Division/Committee: [CATL] Division of Catalysis Science & Technology

This symposium delves into understanding and leveraging complex effects at catalytic interfaces, including electric fields and metal-support interactions. Topics covered include catalyst design, synthesis, characterization, kinetics, and computational approaches. Field driven catalytic technologies can provide transformative routes to move stubborn molecules like H2O, CO2, N2, and CH4 higher up the free energy landscape to more valuable chemicals and enable chemical decarbonization. Advancing these technologies requires an understanding of the field effects on the catalytic process and design of catalytic materials to facilitate efficient conversion. This symposium will consist of studies addressing issues facing catalysts under field driven reaction environments producing important industrial chemicals like H2, NH3, CH3OH, C2H4, C3H6 etc. Metal-support interactions substantially impact the catalytic performance of nanocatalysts composed of metal nanoparticles/single atoms stabilized on a support. Recent progress has been made in controlling the activity/selectivity of supported nanocatalysts and enhancing their stability by harnessing the electronic/strong metal-support interaction (EMSI and SMSI) in thermo-/electro-/photo-catalysis. In-depth understanding on the structure-performance relationship and elucidating the reaction pathways will rely on the synergistic workforce in catalyst design/synthesis, sophisticated characterization techniques, and theoretical studies.

Felipe Polo-Garzon

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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