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Liu, C. (author)The MTH process is recognized as one of the key ingredients of the methanol (MeOH) economy concept enabling the production of crucial hydrocarbon building blocks, such as light olefins and aromatics, starting from CO2 as the primary carbon source. Besides the driving force of reducing reliance on fossil fuels, the highly tunable nature of this...doctoral thesis 2022
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Gonzalez Nelson, A.M. (author)Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are ordered arrays of polytopic organic ligands, commonly called linkers, which interconnect metal-based inorganic building units via coordination bonds. The highly precise assembly of well defined building blocks into extended 3-D networks, known as reticular chemistry, has allowed researchers in this field to...doctoral thesis 2021
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- Etxeberria Benavides, M. (author) doctoral thesis 2021
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Pustovarenko, Alexey (author)A world in which there is a demand for materials with various properties for different needs, requires robust tools to assist in this matter. In this regard, crystal engineering is among the most important tools in materials design and keeps developing in a sustained manner. Obviously, the application of crystal engineering principles to...doctoral thesis 2021
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Osadchii, D. (author)This dissertation is devoted to the attractive and rapidly developing field of<br/>heterogeneous catalysts with isolated metal sites. The following research<br/>questions served as the source of inspiration for it: • How to design a catalyst with isolated metal sites? • How to synthesize and develop a catalyst with isolated metal sites? • How to...doctoral thesis 2020
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Wang, R. (author)The electrochemical conversion of CO2 constitutes an interesting pathway to close the anthropogenic carbon cycles. The ability to reach stable operation in short time makes this method a perfect candidate to buffer the intermittency of renewable power sources, such as solar cells and wind power. As is the case of heterogeneous catalysis, the key...doctoral thesis 2020
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Andres Garcia, E. (author)This thesis, Gas Adsorptive Separation through Microporous Materials, presents the research done on gas separation processes in the Catalysis Engineering team. This thesis intends to collect the knowledge and results of five years’ experimental research dealing with gas mixtures and microporous materials, but also with tubing, and setup...doctoral thesis 2019
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Skupien, E. (author)Bottom-up approaches for the synthesis of nanostructured heterogeneous (electro-) catalysts, via the colloidal deposition route combined with nanostructured catalyst supports, have been investigated in this thesis. Colloidal gold nanoparticles have been selected as a case study in view of their promising catalytic properties for oxidation...doctoral thesis 2019
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Vollmer, I. (author)In view of rising global demand for aromatics as starting chemical for many commodity goods as well as pharmaceuticals, new routes for production are explored. Since the advent of fracking, natural gas has become increasingly cheap and direct utilization for aromatics production has gained attractiveness. Methane dehydroaromatization represents...doctoral thesis 2019
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Sabetghadam, A. (author)Membrane separation is an energy efficient technology with a small physical footprint in which the membrane is the core of process. Membranes need to be further developed to be specifically applied in the field of gas separation. The most challenging target in designing membranes is to improve the permeation and selectivity, simultaneously. This...doctoral thesis 2019
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Shan, M. (author)Membrane-based separation has become a promising alternative to traditional separation processes to capture CO2 owing to the great features such as energy efficiency and environmental friendliness. Polymers are easy to process and have been commercialized. However, most commercial polymer membranes suffer from a trade-off relation between gas...doctoral thesis 2018
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Wezendonk, T.A. (author)<br/>doctoral thesis 2018
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Wang, Y. (author)Nitrogenoxides (NOx, including NO and NOx) are a group of hazardous, toxic and harmfulgasses, which have an adverse effect on both environment and human health,e.g., acid rain, photochemical smog, and affecting the human respiratorysystem. The NOx concentration in most of the EUcities exceeds the EU annual limit value (40 μg/m3). Around40% of...doctoral thesis 2017
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Garcia Santaclara, J. (author)The fascinating chemical and physical properties of MOFs have recently stimulated exploration of their application for photocatalysis. Despite the intense research effort, the efficiencies of most photocatalytic MOFs for solar fuel generation are still very modest. In this introduction we analyse the current status of the field and stress the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Sun, X. (author)The production of most industrially important chemicals involves catalysis. Depending on the difference in phases between the catalysts and reactants, one distinguishes homogenous catalysis and heterogeneous catalysis, with the latter being more attractive in real applications, due to the easy separation of products from catalysts and reusing...doctoral thesis 2017
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- Yarulina, I. (author) doctoral thesis 2017
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Bavykina, A.V. (author)This thesis focuses on the development of functional Porous Organic Frameworks (POFs) for various catalytic applications. POF supported molecular catalysts allow to combine the advantages of both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, offering excellent prospects in the quest to heterogenize homogeneous catalysts. The framework tunability of...doctoral thesis 2017
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ten Dam, J. (author)The production of renewable chemicals is gaining attention over the past few years. The natural resources from which they can be derived in a sustainable way are most abundant in sugars, cellulose and hemi cellulose. These highly functionalized molecules need to be de-functionalized in order to be feedstocks for the chemical industry. A...doctoral thesis 2016
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Puspitasari, I. (author)The objectives of this PhD project are to address the challenges of in-situ TEM and introduce a new generation of in-situ TEM equipment. In Chapter 2 the in-situ TEM facilities are introduced, focusing on the nanoreactor that has gone through quite some development stages during this project. Several types of in-situ TEM nanoreactors were...doctoral thesis 2016
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Nasalevich, M.A. (author)The research strategy followed in this work was inspired by natural photosynthesis that, for simplicity, can be divided into three principal steps: (i) efficient light absorption at wavelengths abundant in the solar light; (ii) long-lived charge separation achieved by funnelling of the photogenerated electrons away from the light-absorbing...doctoral thesis 2016