Affiliate Doctoral student from the deMello group at ETH Zurich.

Microfluidic approaches for catalyst synthesis.

Fabrication of Single Atoms Catalysts (SACs) is recognized to be challenging due to the propensity of metal atoms to aggregate during synthesis. Although SACs can be prepared via metal leaching and mass-selected soft-landing methods, wet-chemistry approaches are applicable to a wide variety of catalytic systems. Besides, their amenability to scale-up is particularly interesting when envisioning industrial applications. Within the National Center of Competence in Research in Catalysis (NCCR Catalysis), my work focuses on the development of new strategies for the syntheses of SACs. More precisely, we aim at leveraging the exquisite control in mass and heat transfer achievable in microfluidics continuously prepare highly dispersed single atoms of user-defined species on appropriate supports for the first time.