2016 Workshop “Redox Films for Energy Conversion – bioelectrochemical and molecular systems”

September 13th, 2016, Marseille

The topic

The workshop will focus on bioelectrochemical systems and molecular catalysts, and their incorporation into protective matrices. We will discuss the latest advances and future priority research directions to open up the applications of highly active but highly fragile catalysts.

Topics to be covered include:

Specific degradation pathways of biological catalysts (oxidative/reductive stress, reaction with dioxygen and reactive oxygen species…)
Specific degradation pathways of molecular (non-biological) catalysts (hydrolysis, ligand exchange, degradation due to redox cycling, side-reactions for example with O₂, H₂O₂, CO…)
Challenges and limitations in the engineering of tolerant/robust catalysts, including enzymes (the robustness/activity compromise, …)
Protection needs for electrocatalysts
Design, assembly, characterization and modelling of redox films and other protection matrices
Challenges and limitations in the design of the protection matrices
Bio-inspired protection
Engineered tolerance/protection synergies

Organization committee

Nicolas Plumeré (Bochum University), Christophe Léger (CNRS, Marseille), Gabriel Kopiec

Program

8.00. Welcome
8.30-8.40. Opening words
8.40-9.10 Prof. Marc Robert, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire, Unité Mixte de Recherche Université–CNRS no. 7591. “Molecular catalysis of CO₂ reduction using electrons, photons and earth abundant metal complexes.“
9.10-9.40 Prof. Holger Dobbek, Institute für Biology, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, “CO₂ activation at the Ni,Fe-cluster of CODH.”
9.40-10.10 Prof. Kim Daasbjerg, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus university, Denmark. “Convenient Electrocatalysts and Support Materials for the Facile Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide.“
10.10-10.40 Coffee Break
10.40-11.10 Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann, Elektroanalytik und Sensorik, Bochum University, Germany, “Redox polymers meet bioelectrochemistry.”
11.10-11.40 Dr Vincent Fourmond, Laboratoire de bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS/AMU, Marseille, France, “The mechanism of protection against O₂ in redox hydrogel films.“
11.40-12.10 Dr Olaf Rüdiger, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mulheim, Germany, “Stabilizing an oxygen sensitive bio inspired Ni catalyst in a polymer: challenges and opportunities.“
12.10-12.40 Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “Photoelectrochemical water oxidation with Photosystem II.”
12.40-13.40 Lunch
13.40-14.10 Prof. Matthias Drieß, Institut für ChemieMetallorganische Chemie und Anorganische Materialien, Berlin, Germany, “Unifying Catalytic Processes for Energy Technologies: Progress in Merging Water Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Catalysis.“
14.10-14.40 Dr. Chris Blanford, University of Manchester, UK, School of Materials and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, “Electrochemical and interfacial factors that influence the activity and lifetime of the oxygen-reducing enzyme bilirubin oxidase films.“
14.40-15.10 Dr Antonio Lopez de Lacey, Instituto de Catalisis, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, “Nanostructured electrodes based on multicopper oxidases for oxygen reduction and evolution.“
15-10-15.40 Dr Nicolas Mano, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France, “Challenges and limitation of glucose/O₂ Biofuels cells.“
15.40-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-16.40 Dr Elisabeth Lojou, Laboratoire de bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS/AMU, Marseille, France, “Biodiversity as a source of outstanding enzymes for H2/O2 biofuel cells.“
16.40-17.10 Dr Oliver Lenz, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, “Application potential of O₂-tolerant [NiFe]-hydrogenases.“
17.10-17.40 Dr. Vincent Artero, Laboratoire Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA GrenobleFrance. “Cobalt diimine-dioxime H₂-evolving catalysts: rise and fall.“
17.40-18.00 Closing