As a broad topic of exploring opportunities of scientific​and technological cooperation with India Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Colmenares Q. was invited to an expert session at National Forensic Sciences University — titled:

• Understanding how to connect sonication and light with catalysis: disruptive tools for redox processes

First of three lectures planned in India took place in Gandhinagar Gujarat, west India. 

Juan delivered a talk on groundbreaking work of his research group, sharing experiences, advancements, and perspectives — inspiring both students and researchers alike in their academic and professional pursuits.

Abstract

The clear tendency of our research group to rationally design​“green” methods (i.e., room temperature, atmospheric pressure, very short synthesis time) for the synthesis of a wide and diverse group of heterogeneous photocatalysts (including carbon-based, and plasmonic photocatalysis) with​“engineered” physicochemical properties will be presented during the lecture. The aforementioned ability to design the properties of the resulting photocatalysts has been documented in two ways: a. by results from a variety of characterization techniques (e.g., HRTEM, XPS, XRD, BET-BJH, UV-Vis, among others), and b. by results from (sono)photocatalytic test reactions in our designed batch/​flow (sono)photoreactors.