Elucidating the role of transition metals on the formation of active sites on sustainable electrocatalysts

• Grant number: 18/15327-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2018
• End date: November 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Physical-Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Thiago Lopes
• Grantee: Camila Andrea Delgadillo Camargo
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/22130-6 - Electrocatalysis beyond platinum: development of sustainable electrocatalysts, AP.JP

Abstract

Achieving sustainability is mandatory for sustaining life of homo sapiens and other beings on Earth. Aware of this fact, governments around the globe has massively invested on new technologies towards minimizing/reverting the negative impacts brought by the new epoch, the Anthropocene. Chemistry is concerned with the transformation between matters and consequently, it has a crucial rule on this process of adapting the life style of our modern society to within the limits of sustainability of the Earth. Under this perspective, the present project appropriately proposes to develop sustainable (and cheap) oxygen reduction electrocatalysts, towards contributing to the development of environmentally friend electrochemical systems capable of interconverting chemical-electrical energies with high efficiency and high selectivity. This project will involve the synthesis of nanostructured carbon electrocatalysts. These catalysts will follow rigorous physical and chemical characterization, e. g. electrochemical techniques, x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and surface chemistry techniques. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CAMARGO, Camila Andrea Delgadillo. Transition metal catalysts on nitrogen and carbon structures for hydrogen production through salt water electrolysis. 2021. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN/BT) São Paulo.