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Penn State University, University Park, PA - August 2010
Grant Award: ASAP 2020
According to Dr. Robert Rioux, Principal Investigator, “We are working on a number of projects that are quite diverse ranging from studies involving adsorption in porous materials, synthesis of new porous materials and their characterization, the evolution of porosity, surface composition of nanostructures (with magnetic and catalytic applications), and the characterization of catalytic materials (active surface area, isosteric heat of adsorption). The ASAP 2020 micropore option is necessary for studies of microporous and mesoporous silica materials, including a series of new zeolitic materials and mesoporous silica materials that have been discovered here at PennState. The chemisorption option will allow us to determine the number of active sites in a multitude of heterogeneous catalysts that include single-site, tethered organometallics, nanoparticles embedded in nanoporous carbon, and colloidal synthesized nanoparticles encapsulated in a mesoporous silica matrix. I am particularly interested in using the various adsorption models to determine the isosteric heat of adsorption for comparison with calorimetric experiments of the differential heat of adsorption.”
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Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Atlanta, GA - April 2010
Grant Award: ASAP 2020
According to Dr. Gleb Yushin, Principal Investigator, “The School of Materials Science and Engineering is conducting ground-breaking nanomaterials research in a number of areas that include ionic transport in microporous solids, porous electrodes for fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors, nanomaterials for sensors, porous polymer membranes, gas separation membranes, novel catalysts, nanomaterials for the semiconductor industry, and more. A large portion of samples to be investigated exhibits a high surface area of pores less than two nanometers. The precise knowledge of pore size distribution in the micropore range is crucial for the fundamental studies of ionic and molecular adsorption and transport in the nanoporous solids. Fundamental studies of the transport of ions and gas molecules as well as investigation of materials for catalyst support applications require knowledge about the accessibility of the microporous surface. Studies of the rate of adsorption for gases/vapors of different size help to evaluate the interaction of gaseous species with the surface and estimate how tortuous the nanopores are and to what degree the pores have narrow necks. The ASAP 2020 with its micropore and rate of adsorption capabilities will be a critical analytical tool for supporting our research.”
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Rice University - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Houston, TX - February 2010
Grant Award: AutoChem II 2920
According to Dr. Michael Wong, Principal Investigator and Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at RiceUniversity, “My laboratory works at the interface of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science, with a focus on designing functional nanoparticle-based materials for catalytic, encapsulation/delivery, and energy applications.”
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University of North Texas - Department of Chemistry, Denton, TX - November 2009
Grant Award: ASAP 2020
According to Dr. Mohammad Omary, Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemistry, “Fluorous Metal-Organic Frameworks (FMOFs) have the potential to be used as practical adsorbents for hydrogen fuel cell based technology. The idea is well supported by the fact that the stability, flexibility, and selectivity in gas storage, separation, and catalytic properties of porous materials will be largely improved by substitution of hydrogen atoms with fluorine to make fluorous pores.”
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale- Physics Department - February 2009
Grant Award: ASAP 2050 Xtended Pressure Sorption Analyzer
According to Aldo Migone, Principal Investigator, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics, “Research activities will span a broad area of material characterization through adsorption/desorption measurements in three departments: Physics, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. The research that this project will encompass includes, but is not limited to, my own work on porous metal-organic-frameworks and carbon nanotubes, Prof. Talapatra’s work on metal hydrides and carbon nanotubes, Prof. Daves’s work on porous sol-gel glasses, and Prof. Mondal’s research on active catalysts.”
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Tufts University - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Medford, MA - April 2008
Grant Award: AutoChem 2920
According to Prof. Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Principal Investigator and Director of the Tufts NanoCatalysis and Energy Laboratory, “The focus of our research group is on clean energy technologies, in particular fuel processing, and catalytic hydrogen generation, that involves fundamental studies of catalysts, including catalyst preparation, characterization, and reaction kinetics studies, as well as investigation of different sorption reactions for clean up of product or exhaust gas streams. Studies of surface processes and materials characterization are of paramount importance to our research effort.”
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Columbus State University - Department of Chemistry and Geology, Columbus, Georgia - February 2008
Grant Award: ChemiSorb 2705
According to Dr. Anil Banerjee, Principal Investigator, “The Pulse ChemiSorb 2705 system will be used for chemisorption and physisorption studies on a number of projects. We are setting up a catalytic research group that will conduct research in the areas of hydrogen storage and catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide using platinum, non platinum group metals, oxides, and alloys. Our plan also includes the training of a selected number of high school chemistry teachers (working in our federal Teacher Quality project) and very talented high school students.”
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Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia - October 2007
Grant Award: AutoChem II 2920
According to Christopher Jones, Principal Investigator, “The AutoChem II system will directly enable new research approaches in 21 projects covering four different research groups. The instrument will play a central role in my catalysis and adsorptive separation research program.”
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University of Queensland - Division of Chemical Engineering, Brisbane, Australia. - June 2007
Grant Award: ASAP 2020 Chemi
Their research focuses on characterization, adsorption, reaction, and transport properties of nanoporous materials. Dr. Suresh Bhatia, Principal Investigator states, “The ASAP 2020 micropore option is essential for our ongoing activities on characterization of carbons and other microporous solids. Here we have developed a new density functional theory technique considering wall thickness heterogeneity, and are currently investigating the temperature as well as adsorptive dependence of micropore accessibility in carbons.”
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University of South Carolina - Dept of Chemical Engineering - February 2007
Grant Award: AutoChem II 2920
Dr. John Monnier, Research Professor and Principal Investigator states, “One of the primary emphasis areas of the University is nanotechnology, and the efforts are being led by the USC Nanocenter. Nanoscale catalysis is a focal point, or thrust area, of the Nanocenter which includes not only the traditional areas of catalyst synthesis and evaluation for environmental and chemical processes, but also the Future FuelsTM initiative at USC which is heavily focused on fuel cells and alternative energy sources, of which catalysts and electrocatalysts are key components."
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University of California Berkeley - College of Chemistry - December 2006
Grant Award: AutoChem II 2920
Alexander Katz, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Principal Investigator states, “The AutoChem II 2920 Chemisorption Analyzer with related components will be an integral and critical piece of characterization equipment within the UC Berkeley Catalysis Center. This instrument will be used to determine the concentration and acid/base characteristics of catalytic active sites on solids in a fashion that cannot be accomplished by other techniques. In particular, this will be used to investigate the chemisorption of H2, CO, CO2, and N2O, as well as reactive chemisorption using hydrogen and alkanes as reductants.
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