Operando VII

7 May 2023, 10:00 → 11 May 2023, 09:30 Europe/Zurich

Sunstar Hotel (Grindelwald)

Davide Ferri (Paul Scherrer Institut), Maarten Nachtegaal (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Welcome to the webpage of Operando VII - the 7^th International Congress on Operando Spectroscopy.

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NEWS

A big thank you to all participants and sponsors for a fantastic Operando VII congress!!!

Now you can submit a manuscript to Catalysis Today for inclusion in the special issue on Operando VII

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The main objective of this congress is to bring researchers together to discuss the progress of operando methodologies, i.e. characterization of functional materials in their working state. In operando studies, physicochemical methods probe the behavior of working materials while their performance is measured simultaneously. The operando approach is suited to elucidate catalyst structure-activity relationships at the molecular level.

Both academia and industry recognize the importance of this approach that is now a well-established research area in catalysis.

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This event followed the congress series of 2003 (Lunteren, The Netherlands), 2006 (Toledo, Spain), 2009 (Rostock, Germany), 2012 (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), 2015 (Deauville, France) and 2018 (Estepona, Spain).

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Operando_VII_Flyer.pdf

poster list Operando VII.pdf

program Operando VII.pdf

Sunday 7 May

10:00 → 18:00 Registration

12:00 → 13:50 Lunch

13:50 → 14:00 Welcome

14:00 → 14:30 Keynote lecture: Design of XAS experiments for uncovering active sites in heterogeneous catalysts

Convener: Olga Safonova (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland)

14:30 → 14:50 Contributed presentations: Operando XAS at high pressure: the case of direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide

Convener: Dmitry Doronkin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:50 → 15:10 Contributed presentations: The NO-N2O-SCR reaction: a catalytic and spectroscopic investigation

Convener: Filippo Buttignol (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:10 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:00 Contributed presentations: Identifying the active sites and their kinetics for butadiene synthesis from ethanol for ZnO/SiO2, ZrO2/SiO2, and ZnO-ZrO2/SiO2 Catalysts by modulation excitation infrared spectroscopy

Convener: Israel Wachs

16:00 → 16:20 Contributed presentations: Chasing adorbates and metal particle state for ceria supported Rh and Pt during CO2 methanation and CO oxidation conditions

Convener: Per-Anders Carlsson (Chalmers University of Technology)

16:20 → 16:40 Contributed presentations: Genesis of active Pt/CeO2 catalyst for dry reforming of methane by reduction and aggregation of isolated Platinum atoms into clusters

Convener: Simon Bare (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:40 → 17:00 Contributed presentations: Operando FTIR study of the understanding reactional mechanisms of the decomposition of N2O under real industrial conditions

Convener: Mathias Laluc

17:00 → 17:20 Contributed presentations: Mechanistic studies of continuous glucose upgrading over Lewis acidic silicates by operando UV−Vis and HSQC NMR

Convener: Ceri Hammond (Imperial College London)

18:50 → 19:00 Opening ceremony

19:00 → 20:00 Opening lecture: In situ Mössbauer spectroscopy on Mars

Convener: Franz Renz (Leibniz University Hanover)

20:00 → 21:30 Welcome dinner

Monday 8 May

09:00 → 10:00 Plenary lecture: Materials for clean air, selective oxidation and sustainable chemicals: Probing catalysts at various complexity scales by operando spectroscopy and microscopy

Convener: Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt (KIT)

10:00 → 10:20 Contributed presentations: Operando characterization of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis products in a fixed-bed reactor by magnetic resonance

Convener: Qingyuan Zheng (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

10:20 → 10:40 Contributed presentations: Oxidation of Hägg carbide during high temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis: Size-dependent thermodynamics and in-situ observations

Convener: Michael Claeys (University of Cape Town)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 11:30 Contributed presentations: Operando XAS-tomography reveals chemical gradients in Pt/Al2O3 and Cu-SSZ-13 emissions control catalysts

Convener: Srashtasrita Das (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:30 → 11:50 Contributed presentations: Spatiotemporal operando methodologies on the reactor scale for mechanistic and kinetic studies

Convener: Atsushi Urakawa (Delft University of Technology)

11:50 → 12:10 Contributed presentations: Insights on Rh and Pt nanoparticle dynamics by operando XAS spectroscopy during CO2 activation via reverse water gas shift

Convener: Chiara Negri (Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano)

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Keynote lecture: In situ and operando spectroscopic study for multi-elemental reverse water-gas shift catalysts identified using extrapolative machine learning approach

Convener: Takashi Toyao (Institute of Catalysis, Hokkaido university)

14:00 → 14:20 Contributed presentations: Dynamic evolution of Pd single atoms on anatase TiO2 under RWGS reaction conditions

Convener: Janos Szanyi (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

14:20 → 14:40 Contributed presentations: Mechanistic insights into reverse water gas shift reaction over Au supported catalysts by operando spectroscopic techniques

Convener: Abdallah ahmed (Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29 A, 18059 Rostock, Germany)

14:40 → 15:00 Contributed presentations: Assessing the structure of SiO2-supported Ni-Ga nanoparticles under CO2 hydrogenation to methanol conditions via in-situ X-ray absorption, total scattering and infrared experiments

Convener: Nora Zimmerli (ETH Zürich)

15:00 → 15:20 Contributed presentations: A UV-Vis/ATR-IR operando spectroscopy approach to study photo-active metal-organic frameworks

Convener: Bettina Baumgartner (Utrecht University)

15:20 → 15:40 Contributed presentations: In situ monitoring by X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the synthesis and catalytic behavior of carbon-supported Pt single-atom catalysts in acetylene hydrochlorination

