Invited Paper HC+SS-TuA3
The Molecular Surface Chemistry Approach to Heterogeneous Catalysts

Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 3:00 pm, Room 201A

The traditional route to solid catalyst materials involves solution phase deposition or liquid-surface reactions. Examples include impregnation, deposition-precipitation, and solution phase grafting of molecular precursors. Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a gas-solid deposition methodology having enormous potential for the synthesis of advanced heterogeneous catalysts with control of composition and structure at the atomic scale. The ability of ALD to produce conformal oxide coatings on porous, high-surface area materials can provide completely new types of catalyst supports. At the same time ALD can achieve highly uniform catalytically active metal and oxide phases with (sub-) nanometer dimensions. This lecture will provide examples from the laboratories at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory of ALD used to synthesize oxide supports, catalytic oxide overlayers, single-site catalysts, metal nanoparticles, and new porous structures.