We will show how, when combining chemistry, the physical chemistry of complex fluids and biology through the <i>Integrative Chemistry</i> path, we can trigger the design of highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts. We will thus focus the topic on 3D-macrocellular monolithic foams bearing hierarchical porosities and applications thereof toward heterogeneous catalysis where both activities and mass transport are enhanced. We will first depict the overall synthetic path, focusing on concentrated emulsions and lyotrope mesophases, acting as soft templates at various lengths. We will see how we can design cellular materials being either, inorganic, carbonaceous, hybridized or living ones where heterogeneous catalysis applications are addressed while considering respectively acidic, metallic, enzymatic or bacterial processes. Along, we will show how the fluid hydrodynamic, the low molecular hindrance and the easiest accessibility occurring within the macrocellular foams are offering advanced "out of the box" heterogeneous catalysis whatever acting in batch, on-line or when dedicated toward cascade-type chemical reactions through consortia bacterial action modes.

<i>Integrative Chemistry</i> toward inorganic, hybridized and living macrocellular foams: "Out of the box" heterogeneous catalysis

256th National Meeting (2018)

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Integrative Chemistry toward inorganic, hybridized and living macrocellular foams: "Out of the box" heterogeneous catalysis