relation: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/38184/
title: Fuel recycling at copper catalysts
creator: Hernández Sánchez, Raúl
description: With the ever-increasing energy needs of our society, it is critical to recycle fuels back into their original state. Reforming used hydrocarbons by closing the carbon cycle holds promise to achieve sustainability. The research plan described herein tackles this challenge by investigating the fundamental steps in growing carbon chains, to produce hydrocarbons, starting from carbon monoxide. The construction of the carbon-carbon bond is the most difficult step in this transformation. Here, inspired by work on copper surfaces, we develop homogeneous catalysts that mimic the surface active site, where we can investigate the overall transformation step-by-step. Success of this research plan will provide the guidelines to design more efficient catalysts and therefore, guide society towards sustainable fuel use.
date: 2020
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/38184/1/SanchezR-PMFSeeding-2020ShowcasePoster.pdf
identifier:   Hernández Sánchez, Raúl  (2020) Fuel recycling at copper catalysts.  In: Pitt Momentum Fund 2020, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.    (Unpublished)  
relation: 10.18117/0cxz-ba93