Symposium NM4-Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment

Catalysis plays a critical role in a diverse range of applications, including emerging technologies related to renewable energy and sustainable environment, such as water splitting, CO₂ reduction, pollutant treatment, energy conversion, and production of hydrocarbons. Key to the development of novel energy conversion and production technologies is the design and synthesis of well-defined functional catalytic materials with precisely tailored structures and functions. In this sense, advances in materials science bring about many opportunities for catalysis, ranging from the preparation and characterization of catalysts and in-situ or operando monitoring of catalytic reactions, to the understanding of the reaction mechanisms. For instance, recent advances in material science enable the synthesis and characterization of materials (e.g., nanoparticles and nanoclusters) with atomic precision. This presents new opportunities for an atom-scale design, tuning and control of chemical activity, specificity, and selectivity of a catalyst. The new insights gained from the “materials science” perspective are helpful for exploring the strong, non-linear correlation between the sizes/compositions of catalyst particles and their catalytic properties, and eventually achieving rational manipulation of the latter through the former.

This symposium aims to provide a platform of discussion on the discovery and development of novel catalytic materials, covering but not limited to single-atoms, clusters, particles, films, and hierarchical structures, with emphasis on energy and environmental applications. A palette of in situ spectroscopic and microscopic techniques useful for characterizing their structural features and catalytic impact will also be included.

• Novel semiconductors for photo-electrodes and photocatalysis
• Hydrogen generation and CO₂ reduction
• Single atom and nanocluster-based catalysts
• Hierarchically structured zeolites
• Plasmon-enhanced catalysis
• Catalysts by design from theoretical insights
• Catalysts for biomass conversion processes
• In situ spectroscopic and microscopic techniques for catalysts characterization

• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _0 (University of Oregon, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _1 (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _2 (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _3 (Cornell University, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _4 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _5 (Arizona State University, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _6 (University of California, Riverside, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _7 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _8 (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _9 (University of Michigan, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _10 (McGill University, Canada)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _11 (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _12 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _13 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _14 (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _15 (Osaka University, Japan)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _16 (Kansas University, USA)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _17 (Kyoto University, Japan)
• NM4_Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment _18 (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA)