Department of Environmental Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University

Piotr Legutko

• dry methane reforming on Ni/CeO₂-ZrO₂
• catalytic soot combustion on alkali-promoted transition metal oxides

• Role of electronic factor in soot oxidation process over tunnelled and layered potassium iron oxide catalysts, Top. Catal. 56 (2013) 489
• Soot oxidation over K-doped manganese and iron spinels – how potassium precursor nature and doping level changes the catalysts activity, Catal. Commun. 43 (2014) 34
• Functional Theory Modeling and Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometric and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Investigations into Mechanistic Key Events of Coronene Oxidation: Toward Molecular Understanding of Soot Combustion, J. Phys. Chem. C 119 (2015) 6568
• Role of chain length of the capping agents of iron oxide based fuel borne catalysts in the enhancement of soot combustion activity, Appl. Catal. B-Environ. 199 (2016) 485-493
• Thermal stability and repartition of potassium promoter between the support and active phase in the K-Co_2.6Zn_0.4O₄|α-Al₂O₃ catalyst for N₂O decomposition: crucial role of activation temperature on catalytic performance, Appl. Catal. B-Environ. 205 (2017) 597-604

• scholarship in Polish National Science Center (NCN) programm Etiuda 2
• award of Polish Chemical Society for the best PhD thesis defended in 2015
• award of Polish Catalysis Club for the best PhD thesis in the field of catalysis, defended in 2015-2016