Materials design and discovery of catalysts for small molecule conversion

(Electro)catalysis is essential for addressing the most pressing societal and environmental challenges of this century, ranging from fossil fuel emission reduction to the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Among the technologies driven by (electro)catalysis are toxic gas abatement processes, greenhouse gas storage and utilization, and electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices like fuel cells, electrolyzers, and metal-air batteries. However, the field of (electro)catalysis has been historically hindered by a lack of guiding principles for materials selection and design, especially for increasingly complex materials systems such as oxides. This has stemmed from a lack of systematic studies of surface reactivity at thermodynamic conditions relevant to the reaction of interest and understanding of chemical origins of such reactivity trends.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Hwang, Jonathan,Ph.D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Yang Shao-Horn.

• Materials Science and Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122157

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