Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190100735

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190100735

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Funded Activity Summary

Electrostatic catalysis from single-molecule events to macroscopic systems. Electrostatics has important applications in day-to-day technologies, from recycling plastics to photocopying, but the exploration of how static charges affect chemical bonds and bonding is still in its infancy. This project aims to demonstrate the experimental links between the magnitude and polarity of an external electric field and chemical rates, expanding our understanding of chemical reactivity and transforming our view of catalysis. By investigating the role of static electricity over systems selected from different sub-disciplines of chemistry, the project will derive the ground and selection rules for reactivity and selectivity by electrostatics. The project is expected to show that for chemical reactions of practical and conceptual value a specific catalyst can be replaced by a generic electric field stimulus, an invisible catalyst, enabling cleaner and cheaper opportunities that current technologies cannot fulfil.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2019

End Date: 15-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $310,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified | Nanotechnology | Nanoscale Characterisation | Electroanalytical Chemistry |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Other Keywords

Electroanalytical Chemistry | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Nanoscale Characterisation | Nanotechnology | Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

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