New green routes for fuels and chemicals require radically new catalyst materials. But with current technologies, testing and characterizing these materials is very time-consuming. In this theme, the PhD student will develop an integrated spectroscopic and microfluidic testing platform, inspired by the latest developments in life sciences.
13 projects have been defined:
Chemical Imaging of Solid Catalysts with Nano-Infrared Spectroscopy (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
Studying the Genesis of Nanobubbles on Zeolite and Metal Organic Framework Thin-Films by Scanning Probe Microscopy (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
Quantitative Determination of Particle-Size Dependent Active Sites in Supported Metal Nanoparticles with SHINERS (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
Nanosensors for local halide concentrations (Prof. Bert Weckhuysen)
Multiscale Structuring for 2-Step Catalysis & Sensing (Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen)
Nanoprobes for high resolution spatial and temporal temperature mapping (Prof. Alfons van Blaaderen)
Detailed operando spectroscopy of catalytic reactions (Prof. Albert van den Berg)
A Device for Transient Analysis of Electrochemical products by MS (Prof. Albert van den Berg)
High-throughput synthesis and characterization of catalysts (Prof. Albert van den Berg)
Making use of diffusiophoresis for enhanced mass transports off spatially inhomogeneous catalysts: experiments (Prof. Detlef Lohse)
Making use of diffusiophoresis for enhanced mass transports off spatially inhomogeneous catalysts: numerics & theory (Prof. Detlef Lohse)
Plasmonic, catalytic, and electrolysis bubble nucleation & growth (Prof. Detlef Lohse)
Making porous supraparticles for catalysis (Prof. Detlef Lohse)