Formaldehyde production using methanol and heterogeneous solid catalysts: A comprehensive review

HI Mahdi, NN Ramlee, DH da Silva Santos… - Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite formaldehyde's high toxicity, it has widespread demand worldwide due to its
applications in the synthesis of a plethora of important chemicals like urea-formaldehyde …

Operando methodology: combination of in situ spectroscopy and simultaneous activity measurements under catalytic reaction conditions

MA Bañares - Catalysis Today, 2005 - Elsevier
Operando spectroscopy is a methodology that combines the spectroscopic characterization
of a catalytic material during reaction with the simultaneous measurement of catalytic …

Molecular structures of supported metal oxide catalysts under different environments

MA Banares, IE Wachs - Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The use of in situ Raman spectroscopy to study the molecular structures of supported metal
oxide catalysts under different environments is reviewed. The molecular structures under …

Self-Supported Porous NiSe2 Nanowrinkles as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

J Zhang, Y Wang, C Zhang, H Gao, L Lv… - ACS sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Developing low cost, highly active, and stable bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water
splitting is significant for sustainable energy systems. Herein, we report the synthesis of …

Synergistic application of XPS and DFT to investigate metal oxide surface catalysis

QT Trinh, K Bhola, PN Amaniampong… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To investigate metal oxide surface catalysis, determining an appropriate Hubbard U-
correction term is a challenge for the density functional theory (DFT) community and …

Catalysis science of bulk mixed oxides

IE Wachs, K Routray - ACS Catalysis, 2012 - ACS Publications
Bulk mixed oxide catalysts are widely used for various applications (selective oxidation
catalysts, electrocatalysts for solid oxide fuel cells, and solid oxide electrolyzers for the …

Elucidating the role of Fe-Mo interactions in the metal oxide precursors for Fe promoted Mo/ZSM-5 catalysts in non-oxidative methane dehydroaromatization

MS Hossain, GS Dhillon, L Liu, A Sridhar… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Literature shows that adding Fe as a separate phase to MoO 3/ZSM-5 catalysts can improve
benzene selectivity in methane dehydroaromatization (MDA), but only when added in small …

Number of surface sites and turnover frequencies for oxide catalysts

IE Wachs - Journal of Catalysis, 2022 - Elsevier
Unlike for metal catalysts where selective chemisorption probes (H 2, O 2, CO and N 2 O)
have been successfully applied to count the number of active surface sites and allow …

Isopropanol oxidation by pure metal oxide catalysts: number of active surface sites and turnover frequencies

D Kulkarni, IE Wachs - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2002 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study was to determine the number of active surface sites and
their nature, redox or acidic, for bulk metal oxide catalysts using isopropanol as a chemical …

Molecular Structural Determination of Molybdena in Different Environments: Aqueous Solutions, Bulk Mixed Oxides, and Supported MoO3 Catalysts

H Tian, CA Roberts, IE Wachs - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - ACS Publications
UV− vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) and Raman spectroscopy were used to
examine the electronic and molecular structures, respectively, of well-defined Mo (VI) bulk …