Catalyst design informed by product and process requirements
Each year, thousands of academic papers are published on catalyst design, while there are only around 300 commercial catalysts available currently. To a certain extent this is due to the…
Earth-Abundant Metals in Resource-Efficient Catalysis
EAM Catalysed C-C and Beyond- Homogeneous cross-coupling reactions based on platinum group metals (PGMs), are widely used in organic synthesis due to their robustness and usefulness. However, their widespread use is…
Illuminating the Role of Formate in Photo-assisted Carbon Dioxide Methanation using SSITKA-DRIFTS
The use of solar energy to drive CO2 utilisation is a two birds one stone strategy, which helps to reduce greenhouse gasses while also embedding green energy into our modern economy. 1 Photocatalytic…
Poster List December 2020
Click on the poster titles to view the poster abstracts and click on the Zoom links between 2pm – 3pm on the 7th December to join the poster presenters and…
Upgrade of Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Diamond
Diamond Light Source, the UK national synchrotron is planning an upgrade to the machine and the associated beamlines. One opportunity that this provides is the possibility to convert the VerSoX…
The Nature and Reactivity of Sulfur containing Species on Sulfated Zirconia Surface
We present a detailed study of the surface structure of sulfated zirconia and changes in the acid-base properties of this material upon sulfonation. By using periodic DFT approaches, we explored…
Understanding structure-function relationship in NH3-SCO using combined spatially resolved operando techniques
Introduction A catalyst is, by definition, a substance that accelerates a reaction but is not consumed or changed. Whereas this is generally true when looking at the start and the…
Energy-efficient destruction of organics in shale gas brines – probing the chloride resistance of plasmonic catalysts
Shale gas, an unconventional natural gas resource, offers an opportunity to access a relatively clean fossil fuel, and could potentially lead to energy independence for some countries [1]. Notably, the…
Improved In-situ Catalytic Reactor Design at Central Facilities
The efficient and effective use of the world-leading synchrotron facilities for catalytic research is one of the major successes and driving force of the Catalysis Community, especially in the area…
Integrating Catalysis Through Cascade Processes: Bio-derived Butanol to Propene via Dehydration, Isomerisation and Metathesis
Today, implementing the use of sustainable feedstocks is a vital driver across the chemicals’ manufacturing industries. The dehydration of bio-derived butanol to the corresponding n-butene and/or the di-n-butyl ether has been…