Controlling catalyst selectivity is a key criterion for the successful transition to a post-fossil, sustainable chemical industry. Beyond the tuning of catalytic sites, confinement in a pore or cavity of molecular dimensions is one approach to the selectivity challenge. Confinement may offer geometric and electronic stabilization of critical intermediates and…
The UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2023 will be held on 17th & 18th of July 2023 at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. Talks will be starting at lunchtime on the 17th July with a poster session on the evening of the 17th July followed by a dinner at a local venue.…
The annual production of hydrogen is over 90 million tonnes, with > 96% generated from fossil fuels (mostly by steam methane reformation of natural gas) releasing large quantities of CO2 as a by-product. Electrochemical water splitting technologies offer an important alternate platform to produce clean and sustainable hydrogen from surplus renewable energy. Central…
The formation of intermediates plays a key role in reactivity, selectivity and deactivation in heterogeneous catalytic processes. However, their observation and determination remain a significant challenge due to the lack of selective techniques of sufficient sensitivity to detect their low concentrations (< 10 µmol/g).[1,2] We will show how an approach combining 13C…
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Polymer Chemistry to work under the supervision of Professor Charlotte Williams for 24 months. The post is supported by Prof. Williams’ EPSRC Established Career Fellowship. The research targets the preparation and properties of new plastics, thermoplastic elastomers and adhesives prepared from…
Royal Society Publishing has recently published special issue of Philosophical Transactions A entitled Supercomputing simulations of advanced materialsOrganised and edited by Scott M Woodley, C Richard A Catlow, Nora H De Leeuw and Angelos Michaelides. The development and optimisation of materials is critical to several contemporary scientific and technological challenges, including renewable energy…
The Metal Atoms on Surfaces and Interfaces (MASI) programme is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary initiative spearheaded by Nottingham and collaborating with three other UK Universities (Cardiff, Cambridge, and Birmingham). By leveraging the distinctive traits and unique possibilities of individual metal atoms and metal nanoclusters (of single or multiple species), MASI aims…
The Department of Chemistry have an exciting opportunity for a motivated researcher with a keen interest in heterogeneous photocatalysis to join the Catalytic Plasmonics(CPLAS) project. CPLAS is £10 million programme grant funded by EPSRC to investigate light-driven energy-conversion at the nanoscale to promote chemical transformations. The project aims to advance a new field…
CatSci and LabLinks are pleased to invite you to take part in their 2nd annual virtual chemistry poster competition, The Scientists of Tomorrow, Innovating Today! With a chance to win £1000, the virtual poster competition is for final year PhD students and will take place on LabLinks on Friday 7th July 2023. It is free to enter and attend. The…
When: 6 October 2023, 15:00 BSTWhere: Online The evaluation of catalysts through testing is ubiquitous in laboratories world wide, and there are many textbooks and literature articles that describe in varying levels of detail how such tests should be undertaken. In the chemical industry, catalyst testing also forms an essential…
