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제 목 : Exceptional catalytic activities of novel QDots formed by sub-nanometric metal (0) clusters
연 사 : Prof. M.Arturo López-Quintela(University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
일 시 : 2014년 1월 21일(화) 오후 4시
장 소 : 화학관 세미나실 (330226호실)
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Exceptional catalytic activities of novel QDots formed by sub-nanometric
metal (0) clusters
M.Arturo López-Quintela
Laboratory of Magnetism and Nanotechnology (Nanomag), Technological Research
Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela,
Spain.
Green chemistry and energy conversion are two of the main topics, which will be
preferentially addressed in the next years in order to resolve two main problems
of the current society: pollution and energy supply. In both areas the main
difficulties, which have to be resolved, are related to the poor efficiency of the
current catalysts. Although in the past years a lot of work has been dedicated to
tackle such problem very little improvements were achieved. Therefore, there is an
urgent need of looking for new strategies to overcome the current difficulties. We
have seen very recently that Au metal clusters, formed by a few number of atoms,
are extremely active catalysts, reaching in some cases enzymatic activities for
aerobic oxidation reactions1. At the same time, such clusters, although formed by
metal elements, they display semiconductor-like properties, whose band gap can
be fine tuned by changing only one atom in the cluster, so that they could be also
essayed as photocatalysts. We have indeed observed that clusters can also be used
as very efficient photocatalysts for water splitting 2 and the destruction of
pollutants. Therefore, the use of these few-atom compounds can open new ways to
overcome the current difficulties found with the common catalysts. In this talk it
will be presented an overview of the state-of-the art of the catalytic properties of
clusters focussing into the fields of self-cleaning, water splitting and aerobic
oxidation.
We want to acknowledge the financial support of the MCI, Spain (MAT2010-20442; MAT2011-
28673-C02-01), MINECO, Spain (MAT2012-36754-C02-01), Xunta de Galicia (Grupos
Ref.Comp.,GRC2013-044, FEDER Funds) and Obra Social Fundación La Caixa (2012-CL097).