Convener: Vera Giulimondi (ETH Zurich)

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 16:40 Keynote lecture: Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis as probed with operando electron microscopy and infrared spectroscopy

Convener: Matteo Monai (Utrecht University)

16:40 → 17:00 Contributed presentations: Understanding the structural evolution of the most active PdZn nanoparticles used for CO2 activation

Convener: Sofia Mediavilla Madrigal

17:00 → 17:20 Contributed presentations: Quantitative transient IR analyses of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol over Cu/ZrO2 reveal Cu-bound formates as main reaction intermediates

Convener: Frédéric Meunier (CNRS IRCELYON)

17:20 → 17:40 Contributed presentations: Catalysis operando studies combined with computed X-ray diffraction tomography: Coke formation during conversion of Methanol to Gasoline

Convener: Lars Lundegaard (Topsoe)

17:40 → 19:30 Poster session

19:30 → 21:00 Swiss dinner

Tuesday 9 May

09:00 → 09:30 Keynote lecture: Steps towards understanding the oxygen evolution reaction enigma by operando quick X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Convener: Emiliana Fabbri (Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:30 → 09:50 Contributed presentations: Operando experiments and DFT calculations to understand the chemistry of electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

Convener: Detre Teschner

09:50 → 10:10 Contributed presentations: Characterizing small metallic nanoparticles with operando X-ray scattering techniques during electrocatalysis

Convener: Rebecca Pittkowski (University of Copenhagen)

10:10 → 10:30 Contributed presentations: Understanding the cycling performance of LiMn2O4 spinel nanoparticles achieved by operando XAS spectroscopy

Convener: Juliana Bruneli Falqueto (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:20 Contributed presentations: Modulated excitation operando FT-IR and quick-X-ray absorption spectroscopy of electrooxidation over Ni-based catalysts

Convener: Charlotte Vogt (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

11:20 → 11:40 Contributed presentations: Reaction-induced restructuring in dilute alloy catalysts

Convener: Anatoly Frenkel (Stony Brook University)

11:40 → 12:00 Contributed presentations: Transient APXPS as a tool to characterize the kinetics of alloy restructuring: application to Sn-poor PtSn ALD-derived nanoparticles

Convener: Evgeniy Redekop (University of Oslo)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:40 Free program

17:40 → 19:00 Poster session

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

20:00 → 21:00 Discussion panel: Operando at synchrotron facilities: Quo Vadis?

20:00 → 21:00 Discussion panel: Operando cell design

Wednesday 10 May

09:00 → 10:00 Plenary lecture: Operando, multimodal characterization of bimetallic catalysts with electrons and x-rays

Convener: Eric Stach (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 → 10:20 Contributed presentations: Self-sustained oscillatory dynamics of ethylene to syngas by operando SEM and XPS

Convener: Claudiu Colbea (ETH Zurich)

10:20 → 10:40 Contributed presentations: 3D strain dynamics during CO oxidation revealed by Bragg-CDI

Convener: Amélie Rochet (CNPEM - Sirius)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 11:30 Contributed presentations: Spatiotemporal operando UV-Vis spectroscopy on the reactor scale

Convener: Louise van Beek

11:30 → 11:50 Contributed presentations: Site-dependent analysis of sulfur poisoning impact on H2 dissociation and sorption on Pd nanoparticles with operando IR nano-spectroscopy

Convener: Elad Gross (Hebrew University)

11:50 → 12:10 Contributed presentations: Operando spectroscopies and olefin polymerization catalysis: a rare marriage with a lot of unexplored potentials

Convener: Elena Groppo (University of Turin)

12:10 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Keynote lecture: Elucidating CO2 activation over reducible oxide catalysts using operando and transient spectroscopies

Convener: Christian Hess (TU Darmstadt)

14:00 → 14:20 Contributed presentations: Catalysts for dehydroaromatization of methane: insights from operando spectroscopy

Convener: Nikolay Kosinov

14:20 → 14:40 Contributed presentations: EPR investigation of metal oxide catalysts: carbon dioxide to methanol conversion induced by oxygen vacancies

Convener: Mikhail Agrachev (ETH Zurich)

14:40 → 15:00 Contributed presentations: Tuning metal-support interactions in the CO2 hydrogenation over Ni/TiO2

Convener: Angela Melcherts (Utrecht University)

15:00 → 15:20 Contributed presentations: Cu-MOFs as oxygenation catalysts: an operando XAS study

Convener: Matteo Signorile (Università Di Torino - Dipartimento di Chimica)

15:20 → 15:40 Contributed presentations: Unravelling metal ratio-dependent synergistic effects in bimetallic CO2 hydrogenation catalysts by operando X-ray absorption and infrared spectroscopy

Convener: Dr Nina Genz (Utrecht University)

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 16:40 Keynote lecture: Second and micrometer spatial resolution for operando characterizations of heterogeneous energy-related materials by Full Field Hyperspectral Quick-EXAFS Imaging

Convener: Valérie Briois (2)

16:40 → 17:00 Contributed presentations: Operando DRIFT study of highly disperse CeO2 nanoparticles supported on MgO hexagonal plates during toluene oxidation

Convener: Alejo Aguirre (INTEC (CONICET-UNL))

17:00 → 17:20 Contributed presentations: Attenuation of dimethyl ether formation from the reaction of methanol over an alumina-based methyl chloride synthesis catalyst

Convener: David Lennon (University of Glasgow)

17:20 → 17:40 Contributed presentations: Localised thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations in catalysis

Convener: Peter Wells

17:40 → 18:00 Closing remarks

19:00 → 21:00 Congress dinner

Thursday 11 May

09:00 → 09:30 Departure to Operando School