Clara García
Clara Garcia has a bachelor´s degree in chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a master´s degree in environmental engineering. She did her bachelor´s thesis in the department of chemical engineering, separating and reducing chromium IV (toxic and carcinogenic) to chromium III (non-toxic)in a electrochemical cell employing ceramic membranes. During her master´s thesis, she developed a method of identification of bacteria by means fluorescence spectroscopy. In 2013 she did an internship in BOKU, in Austria and she stayed working in industry, in an international pharmaceutic company (Sandoz), in the quality control branch. In 2016 she got a position as a university assistant in the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), her research is now focused on material chemistry, concretely in the interaction between clusters and support and their correlation with catalytic properties.
Keywords: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Metal Clusters, Surface Science, Oxidation, liquid phase, Synthesis, XAFS, FTIR.
Publications
- Support effect on the reactivity and stability of Au25(SR)18 and Au144(SR)60 nanoclusters in liquid phase cyclohexane oxidation
C.García, S.Pollitt, M. van der Linden, V.Truttmann, Ch.Rameshan, Raffael Rameshan, E.Pittenauer, G.Allmaier, P. Kregsamer, M.Stöger-Pollach, N.Barrabés*, G.Rupprechter
Catalysis Today (2019) 336, 174-185
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2018.12.013 - Ligand and support effects on the reactivity and stability of Au38(SR)24 catalysts in oxidation reactions
Bei Zhang, Annelies Sels, Giovanni Salassa, Clara García, Christoph Rameshan, Jordi Llorca, Klaudia Hradil , Günther Rupprechter, Noelia Barrabés and Thomas Bürgi
Catalysis Communications (2019) 130, 105768 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2018.12.013 - Evaluation of the silver species nature in Ag-zeolites by the CO oxidation reaction
I. López-Hernández , C. García, V. Truttmann, S. Pollitt, N. Barrabés, G. Rupprechter, F. Rey, A. E. Palomares
Catalysis Today(2019) in press, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2019.12.001
Awards
VSS2019 best oral communication Award : “Best performance award” in the category of catalysis, at the Vienna young Scientists Symposium 2019
Conference Contributions
Oral Communications
Mono- and bimetallic gold nanocluster catalysts for liquid phase oxidation reactions: reactivity and stability insights
Clara García, Noelia Barrabés, Günther Rupprechter
Europacat 18th-23th August 2019, Aachen (Germany)
Pd doping effect on the Catalytic Properties of Gold Nanoclusters supported on oxides
C.García, S.Pollitt, V.Truttmann, N.Barrabés*, G.Rupprechter
VSS 2019 Vienna Young Scientist Meeting, 13-14 June 2019, Vienna (Austria)
Supported gold nanoclusters: reactivity and stability in liquid phase oxidation
Clara García, Noelia Barrabés, Günther Rupprechter
34th Workshop on Novel Materials and Superconductivity, 10th – 15th February 2019 in Schladming, talk contribution
TU Wien young scientist symposium, 7th – 8th June 2018, talk contribution
7th Annual PhD Workshop “Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces (FOXSI)”, 31th January – 3th February 2018 at Gasthof Stenitzer, Haus im Ennstal (Styria), talk contribution
TU Wien young scientist symposium 2017, Talk contribution
Posters
International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters, 23rd -26rd September 2019 (ISMPC19) in Xiamen, poster contribution
2th FemChem Scientific Workshop at TU Wien
1st FemChem Scientific Workshop at TU Wien, 25th June 2018
International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters, 13th – 17th August 2017, Ascona, Schwitzerland
International “Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces (FOXSI)” Conference 2017, 15th – 17th May 2017, TU Vienna
6th Annual PhD Workshop “Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces (FOXSI)”, 1st – 4th February 2017, Gasthof Stenitzer, Haus im Ennstal (Styria)