Heterogeneous Catalysis

Moisés Romolos Cesario is currently Guest Professor at the Federal University of Paraiba (Brazil). He obtained a PhD in physical chemistry from a Joint PhD program between the University of Strasbourg (UNISTRA), France, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. His scientific expertise encompasses synthesis methods (Pechini, microwave assisted self-combustion, hydrothermal, solid-state reaction), ceramic materials processing, catalytic processes (steam and dry methane reforming), electrocatalysis. His technical expertise encompasses gas chromatography – mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectrometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), temperature-programmed desorption, reduction and oxidation (TPD, TPR, TPO), and N2 physisorption. He is the author of two books – M.R. Cesário, D.A. Macedo, C. Gennequin, and E. Abi-Aad, Catalytic Materials for Hydrogen Production and Electrooxidation Reactions (2018), and M.R. Cesário and D.A. Macedo, Frontiers in Ceramic Science: Functional Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Processing, Microstructure and Performance (2017). He wrote 5 book chapters and holds 1 patent. Prof. Daniel Macedo has devoted the last decade of his academic career to the study and improvement of ceramic and composite, catalytic materials for energy conversion in electrochemical devices. He is author of several scientific papers published in conferences and journals of international circulation, book chapters, and patents. He is an adjunct professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil).

1. Understanding heterogeneous catalysis: A brief study on performance parameters 2. Use of CO2 as a source for obtaining value-added products 3. Transition metal-based catalysts for CO2 methanation and hydrogenation 4. Sorption enhanced catalysis for CO2 hydrogenation towards fuels and chemicals with focus on methanation 5. Hydrogenation of CO2 by photocatalysis: An overview 6. The role of CO2 sorbents materials in SESMR for hydrogen production 7. Catalysts for syngas production by dry reforming of methane 8. Dry reforming of methane for catalytic valorization of biogas 9. Catalysts for steam reforming of biomass tar and their effects on the products 10. Heterogeneous catalysts for biomass-derived alcohols and acid conversion 11. Zinc oxide or molybdenum oxide deposited on bentonite by the microwaveassisted hydrothermal method: New catalysts for obtaining biodiesel 12. Assisted catalysis: An overview of alternative activation technologies for the conversion of biomass 13. Regenerable adsorbents for SOx removal, material efficiency, and regeneration methods: A focus on CuO-based adsorbents 14. Solid oxide cells (SOCs) in heterogeneous catalysis 15. Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and evolution reactions in solid oxide cells (SOCs): A brief review 16. Catalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions (HER/OER) in cells 17. Zeolitic imidazolate framework 67 based metal oxides derivatives as electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction 18. Electrochemical ammonia synthesis: Mechanism, recent developments, and challenges in catalyst design 19. Non-faradaic electrochemical modification of catalytic activity: A current overview