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SUMMARY:Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials 
 to address sustainability challenges - Prof. Camille Petit\,Department of 
 Chemical Engineering\, Imperial College London\, UK
DTSTART:20231012T130000Z
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CONTACT:Sharon Connor
DESCRIPTION:Our research revolves around the study and application of poro
 us materials. Such materials exhibit a high internal surface area and many
  display a unique chemical versatility. Examples of porous materials inclu
 de activated carbon\, zeolites\, metal organic frameworks. Together\, thei
 r features make these materials attractive for interfacial processes such 
 as gas adsorption and catalysis. Using examples from our work\, I will pre
 sent how we exploit these materials for interfacial phenomena of relevance
  to carbon management\, namely CO2 capture and CO2 conversion. These examp
 les span a wide spectrum of the R&D process\, from curiosity-driven invest
 igations (e.g. spectroscopy analyses on pores formation) to engineering-dr
 iven studies (e.g.  process scale modelling of gas separation).\n\nBio: Dr
  Camille Petit is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at
  Imperial College London\, which she joined in September 2013. She current
 ly leads the Multifunctional Materials Laboratory. Prior to this appointme
 nt\, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She receive
 d her PhD in Chemistry in 2011 from the Graduate Center of the City Univer
 sity of New York and her M. Sc in 2007 from Ecole Nationale Superieure de 
 Chimie de Montpellier\, France. Her research focuses on elucidating the fu
 ndamentals of porous materials formation\, structure\, and chemistry to ex
 ploit them in interfacial applications\, i.e. separation of molecules and 
 solar fuel production. Her work also investigates the implications of usin
 g these materials at the large-scale. Materials of interest include metal-
 organic frameworks (MOFs)- and nitride-based materials. Prof Petit has rec
 eived awards across the chemistry\, materials and chemical engineering dis
 ciplines (e.g. 2020 RSC Barrer Award\, 2019 ERC Starting Grant\, 2019 Phil
 ip Leverhulme Prize in Engineering\, 2017 AIChE’s 35 under 35 award\, 20
 17 IOM3 Silver Medal).\n
LOCATION:Dept of Chemistry\, Wolfson Lecture Theatre 
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