Director of University of Michigan Energy Institute talks about catalyst design strategies at NCKU - CNA
Director of University of Michigan Energy Institute Mark A. Barteau gave a talk on Catalyst Design Strategies for Chemicals and Fuels at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on the afternoon of October 21.
Barteau talked at a seminar hosted by Prof. Yu-Chun Lin from the Department of Chemical Engineering at NCKU.
In his talk, Barteau gave a short introduction to the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan and then go on to talk about some examples of work he had done in catalysis over the years to illustrate the numbers of ways there are to solve interesting problems in catalysis.
The message of the talk is there is no single way to get the answer, according to Barteau, depending on the problems there may be different routes to the solution.
He also said, “I have been in the University of Michigan for the last three years as the Institute of Energy director and our objective is to try to develop science and technology and policy solutions to pressing energy and climate challenges.”
According to Barteau, a major challenge in heterogeneous catalysis has been to design better catalysts from a molecular-level understanding of surface reaction mechanisms and site requirements.
It has been a dream for decades to be able to specify the composition and structure of matter to effect a desired catalytic transformation with desired and predicted rate and selectivity.
The catalyst design strategies illustrated here will, it is hoped, be applicable to the development of new routes to fuels and chemicals from a feedstock base growing beyond fossil resources, Barteau noted.
A graduate student of chemical engineering Fong-Yin Huang who attended the talk said, “I learned a lot of pioneering thoughts in the field of catalytic study, thanks to the great talk delivered by Prof. Barteau.”
“Hope in the future we could have more events like this, or get the opportunity to work with awesome researchers like Prof. Barteau,” Huang added.
Another student Wynne Han also claimed he learned a lot from Prof. Barteau’s talk and said, the research findings may be difficult and complicated but Prof. Barteau make it clear and simple for us to understand with graphs and examples.
Barteau talked at a seminar hosted by Prof. Yu-Chun Lin from the Department of Chemical Engineering at NCKU.
In his talk, Barteau gave a short introduction to the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan and then go on to talk about some examples of work he had done in catalysis over the years to illustrate the numbers of ways there are to solve interesting problems in catalysis.
The message of the talk is there is no single way to get the answer, according to Barteau, depending on the problems there may be different routes to the solution.
He also said, “I have been in the University of Michigan for the last three years as the Institute of Energy director and our objective is to try to develop science and technology and policy solutions to pressing energy and climate challenges.”
According to Barteau, a major challenge in heterogeneous catalysis has been to design better catalysts from a molecular-level understanding of surface reaction mechanisms and site requirements.
It has been a dream for decades to be able to specify the composition and structure of matter to effect a desired catalytic transformation with desired and predicted rate and selectivity.
The catalyst design strategies illustrated here will, it is hoped, be applicable to the development of new routes to fuels and chemicals from a feedstock base growing beyond fossil resources, Barteau noted.
A graduate student of chemical engineering Fong-Yin Huang who attended the talk said, “I learned a lot of pioneering thoughts in the field of catalytic study, thanks to the great talk delivered by Prof. Barteau.”
“Hope in the future we could have more events like this, or get the opportunity to work with awesome researchers like Prof. Barteau,” Huang added.
Another student Wynne Han also claimed he learned a lot from Prof. Barteau’s talk and said, the research findings may be difficult and complicated but Prof. Barteau make it clear and simple for us to understand with graphs and examples.
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