Biography

Ball's research interests are in the area of heterogeneous catalysis, focusing on design of well controlled nanoparticle materials. We take fundamental approaches to heterogeneous catalysis and apply them to CO2 and natural gas conversion reactions to facilitate sustainable chemical production. Using both catalysis and synthetic materials chemistry, we employ operando spectroscopic techniques and well-controlled catalyst synthesis methods in order to elucidate active site structures under reactive environments in order to design and develop improved catalysts.

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