Speaker: Raffaella Buonsanti, EPFL

Time: 20:00-21:30 pm, Februray 24, 2023, GMT+8

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Abstract:

Affordable clean energy and climate action are two of the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations to be achieved by 2030. The vast majority of energy technologies relies on nanomaterials and their progress is strongly connected to the ability of materials chemists to tune their property- and function-dictating features. In this talk, I will present our recent group efforts towards the synthesis of atomically defined nanocrystals via colloidal chemistry. I will showcase how nanocrystals with precisely tunable shapes, sizes and interfaces serve as ideal platforms to advance our current knowledge towards improved selectivity in the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction. I will also share our results evidencing that these electrocatalysts can sustain their catalytic activity and selectivity at technologically relevant conditions, therefore might also offer practical solutions.

Biography:

Professor Buonsanti is an Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, EPFL.  

She has co-authored over 100 peer-review publications in international journals. Prof. Buonsanti has received an ERC Starting Grant in 2016 and numerous awards, including the Swiss Chemical Society Werner Price in 2021 and the European Chemical Society Lecture Award and the Royal Chemical Society ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, both in 2019. Recently, she was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. She is also the chair of the Nanoscience Subdivision of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and is an Associate Editor of ACS Catalysis.

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