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SUMMARY:Prof. Christophe Coperet : Understanding Catalysis\, one Atom at a
  Time
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret\,\nHead of Dep. of Chemistry and
  Applied Biosciences\,\nETH Zürich  \nAbstract: Keywords: Single sites\
 , Single Atom Catalysts\, Nanoparticles\n\nMost efficient chemical process
 es used in industry rely on heterogeneous catalysis. While the search for 
 more sustainable processes and the changes in environmental policies impos
 e the continuous development of more efficient catalysts\, we have current
 ly little understanding of the structure of the actives in these processes
 . Hence\, due to their inherent complexity\, heterogeneous catalysts have 
 been mostly developed empirically.\nHere\, we will show how constructing a
 ctive sites\, one atom at a time on surfaces\, enables molecular-level und
 erstanding and implementation of rational approaches for the improvement o
 f catalytic processes. We will first illustrate how this approach enables 
 to generate selective single-site catalysts. We will next show how from th
 ese isolated (single) sites\, one can generate and understand far more com
 plex systems such as supported nanoparticles\, where interfaces\, alloying
 \, etc… play a critical role. This lecture will be developed around thes
 e themes and will show how the development of advanced characterization to
 ols augmented by computational approaches can provide useful information t
 o bridge the gap between fundamental and applied (industrial) catalysis.\n
 \nBio: Christophe Copéret has been Professor of Surface and Interface Ch
 emistry at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chem
 istry and Applied Biosciences\, since 2010. He was born in Belleville\, Fr
 ance in 1970. Christophe Copéret completed his degree in chemistry and ch
 emical technology at the University of Lyon in France in 1992. He obtained
  a doctorate from the Purdue University in West Lafayette\, IN\, USA in Au
 gust 1996 before working as a postdoc for a year under professor K. B. Sha
 rpless at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla\, California\, USA. From 
 1998 to 2002\, he was an assistant professor at the University of Lyon. In
  2002\, he became a professor at the University of Lyon\, where he worked 
 for another eight years. From 2008 to 2010\, he was Research Director of t
 he CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Christophe Copére
 t was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Catalysis (2011-2015)\, and th
 e Co-Editor in Chief of Helvetica Chimica Acta\, the journal of the Swiss 
 Chemical Society (2016-2021). Since 2022\, he is an Associate Editor of th
 e Journal of the American Chemical Society\, JACS.
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