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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn this talk I will elaborate on strategies to dec
 ouple the chemical industry from traditional fossil fuels to reduce the em
 ission of greenhouse gasses as well as to improve carbon circularity. I wi
 ll showcase the discovery of new catalytic systems\, illustrating how “luc
 k favors the prepared”\, and how the right tools allow us to establish mol
 ecular design principles to improve promising systems. The team practices 
 a convergence research approach\, combining materials synthesis and charac
 terization\, kinetics and reaction engineering\, in situ spectroscopy and 
 computational description and prediction. One powerful tool that I will hi
 ghlight is Modulation Excitation Spectroscopy\, a dynamic technique where 
 the concentration of one of the reagents is periodically altered. By study
 ing the response of the system to this perturbation we can filter out nois
 e and signals stemming from spectator species and obtain kinetic insights 
 in the activation and transformation of reagents over participating sites 
 at the fluid-solid interface. The overarching scientific principles of act
 ive site restructuring and site cooperation will be illustrated for chemic
 al transformations of contemporary interest.\n\n \n\nBio:\n\nIve Hermans o
 btained his PhD under the supervision of Profs. Pierre Jacobs and Jozef Pe
 eters (2006\; KU Leuven\, Belgium). In addition to his scientific educatio
 n\, Ive Hermans also holds a postgraduate degree in Business Administratio
 n (KU Leuven\, 2006). After post-doctoral research on in situ spectroscopy
  and reaction engineering with Prof. Alfons Baiker\, he became assistant p
 rofessor (spring 2008) at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of
  ETH Zurich in Switzerland. In January 2014\, Prof. Hermans joined the Uni
 versity of Wisconsin-Madison\, holding a dual appointment in the Departmen
 t of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. 
 He was co-founding editor-in-chief of ChemistryEurope (Wiley) and currentl
 y serves as editor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. A select
 ion of recent awards includes the 2017 inaugural Robert Augustine award by
  the Organic Reaction Catalysis Society and the 2019 Ipatieff Price by the
  American Chemical Society. He was selected as a 2021 Alexander von Humbol
 dt Professor but declined the offer to remain in the US. Dr. Hermans is a 
 Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry
 .\n
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LOCATION:OM 10\, Maass Chemistry Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B8\, 
 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Chemical Society Seminar: Ive Hermans- The Role of Heterogeneous Ca
 talysis in the Defossilization of the Chemical Industry
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