ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140100834

Funded Activity Summary

Designing reactivity of homogeneous and heterogeneous water-splitting catalysts using muti-dimensional site-selective spectroscopies. New classes of heterogeneous manganese-calcium water splitting catalysts analogous to the unique biological water splitting cofactor have recently emerged but with far lower catalytic rates than seen for the biological system. These new materials are promising targets for large-scale hydrogen fuel production with low cost, high efficiency and ease of manufacture. To achieve this, the performance gap between these materials and the homogenous biological catalyst must be bridged. Multi-dimensional site-selective spectroscopies, including magneto/optical resonance methods which are aimed to be developed in this project are expected to provide new, atomic level understanding of properties needed to achieve high catalytic efficiency, thus guiding rational catalyst design.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 11-01-2021

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $772,104.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Transition Metal Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | Bioinorganic Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Energy Storage, Distribution and Supply not elsewhere classified | Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy |

Other Keywords

Bioinorganic Chemistry | Energy Storage, Distribution and Supply not elsewhere classified | Inorganic Chemistry | Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Solar-Photovoltaic Energy | Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Transition Metal Chemistry

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