On May 10, Carbocat participated in an activity organized by Prof. Tatiana in which high school students were able to visit our laboratory and learn about our research topics.

 On this occasion the Professors Tatiana and Alejandro, Ignacia (Chemist) and Bastian (master's student) allowed the students to know the world of catalysis and carbons, showing the importance and challenges in which we are involved as a laboratory.

Professor Ximena Gacía has been recognized as an outstanding woman for her work in knowledge transfer during Women's Month. 

Congratulations Prof. Ximena

PhD. Tatiana Bustamante Betancur, academic of the Department of Chemical Engineering and part of CarboCat Laboratory awarded FONDECYT INICIACIÓN 2024 project.

The FONDECYT INICIACIÓN projects aim to promote and strengthen the scientific and technological research development of excellence through the promotion of new researchers, by financing research projects of 2 to 3 years duration.

Prof. Bustamante's project is entitled "Surface modified ruthenium-based catalysts as efficient and operationally stable systems for safe hydrogen storage" and is framed in the line of Catalysis, Materials Science and Reaction Engineering.

Congratulations Prof. Tatiana!

Prof. Tatiana participated this semester as an advisor in the initiative IIE - PAR Explora Biobío where she accompanied students from the Colegio Chileno Árabe in the project: Clays with meaning: exploring the possibilities of local materials from the Biobío region for the creation of artistic and utilitarian pieces.

During the trip to Linares, Professor Romel Jimenez and PhD student Francisco Villagra visited the Instituto Linares High School, where Francisco was a student. They gave a talk focused on chemical engineering and chemical reactions engineering, with the participation of students of chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology accompanied by their teachers.

With a total of 11 works carried out in the laboratory (4 oral presentations and 7 posters) ended the outstanding participation of the CarboCat laboratory in the Conference of Catalysis and Adsorption. In addition, two Carbocat students received the awards given by the Division of Catalysis and Adsorption for the best oral presentation and the best poster, demonstrating the group's commitment to high quality research. 

Prof. Romel Jiménez, gave a successful talk entitled ''CO2 methanation on Ni/ZrO2: Structural sensitivity, reaction mechanism and kinetic modeling '' during the 12th version of the Chilean Conference on Catalysis and Adsorption. Linares, 16-11-2023

Gabriel Galdames, Ph.D. student, gave a successful talk entitled ''In-situ and Operando-FTIR study of the partial oxidation of methanol on MoO3/TiO2 catalysts '' during the 12th version of the Chilean Conference on Catalysis and Adsorption. Linares, 16-11-2023

Francisco Villagra-Soza, Ph.D. student, gave a successful talk entitled ''Mechanistic details on CO2 hydrogenation on  In2O3/ZrO2 catalysts '' during the 12th version of the Chilean Conference on Catalysis and Adsorption. Linares, 16-11-2023

Daniel Parra, Project Engineer, gave a successful talk entitled ''Hydrogen adsorption on activated carbon: Effect of Cu and Ni addition'' during the 12th version of the Chilean Conference on Catalysis and Adsorption. Linares, 15-11-2023

As a result of the doctoral and master thesis of Daviel Gómez and Tomás Vergara respectively, two scientific articles have been published in the renowned and classic scientific journal "Journal of Catalysis". Read the papers here

Carbocat laboratory participated with 7 research papers in one of the most important catalysis congresses, EuropaCat 2023. The works presented were three oral talks by Francisco Villagra-Soza and Tomás Vergara (CarboCat alumni) and 4 Poster by Douglas Perez, Tomás Vergara and Alejandro Karelovic, showing a successful participation. Czech Republic, Prague, 2023.

Alejandro Karelovic presented the works entitled ''Low content of Zn on Cu/SiO2 modify the surface and the mechanism of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol'' and '' ''in poster format at The European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat,  in Czech Republic. 2023

Tomás Vergara presented the work entitled ''Kinetic and mechanistic study of CO2 conversion into methanol over Cu/TiO2 and Cu/SiO2 catalysts promoted by CeO2'' in poster format at The European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat,  in Czech Republic. 2023

Douglas Pérez presented the work done together with Prof. Ximena García entitled ''CO2 methanation: Effect of H2 load fluctuation on the performance of a monolithic reactor'' in poster format at The European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat,  in Czech Republic. 2023

Tomás Vergara (Carbocat alumni) successfully gave an Oral talk focused on structural sensitivity in the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol at the European Congress on Catalysis, entitled ''''. Czech Republic, 2023.

