Electron Microscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis / Edition 1

by P.L Gai, E.D Boyes

Overview

Catalysis is one of the most important technologies in the industrial world, controlling more than 90% of industrial chemical processes and essential for large-scale production of plastics and fuel. Exploring the most common type of catalysis used in industry, Electron Microscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis provides a coherent account of heterogeneous catalytic processes and catalyst surface structure at the atomic scale as elucidated by electron microscopy techniques.

The book addresses a number of issues that are fundamental to the understanding of heterogeneous catalysis by oxides and supported metals. The properties of a catalyst are governed by its microstructure and chemistry on an atomic scale, and electron microscopy methods are essential to directly analyze these properties. The book provides important information about active species, metastable-transient species, mechanisms of particle catalysis sintering, promoter-poisoning effects on an atomic scale, and catalyst support interactions on a microscale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750308090
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/14/2003
Series:	Series in Microscopy in Materials Science
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

P L Gai, DuPont, Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE, USA and University of Delaware, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Newark, USA, formerly at the University of Cambridge E D Boyes, DuPont, Central Research and Development, Wilmington, USA (and formerly University of Oxford).

Table of Contents

Preface 1 An introduction to heterogeneous catalysis 2 Electron microscopy and diffraction in heterogeneous catalysis and environmental SEM (ESEM) 3 Electron microscopy studies of catalysis by oxides 4 Catalysis by zeolites and molecular sieves 5 Catalysis by supported small metal particles 6 Environmental catalysis and catalyst design

Editorial Reviews

"This book deals with in situ dynamic observation and analysis of heterogeneous catalysis using environmental cells (EC) in transmission (TEM) and scanning electron microscopes (SEM). In general, it is based on outstanding and unique works carried out by the authors themselves over the past three decades, who pioneered this key enabling area of materials science. It provides comprehensive and yet compact introductions to heterogeneous catalysis and electron microscopy and diffraction, followed by detailed descriptions of electron microscopy studies of oxide catalysis, zeolites, molecular sieves, supported small metal particles, and environmental catalysis. For those who are carrying out in situ dynamic studies of catalysis using EC in TEM and/or SEM, this book gives a state-of-the-art review of this field. More importantly, this book encourages those catalysis students and electron microscopists who are planning to perform in situ dynamic studies of catalysis."
-Professor Hiroyasu Saka, Nagoya University, Japan

"P.L. Gai and E.D. Boyes have produced an authoritative text … [that is] indispensable if this is your subject."
-P. Hawkes, Ultramicroscopy 101 (2004): 73-103

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