WEBVTT 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:09.020 The wonderful thing of 00:00:09.020 --> 00:00:13.260 catalysis is a very good tool to make reactions easier. 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:16.680 So every reaction needs to break bonds and make new bonds. 00:00:16.680 --> 00:00:18.440 So you need energy for that. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:20.240 And what a catalyst does 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:23.480 is to reduce the energy need for this reaction to occur. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:27.180 So you actually, it gives you a lot of potential 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:30.080 to do many things with much less energy consumption. 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.220 We try to develop new kind of catalysis 00:00:32.220 --> 00:00:34.220 that allows to make chiral molecules. 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:37.340 That can be important for pharmaceuticals, for example, 00:00:37.340 --> 00:00:39.960 but also for materials that maybe needs catalytic, 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:43.040 to give different properties to the materials. 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:46.380 But we also work as today we will saw 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:48.380 also some kind of photocatalysis. 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.560 And this is how to use the energy of light 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:53.540 basically to, to basically, 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.860 give the energy to the reaction that is needed. In our group, 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:58.980 we also develop organocatalysis, 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:01.640 which is based on molecules 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.980 that have non-metals. 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:07.400 And this is very important also for 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.400 like the future because 00:01:09.440 --> 00:01:11.280 precious metals like iridium 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.100 and so on are not really 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:17.840 available nowadays, like it is not that they are not available 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.380 but are like diminishing day by day. 00:01:21.380 --> 00:01:23.420 And this is a problem everywhere. 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:25.740 And organocatalysis 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:27.820 like photo organocatalysis, 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.780 are through it all here. It can be very helpful 00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:32.840 because you can reduce 00:01:32.940 --> 00:01:35.340 the use of these metals and 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:37.340 increase the green, 00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:40.600 ability of photocatalysis. 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:42.700 For the future also is important 00:01:43.020 --> 00:01:45.020 the source of the energy you want to use. 00:01:45.860 --> 00:01:48.140 So it has to be sustainable, renewable. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.080 So that's why the question of light or 00:01:52.080 --> 00:01:55.620 electricity, it comes now very important in the society. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:57.740 And that's why also many 00:01:57.740 --> 00:01:59.740 people are driven to 00:01:59.880 --> 00:02:03.080 do research in this kind of area, how to use this type of energy 00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:05.540 instead of just for energy, basically, 00:02:05.540 --> 00:02:09.020 or the typical thing that we always do is to heat to get the energy. 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:12.360 But this is not going to be sustainable. Especially, we want 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.460 to make, I don't know, tons of compound. 00:02:15.720 --> 00:02:17.720 It's a lot of energy costs in that. 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:20.940 You can play around with how utterly it works. 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.160 And this is for me very exciting because, 00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:26.880 it gives you the tools like a Lego or so, you can do things, 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:30.320 think about them sometimes you get it completely wrong and it's different. 00:02:30.320 --> 00:02:32.540 So the, the way to find out how it works. 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:35.040 Always 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:37.100 motivated me to, to try to know more 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.980 or try to develop something. On paper, 00:02:39.980 --> 00:02:42.540 everything is working so you can have crazy ideas 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:45.020 and then in reality you might try to make them, 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:47.180 you may learn even more things. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:50.720 But I think for for me, this is why it motivates me to to work in this area.