X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of four Cu/SiO2 catalyst systems of different particle sizes of CuO on the surface showed variation in the relative peak area intensities of the shake-up lines to main core levels of the Cu 2p orbitals. These differences were attributed to various degrees of XPS-induced reduction of CuO initially formed on the surface by spin coating copper(II) ac...

The surface electrocatalytic reactivity of noble metals, for instance Pt, has frequently been modified by alloying Pt with less noble metal atoms within the top surface and/or subsurface layer.1,2 Monolayers of pure Pt deposited on top of non-Pt substrates also showed significantly altered surface catalytic reactivity.3 Here, we report a distinctly different synthetic strategy to modify the sur...

The catalytic reduction of SO2 to elemental sulfur by methane was studied over ceria-based catalysts. Both La-doped and undoped ceria were found to catalyze the SO2 reduction by CH4 in the temperature range of 550–750◦C at atmospheric pressure and with feed gases containing a molar ratio of CH4/SO2 = 0.5–3. At temperatures below ∼550◦C, the catalyst surface is capped by SO2. The reaction light-...

This paper presents the results of a study on catalytic activity and selectivity nickel palladium catalysts in hydrogenation reactions nitro- acetylene compounds. It was shown that phenylacetylene depend nature modifying additives (Cu, Zn, Ti, Cr, Bi, Ti–Cu, Mn, Fe), based polymer metal complexes depends method their preparation. found for certain concentrations active phase (0.8 wt.%) potassiu...

Among the aromatic ketones, aceto phenone and its various substituted derivatives have been studied since early 20 century. This ketone can perform the self condensation reaction and produces trimmer having an aromat ic ring of 1,3,5-triphenyl benzene (T.P.B) with general fo rmula of C24H18. In this research, the compounds 1,3,5-triphenyl benzene and 1,3,5-tris (2-naphthyl) benzene are synthesi...

Specimen transfer under controlled environment conditions, such as temperature, pressure, and gas composition, is necessary to conduct successive complementary in situ characterization of materials sensitive to ambient conditions. The in situ transfer concept is introduced by linking an environmental transmission electron microscope to an in situ X-ray diffractometer through a dedicated transmi...

two-component reaction of 2-aminobenzophenones with acetylenic esters in the presence of γ-al2o3 and cu/zno as suitable heterogeneous catalysts has been studied. nano γ-al2o3 and cu/zno showed high activities when used as surface catalysts for the synthesis of quinoline derivatives. after completion of the reaction, the catalyst was recovered and reused several times under the same reaction con...

The successful production of higher hydrocarbons from methane depends on the stability or the oxidation rate of the intermediate products. The performance of the BZSM-5 and modified BZSM-5 catalyst were tested for ethylene conversion into higher hydrocarbons. The catalytic experiments were carried out in a fixed-bed micro reactor at atmospheric pressure. The catalysts were characterized using X...

First principles approach is used to examine geometric and electronic structure of the catalyst concept aimed to improve activity and utilization of precious Pt metal for oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells. The Pt monolayers on Pd skin and Pd1−xCux inner core for various compositions x were examined by building the appropriate models starting from Pd-Cu solid solution. We provided a detail...

We propose a novel technique of integrating silica nanowires to carbon microelectrode arrays on silicon substrates. The silica nanowires were grown on photoresist-derived three-dimensional carbon microelectrode arrays during carbonization of patterned photoresist in a tube furnace at 1000 °C under a gaseous environment of N(2) and H(2) in the presence of Cu catalyst, sputtered initially as a th...