Design and catalytic application of novel nanostructured materials

• Thesis title in Czech: Návrh a katalytické aplikace nových nanostrukturovaných materiálů
• Thesis title in English: Design and catalytic application of novel nanostructured materials
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2016/2017
• Thesis type: dissertation
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry (31-260)
• Supervisor: doc. Maksym Opanasenko, CSc.
• Author: hidden - assigned by the advisor
• Date of registration: 21.10.2016
• Date of assignment: 21.10.2016
• Date of electronic submission: 27.05.2020
• Date of proceeded defence: 21.09.2020
• Opponents: prof. doc. Ing. Roman Bulánek, Ph.D.
• Advisors: prof. Ing. Jiří Čejka, DrSc.

Preliminary scope of work in English

During the last decade a number of strategies for the synthesis of nanoporous (micro-, mesoporous or hierarchical) materials have been developed. Due to adjustable porosity and functionality, such materials are promising for application in heterogeneous catalysis. The idea of the project consists in the intelligent design of nanoporous catalysts that can be relatively easily tuned to meet the demands of the target catalytic process. Particular physico-chemical characteristics of potential catalysts to vary include: type of the structure (i.e. comparison of the different topologies for materials of the same nature will be performed), crystal size and morphology (bulk or nanosize – nanosheets, nanorods etc.), textural and functional (acid, base, redox sites or their combination) properties. Within the project, the evaluation of catalytic behaviour of prepared materials will be performed in acid-base, oxidation reactions as well as in multi-step cascade processes.