Niklas HedinHead of Department, Professor
About me
PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in Physical Chemistry with István Furó, Stockholm, Sweden. Postdoctoral research with Bradley Chmelka in University of California at Santa Barbara, and with Sebastian Reyes at ExxonMobil Corporate Research Laboratory, Annandale, US. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and now Professor of Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University.
The main focus is currently on adsorbents for separation or reduction of carbon dioxide, and on carbon materials derived by hydrothermal carbonization. A multipronged approach is applied that includes among other tools molecular spectroscopy.
Read more under the tab reserach, and on my reserach group pages, linked to the right.
Teaching
Soft materials (master level, KZ8001)
Porous materials (master level, KZ8011)
Grundläggande kemi – strukturdelen (Chemistry 101)
Research
The main focus is currently on adsorbents for separation or reduction of carbon dioxide, and on carbon materials derived by hydrothermal carbonization. A multipronged approach is applied that includes among other tools molecular spectroscopy.
- 2022-2024, Olle Engkvist Foundation (PI, 0.890 MSEK), methanol as hydrogen storage, and heterogeneous catalysts for synthesis at a low temperature
- 2022-2024, Carl Trygger Foundation (PI, 0.8 MSEK), colloidal and aminated porous liquids for emission free and energy efficient CO2 capture
- 2022-2025, The Swedish Research Council (PI, 3.40 MSEK), colloidal and aminated porous liquids for emission free and energy efficient CO2 capture
- 2022-2024, Swedish Energy Agency (co-PI, 2.6 MSEK), sustainable, energy efficient and pollution free CO2 absorption solvents (includes studies of carbonic anhydrase etc.)
- 2022, Sally-R AB (0.3 MSEK, PI), materials for direct air capture of CO2
- 2021-2025, Mistra (MistraTerraClean stage 2, co-PI) (2.5 MSEK)
- 2021-2023, FORMAS, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (3.8 MSEK, PI), activated limestone to reduce the eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
- Swedish Reserch Council: ”Microporous polymers for the upgrading of biogas and the catalytic transformation of carbon dioxide to methanol”, 2017-2020.
- Mistra: The MistraTerraClean program, https://mistraterraclean.com/.
- EU: GreenCarbonITN under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721991 http://greencarbon-etn.eu/.
- Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmästare: ”Catalytic transformation of carbon dioxide to methanol”, 2018-2020
