John Lin Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Tau Carbon Inc. removes CO2 from the atmosphere by storing dried biomass aboveground in modular containers that prevent decomposition while minimizing process CO2 emissions.

Exaquest Carbon (exaquest.org) is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to conduct scientific research to develop open-source technologies that will enable safe, sustainable, and inexpensive long-term storage of carbon at the gigaton scale in the form of lignocellulosic biomass.

Stanford, Ca, Us

My research focused on using operando x-ray and infrared spectroscopy to probe the mechanisms of electrochemical CO2 reduction. This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis. I left the Chemical Engineering PhD program with my M.S. degree to found Exaquest Carbon (and eventually Tau Carbon).List of major publications (in reverse chronological order):1. Aviles Acosta, J. E.; Lin, J. C.; Lee, D.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Hahn, C. Electrochemical flow reactor design allows tunable mass transport conditions for operando surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy. ChemCatChem. e202300520, 1-9 (2023).2. Lee, S. H.*; Lin, J. C.*; Farmand, M.; Landers, A. T.; Feaster, J. T.; Aviles Acosta, J. E.; Beeman, J. W.; Ye, Y.; Yano, J.; Mehta, A.; Davis, R. C.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Hahn, C.; Drisdell, W. S. Oxidation state and surface reconstruction of Cu under CO2 reduction conditions from in situ X-ray characterization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 588-592 (2020).3. Boutin, E.; Wang, M.; Lin, J. C.; Mesnage, M.; Mendoza, D.; Lassalle-Kaiser, B.; Hahn, C.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Robert, M. Aqueous electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into methanol with cobalt phthalocyanine. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 16172-16176 (2019).4. Farmand, M.; Landers, A. T.; Lin, J. C.; Feaster, J. T.; Beeman, J. W.; Ye, Y.; Clark, E. L.; Higgins, D.; Yano, J.; Davis, R. C.; Mehta, A.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Hahn, C.; Drisdell, W. S. Electrochemical flow cell enabling operando probing of electrocatalyst surfaces by X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 5402-5408 (2019).5. Clark, E. L.; Resasco, J.; Landers, A.; Lin, J. C.; Chung, L.; Walton, A.; Hahn, C.; Jaramillo, T. F.; Bell, A. T. Data acquisition protocols and reporting standards for studies of the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. ACS Catalysis 8, 6560-6570 (2018).

New York, Us

I designed novel proteins for use in artificial photosynthesis. The typical protein studied consisted of 4 α-helices and non-covalently bound Fe heme and Zn phthalocyanine cofactors.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Fulbright grantee, I taught English in public boys middle school, lived with a host family, and studied Korean language and culture.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Chemical Engineering

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics