One-stop BNL Characterization Toolbox for the Rational Design of Clean Fuel Catalysts (Workshop 8)

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00 → 19:00 US/Eastern

Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Conf. Room B

Designing heterogeneous catalysts with optimized selectivity and activity for clean fuels, through CO2 reduction, natural gas upgrading and hydrogen production has a large economic and ecologic impact. The need to abstain from noble metal-based catalysts call for novel formulations with increased focus on support-active phase synergy. To navigate and tune the underlying complex potential energy landscape, the mechanism of catalytic reactions needs to be revealed and a full material development pipeline, including preparation, characterization, and performance benchmarking, developed. Computational modeling and fast sampling probes provide feedback to the synthesis and operations optimization. The user facilities at BNL, e.g. CFN, CSI, and NSLS-II, provide some of the most advanced tools to visualize in real time under real reaction conditions (“operando”) these chemical and structural changes and interactions using soft and hard x-rays.
The workshop will showcase state-of-the-art industrial and research catalyst developments, identifying key scientific questions, experimental conditions essential to study working catalysts, and enabling instrument access modes. A second session focused on successful operando synchrotron experiments will show not only the status of the existing technology and data analysis but also lay the base for a gap analysis to identify action items to fully utilize the state-of-the-art instruments and data analysis approaches at BNL. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion, summarizing the findings and providing participants with the opportunity to form working groups to address the emerging issues.

Workshop Organizers: Iradwikanari Waluyo (NSLS-II), Klaus Attenkofer (NSLS-II), Eli Stavitski (NSLS-II), Adrian Hunt (NSLS-II), Anibal Boscoboinik (CFN), Ashley Head (CFN) 

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1 Welcoming Remarks

2 In-situ Characterization as a Tool for the Rational Design of Clean Fuel Catalysts: The Use of Photoemission and X-ray Absorption in the Development of Novel Materials for C1 Conversion

Speaker: Jose Rodriguez, BNL

3 "Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals"

Speaker: Raul Lobo, University of Delaware

4 Group Photo Session

5 "Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Biomass Conversion"

Speaker: Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

6 Coffee Break (Included) / Panel Discussion

7 Carbon-based Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Oxygen Evolution Reactions in Acidic Media

Speaker: Umit Ozkan, Ohio State University

8 "Speciation and Electronic Structure of La1-xSrxCoO3-δ during Oxygen Evolution"

Speaker: Kelsey Stoerzinger, PNNL

9 "Earth-abundant Transition Metal Electrocatalysts for Selective CO2 Reduction in Water"

Speaker: Haotian Wang, Harvard University

10 Coffee Break / Panel Discussion

11 Challenges and Opportunities for Catalytic Conversion of CO2

Speaker: Jingguang Chen, Columbia University/BNL

12 Establishing Structure-selectivity Relationships in Catalysis: The Power of In Situ Spectroscopy and Imaging

Speaker: Matthijs van Spronsen, Harvard University

13 Workshop Concludes