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Awards & Fellowships top

  • 1987- Academic award for chemical research Nicolae Teclu for scientific contribution on the topic: "Catalytic sensors for combustible gas detection"
  • 1991 - 1992 - Unesco Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • 1997 - 1998 - Invited professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • 1998 - 1999 - post-doctoral fellowship at University Pierre et Marie Marie Curie, France
  • 1999 – 2000 - Invited professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • 2000 – 2002 - JSPS post-doctoral fellowship at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • 2002 – 2005 - Grant in Aid from Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Science and Technology, Japan
  • 2004 – 2005 - Invited professor at Tokyo Technical University (Tokyo Rikka Daigaku), Japan

Research Experience top

  1. Surface Science
    • Kinetics and mechanism of non-isothermal desorption of adsorbed gases from metal supported catalysts
    • Defect chemistry of ionic oxides and zeolites

  2. Catalysis
    • Total oxidation of C1-C4 paraffins over supported platinic metals
    • Oxidative coupling of methane over simple and doped ionic oxides
    • Hydrocarbons conversion over metal supported on zeolite catalysts
    • NO conversion over supported well-structured metal nanocrystals
    • CH4 partial oxidation over well-defined metal nanoparticles supported on high surface area oxides
    • Selective reduction of nitrate and nitrite ions in liquid phase

  3. Nanomaterials synthesis
    • Preparation of nano-size oxides with high surface area and high thermal stability by using microemulsions
    • Preparation of well-structured metal nanoparticles

Recent Publications top

  1. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    "The alumina dissolution promoted by CuSO4 precipitation"
    Chem. Mater., 11(2), 378, 1999
  2. Ioan Balint, Marie-Anne Springuel-Huet, Ken-ichi Aika and Jacques Fraissard
    "Evidence for oxygen vacancy formation in HZSM-5 at high temperature"
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1, 3845, 1999
  3. Ioan Balint and K. Aika
    Temperature-programmed desorption study of water-gas shift and methane steam eforming reactions over Li/MgO catalyst
    Applied Catal. A: General, 196(2), 209, 2000
  4. Ioan Balint and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Specific defect sites creation by doping MgO with lithium and titanium”
    Applied Surf. Sci., 173 (3-4), 296-306, 2001
  5. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    "Alumina dissolution during impregnation with PdCl42- in acid pH range"
    Chem. Mater., 13(3), 932-938, 2001
  6. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “NO reduction by CH4 over well-structured Pt nanocrystals supported on ?-Al2O3
    Chem. Lett., (10), 1024-1025, 2001
  7. Akane Miyazaki, Ioan Balint Ken-ichi Aika and Yoshio Nakano
    “Preparation of high activity catalyst for ammonia synthesis by supporting well-defined Ru nanoparticles on ?-Al2O3”
    Chem. Lett., (12), 1332, 2001
  8. Akane Miyazaki, Ioan Balint Ken-ichi Aika and Yoshio Nakano
    “Preparation of Ru nanoparticles supported on ?-Al2O3 and its novel catalytic activity for ammonia synthesis”
    J. Catal., 204, 364-371, 2001
  9. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “The catalytic activity of the alumina supported Ru nanoparticles for NO/CH4 reaction”
    Chem. Commun. (6), 630-631, 2002
  10. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “NO reduction by CH4 over well-structured Pt nanocrystals supported on ?-Al2O3”
    Appl. Catal. B, 37 (3), 217-229, 2002
  11. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Methane reaction with NO over alumina supported Ru nanoparticles”
    J. Catal. 207 (1), 66-75, 2002.
  12. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Investigation of the morphology-catalytic reactivity relationship for the Pt nanoparticles supported on alumina by using the reduction of NO with CH4 as a model reaction”
    Chem. Commun., (10), 1044-1045, 2002.
  13. Ioan Balint, Zhixiong You and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Morphology and oxide phase control in the microemulsion mediated synthesis of barium stabilized alumina nanoparticles”
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 4, 2501 – 2503, 2002. (ISSN:1463-9076)
  14. Zhixiong You, Ioan Balint, and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Synthesis of thermally stable Cs-doped alumina nanoparticles by microemulsion method”
    Chem. Lett., (11), 1090-1091, 2002.
  15. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “NO reduction by CH4 over well-structured Pt nanocrystals supported on ?-Al2O3”
    Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis; vol. 145; Science and Technology in Catalysis 2002; Ed. M. Anpo, M. Onaka, H. Yamashita; Publisher: Kodansha, Elsevier, Tokyo 2003, p 239-242.
  16. Zhixiong You, Ioan Balint, and Ken-ichi Aika
    Mesostructured alumina nanocomposites synthesis via reverse microemulsion route
    Chem. Lett., 32 (7), 630-631, 2003.
  17. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, Ken-ichi Aika
    “The relevance of Ru nanoparticles morphology and oxidation state to the partial oxidation of methane"
    J. Catal., 220 (1), 74-83, 2003.
  18. Akane Miyazaki, Ioan Balint Ken-ichi Aika and Yoshio Nakano
    “Solid-liquid interfacial reaction of Zn2+ ions on the surface of amorphous aluminosilicates with various Al/Si ratios”
    Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67(20), 3833-3844, 2003.
  19. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Chemical and morphological evolution of the supported Ru nanoparticles during oxidative conversion of methane.”
    React. Kinet. Catal. Lett. 80(1), 81-87, 2003.
  20. Akane Miyazaki, Ioan Balint and Yoshio Nakano
    “Morphology control of Pt nanoparticles and their catalytic properties.”
    J. Nanoparticles Res., 5 (1-2), 69-80, 2003. (ISSN:1388-0764)
  21. Akane Miyazaki, Kazumasa Shibazaki, Yoshio Nakano, Mitsuteru Ogawa, Ioan Balint
    “Efficient catalytic reduction of concentrated nitric acid on the adsorption sites of activated carbon”
    Chem. Lett., 33 (4), 418-419, 2004.
  22. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki
    “NO/CH4 reaction over nanodispersed Pt particles”
    Topics in Catalysis., 30/31, 123-126, 2004.
  23. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki and Ken-ichi Aika
    “Effect of platinum morphology on lean reduction of NO with C3H6”
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 6 (9), 2000 – 2002, 2004.
  24. Zhixiong You, Ioan Balint, Ken-ichi Aika
    “Catalytic combustion of methane over microemulsion-derived MnOx–Cs2O–Al2O3 nanocomposites”
    Applied Catalysis B: 53(4), 233–244, 2004.
  25. Akane Miyazaki, Shuichiro Yoshida, Yoshio Nakano and Ioan Balint
    “Preparation of tetrahedral Pt nanoparticles having {111} facet on their surface”
    Chem. Lett., 43 (1), 74-75, 2005.
  26. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, Ken-ichi Aika
    “Kinetic aspects associated with the lean reduction of NO with C3H6 over well-structured Pt nanocrystals”
    React. Kinet. Catal. Lett., 85 (1), 189-196, 2005.
  27. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, Ken-ichi Aika
    “On the kinetic and structure sensitivity of lean reduction of NO with C3H6 over nanodispersed Pt crystals”
    Appl. Catal. B, 59, 72-81, 2005.
  28. Zhixiong You, Koji Inazu, Ioan Balint and Ken-ichi Aika
    "Barium hexaaluminate as a novel promising support for ruthenium-based ammonia synthesis catalysts"
    Chem. Lett., 34 (5), 692-693, 2005.
  29. A. Miyazaki, M. Asakawa, Ioan Balint, "Nitrite reduction on the morphologically controlled Pt nanoparticles" Chem. Com., 3730-3732, 2005.
  30. Akane Miyazaki, Kazumasa Shibazaki; Ioan Balint "The effect of active carbon on the reduction of concentrated nitric acid by HCOOH" J. Coll. Interface Sci., 293 (1), 43-51, 2006.
  31. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, “Minimization of metal-support interaction by using Ru nanoparticles for ammonia synthesis” Transaction of the Materials Research Society of Japan, 32 (2), 387-390, 2007.
  32. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, “The influence of Rh addition on the catalytic activity of cubic Pt nanocrystals supported on alumina for NO/CH4” Catalysis Letters, 122 (1-2), 183-187, 2008.

