ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Force-Responsive Heterogeneous Catalysts
Efficient catalytic materials are essential for the sustainable energy transition. To design such materials, we have a lot to learn from Nature, where bio-catalysts enzymes can perform many reactions that are virtually impossible for chemists to replicate. Enzymes operate by dynamically confining reactants and transition states, during the catalytic reaction, with high geometric and chemical precision. While we can mimic static confinement with existing nanoporous catalysts, we do not have in-situ control over the confinement geometry inside these generally rigid materials. I aim to bridge this material gap by developing the first catalytic system with externally tunable confinement. My…
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