Jun Hee Jang, Ph.D.

Jun Hee Jang, Ph.D.

Jun Hee Jang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Jun Hee Jang, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineering

Contact Info
856-256-5314
332 Rowan Hall

Biography

Website: go.rowan.edu/jang

Education:
Postdoctoral Associate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
M.S., Seoul National University, South Korea
B.S., Korea University, South Korea

Impactful Research Areas:
Sustainability
    Sustainable Materials & Processes
    Renewable Energy

Research Expertise:
Heterogeneous Catalysis, Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

The focus of the Jang Lab is to design efficient and economically viable catalytic processes for converting biomass and plastic waste into sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials. The research program includes 1) catalyst design and synthesis, 2) advanced analytical techniques, and 3) process design and optimization with an economic and environmental perspective.

Professional Memberships:
AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
ACS (American Chemical Society)
NACS (North American Catalysis Society)     

Recent Publications:
Jun Hee Jang, Ana Rita C. Morais, Megan Browning, David G. Brandner, Jacob K. Kenny, James R. Bielenbeg, Anjaneya S. Kovvali, Joshua I. Cutler, Brian M. Moreno, Yuriy Román-Leshkov*, and Gregg T. Beckham*, “Feedstock-agnostic reductive catalytic fractionation in alcohol and alcohol–water mixtures”, Green Chemistry, 25 (2023), 3660-3670.

Jun Hee Jang, Jack T. Hopper, Insoo Ro, Phillip Christopher, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar*, “One-Step Production of Renewable Adipic Acid Esters from Mucic Acid over a Reusable Ir-ReOx/C Catalyst with Low Ir Loading”, Catalysis Science & Technology, 13 (2023), 714-725.

Jun Hee Jang, David G. Brandner, Reagan J. Dreiling, Arik J. Ringsby, Jeremy R. Bussard, Lisa M. Stanley, Renee M. Happs, Anjaneya S. Kovvali, Joshua I. Cutler, Tom Renders, James R. Bielenberg, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, and Gregg T. Beckham, “Multi-pass flow-through reductive catalytic fractionation”, Joule, 6 (2022), 1859-1875.

Jun Hee Jang, Insoo Ro, Phillip Christopher, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar*, “A Heterogeneous Catalyst for Making Renewable Adipates in One-Step from Sugar Acids”, ACS Catalysis, 11 (2021), 95-109.

Ali Chamas, Hyunjin Moon, Jiajia Zheng, Yang Qiu, Tarnuma Tabassum, Jun Hee Jang, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Susannah L. Scott*, and Sangwon Suh*, “Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment: A Review”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 8 (2020), 3494-3511.