Design, implementation and production upscaling of novel, high-performance, cluster-based catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation

Project Information

CATCHY

Grant agreement ID: 955650

DOI

10.3030/955650

Project closed

EC signature date 19 August 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 729 508,56

EU contribution

€ 3 729 508,56

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

NWT3

School on electronic structure theory completed (NWT3)

NWT5

CATCHY@ISSPIC 21 meeting (NWT5) completed

NWT1

Kick-off training events (NWT1) completed

NWT4

School on characterization of catalysts by x-rays (NWT4) completed

NWT6

Young researcher’s conference completed (NWT6)

NWT2

School on surface catalysis completed (NWT2)

NWT7

Career Launch final training event (NWT7) completed

Other (1)

positions advertised

14 ESR positions advertised (EURAXESS and other websites)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (6)

presentations at conferences

Every ESR has presented results at an international conference

first papers

Every ESR has a first peer-reviewed paper accepted

website intranet and ESR specific info

ESR specific information on the CATCHY website and CATCHY intranet (or area with restricted access) ready

microdocs

Every ESR has made a microdoc /project video (outreach activity - OA2)

website online

CATCHY website publicly available

second papers

Second peer-reviewed paper obtained (accepted) by all ESRs

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Magnetron Sputtering of Pure δ-Ni₅Ga₃ Thin Films for CO₂ Hydrogenation

Author(s): Filippo Romeggio, Jonathan F. Schouenborg, Peter C. K. Vesborg, Ole Hansen, Jakob Kibsgaard, Ib Chorkendorff, Christian D. Damsgaard
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 12592-12601, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c03345

High‐Pressure Cell for <i>In Situ</i> Grazing Incidence XAS Characterization of Model Catalysts on Planar Supports

Author(s): Sumant Phadke, João Coroa, Imran Abbas, Jinlong Yin, Didier Grandjean, Ewald Janssens, Olga V. Safonova
Published in: Chemistry–Methods, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) e202400014, ISSN 2628-9725
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cmtd.202400014

CO2 and H2 Activation on Zinc-Doped Copper Clusters

Author(s): Bárbara Zamora, László Nyulászi, Tibor Höltzl
Published in: ChemPhysChem, Issue Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) e202300409, ISSN 1439-4235
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300409

Water Splitting by C60-Supported Vanadium Single Atoms

Author(s): Gao-Lei Hou, Tao Yang, Mengyang Li, Jan Vanbuel, Olga V. Lushchikova, Piero Ferrari, Joost M. Bakker, Ewald Janssens
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Issue Volume 60, Issue 52, 2022, Page(s) 27095-27101, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202112398

Stability and Electronic Structure of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene-Supported Cu_<i>n</i> (<i>n</i> = 1–5) Clusters in Vacuum and under Electrochemical Conditions: Toward Sensor and Catalyst Design

Author(s): Márton Guba, Tibor Höltzl
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 128, 2024, Page(s) 4677-4686, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c06475

Synergy or Antagonism? Exploring the Interplay of SnO₂ and an N-OMC Carbon Capture Medium for the Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction toward Formate

Author(s): Kevin Van Daele, Deema Balalta, Saskia Hoekx, Robbe Jacops, Nick Daems, Thomas Altantzis, Deepak Pant, Tom Breugelmans
Published in: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 5517-5527, ISSN 2574-0962
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.4c00994

Recent advances in copper chalcogenides for CO2 electroreduction

Author(s): Wenjian Hu, Didier Grandjean, Jan Vaes, Deepak Pant, Ewald Janssens
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 2023, Vol 25, 2023, Page(s) 30785-30799, ISSN 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04170k

CO₂ activation by copper oxide clusters: size, composition, and charge state dependence

Author(s): Pavol Mikolaj, Barbara Zamora Yusti, László Nyulászi, Joost M. Bakker, Tibor Höltzl, Sandra M. Lang
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 24126-24134, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cp02651a

Unveiling the role of C60-supported vanadium single atoms for catalytic overall water splitting

Author(s): Mengyang Li, Tao Yang, Joost M. Bakker, Ewald Janssens, Gao-Lei Hou
Published in: Cell Reports Physical Science, Issue 2022, Vol 3, Issue 6, 2022, Page(s) 100910, ISSN 2666-3864
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100910

