Artificial intelligence is increasingly able to predict successfully new chemicals that possess a targeted functionality. The success of such materials discovery approaches is nonetheless contingent upon having the right data source to mine, and machine-learning approaches that suitably encode structure-function relationships that can be used to predict a lead material…
The ability to simultaneously image physical and chemical changes inside of polymers in real time during catalytic polymerization would be far-reaching. It would enable not only understanding of dynamic chemical and physical changes inside polymers with high spatiotemporal resolution, but also how these two features impact each other. Here, the development…
PiFM shows itself as a powerful technique to provide visual and spectroscopical data of materials in nano-scale: from silica nano-spheres to the complex biomineralization of clams. The talk aims to introduce the technique and some of the equipment capabilities. Click below to view a recording of the presentation: Biography Arthur…
Use of plastic has increased 20-fold during the last 50 years, and at the same time only 14% of all plastic is currently recycled. This has led to a worldwide plastic crisis. Plastic Energy has a unique patented Thermal Anaerobic Conversion (TAC) process that enables End of Life Plastic (ELP)…
Sustainable chemicals production and renewable feedstocks development are key components to mediating negative impacts of fossil fuels and related chemicals on the biosphere. Our research is focussed on green catalysis and sustainable chemicals for health and wellbeing in a research space that has not yet adopted sustainability as a driver…
The presence of active sites in porous materials can control and affect significantly their performance in adsorption and catalysis. However, fine tuning of the active sites and elucidation of their role in catalysis remains a challenging task. Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials adopt uniform and well-defined structures, are designable, and can…
In this talk we will discuss the relevance of published data in the development of new tools which can speed up processing and analysis. We will also explain the importance of metadata and how it was used in the development of the proposed tools. The basic idea is the development…
The combination of electrochemical methods with molecular spectroscopy can provide valuable information about chemical processes at electrode-electrolyte interfaces. In particular, Raman and infrared spectroscopies have been shown to yield unique mechanistic insights into chemical reactions at electrodes by enabling fingerprinting of surface species via identification of characteristic vibrational modes. These powerful tools…
Poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) is a leading commercial polymer produced from biomass, showing useful properties for plastics and fiber applications; after use, it is compostable. One area for improvement is postconsumer waste PLLA chemical recycling to monomer (CRM), i.e., the formation of l-lactide (l-LA) from waste plastic. This process is currently feasible…
In this talk, I would like to present a two-fold research activity interconnected with a common string “Catalysis”. The first part would be dedicated to the fundamental mechanism for the solar irradiated water splitting in photocatalytic materials with the future prospect of Non-linear Poisson Boltzmann Solver development for the heterogenous catalytic mechanism.The relevant exploration…
