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Kleij, Arjan
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ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ (Institut Català d'Investigació Química). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Arjan W. Kleij was born in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) in 1971. He received his MSc (with honors) and PhD (Cum Laude) from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) working with Gerard van Koten. In 2002 he moved to Spain for a postdoctoral stay as a NWO TALENT fellow with Javier de Mendoza, and then he held another postdoc appointment at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) working with Joost Reek. He also held various scientific positions in industry working as a project leader (Avantium Technologies) and senior research scientist (Hexion Specialty Chemicals). In 2006, he returned to Spain as ICREA Researcher and ICIQ Group Leader, and was promoted to ICREA Research Professor in 2011. He is married and has two children living near the mediterranian see.
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Research Interests
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The research of my group is divided into two main areas, viz. the use of (strong) supramolecular interactions to make new materials that incorporate new functions and applications including nano-structures, cooperative effects and chirogenesis. With these studies we wish to aim at the development of smart materials that display useful electronic, photophysical and/or data storage faetures. On the other hand, we are actively involved in the design of new and more sustainable catalytic methods for CO2 fixation; the conversion of the "greenhouse gas" carbon dioxide into value-added products such as organic carbonates and molecules made through a multi-component approach. We utilize, though not exclusively, the synthetic modularity of metallosalen building blocks in order to pursue the above-mentioned catalytic objectives.
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KeyWords
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Cooperative phenomena, supramolecular materials, CO2 fixation catalysis, chirogenesis phenomena, nanostructures
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