Electrochemical Cell for <i>Operando</i> Grazing-Incidence X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Low-Loaded Electrodes

Author(s): Maximilian Winzely, Adam H. Clark, Justus S. Diercks, Olga Safonova, Peter Rüttimann, Paul M. Leidinger, Sumant Phadke, Thomas J. Schmidt, Juan Herranz
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, Issue 96, 2024, Page(s) 20454-20464, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c04233

IR spectroscopic characterization of the co-adsorption of CO2 and H2 onto cationic Cun+ clusters.

Author(s): Olga V. Lushchikova; Máté Szalay; Hossein Tahmasbi; Ludo B. F. Juurlink; Jörg Meyer; Tibor Höltzl; Joost M. Bakker
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 2021, 23, 2021, Page(s) 26661-26673, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03119h

Co_3−<i>x</i>Fe_<i>x</i>O₄ inverse opals with tunable catalytic activity for high-performance overall water splitting

Author(s): Thi Hong Trang Nguyen; Zviadi Zarkua; Chinnabathini Vana Chinnappa; Wenjian Hu; Sreeprasanth Pulinthanathu Sree; Didier Grandjean; Deepak Pant; Ewald Janssens
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 2023, Vol 15, 2023, Page(s) 10306-10318, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr07300e

Screening of transition metal doped copper clusters for CO 2 activation

Author(s): Máté Szalay, Dániel Buzsáki, Júlia Barabás, Endre Faragó, Ewald Janssens, László Nyulászi, Tibor Höltzl
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 2021, 23, 2021, Page(s) 21738-21747, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02220b

Gas phase deposition of well-defined bimetallic gold-silver clusters for photocatalytic applications

Author(s): Vana Chinnappa Chinnabathini; Fons Dingenen; Rituraj Borah; Imran Abbas; Johan van der Tol; Zviadi Zarkua; Francesco D'Acapito; Thi Hong Trang Nguyen; Peter Lievens; Didier Grandjean; Sammy W. Verbruggen; Ewald Janssens
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 2023, 15, 2023, Page(s) 6696-6708, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr07287d

Electrochemical restructuring of H₂O₂ activated copper selenide for CO₂ reduction

Author(s): Wenjian Hu, Deema Balalta, Zhiyuan Chen, Imran Abbas, Jia Song, Balázs Barhács, Márton Guba, Tibor Höltzl, Francesco D'Acapito, Thomas Altantzis, Jan Vaes, Sara Bals, Didier Grandjean, Deepak Pant, Ewald Janssens
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 17075-17085, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5nr02511g

Scalable synthesis of Cu-cluster catalysts via spark ablation for the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to acetaldehyde

Author(s): Cedric David Koolen, Jack Kirk Pedersen, Bernardus Zijlstra, Maximilian Winzely, Jie Zhang, Tobias V. Pfeiffer, Wilbert Vrijburg, Mo Li, Ayush Agarwal, Zohreh Akbari, Yasemen Kuddusi, Juan Herranz, Olga V. Safonova, Andreas Schmidt-Ott, Wen Luo, Andreas Zuettel
Published in: Nature Synthesis, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 336-346, ISSN 2731-0582
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00705-3

Stable mass-selected AuTiO_<i>x</i> nanoparticles for CO oxidation

Author(s): Rikke Egeberg Tankard, Filippo Romeggio, Stefan Kei Akazawa, Alexander Krabbe, Olivia Fjord Sloth, Niklas Mørch Secher, Sofie Colding-Fagerholt, Stig Helveg, Richard Palmer, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, Jakob Kibsgaard, Ib Chorkendorff
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 9253-9263, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00211c

Gold Nanoparticles for CO2 Electroreduction: An Optimum Defined by Size and Shape

Author(s): Esperanza Sedano Varo, Rikke Egeberg Tankard, Joakim Kryger-Baggesen, Joerg Jinschek, Stig Helveg, Ib Chorkendorff, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, and Jakob Kibsgaard
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue Vol. 146, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 2015-2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10610

