LAURELIN’s research presented at the UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference

On 30th November 2022, our partner M. E. Potter from the Department of Chemistry of the University College London, presented his work on Palladium-Indium systems for CO₂ Hydrogenation using Operando Spectroscopy.

M. E Potter recalled that converting CO₂ to green methanol offers a sustainable pathway to many bulk chemicals, but this process is challenging as high temperatures are needed to activate CO₂ but excessively high temperatures will form CO, not methanol.

Indium oxide is a selective CO₂ to methanol catalyst, as surface oxygen vacancies limit CO formation. Recent work has shown that combining Palladium and Indium oxide leads to a highly effective catalyst, even though the interactions between the two species are not well understood.

You can download the poster here.