Collaborative Research in Heterogeneous Catalysis

该奖项支持合作研究， 非均相催化将由教授进行。 爱德华多·E.圣母大学的沃尔夫和 化学工程系的Paulo Araya先生 智利大学。 工作将主要是 利用红外技术的实验研究 在巴黎圣母院发展出来的， 进行中。 非均相催化剂用于 加速化学反应。 研究这些 反应对石油至关重要 和化学工业。 红外光谱具有 表明催化剂的微观结构是重要的 在确定催化剂的动态响应时， 操作条件的变化。 催化表面的理论模型已被 由圣母大学的阿拉亚先生与 沃尔夫教授 现通过实验工作进行验证 他们将通过延长阿拉亚先生的 留下吧 这项工作将是他博士学位的一部分。论文在 智利大学，并将构成基础， 在智利成立了一个研究小组， 将发展并继续与 加强两国 这种支持将有助于 实现科学发展观 国家方案。

This award supports cooperative research in heterogeneous catalysis to be conducted by Prof. Eduardo E. Wolf of the University of Notre Dame and Mr. Paulo Araya of the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Chile. The work will be mainly experimental studies using infrared techniques developed at Notre Dame to verify theoretical work now in progress. Heterogeneous catalysts are used to accelerate chemical reactions. Studying these reactions can be crucially important to the petroleum and chemical industries. Infrared spectroscopy has shown that the catalysts' microstructure is important in determining the dynamic response of the catalyst to changes in operating conditions. The theoretical models of catalytic surfaces have been developed by Mr. Araya at Notre Dame in collaboration with Prof. Wolf. Now the experimental work to verify them will be carried out by extending Mr. Araya's stay. This work will be part of his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Chile and will form the basis of beginning a research group in this area in Chile which will develop and continue the collaboration between the two countries. In this way this support will help fulfill the goals of the Science in Developing Countries program.