/TiO2-Anatase Catalysts.
  • Chen, L. Single Ru(II) Ions on Ceria as a Highly Active Catalyst for Abatement of NO.
  • Chen, L. Ultra Small Pd Clusters in FER Zeolite Alleviate CO Poisoning for Effective Low Temperature Carbon Monoxide Oxidation.
  • Chen, L. Differentiating and Understanding the Effects of Bulk and Surface Mo Doping on CO2 Hydrogenation over Pd/Anatase-TiO2.
  • Chen, L. Disordered, Sub-Nanometer Ru Structures on CeO2 are Highly Efficient and Selective Catalysts in Polymer Upcycling by Hydrogenolysis.
  • Chen, L. Effect of Reaction Conditions on the Hydrogenolysis of Polypropylene and Polyethylene into Gas and Liquid Alkanes.
  • Chen, L. Tuning coordinated supported catalysts: Carboxylic acid-based ligands to improve ceria-supported Pt catalysts for hydrosilylation.
  • Chen, L. Ligand-coordinated Ir Single-atom Catalysts Stabilized on Oxide Supports for Ethylene Hydrogenation and Their Evolution under a Reductive Atmosphere.
  • Chen, L. Recyclable Cu Salt-Derived Brønsted Acid for Hydrolytic Hydrogenation of Cellulose to C6 Sugar Alcohols on Ru Catalyst.
  • Chen, L. Temperature-Dependent Communication between Pt/Al2O3 Catalysts and Anatase TiO2 Dilutant: The Effects of Metal Migration and Carbon Transfer on the Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction.
  • Chen, L. Tuning Ligand-Coordinated Single Metal Atoms on TiO2 and their Dynamic Response during Hydrogenation Catalysis.
  • Chen, L. Unlocking the Catalytic Potential of TiO2-Supported Pt Single Atoms for the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction by Altering Their Chemical Environment.
  • Chen, L. Bidentate N-based Ligands for Highly Reusable, Ligand-coordinated, Supported Pt Hydrosilylation Catalysts.
  • Chen, L. In Situ Dispersion of Pd on TiO2 during Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction: Formation of Stable Single Pd Atoms.
  • Chen, L. Pt-ligand Single-atom Catalysts: Tuning Activity by Oxide support Defect Density.
  • Chen, L. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Data from Lightly Pd Doped TiO2 Anatase Nanoparticles.
  • Chen, L. Alkene Hydrosilylation on Oxide-supported Pt-ligand Single-site Catalysts (SSCs).
  • Chen, L. Sulfate Promotion of Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO by NH3 on CeO2.
  • Chen, L. A Re-examination of the Catalyst Activation and Temperature Hysteresis in Methane Combustion on Pt/Al2O3.
  • Chen, L. Synthesis of Platinum Single-site Centers through Metal-ligand Self-assembly on Powdered Metal Oxide Supports.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Chen, L., "Developing Catalytic Processes for Polystyrene Upcycling as Solid Hydrogen Carrier," sponsored by The University of Akron, Local, $10000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).

    • Grant - Research

  • Chen, L., "Leveraging Epitaxial Growth to Deconvolute Particle Size and Density Effects in Thermal Catalysis," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $328132 Funded. (2024).
  • Chen, L., "Gas-Flow Systems for the Catalytic Upcycling of Plastic Waste," sponsored by Alicat Scientific, Private, $5000 Funded. (2023).
  • Chen, L., "Renewable Bio-Derived Styrene from the Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of Lignin Derivatives," sponsored by CenTiRe: NSF Industry University Collaborative Research Center, National, $210000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
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    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
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    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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