Description: Welcome to our site! Our group focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and performance of supported catalysts. These allow efficient chemical conversions (and hence decrease the use of energy and raw materials), but are also essential to allow the transformation from fossil to renewable fuels. With fundamental research we unravel structure-performance relationships, but we also investigate…
The group of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis is part of the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science . Materials Chemistry and Catalysis (MCC) comprises the staff members prof. Petra de Jongh , prof. Frank de Groot , dr. Peter Ngene , dr. Jessi van der Hoeven , dr. Nong Artrith , and prof. dr. ir. Krijn de Jong (em) . Next to that our fundament is a team of wonderful technicians, a very professional secretariat and a great team of PhD candidates, postdocs, and MSc and BSc students .
Our group focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and performance of supported catalysts . These allow efficient chemical conversions (and hence decrease the use of energy and raw materials), but are also essential to allow the transformation from fossil to renewable fuels . With fundamental research we unravel structure-performance relationships, but we also investigate large scale existing industrial processes (methanol synthesis, Fischer Tropsch synthesis, hydroisomerisation, ammonia synthesis, epoxi
We are also very active in the field of energy materials : for instance to produce electrocatalytically fuels from CO 2 and H 2 , reversible hydrogen storage, and next generation battery materials. We lead the materials research line in RELEASE , the national consortium to enable large scale reversible energy storage. Another stronghold is the characterisation of these complex materials with advanced (in-situ and operando) spectroscopic and microscopic techniques , most notably advanced X-Ray absorption spe