Composite Photocatalysts very active Under solar Light for water Splitting, and grEen Hydrogen production (PULSE)

Equipment, AAP 2019-2

Team: TEMiC, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique LCP

Project leader: Hynd Remita

The proposed project aims at developing low cost and new composite materials based on mixed oxides and/or conjugated polymer nanostructures (which have strong photocatalytic activity in the visible light region) with MOFs for biomass conversion and green hydrogen production. We propose a promising and innovative way for hydrogen production (an important barrier of the hydrogen network) to promote the development of hydrogen as a future green energy carrier. The composite materials will be characterized by different techniques. A micro-GC will be then purchased.

The photocatalytic activity of the targeted systems will be investigated under UV and visible light excitation by monitoring H₂, O₂ and other gases such as CO₂ and CH₄ (in the case of the Biomass conversion) by Micro GC. The systems will be characterized in terms of turnover frequencies, quantum efficiencies and stability.

Themes:

• Renewable energies

Collaborations :

PULSE project gathers 3 research laboratories (LCP, LCI (ICMMO), UCP ENSTA ) of different institutions of the DIM (CNRS, Université-Paris-Saclay, ENSTA-IPP) and of different expertise.