Chair 

Dr. Kajornsak Faungnawakij
Email: Kajornsak@nanotec.or.th

Co-chair

Assist. Prof. Sareeya Bureekaew
Email: sareeya.b@vistec.ac.th

Scope

This session will bring together scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government laboratories, to share and discuss on progresses and challenges of nanotechnology for catalysis and industrial applications.

The topics include but are not limited to:

  • Nanocatalysis and nanochemistry
  • Industrial catalysis
  • Environmental catalysis
  • Catalysis for energy
  • Catalysis in oleochemicals
  • Catalysis in oil and gas
  • Catalytic biomass conversion
  • Catalysis in fine chemicals
  • Catalysis for carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
  • Electrocatalysis and Photocatalysis
  • Organometallic catalysis
  • Computational catalysis
  • Reaction mechanisms
  • Catalyst deactivation

Keynote Speakers

Session 8: Nanotechnology for Catalysis and Industrial Applications

Prof. George Shimizu

University of Calgary, Canada

De-risking a Metal-Organic Framework for Practical Carbon Capture

Prof. Deanna M. D’Alessandro

The University of Sydney, Australia

Harnessing Electroactivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Fundamentals to Applications

Invited Speakers

Session 8: Nanotechnology for Catalysis and Industrial Applications

Asst. Prof. Sareeya Bureekaew

School of Energy Science & Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand

Title: Co-based metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen production

Dr. Tomohiro Fukushima

Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Asst. Prof. Atthapon Srifa

Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand

Utilizing the Heterogeneous Catalysts for Conversion of Oil-based Feedstocks and Platform Chemicals to Biofuel and Biochemicals in Biorefinery Applications

Assoc. Prof. Valerio D’Elia

School of Material Science & Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand

Recent progresses in the development of realistic catalysts and catalytic methodologies for CO2 conversion to cyclic carbonates

Assoc. Prof. Preeyanuch Sangtrirutnugul

Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand

Triazole-containing catalysts for alcohol oxidation and CO2 conversion

Dr. Pongkarn Chakthranont

National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), NSTDA

Designing microenvironment for electrochemical CO2 reduction and biomass oxidation