Heterogeneous Catalysis for a Circular Carbon Economy
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 239
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; chemical kinetics; operando spectroscopy; reaction mechanism; metal catalysts
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Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; in situ spectroscopy; metal-based catalysts
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Interests: biorefinery; pyrolysis; applied catalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution and the accelerating impacts of climate change demand the rapid deployment of low-carbon technologies. Closing the carbon cycle requires catalytic routes that transform CO2, CO, and other residual carbon streams into fuels, chemicals, and materials using renewable energy inputs. This Special Issue, within the Environmental Catalysis section, will highlight advances in heterogeneous catalysis enabling a circular carbon economy, with emphasis on: (i) CO2 capture and conversion to value-added products (methanol, DME, olefins, hydrocarbons, etc.); (ii) CO2/CO upgrading and integrated process concepts (tandem or bifunctional catalysts combining metallic sites with acid/base/redox functionalities); and (iii) catalytic valorization of carbon-rich wastes (biomass- and plastic-derived feeds) into value-added chemicals.
This Special Issue welcomes catalyst-design studies that connect catalyst structure and dynamics with performance, leveraging operando/in situ spectroscopy (IR, Raman, XPS, and XAS), isotopic methods, kinetic modeling, and density functional theory (DFT) studies. Contributions addressing stability, deactivation, and regeneration under realistic conditions are also encouraged to accelerate the translation of fundamental insights into scalable solutions. The objective is to promote the current knowledge about heterogeneous catalysts and new tools, contributing to a better understanding of the catalytic processes, and driving the design and development of new catalytic systems focused on achieving a circular carbon economy.
Dr. Daviel Gómez Acosta
Dr. Patricia Concepción
Prof. Dr. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- circular carbon economy
- CO2 valorization
- CO2 hydrogenation
- methanol synthesis
- tandem/bifunctional catalysis
- RWGS and syngas upgrading
- zeolites and acid catalysis
- metal-support interactions
- operando spectroscopy
- kinetics and microkinetic modeling
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