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Carbon Capture & Utilization: Advances in Materials and Processes for Technology Scaling-up

Over the last decade, CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) has emerged as a paramount tool to counteract greenhouse effect by limiting emission of gas responsible of global warming and to open the door for captured CO2 to a variety of value-added products such as fuels and chemicals. Contribution of new or improved materials is crucial for exploiting economically viable solutions to limit emissions from power generation plants and steel or cement production industries, or coming from other emitters such as chemical plants and waste incinerators, or even to capture CO2 naturally present in air atmosphere (Direct Air Capture).

Focus of symposium will be on:
 

• current research trends to develop efficient CO2 adsorbents and CO2 selective inorganic, composite or mixed-matrix membranes to tailor structure and chemistries for optimized adsorption/desorption, separation properties, chemical and thermal stability, mechanical properties, regeneration capacity, lifetime and cost to satisfy criteria for industrial scale applications, and
• explore the number of processes reimagining CO2 from pollutant to reagent including effective materials  strategies of defect engineering, surface functionalization, hybrid structures ,new catalysts and heterojunctions for CO2 activation.

The symposium aims to bring together scientists and engineers drawing inspiration from both physical, chemical, engineering and environmental sciences. Contributions are solicited on mechanistic studies of chemistry processes and physics involved in capture, separation and catalysis reaction pathways of CCU, and on the synthesis and processing of functional materials by tailoring structure .and properties appropriate to scalable industrial solutions. The above on the basis of a deep understanding of the underlying fundamental chemical and physical processes and the proper use of advanced theoretical, data science and experimental tools.