How Can Chemistry Make Our Society More Sustainable? – with Bert Weckhuysen

Catalysts increase the rates of chemical reactions. Bert Weckhuysen talks about his work on improving catalysts to make our society more sustainable.
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With limited access to natural resources, scientists must develop new ways to reduce and reuse what we already have. Bert Weckhuysen explores how chemistry is being used to create waste-powered transport and why it is so difficult to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.

This talk was supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/icaA29-DvRU

Bert Weckhuysen is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University. He was appointed as the first Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University as of September 2012. He is currently a visiting professor at Stanford University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2013-onwards) and University College London (UK, 2014-onwards). In January 2018 he was promoted to Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University.

This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 2 November 2018.

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