Hierarchical catalysts: fascinating strategies playing with structures at the nanoscale
Event details
| Date | 21.04.2016 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Paolo Fornasiero, Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, ICCOM-CNR and INSTM, Trieste (Italy) |
| Location |
EPFL Valais Wallis/Zeuzier conference room
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Heterogeneous transition 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 and synthesis of industrially important catalysts. This precise structural and morphological control, coupled with the possibility to modulate the metal-support interactions, allowed us to have a step change increase in the activity, selectivity and stability of many industrially and environmentally important catalysts. In this context, renewable energy conversion, pollution prevention and control are the real challenge of the 21st century and the focus of the present talk.
Bio: Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degreeing Chemistry (cum laude) and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the University of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post - doctoral fellow at the Catalysis Research Center of the University of R eading (U.K.), in 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2006 associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste. Professor Fornasiero is Associate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 he is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste - Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical 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 Society, of the American Chemical Society, of the European Rare - Earth and Actini de Society - ERES, as well as of the INSTM Consortium.
Bio: Paolo Fornasiero was born in 1968 in Ruti (Switzerland). In 1992 he obtained the degreeing Chemistry (cum laude) and in 1997 the PhD in heterogeneous catalysis both at the University of Trieste (Italy). After one year as post - doctoral fellow at the Catalysis Research Center of the University of R eading (U.K.), in 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2006 associate professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Trieste. Professor Fornasiero is Associate Researcher of the National Council of Research (CNR) and from 2008 he is the scientific responsible of the CNR Research Unit associated with the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) of Florence and located at the University of Trieste - Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical 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 Society, of the American Chemical Society, of the European Rare - Earth and Actini de Society - ERES, as well as of the INSTM Consortium.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti
Contact
- Constance Visser Witman