D Catalytic Materials
Description / Outline
New and more efficient catalytic materials
Combination of highest selectivity and reactivity with robustness, synthetic availability, and ease of processing
Research Area D deals with the development of advanced catalytic
materials focusing on three demonstrator applications in selective C-
C-coupling and C-C-cleavage reactions. For these applications, the full
research chain from the design of individual catalytic centers on the
molecular level to an almost technical, pilot-plant scenario is
established, including material design, characterization, synthesis, and
production as well as reaction engineering studies up to pilot-plant
scale.
- Hierarchical, acidic materials
displaying a “Lotus flower effect” for catalytic cracking applications
(designer surface structures to influence coke formation processes)
- Hierarchical
catalytic materials displaying multi-functionality and
surface-structure-induced selectivity pattern in C-C-couplings are
designed, synthesized, and tested in continuous miniplants (combining
complementary catalytic functionalities at the nanoscale with a maximum
degree of structural control to influence the regioselectivity in
oligomerisation reaction of alkenes)
- Catalyst deposition and
immobilization on photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) developed in Research
Area C. Bundles of these catalytic optical fibers/catalysts assembly are
integrated as a new type of optical minireactor.
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