Time: 13 July, 10:00 am
Venue：Conference Room on the First Floor, Energy Building1#
Harold H. Kung,
Northwestern University
Biography：
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Northwestern University.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University.
Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University.
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin.
G.A. Somorjai Award in Creative Research on Heterogeneous Catalysis, American Chemical Society.
Robert L. Burwell Lecturer, North American Catalysis Society.
Herman Pines Award, Chicago Catalysis Club.
Paul H. Emmett Award, Catalysis Society.
Ernest Thiele Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Chicago Section.
Cross- Canada Lectureship, Catalysis Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Catalysis Society of South Africa Eminent Visitor
Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Technology, China.
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Saskatchewan, Inaugural N.N. Bhakshi Lecture.
John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering, Yale University.
Applied Catalysis A: Editor
Abstract:
Advances in the past decade to synthesize macromolecules and modify structures at the atomic scale have enabled construction of catalytic materials of designed structures. Some of them are illustrated by examples here. In the first system, siloxane nanocages are shown to exhibit confinement effects by strongly modifying the protonation affinity of internal amine groups, by changing the activity and product selectivity in a reaction catalyzed by these groups, and by stabilizing transition metal complexes of uncommon oxidation states. Another example is the construction of tetrahedrally coordinated Sn oxo unit on a support, which develops Br?nsted acidity upon quantitative adsorption of isopropanol, in addition to the expected Lewis acidity.
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