COST D36/003/06 Working Group Meeting

21-22 May 2010

Place of meeting

Apollo Hermannstadt Hotel

14 Nicolae Teclu st., Sibiu, Romania

 

Local Organiser

Gabriel Munteanu
"Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

Project title: "Interfacial functionalization of (bi)-metallic nanoparticles to prepare highly active and selective catalysts: understanding synergy and/or promotion effect"

 

 

Friday 21 May

 

09:30-10:00 Welcome and opening by the WG coordinator - Prof. Anna Maria Venezia

 

Chair Prof. Prof. Jacques FRAISSARD

 

10.00 -10:30 Professor Anna Maria Venezia

Institute of Nanostructured Materials, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMN- CNR)

Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy

 

Pd supported on mesoporous silica as methane oxidation catalysts

 

10:30- 11:00 Cristian ENE, Ph.D.

Romanian Academy, "Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry
202 Splaiul Independentii st., 006021 Bucharest, Romania
 
Transition metal complexes anchored on functionalized supports and their catalytic activities
in oxidation of organic compounds
 
Viorica Parvulescu, Ene Ramona, Mihaela Mureseanu, Adriana Popa, Cr. D. Ene and M. Andruh

 

 

 

11:00- 11:30 Coffee break

 

 

Chair Prof. Anna M. VENEZIA

 

11:30 - 12:00 Ass. Prof. Lyuba Ilieva Gencheva

Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl. 11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

 
Gold supported on ceria doped by Me3+ (Me=Al and Sm) for water gas shift reaction.
Part 1. Influence of the dopant and preparation method on the physico-chemical properties 
and catalytic activity in WGS reaction.
 
Donka Andreeva, Margarita Kantcheva, Ivan Ivanov, Lyuba Ilieva, Janusz W. Sobczak, Wojciech Lisowski

 

 

12:00  12:30 Ass. Prof. Margarita Kantcheva
Department of Chemistry, Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
 
Gold supported on ceria doped by Me3+ (Me=Al and Sm) for water gas shift reaction.
Part 2. In situ FT-IR spectroscopic investigation on the CO + H2O surface reaction.
 
Donka Andreeva, Margarita Kantcheva, Ivan Ivanov, Lyuba Ilieva, Janusz W. Sobczak, Wojciech Lisowski

 

 

12:30 - 13:00 Professor Gabriel Munteanu

Romanian Academy, "Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania

 

Kinetic parameters in temperature programmed reduction of Au/CeO2 doped with Fe and Co

 

1Gabriel Munteanu and 2Lyuba Ilieva

1Romanian Academy, "Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania

2Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Catalysis, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

13:00- 15:00 Lunch

 

 

Chair Prof. Magali BOUTONNET

 

 

15:00 - 15:30 Professor Jacques Fraissard

University Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, ESPCI, 10, Rue Vauquelin- 75231 Paris Cedex 05- France

 
Functionalisation of the ordered mesoporous carbon by palladium nanoparticles
as potential sorbent for hydrogen storage
 
a,bVasyl Gerda, cGerman Telbiz, bNatalia Kobylinskaya, bVladimir Zaitsev, (a,d)Jacques Fraissard
 
a -Laboratoire Photons et Matiere, ESPCI, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
b - Department of Chemistry, National Taras Shevchenko University, 64 Vladimirska Str., Kiev, Ukraine
c - L. V. Pisarzhevsky Institute of Physical Chemistry NASU, pr. Nauki 31, Kiev, 03028, Ukraine
d - University Pierre and Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

 

 

15:30 - 16:00 Dr. Robert Socha

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry,

8 Niezapominajek str, PL-30 239 Krakow, Poland

 
Bimetallic Au-Fe clusters on TiO2

 

16:00 -16:30 Coffee Break

 

Chair: Ass. Prof. Lyuba Ilieva Gencheva

 

16:30 - 17:00 Professor Magali Boutonnet

Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Chemical Technology

Teknikringen 42, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
 
The effect of TiO2 and Al2O3 addition on the catalytic performance of Co/SBA-15 catalysts
for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

 

 
17:00 -  17:30 Jan Mizera, PhD student

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry,

8 Niezapominajek str, PL-30 239 Krakow, Poland

 
Au-Ni/TiO2 catalyst in CO oxidation

 

17:30 - 18:30 Round Table1 - General discussion on the results, and planning the future research

 

20:00 - Working dinner

 

 


Saturday 22 May

Chair Ass. Prof. Margarita KANTCHEVA

 

09:45 - 10:15: Dr. Andrea Beck
Department of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Institute of Isotopes and Surface Chemistry, Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Th. M. ut 29-33. H-1121 Budapest, Hungary

 

The effect of different polymorphs of titania on the catalytic activity of Au/TiO2

 

10:15 - 10:45 Ass. Prof. Viorel Chihaia

Romanian Academy, "Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry
202 Splaiul Independentii st., 006021 Bucharest, Romania
 

Atomistic simulations of the gold clusters adsorbed on the surface MgO(001)

 

 

11:00 -11:15 Coffee Break

 

Chair: Professor Gabriel MUNTEANU

 

11:15 - 11.45 Professor Norbert Kruse

Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Chimie-Physique des surfaces et Catalyse heterogene Campus de la Plaine, C.P. 243,

Bld du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles Belgique

 

Nano-Scale Imaging of the Early Stages of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation

 

 

Chair Prof. Anna M. VENEZIA

 

11:45 - 12:30 - Round Table 2 and Closing remarks