Capture and reduction of CO2 in homogeneous and heterogeneous media based on porous materials and nanomaterials

PI: Juarez Lopes Ferreira da Silva – USP – – São Carlos Institute of Chemistry – juarez_dasilva@iqsc.usp.br

This project focus on computational modeling of the fundamental processes involved in the capture of CO₂ from the atmosphere and its conversion into products. Therefore, its team will investigate the capture and storage of CO₂ in MOFs (metal- organic frameworks or Portuguese-based networks); and the separation of gases into MOFs; characterize small size effects on MOFs and how this affects CO₂ capture; identifying structural features in MOFs that increase CO₂ capture capacity and capacity; design efficient, inexpensive and non-toxic catalysts for CO₂ reduction; to determine reaction mechanisms for the reduction of CO₂ involving catalysts based on transition metal complexes; designing and predicting properties of nanocatalysts based on nanoligas and nano-oxides of transition metals, nanofragments of lamellar chalcogenides and other nano-sutured materials; to investigate the conversion of CO₂ into methanol using nanocatalysts.

Postdocs

Henrique Musseli Cezar – USP – Institute of Physics

PhD Students

Vivianne Karina Ocampo Restrepo – USP – Institute of Chemistry
Paulo de Carvalho Dias Mendes – USP – Institute of Chemistry

MSc Students

Alexsander Carvalho Vendite – USP – Institute of Physics

Scientific Initiation Students

Henrique Alves Bacco Fonseca – USP – Institute of Chemistry
Matheus Nunes Collacique – USP – Institute of Physics