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Catalysts, Volume 7, Issue 5

May 2017 - 41 articles

Cover Story: The search for an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) made of Earth-abundant elements is an ongoing challenge. New electrocatalytic systems made from non-precious metals were synthesized by modifying the layered inorganic nanomaterial zirconium phosphate (ZrP) with first-row transition metals. The direct intercalation of these metals was achieved by direct ion exchange with a hydrated phase of ZrP. A second system in which the metals are adsorbed on the surface of the ZrP nanoparticles was also examined for the OER in alkaline solution. Both systems are active for the OER; the surface adsorbed one showed better performance. View this paper
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Articles (41)

  • Feature Paper
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
64 Citations
6,546 Views
11 Pages

22 May 2017

Schiff base macrocycles are emerging as useful scaffolds for binding two or more catalytic metals in close proximity. Such coordination chemistry allows for the evaluation of potentially beneficial catalytic cooperative effects. In the field of ring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,665 Views
9 Pages

Catalytic Decomposition of N2O over Cu–Zn/ZnAl2O4 Catalysts

  • Xiaoying Zheng,
  • Runhu Zhang,
  • Fang Bai and
  • Chao Hua

22 May 2017

The catalytic decomposition of N2O was investigated over Cu-Zn/ZnAl2O4 catalysts in the temperature range of 400–650 °C Catalytic samples have been prepared by wet impregnation method. Prepared catalysts were characterized using several techniques li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,806 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2017

An advanced oxidation process (AOP) utilizing immobilized zinc oxide (ZnO) photocatalyst was employed to decolorize and mineralize orange G (OG) azo dye in wastewater under solar and visible light irradiation. This AOP employed visible light and ZnO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,609 Views
12 Pages

Cellulose with a High Fractal Dimension Is Easily Hydrolysable under Acid Catalysis

  • Mariana Díaz,
  • Magali Hernández,
  • Ilich A. Ibarra,
  • Ariel Guzmán,
  • Victor Lara and
  • Enrique Lima

19 May 2017

The adsorption of three diverse amino acids couples onto the surface of microcrystalline cellulose was studied. Characterisation of modified celluloses included changes in the polarity and in roughness. The amino acids partially break down the hydrog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,139 Views
12 Pages

Catalytic Processes for Utilizing Carbohydrates Derived from Algal Biomass

  • Sho Yamaguchi,
  • Ken Motokura,
  • Kan Tanaka and
  • Sousuke Imamura

19 May 2017

The high productivity of oil biosynthesized by microalgae has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Due to the application of such oils in jet fuels, the algal biosynthetic pathway toward oil components has been extensively researched. Howe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
17,516 Views
33 Pages

Process Simulation for the Design and Scale Up of Heterogeneous Catalytic Process: Kinetic Modelling Issues

  • Antonio Tripodi,
  • Matteo Compagnoni,
  • Rocco Martinazzo,
  • Gianguido Ramis and
  • Ilenia Rossetti

18 May 2017

Process simulation represents an important tool for plant design and optimization, either applied to well established or to newly developed processes. Suitable thermodynamic packages should be selected in order to properly describe the behavior of re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,445 Views
20 Pages

Catalytic Behaviour of CuO-CeO2 Systems Prepared by Different Synthetic Methodologies in the CO-PROX Reaction under CO2-H2O Feed Stream

  • Juan Antonio Cecilia,
  • Ana Arango-Díaz,
  • Jaasiel Marrero-Jerez,
  • Pedro Núñez,
  • Elisa Moretti,
  • Loretta Storaro and
  • Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón

18 May 2017

CuO-CeO2 catalysts, with 6 wt % of Cu, have been synthesised by different preparation methods (calcination of nitrate precursors, thermal urea-nitrate combustion, freeze-drying method, using polymethyl metacrylate PMMA microspheres as template and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,013 Views
16 Pages

Reactivity of Copper Electrodes towards Functional Groups and Small Molecules in the Context of CO2 Electro-Reductions

  • Bernhard Schmid,
  • Christian Reller,
  • Sebastian S. Neubauer,
  • Maximilian Fleischer,
  • Romano Dorta and
  • Guenter Schmid

18 May 2017

The direct electro-reduction of CO2 to functional molecules like ethene is a highly desirable variant of CO2 utilization. The formation of, for example, ethene from CO2 is a multistep electrochemical process going through various intermediates. As th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,439 Views
17 Pages

Development of Active and Stable Low Nickel Content Catalysts for Dry Reforming of Methane

  • Quan Luu Manh Ha,
  • Udo Armbruster,
  • Hanan Atia,
  • Matthias Schneider,
  • Henrik Lund,
  • Giovanni Agostini,
  • Jörg Radnik,
  • Huyen Thanh Vuong and
  • Andreas Martin

16 May 2017

Methane dry reforming (DRM) was investigated over highly active Ni catalysts with low metal content (2.5 wt %) supported on Mg-Al mixed oxide. The aim was to minimize carbon deposition and metal sites agglomeration on the working catalyst which are k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,695 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Dissolved Ions on the Water Purification Performance of TiO2-Impregnated Porous Silica Tubes

  • Mio Hayashi,
  • Tsuyoshi Ochiai,
  • Shoko Tago,
  • Hiromasa Tawarayama,
  • Toshifumi Hosoya,
  • Tsukaho Yahagi and
  • Akira Fujishima

16 May 2017

TiO2-coated porous silica glass tubes containing macropores were fabricated and evaluated for their water-purification capacity using aqueous solutions of methylene blue. From the results of photocatalytic degradation tests at different initial methy...

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