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SUMMARY:Electro-Catalysis at the atomic scale
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jan Rossmeisl\, University Copenhagen Denmark\nThe chemi
 cal industry should in the future be based on renewable energy. Therefore\
 , material development for environmentally friendly\, electrocatalytic pro
 duction of valuable chemicals is needed.\nChemicals could be produced usin
 g safe\, cheap\, more environmentally friendly and more abundant reactants
  than today. The products could be provided on demand at the place where t
 hey are needed\, reducing expensive and hazardous transport of chemicals. 
 However\, stable\, efficient and selective catalysts have to be discovered
 . This requires insight into the surface chemistry at the atomic scale.\nS
 urface chemistry can be revealed based on density functional simulations. 
 However\, there are presently no atomic scale simulations or analysis that
  capture all the essential parts of the nature electrochemical interface. 
 Thus the electrochemical solid/liquid interface represents one of the fron
 tiers of atomic scale simulations.\nI will give examples where the insight
  from simulations might pave the way for rational discovery of new catalys
 t materials and new electrocatalytic processes for sustainable production 
 of fuels and chemicals. Some examples are: oxygen reduction to H2O2\, Oxyg
 en evolution [2] and CO2 reduction reaction [3].\n[1] Enabling direct H2O2
  production through rational electrocatalyst design. Siahrostami\, Samira\
 ; Verdaguer-Casadevall\, Arnau\; Karamad\, Mohammadreza\; et al. NATURE MA
 TERIALS\, 12\, 1137-1143\, 2013\n[2] Beyond the top of the volcano? - A un
 ified approach to electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution. 
 Busch\, Michael\; Halck\, Niels B.\; Kramm\, Ulrike I.\; et al NANO ENERGY
 \, 29\, 126-135\, 2016\n[3] Understanding activity and selectivity of meta
 l-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2.  
 Ju\, Wen\; Bagger\, Alexander\; Hao\, Guang-Ping\; et al. NATURE COMMUNICA
 TIONS 8\, 944\, 2017\nBio: Jan Rossmeisl is Professor of theoretical chemi
 stry at Department of Chemistry and the Nano-Science center at Copenhagen 
 University. Before joining University of Copenhagen in April 2015\, Jan wa
 s an Associate Professor and group leader for the theoretical catalysis gr
 oup at Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark Jan ho
 lds master’s (2000) and Ph.D (2004) degrees in physics from the Technica
 l University of Denmark.\nSince 2007 supervisor of ~30 Ph.D and Post docs.
  Coauthor of ~160 publications in peer reviewed journals\, co-inventor of 
 5 patents and co-founder of two startup companies. Research interests incl
 ude: electrocatalysis\, energy conversion\, atomic scale simulations\, rat
 ional interface design for catalysis.\n 
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