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 will host its annual summer conference and networking meeting. The Conference will take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus,…
Artificial metalloenzymes (ArMs) result from the incorporation of an abiotic metal cofactor within a host protein, Figure 1. Thanks to the remarkable supramolecular affinity of biotin for streptavidin (KD > 10-13 M), linking a biotin anchor to an organometallic catalyst ensures that, upon addition of streptavidin, the abiotic cofactor is…
Ammonia (NH3) synthesis is a key industrial process, being of vital importance for the production of fertiliser, explosives, and fine chemicals. Traditional promoted Fe Haber-Bosch catalysts require high temperatures and pressures to operate, at great economic and environmental expense due to the significant energy consumption required for NH3 synthesis. Hence, there…
When: 4 May 2022, 10:30 – 16:30 BSTWhere: The Cosener’s House, Abingdon & Online The UK Catalysis Hub Town meeting will be held on 4th May to discuss a potential evolution and future of the UK catalysis Hub. Registration for the Town meeting is free and includes lunch for those…
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When: 29 March 2022, 15:00 GMT The presence of micropollutants – pharmaceuticals, pesticides, phthalates and hormones – in water is a major global health and environmental challenge. Conventional wastewater processes are not capable of effectively removing these compounds, often found at very low concentrations, µg L-1 or even ng L-1, leading…
Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy offers a unique combination of nanometer spatial resolution and millisecond temporal resolution. It has provided many useful insights into nanoscale reaction dynamics but achieving sub-nanometer resolution has proved difficult due to limitations in the current liquid cell designs. For this reason, atomic resolution TEM investigations of…
Organic Structure Directing Agents (OSDAs) play a central role in synthesis of zeolites. Typically, OSDAs consist in tetraalkylammonium cations that are trapped inside of the voids of zeolites. The positive charge of the occluded cations is compensated i) by the isomorphic substitution of Si atoms by trivalent atoms resulting in…
When: 21 October 2021, 09:00 BSTWhere: Virtual The fifth UK Emission Control Workshop will take place on the 21st of October 2021. It will be offered online. This interactive workshop will offer an open forum for technical discussion about the current challenges facing the automotive industry and provide experts from industry…
When: 25 October 2021, 15:00 GMT Metal-organic framework templates and hosts of nanocatalysts: geometry, surface chemistry and performance webinar with Dr Petra Ágota Szilágyi (Queen Mary University of London). Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a unique class of materials in terms of the tuneability of their pore geometry, chemistry, and flexibility,…
