CARDIFF Visiting

I'd the fantastic opportunity to have a research stay for just two months inside laboratory of Prof. Hutchings within Cardiff Catalysis Institute in Wales ultimately of 2015. RESOLV Graduate School of Solvation Science gave me the financial support to be able to make my journey. My task within my stay here consisted of several tasks. To begin with, I'd the opportunity to test my products for various catalytic reactions of maybe not relevant inside our laboratory. My PhD project mainly targets photocatalysis, which, the use of (ideally noticeable) light in place of heat to operate heterogeneously catalyzed responses. Due to my expertise in photocatalysis, i possibly could assist my colleague with whom I worked closely together within my stay. Her project also targets photocatalytic reactions and she started her PhD round about 6 months ago during the time whenever I came. The Theory would be to develop a set-up which is rather like the setup I Personally Use during the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. Although we'd some good development, we couldn’t complete the job before my flight back again to Germany. Anyhow, i will be convinced the set-up will undoubtedly be ready in the 1st weeks of January.

– safety and health first! My colleague and I also wearing appropriate UV-safety eyewear before starting the Xenon lamp.

The next component contained an in depth research of the support influence on glycerol oxidation for assorted forms of catalysts. I’d opted for this as a small project that was additionally an essential aspect of the side-project of my colleague and I also thought glad to contribute to this topic. In general there clearly was a lot of strive to do within my 2 months stay at Cardiff University. It turned out to be a tremendously effective task plus the outcomes may be published in the future. Splitting your performing time on a few jobs seemed to be the way to go for my stay.

Science Zone

My scientific study comes with the usage of the noticeable light absorption properties of nanosized silver particles for chemical change of glycerol to value-added products. Your whole progress of using light for operating chemical reactions on a catalyst is recognized as photocatalysis. The objective of my stay had been the examination of varied gold-containing catalysts for different reactions (glycerol oxidation, H2O2 synthesis, CO oxidation, benzyl liquor oxidation etc.). However, the team ended up being about to develop a photocatalytic set-up. My experience in photocatalysis would make it possible to develop the set-up and explore photocatalytic reactions.

– Typical picture throughout the photocatalytic effect: Illumination of effect answer through glass window associated with stainless steel reactor with green light through the top. My colleague in Cardiff at some point have the ability to have an identical set up at the conclusion of January 2016.