Probing the Structure of Liquids inside MCM41 type Silica Mesopores

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Understanding the structure of liquid reagents and solvents in the catalyst pores is critical to design selective and efficient processes. For example, in the hydrogenation of aldehydes and ketones, we have shown the selectivity and reaction rates are controlled by liquid structure of water/2-propanol solvent mixtures. In continuation of a previous beamtime allocation (RB910286), this proposal is intended to develop an experimental protocol to determine the liquid structure in MCM41 pores by using recently developed capillary condensation technique from the gas phase to enable controlled filling of the MCM41 pores. We intend to establish the proof of principle that the structure of liquid mixtures near the catalyst surface can be successfully determined using total neutron scattering. There is significant potential to extend this protocol to industrially important catalytic processes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47832990
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47832990
Provenance
Creator Professor Chris Hardacre; Dr Haresh Manyar; Dr Tristan Youngs
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-30T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-04-03T23:00:00Z