Overview

Recent trends in heterogeneous catalysis are exceeding traditional applications in industrial reactors and expanding into new areas, such as health, personal protection, climate and energy.

Emerging catalysts operate in unconventional environments, such as living cells, ionic liquids or supercritical fluids. Also, unconventional methods for local and selective catalyst activation such as microwaves, light, plasma, ultrasounds or magnetic fields, are explored, aiming to provide the energy needed directly to the catalyst, replacing the traditional, fossil fuel-based reactor heating. This is accompanied by the development of new, unconventional catalyst manufacturing technologies and reactor concepts. Catalysis “beyond the reactor” presents a research area, in which interdisciplinary collaborations between the classical catalysis science, chemical and materials engineering, physics, electrical engineering, energy technology, biology or medicine play crucial role.

This conference will bring together these collaborating disciplines to provide insights on the latest developments and to help map the future of this exciting research area.

Speakers

• Professor Peter J Sadler, Warwick University, UK
  Catalytic metallodrugs
• Professor Dionisios Vlachos, University of Delaware, USA
  Artificial intelligence for catalyst and reactor design
• Professor Andrzej Stankiewicz, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  Catalysis and reactors in decarbonisation. Is there room for unconventionality?
• Professor Jesus Santamaria, University Zaragoza, Spain
  Designing catalysts to operate in the tumor microenvironment: Catalytic starvation therapy and ROS generation

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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