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2020 Vision
2020 Vision
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Technical Program
Technical Program
Program Overview
The scientific program for the 17th International Congress on Catalysis will feature the central role catalysis has played in the synthesis of new molecules and materials. The program will highlight recent developments, challenges, and opportunities available in context of the changing landscape of feedstocks and the discovery and development of new and enabling experimental and computational methods.
The theme of the conference, 2020 Vision for Catalysis, aims to look into the future for catalysis research guided by the past and to the judge the present in context of what lies ahead. The technical program will address the science and practice of catalysis along three cross-cutting themes:
Approximately 450 oral presentations and 900 poster presentations will feature in the technical program that will begin on 15th June 2020 and end by midday 19th June 2020. The technical program will be organized along the following topical sessions and will feature state-of-the-art research across heterogeneous, homogeneous, photo-, and electro- catalysis.
The program will feature several plenary (60-minute), keynote (40-minute), and invited (20-minute) oral presentations across seven parallel sessions.
Plenary Lectures
Several plenary lectures will feature in the technical program of the 17th ICC. These 60-minute presentations will feature the most accomplished practitioners of our discipline from academia and industry who will provide both retrospective analysis of the field and discuss the development of catalysis science and technology as it relates to the current state-of-the-art.
Keynote and Invited Lectures
Keynote (40-minute) and Invited (20-minute) oral presentations organized along each of the topical sessions will address the fundamentals and applications of catalysis in the field.
Awards
The International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS) will present two awards at the 17th ICC in San Diego: the International Catalysis Award and the Heinz Heinemann Award. The recipients will be selected by the IACS Awards Committee and both recipients will be invited to present a plenary lecture at the 17th ICC.
The International Catalysis Award will recognize pioneering accomplishments and innovation by an individual in the early stages of their career. The recipient must not have passed his/her 45th birthday on 1st May of the award year.
The Heinz Heinemann Award will be given to an individual or a group for significant contributions to catalyst science and technology achieved during the past four years.
2020 Heinz Heinemann Award
Professor Avelino Corma, 2020 Heinz Heinemann Awardee
Institute of Chemical Technology
ITQ-CSIC-Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
“From the molecular design of solid catalysts to their industrial applications”
2020 International Catalysis Award
Professor Xile Hu, 2020 International Catalysis Awardee
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis
Lausanne, Switzerland
Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis
Lausanne, Switzerland
“Cooperative catalysis for water splitting and CO2 electroreduction”
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Abstracts
Abstract Submissison
Abstracts are invited for original research involved in the synthesis of molecules or materials relevant for catalysis—encompassing heterogeneous, homogeneous, electro-, and photo- catalysis. The scope of the meeting includes, but is not limited to the following:
Decisions on abstract submissions will be announced before the end of February 2020. Each accepted abstract must have a presenter registered for the event no later than 15th April 2020.
Speakers
Plenary Speakers
2020 Heinz Heinemann Awardee
Professor Avelino Corma
Institute of Chemical Technology
ITQ-CSIC-Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
ITQ-CSIC-Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
“From the molecular design of solid catalysts to their industrial applications”
Professor Johannes Lercher
TU München, Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Institute for Integrated Catalysis
“Understanding and controlling hydrogen addition on metals, oxides, and sulfides: Nature and nuclearity of sites, solvents, and (electro)chemical potentials”
Professor Unni Olsbye
Department of Chemistry
University of Oslo
“Catalysis within confined spaces”
Professor Ye Wang
Director, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Xiamen University
“Selectivity control in catalytic transformation of C1 molecules into multicarbon products”
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
2020 IACS International Catalysis Award Keynote Lecture:
Professor Xile Hu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis
Lausanne, Switzerland
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis
Lausanne, Switzerland
