Advances in Heterogeneous Catalysts
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 7159
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogov Street, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Interests: supported catalysts; porous materials; nanocomposites; sols; nanoparticles; crude oils; methods characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heterogeneous catalysts are one of the oldest and most important branches in the science of catalysis. Large-tonnage processes such as petroleum industry, fertilizers and polymers production and other chemicals make great use of heterogeneous catalysts. Therefore, industrially significant reactions constantly need new generations of heterogeneous catalysts with ever-higher performance compared to their predecessors. Ensuring the progress of their development often requires knowledge from different areas which, at first sight, are loosely related to each other—for example, the stability of colloidal metal nanoparticles in solution and the formation of ordered porous oxide materials with a high specific surface area; segregation processes in various alloys and partial oxidation reactions of hydrocarbons; and the formation of defects in the structure of solids and the adsorption processes on the different types of metal faces. Using different relationships from various areas of knowledge, researchers are able to both improve existing catalytic systems and create completely new catalysts for new reactions. In addition, the development of physical methods for nanomaterials investigation makes it possible to better understand the fine details of various structural and electronic interactions within them, which can be very important for tuning their catalytic properties. On this basis, this Special Issue titled “Advances in Heterogeneous Catalysts” is devoted to the preparation of heterogeneous catalysts, their study using physical methods, as well as the search for various relationships that affect the structure of materials and their catalytic properties. Non-standard and unusual systems are welcome, as well as methods and approaches for interpreting data.
Dr. Yurii V. Larichev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal catalysts
- oxide catalysts
- catalytic reactions
- functional materials
- nanoparticles
- defect structure
- methods characterization
- sol–gel
- in situ
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