Author Archives: yfli

In this work we report for the first time a comparative study of the physical, electronic and photocatalytic properties of all four polymorphs of nanostructured iron oxyhydroxides. In brief, we synthesized all four polymorphs of nanostructured iron oxyhydroxides, namely; goethite … Continue reading →

Geoffry A. Ozin and co-workers demonstrate that the reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction, driven by a visible and near infrared responsive Pd@Nb2O5 is thermally activated with measured conversion rates as high as 1.8 mmol gcat−1 h−1, Advanced Science, 2016, … Continue reading →

Geoff’s latest Materials Views details the cognitive effects CO2 has on humans, referring back to two public health studies done in 2012 and 2015. Reductions in decision-making performance is observed in CO2 levels as low as 1000 ppm which is … Continue reading →

Laura Reyes has been featured in a recent ACCN article for her involvement in green chemistry. Her role with the Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) at UofT and her PhD project focused on investigating how CO2 and H2 interact with the … Continue reading →

The Transformative Research to Combat Climate Change Challenge Workshop will be hosted by UofT on Wednesday October 12. This workshop will focus on converting CO2 to value-added products to enable energy security, environment protection, and climate control. More information can … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Mireille Ghoussoub for publishing her first paper entitled “Metadynamics-Biased ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Heterogeneous CO2 Reduction via Surface Frustrated Lewis Pairs” in the elite journal ACS Catalysis. Mireille investigated theoretically the effect of temperature on the … Continue reading →

Edith M. Flanigen joined Union Carbide in 1952 after earning her Master of Science in inorganic chemistry from Syracuse University. Her breakthrough discovery and development of molecular sieves led to significant advances in inorganic materials and the petrochemical industry. The … Continue reading →

A paper by Laura, Paul, and Abdinoor reports the use of a hybrid catalyst consisting of In2O3-x(OH)y grown on an ultrablack vertically aligned Si nanowire support to reduce CO2 to CO. The ultrablack support improves light harvesting efficiency by converting … Continue reading →

Wei and Chenxi’s latest paper published in Nature Communications reports the use of hydride terminated Si nanocrystals as a heterogeneous reducing agent for converting CO2 to CO. Congratulations! The full article can be read on the Nature Communications website.

Congrats to Geoff for achieving an h-index of 100 and everyone involved with the Ozin group for making this possible!