▪ Abstract The powerful computational resources available to scientists today, together with
recent improvements in electronic structure calculation algorithms, are providing important …

X-ray emission spectroscopy applied to surface adsorbates is an experimental technique
that provides an atom-specific projection of the electronic structure. In combination with …

The influence of cobalt particle size in the range of 2.6− 27 nm on the performance in
Fischer− Tropsch synthesis has been investigated for the first time using well-defined …

Evidence from density functional theory calculations that the main reaction pathway for the
Fischer− Tropsch process on Co {0001} is not the carbide mechanism but an alternative …

How do your crystallites grow? DFT calculations and experiments show that potassium
promoter (K 2 O) modifies the crystallographic orientation in catalysts in favor of the …

The adsorption and activation of CO over flat Co {0001}, corrugated Co {112̄0}, and
stepped Co {101̄2} and Co {112̄4} surfaces have been analyzed using periodic density …

1.1 Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis.–Franz Fischer, head of the Max-Planck Institut fur
Kohlenforschung in Mulheim (Germany) and Hans Tropsch, a co-worker of Fischer and …

Cobalt on carbon nanofiber model catalysts with very small dispersed cobalt particles of 5
nm were subjected to H2O/H2 treatments at 20 bar and 220° C. Using in situ Mossbauer …

400 ppm of CO2 was captured with Ru/K2CO3 on K-β ″alumina at 30° C and was
transformed into CH4 successfully when the temperature was increased to 300° C. K-β …

The heterogeneously catalysed Fischer–Tropsch (FT) synthesis converts syngas (CO+ H2)
into long chain hydrocarbons and is a key step in the economically important transformation …