Izar Capel Berdiell

Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry

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Email i.c.berdiell@smn.uio.no

Mobile phone +47 41232579

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 26 Kjemibygningen 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1126 Blindern 0318 Oslo

Other affiliations Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN)

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Academic interests

Zeolites, Catalysis, Catalytic Testing, MTH, Porous Materials, In-situ / In-operando, Chemical Industry, Material Science, Characterization, Crystallization, XRD, Neutron Diffraction, Total Scattering, SEM, EDX, NMR, ESMS, Solid State Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Superconducting Systems, Spin-Crossover, Energy Harvesting, Perovskites and Solar Cells.

Background

2021-Present

- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (SMN-UiO, Norway)

Project: Tracking the deactivation of shaped zeolite catalysts in time and space
using X-ray diffraction tomography (TomoCAT)

2020-2021

- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (IESL-FORTH, Greece)

Project: Deciphering the working of molecule intercalated iron chalcogenides (DOMINION)

2016-2019

- PhD in Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Title: Design of New Spin-crossover Materials for Surface Deposition

2014-2015

- M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research: (UAB, Spain)

Title: Non innocent multitopic catechol and pyridine mixed ligands as platforms for multi spin transition systems

Awards

2020 , PhD thesis awarded with the JB Cohen Prize for Chemistry
2018 , Awarded a Researcher Mobility Grant (RM1602-2118) by the Royal Society of Chemistry for a six weeks visit to the Institute of Molecular Sciences (ICMol) at the University of Valencia (Spain)

Tags: SMN, Catalysis, Characterization, diffraction, Chemistry education

Cordero Lanzac, Tomas; Capel Berdiell, Izar; Airi, Alessia; Chung, Sang-Ho; Mancuso, Jenna & Redekop, Evgeniy [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2024). Transitioning from Methanol to Olefins (MTO) toward a Tandem CO<inf>2</inf> Hydrogenation Process: On the Role and Fate of Heteroatoms (Mg, Si) in MAPO-18 Zeotypes. JACS Au. ISSN 2691-3704. doi: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00768. Full text in Research Archive
Capel Berdiell, Izar; Michaels, Evridiki; Munro, Orde Q & Halcrow, Malcolm A. (2024). A Survey of the Angular Distortion Landscape in the Coordination Geometries of High-Spin Iron(II) 2,6-Bis(pyrazolyl)pyridine Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. ISSN 0020-1669. 63(5), p. 2732–2744. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04138.
Lundegaard, Lars Fahl; Capel Berdiell, Izar; König, Nico; Haaber Junge, Nicolai; Beato, Pablo & Chernyshov, Dmitry [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Tracking deactivation of zeolite beta with and without a detailed structure model: XRD analysis and in situ studies. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. ISSN 1387-1811. 366. doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2023.112911.
Prodinger, Sebastian; Capel Berdiell, Izar; Cordero-Lanzac, Tomas; Bygdnes, Odd Reidar; Solemsli, Bjørn Gading & Kvande, Karoline [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). Cation-induced speciation of port-size during mordenite zeolite synthesis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. ISSN 2050-7488. 11(40), p. 21884–21894. doi: 10.1039/d3ta03444e. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Mordenite (MOR) zeolite, an important industrial catalyst exists in two, isostructural variants defined by their port-size, small and large-port. Here we show for the first time how a systematic, single-parameter variation influences the synthesis out-come on the final MOR material leading to distinctly different catalysts. The cation identity has a direct impact on the synthesis mechanism with potassium cations generating the more constrained, small-port MOR variant compared to the large-port obtained with sodium cations. This was expressed by different degrees of accessibility ascertained with a combination of toluene breakthrough and temperature programmed desorption (TPD), propylamine TPD, as well as sterically sensitive isobutane conversion. Rietveld refinement of the X-ray diffractograms elucidated the preferential siting of the smaller sodium cations in the constricted 8-ring, from which differences in Al distribution follow. Note, there are no organic structure directing agents utilized in this synthesis pointing at the important role of inorganic structure directing agents (ISDA).
Capel Berdiell, Izar; Braghin, Giorgio Bruno; Cordero-Lanzac, Tomas; Beato, Pablo; Lundegaard, Lars F. & Wragg, David Stephen [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Tracking Structural Deactivation of H-Ferrierite Zeolite Catalyst During MTH with XRD. Topics in catalysis. ISSN 1022-5528. 66, p. 1418–1426. doi: 10.1007/s11244-023-01780-0. Full text in Research Archive
Roberts, Thomas D.; Pask, Christopher M.; Capel Berdiell, Izar; Tuna, Floriana & Halcrow, Malcolm A. (2022). Exploring the influence of counterions on a hysteretic spin-transition in isomorphous iron(ii) complex salts. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. ISSN 2050-7526. 10(43), p. 16353–16362. doi: 10.1039/d2tc03654a. Full text in Research Archive
Michaels, Evridiki; Capel Berdiell, Izar; Vasili, Hari Babu; Pask, Christopher M.; Howard, Mark J. & Cespedes, Oscar [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Spin-Crossover in a New Iron(II)/Di(pyrazolyl)pyridine Complex with a Terpyridine Embrace Lattice. Thermally Induced Excited Spin State Trapping and Clarification of a Structure-Function Correlation. Crystal Growth & Design. ISSN 1528-7483. 22(11), p. 6809–6817. doi: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00980. Full text in Research Archive

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Capel Berdiell, Izar; Wragg, David Stephen; Beato, Pablo; Lundegaard, Lars Fahl; Di Michel, Marco & Svelle, Stian (2023). Temperature Programmed Oxidation Probed with X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography.
Svelle, Stian; Capel Berdiell, Izar; Wragg, David Stephen; Beato, Pablo & Lundegaard, Lars Fahl (2023). In situ and operando X-ray diffraction as a tool to monitor zeolite catalyst deactivation .
Capel Berdiell, Izar; König, Nico; Junge, Nicolai Haaber; Kalantzopoulos, Georgios; Beato, Pablo & Svelle, Stian [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Tracking deactivation level of zeolite H-beta catalysts with novel XRD models.
Capel Berdiell, Izar; Braghin, Giorgio Bruno; Cordero-Lanzac, Tomas; Beato, Pablo; Lundegaard, Lars Fahl & Wragg, David Stephen [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Tracking Structural Deactivation of H-Ferrierite Zeolite Catalyst during MTH with XRD.