Bianca Ligt
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Bianca Ligt is a doctoral candidate (PhD) in electrochemistry and catalysis under the supervision of prof.dr.ir. Emiel Hensen and dr. Marta Costa Figueiredo. Her current research focuses on the development of Cu-based electrocatalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to C2+ products, such as ethylene and ethanol. Unfortunately, current Cu-based electrocatalysts show a relatively poor selectivity towards these desired products. The utilization of several (electrochemical) characterization techniques aids to understand the nature of the active sites of the catalysts in order to enhance the C2+ product selectivity. The ultimate goal is to implement an active and stable Cu-based electrocatalyst in a gas diffusion electrode to operate in a flow cell electrolyzer under industrial relevant conditions.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Bianca Ligt received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. During her M.Sc. project, she studied the CO oxidation acitivity on Pd-ceria catalysts. After the project, she did an industrial internship at Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam (STCA) for 5 months. She worked on the synthesis and characterization of catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation. Afterwards, she started as a PhD candidate in the Inorganic Chemistry & Catalysis group at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2020. Her expertise is on catalyst synthesis, electrode preparation and material characterization.
Recent Publications
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Floriane Rollier,Valerii Muravev,Alexander Parastaev,Rim C.J. van de Poll,J.M.J.J. Heinrichs,B. Ligt,Jérôme F.M. Simons,Marta Costa Figueiredo,Emiel J.M. Hensen
Restructuring of Cu-based Catalysts during CO Electroreduction
ACS Catalysis (2024) -
Dimitra Anastasiadou,Bianca Ligt,Rim C.J. van de Poll,Jérôme F.M. Simons,Marta Costa Figueiredo
Carbon dioxide and nitrate co-electroreduction to urea on CuOxZnOy
Communications Chemistry (2023) -
Bianca Ligt,Emiel J.M. Hensen,Marta Costa Figueiredo
Electrochemical interfaces during CO2 reduction on copper electrodes
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (2023) -
Valerii Muravev,Alexander Parastaev,B. Ligt,Nathalie Claes,Sara Bals,Nikolay A. Kosinov,Emiel J.M. Hensen
Size of cerium dioxide support nanocrystals dictates reactivity of highly dispersed palladium catalysts
Science (2023) -
B. van Genabeek,B.F.M. de Waal,B. Ligt,A.R.A. Palmans,E.W. Meijer
Dispersity under scrutiny
ACS Macro Letters (2017)
Ancillary Activities
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