National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy Won Excellent Project Award at National Disruptive Technology Innovation Contest

On February 24, the “design and development of in-situ self-healing anti-toxic catalyst and its application in the field of energy catalysis” project launched by the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy (NICE) under CHN Energy won the Excellent Project Award at the finals of the 2022 National Disruptive Technology Innovation Contest.

This project successfully developed a kind of catalyst with crystal defects, which uses carrier defect sites as the adsorption and active sites to replace precious metal active components and additives in traditional catalysts, disrupting the conventional way of thinking for catalyst development. Catalysts with crystal defects can not only significantly reduce costs, but also may eradicate the problem of catalyst poisoning. Moreover, they can not only achieve catalytic elimination and efficient emission reduction of nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, methane, etc., but also have the potential to be applied in energy and chemical fields such as energy storage, green ammonia synthesis, and ammonia oxidation. A paper on the latest findings of the project was recently published in EES Catalysis (Energy and Environmental Science – Catalysis), an authoritative journal on energy and environmental protection, as a cover article.