Catalyst Characterization: Physical Techniques for Solid Materials

✍ Scribed by B. Imelik, J. C. Vedrine (auth.), Boris Imelik, Jacques C. Vedrine (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 720
• Series: Fundamental and Applied Catalysis
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
General Introduction....Pages 1-10
Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 11-44
Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 45-60
Electronic Spectroscopy....Pages 61-89
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Heterogeneous Catalysis....Pages 91-129
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Principles and Applications to Catalysis....Pages 131-179
Ferromagnetic Resonance....Pages 181-214
Mössbauer Spectroscopy — Nuclear Gamma Resonance....Pages 215-246
Auger Electron Spectroscopy....Pages 247-270
Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy....Pages 271-289
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry....Pages 291-319
Ion Scattering Spectroscopy....Pages 321-346
Applications of Neutron Scattering to Catalysis....Pages 347-375
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: EXAFS and XANES....Pages 377-416
Determination of the Atomic Structure of Solid Catalysts by X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 417-444
Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering....Pages 445-465
Photoelectron Spectroscopies: XPS and UPS....Pages 467-496
Photoelectron Diffraction and Surface Crystallography....Pages 497-507
Characterization of Catalysts by Conventional and Analytical Electron Microscopy....Pages 509-558
Applications of Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Heterogeneous Catalysis....Pages 559-584
Magnetic Measurements and Catalysis....Pages 585-609
Thermal Methods: Calorimetry, Differential Thermal Analysis, and Thermogravimetry....Pages 611-650
Mass Spectrometry: Principles and Applications in Catalysis....Pages 651-674
Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopies....Pages 675-687
Final Remarks....Pages 689-694
Back Matter....Pages 695-702

✦ Subjects

Catalysis; Analytical Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Inorganic Chemistry