We report a study of the oxidation of CO on a gold nanotip in the presence of high electrostatic fields. With the binding energies obtained using density functional theory as a function of the electric field, a simple field-dependent kinetic model based on the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism is set up. We show that the dissociative adsorption of oxygen on gold happens only below a negative criti...

The ubiquity of oleic acid (OA) renders it a poster child for laboratory investigations of environmental oxidation chemistry. In the current study, mechanistic details of the oxidation of OA by hydroxyl radicals at the air-water interface are investigated using field-induced droplet ionization mass spectrometry (FIDI-MS). Products from OH oxidation of both unsaturated and saturated carbon atoms...

MXenes have attracted considerable attention owing to their versatile and excellent physicochemical properties. Especially, they potential applications as robust support for single atom catalysts. Here, quantum chemical studies with density functional theory are carried out systematically investigate the geometries, stability, electronic properties of oxygen functionalized Ti2C (Ti2CO2) support...

in this research degradation and mineralization of ortho-toluidine (ot) in the wastewater of petrochemical industries was investigated by uv/tio 2 process in a batch recirculating photo reactor. the influence of different variables such as initial ph, amount of tio 2 and initial concentration of ot on the reaction rate was investigated. in optimum conditions (1.75 g/l of catalyst, ph at 7 and i...

In this paper, we show that the onset potential for CO oxidation electrocatalyzed by ∼2 nm dendrimer-encapsulated Pt nanoparticles (Pt DENs) is shifted negative by ∼300 mV in the presence of a small percentage (<2%) of Cu surface atoms. Theory and experiments suggest that the catalytic enhancement arises from a cocatalytic Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism in which the small number of Cu atoms sel...

Monodispersed Pd-nanoparticles (∼ 8 nm) prepared via a modified microemulsion method were deposited on active carbon fibers (ACF) fabrics and studied in a semi-batch 1-hexyne liquid-phase hydrogenation. The catalyst Pd(0.45 wt%)/ACF demonstrated > 96% selectivity to 1-hexene up to 90% of conversion. Initial activity at 303 K, 1.3 MPa pressure, in n-heptane as a solvent was 0.14 kmolH2 kg −1 Pd ...

The possible causes and correlates of such difficulty have been the focus of a great deal of theorizing since before the turn of the twentieth century, when W. Pringle Morgan (1896) described a 14-year-old boy named Percy who suffered from pronounced difficulty learning to read and spell, despite normal achievement in other academic areas. Because he could find no evidence of definitive brain i...

Pt/Zr(x)-HMS/HZSM-5 catalysts with various Si/Zr ratios (as x) were used for investigation of the kinetics of n-heptane reforming process under 350 - 450 oC reaction temperature, 35 to 80 ml min-1 flowing rate of hydrogen and 2 to 5 ml h-1 flowing rate of n-heptane. In the present work, two kinetics (power law and Langmuir - Hinshelwood) models were selected and examined to describe the kinetic...