 

Books top

  1. Ioan Balint and Akane Miyazaki,
    “Nanocrystal dispersed platinum particles: preparation and catalytic properties” Encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Editors: J. A. Schwarz C. Contescu and K. Putyera,Publisher: Marcel Dekker Inc., 2004, pp 2259-2268
    Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki, “Leading Edge Catalysis Research; "Preparation of nanodispersed Ru Supported on γ- Al2O3 and its Catalytic Activity for ammonia synthesis and for methane oxidative conversion” Editors: Lawrence P. Bevy; Publisher: Nova Science
    Publishers, Inc., 2006. ISSBN 1-59454-496-4
  2. Ioan Balint, Akane Miyazaki,
    “Leading Edge Catalysis Research; "Preparation of nanodispersed Ru Supported on γ- Al2O3 and its Catalytic Activity for ammonia synthesis and for methane oxidative conversion” Editors: Lawrence P. Bevy; Publisher: Nova Science
    Publishers, Inc., 2006. ISSBN 1-59454-496-4
  3. Akane Miyazaki, Ioan Balint
    Metal nanoclusters in catalysis and material science; The issue of size control; Part B (Methodologies), Chapter 16, "Synthesis of morphologically controlled Pt nanoparticles and their application in catalytic reactions"
    Editors: B. Corain, G. Schmid, and N. Toshima, Elsevier, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53057-8

 

Managerial experience: top

Project director of the following research grants obtained in national and international competitions:
  1. "Investigation of active centers formed on zeolites at high temperature."
    Grant nr. 5206/ 1999-2001, a research project with National Agency of Science, Technology and Innovation
  2. "Preparation of morphological controlled metal nanocrystals and their application for structure sensitive catalytic reactions"
    Grant CNCSIS nr. 724/2006 –2008, a research project with National Council of Scientific Research in Universities

International Scientific Colaborations top

    Participant to the Grant no. 14205115 – “Development of Surface Structure Controlled Metal Catalyst” financially supported by Grant in Aid for Scientific Research from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japonia, at Tokyo Institute of Technology 2002-2003