Recent Advances in Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis

Dr. Philippe Vernoux is a scientist (research director, PhD in electrochemistry in 1998 and habilitation in Catalysis in 2006) at CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research). Dr. Vernoux has more than 130 refereed papers, 20 patents, 50 invited lectures and 150 oral communications in the domains of solid state electrochemistry, environmental catalysis and Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis. Dr. Vernoux is a key scientist in the international scientific community of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis; he served as the coordinator of the European Marie-Curie project EFEPOC (European Forum on Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis, 2006-2009), he was the chair of the 1st international workshop on Ionically Conducting Ceramics for Catalysis (Lyon, September 2013) while he has also served as the corresponding author of a review devoted to EPOC published in Chemical Review. Dr. Philippe Vernoux is currently the manager of the department “Characterization and remediation of pollutants in air and water (CARE)” at the Institute of Research on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon in France.Prof. Constantinos (Costas) G. Vayenas is Professor Emeritus at the University of Patras, Greece and Series Editor of the Springer book series Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry Book. Born in Athens in 1950, he studied Chemical Engineering at the NTU, Athens, 1968-1973, received his PhD from the University of Rochester, NY, (1976), taught as Assistant Professor at Yale University (1976-77), as Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ΜΙΤ, 1977-82) and returned voluntarily to Greece as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras (1982). He has been a Visiting Professor at Yale, EPFL (Lausanne) and the University of Lyon. His research is focused in the areas of catalysis, electrochemistry and mathematical modeling of physicochemical and elementary particle phenomena. He is the author of some 270 refereed publications in international Journals, including Science and Nature, has coauthored the books “Electrochemical Activation of Catalysis: Promotion, Electrochemical Promotion and Metal-Support Interactions”, Kluwer/Plenum Press, 2001, and “Gravity, special relativity and the strong force: A Bohr-Einstein-de Broglie model for the formation of hadrons”, Springer 2012. He is a Fellow of the ISE (2005), full member of the Academy of Athens (2010) and has received an Honorary PhD degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). In 2017 he was the first Greek scientist to be elected as International member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA.

• Part 1. EPOC: Story and Fundamentals.- 1. Presentation, Story and Mechanistic Understanding of Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (Constantinos G. Vayenas and Philippe Vernoux).- 2. Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis: From Discovery to Fundamentals to Applications (Symeon Bebelis).- Part 2. EPOC in Nano-Dispersed Catalysts.- 3. The Quest of Electropromoted Nano-dispersed Catalysts (Arash Fellah Jahromi, Christopher Panaritis and Elena A. Baranova).- 4. The Effective-Double-Layer as an Efficient Tool for the Design of Sinter-Resistant Catalysts (Ioannis V. Yentekakis).- Part 3. EPOC to Face Environmental Challenges.- 5. EPOC with Alkaline Conductors -Implementations in Emissions Control Catalysis (Ioannis V. Yentekakis, Philippe Vernoux and Angel Caravaca).- 6. Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis for CO2 Valorisation (Christos Chatzilias, Eftychia Martino, Dimitrios Zagoraios, Georgios Kyriakou and Alexandros Katsaounis).- Part 4. EPOC to Accelerate the Energy Transition.- 7.Recent Studies of Electrochemical Promotion for H2 Production from Ethanol (Estela Ruiz-López, Fernando Dorado and Antonio de Lucas-Consuegra).- 8. Electrochemical Promotion and Related Phenomena during Ammonia Synthesis (Anastasios Vourros, John Garagounis and Michael Stoukides).- Part 5. Prospects Towards the Application.- 9. Challenges and Prospects for Applications of the Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis (Angel Caravaca, Jesus González-Cobos, Vasilis Kyriakou and Philippe Vernoux).