Collaborative Research: I/UCRC Phase I: The Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis

合作研究：I/UCRC 第一阶段：合理催化剂合成中心

• 批准号: 1464630
• 负责人: John Regalbuto
• 金额: $ 55.49万
• 依托单位: University of South Carolina at Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-15 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1464630&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; UCRC; Phase; Center; Collaborative; Research; UCRC; Phase; Center

Catalysis is a hidden but high impact science at the heart of the energy, chemical and environmental industries. Catalysts are perhaps best known in automobile catalytic converters, but the same types of catalytic processes are responsible for commodity chemicals such as gasoline, textiles, and fertilizer and specialty chemicals such as pharmaceuticals. It has been estimated that catalysis accounts for over 95% (by volume) of all products and over 80% of added value in the chemical industry. About one third of the world?s economy depends directly or indirectly on catalysis. In spite of their immense importance, the development of new heterogeneous catalysts is still largely empirical, which is to say, time-consuming and expensive, particularly at the stage of synthesis. A grand challenge of catalysis is precisely the ?design and controlled synthesis of catalytic structures.? Our fundamental research in transforming catalyst synthesis from an art to a science will save tremendous amounts of time and energy in the development of new catalysts for petroleum, chemical and pharmaceutical companies as well as catalyst manufacturers. Optimized catalysts allow chemical conversions to be achieved in the most efficient, economical, and environmentally responsible manner, reducing raw material usage, energy requirements and greenhouse gas emissions.The Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis (CeRCaS) will be the world?s first and only research center with the focus on understanding the chemical fundamentals of catalyst synthesis. CeRCaS will bring to bear powerful, complementary expertise at the University of South Carolina and Virginia Commonwealth University. The research projects which our industrial partners will help us select and refine are in three thrusts, first, The Fundamentals of Metal Deposition including in-situ observation of metal deposition mechanisms and a variety of methods for nanoparticle genesis, second, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solid-Solid Bonding, to be explored with theory and experiment to allow prediction of the wetting or sintering of metal oxides on support surfaces, and prediction of the size, shape and, in the case of bimetallics, composition of supported nanoparticles, and third, Precision Site Synthesis for Specific Reactions, in which nanoparticles will be synthesized with specific size, content (single or multi-metals) and morphology and so be optimized for particular catalytic reactions or to minimize the content of expensive precious metals. Graduate students will be mentored with the practical mindset akin to an NSF Engineering Research Center. This industrial bent will stem from two sources; first, internally, from VCU?s site Director (Gupton) and USC?s Deputy Director (Monnier) who hail from distinguished research careers in industry, and second, externally, from direct involvement of industrial research in individual research projects. Educational outreach will include the recruitment and eventual industrial placement of underrepresented groups. Both Universities have significant pools of women and minorities with whom to work.

催化是能源，化学和环境行业核心的隐藏但高影响科学。 催化剂可能在汽车催化转化器中是最著名的，但是相同类型的催化过程负责商品化学物质，例如汽油，纺织品和肥料以及药物等特种化学物质。 据估计，催化占所有产品的95％以上（按数量）和化学工业中附加值的80％以上。 世界上约有三分之一的经济直接或间接取决于催化。 尽管它们的重要性非常重要，但新的异质催化剂的发展仍然很大程度上是经验的，也就是说，耗时且昂贵，尤其是在合成阶段。 催化的巨大挑战恰恰是催化结构的设计和受控合成。我们将催化剂合成从艺术转变为科学的基本研究将节省大量的时间和精力，以开发石油，化学和制药公司以及催化剂制造商的新催化剂。 优化的催化剂允许以最有效，经济和对环境负责的方式进行化学转化，从而减少原材料的使用，能量需求和温室气体排放。理性催化剂合成中心（CERCAS）将是世界的首要和唯一研究中心，重点是理解催化剂合成的化学基础。 CERCAS将在南卡罗来纳大学和弗吉尼亚联邦大学带来强大的补充专业知识。 The research projects which our industrial partners will help us select and refine are in three thrusts, first, The Fundamentals of Metal Deposition including in-situ observation of metal deposition mechanisms and a variety of methods for nanoparticle genesis, second, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solid-Solid Bonding, to be explored with theory and experiment to allow prediction of the wetting or sintering of metal oxides on support surfaces, and prediction of the在双金属的情况下，支撑纳米颗粒的组成以及针对特定反应的第三个精确位点合成，其中纳米颗粒将与特定大小，含量（单一或多米）和形态合成，因此可以优化特定的催化反应或最小化昂贵的珍贵珍贵的含量。 研究生将通过类似于NSF工程研究中心的实践思维方式进行指导。 这种工业弯曲将源于两个来源。首先，在内部，来自VCU的网站总监（Gupton）和USC的副总监（Monnier），他们来自工业研究生的杰出研究职业，其次是从工业研究中直接参与单个研究项目的直接参与。 教育宣传将包括代表性不足的群体的招聘和最终工业安置。 两所大学都有大量的妇女和少数群体与他们一起工作。