Mirco Rossi
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May 15
CO2 Reduction by Nanosecond-Plasma Discharges: Revealing the Dissociation’s Time Scale and the Importance of Pulse Sequence
Power-to-chemical technologies with CO2 as feedstock recycle CO2 and store energy into value-added compounds. Plasma discharges fed by renewable electricity are a promising approach to CO2 conversion. However, controlling the mechanisms of plasma dissociation is crucial to improving the efficiency of the technology. We have investigated pulsed nanosecond discharges, showing that while most of the energy is deposited …
May 15
The Support Can Disguise the Catalytic Effect: the Case of Silver on Alumina in Plasma Ammonia Synthesis
Plasma catalysis combines the high-energy chemistry of plasma with the speed and selectivity of chemical reactions in catalysis. However, unlike well-established thermal catalysis, a better understanding of fundamental mechanisms is needed, as evidenced by the contrasting results reported in the literature. One main challenge is that not only the genuine catalytic effect may play a …
