Early Transition Metal Oxides as Catalysts: Crossing Scales from Clusters to Single Crystals to Functioning Materials
EMSL Project ID
35599
Abstract
Current commercial heterogeneous catalysts are structurally and chemically complex and measurements on them can seldom be interpreted with atomic-level precision. This is especially so for supported transition metal oxide (TMO) catalysts, materials that find applications in a wide-array of industrially important hydrocarbon transformations as well as selective catalytic reduction of NOx. In this program funded by DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences/Chemical Sciences (BES/CS) in their Catalysis and Chemical Transformations program, seek to decrease the structural and functional complexity of transition metal oxide (TMO) catalysts to levels addressable and controllable at the atomic level, while maintaining intimate and relevant linkages to practical catalytic materials and reactions. In this way, the program is helping DOE reach its stated goals of performing fundamental science to address the energy needs of the country by improving energy conservation through new means of energy conversion and storage, by enabling direct chemical conversions previously economically unfeasible and producing new routes to novel materials while concurrently minimizing by-products, and by minimizing the environment impact of energy production and use. This multi-institutional and multi-PI program was initially funded by DOE/BES/CS in September of 2003 at a stable funding level of ~1.7M/year via a call for proposals to advance Catalysis Science and a subsequent extensive peer-review process. It was recently renewed following a March 2009 external renewal proposal review and on-site panel review of the program's progress and future plans. Details are contained in the initial and renewal proposals. In the following EMSL proposal, we briefly describe our program's objectives, research approach, and EMSL facilities needed for carrying out this DOE-funded research.
Project Details
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Start Date
2009-10-01
End Date
2012-09-30
Status
Closed
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