Johnson Matthey technology wins award

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Weight: 35 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(05)71195-8

✦ Synopsis

Workers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne have made molybdenum disulfide catalyst particles by a new process which improves their catalytic activity. Droplets of aqueous ammonium tetrathiomolybdate and colloidal silica are sprayed into a furnace, The product is leached with hydrofluoric acid which removes the silica, leaving particles of highly active molybdenum disulfide.