Materials, Energy, hydrogen, CO2, CCU, catalysis, energy storage, semiconductors, nanotechnologies.
Professor Dr. J. R. Morante is full professor at the Physics Faculty at the University of Barcelona since 1985. Since 2008 he is director of the area of advanced materials for energy at the Institute for Energy Research of Catalonia, IREC, and since 2015 he is director of this public institute. https://www.irec.cat/
His activities are focused on materials research, introduction of renewable energies and its environmental impact. He is involved in the deployment of new energy carriers such as hydrogen, biomethane or synthetic fuels for a sustainable mobility, a de-fossilized industry and society fully of renewable energy.
Materials for the conversion and storage of energy in a world without fossil sources
Each of these aspects defines a challenge for materials research. The rational design of functional materials is decisive and essential for achieving a feasible deployment of the energy transition. The chemical reactions involved in the oxidation and reduction processes to obtain reduced molecules valid as energy carriers or to store the electrical charge in a battery require catalytic materials rationally designed considering their functionality. Energy efficiency, productivity, or number of reactions by time unit taking place in an active site as well as degradation processes are key parameters for defining clear alternative to the use of fossil fuels.
In this presentation mechanisms at the nano level scale will be reviewed and rational design of nanoreactors will be proposed, as example, for high efficiency production of reduced products obtained from CO2 and for high performance Lithium Sulphur batteries.
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