The SILCO project, led by Prof. Cinzia Cristiani, has started.
The Waste-derived Silica-based porous solids for Carbon diOxide capture, storage and re-use (SILCO) project has been funded during the 2022 call of the Italian PRIN (Progetti di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) program, also financed by the NextGenerationEU plan. Its goal is to address the strategic recovery and reuse of carbon dioxide by proposing the development and application of waste-derived silica matrixes, not currently available on the market. They should provide specific functionalization and porosity to efficiently capture and store CO2, as well as to act as catalyst support for high-yield and selective fuel production. The project is led by Prof. Cinzia Cristiani and involves a collaboration among the Mat4En2 group and the Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes at Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Luca Lietti, Prof. Lidia Castoldi), as well as with Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Prof. Roberto Scotti, Prof. Barbara Di Credico) and Università degli Studi di Genova (Prof. Elisabetta Finocchio) as other main partners.