Catalyst Characterization: Physical Techniques for Solid Materials / Edition 1

by Boris Imelik, Jacques C. Vedrine

Overview

to the Fundamental and Applied Catalysis Series Catalysis is important academically and industrially. It plays an essential role in the manufacture of a wide range of products, from gasoline and plastics to fertilizers and herbicides, which would otherwise be unobtainable or prohibitive­ ly expensive. There are few chemical-or oil-based material items in modern society that do not depend in some way on a catalytic stage in their manufacture. Apart from manufacturing processes, catalysis is finding other important and over-increasing uses; for example, successful applications of catalysis in the control ofpollution and its use in environmental control are certain to in crease in the future. The commercial import an ce of catalysis and the diverse intellectual challenges of catalytic phenomena have stimulated study by a broad spectrum of scientists including chemists, physicists, chemical engineers, and material scientists. Increasing research activity over the years has brought deeper levels of understanding, and these have been associated with a continually growing amount of published material. As recentlyas sixty years ago, Rideal and Taylor could still treat the subject comprehensively in a single volume, but by the 19 50s Emmett required six volumes, and no conventional multivolume text could now cover the whole of catalysis in any depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306439506
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/30/1994
Series:	Fundamental and Applied Catalysis
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	702
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. General Introduction.- 2. Infrared Spectroscopy.- 3. Raman Spectroscopy.- 4. Electronic Spectroscopy.- 5. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- 6. Electron Paramagetic Resonance: Principles and Applications to Catalysis.- 7. Ferromagnetic Resonance.- 8. Mössbauer Spectroscopy — Nuclear Gamma Resonance.- 9. Auger Electron Spectroscopy.- 10. Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy.- 11. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry.- 12. Ion Scattering Spectroscopy.- 13. Applications of Neutron Scattering to Catalysis.- 14. X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: Exafs and Xanes.- 15. Determination of the Atomic Structure of Solid Catalysts by X-Ray Diffraction.- 16. Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering.- 17. Photoelectron Spectroscopies: XPS and UPS.- 18. Photoelectron Diffraction and Surface Crystallography.- 19. Characterization of Catalysts by Conventional and Analytical Electron Microscopy.- 20. Applications of Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Heterogeneous Catalysts.- 21. Magnetic Measurements and Catalysis.- 22. Thermal Methods: Calorimetry, Differential Thermal Analysis, and Thermogravimetry.- 23. Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Applications in Catalysis.- 24. Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopies.- 25. Final Remarks.

Editorial Reviews

A text that presents all the techniques used in catalysis and discusses in detail those whose recent developments appear to be promising, including electron microscopy, X-ray radial electronic distribution, XANES (X-ray-absorption near edge structure), STM (scanning tunnel microscopy), AFM (atomic force microscopy), and EXAFS (extended X-ray adsorption fine structure). The techniques presented are especially adapted to solid materials, but selected examples from homogeneous catalysis, in particular in IR and NMR spectroscopies, are included. The intention is not to present an exhaustive list of the results obtained with each technique, but to describe the technique, to explain its theoretical basis, to define its field of application, and by means of some examples to analyze objectively the validity of the results obtained. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\

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