Projects

PIs: B S Yeo (Jason)
Co-PIs: J Pérez-Ramírez, Dr.Federico Calle Vallejo (IQTCUB)
RF/PhD: Zhou Yansong, Louisa Ting Rui Lin

Project ID: FY19-7

Explore how CO₂ could be reduced to propylene: by high-throughput screening of catalysts, and characterisation of intermediates with spectroscopy

In this work, we shall explore how CO₂ could be reduced to propylene, using two approaches:

1. Developing catalysts to reduce CO₂ to propylene: A combinatorial, high through put approach is required to synthesize and screen for materials.
2. A mechanistic understanding of how CO₂ can be reduced to propylene: Spectroscopy, e.g., Infrared and Raman, will be used to probe the type of intermediates formed during CO₂ reduction, and how these lead to the  formation of specific products. The type of intermediates that lead to propylene should be identified.