admin2023-09-08T11:40:33+01:00March 16th, 2023|Project News, public dissemination|
Gumaa El-Nagar Thanks to Dr Gumaa El Nagar of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 for the preparation of the lay summary of their recent paper "Comparative Spectroscopic Study Revealing Why the CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity Switches from CO to HCOO– at Cu–Sn- and Cu–In-Based Catalysts". The publication appeared in the journal ACS Catalysis in December 2022. Read the lay summary here.
admin2023-09-08T11:43:27+01:00March 14th, 2023|PI Spotlight, Project News, University News|
Dr Pau Farràs, University of Galway FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Dr Pau Farràs based at the University of Galway in Ireland took some time to respond to questions about his research interests, the photoelectrochemistry field and the role his group ChemLight (https://www.universityofgalway.ie/chemlight/) plays within the FlowPhotoChem project. How and when did you first become interested in photoelectrochemistry? I have been interested in renewable energy since I finished my undergraduate studies. I did my Erasmus project at DTU (Denmark) on hydrogen storage materials and since then, hydrogen has been on my radar. Then, I learnt about solar energy conversion technologies such as photoelectrochemistry, [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:44:48+01:00March 6th, 2023|Project News|
Hanka Besic, U of Galway PhD candidate The Solar2Chem (Marie-Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 861151 ) Winter School, “Materials and Methods for Solar Chemical Production” took place at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) from the 22nd to the 24th of February 2023. The event hosted 80 early-stage and post-doctoral researchers who learnt the new trends of research about solar fuels production, interacted with each other during the networking activities, presented their research at the poster sessions and much more! University of Galway PhD candidate Hanka Besic attended and provides her take on the training. What did you expect to get out of the [...]
admin2023-09-08T11:46:19+01:00February 27th, 2023|Project News, Publication|
Our PIs from the Instituto Mixto Universitario de Tecnología Química CSIC-UPV published "Visible and NIR Light Assistance of the N2 Reduction to NH3 Catalyzed by Cs-promoted Ru Nanoparticles Supported on Strontium Titanate" in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis. Congratulations to researchers Yong Peng, Josep Albero, Antonio Franconetti, Patricia Concepción and Hermenegildo García. Download the open-access PDF here. ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 9, 4938–4946 Publication Date: April 12, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c00509
admin2023-09-08T12:58:23+01:00January 12th, 2023|PI Spotlight, Project News, public dissemination|
FlowPhotoChem was cited as an example of research developing “the ultimate technology for eternity since it is 100 per cent green and recyclable,” according to our PI Dr Justus Masa, based at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda. Dr Masa was interviewed on January 9th, 2023 by Deep Earth after a run of speaking engagements dedicated to energy reform late in 2022. Justus makes a case for more government support for new technologies at the local level and greater opportunities for participation in research and education. Read the entire interview here. Deep Earth International critically examines developments in the extractive and energy [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:00:09+01:00December 20th, 2022|Project News, Publication|
Congratulations to our partners at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin in Germany for the most recent FlowPhotoChem research publication. Author/researchers Gumaa A. El-Nagar, Fan Yang, Sasho Stojkovikj, Stefan Mebs, Siddharth Gupta, Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Holger Dau, and Matthew T. Mayer published "Comparative Spectroscopic Study Revealing Why the CO2 Electroreduction Selectivity Switches from CO to HCOO– at Cu–Sn- and Cu–In-Based Catalysts" in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis on December 5th, 2022. Citation: ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 24, 15576–15589 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c04419 The Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “Electrochemical Conversion of CO2” targets the development of new electrochemical pathways to upgrade CO2 into high-value products. Their approach combines the synthesis of new materials based on mixed metal [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:01:59+01:00December 13th, 2022|Project News, public dissemination, University News|
The FlowPhotoChem team met for our third face-to-face meeting in Kampala, Uganda on the 2nd of November 2022. At the meeting, hosted by Kyambogo University, partners gave updates on their work developing the photoelectrochemical, electrochemical and photocatalytic flow reactors, which will be combined into an integrated demonstrator reactor for the production of ethylene. We also continued our life cycle analysis work. To further our EU-Africa activities, the team hosted a 'Workshop on Innovations for a New Age of the Chemical Industry' on the 4th of November, led by our PI Dr Justus Masa of Kyambogo University. Approximately 80 people joined the [...]
admin2023-09-08T13:03:17+01:00December 1st, 2022|PI Spotlight, presentation, Project News|
At the November 7th, 2022 Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) Symposium, Prof. Hermenegildo García Gómez, FlowPhotoChem PI at the Institute of Chemical Technology at the Technical University of Valencia delivered the keynote lecture, "Photocatalysis for the production of solar fuels. How far are we?" The meeting will occur at the Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la UJI in Castelló. The INAM Annual Symposium is a multidisciplinary meeting with top-rank keynote speakers and networking sessions with the members of the Institute of Advanced Materials and other visiting scientists.
admin2023-09-08T13:04:12+01:00November 30th, 2022|Project News, public dissemination|
Catch up on all of the FlowPhotoChem project updates in our November newsletter! Click here to read it online, or download the PDF here. Please consider sharing it with your networks both internally and on social media. Thank you! Subscribe to receive future issues here.
admin2023-09-08T13:05:27+01:00November 24th, 2022|presentation, Project News|
FlowPhotoChem Coordinator Dr Pau Farras of the University of Galway gave the keynote lecture titled “Electro, Photo and Biocatalysis: Efficient Ways for H2O Oxidation and CO2 Conversion” at the Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) Symposium in Galway on the 13th October 2022. The talk featured a summary of FlowPhotoChem technologies. This meeting explores a family of technologies that aim to decarbonise carbon-intensive processes by chemically capturing the CO2 and locking it into geological structures or products for a long time.
