International call for applications Chemistry and Process Engineering
Announcing Institution:
National Science Centre
Call supervisor at CAWP:
Agnieszka Kołodziejska-Skrobek,
phone: 12 663 30 23,
e‑mail: agnieszka.kolodziejska-skrobek@uj.edu.pl
Subject of the call:
Subject of this call for proposals is fundamental research in all sub-areas relevant to the photochemical transformation of small, abundant molecules, such as carbon dioxide, water or nitrogen, into more valuable, storable chemicals by means of solar radiation. Focus of the proposals should be on the photochemical processes (reactions) and on solving fundamental problems.
Typical (but not exclusive) examples include preparative, physicochemical, analytical and theoretical work (always related to the general call topic) on:
- Research on light-converting/harvesting, catalytic, electrode, membrane , etc. materials,
- Materials issues (e.g. photochemical stability of relevant materials), as long as they are used for the photochemical conversion of small molecules,
- Investigating mechanisms of catalysis and light harvesting, if focus is on photochemical conversion of small molecules,
- Heterogeneous photoelectrochemistry/ photocatalysis,
- Photocatalytic water splitting,
- Photochemical or photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction,
- Development of new photoactive systems if related to the general call topic,
- Reaction engineering,
- Molecular model systems capable of direct conversion, e.g. for mechanistic studies.
A two-stage application procedure (pre-proposals and full proposals) will be open for consortia composed of researchers from at least two countries participating in the call: Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland.
The way of submission of the applications:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) acts as Call Secretariat, therefore all pre-proposals and full proposals must submitted to the DFG’s “elan” submission system.
Deadline for the proposals:
Deadline for pre-proposal submission: 13th February 2019, 23.59 CET
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