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세미나가 다음주 화요일(1월 21일)에 개최됩니다. 많은 참석 부탁드립니다.감사합니다.========================= 제 목 : Exceptional catalytic activities of novel QDots formed by sub-nanometric metal (0) clusters연 사 : Prof. M.Arturo López-Quintela(University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain)일 시 : 2014년 1월 21일(화) 오후 4시 장 소 : 화학관 세미나실 (330226호실)------------------------- Exceptional catalytic activities of novel QDots formed by sub-nanometric metal (0) clusters M.Arturo López-Quintela Laboratory of Magnetism and Nanotechnology (Nanomag), Technological Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Green chemistry and energy conversion are two of the main topics, which will be preferentially addressed in the next years in order to resolve two main problems of the current society: pollution and energy supply. In both areas the main difficulties, which have to be resolved, are related to the poor efficiency of the current catalysts. Although in the past years a lot of work has been dedicated to tackle such problem very little improvements were achieved. Therefore, there is an urgent need of looking for new strategies to overcome the current difficulties. We have seen very recently that Au metal clusters, formed by a few number of atoms, are extremely active catalysts, reaching in some cases enzymatic activities for aerobic oxidation reactions1. At the same time, such clusters, although formed by metal elements, they display semiconductor-like properties, whose band gap can be fine tuned by changing only one atom in the cluster, so that they could be also essayed as photocatalysts. We have indeed observed that clusters can also be used as very efficient photocatalysts for water splitting 2 and the destruction of pollutants. Therefore, the use of these few-atom compounds can open new ways to overcome the current difficulties found with the common catalysts. In this talk it will be presented an overview of the state-of-the art of the catalytic properties of clusters focussing into the fields of self-cleaning, water splitting and aerobic oxidation. We want to acknowledge the financial support of the MCI, Spain (MAT2010-20442; MAT2011-28673-C02-01), MINECO, Spain (MAT2012-36754-C02-01), Xunta de Galicia (Grupos Ref.Comp.,GRC2013-044, FEDER Funds) and Obra Social Fundación La Caixa (2012-CL097).
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