Nanoparticle Catalysts

Monday, June 15, 2015: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM
403-405 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Jingyue Liu, Arizona State University, USA and Justin M. Notestein, Northwestern University, USA.
1:30 PM
Au Pd-Based Nanoreactors: Effect of Pd and Shell on the Reaction Mechanism of the 4-Nitrophenol Reduction
Brenda Acosta1, Viridiana Evangelista1, Serguei Miridonov2 and Andrey Simakov3, (1)Centro de Investigacion Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico, (2)Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico, (3)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico.
1:50 PM
Palladium Nanoparticles Intercalated in Mesoporous Silica As a Robust Catalyst System
Yazhou Ji, Martin Menart, Jeremy Leong and Ryan Richards, Colorado School of Mines, USA.
2:10 PM
 Keynote 
Amine-Functionalized Siloxane Oligomer Facilitated Synthesis of Subnanometer Colloidal Au Particles
Zhen Wang1, Evgeny Beletskiy1, Sungsik Lee2, Xianliang Hou1, Yuyang Wu1, Tiehu Li3, Harold H. Kung1 and Mayfair Kung1, (1)Northwestern University, USA, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, USA, (3)Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
2:50 PM
A Single-Source Molecular Precursor Approach for the Synthesis of Metal Phosphide Nanoparticles and Their Evaluation As Hdo Catalysts
Daniel Ruddy, Susan Habas, Frederick Baddour, Ming Pan, Jesse Hensley and Joshua Schaidle, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA.