Green Hydrogen production via water splitting and photoreforming: analytical approach and applications in the energy-environmental field. New inorganic and organic catalysts, active under solar light are investigated to be applied to photocatalytic systems for H2 production from wastewaters and (waste) biomass. with the aim of combining valorisation of waste biomass coming from the agri-food sector with H2 production with low environmental impact.
Team:
Andrea Speltini; Antonella Profumo;
Federica Maraschi
Petra Bianchini, PhD student
Collaborations:
Daniele Dondi and Lorenzo Malavasi (Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Italy),
Maurizio Ferretti, (Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Genoa, Italy)
Publications:
A. Speltini, L. Romani, D. Dondi, L. Malavasi, A. Profumo,
Carbon nitride-perovskite composites: evaluation and optimization of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in saccharides aqueous solution,
Catalysts 2020, 10, 1259
A. Speltini, F. Gualco, F. Maraschi, M. Sturini, D. Dondi, L. Malavasi, A. Profumo,
Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution assisted by aqueous (waste)biomass under simulated solar light: oxidized g-C3N4 vs. P25 titanium dioxide,
Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2019, 44, 4072-4078
L. Romani, A. Speltini, F. Ambrosio, E. Mosconi, A. Profumo, S. Margadonna, A. Milella, F. Fracassi, A. Listorti, F. De Angelis, L. Malavasi,
Water-stable DMASnBr3 lead-free perovskite for effective solar-driven photocatalysis,
Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2021, 60, 3611-3618