Professor Thomas Jaramillo is the Director of SUNCAT, as
well as the Task Leader for synthesis, characterization, and demonstration.
The Jaramillo Group works closely with the other PIs in SUNCAT to tackle challenges in energy conversion.
SUNCAT
Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
Summer Institute 2019
Dates: Monday, August 12 to Friday, August 16 2019
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
Catalysis in an Evolving Energy Landscape
As renewable energy technologies continue to grow in capacity, heterogeneous catalysis is becoming increasingly important, playing a central role in chemical transformations for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals. This summer school will provide participants with a detailed introduction to the fundamental concepts that govern heterogeneous catalysis and the cutting-edge research currently being pursued. Spanning electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis, tutorials will be given by invited experts from academia and industry describing both theoretical and experimental approaches. Introductions will be given both to experimental techniques such as synthesis and advanced catalyst characterization, and also to modeling, simulation, and machine learning approaches.
This summer school is aimed at graduate students as well as early career researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, or materials science. Researchers of diverse backgrounds with an interest in experimental or theoretical studies of surface chemical processes and their applications in energy transformations are particularly encouraged to attend.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
For more information or to register, please click here .
About SUNCAT
"The SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis is a partnership
between SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Department of Chemical
Engineering at Stanford University. The Center explores challenges associated
with the atomic-scale design of catalysts for chemical transformations of
interest for energy conversion and storage. By combining experimental and
theoretical methods the aim is to develop a quantitative description of
chemical processes atthe solid-gas and solid-liquid interface. The goal is
to identify the factors controlling the catalytic properties of solid surfaces
and use these to tailor new catalysts. Our approach is to integrate electronic
structure theory and kinetic modeling with operando and in-situ characterization
techniques, synthesis of alloys, compounds, and functional nanostructures, and
finally testing under realistic process conditions."
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CatApp
CatApp is an web application that provides public access to DFT-calculated
reaction and activation energies. It can be installed on your computer or
smartphone can be found here. The application was first described in our
article in Angewandte Chemie 2 JAN 2012.
Instructions for CatApp
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