Supported catalysts are widely used in industry and can be optimized by tuning the composition and interface of the metal nanoparticles and oxide supports. Rational design of metal-metal oxide interfaces in nanostructured catalysts is critical to achieve better reaction activities and selectivities. We introduce here a new class of nanocrystal tandem catalysts that have multiple metal-metal oxi...

Decreasing the cost associated with platinum-based catalysts along with improving their catalytic properties is a major challenge for commercial direct methanol fuel cells. In this work, a simple and facile strategy was developed for the more efficient preparation of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) -supported Pt/CoPt composite nanoparticles (NPs) via solution plasma sputtering with subsequ...

Stringent regulations governing automobile exhaust emissions are due to come into force i n the United States. Johnson Matthey have undertaken the development of platinum-based catalytic reactors for control of these exhaust emissions. Two new types of catalyst have demonstrated the feasibility of exhaust control by catalytic means, nnd have been incorporated on test vehicles to achieve emissio...

Mukaiyama s classic catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction with enolsilanes has been improved upon over the years; now new approaches to the reaction have been developed. Those reviewed here are the use of new transition metal based catalysts for the aldol reaction using silyl enolates, the use of other O-silylated nucleophiles, tin-modified or even unmodified ketones as substrates, and the use of...

Fuel cells can directly convert chemical energy into electric energy with high conversion efficiency, high power density, quiet operation, and no pollution. Among many factors affecting the chemical-electrical energy conversion, oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on cathode is the pivot in fuel cell. This reaction is a kinetically slow process, which dominates the overall performance of a fuel cel...

heterogeneous ziegler-natta and homogeneous metallocene catalysts exhibit greatly different active sitenature in olefin polymerization. in our previous study, it was reported that mgcl2-supported titanocenecatalysts can generate both ziegler-natta-type and metallocene-type active sites according to the type of activators.the dual active site nature of the supported titanocene catalysts was furt...

A novel imido-modified SiO2-supported Ti/Mg Ziegler-Natta catalyst for ethylene and ethylene/1-hexene polymerization is investigated. The catalyst is prepared by modification of (SiO2/MgO/MgCl2)TiClx Ziegler-Natta catalysts via supporting vanadium species followed by reaction with p-tolyl isocyanate as imido agents, to get the merits from both the SiO2-supported imido vanadium catalyst and the ...

Carbon-supported Pt catalysts are highly active and reusable for the aqueous-phase hydrodeoxygenation of phenols as lignin models without adding any acids. It is suggested that Pt/carbon facilitates the hydrogenation of phenols and the hydrogenolysis of the resulting cyclohexanols.