Francisco Villagra successfully gave two oral talks focused on CO2 hydrogenation processes to CH4 and methanol at the European Congress on Catalysis, entitled ''Mechanistic Relationship between CO and CO2 hydrogenation over mono- and bimetallic Ni, Co and NiCo Catalysts'' and ''Effect of In content on In2O3/ZrO2 catalysts for methanol synthesis via CO2 hydrogenation''. Czech Republic, 2023.

The professors Luis Arteaga (Universidad del Bio Bio) and Francisco Gracia (Universidad de Chile) visited the CarboCat laboratory on the morning of Friday, June 28 where they were able to share experiences and ideas about our work.

With four research works, two oral presentations and two poster presentations, CarboCat research group had a successful participation in one of the most important congresses in the field of catalysis. The group was one of the two participating groups from Chile (UdeC and UCH) and had the largest contribution of works from the country. 22-06-2023

Francisco Villagra-Soza gave a successful talk with the work entitled ''Mechanistic relationship between CO and CO2 hydrogenation on Co, Ni and Ni-Co bimetallic catalysts'' at The 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting  in Providence, USA. 22-06-2023

Gabriel Galdames presented the work entitled '' Effect of Vanadia structure on the kinetics of methanol oxidative dehydrogenation'' in poster format at The 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting  in Providence, USA. 21-06-2023

Tomás Vergara gave a successful talk with the work entitled ''Kinetic and mechanistic study of CO2 conversion into methanol over Cu/TiO2 and Cu/SiO2 catalysts promoted by CeO2 '' at The 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting  in Providence, USA. 20-06-2023

Tomás Vergara presented the work done together with Daviel Gómez (PhD Alumni) entitled ''Low Contents of Zn on Cu/SiO2 modify the surface and the mechanism of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol'' in poster format at The 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting  in Providence, USA. 19-06-2023

Douglas Pérez presented his work entitled "Effect of heat and mass transfer resistances on the dynamic operation of a monolithic CO2 methanation reactor" at the 15th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering in Barcelona, Spain.

Carbocat laboratory will participate in the EuropaCat congress, in Prague, with two oral presentations (Tomás Vergara and Francisco Villagra-Soza) and five posters (Gabriel Galdámes, Daviel Gómez, Douglas Pérez, Tomás Vergara and Francisco Villagra-Soza). 

Professor Romel Jiménez will participate in the ''XIII Simposio Colombiano de Catálisis'', in Bucaramanga. He will give a course related to kinetic analysis at the ''Escuela Colombiana de Catálisis'' and will give a plenary lecture at the symposium.

Tomás has successfully defended his M.Sc thesis entitled ''Mechanistic aspects of methanol synthesis over copper catalysts promoted by cerium oxide''. Congratulations M.Sc Tomás  May 2, 2023.

Tomás, a master student from the Carbocat laboratory, has obtained a scholarship (DAAD Scholarship) to pursue his doctoral studies at KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany. Congratulations Tomás!

Sebastián Godoy has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled '' Theorical and experimental study of the CO2 methanation reaction on Ni-Co catalysts''. Congratulations PhD Sebastián  April 3, 2023

Daviel Gómez has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled '' Mechanism and structural sensitivity of the synthesis of methanol from CO2''. Congratulations PhD Daviel! March 24, 2023

Four students from the CarboCat lab (Daviel Gómez, Gabriel Galdames, Tomás Vergara and Francisco Villagra-Soza) were accepted to present their work at The 28th North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Providence, USA.

Our Student Douglas Pérez was accepted to present his work at the 15th Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering in Barcelona, Spain.

Professor Victor Baldovino (Universidad Industrial de Santander) taught a course entitled Design of Synthesis Processes and Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts in the framework of the Universidad de Concepción summer school, which allowed him to visit our laboratory and thus generate new collaborations related to our research.

Elvis Medina and Francisco Villagra-Soza participated in the first Latin American XPS course at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.

Sebastian Godoy and Francisco Villagra participated with a poster and oral presentation at The 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting in New York, USA.