Research Interests

The SURFCE group focuses on elucidating the surface properties that determine the performance catalytic materials, thereby enabling the rational design and engineering of catalysts for generating and valorising renewable feedstocks.

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Supported Heterogenous Catalysts

Supported catalysts can benefit from interactions with support materials, thereby enhancing their adsorption, reactivity, selectivity and stability. For this reason, supported catalysts can offer an attractive option for selectively valorising renewable feedstocks.

Metal Alloy Electrocatalysts

Monometallic electrocatalysts often experience issues relating to unstable and non-selective performance, especially over repeated use cycles. Alloying electrocatalytically active metals is known to often improve overall electrode performance by combining advantageous properties from its constituent metals.

An artistic rendition of metal balls symolising metal atoms at the surface of the material. Most atoms are silvery in colour while a minority of them of bronze-like in colour.

A computer rendered image in the style of "balls and sticks" of a bulk mixed metal oxide material with large teal coloured atoms connected to smaller brown coloured atoms, all connected to each other through much smaller red balls.

Bulk Mixed Metal Oxides

Bulk mixed metal oxides are known to be effective heterogenous selective oxidation catalysts (e.g. bismuth molybdates). More recently, these materials have been investigated for their potential as robust electrocatalytic materials for a variety of electrocatalytic transformations (e.g. high temperature CO2 reduction).

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