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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.chee.uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C8102E;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="600" height="165" style="width:6.25in;height:1.7187in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.egr.uh.edu/sites/www.egr.uh.edu/files/enews/2022/images/sa_header.png" alt="William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">Leveraging Light-Matter Interactions for Renewable Chemical Production </span></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt">
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<strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Steven Chavez</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Friday, February 10 | 10:30am Central</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C8102E">LECTURE ABSTRACT</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C8102E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">Developing and implementing sustainable chemical
conversion processes is critical for satisfying global chemical demand while mitigating climate change. In this context, plasmonic catalysis is an emerging paradigm in chemical conversion research that can potentially decarbonize the chemical industry.
</span></span><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;background:white">Plasmonic catalysts (e.g., nanoparticles of Ag, Au, and Cu) drive photochemical reactions with higher efficiency, stability, and selectivity compared
to thermal catalysts. Despite their potential, the widespread implementation of these catalysts is prevented by the inherently low chemical reactivity of light harvesting ‘plasmonic metals’ compared to non-light harvesting 'catalytic metals' used in industry
(e.g., Pt, Pd, Ru). </span></span><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">In this talk, I will discuss our recent advancements in expanding light-driven plasmonic photocatalysis to catalytically
active metal surfaces. Specifically, I will review our unifying physical framework describing how plasmonic materials localize solar energy into catalytically active materials and adsorbates.
</span></span><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;background:white">This framework not only allows for the rational design of industrially relevant plasmonic photocatalysts, but also provides a basis for leveraging
light-matter interactions to enable novel chemical conversion systems driven by renewable resources.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white"> </span><span style="color:#202122;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C8102E">SPEAKER BIOSKETCH</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C8102E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">Dr. Steven Chavez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University working with Professor
Matteo Cargnello. Prior to Stanford, he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow, a Rackham Merit
Fellow, and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow working under Professor Suljo Linic. </span>
<a name="_Hlk106032178"><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">His research interests lie at the interface between nanophotonics and heterogeneous catalysis for solar-to-chemical energy
conversion applications. </span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk106032178"><span class="contentpasted3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif;color:#202122;background:white">Outside of research, he strongly advocates increasing diversity
in STEM. He has 10+ years of experience conceiving, planning, and executing programs/events to improve the recruitment and retention of first-generation, low-income students in STEM fields. His proudest achievement is being recognized as UC Berkeley’s Most
Outstanding Student Leader in 2014 for his achievements as the President of Berkeley’s chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
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