“Cooperative catalysis for water splitting and CO2 electroreduction”
Silvia Bordiga, Università Degli Studi di Torino
Angelika Brückner, Leibniz-Institut for Catalysis
Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota
Sandeep Dhingra, Dow
Lynn Gladden, University of Cambridge
Emiel Hensen, Eindhoven University of Technology
Jean-Paul Lange, Shell
Leon Lefferts, University of Twente
Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Nuria Lopez, Institut Català d'Investigació Química
Fabio Noronha, National Institute of Technology
Isabella Nova, Politecnico di Milano
Philippe Sautet, University of California, Los Angeles
Jens Sehested, Haldor Topsoe
Bert Sels, KU Leuven
Kazuhiro Takanabe, University of Tokyo
Annette Trunschke, Fritz Haber Institute
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University
Stacey Zones, Chevron
Angelika Brückner, Leibniz-Institut for Catalysis
Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota
Sandeep Dhingra, Dow
Lynn Gladden, University of Cambridge
Emiel Hensen, Eindhoven University of Technology
Jean-Paul Lange, Shell
Leon Lefferts, University of Twente
Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Nuria Lopez, Institut Català d'Investigació Química
Fabio Noronha, National Institute of Technology
Isabella Nova, Politecnico di Milano
Philippe Sautet, University of California, Los Angeles
Jens Sehested, Haldor Topsoe
Bert Sels, KU Leuven
Kazuhiro Takanabe, University of Tokyo
Annette Trunschke, Fritz Haber Institute
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University
Stacey Zones, Chevron
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Workshops
Several educational workshops on technical topics will be offered on the first day of the Congress, Sunday June 14, 2020. Registration for workshops will be available through the Congress registration portal. We encourage you to consider participation in the Sunday Workshops and Panel Sessions which offer in-depth discussion on the following topics.
Workshop | Fundamentals of Electrocatalysis
Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Cost - $50
Facilitator: Gerardine G. Botte (Texas Tech University)
This workshop will cover an introduction to fundamental aspects of electrochemistry and how to relate those to electrocatalysis. Participants will learn about differences between chemical and electrochemical reactions, overpotential, experimental considerations in electrocatalysis, recognizing and interpreting experimental data needed to determine electrochemical reaction rates, types of electrode architectures, examples of electrokinetics models, and will perform electrokinetics calculations. This is an active learning workshop. Participants are expected to bring a laptop. Excel and open source software maybe used during the workshop.
Workshop | Reaction Engineering Short Course on Laboratory Reactors
Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Cost - $50
Facilitator: Jeffrey Herron, Paul Witt (Dow, Inc.)
Developed by the Core R&D Reaction Engineering group of The Dow Chemical Company and designed for chemists and engineers who operate or use data from laboratory reactors, this workshop contains fundamental reaction engineering knowledge essential for generating high quality data from a laboratory scale reactor. The workshop content includes general principles and practical tips for designing and operating laboratory reactors. The bulk of the workshop content focuses on stirred tank and fixed bed reactors for a variety of reaction systems, including homogeneous liquid phase, gas-liquid, gas-solid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid systems. At the end of this workshop, chemists and engineers will have a better understanding of the critical factors affecting the performance of laboratory scale reactors and the appropriate means for addressing those factors to maximize the probability of generating quality data. During this workshop, the instructors will introduce a publicly available tool for estimating gradients in heterogeneous catalyst particles and for sizing laboratory fixed bed reactors. This tool is the product of a collaboration between Dow and Purdue University.
Workshop | Presenting Research
Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Cost - $50
Facilitators: Roel Prins (ETH-Zurich), Hans Niemantsverdriet (TU-Eindhoven)
Presenting scientific research in an efficient way requires a crystal clear message tailored to a specific audience. This is equally true for talks and posters at conferences, and for scientific publications. In this course the lecturers go through the principles of presentations, by discussing the common mistakes presenters and authors often make, and by giving recommendations for effective and successful presentation of their work, in spoken or written form. Both lecturers (Roel Prins, Hans Niemanstverdriet) have a long experience as conference organizers and as Editors of the Journal of Catalysis. The course is intended for junior scientists (PhD students, Postdocs and Early Career Researchers).
