We can now confirm officially that our application got positive decision and team was granted new Opus-26 project under the Institute of Physical Chemistry!

This proposed project has the potential of strong influence on the field of green and sustainable materials synthesis and processes, renewable energies, and chemicals production from organic wastes, all together in the frame of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

“Surface-Interface engineering in constructing multi-dimensional functional hybrid piezophotocatalysts for redox selective organic synthesis in flow”
 

1. PROJECT INFO
    

This project aims to develop a novel method for the transformation of natural polymers (e.g., cellulose and chitosan) into valuable porous supports to manage the incorporation of plasmonic nanophotocatalysts with the co-photocatalytic piezoelectric element (earth abundant ZnO) to strengthen the overall physicochemical properties of those hybrids.

New catalytic materials possessing excellent piezophotocatalytic redox properties to assist continuous flow photo-redox processes in obtaining high-value chemicals from biomass-inspired compounds.
 

Project will be implemented by entities:

1. Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences — being the leader of the group entities
2. University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań; NanoBioMedical Center.
3. The project lader will be Prof. Dr Juan Carlos Colmenares Quintero