Novel Gold Containing Catalysis

催化对于社会日常福祉所必需的商品和基础设施的制造至关重要。该项目旨在开发用于工业应用的新型催化剂，科学挑战涉及寻找制造金催化剂的创新方法。目的是开发和利用新的程序，允许控制合成新的纳米粒子合金。这些将在多个反应中进行表征/评估，以利用基于金属合金成分之间的电子转移的潜在新电子结构。具体而言，将制备具有不同形态（例如无定形颗粒到针状物）的金络合物，并评价其在乙炔氢氯化中的催化活性。我们还将研究Pd和Pt微晶作为选择性乙炔加氢催化剂的形态特征。

Catalysis is crucially important for the manufacture of goods and infrastructure necessary for the everyday wellbeing of society. This project aims to develop novel catalysts for industrial application and the scientific challenge relates to finding innovative ways to make gold catalysts. The aim is to develop and utilise new procedures that permit controlled synthesis of new nanoparticle alloys. These will be characterised/evaluated in multiple reactions to exploit the potential new electronic structures based on electron transfer between the metallic alloy constituents. Specifically, gold complexes with different morphologies (e.g. amorphous particles to needles) will be prepared and their catalytic activity evaluated in acetylene hydrochlorination. We will also investigate morphological features of Pd and Pt crystallites as catalysts for selective acetylene hydrogenation.