Jose Mendoza Cortes
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3517
Biography
Dr. Mendoza's research has been featured in Forbes magazine, CNBC, Public Radio, MRS Bulletin, C&EN News, Laser Focus World magazine, and the DOE Highlights. His research has been disseminated through 53 invited talks both nationally and internationally. Dr. Mendoza's research has received funding from NSF, DOE, DOD, APS, Sloan Foundation, to name a few.Dr. Mendoza was awarded the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Newcomb Cleveland Award, this Society's oldest and most p
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Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley National Lab, 2014
Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology & Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, 2013
Ph.D., Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, 2012
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Scialog fellow (50 faculty/year including the USA and Canada), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society (RSC), 2018
Carl Storm Fellowship, Gordon Research Conference, 2018
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Dr. Mendoza's publications have over 9,000 citations, with an average of over 158 citations/paper, as well as Erdős number = 5, H-index = 32, and i10-index = 45
"Reaction-driven restructuring of defective PtSe2 into ultrastable catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction" W Niu, S Pakhira, G Cheng, F Zhao, N Yao, JL Mendoza-Cortes, BE Koel Nature Materials 23, 1704–1711 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-02020-w
"Nitrogen‐Containing Surface Ligands Lead to False Positives for Photofixation of N2 on Metal Oxide Nanocrystals: An Experimental and Theoretical Study" Daniel Maldonado‐Lopez, Po‐Wei Huang, Karla R Sanchez‐Lievanos, Gourhari Jana, Jose L Mendoza‐Cortes, Kathryn E Knowles, Marta C Hatzell Advanced Functional Materials, 2413319, 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202413319
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