Projects
ZAP office in homogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry Ghent University
ZAP office in homogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry (Steven Nolan)
Catalysis and solvation based strategies for building block recovery from End-of-Life polymers KU Leuven
Since the advent of entirely synthetic plastics in the beginning of the 20th century, humanity has entered the Age of Plastics and has not left it ever since. Gradually, different types of functional polymers were developed and employed, serving as cheaper, lighter and often safer alternatives to traditional raw materials like metal, glass and paper. This plastic revolution brought a vast amount of new opportunities to our growing economy and ...
Catalysis for sustainable organic chemistry (CASCH). University of Antwerp
Surface chemistry unlocks the nanocrystal library for catalysis Ghent University
A catalyst is a material that facilitates a chemical reaction. It allows for a more environmentally friendly production of chemicals. Since catalysis usually happens at the surface of materials, the maximization of surface area is paramount. In this respect, extremely small nanocrystals are very promising since they feature a strikingly high surface/volume ratio and therefore many different catalyst materials were synthesized as nanocrystals ...
Enhanced catalysis in porous materials via acoustic waves. KU Leuven
Sabbatical Ewald Janssens: metal clusters for catalysis KU Leuven
The reactivity of small metal clusters differs radically from that of bulk materials because the atoms in a cluster have a lower coordination number, the concentration of reaction centers is high and the electronic band structure has not yet been developed. Not only does the electronic structure appear dramatically with cluster size and composition, too unexpected properties such as the occurrence of selective catalytic oxidation gold ...
Rational design of TMI active sites in zeolites for redox catalysis KU Leuven
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Catalysis KU Leuven
Model based synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for heterogeneous catalysis in flow. Ghent University
A next generation of heterogeneous catalysts will be developed starting from stable porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to which numerous active metal complexes will be anchored. The potential of COFs is currently almost unexplored. The new materials will be engineered on the nanometer scale and tested using a microreactor set-up. As a result, various sustainable processes which are not possible today on industrial scale, will become ...