Some aspects of the use of carbon in catalysis

Among the different types of supports used in heterogeneous catalysis carbon materials attract a growing interest owing to their peculiarities, which are mainly: i) resistance to acidic/basic media, ii) possibility of controlling, up to certain limits, their porosity and surface chemistry, and iii} easy recovery of precious metals by support burning, resulting in a low environmental impact. Since the early 90's carbon nanotubes (CNT) have generated a great effervescence in the scientific community due to their exceptional properties that make them suitable for many potential applications. Of course, such promising materials attract the interest of industrial groups that foresee a high economical impact in the near future. Among the main possible applications we will concentrate on the use of CNT in the field of catalysis [1], in this contribution. We will firstly give a critical analysis of the use of CNT in catalysis, focusing on expected breakthroughs: Then, case studies carried out in the authors' laboratories about the preparation of CNT-based catalysts and catalytic experiments performed on such systems will be presented

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1797

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Serp, Philippe; Corrias, Maximiliano; Kalck, Philippe; Pereira, Fernando; Figueiredo, José; Gomes, Helder; Faria, Joaquim; Mazzocchia, C.; Gomez-Garcia, M.A.; Kiennemann, A. (2004). Some aspects of the use of carbon in catalysis. In XIV Congresso Nazionali di Catalisi. Lerici,

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CIMO - Resumos em Proceedings Não Indexados à WoS/Scopus

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