Workshop | Fundamentals of Catalyst Characterization
Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Cost - $50
Facilitators: Annette Trunschke (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Robert Schlögl (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft), Charles T. Campbell (University of Washington)
The workshop deals with basic and advanced methods for analysis of structural and electronic properties of catalyst precursors and the dynamics of the catalyst surface in the working state. The rate is given by the ability of the catalyst to activate reactants on its surface. The active surface sites are frequently minority species (defects, impurities), difficult to detect in presence of chemically similar spectator species. In addition, the active sites show a dynamic response to the chemical potential of the gas phase. Therefore, catalysts need to be studied under operation. The workshop provides an introduction into basic concepts of operando and complementary adsorption techniques applied in advanced characterization of heterogeneous catalysts. At the beginning of the workshop a brief survey of the general workflow in catalyst characterization is given followed by three lectures. The following topics are included:
- Description of bulk (X-ray diffraction) and local structures at the atomic scale (electron microscopy) quasi in situ and under reacting environments.
- Analysis of the electronic structure of solids and catalyst surfaces as well as the detection of minority species by in situ and operando techniques, such as ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS), near edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS), UV/VIS/NIR, and resonance Raman spectroscopy.
- Investigation of catalyst surfaces by adsorption of probe molecules, reactants and intermediates using infrared and UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy and adsorption calorimetry.
Workshop | Theory, Applications and Tools for Multiscale Kinetic Modeling
Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Cost - $75
Facilitators: Dion Vlachos (University of Delaware), Michail Stamatakis (University College London), and Matteo Maestri (Politecnico di Milano)
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Part I: This workshop will focus on mean field kinetic models and their integration with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). First, the fundamentals of microkinetic models will be discussed. This will entail description of inputs and outcomes, reaction network generation, estimation of kinetic model parameters, mean field microkinetic modeling, descriptor-based microkinetic modeling for catalyst discovery, model analytics, and their integration with CFD. Available software will be reviewed.
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Part II: This workshop will focus on kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) models and their integration with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). First, the fundamentals of stochastic processes will be discussed and examples will be illustrated. Limitations of mean field models will be briefly discussed. Methods to integrate KMC models into CFD will also be discussed. Available software will be reviewed.
Workshop | Computational Catalysis Workshop
Sunday, June 14, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Cost - $50 Facilitator: Matt Neurock (University of Minnesota) The tremendous advances in the theoretical methods and computing power that have occurred over the past decade have helped to make computational catalysis an invaluable tool in understanding and designing catalytic systems. The workshop is aimed at fostering the use of quantum chemical methods and molecular simulation of catalytic reaction systems. The workshop will combine presentations along with hands-on tutorials and demonstrations. Participants are asked to bring along their laptops. The workshop will include: - Benefits and Challenges Overview of the capabilities and limitations of Computational Catalysis with focus on realistic expectations of the accuracy, types of problems that can be studied, and time frames necessary to obtain meaningful results. The role of Computational Catalysis in today’s industry landscape is also discussed. - A brief introduction to the underlying methods, approximations and algorithms used in multiscale modeling of catalytic reactions: Ab initio quantum chemical wave-function and density functional theory methods, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations and descriptor-based catalyst screening. An overview on the application of these methods to catalytic reactions over metals, metal oxides, zeolites and other materials will be given. - Hands-on guided tutorials will be given to demonstrate the use of first principle quantum chemical methods to gain fundamental insight into surface phenomena in heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
Cost - $50 Facilitator: Matt Neurock (University of Minnesota) The tremendous advances in the theoretical methods and computing power that have occurred over the past decade have helped to make computational catalysis an invaluable tool in understanding and designing catalytic systems. The workshop is aimed at fostering the use of quantum chemical methods and molecular simulation of catalytic reaction systems. The workshop will combine presentations along with hands-on tutorials and demonstrations. Participants are asked to bring along their laptops. The workshop will include: - Benefits and Challenges Overview of the capabilities and limitations of Computational Catalysis with focus on realistic expectations of the accuracy, types of problems that can be studied, and time frames necessary to obtain meaningful results. The role of Computational Catalysis in today’s industry landscape is also discussed. - A brief introduction to the underlying methods, approximations and algorithms used in multiscale modeling of catalytic reactions: Ab initio quantum chemical wave-function and density functional theory methods, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations and descriptor-based catalyst screening. An overview on the application of these methods to catalytic reactions over metals, metal oxides, zeolites and other materials will be given. - Hands-on guided tutorials will be given to demonstrate the use of first principle quantum chemical methods to gain fundamental insight into surface phenomena in heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
Workshop | Advancing Catalysis Research with X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Sunday, June 14, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Cost - $50
Facilitators: Simon Bare (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Maarten Nachtegaal (Paul Scherrer Institut) and Adriano Braga (Universidade de São Paulo)
his hands-on workshop will cover important aspects of the application of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) as applied to the catalyst researcher. The workshop content will enable the researcher to have a firm grasp of how the technique might aid their own research, and why they should consider incorporating it into their research program. The workshop will include:
- An introduction to XAS and the information content that the technique provides
- Details of sample preparation and experimental pitfalls
- How to collect an XAS spectrum – including what is a beamline, what detectors should be used, and how to set up collecting a spectrum. We will collect XAS data in real-time for a metal oxide sample from a beam line at SSRL
- The major concepts involved in data processing and data analysis.
