Objective
Strategic precious metals, SPMs are important catalysts for chemical & pharmaceuticals, in addition to fuel cells and auto exhausts. As demand increases the price of SPMs is accelerating and the commercial and technical need for cost effective recycling becomes more pressing. Current recycling techniques use strong chemicals, are energy intensive and rather inefficient, for example only of the order of 6% of the SPMs in car catalysts are recovered. This proposal seeks to synthesize novel and superior catalysts from recovered SPMs. The proposed route will combine two biotechnologies for clean SPM recovery with concomitant bulk biosynthesis of novel bionanocrystal catalytic materials. It will build on the results of an ongoing EU project to steer the structure of the harvested SPMs for simultaneous fine catalyst manufacture.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugs
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cells
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Call for proposal
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CHESTER
United Kingdom