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## The Reciplasa-UJI Chair promotes innovation in the service of sustainability with awards for the best TFG and TFM projects in 2024 Lucía Peiró and Juan Enrique Chiva have submitted work for the study and synthesis of catalysts that transform CO2 into useful chemical products

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The Reciplasa UJI Chair in Urban Waste Management awarded its 2024 Best Degree Project and Master’s Project to Lucía Peiró Sales and Juan Enrique Chiva Celades for their innovative work on catalysts that convert atmospheric CO2 into high-value chemical compounds. Out of eight submissions, six were undergraduate and two master’s projects. The awards, €500 for the best undergraduate and €1,000 each for the two top master’s projects, were presented in a ceremony attended by representatives from Reciplasa and Universitat Jaume I. Sergio Toledo, Reciplasa’s president, praised the winners for their efforts in advancing CO2 utilization to combat global warming, while Elena Pitarch highlighted the high quality and competitiveness of the submissions.

The awarded projects focus on transforming CO2 into useful products through different scientific approaches. Lucía Peiró’s undergraduate work used computational methods to study an artificial enzyme mimicking carbonic anhydrase, which converts CO2 to bicarbonate, crucial for biological processes and CO2 capture strategies. Juan Enrique Chiva’s master’s project developed an experimental synthesis of a zinc-containing pseudopeptide macrocycle catalyst inspired by the same enzyme, enabling the production of cyclic carbonates with wide industrial applications. Together, these projects demonstrate how computational modeling and supramolecular chemistry can provide complementary solutions to the challenge of sustainable CO2 valorization.

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