Newcastle University

Research Interests

Danai obtained an MEng in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1999, an MSc in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UMIST in 2004.

She worked for a year as a post-doctoral research associate at Imperial College in London on recovery of metals from scrap electrical and electronic equipment by leaching and electrowinning.

Danai joined the group of Applied Catalysis in the University of Newcastle as a post-doctoral research associate in July 2005. Her current research interests lie in the area of electrochemical promotion of catalysis using ionic conducting membranes.

Research themes:

Projects

• A novel membrane reactor for catalyst activity control
  Project Leader(s): Prof Ian Metcalfe
• Ceramic hollow fibre membranes for energy
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Ian Metcalfe
• Micro and nano-patterned electrodes for the study and control of spillover processes in catalysis
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Ian Metcalfe

• Wang B, Zydorczak B, Poulidi D, Metcalfe IS, Li K. A further investigation of the kinetic demixing/decomposition of La_0.6Sr_0.4Co_0.2Fe_0.8O_3-delta oxygen separation membranes. Journal of Membrane Science 2011, 369(1-2), 526-535.
• Poulidi D, Rivas ME, Metcalfe IS. Controlled spillover in a single catalyst pellet: Rate modification, mechanism and relationship with electrochemical promotion. Journal of Catalysis 2011, 281(1), 188-197.
• Mather GC, Poulidi D, Thursfield A, Pascual MJ, Jurado JR, Metcalfe IS. Hydrogen-permeation characteristics of a SrCeO₃-based ceramic separation membrane: Thermal, ageing and surface-modification effects. Solid State Ionics 2010, 181(3-4), 230-235.
• Poulidi D, Mather GC, Tabacaru CN, Thursfield A, Metcalfe IS. Electrochemical promotion of a platinum catalyst supported on the high-temperature proton conductor La0.99Sr0.01NbO4−δ. Catalysis Today 2009, 146(3-4), 279-284.
• Poulidi D, Metcalfe IS. Comparative studies between classic and wireless electrochemical promotion of a Pt catalyst for ethylene oxidation. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 2008, 38(8), 1121-1126.
• Poulidi D, Metcalfe IS. In situ catalyst activity control in a novel membrane reactor: Reaction driven wireless electrochemical promotion of catalysis. In: 20th International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering: Green Chemical Reaction Engineering for a Sustainable Future (ISCRE 20). 2008, Kyoto, Japan: Chemical Engineering Science: Pergamon.
• Poulidi D, Anderson C, Metcalfe IS. Remote control of the activity of a Pt catalyst supported on a mixed ionic electronic conducting membrane. Solid State Ionics 2008,179 27-32 1347-1350.
• Poulidi D, Thursfield A, Metcalfe IS. Electrochemical promotion of catalysis controlled by chemical potential difference across a mixed ionic-electronic conducting ceramic membrane - An example of wireless NEMCA. Topics in Catalysis 2007, 44(3), 435-449.
• Poulidi D, Mather GC, Metcalfe IS. Wireless electrochemical modification of catalytic activity on a mixed protonic-electronic conductor. Solid State Ionics 2007, 178(7-10), 675-680.
• Poulidi D, Metcalfe IS. Electrochemical promotion of a metal catalyst supported on a mixed-ionic conductor. Solid State Ionics 2006, 177(26-32), 2211-2215.
• Poulidi D, Castillo-del-Rio MA, Salar R, Thursfield A, Metcalfe IS. Electrochemical promotion of catalysis using solid-state proton-conducting membranes. In: Solid State Ionics: Eleventh International Conference on Solid State Protonic Conductors. 2003, Guildford, UK: Elsevier BV.