Advances in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 3663
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiscale modeling; density functional theory; kinetic Monte Carlo; computational fluid dynamics; thermodynamics; reaction kinetics; microkinetics; transport phenomena; heat transfer; mass transfer; fluid mechanics; unit operations; separations
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that more than 90% of commercial chemical products involve catalytic processes in at least one step of their manufacture. Despite the ubiquitous use of catalytic processes, further demand for energy sources, chemical building blocks, fine chemicals, food processing and waste treatment (exhaust gases, wastewaters, solid wastes) is pushing material scientists and chemical engineers to develop new catalyst materials and corresponding processes. Primarily, catalyst evolution reflects in higher activity and long-term stability of materials, as well as in higher selectivity of catalysts towards desired products.
Some of the greatest technological challenges of a mankind involve the development of novel catalytic processes, specifically:
- The valorization of captured CO2 into platform chemicals and energy vectors;
- The valorization of CH4 that is commonly flared at small or temporary sources;
- The valorization of biomass to yield value-added chemicals;
- Environmental pollution abatement;
- Fuel-cells (oxygen evolution and reduction reactions);
- Enzymatic conversions.
This Special Issue will feature articles that cover topics related to materials preparation, engineering, functionalization, activation and characterization of materials, and particularly, experimental and theoretical investigations of their themo-, photo-, electro-, bio- or organocatalytic activity. Material science and chemical engineering nexus is particularly encouraged.
We invite you to submit review articles, original research papers and communications for this Special Issue before the end of January 2020.
Prof. Dr. Blaž Likozar
Dr. Miha Grilc
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heterogeneous catalysis
- homogeneous catalysis
- photocatalysis
- electrocatalysis
- organocatalysis
- characterization
- chemisorption and physisorption
- kinetics and mass transfer
- reaction mechanisms and pathways
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