When: 22 September, 10am – 4pmWhere: Meeting Room 1 &2, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FA & Online The Harwell XPS & UK Catalysis Hub Workshop took place on Thursday September 22 at the Research Complex at Harwell. Attendees gathered for a day long…
When: 20 & 21 June 2022Where: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Fermi Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX On the 20th and 21st of June 2022 the UK Catalysis Hub held its annual summer conference and networking meeting. The Conference took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The event was a hybrid event with the…
Closing the anthropogenic carbon cycle requires selective valorization of CO2 and efficient methods for capture and concentration from dilute streams. The first part of the talk will discuss the challenge of product selectivity in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to renewable fuels. Desirable CO2 reduction products require proton equivalents, but key catalytic intermediates in CO2 reduction can…
Taking Diamond Light Source to a new level of brilliance Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron facility, based at Harwell and producing brilliant beams of light that are used by a set of instruments that act like a set of exceptionally powerful microscopes. These instruments are among the…
Dr Alexander O’Malley has received this year’s BTM Willis Prize for outstanding neutron scattering science, for his novel and influential applications of neutron spectroscopy in catalytic science. The BTM Willis prize is named in honour of Prof. Terry Willis – founder of the UK Neutron Scattering Group, and the well-known…
Research into the use of plastic waste in obtaining fuels has been ongoing over the past decade. Zeolites USY and in some cases rare earth USY, ZSM-5, mordenite and beta have been the main types of zeolites used in catalysis over the years. We investigate the catalytic properties of zeolite…
Zeolites can be described as negatively charged inorganic frameworks that are compensated by organic, inorganic and solvated protons. From the point of view of controlling the topology of the zeolite, the use of Organic Structure Directing Agents (OSDAs) plays a central role in synthesis of zeolites. Typically, OSDAs consist in…
Methane, derived from shale gas, is a cheap and abundant molecule that can be used as a building block in the chemicals manufacturing industry, but instead, large quantities of stranded shale gas are being flared due to lack of existing infrastructures for its transportation to centralized processing facilities. The catalytic…
The replacement of conventional fossil fuels (coal, crude oil and natural gas) and their derivatives such as gasoline, olefins and aromatics with carbon neutral renewable resources (e.g., atmospheric CO2 and biomass/bio-waste) holds the key to achieve the UK’s ambitious target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. This exhibit illustrates the…
Inspiring the next generation of catalytic chemists is an important activity for all researchers. In this exhibit we will show some recent activities that have been developed to give school pupils some hands-on insights into chemistry in general and catalysis in particular. We will also show how low-cost digital technology can…
