{"id":328,"date":"2021-12-20T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T10:36:38","slug":"optimizing-the-catalytic-activity-by-alloying-and-additives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/research\/optimizing-the-catalytic-activity-by-alloying-and-additives\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing the catalytic activity by alloying and additives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After exploring the ethanol electro-oxidation on Pd, I screened alloys to identify catalysts that are more selective towards the full-oxidation for better ethanol fuel-cell.[<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.electacta.2018.04.102\">8<\/a>] Besides alloying with another metal, metal catalysts can also be tuned by additives. When a chlorinated salt is used as a Ru precursor, Cl is not completely removed during the calcination\/reduction steps. The remaining Cl tunes the electronic structure of Ru and facilitates formic acid decomposition.[<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/C5GC02200B\">9<\/a>] Organic additives can also actively protect the metallic surface and, when the right amount is added, they can facilitate alcohol dehydrogenation catalysed by shaped Co nanoparticles.[<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D0CY00390E\">10<\/a>] To reach a thorough understanding and optimize the catalytic activity, I systematically lead those studies combining computational studies<em> and<\/em> experiments in partnership with leaders in their fields, focusing on the upgrade of biomass-derived molecules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>\u201cComputational screening for selective catalysts: Cleaving the CC bond during ethanol electro-oxidation reaction,\u201d E. A. Monyoncho, S. N. Steinmann, P. Sautet, E. A. Baranova, and <em>C. Michel<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.electacta.2018.04.102\">Electrochim. Acta 2018<\/a>, 274, 274<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRu catalysts for levulinic acid hydrogenation with formic acid as a hydrogen source\u201d<br \/>\nA.M. Ruppert, M. Jedrzejczyk, O. Sneka-Platek, N. Keller, A.S. Dumon, C. Michel, P. Sautet, J. Grams, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/C5GC02200B\">Green Chem. 2016<\/a>, 18, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>K. Ka\u017amierczak, R.K. Ramamoorthy, A. Moisset, G. Viau, A. Viola, M. Giraud, J. Peron, L. Sicard, J.-Y. Piquemal, M. Besson, N. Perret, C. Michel<br \/>\n\u201cImportance of the decoration in shaped cobalt nanoparticles in the acceptor-less secondary alcohol dehydrogenation,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D0CY00390E\">Catal. Sci. Technol. 2020<\/a>, 10, 4923<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After exploring the ethanol electro-oxidation on Pd, I screened alloys to identify catalysts that are more selective towards the full-oxidation for better ethanol fuel-cell.[8] Besides alloying with another metal, metal catalysts can also be tuned by additives. When a chlorinated salt is used as a Ru precursor, Cl is not completely removed during the calcination\/reduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":155,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-328","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/carine.michel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}