Project description
Functional catalysts based on nanomaterials with enzyme-like properties
The EU-funded CASCAT project plans to use nanoparticles with etched substrate channels as simplified enzyme mimics – nanozymes – in electrocatalysis. This concept will be extended to bimetallic core-shell structures with etched channels to provide locally confined catalyst surfaces with varying selectivity. The attempt to locally assemble catalysts with different properties in nano-confined reaction volumes will be extended to layered nanoparticle structures. The project will also develop and evaluate multi-catalyst gas-diffusion electrodes using operando spectroscopy and nano-electrochemical tools. The new gas-diffusion electrodes will be integrated into novel tree-type rotating electrolysers for removing hazardous gaseous pollutants from the air.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistry
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysiselectrocatalysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryhydrocarbons
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantHost institution
44801 Bochum
Germany
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44801 Bochum
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