Novel Catalyst Characterization Techniques II

Thursday, June 6, 2013: 3:40 PM-5:20 PM
Jones (Galt House Hotel)
Robert Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA and Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
3:40 PM
Ni/TiO2 and Ni/TiO2-Ce Catalysts: Crystalline Structure Refinements and Catalytic Properties for CO Oxidation by NO
Adolfo Romero-Galarza, Xiaoyin Chen and Johannes W. Schwank, University of Michigan, USA.
4:00 PM
Probing the Acidity of Nanoscale Domains with Single-molecule Spectroscopy in Mesoporous Si-Al Thin Films
Keith Hohn, Daniel Higgins and XiaoJiao Sun, Kansas State University, USA.
4:20 PM
FTIR Distinction of Internal and External Bronsted Acidic Sites on Zeolite Particles
Istvan Halasz1, Bjorn Moden2, Anton Petushkov2, Mukesh Agarwal1 and Jian-Jie Liang3, (1)PQ Corporation, USA, (2)Zeolyst International, USA, (3)Accelrys Inc., USA.
4:40 PM
Catalysis-Induced Dispersive Behavior of Individual Nanoparticles Probed at the Single Molecule Level
Venkataramanan Ravi, Kaushik Joshi, Adri van Duin, Peter Butler and Robert M. Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
5:00 PM
Ceria as Water-tolerant Lewis Acidic Catalyst in Hydrolysis Reaction
Feng Wang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China.