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COMET-NANO leverages advances in nanotechnology to enhance catalysts at the nanoscale, essential in the chemical and environmental industries. The group develops hybrid nanosystems based on silica, titania, carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, magnetite, metallic nanoparticles, and bismuth-based materials, with improved catalytic and photocatalytic properties through green chemistry.
Success has been achieved in photocatalytic reactions, using different types of radiation, for the decomposition of organic contaminants in water, such as pharmaceuticals and dyes. Additionally, these materials are multifunctional, and capable of performing various coupling, oxidation, and polymerization reactions. With extensive experience in metallic complexes and nanostructured materials, we design advanced platforms for applications in the pharmaceutical, food, and petroleum industries and in environmental processes, improving both efficiency and sustainability.
The group also prepares different multifunctional platforms capable of capturing CO2 and N2, fixing them, and transforming them without the need to use multiple systems, employing starting materials with high surface-to-volume ratios and functionalizing them with specific organometallic complexes for the valorization of CO2 and N2. These versatile platforms will help reduce the greenhouse effect by decreasing CO2 concentrations, producing other carbon-based fuels, improving current energy efficiency through the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to carbon monoxide or formic acid, and especially by transforming N2 to ammonia, a potential green fuel for energy production.
Recently, the COMET-NANO group has been granted a project to develop a new generation of cost-effective and high-performance memristors focused on leveraging 2D F-doped titanium dioxide materials to develop cost-effective and high-performance memristors. The unique properties of memristors, particularly their resistive switching behavior, make them suitable for in situ computing and integration into artificial synapse computing applications. The project builds on the successful synthesis of F-doped titanium dioxide nanoparticles from previous projects and extends this expertise to 2D materials, exploring hybrid systems with bismuth-based materials.
