Bioinspired Photocatalysts for Renewable Hydrogen Production from Organic Waste

该项目的目的是开发环境友好的生物光催化剂，以收集太阳光并通过有机废物的重整产生氢气。我们将结合实验和计算技术，合理设计新型仿生光催化材料。我们将通过将半导体与过渡金属结合来合成和测试仿生光催化剂，并模拟氢气生成和有机降解的反应途径，以预测催化剂的性能并优化其设计。

The aim of this project is to develop environmental-friendly bioinspired photocatalysts to harvest solar light and produce hydrogen from reforming of organic waste. We will use a combination of experimental and computational techniques to rationally design novel bioinspired photocatalytic materials.We will synthesise and test bioinspired photocatalysts by combining semi-conductors with transition metals and model the reaction pathways for hydrogen formation and organic degradation to predict the catalysts' performance and optimise their design.