An experimental perspective on nanoparticle electrochemistry

Author(s): Esperanza Sedano Varo, Rikke Egeberg Tankard, Julius Lucas Needham, Esteban Gioria, Filippo Romeggio, Ib Chorkendorff, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, Jakob Kibsgaard
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 17456-17466, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cp00889h

The influence of magnetic field on the cluster growth in a magnetron sputtering gas aggregation source

Author(s): Joao Coroa, Giuseppe Sanzone, Tibor Höltzl, Hailin Sun, Ewald Janssens, Jinlong Yin
Published in: Surface and Coatings Technology, Issue 500, 2025, Page(s) 131892, ISSN 0257-8972
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2025.131892

Spectroscopic investigation of size-dependent CO₂ binding on cationic copper clusters: analysis of the CO₂ asymmetric stretch

Author(s): A. M. Reider, M. Szalay, J. Reichegger, J. Barabás, M. Schmidt, M. Kappe, T. Höltzl, P. Scheier, O. V. Lushchikova
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 20355-20364, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4cp01797h

High pressure microreactor for minute amounts of catalyst on planar supports: A case study of CO2 hydrogenation over Pd0.25Zn0.75Ox nanoclusters

Author(s): Imran Abbas, Filippo Romeggio, Kacper Pilarczyk, Simon Kuhn, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, Jakob Kibsgaard, Peter Lievens, Didier Grandjean, Ewald Janssens
Published in: Chemical Engineering Journal, Issue 503, 2025, Page(s) 158127, ISSN 1385-8947
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.158127

Tuning the degree of CO2 activation by carbon doping Cun− (n = 3–10) clusters: an IR spectroscopic study

Author(s): Olga V. Lushchikova, Máté Szalay, Tibor Höltzl, Joost M. Bakker
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 2023, Vol 242, 2022, Page(s) 252-268, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00128d

Nanostructuring copper thin film electrodes for CO₂ electroreduction to C₂₊ products

Author(s): Dimitra Papamichail, Filippo Franceschini, Imran Abbas, Deema Balalta, Trang Thi Hong Nguyen, Deepak Pant, Sara Bals, Irene Taurino, Ewald Janssens, Didier Grandjean, Peter Lievens
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 17745-17757, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5nr01514f

C2 product formation in the CO2 electroreduction on boron-doped graphene anchored copper clusters

Author(s): Tibor Höltzl; Ewald Janssens; Balázs Barhács
Published in: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Issue 2022, 24, 2022, Page(s) 21417-21426, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-l969j

Multistep CO2 Activation and Dissociation Mechanisms on PdxPt4–x Clusters in the Gas Phase

Author(s): Renata Sechi, Tibor Höltzl
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Issue 2023, Vol 127, Issue 21, 2023, Page(s) 4596-4608, ISSN 1089-5639
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08333

Room-Temperature Deposition of δ-Ni₅Ga₃ Thin Films and Nanoparticles via Magnetron Sputtering

Author(s): Filippo Romeggio, Rasmus Bischoff, Clara B. Møller, Victor L. Jensen, Esteban Gioria, Rikke Egeberg Tankard, Rasmus S. Nielsen, Ole Hansen, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakob Kibsgaard, Christian D. Damsgaard
Published in: ACS Omega, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 49759-49766, ISSN 2470-1343
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c08405

Other (2)

Scalable synthesis of Cu(-Ag) oxide clusters via spark ablation for the highly selective electrochemical conversion of CO2 to acetaldehyde

Author(s): Cedric Koolen, Jack Pedersen, Bernardus Zijlstra, Maximilian Winzely, Jie Zhang, Tobias Pfeiffer, Wilbert Vrijburg, Mo Li, Ayush Agarwal, Zohreh Akbari, Yasemen Kuddusi, Juan Herranz, Olga Safonova, Andreas Schmidt-Ott, Wen Luo, Andreas Züttel
Published in: Research Square, 2025, ISSN 2693-5015
Publisher: Research Square
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3791391/v1

Quantum chemical and microkinetic study of H2 dissociation on Cu4 cluster in the gas phase

Author(s): Tibor Höltzl, Máté Szalay
Published in: ChemRxiv, 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-90s5n

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