Catalyst Design and Synthesis: Precious Metals I

Thursday, June 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM
Ballroom B (Galt House Hotel)
Anne M. Gaffney, AMG Chemistry and Catalysis Consulting and the Langmuir Research Institute, USA and Lin Luo, The Dow Chemical Company, USA.
1:30 PM
Pd-Impregnated Aminopolymer-Silica Materials As Hybrid Catalysts for the Selective Production of Olefins From Alkynes
Nicholas A. Brunelli, Wei Long, Stephanie Didas, Eric W. Ping and Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
1:50 PM
Controlled Manipulation of the CO Oxidation Rate Over Pt/Anatase Catalysts via the Schwab Effect
Y. P. Gavin Chua1,2, G. T. Kasun Kalhara Gunasooriya1, Mark Saeys1 and Edmund G. Seebauer2, (1)National University of Singapore, Singapore, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
2:10 PM
Designing Selective Catalysts for Synthesis Gas Conversion
Felix Studt1, Andrew J. Medford2, Burcin Temel3, Niels Christian Schjødt3, Adam C. Lausche1, Frank Abild-Pedersen1 and Jens K. Nørskov1,2, (1)SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA, (2)Stanford University, USA, (3)Haldor Topsøe A/S, Denmark.
2:30 PM
Influence of Structure and Electronic Properties of Ni-Zn Bimetallic Catalysts for Acetylene Semi-Hydrogenation
Charles Spanjers, Jacob Held, Michael Janik and Robert M. Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
2:50 PM
Preparation of Alumina Supported Ag-Ir Bimetallic Catalysts by Electroless Deposition for CO Oxidation
You-Jung Song1, John R. Monnier1, Paul T. Fanson2 and Christopher T. Williams1, (1)University of South Carolina, USA, (2)Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, USA.