P-Tu-B-26 Influencing the Reactivity of Porous SiO2 and WO3 Catalysts with Gold Nanoparticles

Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)
Daniel P. DePuccio1, Lidia Ruiz-Rodriguez2, Pablo Botella2, Jose M. Lopez Nieto2 and Christopher C. Landry1, (1)University of Vermont, USA, (2)Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV-CSIC), Spain.
Gold nanoparticles and WO3 were deposited within porous silica to form active methanol transformation catalysts. The gold nanoparticles caused more facile WO3 reduction, which influenced catalyst activity and selectivity. Dehydration of methanol was observed over WO3, while greatly reducing combustion. Oxidation to formaldehyde occurred over gold and WO3 co-doped catalysts.

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