Dr. Sultan M Althahban Assistant Professor      Contact Information email: [email protected] phone: 017-3295000 office: E1-54 research account: Google Scholar

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Biography Summary:

Education:

• Ph.D, Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, 2018
• M.S. Materials Engineering, The University of Dayton, 2013
• BSc. Mechanical Engineering, King Khalid University, 2009

Academic experience:

• Jazan University, assistant professor, 2018 – Present, full-time

• Lehigh University, Research and teaching assistant, 2013 – 2018, full-time

• Lehigh University, Graduate students representative, 2015 – 2017, full-time

Non-academic experience:

• Lehigh University, Co-founder and vice president of Saudi Students Association, 2014-2016
• University of Dayton, Public relations and media advisor – Saudi Students Association, 2011-2012
• Saudi Aramco, Project management team, 05/2008-07/2008

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Publications and Presentations:

• Freakley, S. J., Agarwal, N., McVicker, R. U., Althahban, S., Lewis, R. J., Morgan, D. J., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2020). Gold–palladium colloids as catalysts for hydrogen peroxide synthesis, degradation and methane oxidation: effect of the PVP stabiliser. Catalysis Science & Technology.
• McVicker, R., Agarwal, N., Freakley, S. J., He, Q., Althahban, S., Taylor, S. H., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2020). Low temperature selective oxidation of methane using gold-palladium colloids. Catalysis Today, 342, 32-38.
• Nowicka, E., Althahban, S., Leah, T. D., Shaw, G., Morgan, D., Kiely, C. J., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2019). Benzyl alcohol oxidation with Pd-Zn/TiO2: computational and experimental studies. Science and technology of advanced materials, 20(1), 367-378.
• Macino, M., Barnes, A. J., Althahban, S. M., Qu, R., Gibson, E. K., Morgan, D. J., … & Beale, A. M. (2019). Tuning of catalytic sites in Pt/TiO 2 catalysts for the chemoselective hydrogenation of 3-nitrostyrene. Nature Catalysis, 2(10), 873-881.
• Kiely, C. J., Lu, L., Althahban, S., He, Q., & Hutchings, G. J. (2019). Electron Microscopy Informed Catalyst Design. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 25(S2), 2282-2283.
• Cattaneo, S., Althahban, S., Freakley, S. J., Sankar, M., Davies, T., He, Q., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2019). Synthesis of highly uniform and composition-controlled gold–palladium supported nanoparticles in continuous flow. Nanoscale, 11(17), 8247-8259.
• Nowicka, E., Reece, C., Althahban, S. M., Mohammed, K. M., Kondrat, S. A., Morgan, D. J., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2018). Elucidating the role of CO2 in the soft oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over ceria-based catalysts. ACS Catalysis, 8(4), 3454-3468.
•  Nowicka, E., Althahban, S. M., Luo, Y., Kriegel, R., Shaw, G., Morgan, D. J., … & Hutchings, G. J. (2018). Highly selective PdZn/ZnO catalysts for the methanol steam reforming reaction. Catalysis Science & Technology, 8(22), 5848-5857.
•  Althahban, S. (2018). Aberration Corrected Analytical Electron Microscopy Studies of Nanometallic Catalysts.
•  Carter, J. H., Liu, X., He, Q., Althahban, S., Nowicka, E., Freakley, S. J., … & Golunski, S. (2017). Activation and Deactivation of Gold/Ceria–Zirconia in the Low-Temperature Water–Gas Shift Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(50), 16037-16041.
• Agarwal, N., Freakley, S. J., McVicker, R. U., Althahban, S. M., Dimitratos, N., He, Q., … & Kiely, C. J. (2017). Aqueous Au-Pd colloids catalyze selective CH4 oxidation to CH3OH with O2 under mild conditions. Science, 358(6360), 223-227.
• Sultan Althahban and Christopher Kiely. Development of PdZn nanoalloy catalysts for the methanol steam reforming reaction. 2017, Lehigh University. Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate students’ seminars.

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