Professor Ted Sargent continues the bp-ICAM webinar series with a talk on Materials Discovery for Energy and Chemicals Decarbonization
Electrochemical systems are showing increasing promise in the renewables-powered synthesis of fuels and feedstocks. This includes both CO2 reduction to ethylene, ethanol, methane, and propanol; and also the selective oxidation of hydrocarbons to more valuable products such as ethylene oxide and propylene glycol. This talk will discuss progress in such systems, looking at technoeconomics, systems performance, scale, and the materials – the catalysts – that effect the underlying transformation. It will also discuss routes to accelerating discovery of these and other catalysts, including with the aid of machine-learning-in-the-loop. This will include A3MD, the Alliance for AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery, which unites high-throughput computational screening, robotics, high-throughput characterization, and big data to help advane clean energy technologies.
