Descripción del proyecto
Nuevos catalizadores bidimensionales para la conversión y el almacenamiento de energía
Se prevé que las reservas mundiales de combustibles fósiles se agotarán el próximo siglo. Este hecho, junto con la intensificación del calentamiento global, ha motivado que las políticas de la Unión Europea reclamen la reducción del uso de combustibles fósiles y el desarrollo de recursos energéticos alternativos. Por lo tanto, es de suma importancia realizar ya investigaciones sobre tecnologías alternativas de conversión y almacenamiento de energía. El proyecto 2DTriCat4Energy, financiado con fondos comunitarios, se propone diseñar catalizadores nuevos, baratos y funcionales para su uso en electrolizadores, pilas de combustible y supercondensadores. Para ello, se centrará en materiales bidimensionales de óxidos de metales de transición, que se ha demostrado que son más conductores que sus homólogos a granel.
Objetivo
The World is currently in a state of an energy and climate crisis. The World’s fossil fuel reserves are predicted to be depleted in the next century. Due to this and the increase in global warming, EU policies have called for the decrease use of carbon-based fossil fuels and the development of alternative energy resources. Hence, it is of paramount importance to conduct research into alternative energy conversion and storage technologies now.
Electrolytic water splitting is an attractive process for producing clean hydrogen which can be used in a fuel cell to make electricity. The electrochemical energy needed for water splitting and fuel cells could be generated by materials that can hold efficient charge in the electrochemical double layer or in Faradaic regions e.g. supercapacitor materials. Unfortunately, these technologies (electrolysers, fuel cells and supercapacitors) are still under major research as the ‘state-of-the-art’ catalysts currently used are uneconomical.
The development and rational design of new, cheap and active electrodes as tri-functional catalysts for these three alternative energy technologies is one avenue to explore to reach the goals set out by the various EU polices. 2D Transition Metal Oxide (TMO) materials may be the answer to this problem, as when compared to their bulk counterparts, 2D materials are more conductive and exhibit interesting properties.
Currently, in the literature there are no trifunctional catalysts for the aforementioned alternative energy applications based on 2D TMO materials (source: Scopus, terms: 2D TMO materials/water splitting/ fuel cells/ supercapacitors). Hence this fellowship will investigate just that.
The proposed multifunctional energy storage and conversion catalysts, in this fellowship, will be a first in the energy/materials field and will contribute a plethora of knowledge to current literature. I, the applicant, along with the Nicolosi group have the combined tools and knowledge to achieve this.
Ámbito científico
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialstwo-dimensional nanostructures
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cells
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsenergy conversion
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
D02 CX56 Dublin
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