Fundamentals of Bimetallic Catalysts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 9:40 AM-12:00 PM
301-303 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Zdenek Dohnalek, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
9:40 AM
Furfural Hydrogenation on Thiolate-Modified Mono- and Bimetallic Heterogeneous Catalysts
Simon H. Pang and J. Will Medlin, University of Colorado, USA.
10:00 AM
Monitoring the Structural and Electronic Changes of Cobalt Oxide and Promoted Cobalt Oxide Catalysts during (Preferential) CO Oxidation
Liliana Lukashuk, Elisabeth Kolar, Christoph Rameshan, Karin Föttinger and Günther Rupprechter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
10:20 AM
Gold Catalyzed Propene Epoxidation – a Study in Catalytic Activity and Reaction Mechanism
Shamayita Kanungo, T. Alexander Nijhuis and Jaap Schouten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
10:40 AM
Importance of Metal-Oxide and Metal-Carbide Interfaces in the Activation of CO2: Novel Catalysts for Methanol Synthesis
Jose A. Rodriguez1, Dario Stacchiola1, Sanjaya D. Senanayake1, Ping Liu1, Jaime Evans2, Jesus Graciani3, Javier F. Sanz3, Francesc Vines4 and Francesc Illas4, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, (2)Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela, (3)Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, (4)Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
11:00 AM
Single Molecule Level Studies of Resazurin Reduction on the Surface of Au Nanoparticles
Zhifeng Chen and Robert Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
11:20 AM
Kinetics and Mechanism of Direct Synthesis of H2O2 on Pd and PdAu Clusters at Steady-State
Neil Wilson and David Flaherty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
11:40 AM
Au, Ag and Au-Ag Catalysts Supported on SBA15 for the Selective Hydrogenation of Butadiene
Nazila Masoud1, Laurent Delannoy2, Krijn P. de Jong1, Catherine Louis2 and Petra E. de Jongh1, (1)Utrecht University, Netherlands, (2)UPMC, France.