SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND KINETIC EVALUATION OF PLANAR AND SUPPORTED HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS

An integrated approach for biomass upgrading to fuels requires catalyst synthesis, characterization, and kinetic evaluation. The work was divided in three areas, 1-preparation and characterization of model catalysts containing metal oxide overcoats and metal nanoparticles synthesized by atomic layer deposition (ALD), a gas-phase material deposition technique, 2-the study of structure sensitivity for formic acid decomposition on planar Pt catalysts, and 3-characterization of bimetallic Pt-M (M = Re, Mo) catalysts using surface sensitive techniques and theory.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Chemical Engineering

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Detwiler, Michael D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fabio H Ribeiro
• W. N Delgass
• Jeffrey P Greeley
• Dmitry Y Zemlyanov

• Atomic Layer Deposition
• Formic Acid Decomposition
• Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Model Catalyst
• Single Crystal
• Surface Science

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1349

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2565