Chemistry invites Alumnus Neal Abrams '00, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Neal will be presenting on Tuesday, February 3rd at 4:00 p.m. in CNS 333. Neals topic will focus on; Photocatalytic compounds from cellulose biotemplates.
Energy demands require alternative sources to fuels. With sunlight in great abundance, most agree that this primary fuel source needs to be harvested and converted into a useful and storable form of energy. Latching onto evolutionary design as an inspiration, the opportunity to mimic nature cannot be disregarded. From novel architectures to energy conversion pathways, nature has found a way to thrive off of sunlight as a primary energy source and serves as a model for the development of synthetic methods towards three-dimensional inorganic architectures using natural materials. These compounds find applications as semiconductor catalysts for water-splitting reactions as well as in the catalysis of dyes and environmental VOCs. Inorganic three-dimensional replicas from cellulose can be produced by infiltration with transition metal-rare earth compounds, leading to an photocatalytic replica structure.
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