Advancing critical chemical processes for a sustainable future: challenges for industry and the Max Planck-Cardiff centre on the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis (funcat)

Bowker, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5075-1089, DeBeer, Serena, Dummer, Nicholas F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-6304, Hutchings, Graham J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8885-1560, Scheffler, Matthias, Schüth, Ferdi, Taylor, Stuart H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1933-4874 and Tüysüz, Harun 2022. Advancing critical chemical processes for a sustainable future: challenges for industry and the Max Planck-Cardiff centre on the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis (funcat). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 10.1002/anie.202209016

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Abstract

Catalysis is involved in around 85 % of manufacturing industry and contributes an estimated 25 % to the global domestic product, with the majority of the processes relying on heterogeneous catalysis. Despite the importance in different global segments, the fundamental understanding of heterogeneously catalysed processes lags substantially behind that achieved in other fields. The newly established Max Planck–Cardiff Centre on the Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis (FUNCAT) targets innovative concepts that could contribute to the scientific developments needed in the research field to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the chemical industries. This Viewpoint Article presents some of our research activities and visions on the current and future challenges of heterogeneous catalysis regarding green industry and the circular economy by focusing explicitly on critical processes. Namely, hydrogen production, ammonia synthesis, and carbon dioxide reduction, along with new aspects of acetylene chemistry.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1433-7851
Funders:	Max Planck Society, European Research Council and Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 November 2022
Date of Acceptance:	13 October 2022
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 02:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/154096

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