Christopher J. Kiely

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the origin of the enhanced catalytic performance of bulk iron molybdate catalysts with excess crystalline MoO3 for methanol oxidation to formaldehyde.

TL;DR: It is shown that supercritical antisolvent precipitation using carbon dioxide, a process that exploits the high diffusion rates and solvation power of supercritical carbon dioxide to rapidly expand and supersaturate solutions, can be used to prepare copper/zinc hydroxycarbonate precursors with low sodium content.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated through a variety of applications to Au-Ag and Au-Pd bimetallic nanoparticle systems, that STEM-XEDS can provide invaluable high spatial resolution compositional information on alloy homogeneity and phase segregation effects within individual nanoparticles.

TL;DR: A systematic series of AuPd bimetallic particles were prepared by colloidal synthesis methods, in order to gain better control over the particle size distribution and structure, in an attempt to elucidate the optimum particle morphology/ support combination for each reaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, three vanadium phosphate catalysts were compared and contrasted for the selective oxidation of n-butane to maleic anhydride, and the morphology of the precursors and the final catalysts have been assessed using a combination of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), and {sup 31}P NMR spin-echo mapping.