Speaker: Matteo Cargnello, Stanford Univeristy
Program Description
Fossil fuels are not endless and their extensive use is causing irreversible climate changes. Despite replacing them is one of the biggest challenges that we have to face, the solution might lie in tiny pieces of matter: nanocrystals. In this talk, the use of uniform and tailored nanocrystals for energy and environmental applications will be presented, with emphasis on how to precisely control the nanostructures to understand and exploit interactions between well defined building blocks. It is expected that advancements in the preparation and use of these tiny crystals can bring immense benefit for making big challenges more approachable.
Bio
Matteo Cargnello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. After receiving both his degrees (comparable to B.S. and M.S.) in Chemistry in 2006 and 2008, he obtained the Ph.D. in Nanotechnology in 2012 at the same University of Trieste (Italy). He was then a post-doctoral scholar in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) before joining the Faculty at Stanford. He is the recipient of the ENI Award Debut in Research 2013 and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies Award as best European Ph.D. thesis in catalysis in 2013. His research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis and in the technological exploitation of nanoparticles and nanocrystals.
