Conference Agenda

Session
MS-63: Catalysis: functionalized materials studied by XRD and XAFS
Time:
Thursday, 19/Aug/2021:
10:20am - 12:45pm

Session Chair: Valérie Briois
Session Chair: Andreas Roodt
Location: 223-4

60 2nd floor

Invited: Elisa Borfecchia (Italy), Ola F Wendt  (Sweden)


Session Abstract

Catalysis and MOFs: Materials structure and function in chemical applications using crystallography and XAFS Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are a recent class of porous materials. On one hand, their crystalline characteristics with tunable porous structure with high surface areas and large pore volumes similar to that of zeolites and the ease of access to various metals ions in the pore resulting from their compositional versatility make them very attractive for catalysis. On the other hand, the channel of MOFs can serve also as host of active metal nanoparticles preserving them from undesirable sintering or modifications during reactions leading to deactivation. XRD and EXAFS are both powerful techniques to characterize the structures of those porous materials and fate of the embedded active species, single metal ions or nanoparticles. This MS will highlight how complementary are those techniques to help the researchers into the design of efficient catalysts using MOF materials and derived carbonaceous supports.

For all abstracts of the session as prepared for Acta Crystallographica see PDF in Introduction, or individual abstracts below.


Introduction
Presentations
10:20am - 10:25am

Introduction to session

Valerie Briois, Andreas Roodt



10:25am - 10:55am

Heterogenization of molecular catalysts: C–H activation and dehydrogenation

Ola F. Wendt

Lund University, LUND, Sweden



10:55am - 11:25am

Understanding local structure and redox chemistry of metal ions in nanoporous catalysts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Elisa Borfecchia

University of Turin, Turin, Italy



11:25am - 11:45am

XAS and XRD analysis of active Pt and Pd sites in metal-organic framework UiO-67

Alina Skorynina1, Aram Bugaev1, Kirill Lomachenko2, Alexander Guda1, Andrea Lazzarini3, Unni Olsbye3, Karl Petter Lillerud3, Alexander Soldatov1

1Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; 2ESRF, Grenoble, France; 3University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway



11:45am - 12:05pm

Structural dynamics of nanoalloy catalysts for Fuel Cells by in situ total x-ray scattering

Valeri Petkov

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, United States of America



12:05pm - 12:25pm

The Hopeful Journey Towards Successful Tailoring Of Water (In)Soluble Cobalt Analogues As Potential Water Splitting Catalysts.

Orbett Alexander1, Roger Alberto2, Andreas Roodt1

1Dept. of Chemistry, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa; 2Dept. of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zürich, Switzerland.



12:25pm - 12:45pm

Structural and bandgap modification of KLaTiO4 hydrogen evolution catalyst

Junwei Ben Li, Brendan J. Kennedy, Christopher D. Ling, Thomas Maschmeyer

The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia