Spectroscopic Characterization of Catalysts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 9:40 AM-12:00 PM
408-410 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Johannes W. Schwank, University of Michigan, USA and Eranda Nikolla, Wayne state university, USA.
10:00 AM
Atomic-Scale Characterization of Bimetallic Catalysts
Cecile Bonifacio1, Huolin Xin2, Sophie Carenco3, Miquel Salmeron3, Franklin Tao4, Eric Stach2 and Judith Yang1, (1)University of Pittsburgh, USA, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, (4)University of Kansas, USA.
10:20 AM
Investigating the Aluminum Chemistry of Individual Zeolite Domains in Single FCC Particles Using Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy
Sam Kalirai1, Santosh Soparawalla2, Jian Wang3, Gerbrand Mesu2, Florian Meirer1 and Bert M. Weckhuysen1, (1)Utrecht University, Netherlands, (2)Albemarle Corporation, USA, (3)Canadian Light Source Inc, Canada.
10:40 AM
Illuminating Surface Atoms in Nanoclusters By Differential X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Charles Spanjers and Robert Rioux, Pennsylvania State University, USA.
11:00 AM
Bridging Catalytic Disciplines: X-Ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy
Matthias Bauer and Lukas Burkhardt, University of Paderborn, Germany.
11:20 AM
Operando Spatially- and Time-Resolved XAS and Valence-to-Core-Xes to Study the Mechanism of the NH3-SCR over Fe- and Cu-Zeolites
Dmitry Doronkin, Tobias Günter, Hudson Wallace Pereira de Carvalho, Alexey Boubnov, Maria Casapu and Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.
11:40 AM
Localized Vibrational Spectroscopy on Catalytic Nanoparticles with Focused Electron Beams
Peter Crozier, Toshihiro Aoki, Qianlang Liu and Liuxian Zhang, Arizona State University, USA.