When: 18 March 2024, 3-4pm GMTWhere: Online A webinar from Dr. Jennifer Edwards, Cardiff University, Senior Lecturer in Catalytic and Physical Chemistry and Director of EDI. On exposure to water, air and sunlight photocatalysts will generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that have high oxidising potentials. These ROS can be used in…
When: 3 September 2024, 10:30-17:00Where: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX Join us for this free one-day symposium organised by the Institute of Chemical Sciences at Heriot Watt University, the Department of Chemistry at the University of York and the UK Catalysis Hub, supported by UKRI, to look…
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…
We seek to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated scientist with proven intellectual and technical abilities to work on the new phase of the successful UK Catalysis Hub programme. The UK Catalysis Hub brings together the breadth of skills within the UK catalysis community to tackle complex catalytic challenges. This project…
A special collection of thematically related manuscripts by UK Catalysis Hub members has been published by the Royal Society in 2023 PCCP Reviews, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2023, Advance Article. Computational modelling techniques now play a vital role in catalytic science. Atomic and molecular level simulation is used widely and…
When: 11 October 2023, 10:00 – 11:00 BSTWhere: Online Lignin is the only renewable natural resource with abundant aromatics in nature, and it’s highly desirable to develop cheap and efficient catalysts to obtain value-added aromatics from lignin. We initially employed a cheap platinum-like Tungsten carbide catalyst for lignin hydrogenolysis and explored…
When: 18 & 19 December 2023Where: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Fermi Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX On the 18th and 19th of December 2023 the UK Catalysis Hub held its annual winter conference and networking meeting. The Conference took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The event was a hybrid event so attendees had the…
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.…
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 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…
