OA13 Supported Cu, Ni and Bimetallic Cu/Ni Core Shell and Mixed Alloy Nanoparticles: Controlled Synthesis and Catalytic Activity in Water Gas-Shift Reaction

Monday, June 6, 2011: 4:00 PM
Cabot Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Jiann-Horng Lin, Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Vadim Guliants, Chemical Engineering and Energy and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
The fabrication and characterization of bimetallic core-shell nanoparticles smaller less than 10 nm remain highly challenging. Moreover, there is a dearth of systematic studies reporting the use of colloidal Cu, Ni and Cu/Ni nanoparticles in the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts.

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