Chemistry Seminar: Carine Michel (CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Laboratoire de Chimie, Lyon, France)

Carine Michel received her PhD in 2007 in Theoretical Chemistry at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, under the supervision of Pr. A. Milet. She focused mainly on modelling the chemical reactivity of various homogeneous systems. Then, she spent one year as a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Pr. E.J. Baerends at the VU University, Amsterdam in the field of C-H oxidation.

In 2009, she was appointed at the Laboratoire de Chimie as a CNRS researcher to focus on the catalytic valorisation of biomass into chemicals. She extended her research themes to the study of reactive solid/liquid interfaces with a focus on the life cycle of catalysts, from preparation to deactivation.

She received the Bronze medal of the CNRS (2015) and defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2016 (‘Computational Studies across Catalysis’). She was the head of the LIA Funcat (with uOttawa- and is now the head of the IRP ELINE (with UCLA). She was appointed vice-director of the Laboratoire de Chimie in 2021 and then director of this research lab in 2024.

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Modeling reactions at the solid/liquid interface

Carine Michel

CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Laboratoire de Chimie, Lyon, France. 
e-mail: carine.michel@ens-lyon.fr 

Abstract

Reactions at the water/solid interface are central to develop more sustainable processes, from biomass upgrading to the use of unconventional activation as in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. To gain atomistic insight on those reactions, modelling approaches were constantly improved in the past decade. Several approaches are available nowadays from continuum models to a full explicit description of the liquid water.  We will discuss the pros and cons of those methods using several examples covering electrocatalysis, thermal catalysis and alumina stability in water.

References

[1] Steinmann, S. N. & Michel, C. How to Gain Atomistic Insights on Reactions at the Water/Solid Interface? ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 6294-6301

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