Due to the time allotted to this workshop we will not delve deeply into data analysis or any one particular topic and we recommend this workshop for those interested in learning about XAS or those just starting to use XAS in their research. There are many week-long EXAFS schools that serve this purpose.
Workshop | Fundamentals of Photocatalysis
Sunday, June 14, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Cost - $50 Facilitators: Kazuhiro Takanabe (University of Tokyo) and Fuxiang Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) Photocatalysis is of great importance in energy conversion and environmental remediation. This study session is aimed at newcomers in the field, and will address fundamental aspects on how to examine and report photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical studies. We will discuss relevant phenomena that occur in different dimensions and timescales, and practical experimental techniques and efficiency calculations. We will also have an open Q&A session for participants.
Cost - $50 Facilitators: Kazuhiro Takanabe (University of Tokyo) and Fuxiang Zhang (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) Photocatalysis is of great importance in energy conversion and environmental remediation. This study session is aimed at newcomers in the field, and will address fundamental aspects on how to examine and report photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical studies. We will discuss relevant phenomena that occur in different dimensions and timescales, and practical experimental techniques and efficiency calculations. We will also have an open Q&A session for participants.
Workshop | Fundamentals of Catalyst Synthesis
Sunday, June 14, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Cost - $50
Facilitators: John Regalbuto (University of South Carolina) and Petra de Jongh (Utrecht University)
In this workshop, the most common methods of supported nanoparticle synthesis will be reviewed. Several classical and newer methods including incipient wetness impregnation and electrostatic adsorption will be discussed in depth. A hybrid of incipient wetness impregnation and electrostatic adsorption, termed “charge enhanced dry impregnation” will be described. Electrostatic adsorption will be extended to the controlled synthesis of supported bimetallic and dilute limit alloy nanoparticles. These methods are readily applicable at laboratory scale and can in principle be easily scaled.
Panel Discussion | Presenting Research
Sunday, June 14, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM
Cost - $20
Facilitators: Haichao Liu (Peking University, Journal of Catalysis), Josephine Hill (University of Calgary, Applied Catalysis A: General), Ding Ma (Peking University, ACS Catalysis) and Jesse Hensley (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
This session will consist of a panel of senior researchers and journal editors to provide their perspectives and advice on delivering effective presentations, and writing clear and concise scientific manuscripts. Panelists will begin by presenting some material, followed by an open-ended Q&A session with the audience. Any and all participants are welcome.
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Venue
MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT SAN DIEGO
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The ICC's host hotel, the San Diego Manchester Grand Hyatt, is a stunning work of architecture sited to maximize your enjoyment of the city. We've negotiated a great room rate on your behalf, $290/night.
Integrated into a 1,628-room hotel with bay and city views, including 76 suites and 45 conference suites, this ultra-modern facility offers stunning contemporary design, floor-to-ceiling windows with views of San Diego Bay or the city skyline, luxe linens, 46” flat-screen televisions, work spaces, iHome stereos, and free Wi-Fi. Internet access up to 400MB is available in all guest rooms.
Integrated into a 1,628-room hotel with bay and city views, including 76 suites and 45 conference suites, this ultra-modern facility offers stunning contemporary design, floor-to-ceiling windows with views of San Diego Bay or the city skyline, luxe linens, 46” flat-screen televisions, work spaces, iHome stereos, and free Wi-Fi. Internet access up to 400MB is available in all guest rooms.
