OD20 Novel Nanometer and Sub-Nanometer Size Catalysts for Oxidative and Non-Oxidative Dehydrogenation

Tuesday, June 7, 2011: 10:40 AM
Ambassador Ballroom 1 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Stefan Vajda1, Sungsik Lee2, Marcel Di Vece3, Chunrong Yin4, Byeongdu Lee4, Sönke Seifert4, Randall E. Winans5, Larry A. Curtiss6, Glen. A. Ferguson7, Jeffrey Greeley8, Qiang Qian9, Matthew Neurock10, Rui Si11, Brian Ricks11, Simone Goergen12, Maria Flytzani--Stephanopoulos11, Gary L. Haller13, Xiaoming Wang14 and Lisa D. Pfefferle14, (1)Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University, Argonne, IL, (2)X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (3)Yale University, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, IL, (5)X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (6)Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (7)Materials Science Division & Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (8)Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (9)University of Virginia, VA, (10)Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (11)Tufts University, (12)Tufts University, MA, (13)Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, (14)Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dehydrogenation of cyclohexane was performed on subnanometer and few nanometer size platinum- and cobalt-based catalysts. The activity and selectivity was dependent of  the composition and functionalization of the support material, the size and doping of the nanocatalyst. DFT calculations provided important insight into the structure, stability and energetics of clusters.

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