Nanostructured Catalysts for Energy

The group develops catalytic systems for production and purification of hydrogen from renewable sources, addressing all the steps necessary for its complete development. For the synthesis of these, soft chemistry methods are used to control the most relevant parameters in this respect: particle size, compositional homogeneity, surface morphology. On the other hand, systems are characterized using advanced methods with the highest possible resolution at spatial and / or temporal levels, paying particular attention to techniques that allow such characterization under operating conditions. Finally, the catalysts are tested in the processes that are considered relevant in each case. In an additional line, new materials (sulphides, oxides, nitrides) capable of obtaining photocatalytically hydrogen (or reduce CO2 to fuels) using broad ranges of solar light, are designed, prepared and tested mainly on the basis of electronic structure calculations.