Jean Fotie
Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., M.S., B.S., University of Yaounde'
Organic Chemistry
Office: Pursley Hall 217
Email:Jean.Fotie@southeastern.edu
Phone: 985-549-5112
Although energy from fossil fuels is essential to our current quality of life, the
environmental impacts resulting from the overproduction of CO2 is exacerbating the pace of climate change and global warming. This situation has
prompted the development of new strategies to curtail the release of this greenhouse
gas in the atmosphere. Our research focuses on the development of new catalytic systems
that can enable the reductive functionalization of CO2 into value-added chemicals. Our approach consists in using metal nanoparticles dispersed
and stabilized in organically modified silicates (ORMOSILs) as catalysts for these
processes. Considering the coating properties of siloxanes, these catalysts can find
application in industrial continue flow processes, which offer many advantages over
traditional batch reactors, including a high surface-to-volume ratio, better heat
and mass transfer, and more control over the reaction conditions.
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