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New catalysts and adsorbents on the basis of the InSb-CdTe semiconducting system

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The acid-base properties of solid solutions and binary components of the InSb-CdTe system were studied by IR spectroscopy, pH isoelectric point measurements, and conductometric titration; adsorption properties with respect to CO, O2, NO2, NH3, CO + O2, and NO2 + NH3, by piezoquartz microweighing; and catalytic properties in the oxidation of carbon(II) oxide and reduction of nitrogen(IV) oxide with ammonia, by the pulsed and circulation flow methods. The nature, strength, and concentration of acid centers were determined. Changes in the concentration of acid centers under the action of gases (NO2 and NH3), gamma irradiation, and composition variations were estimated. The experimental dependences, thermodynamic and kinetic adsorption characteristics, the electrophysical, acid-base, and other physicochemical characteristics of the adsorbents, and adsorption characteristic-composition phase diagrams were analyzed taking into account the electronic nature of adsorbate molecules to determine the mechanism and characteristics of adsorption processes depending on the conditions of adsorption and the composition of the system. The results of adsorption studies were used to preliminarily determine the temperature regions of the occurrence and the mechanism of the reactions studied. A shock mechanism was suggested. Separate components (predominantly, solid solutions) of the InSb-CdTe system showed high catalytic activity at comparatively low temperatures. Along with behavior common to the system and its binary compounds (InSb and CdTe), solid solutions exhibited features characteristic of multi-component systems. These were the presence of extrema in the pHiso-composition, adsorption characteristic-composition, and catalytic activity-composition diagrams. The use of these diagrams allowed us to discover system components most active with respect to the gases and reactions studied and create high-sensitivity and selective sensors and high-activity and selective catalysts on the basis of these components.

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Kirovskaya, 2007, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2007, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 627–636.

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Kirovskaya, I.A. New catalysts and adsorbents on the basis of the InSb-CdTe semiconducting system. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 81, 535–543 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024407040061

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