Catalyst Characterization: Zeolites

Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 3:40 PM-5:20 PM
408-410 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, Netherlands and Phillip Christopher, University of California Riverside, USA.
3:40 PM
 Keynote 
Role of the Density of Zeolite Defects in the Instability of Zeolites in Hot Liquid Water
Daniel E. Resasco1, Lu Zhang1, Jeffrey White2, Kuizhi Chen2 and Chen Banghao3, (1)University of Oklahoma, USA, (2)Oklahoma State University, USA, (3)Florida State University, USA.
4:20 PM
4:40 PM
Hyperpolarization NMR Methods for the Characterization of Isolated Lewis Acid Sites in Zeolites
William Gunther, Vladimir Michaelis, Robert Griffin and Yuriy Roman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
5:00 PM
3-D Quantification of Zeolite Delamination on the Nanoscale Using Electron Tomography in the STEM
Ilke Arslan1, Toby Sanders1,2, Ron Runnebaum3, Xiaoying Ouyang3, Bruce C. Gates4, Stacey Zones3,5 and Alexander Katz3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, (2)University of South Carolina, , (3)University of California, Berkeley, USA, (4)University of California, Davis, USA, (5)Chevron Energy Technology Company, USA.