New project will support cooperation with the University of Strasbourg

"This is an international project from the Barrande Mobility Programme, which supports Czech-French cooperation," says Lenka Matějová. The principal investigator for the French side is Dr. Benoit Louis from the Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie, l'Environnement et la Santé (ICPEES), University of Strasbourg.

"We just felt it on both sides back in 2022 that we wanted to do this," explains Lenka Matějová of the motivation for submitting the joint project. The project is the result of a long-term collaboration between a Czech and a French research team.

The aim of the project is to study and optimize a new method of crystallization of zeolites and to evaluate its effect on the textural, structural and catalytic properties of the prepared materials synthesized using waste biomass available within the EU (e.g. corn cob, wheat stalks, etc.) as templates. In the project, the researchers will further investigate the preparation of new zeolite-carbon structures unconventionally in a microwave field or study the influence of the waste biomass used as a precursor of the carbon structure and the microwave pyrolysis parameters on the textural, micro-structural and sorption properties of the prepared zeolite-carbon structures.