Suncat Summer Institute - Heterogeneous Catalysis for Energy & Society

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Suncat Summer Institute 201524-28 August 2015

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Catalysis is a central technology enabling chemical transformations to fuels and chemicals and as such plays a crucial role in our society and its energy production. Energy-heavy processes are heavily dependent on heterogeneous catalysis.

This summer school aims to give the participants a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts underlying heterogeneous catalytic reactions with a special focus on energy transformations relevant for our current and future society.

The theoretical and experimental tools for establishing an atomic-level understanding of surface structure, and surface chemical, electrochemical, and photo-electrochemical processes will be discussed in detail in lectures and the participants will be carrying out exercises on the topics covered. The school is aimed at graduate students as well as early career researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, or materials science, with an interest in experimental or theoretical studies of surface chemical processes and their applications in energy transformations, environmental and general chemical processes.

This summer school will consist of tutorials covering the fundamentals in heterogeneous catalysis, lectures given by invited experts in the field of heterogeneous and energy related catalysis, a hands-on project to be completed by each student and poster sessions where each student will present their own work.

We look forward seeing you all.

Organizing committee,

Aleksandra Vojvodic
Felix Studt
Frank Abild-Pedersen
Jakob Kibsgaard
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens S. Hummelshøj
Johannes Voss
Thomas Bligaard
Tom F. Jaramillo


The SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis is a partnership between SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. The Center explores challenges associated with the atomic-scale design of catalysts for chemical transformations of interest for energy conversion and storage. By combining experimental and theoretical methods the aim is to develop a quantitative description of chemical processes atthe solid-gas and solid-liquid interface. The goal is to identify the factors controlling the catalytic properties of solid surfaces and use these to tailor new catalysts. Our approach is to integrate electronic structure theory and kinetic modeling with operando and in-situ characterization techniques, synthesis of alloys, compounds, and functional nanostructures, and finally testing under realistic process conditions.

Date/Time: 
Monday, August 24, 2015. 7:30 am - Friday, August 28, 2015. 2:00 pm
Location: 
Shriram Center for Bioengineering
Sponsors: 
US DOE Office of Basic Energy Science; Danish Agency for Science, Technology, and Innovation
Contact Info: 
http://suncat.stanford.edu/theory/about/people/pooja/

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