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Catalysts, Volume 6, Issue 3

March 2016 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,216 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2016

Five new iron(III) 1-hexene polymerisation catalysts were prepared from the reactions of 2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-(2-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)ethylimino)methylphenol (L1), or 4-tert-butyl-6-(2-(1H-imidazol-4-yl)ethylimino)methylphenol (L2) or 2,4-di-tert-butyl-6...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,268 Views
10 Pages

Formic Acid Modified Co3O4-CeO2 Catalysts for CO Oxidation

  • Ruishu Shang,
  • Yiping Duan,
  • Xinyan Zhong,
  • Wei Xie,
  • Yan Luo and
  • Lihong Huang

17 March 2016

A formic acid modified catalyst, Co3O4-CeO2, was prepared via facile urea-hydrothermal method and applied in CO oxidation. The Co3O4-CeO2-0.5 catalyst, treated by formic acid at 0.5 mol/L, performed better in CO oxidation with T50 obtained at 69.5 °C...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,630 Views
14 Pages

Mechanistic Investigation of the Reduction of NOx over Pt- and Rh-Based LNT Catalysts

  • Lukasz Kubiak,
  • Lidia Castoldi,
  • Luca Lietti,
  • Stanislava Andonova and
  • Louise Olsson

15 March 2016

The influence of the noble metals (Pt vs. Rh) on the NOx storage reduction performances of lean NOx trap catalysts is here investigated by transient micro-reactor flow experiments. The study indicates a different behavior during the storage in that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,162 Views
12 Pages

14 March 2016

Due to its excellent conductivity, good thermal stability and large specific surface area, carbon nano-tubes (CNTs) were selected as support to prepare a Re-based catalyst for dimethyl ether (DME) direct oxidation to polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,563 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2016

The performance of Ni-Cu/Al2O3 catalysts for steam reforming (SR) of gasoline to produce a hydrogen-rich gas mixture applied in a spark ignition (SI) engine was investigated at relatively low temperature. The structural and morphological features and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,709 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Porphyrin Molecular Structure on Water Splitting Activity of a KTaO3 Photocatalyst

  • Hidehisa Hagiwara,
  • Kohei Higashi,
  • Motonori Watanabe,
  • Ryota Kakigi,
  • Shintaro Ida and
  • Tatsumi Ishihara

10 March 2016

Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the ideal methods for solving the global energy crisis and its associated environmental problems. In this study, the effect of altering the molecular structure of porphyrins was investigated to improve the wat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,719 Views
10 Pages

Vanadium Oxide Supported on MSU-1 as a Highly Active Catalyst for Dehydrogenation of Isobutane with CO2

  • Guosong Sun,
  • Qingze Huang,
  • Shiyong Huang,
  • Qiuping Wang,
  • Huiquan Li,
  • Haitao Liu,
  • Shijie Wan,
  • Xuewang Zhang and
  • Jinshu Wang

9 March 2016

Vanadium oxide supported on MSU-1, with VOx loading ranging from 2.5 to 17.5 wt. %, was developed as a highly active catalyst in dehydrogenation of isobutane with CO2. The obtained catalysts of VOx/MSU-1 were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD),...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
11,981 Views
27 Pages

8 March 2016

The aim of the present work was to investigate steam reforming of ethanol with regard to H2 production over transition metal catalysts supported on CeO2. Various parameters concerning the effect of temperature (400–800 °C), steam-to-carbon (S/C) feed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,144 Views
12 Pages

8 March 2016

This study aims to demonstrate the coordination of oxygen regarding the hemophore HasApf expressed by Escherichia coli cells, which appears to create an unlikely oxygen-activating system in HasA due to the already-coordinated iron. In the asymmetric...

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