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SUMMARY:Hierarchical catalysts: fascinating strategies playing with struct
 ures at the nanoscale 
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paolo Fornasiero\, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceut
 ical Sciences\, ICCOM-CNR and INSTM\, Trieste (Italy)\nHeterogeneous trans
 ition metal catalysts are generally based on nanoparticles\, that nowadays
  can be synthesize with uniform size and shape. The extraordinary advances
  in material science support a new vision for nanoscale-inspired design an
 d synthesis of industrially important catalysts. This precise structural a
 nd morphological control\, coupled with the possibility to modulate the me
 tal-support interactions\, allowed us to have a step change increase in th
 e activity\, selectivity and stability of many industrially and environmen
 tally important catalysts. In this context\, renewable energy conversion\,
  pollution prevention and control are the real challenge of the 21st centu
 ry and the focus of the present talk.\nBio: Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1
 968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degreeing Chemistry (cu
 m laude) and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the Univer
 sity of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post - doctoral fellow at the C
 atalysis Research Center of the University of R eading (U.K.)\, in 1998 he
  was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2006 associate professor in Inor
 ganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste. Professor Fornasiero is Asso
 ciate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 h
 e is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with t
 he Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence 
 and located at the University of Trieste - Department of Chemical and Phar
 maceutical Sciences. Since December 2013 un til July 2014 he was visiting 
 Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in
  Saudi Arabia. Professor Fornasiero is a member of the Italian Chemical So
 ciety\, of the American Chemical Society\, of the European Rare - Earth an
 d Actini de Society - ERES\, as well as of the INSTM Consortium.
LOCATION:EPFL Valais Wallis/Zeuzier conference room
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