BETO To Host Catalyst Development Cycle Webinar
On June 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced that it would be hosting the Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy (ChemCatBio) Consortium’s Webinar titled “Accelerating the Catalyst Development Cycle” on June 27, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). ChemCatBio Consortium is a research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass conversion processes. BETO states that the webinar will “highlight transition metal carbides as a class of materials” and “demonstrate how the integration of predictive computational modeling, tailored materials synthesis, and in-situ characterization capabilities within the ChemCatBio Consortium is accelerating the development of [the] complex but promising catalysts.” BETO states that the objectives of the webinar will address the challenges of the realization of sustainable routes to fuels and chemicals from renewable feedstocks, such as biomass, and that addressing these challenges “requires advanced catalysts with controlled active sites that promote desired transformations, while resisting deactivation, and that can be produced cost-effectively at relevant scales.” Registration is available online.