Nanomaterials Perovskites Oxides and Halides Catalysts: Applications in Sustainable Catalytic Processes

Peter R. Makgwane is a full professor at the University of South Africa, Institute of Catalysis and Energy (ICES) of the College of Science Engineering and Technology. He previously worked as a Principal Scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa and as a scientist for SASOL. He earned his MSc in Chemistry from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Nelson Mandela University, in 2010, specialising in heterogeneous catalysis. He has held visiting scientist positions at the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Physical Chemistry (PAS-IPC), Poland, in 2017, and the National Research Centre, Egypt, in 2026. Prof. Makgwane has authored numerous books and articles in the field of catalysis and photocatalysis, with specific applications in renewable chemicals conversion, environmental remediation, energy, and semiconductor gas chemical sensing.

Hanfeng Liang is an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces at Xiamen University, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Xiamen University in 2015. Prior to joining Xiamen University, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a postdoctoral researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Liang's research interests include the rational synthesis of nanomaterials and functional coatings, with a focus on their applications in electrocatalysis and aqueous energy storage. He currently serves as an Assistant Subject Editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and sits on the (youth) editorial boards of several journals, including The Innovation, Chinese Chemical Letters, Exploration, Catalysis Communications, Tungsten, and Materials Futures.

Bhalchandra M. Bhanage is the Head and Professor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. He obtained his PhD from the National Chemical Laboratory, India, in 1995 and subsequently held various positions at Tohoku University and Hokkaido University in Japan. Prof. B.M. Bhanage’s research focuses on the green synthesis of nanomaterials and their applications across various fields, with a focus on catalysis. He has made significant contributions to catalysis for the activation of small molecules such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen for various reactions. Additionally, he has developed novel strategies for reactions including Heck, Suzuki, Sonogashira coupling reactions, their carbonylative forms, hydroformylations, aminocarbonylations, alcoxycarbonylations, aminations, hydrogenations, among others.

Prashanth W. Menezes is Head of the Materials Chemistry Group for Thin Film Catalysis at CatLab of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie and the Inorganic Materials Group at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on the design, development, and structural understanding of novel unconventional catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis, especially in the area of redox oxygen catalysis, (photo)electrocatalytic water splitting, as well as electrochemical redox reactions.