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Solar-driven Catalysis

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This topical collection is aimed at PhD students, researchers and academics interested in the so-called solar-driven catalysis, an emerging area that arouses a lot of hope for the development of more sustainable chemical processes and the establishment of a low-carbon and circular economy. While catalysis is playing a pivotal role in the efficient implementation of chemical reactions favoring a modern chemical industry, solar energy is considered as one of the ideal (abundant) sources of renewable energy for the future to be linked with chemical processing, with the potential to meet the projected energy demand, as well as the global needs of the society. This collection is giving an up-dated overview from all over the world on the different research and application areas of chemistry in which solar-driven catalysis already demonstrated its great potential and/or is particularly promising. They cover the different facets of light-induced catalysis, namely photoredox catalysis (homogeneous), photo-Fenton like catalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous), heterogeneous photocatalysis, photo-electrocatalysis and the exciting fast-developing photothermal (or photo-thermo) catalysis. Those different ways of implementing light-induced catalysis also cover the main types of reactions and applications, including notably environmental remediation reactions (with cleaning-up catalysts for low-temperature water and air treatment), synthesis of hydrogen and hydrocarbon solar fuels (by water splitting or CO2 reduction) and selective synthesis of high value-added (specialty) compounds as well as bulk chemicals.

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  • Nicolas Keller Nicolas Keller , 

    Nicolas Keller

    Nicolas Keller received his PhD in catalysis and material chemistry in 1999 from the University of Strasbourg. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, he became CNRS Research Director at ICPEES at the University of Strasbourg, France in 2001. His current research focuses on the design of materials for heterogeneous (photo)catalysis and solar photoconversion, with main applications in environmental and sustainable energy-related reactions as well as at the interface with life science.

  • Fernando Fresno Fernando Fresno , 

    Fernando Fresno

    Fernando Fresno obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2006 with a thesis carried out at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council (ICP-CSIC). Currently he is a Senior Assistant Researcher at the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid. His scientific activity focuses on the development of photoactive materials and processes for an efficient use of solar light in energy and environmental applications.

  • Agnieszka Ruppert Agnieszka Ruppert  &

    Agnieszka Ruppert

    Agnieszka Ruppert holds a Professor position at Lodz University of Technology in Poland, within the Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry. She obtained her PhD degree in catalysis at the same in collaboration with the Uiniversity of Strasbourg, France. After several postdoctoral research positions, she established her research line in her home institution. Her current research focuses on catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass for the production of bulk and fine chemicals as well as the design of new catalytic materials for applications in environmental chemistry.

  • Patricia García-Muñoz Patricia García-Muñoz

    Patricia García-Muñoz

    Patricia García-Muñoz is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales (ETSII), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2017. Her research interest lies in the area of environmental chemical engineering and dedicates her work to the field of water treatment by photoassisted processes. More recently, she has moved to the development of new efficient light-activated catalytic materials.

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