Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101450

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190101450

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tuning non-plasmonic metals to high performance photocatalysts. This project aims to develop non-plasmonic, transition metal-based, photocatalysts with enhanced light absorption, to achieve irradiation controllable product selectivity in organic synthesis. The project demonstrates how hollow-particle morphology alloy nano-structures can enhance photocatalytic activity. Alloy structures such as iridium-nickel (IrNi), iridium-cobalt (IrCo) and iridium-tin (IrSn) nanoparticles with a hollow morphology, exhibit dramatically increased photocatalytic activity over their individual components, Ir, Ni, Co and Sn respectively. The project is expected to expand the application of photocatalysis and generate knowledge that can be used to design efficient photocatalysts from non-plasmonic metals. Intended benefits are the generation of new knowledge and capabilities in synthetic catalysis and applications in fields such as the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 22-01-2019

End Date: 21-08-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $392,556.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions | Optical Properties of Materials | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Optical Properties of Materials | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

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